Merry Feast of Sol Invictus Eve!
Ilse Bois
Because its almost Christmas, and I think we could all use a laugh…
… here are some priceless Ann Coulter quotes for your amusement:
“We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.”
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
“If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
“I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot.”
“We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too.”
“They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn’t slowed them down.”
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
“I thought I was here to talk about my book. I thought I was here to talk about my book. I thought I was here to talk about my book. I thought I was here to talk about my book. My book has 35 pages of footnotes!”
“God said … rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and striping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view.”
“I have to say I’m all for public flogging.”
“Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole.”
“I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote.”
“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'”
“Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.”
“I think, on the basis of the recent Supreme Court ruling that we can’t execute the retarded, American journalists commit mass murder without facing the ultimate penalty,” Ms. Coulter told me. “I think they are retarded. I’m trying to communicate to the American people and I have to work through a retarded person!”
“My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that’s because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.”
“Cheney is my ideal man. Because he’s solid. He’s funny. He’s very handsome. He was a football player. People don’t think about him as the glamour type because he’s a serious person, he wears glasses, he’s lost his hair. But he’s a very handsome man. And you cannot imagine him losing his temper, which I find extremely sexy. Men who get upset and lose their tempers and claim to be sensitive males: talk about girly boys. No, there’s a reason hurricanes are named after women and homosexual men, it’s one of our little methods of social control. We’re supposed to fly off the handle.”
“This is what Christians consider themselves, because our testament is the continuation of your testament. You know that. So we think Jews go to heaven. I mean (Jerry) Falwell himself said that, but you have to follow laws. Ours is ‘Christ died for our sins.’ We consider ourselves perfected Christians. For me to say that for you to become a Christian is to become a perfected Christian(sic) is not offensive at all.”
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Hm. Actually, that wasn’t very funny at all, was it?
I’m always asking myself, “Is this crazy bitch for real?” — because its hard for me to believe that someone this stupid, bigoted, and violent could be anything more than a sick caricature.
Do people actually take her hateful raving seriously?
Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?
Olbermann: Timeline for Iran’s nuclear ambitions was clear, but he kept on
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’ MSNBC
There are few choices more terrifying than the one Mr. Bush has left us with tonight.
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked, at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so, whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency an unapologetic warmonger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.
There’s a book that I am strongly urging everyone I know to read: the End of America by Naomi Wolf. (Excerpts provided by the Huffington Post.) At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I’ve been saying for some time that the steps that the Bush Administration has taken to smother the Constitution, disregard the Geneva Convention, and trample on the basic rights afforded to US citizens has, gradually, moved us closer and closer to the advent of a fascist state.
Well, Naomi Wolf presents the same argument… but much more eloquently and much more thoroughly than I am capable of.
To me, this book is important because we, as American citizens, have become lazy and complacent. We take too many of our liberties for granted; so much so that we’re oblivious when they’re seized from us. After 9/11, in our fear, we allowed the Bush Administration to piss on the very foundation of this country. We allow our civil liberties to be violated, we allow our phones to be tapped, our email to be read, we set fire to the Great Writ, thereby allowing our own citizens to be unlawfully detained, and we turn a blind eye to torture. Oh God, what have we become?
We, as a country, capitulated to fear, and in doing so, compromised the very essence of what makes this country great. It disgusts me.
But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
So, read the book. If it moves you, pass it on.
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I ain’t done talking yet.
Chris Dodd rocks.
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons.
No more.
I have decided to place a “hold” on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President’s assault on the Constitution by illegally providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization.
I said that I would do everything I could to stop this bill from passing, and I have.
It’s about delivering results — and as I’ve said before, the FIRST thing I will do after being sworn into office is restore the Constitution. But we shouldn’t have to wait until then to prevent the further erosion of our country’s most treasured document. That’s why I am stopping this bill today.
And indeed he did. At least for the moment.
Chris Dodd is fucking awesome. The man has found himself a pair of brass balls, and my respect for him has risen tenfold.
It is about fucking time someone stood up in defense of the US Constitution.
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But wait! – there’s more!
Mike Huckabee’s new Christmas ad makes me sick. When Ted saw it, he pointed out the clever lighting that made the bookshelf behind the prick into a white glowing cross. Subtle.
Evidently, we’re not the only ones sickened.
And a few more reasons why it is insane to vote for this religious nut:
Huckabee is a fool.
Huckabee is a bigot, a religious nut, and a fool.
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I don’t want my children to grow up in Bush’s vision of America, and I don’t want some damned idiot like Huckabee, Romney, or Guiliani to be on the receiving end of his torch.
My email troubles are going to cause me to have a serious psychotic episode.
I’m not sure how many of you know this, but I love Victoria Beckham. She’s got a sense of humor, she quotes King Solomon on her body, she strikes me as a very nice person, she loves her family, and she has badass motherfucking taste in shoes. The latest reason why I love her:
“Someone told me I’m going to feature big this year with the drag queens… I’m so camp! I’m such a gay man trying to get out. I don’t give a shit what anybody thinks.”
(excerpt from an interview in Elle)
I live for the day that I feature big with the drag queens. But it’s the last part that really moved me. You go with your bad self, Posh. I fuckin’ love you.
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
I don’t know why I was thinking about Saint Augustine tonight. Maybe its the season; maybe its the weather reminding me of my childhood. I remember reading that passage in Saint Augustine’s Confessions when I was a kid and thinking that this paragraph was one of the most beautiful love poems ever written. I still do.
“We face no greater danger today than theocratic tyranny.”
Funny. That’s exactly how I feel about the Bush administration, not Islam.
In other news:
I am so fucking proud of my country.
At least the CIA redeemed itself a little with this chunk of public humiliation.
For a minute, I thought that maybe Huckabee wasn’t a complete bastard, only a fool. I was wrong.
And more uplifting Iraq-related news: an employee of KBR Inc (a subsidiary of Halliburton) was sexually assaulted by her coworkers and then held captive by her employer so she wouldn’t be able to report the rape. Fucking ghastly.
To end on a lighter note, this is pretty badass.
