WorldNetDaily manages to fit criticism of President Obama into nearly everything it publishes, including its story on Monday’s lunar eclipse.
Citing the president's comments from January — “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” — about using executive orders and executive actions in the face of congressional obstruction, right-wing pastor Mark Biltz told WND today that the “blood moon” is a divine warning to Obama that God has “more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”
“In the book of Joel it mentions three times about the sun and the moon going dark and in context it also mentions Divine wrath against all countries that want to divide or part the land of Israel,” Biltz said, touching on a frequent Religious Right claim that Obama administration efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal will lead to divine punishment.
You know I am supposed to make some kind of smart ass comment right about here, but I literally don't have anything to add.
The idea that there is an omnipotent being in the sky that creates indecipherable celestial warnings to direct the actions of human beings is so ridiculous that it makes my head ache.
I mean seriously WTF? It is simply the sun reflecting off of the earth, not a sign for Armageddon.
Oh wait, I stand corrected.
You know I am supposed to make some kind of smart ass comment right about here, but I literally don't have anything to add.
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I've run out of anything to say anymore. Some idiot several thousand years ago saw something he couldn't explain so made up a magical story. Today, in 2014, we have scientific proof and there are idiots who still prefer the Magic Theory.
Whose fault was it the million or so other times it has happened?
ReplyDeleteStill Obama's.
DeleteJust like World War II, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Fall of Rome, the eruption of Vesuvius, the Great Flood, the Dust Bowl, the 1938 hurricane, the Potato Famine, and the Black Plague (think that name was a coincidence???).
The Red Sox Collapse in the 2003 ALCS against the Yankees? Shame on those Boston fans who blamed Manager Grady Little for leaving Pedro on the mound too long, resulting in a loss in extra innings. *Of course* that was Obama's fault.
DeleteAnd yesterday when Bailey, my girlfriend's dog, was excited to see me and tinkled on the kitchen floor and on one of my shoes? Dammit, Obama!
Benghazi!!!
Oh yeah, he never did show his berf certificate neither.
PALIN for US SENATOR for ALASKA 2014
I like President Obama and voted for him twice, but I’m kind of eager for the end of his term so this shit will stop. The right wing is emboldened (thanks Sarah) and stinking up the country. There’s an upside to that, people see the creeps clearly, perhaps for the first time, but I’m torn on whether it’s all worth it.
ReplyDeleteIt won't stop. Do you think they will suddenly grow brains when Madame President takes office?
DeleteIt won't stop. And it's nothing new. The right wing has NEVER been timid or subtle. Or have you forgotten, for instance, Whitewater?
DeleteI'm of the firm belief that this shit won't stop until we're a third world nation if then.
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DeletePlease be patient; the Koch brothers are working overtime to make that happen.
Assuming there is a god, she must really be pissed at the right wing. And, she is forcing them out of their hidey holes with fires, floods, and fear of a blood red moon. She's gotta be thinking that she gave them the tree of knowledge and they ate the apple and they are still stupid. If we the people are in a mess of biblical proportions, it is because god was a piss poor general contractor and the users' manual was a piece of shit.
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Totally agree! As the ignorant right wing khristians continue to pour out of their hidey holes, people who are able to read and think are more than likely to show up at the polls in November to help beat them back into their hiding places.
Delete" If we the people are in a mess of biblical proportions, it is because god was a piss poor general contractor and the users' manual was a piece of shit."
DeleteBest line I've read so far this week!
The same people who don't understand global warming, and thus, deny it...
ReplyDeletethe very people who misunderstand evolution so they deny that too...
those who can't comprehend chemistry or physics
who can only just barely grasp the simplest mathematics
are the ones who believe in magic and ghosts, gods and angels,
those are who weep in fear over a "blood-moon" lunar eclipse
which is laughably common
but is only visible from our little section of the globe once in a while.
I always read their site title as WingNutDaily.
ReplyDeleteLookout New Mexico!
ReplyDeleteIs New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?
Petty. Vindictive. Weak on policy. And yet she's being hailed as the Republican Party's great new hope.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/governor-susana-martinez-new-mexico-2016
...The tapes and emails gathered by Kroll unveil that “Martinez can be nasty, juvenile, and vindictive. She appears ignorant about basic policy issues and has surrounded herself with a clique of advisers who are prone to a foxhole mentality,” to the degree that he compares her to Sarah Palin.
And just like Sarah Palin, Martinez is no friend to women. Republicans thought they could trick women into voting for policies that were bad for them just because a woman was touting them, but that failed in 2008. On one of the audio clips, Martinez is heard referring to her opponent Denish as “that little b*tch.” Kroll writes, “After Denish noted that the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce had given her an award, McCleskey snapped, ‘That’s why we’re not meeting with those f*ckers.’”
Is it the Sopranos or Veep? Hard to tell.
Martinez is heard in another clip asking what in the Hell the state’s Commission on the Status of Women is. They are the people who keep track of things like pay equity and safety, which of course, after heaving mocking, Martinez defunded with a line item veto.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/16/caught-tape-republican-gov-susana-martinezs-contempt-women-explains.html
How do they know it's OBAMA at whom Gawd is pissed? It could be PUTIN, ya know. Russia didn't used to be called the RED menace for nothing! Now Putin is all anti-gay and all, just like fundie winguts. Maybe with this red moon Gawd is going, GO RUSSIA! INVADE THOSE IMMORAL COUNTRIES FOR ME!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of President Obama, this is a fascinating article that you and Heather might enjoy, Jesse.
ReplyDeleteHow the President Got to ‘I Do’ on Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/how-the-president-got-to-i-do-on-same-sex-marriage.html
Feast of Tabernacles - never heard of it. No wonder churches have a feast/holy day 365 days a year. that way they can always claim some sort of significance.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we felt the earth move,Pastor Hagee., unfortunately, it had nothing to do with a god or a red moon. You can't make this stuff up!
ReplyDeleteOf course it's Obama's fault, the first letter of his last name is a full moon, There's your proof right there!