What Thers Said...

Thers is usually at whiskeyfire but had this today at FireDogLake

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that the Internet should be a place for the reasonable exchange of ideas between people of differing political beliefs, but such an idea is in my experience misguided at best and at worst actively dangerous. "Civility" is not a virtue in itself, but a mechanism, a way of facilitating discourse: when someone is determined to say any fucking shit they want as a way of getting whatever they want and to loudly insist that they are in the right just because the other side is mean and vulgar when they point out, accurately, that they are little more than a vicious gang of crazy-assed lying motherfuckers... well, fuck civility. Truth is a higher virtue by several orders of magnitude.

To which I say .... fucking A!

And in other news...

I plan to be at the Caddilac Ranch in Southington, CT tonight tonight watching people in cowboy hats and boots dance ... well ok .. i admit it .. I will mostly be watching the women .. sue me

The first 10 people that come up to me and say "hey aren't you that geeky guy I read online" gets a free drink

and no ... i dont imagine that I will have to buy any drinks .. but a man can dream ...

Rules and Bylaws Commitee Public Meeting

This is important stuff, if a little arcane for most folks .. but please watch it
Watch live video from democraticvideo's channel on Justin.tv

Doozers

I loved Fraggle Rock and especially the Doozers. And now since I am off to work .... here they are

Faith Healing

From MSNBC comes this gem

"Holy Spirit fall! God is here! We want more! More, more, more!"

That's what Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley yells out nearly every evening to the thousands who gather to hear him preach. The 32-year-old Bentley looks more like a biker than a minister, with body piercings and tattoos all over his arms and neck. But the crowds don't seem to mind how he looks. They just want what they believe Bentley has – the ability to heal them.

Bentley claims that God has used him to supernaturally heal hundreds of people of diseases ranging from glaucoma to diabetes to even cancer. How to explain it?

I explain it by saying that it is a fraud. Whether it is conscious or unconscious I do not know.

Anyone the believes that their god intervenes in individual lives like this has a conception of their deity that is far too small. It isnt that I think that God doesn't care, it is just that S/He is kind of busy with other things and really has better stuff to do than cure your Aunt Fannie's glaucoma.

Dunkin Donuts ... stupid to cave

From BusinessWeek

To be fair, Malkin picked up the original item from Littlegreenfootballs.com, whose adolescent web editor headlined his item about the scarf, “Mainstreaming Terrorism To Sell Donuts.”

Since the scarf is actually paisley, littlegreenfootballs.com and www.michellemalkin.com are, I hear, organizing a boycott of effete elderly men who wear paisley ascots, and grandmothers who still wear paisley scarfs to church.

Sorry to rant, but Malkin is such a dishonest numbskull that it seriously grinds my gears when an advertiser gives her the time of day.

I cannot bring myself to link to that odious woman but I am sure that you can find the original posting by yourself over that that cesspool she calls a blog.

Khadr Judge fired for attempting to hold a fair trial?

From CBC

The U.S. military judge presiding over the trial of Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr has been fired, said Khadr's lawyer.

In a news release issued Thursday, Lt.-Cmdr. William C. Kuebler said the judge, Col. Peter Brownback, was replaced after threatening to suspend proceedings in the case earlier this month.

Brownback told prosecutors they had to provide Khadr's defence lawyers with records of his confinement at the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or he would suspend the proceedings.

Kuebler, Khadr's U.S. military-appointed lawyer, said he learned Brownback had been fired in an email from the chief judge of the U.S. military commissions, Col. Ralph Kohlmann. Kuebler's news release also included an email sent Wednesday by lead prosecutor Maj. Jeff Groharing, which complained of numerous delays in trial proceedings.

Kuebler told CBCNews.ca he believes the prosecution hopes the change will "speed things up."

Because goodness knows that you don't want to take your time and get it right when your only mandate is to get convictions. Whatever happened to the idea of justice in this country?

Oh .. silly me .. that is such pre 9/11 thinking

Why isn't this a big story?