Harry hits a homer

It seems that Harry over at What I think you should read has a pretty good grasp of the Official State-Sanctioned Religion.

The Progressive Movement that is marching across our Nation at this time is driven by Marxist and socialist ideology mixed in with the religion of Global Warming. GW is leveraged by the progressives to reach their goal. These “progressive” and “forward” thinkers like to whip on Christians and other religious Americans claiming that they are not as intellectually sound or enlightened. The progressives employ softer words than Karl Marx to bash religion as “the opiate of the masses” but generally share that view. This is sweet irony, for no religious fad I have ever seen or heard of has caught on like Global Warming. Not even Oprah’s religion is getting that kind of hysterical following.

Indeed Global Warming is a natural pantheistic movement that has as much hold on its followers as any Christian Church I know. Perhaps even more-so.

Harry then goes on to make a point-by-point comparison of Christian tradition and the equivalent tradition within the OSSR. I can't do it justice with excerpts. You gotta read it for yourself.

Things I would add to what Harry has written:

Dealing with unbelievers. The Christian version was the Catholic church's Inquisitions of the middle ages. The OSSR's version is to shout down competing voices, and ignore, marginalize, demonize, or destroy their opponents.

Cultivating belivers. In the Christian version, missionaries are designated to bring the Good News to every nation, tongue, and people. The OSSR's version is Big Media, which parrots the orthodoxy of its Priesthood (led by Al Goerbells) as incontrovertible fact.

You can put lipstick on a Donkey...

Say, didn't Mr. DoublePlusGood Hope-Change promise to run a positive campaign without all of the mud slinging and vitriol of past campaigns? Yeah, how's that working out for you, Barry?

Well, not to worry, his surrogates are hard at work trying to destroy a mother of 5.

It's no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.

Bill Clinton must be so proud!

Face it, Team Donkey will never change their tactics. They see nothing wrong with destroying innocent people to advance the cause of achieving power. After all, a One-World Socialist Utopia doesn't just build itself. You have to break a few eggs to create that particular omelet. And Sarah Palin and family are just a basket of eggs to Team Donkey.

Wiener of the Week

Yeah, I know it's a little late, but there was a lot of stuff going on at the end of last week/first of this week.

I may have to change the name of the award from WotW to The Nancy Pelosi Trophy, because she's the WotW yet again.

From Bert Prelutsky:

In the meantime, Nancy Pelosi turns off the lights in the House so that Congress can’t vote for increased oil drilling. Then, to compound matters, she takes time off from her book tour to go on “Meet the Press” with liberal shill Tom Brokaw and explain that her personal financial investment in natural gas exploration was simply a means by which to wean Americans away from our dependence on hydrocarbons. Brokaw, either because he didn’t know or, more likely, had no intention of embarrassing Madame Speaker, neglected to point out that natural gas is a hydrocarbon!

Here's hoping that little Nancy can get a clue before the next session of Congress, otherwise she may perpetually be, as she is now, the Wiener of the Week.

Somewhere Woodrow Wilson is smiling

It's a fascist's dream: nationalizing key industries, such as, oh, I don't know, maybe the largest home loan mortgage institutions in the nation.

Today the federal government officially took control of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

Woodrow Wilson and Benito Mussolini would be SO proud!

The blathering heads, the Bush Administration, and the lapdog media can spin this any way they want, but what happened here is no different from any of the State ownership takeovers engineered by Britain's Labor governments of the 1970's. And it will be just as successful (/sarcasm).

Government, much like Daniel Snyder, has a reverse-Midas touch. Everything they touch turns not to gold, but to excrement.

This is a dark day in the history of our dying Republic. A dark day indeed.

Week 1...not so great

The Mike Martz era began with a thud yesterday. 6 turnovers. Six. There's no way ANY team can win with that kind of sloppiness. So it was in Niners' 23-13 loss to the Arizona Cactus Wrens (not original: stolen from TMQ), who seem to think those gawd awful pajamas they're wearing constitute the uniform of a professional football team. They don't. Get a real uniform, or get out of the league!

Now, granted, the offense was WAY more exiting than last year's moribund 32nd-ranked mess. And J.T. O'Sullivan looked pretty good at times. However, he's got a WHOLE lot to learn if he wants to be an NFL Quarterback. He isn't one now -- not with that sloppy, throwing-off-the-back-foot-sidearm crap he's slinging.

Frank Gore is THE MAN. Vernon Davis looked outstanding. The offensive line seems to have improved from last year.

But the defense, the supposed strength of the team, is GAWD-AWFUL! Outside of Patrick Willis, Justin Smith, and Parys Haralson, who shocked everyone with an outstanding game, including 2.5 sacks, the defense couldn't tackle their mothers. It was just dreadful.

There are two ways I can look at yesterday's game. One is: boy, those Cardinals are REALLY improved. They might even steal the division from the Seabags. The other is: it's going to be a l-o-o-o-o-o-o-n-g year....again.

Media bias? No way!

Whateverman and yodaddy think I'm a little overly-sensitive about media bias. I dunno, Joe Biden, what do you think?

[O]n ABC’s Good Morning America, Biden agreed that media coverage of Palin had been “outrageous,” “totally unfair,” and “sexist.” Biden told Robin Roberts: “The truth is some of the stuff that the press has said about -- and others have said about the governor, I think -- are outrageous.....Some of the stuff said has just been over the top, totally unfair and I think it has been sexist, and I think the way the Governor has handled it has been admirable.”

Uh huh. My sentiments exactly.

I've always been of the view that if you're going to have an opinion, you'd better be able to back it up with facts. So I spent a couple of hours today researching news stories on the vice presidential candidates. I won't pretend that I'm 100% unbiased in my scoring of those stories, but I gave it my best effort.

A decently-representative culling of the reactions to Joe Biden in the week following his designation as BO's running mate ran thusly:

Gushing ....... 2
Positive ........ 2
Neutral ......... 2
Negative ....... 2

A sampling of the comments I used to support my ranking (along with links to the original articles) can be found here.

A similarly-chosen culling of the reactions to Sarah Palin in the week following her designation as McCommie's running mate:

Gushing ....... 0
Positive ........ 2
Neutral ......... 2
Negative ....... 6

A sampling of the comments I used to support my ranking (along with links to the original articles) can be found here.

Additional links to related news stories and commentary follows.

By the Numbers: Cable Nets Boost Biden, Trash Palin
'Rainmaker' lobbyist aids Biden
How Palin & Biden's Favorability Numbers Compare To Past VP Picks
Joe Biden Has Most Negative Google Results Of Presidential Nominees
More Negative News Trouble For Sarah Palin
The Public, the Press, and Palin
First poll on Palin is overwhelmingly negative
Desperate For More Negative Information About Palin The Associated Press Publishes A Stretch
Republicans and Democrats battle to portray Palin
'American Morning' Fact Checks Palin But Not Obama or Biden
A woman -- but why this woman?
Palin-Smearing Baltimore Sun Columnist Whines Readers Being Mean to Her

I didn't bother with the cheap shots from US magazine, nor the asshat columnist in New York who negatively critiqued Palin's hairstyle (and yet, I've heard not a single word about Biden's hair plugs!), nor the character assassins at the Daily Kos, the Huffing Glue Report, etc. Too easy.

Whew! I'm whipped.

Okay, if you can read all of the links here and come away with any sort of sense that Sarah Palin and Senator Hairplugs are getting equal treatment from the press, you're either an ideologue, a member of the media, or smoking crack.