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Strangelove Moments
Kevin Drum points us to two today:
First, Michael Ledeen suggests ‘fancifully’ that Germany and France are providing cover for radical Islamists and Arabs. (via Digby who states:
Somebody had a little Ecstasy with his Freedom Toast this morning.
In the immortal words of that guy, that’s about right. Indeed.
Kevin’s second case is the Bible Code loon who was actually invited to the Pentagon.
Strangelove was a parody, these fruitcakes aren’t.
Bob Jones on Larry King
Jeanne D’Arc states what my wife had to listen to me rant on about for 10 minutes last night….
So you want to do a show about the Christian response to war. What eminent theologian comes to mind as the ideal person to discuss the complexities of the topic, to analyze and explain the rich Christian tradition in thinking about war and peace. If you said Bob Jones, you apparently think just like Larry King (and you should be ashamed of yourself.)
There is a bit more diversity in Christian thinking than these two represent–far right and friggen right of Randall Terry. But I’m sure Larry worked ’em over hard like usual…
While you are at it check out the Twilight Zone.
And don’t Forget
It is Cover the Uninsured Weeka nd Ross at the Bloviator is going to town.
Just remember, you pay for the uninsured either upfront through taxes or you pay for it in your hospital bills.
State of the State
Today at Noon–KWMU will carry it and is available via streaming audio.
Where Is Sellers When We Need Him:New Feature-Stranglove Moments
Blogging at USS Clueless pretending to be Strangelove himself. Apparently the French are stealing our precious bodily fluids and they might just nuke us. As usual one is not enough, and Sellers makes an appearance as James Taranto here. A third Sellers appearance occurs in the comments over at Kieran Healy’s with were he plays two roles at once. In one case he is Strangelove saying:
I’m not quite sure why you think that’s so far fetched. You don’t think that the French would try to provide some help to their ally, Saddam Hussein?
France is Iraq’s ally.
France is not the USA’s ally.
That is under the name Narniaman. The other appearance is as highly rational and terrified Group Captain Lionel Mandrake AKA Kieran Healy (who is probably going to be pissed to be compared to an Englishman) who states:
Stranger things have happened than France nuking the United States? Want to give any examples? The famous rain of frogs in Posset-on-the-Wye in 1537, maybe?
So new feature—send me the best Strangelove moments on the blogs and I post ’em here. Strangelove was a parody, these fruitcakes aren’t.
Michael Savage Meet Ann Coulter
Savage is threatening boycott organizers with a restraint of trade lawsuit. Unfortunately for him, we stopped enforcing those silly claims when the Civil Rights Movement won–perhaps Jonah Goldberg could explain the difference between the right to pursue a career and the right to be paid for it as he did to Ann Coulter.
James Moran meet Pat Buchanan
Groan, when is Pat going back into his hole?
Hey, I know, let’s piss off our best ally
For some reason I don’t think Rumsfeld had in mind Washington’s concern over foreign entanglements when he brain farted out his sense that Britain may not be fully supportive of the US in Iraq. It is equally sure that he wasn’t thinking at all. When a staunch ally like Tony Blair is putting himself on the line for us, pulling a Tonya Harding is pretty stupid.
I always assumed this administration would do a bunch of dumb things leading up to a war, but they are truly reaching new levels of incompetence now.
The Philip Family is having a bad month
Pate gets grilled in the Fawell trial and threatened with perjury, now Art gets nabbed for a DUI in Florida. But not just a DUI, he blew .201, well over twice the limit and damn drunk. Not only that, but he left his wife and passenger hospitalized. Given the seriousness of this charge, it is unlikely he’ll be able to finish out his term on the Illinois Tollway Authority.