Bigotry
Treatment of the flag
Aug 31st
Want to know why this right-wing teabagger is able to wear a shirt resembling a patched together U.S. flag? Because a liberal took the issue all the way to the Supreme Court, where this sort of thing was established as a First-Amendment right [Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989); U.S. v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990)].
Those damned liberals! Always taking rights away from conservatives. Always opposing freedom of speech.
Is Mitch McConnell *really* a Christian?
Aug 23rd
Asked about it, Mitch McConnell said he takes Obama at his word when he says he’s a Christian. I got to thinking about it, and wondered why the question might not be reversed. Thus the cartoon below.
Really, though, this is no laughing matter. This is a terrible, terrible campaign to undermine our system of government. You can’t actually prove any one or more gods exist. So how can you prove that person X or Y really worships this god/these gods that may or may not exist? How can you prove that you yourself worship such god/gods?
You can’t. That’s why it’s called faith. Anything person A can do with honesty and true devotion, person B can do with deceit and pretended devotion.
In a sense, then, the words McConnell spoke are accurate. You have to take a person at her or his word. But the way McConnell spoke those words was untrue and deceitful. The manner and the context imply the opposite of what the bare words on their own might be taken to mean.
McConnell is an asshole, and, once again, this effort to question Obama’s birthplace and/or religion is evil. Our nation will be paying for this for many years to come. And when future historians write about the reasons for the fall of the once well-meaning American empire, this will be prime evidence.
