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The Non Dubious, Unambiguous Pleasures of Tea
Posted by Glenden Brown in People Are Nuts, This Blog on January 21st, 2010
I’ve written about this about before and it’s a topic near and dear to my heart and I feel like writing about it again. I know we live in a coffee fueled society. I know most Americans start their days with a cup of joe. In many houses, the first sound of the day comes from the coffee pot. When I was little, my parents had a percolator coffee pot and its familiar comforting gurgle is inextricably linked to memories of my childhood. Coffee shops abound and if you spend any time in them, your clothes and hair are infused with a unique and distinct scent of coffee.
But, I am a tea drinker, nay, a tea fanatic. Read the rest of this entry »
Sheldon Killpack, Mormonism, Alcohol Consumption and Prohibition
Posted by Glenden Brown in Hypocrisy, Liquor Laws, Mormon LDS, People Are Nuts, Religion, This Blog, Utah Politics on January 17th, 2010
I read in this morning’s Trib that Sheldon Killpack, Senate majority leader is now the former state Senate Majority leader – he has resigned following his arrest for DUI. The Trib has run two or three stories about Killpack and they have generated a huge amount of public reaction.
I’ve come to see alcohol laws in Utah as a substitute for the Mormon Non-Mormon divide. For our Mormon friends, family and neighbors, alcohol issues are understood through the lens of morality – alcohol consumption is immoral and any negative consequences are the result of engaging in immoral behavior; immoral choices are tempting and morality is demonstrated by resisting temptation, while giving in to temptation is a sign of moral weakness. By contrast, for the majority of Non-Mormons (and a great many not so good Mormons), alcohol consumption is a health issue, one that in interpreted in terms of personal choice, in terms of good judgment and bad judgment. Alcoholism and addiction are diseases.
Killpack’s Mormonism has not been treated relatively softly in the media, but it has been unavoidable. The D-News for instance reported: Read the rest of this entry »
The Right: ‘Avatar’ Is ‘Super Mega Ultra Left-Wing’
Posted by Richard Warnick in American History, Conservatives, Entertainment, Environment, Foreign Policy, National Politics, People Are Nuts, Rachel Maddow, Racism, Space, This Blog, War, Wilderness on December 16th, 2009
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James Cameron’s Avatar
One of the most-anticipated movies of the year is James Cameron’s “Avatar.” The story is set on a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, 4.3 light years from Earth. Humans want to: (1) eradicate the blue-skinned natives and their civilization, which thrives in harmony with nature, and (2) open up strip mines.
Perhaps not surprisingly, right-wing commentators have immediately leaped to the defense of genocide and the rape of natural resources.
AllahPundit: “Super mega ultra left-wing… A three-hour lecture on imperialism starring Smurfs.”
Breitbart.com: “Think of ‘Avatar’ as ‘Death Wish 5′ for leftists. A simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy where if you freakin’ hate the bad guys (America), you’re able to forgive the by-the-numbers predictability of it all and still get off watching them get what they got coming.”
Jeffrey Wells: “Not right-wing friendly… Call it the most flamboyant, costliest, grandest left-liberal super-movie anyone’s ever seen… totally pro-loincloth, pro-native, despise-the-greedy, hug-the-earth, worship-the-earth, down with the soulless short-end, down with the us-first, masters-of-the-universe thinking behind the Goldman Sachs/Timothy Geithner culture and up with the eternal/spiritual in all cultures and all corners of the globe. The tragedy of the Vietnam War echoes all through this film. Somewhere Ho Chi Minh is smiling.”
John Nolte: “Set in 2154, “Avatar” is a thinly disguised, heavy-handed and simplistic sci-fi fantasy/allegory critical of America from our founding straight through to the Iraq War.”
Wow. Do you think some of these people have guilty consciences? It’s a science-fiction movie about humans trying to wipe out a race that exists in James Cameron’s imagination. Maybe it’s a heavy-handed allegory, or else it’s action-adventure entertainment. Did they say “Titanic” was an anti-capitalist screed because the third-class passengers didn’t get lifeboats? Not everything is partisan politics, you know.
See below for a hilarious clip from Kent Jones of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
“Agressive Atheism” Because Religion Kills…All of Them
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Atheism, Bigotry, Homophobia, People Are Nuts, Religion, Religious Fundamentalism on November 29th, 2009
This video is going wild-viral as I write (see Splurb.com)
Imagine a world without religion. Let me count the wars. BRB…
NOM knows what is moral
Posted by shane in Conservatives, Hypocrisy, People Are Nuts, Sex, Society on November 19th, 2009
NOM* the National Organization for against Marriage, really knows their morality. So they quietly dumped their newly disgraced vapid spokesmodel.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Posted by shane in Conservatives, People Are Nuts, Religion on October 6th, 2009
Comics Edition.
One of the ways i like to keep track of the mentality of any particular group, is to se what images they feel resonate with them. You can get a pretty good idea of the opinions and general attitudes of a subculture by looking at the posters, signs, bumper stickers and comics that they approve of. Towards that end i pretty regularly read conservative editorial comics. They tell you exactly where the majority of conservatives stand on issues. Read the rest of this entry »
Freeper Literature Reaching New Heights – Cliff’s Pick
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Appreciating John, Cliff's Picks, Conservatives, Hypocrisy, Mental health, MilBlogs, Olympics, People Are Nuts, White Supremacy on October 5th, 2009
There is little grace or beauty in the Obama-Hating crowd. For they are generally dull and uninformed people.
