THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

As a matter of fact, it was a slow evening at the reference desk, why do you ask?  Anyhoo, Rachel interviews a African-American Tea Partier:

OBAMA LIED, AFRICANS DIED

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Just gettin’ warmed up:

A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed.

President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration?s programme has shifted away from emergency treatment.

“George W. Bush is a hero in this country,” said Peter Mugyenyi, who heads Uganda’s Joint Clinical Research Centre, a leading AIDS treatment clinic.

Uganda received 929 million dollars (678 million euros) from PEPFAR between 2003-2008 and used much of those funds to provide some 150,000 people with Antiretroviral therapy.

But the US switch in emphasis means that clinics are now being forced to turn new patients away.

“We had drugs under PEPFAR. We didn’t have to turn patients away,” he told AFP.

Mugyenyi accuses the United States of breaking its promise to Uganda. “They have changed their programme very regrettably,” he said.

“The number one thing is availability of treatment. Any other programme, whatever name they call it, will fail.”

Douglas Mugabi, a thin, softly spoken farmer who lives just outside Kampala, told AFP that he and his wife tested positive in 2003, and, when his health deteriorated in 2006, he began receiving free drugs.

Last year, his wife’s condition also worsened.

“When I came in and we found out there was no longer a free programme I became cold,” the 48-year-old said. “My wife is worried because the drugs are expensive, but according to our means, we couldn?t support a life-long treatment.”

LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL!

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Then tear it off and throw it away!  Considering this:

Episcopalians attending General Convention linked arms with hotel workers July 14 to march to the gates of Disneyland to demand economic justice for 2,300 Disney employees protesting a planned hike in the cost of their health insurance.

“It seems to me, as our church has moved toward a position of justice for all its members, particularly in the area of health care, this is the perfect opportunity for the church to witness to the world about its convictions regarding economic justice,” said the Rev. Lisa Hackney, from the Diocese of Ohio.

Several hundred people gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center to hear a prayer by Bishop Jon Bruno of Los Angeles, before joining more than 1,000 others already on the march to Disneyland.

“I cannot think of any reason more than the Gospel proclamation of ‘do justice’ and ‘do God’s work.’ This is where I need to be,” said the Rev. Yamily Bass-Choate, a deputy from the diocese of New York.

Lynn Tyler, a deputy from the Diocese of New Hampshire, was marching to support Disney workers, 75 percent of whom, she said, are women. “And of those women, many are single parents. They’re pretty much living on the edge as it is.”

A letter in support of Disney workers signed by 13 Episcopal bishops said they were taking seriously “our call to stand with the poor and those who are suffering from injustice.” The protest included Episcopal bishops Greg Rickel (Olympia), Gene Robinson (New Hampshire) and Barbara Harris (retired of Massachusetts). 

“We’re now marching with these people who are working for Disney for their rights, their privileges that they deserve as human beings,” said Bishop Bruno. “We ask you to let us turn the eyes of Disney toward justice and mercy; toward benefits, and the things necessary for people to live a just and abundant life.” 

The following has got to be all kinds of embarrassing

They worked for years cleaning and maintaining the Episcopal Church Center in midtown Manhattan. But after they were fired on Dec. 30, nine hard-working people are in desperate need of divine intervention.“We came to work on Dec. 30 as every day, hoping to leave a little earlier to celebrate the new year,” said Bronx native Héctor Miranda, a father of three. “But when we got to the building we were told that we no longer worked there. Just like that. They picked the date well to fire us.”

The workers lost their jobs - which paid standard wages and benefits - when the church canceled the contract with Paris Maintenance, a union cleaning contractor, and replaced it With the nonunion Benjamin Enterprises.

The workers belong to SEIU Local 32BJ, which is helping them organize demonstrations outside the church to protest what the union calls “the unlawful termination” of the porters - and to demand that they be offered jobs by the new contractor.

An church spokesperson angrily denied that the workers had been fired.  “They weren’t fired!” said a heated Bishop E. C. Bottle.  “Bishop Schori determined that they had abandoned communion with the Episcopal Church.  So obviously the Presiding Bishop had no canonical choice.”

I SO want to see these hypocritical posers get picketed.  Props to Greg Griffith.

