Anyone who hasn’t noticed the rabid up-tick in the perceived toxic ties between the presidential candidates and their religious affiliations gets a sincere “get well soon,” because you have to be in some kind of coma. The only one who appears to have escaped the holy vetting is Mrs Clinton, which may speak more to the fact she has no real religious associations outside of the little prayer circle she attends in the Senate.

But look. As Clinton thrashes wildly in dead air preparatory to plunging to her political death, Obama and now McCain are getting the religious scrubbing of a lifetime because they’re going to be the nominees. The reasons the electorate is finally paying attention to their religious ties however, run a lot deeper than Fixed Noise’s manufactured crisis ‘o video loops of Jeramiah Wright, or the totally whacktard theologies of the neocon nutballs associated with McCain.

Like it or not human beings are hard-wired to long for something higher, deeper, and more profound than material reality; a higher universe reality— the world of spirit. Religion is a personal and real reality for most of humanity. But when institutionalized religion becomes sanctioned by the state, tacitly or overtly, we’re all in danger of policies being directed by the personal interpretations of the religion-specific values held by a small number of people. Remember: the last time we tried mixing government with religion, we wound up burning people at the stake.

The recent erosion of the fragile wall between church and state produced by policies and attitudes of the Cheney-Bush debacle, which either directly or indirectly facilitate the bizarre theories of a coming apocalypse, are unfortunately only one of several afflictions currently threatening our liberty.

Here’s a check-list of a dozen things, in no particular order, that lovers of freedom and liberty should monitor as frequently as they would a weather station— with constant vigilance. . . followed by examples of how they are threatening our liberty right now, every day.

Usurpation of unwarranted power by either the executive or legislative branches. Signing statements— what, 157 at last count?

Machinations of ignorant and superstitious agitators. Rush Limbaugh; Anne Coulter; Shaun Hannity; Bill O’Reilly; Glen Beck. . .

Retardation of scientific progress. Stem Cell Research; Terri Schiavo. . .

Stalemate of the dominance of mediocrity. “Stay the course” Bush; health care crisis; no energy policy; no higher moral vision. . .

Domination by vicious minorities. Swift boat morons; Fox News. . .

Control by ambitious and clever would-be dictators. George Bush ala Dick Cheney. . .

Disastrous disruption of panics. Global War on Terror; Gasoline prices; subprime lending crisis. . .

Exploitation by the unscrupulous. Haliburton, KBR, all other war profiteers. . .

Failure of social and economic fairness. Toleration of poverty; no higher education for the poor; ridiculous minimum wage; no health care; no working immigration policy; unfair taxation. . .

Union of church and state. Neocons and Bush on a mission from God; “In God we trust” on our money; paid Christian ministers in the House and Senate. Every elected senator or Congressman knows how to pray, and they certainly can pray on the record if they want to. But there’s no place for paid or voluntary professional clergy of any religion to be in our House and Senate, leading our elected representatives in prayer or worship.

Loss of personal liberty. Habeas Corpus; NSA spying; Fear mongering government regulations.

And now, because I follow Jesus,

let’s close with a short prayer, shall we?

A radio-controlled Dalek, a villainous cyborg from the Doctor Who TV series, being demonstrated in London in 2006. The device was responsible for the death of twenty-two bystanders, with fifteen more seriously injured before the remote was wrestled away from Howdy Dooby, above.

“Terrorist groups may soon deploy killer robots against unsuspecting civilians. . .” begins this warning from the Fixed News Fear Mongering Department. (Pardon the redundancy).

Really, it’s getting harder and harder to practice the art of satire anymore, what with self-parodies like Fox sucking up all the oxygen.

Sigh…

Dana Bash, Evan Glass, and Shirley Zilberstein of CNN, were all aware that hatchet man Bill CunningHam had made a slur of their network’s initials too, clever ‘tard that he is, but they filed this unbiased account of CunningHam’s “disparaging remarks” of Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton; oh, and the rest of their accomplices, the liberal mainstream media.