This comment posted on TheDonovan (Johan Goldberg Fans) struck me as uniquely articulate as it is incredulous. Extra points for writing skills.
A must read.
Eric,
If by ‘concrete-headed, ignorant, and arrogant group of people,’ you mean those of us who were (and remain) unimaginably pissed off by the unjustified 9/11 attacks on our country, and by the pussified, back-biting, loathsome egoism of the failing-state Eurabians and their US-wannabee-but-can’t-stand-themselves for-it cousins, the Canadians, I can only say I’m glad to be counted among them. Moreover, everyone across the water or the border who doesn’t like it can just kiss my ‘concrete-headed, ignorant, and arrogant’ American a$$.
It may look like strength to people who have no courage, no dignity, and no history of standing up for themselves or taking care of themselves, but from here it looks like little ‘Bama-boy’s taken the ‘please don’t hurt me’ approach to dealing with mean people and bullies. He may have a plan, and he may be following a script designed to play well in washed-up old Europe or among the inbred-misogynists of the middle east or in dying Russia, but most Americans see Europe and even Canada as the Lands of Lost….well…Everything. For many of us, the rest of the West has no strength, no dignity, no reason even to exist, except to take without giving, to demean without leading–to serve as nothing but an example of the decrepitude and self-pitying, pap-eating, soylent green future the rest of the world will face if it follows the same self-destructive path.
And people wonder why I am so totally for open immigration? How could anyone who can think or see what is happening to Europe, Russia, Canada, and Japan not be!
You know, a very smart fellow named Thomas Cahill wrote an excellent book titled “How the Irish Saved Civilization,” in which he discusses how Ireland became the storehouse of western knowledge and culture during the dark ages. It may be a bit of stretch to say so, but as I see it, most of the West is facing another dark ages, except it won’t recover from this one because all the life–the core essence of humanity that fuels our survival–has finally been all but bred out of the overly nice, overly peace-loving peoples of the Western world.
And the US? Well, if we don’t allow ourselves to become like the continental Europeans, if we keep encouraging immigration and letting our nation evolve as new peoples and new bloodlines are added to it, the US will survive intact and probably even prosper. And the connection to Cahill’s book is this: I see the US taking on the role of Ireland during the dark ages. All of us here today, regardless of our status or caste are descended from the smart and the tough who left those old places to find better places. We all carry within us what I’ve heard referred to as the ‘warrior’ gene, which in this case means the essence of that inner fire that makes people fight to survive–the drive that God put in all the strongest species on the planet. If the West falls into ruin and decay, it damn sure won’t be because the U.S. took it there, it’ll be because the old world finally collapsed in on itself, just as the Warsaw pact did in the ’90s
In fact, I suspect India and China are evolving toward primacy on Earth, but the US will be there too, only we’ll be there alone of the western nations (except maybe Britain and Germany, both of which may still have it in themselves to fight their way back from the brink of dissolution). As for the rest, I suspect these are the end days, give or take 100 years, which is really funny considering how the rest of the world looks at the US with disdain and loathing. Personally, I’d say they need to look to themselves and forget about us because the barbarians are hammering at the gates again, only this time they’re bringing babies and a religion that says ‘Europe is a disease. Islam is the cure.’
And finally, although I hate to see Islam win, I can’t say I mind the idea of Europe losing. Maybe it’s time for some new management over there, and the reign of some people who–if nothing else–don’t think of themselves as too smart or too intelligent to talk to God, or too cool to even allow for his existance. People who may not agree with our choice of God, but who also don’t mock us as ignorant hicks for believing, the way most Europeans do.
And you say we’ve a group of “concrete-headed, ignorant, and arrogant” people? Yeah, pot and kettle to me, my friend… pot & kettle.
VR
Glenn Beck Translates the Constitution ‘From English to Idiot’
Posted by Richard Warnick in 4th Estate (Media), American History, Glenn Beck, People Are Nuts, The Constitution, This Blog on September 25th, 2009
From Glenn Beck’s new book, via Media Matters:
What follows is a translation (from English to Idiot) of several important parts of the U.S. Constitution, leaving no doubt as to what our Founding Fathers really intended. [Beck, et. al, Arguing With Idiots, Page 267]

[Arguing with Idiots, Page 278]
Actually, Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution isn’t a ten dollar admission fee for immigrants. The clause was the result of a compromise that prevented Congress from outlawing the slave trade or attempting to tax it out of existence until 1808. Which is something I thought everybody learned in high school.
Keith Olbermann had more to say last night on MSNBC (3 minute video, he gets to Beck at 1:24).
Some idle reflections on weight, body image, exercise and well-being
Posted by Glenden Brown in People Are Nuts, Society, This Blog on September 16th, 2009
Every now and then I get crazy ass bored with talk of politics and policy and offer up a post about something else. This is one of those posts.
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