AND NOW…IDIOTS

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

MSDNC’s lesbian “reporter” Rachel “Lesbian” Maddow, who is a lesbian, lesbianally tosses a little lesbian slander around:

OH MANDY

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Well, you came and you said something brain-dead.  But I sent you away, oh Mandy…

OUTREACH

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 Comments

Stung by recent Democratic Party defeats, Barack Obama tries to lock up the Roman Catholic vote for 2012:

Harry Knox serves on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He is also the director of a religion and faith program for the Human Rights Campaign. In 2009, he made a statement that Pope Benedict XVI is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.” Now two Catholic, Republican Congressmen (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter and Minority Leader John Boehner) are calling on President Obama to fire Knox in light of more recent comments affirming his earlier position.

Knox’s original comment cam in response to a question about the Pope’s statement in early 2009 in which he said that condoms are contributing to the problems of HIV in Africa. In an interview with CNS News this week, Knox was asked if he still stands by his earlier statement. Knox replied, “I do” adding that he believes the Pope is “incorrect” and that all scientific evidence proves this. In a statement by the Human Rights Campaign, Knox was quoted as saying it is “morally reprehensible” for the Pope to reject science and force Catholics to “choose between their health and their faith.” Harvard AIDS researcher, Edward Green, supported the Pope’s statements saying, “We just cannot find an association between more condom use and lower HIV-reduction rates” in Africa. The debate about Knox and his statements made the national talk show lineup with a story about it on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.

What Kathy Shaidle likes to refer to as the George Soros Steno Pool called out RedState’s Erick Erickson for stating that Knox said something he didn’t say.

Contrary to Erickson’s characterization, Knox did not say that he “hates the Pope.”

Yes and no, GSSP.  Knoxie didn’t say those exact words but he did imply them.  I mean, who doesn’t publicly slander their best friends every chance they get?

Lost in all this, of course, are the Pope’s actual views.

Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the distribution of condoms is not the answer in the fight against AIDS in Africa.

Benedict has never before spoken explicitly on condom use although he has stressed that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.

“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”

Those of us who were paying attention in health class back in the day figured out something fairly early on.  Sexual intercourse is a whole lot more than pouring a really good bourbon, lighting up a spliff or any other way you have of attaining Nirvana for a few moments.

For my part, I learned that if I stick a part of my body inside the body of a female person, three things can happen, only one of which is positive.  She and I could feel REALLY good for a few moments.  She could get pregnant, making me the agent of the ruin of both of our lives.  Or I could catch whatever sexually-transmitted disease she has, up to and including AIDS.

So I’ve got a decision to make.  Do I take the risk?

What about condoms?  They lower the risk some but they don’t eliminate it.  After all, they do break now and then.

What about rapists, Johnson?!!  What if some rapist gives a woman AIDS, you heartless bastard?!!  That would be a terrible tragedy.  It would also be something a condom couldn’t stop since rapists don’t use them.

You want to take the risk?  Fine, it’s your right.  But if you get AIDS, it’s on you. 

Benedict is right.  The only way to protect yourself against AIDS is to, well, not have sexual intercourse until you fall in love with a man or woman who thinks the same way that you do.

TAP DANCING

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 16 Comments

Down the road, Central New York Episcopal Bishop Gladstone “Skip” Adams is going to have some SERIOUS explaining to do.  From 2007:

After an 18 month saga of temporary inhibitions and presentment by the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York and Bishop Gladstone “Skip” Adams, III of Syracuse charging a parish priest with financial misconduct at his former parish, the priest was exonerated today when the Episcopal Church ecclesiastical court dismissed all of the charges. That priest now has restored to him by canon law the right to celebrate the Eucharist and perform the other functions of a clergyman which were taken away from him by the bishop a year and a half ago.

Fr. David Bollinger defended the proceeding which resulted in the church court refusing to allow any evidence to be introduced against the priest or any witnesses to testify against him. The judge cited numerous procedural problems with the case brought by the bishop and the diocese against Fr. Bollinger. Carter Strickland, the judge in the ecclesiastical court, had previously directed the prosecutor, church attorney James Sparks, to give Fr. Bollinger copies of the evidence against him, but the diocese refused to release it to the priest. One of the pieces of evidence was the so-called Schafer Report. That was a report commissioned by the diocese and prepared by a previous judge of the ecclesiastical court. That report was believed to have contained evidence to the effect that Fr.Bollinger was not guilty of misconduct.

The bishop brought the charges against Fr. Bollinger after Bollinger publicly challenged the bishop. Fr. Bollinger had claimed that the bishop was covering up an alleged sex abuse of young boys by a retired priest at Bollinger’s Owego, New York parish. That retired priest, Fr. Ralph Johnson, renounced his orders as an Episcopal priest when later confronted by the allegations of the sexual abuse, but the bishop kept moving forward with the case against Fr. Bollinger despite that development.