CINCINNATI, Ohio (CNN) — A supporter of John McCain, speaking at an official campaign event in Ohio attended by the Arizona senator, called Barack Obama a “hack, Chicago-style Daly [sic] politician,” and told the crowd “all is going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya around the table of Barack Obama.”

“World leaders who want to kill us”? Hmm. Who could he be talking about?

Evil Amenidijihadda-rama-ding-dong?

Evil Kim Jonga-rama Ding Dong?

Evil Dicka Ding Dong??

Evil Fox Rodga-Dodga Ailes???

“At some point in the near future the media, the stooges from the New York Times, CBS (The Clinton Broadcasting System), NBC (The Nobody But Clinton Network), The All Bill Clinton Channel (ABC), and the Clinton News Network at some point is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama,” said controversial conservative commentator Bill Cunningham, an Ohio native.

My goodness— he overlooked the Fox News Channel; well, surely Senator McCain would be willing to offer a perfunctory apology to the MSM for this hatchet job by his event announcer. . .

“That day will come and then you’ll know the truth about his business dealings with Rezko, when he got sweetheart deals in Chicago,” he added, “and the illegal loans that he received, at some point the media will quit taking sides on this and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they covered Bush, the same way they covered Cheney, and they same way they cover every Republican.”

Wow; this Bill CunningHam sounds like “a great American”— the same kind of “great American” he regularly praises for talking, well, like he does. He might even turn out to be “the great prophet from Ohio”— more-so than Obama is “the great prophet from Chicago.” He’ll need to be a prophet, since he’s predicted Obama has received “illegal loans” that will be discovered soon, and rescue his slanderous verbiage from being just another steaming pile from the slime pit of republican family value politics.

Cunningham also compared Hillary Clinton unfavorably to current First Lady Laura Bush.

Well— who paid him to take the friggin’ microphone? Did they forget to examine his fucktard credential? Did they miss the tell-tale crusty white foam at the corners of his pie-hole?

McCain was not on stage during these remarks. Immediately after the event, he distanced himself from the comments, telling reporters that he had been informed about “disparaging remarks” about his potential Democratic opponents.

“I have repeatedly stated my respect for Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, and I will treat them with respect,” he said.

“. . .While others, speaking at my official events, may say whatever they want; as that, my friends, is the way freedom will work when I’m president.”

“I regret any comments that may be made about these two individuals who are honorable Americans, we just have strong philosophical differences, so I want to disassociate myself from any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them,” he said, adding later that “I absolutely repudiate such comments, and again I will take responsibility it will never happen again. It will never happen again.”

“Better late than never, my friends. . .” (talking to the press now; the audience that had been slimed by CunningHam was already at the local Perkins.) “But my friends you know, these things happen, so I will gladly and honorably disassociate myself from them, and take responsibility from here on out that it will never happen again.”

As for the press? Well he hadn’t been “informed” that the “disparaging remarks” had covered their honor as Americans, too.

So fuck’m.

 

The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle— these constitute falseness. —The Urantia Book

 

UPDATE: Warning: The second video below is from the Hannity & Colmes thing from Fixed Noise Channel. If like me, you only rarely surf through Fixed Noise, you may find this video disturbing from a number of standpoints, not the least of which is the sheer stupidity of the conversation, the willful ignorance of the participants, and specifically the repulsive behavior of “our friend” Bill CunningHam. You might well ask, why bother showing this effluvia at all, then.

Two reasons. Yesterday, this. . . creature— hired by the McCain people to deliver some “red, raw meat” to the assembled Republicans, was a McCain supporter. After McCain “diss-tanced” himself from the vitriol of the bipedal varmint, he’s now thrown his support behind Hillary Clinton. Why? Hear it for yourself, if you can. But the second reason is even creepier. This ‘tard YELLED HIS ENTIRE FUCKING SCREED. While it’s entirely possible that a radio dick does not understand the purpose of a microphone, I think there’s a better explanation here: