Copland III

Well, it’s less than twenty-four hours to go until the American election. While I’m not able to vote (I’m in the UK) we’ll all feel the consequences.

So no matter who you vote for, if you’re an American, please vote tomorrow. You won’t be in a position to complain about the government if you didn’t vote.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. –William Osler

Elizabeth Dole looking scarily like a less attractive version of Joan Rivers

Oh dear, curse me. I have neglected this place lately. Oh well. Here we go with this week’s star cactus. This time it’s a politician – Elizabeth Dole, the woman responsible for attacking her political opponent, Kay Hagan, for simply consorting with atheists.

This tactic pangs of desperation – Hagan is winning and still gathering momentum, whilst Dole looks like she may well be on her way out of the Senate.

So now she’s resorted to cheap attacks. She claims that Hagan won’t stand up for North Carolina’s values. If that’s so, then why the fuck do all the opinion polls put her ahead? Does she think North Carolinans were born yesterday?

Of course, her campaign team’s put out the ‘Godless Americans PAC wants to abolish the Christmas holiday’ bullshit. Just because she meets with a group that actually wants secularisation of the winter holiday, not its abolition, she won’t necessarily implement their proposed policies.

They also, while mentioning the fact that Godless Americans PAC wants to remove “Under god” from the Pledge of Alleigance, conveniently omit the facts that (a) it wasn’t there in the first place, and (b) if disestablishmentarianism is to be practiced, it shouldn’t even be there.

The woman is deplorable for sinking to such low levels, and I sincerely hope Dole loses the election and that Hagan wins with a landslide majority.

Mike Huckabee, looking like a fat Ian Hislop. (Image: David Ball/Wikipedia)

This week’s twerp is Mike Huckabee, who was dangerously close to becoming the Republicans’ nomination for President of the USA. The man’s as insane as Sarah Palin. Some of the things on his ridiculous tea-tray of policies and standpoints include:

• opposition to gay marriage
• the belief that homosexuality is unnatural and sinful
• the belief that creationism should be taught as an alternative to evolution, describing evolution as a ‘dogma’
• the belief that his sky fairy promised Israel to Jewish people
• the fact that he stands by (but no longer believes, I hasten to add) his 1992 statement that HIV patients should be quarantined: he now rejects this point of view, but he made this statement when we knew that HIV couldn’t spread via casual contact
• the belief that homosexuality causes disease
• the fact that he credited his god for his presidential campaign (it failed)
• the fact that he wants to ‘take the nation back for Christ’
• opposition to gay adoption
• the fact that if elected he wouldn’t change the US armed forces’ ridiculous ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
• the belief that carrying concealed weapons should be allowed
• the fact that he is against universal health care
• the fact that he supports displaying the Ten Commandments in schools
• the fact that he believes embryos with no nervous system are sentient beings
• the fact that by day, he’s a Southern Baptist minister

In short, he’s barmy. The scary thing is that we may have someone who is effectively Huckleberry, but in hockey mom casing, a heart attack away from the presidency in mere months.

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Matt Damon is one of the less cringeworthy members of the US’s acting repertoire. He doesn’t make a huge fuss about his own personal life, doesn’t belong to some ridiculous cult, and paparazzi photographs don’t show him collapsing in Las Vegas at 4am giving fellatio to Jack Black. And it seems he’s a rational thinker too: from what he says in this video, he may well be an atheist.

Put simply, he tears into Sarah Palin in the video.

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Stephen Green at a rally. Note that his teeth have become gopher-like.

Every week, I hope to be able to post a profile of an annoying twat who, for some strange reason, has not yet been eliminated from the gene pool thanks to their stupidity. It’s only a matter of time, but it’d be best to celebrate their idiocy before they inevitably win a Darwin. (At least, we hope they win a Darwin, and don’t take too many innocent proles down with them.) At the end of the year, if there are enough, they may be eligible for some kind of award.

So, this week’s Supreme Idiot is Stephen Green, a fundamentalist Christian responsible for the right-wing political party Christian Voice. This was the same organisation responsible for the ridiculous waste of license-fee payers’ money in the Jerry Springer: The Opera debarcle on BBC2. IT WAS A FRACKING FILM. I doubt Birdshit Green even bothered to actually watch the film before deciding if it was blasphemous to his imaginary sky fairy. He also persuaded (read: bullied) a cancer charity into rejecting a £3,000 donation from the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera. He threatened protests and picketing – targeted at a charity. This man is a true disgrace to the human race.

Why the ‘birdshit’? Well, on the same programme where he made racist and hypocritical slurs against other religions, footage was shown of a bird using him as a public convenience. Even the bird considered him one of the most contemptible wastes of blood and organs in existence.

Yet still, this idiot is active. His fundie mafia managed to get the South Wales Echo to retract an article because it implied that Jebus (if he existed) might have been gay. What part of if you don’t like it, don’t read it and fuck off don’t they get? I can’t see Green bullying the Echo over a column by the same author about Islam. Especially seeing as Green has described Allah as being the spirit of Satan – even though Allah is the same sky fairy that Green worships every single damn day. For all we know, Green may think that Muslims pray to a garden gnome. From his attitude, it is highly likely.

References and External Links

• BBC News. A Voice in the Wilderness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4303965.stm
• Mediawatchwatch. http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2005/06/15/interview-with-stephen-green/
• Jesus and Mo. http://www.jesusandmo.net/2005/12/18/hook/

Conservapedia has a story in its news list on the front page at the moment. It goes thus:

The candidate pretending to represent the working class, Barack Obama, is scheduled to attend a $30,800-ticket fundraiser at the home of the wealthy hard rocker “Jon Bon Jovi” on Friday.

Now, I don’t know about you, but what the fuck is wrong with Obama going to a CHARITY fundraiser? This really gets me angry – it’s a horribly cheap shot. I know people have been taking cheap shots at Sarah Palin’s sex and her daughter, but doesn’t the bible say ‘turn the other cheek’? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t say ‘turn the other cheek, unless you have an election to win.’

So, it seems that Barack Obama has actually responded to scientists’ requests to clarify his policies on science. It provides fourteen more reasons to vote for the Democrats in November, if you’re in the USA (also taking into consideration that he is in favour of actually teaching science in science classes). Those of us who aren’t (myself included) are counting on you to ensure that the religious cretins of the Republican party don’t get back in the White House.

With this in mind, it transpires that Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate for Vice President, doesn’t know her own country’s history.

11. Are you offended by the phrase “Under God in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

She of course neglected to mention that the Pledge of Allegiance wasn’t written until the late 19th century, years after the Founding Fathers had kicked the bucket. The words “Under God” weren’t added until nineteen-fifty-fricking-four.

How can this woman be considered by anyone to be suitable for the White House?

Focus on the Family must be kicking themselves. The kook troupe were trying to detract from Barack Obama’s speech at the DNC – by praying to god to make it rain.

Mwahaha.