And then there’s this from a few days ago:

A former rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Owego has been arrested by Pennsylvania State Police after he was accused of having oral sex with a boy.

Ralph E. Johnson, 82, was arraigned in Clifford, Pa., on 15 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, a felony; 15 counts of indecent assault, a misdemeanor; and 15 counts of corruption of minors, a misdemeanor, according to a police report.

The incidents, representing about 15 encounters between the suspect and the alleged victim, happened at Johnson’s home in Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, between 1992 and 1995, according to a police report released Friday.

The Rev. David G. Bollinger, rector of the church from 1985 to 2005, said he alerted diocesan officials in Syracuse after receiving complaints of Johnson’s alleged misconduct, but Bishop Gladstone B. Adams rebuffed him.

“He basically told me this would no longer be discussed,” Bollinger said Friday.

Well, that’s got to be embarrassing, Gladstone “Skip.”  Covering for a perv and harassing the guy who did the right thing.  If I were you, I’d do some major-league repenting right about now because I’m guessing that the Judge is not going to like that one at all.

And you know the Judge I mean.

EPISCOPAL THEATER

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 15 Comments

LISTENING PROCESS

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 15 Comments

You listen while we tell you how wrong you are:

Report from the annual Mississippi Diocesan Council meeting in Tupelo is that materials from the Stand Firm table in the exhibit hall were stolen, and diocesan LGBT committee cards left in their place.

This comes after some very contentious correspondence sent from supporters and members of the committee to the priests who have sponsored a resolution seeking to bring the committee’s funding under the review of diocesan council, and to compel the committee to offer pastoral responses to those who experience same-sex attraction but don’t wish to embrace the lifestyle.

REMAIN CALM

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 25 Comments

EXTREME MAKEOVER

Friday, February 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 20 Comments

An MCJ correspondent wonders if Katharine Jefferts Schori needs one of these:

Frumpy dressing isn’t one of the seven deadly sins, but it landed the Rev. Emily Bloemker in a Friday, Feb. 5 upcoming episode of the reality television show “What Not to Wear.”
 
Bloemker had no idea she was part of the program, broadcast weekly on The Learning Channel, until October 12, when she addressed a packed audience at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis in the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.

She thought she was delivering the opening address at a ONE event. ONE is a nonpartisan grassroots organization committed to fighting extreme poverty, co-founded by Irish singer and musician Bono.

Instead, program hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, burst through the church doors—along with the Cathedral Choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus. London and Kelly pre-empted Bloemker’s address, saying the young priest had committed one fashion faux pas too many.

And they weren’t referring to her priestly collar.

“It was totally unreal,” recalled Bloemker during a Feb. 3 telephone interview. The segment is slated to air at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.

“I was supposed to be talking about world poverty and all of a sudden, I was offered $5,000 for a new wardrobe.”

The reality series hosts first got a whiff of Bloemker’s fashion disasters when a family member nominated her last year. Intrigued by fashion challenges for a 27-year-old single female priest, the hosts decided to give Bloemker a makeover. The program format includes secretly following and videotaping nominees for two weeks, then surprising them with a visit and offering them a $5,000 Visa debit card to buy a new wardrobe.

Rev. Bloemker’s quite the captivating young Episcopalian and I certainly wouldn’t turn her down.  Not that she’d ever entertain the idea of entertaining the idea of asking since she’s exactly half my age and also a St. Louis woman and therefore unusually intelligent(Hemingway is supposed to have preferred them; he married three if memory serves).

An aside.  The rector of Rev. Bloemker’s church, St. Timothy’s in Creve Couer, a bit north of here, is someone whom I think I’ve met before. 

In the early 1980’s, I did my undergraduate work at a local Catholic college called Fontbonne which was then run by the Sisters of St.  Joseph of Carondelet and has since been secularized.  The chaplain there was a young Catholic priest named Jack Fleming.  I’m pretty sure that St. Timothy’s rector is the same guy.

Anyway, getting back to the Presiding Bishop, would Mrs. Schori benefit from a fashion intervention of this kind?  The evidence suggests otherwise.

NOT AS I DO

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 28 Comments

For a pseudo-Christian debating society which claims that it isn’t scared of the Anglican Church in North America, the Episcopal Organization seems awfully scared of the Anglican Church in North America:

We’re hearing reports that Katharine Schori has arrived in England, presumably to monitor and influence to the extent she can the debate in the Synod[on the question of recognition of ACNA by the Church of England] which begins Monday.

Border-crossing, Kate?  Border-crossing?!!  I am appalled.  These seem to be TEO’s talking points.

The Episcopal Church is over 7400 congregations in 109 dioceses plus three regional areas in 16 countries with 2.2 million members.

Although no sane person believes those numbers anymore.

It is important to note that membership in ACNA includes churches and denominations which have disassociated from The Episcopal Church both recently and over the last 130 years, as well as congregations which have never been part of The Episcopal Church. A definitive number is difficult to ascertain.

On the other hand, what’s not at all difficult to ascertain is that ACNA’s numbers are trending up while TEO’s numbers are circling the drain.

ACNA is led by an archbishop who is not a member of The Episcopal Church, The Church of England, the Anglican Church of Canada, or The Anglican Communion.

Except that Bob Duncan was invited to the last Lambeth Conference which I believe he attended.  So I don’t know where TEO’s hallucinating that.

The Episcopal Church laity and clergy believe the Christian faith as stated in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds. We call the Holy Scriptures the Word of God because God inspired their human authors and because God still speaks to us through the Bible. We look to the Holy Spirit, who guides the Church in the understanding of the Scriptures. Our assurance as Christians is that nothing, not even death, shall separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“We call the Holy Scriptures the Word of God because God inspired their human authors.”  The Bishop of New Hampshire begs to differ.  So either TEO is lying or TEO’s “spirit” is a bottle of Everclear.

The Episcopal Church welcomes all who wish to serve God through Jesus Christ.

Unless you believe that homosexuality is a sin in which case your sorry ass won’t make it out of any of our seminaries.

The Episcopal Church welcomes women in ordained ministry - deacons, priests and bishops. The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church is the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to lead The Episcopal Church as well as any of the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion. ACNA does not permit women to serve as bishops and, in some areas, bars women from all ordination.

Um…TEO?  Are you trying to talk the Church of England out of recognizing ACNA or into recognizing ACNA?

The Episcopal Church is a member province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, serving God together and working together to bring the Reign of God on earth. ACNA is not a member of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

Which makes one wonder why you care whether the Church of England recognizes ACNA or not.  I mean, what’s the point of Mrs. Schori crossing a border to interfere in the affairs of another province or you putting together these talking points?

Unless…

It is important to note that those who have remained in The Episcopal Church in those places where some have left include conservatives as well as liberals, persons on the political right as well as on the political left, and everything in between.

Yeah, we still have Nazis Klansmen reactionaries Neanderthals conservatives.  You can count them on one hand, they have no influence in TEO whatsoever and we don’t give a crap about their bigoted opinions.  But their money’s just as good as anyone else’s.

It is an inaccurate and misleading image that pictures those who have broken away from The Episcopal Church as the persecuted faithful, when in reality those who have remained have felt deeply hurt, and now in some cases are exiled from their own church buildings by ACNA.

We don’t want to spend millions of dollars suing conservatives out of their meeting houses and setting up non-viable parishes in their place.  Those damned Nazis Klansmen reactionaries Neanderthals conservatives are forcing us to.

It seems abundantly clear that TEO is scared.  Very scared.  And they have good reason to be.  How did people identify “Anglican” churches before there was an Anglican Communion?  How did whoever was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time know who to invite to the first Lambeth Conference?

Simple.  An Anglican church was any church that was recognized as Anglican by the Church of England.  So if the Church of England formally recognizes the Anglican Church in North America, ACNA becomes as legitimately Anglican as it is possible to be regardless of what the Anglican Communion has to say about it.

An end run around the “instruments of unity?”  Pretty much.  Will it work?  Hard to say.  I hope it does but I suspect that the Synod will end up kicking the can down the road as far as it possibly can.

Money talks.

AIRHEAD WATCH

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 46 Comments

For the love of God, Robbie, I’m beggin’ ya.  PLEASE stop saying things:

In a section of his New Testament letter to the Romans (1:22-27) dealing with God’s admonitions against same-sex relations, St. Paul was actually writing about heterosexuals who engage in same-sex acts and not homosexuals, said  the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal church.

“We have to understand that the notion of a homosexual sexual orientation is a notion that’s only about 125 years old,” Bishop Robinson told CNSNews.com. ”That is to say, St. Paul was talking about people that he understood to be heterosexual engaging in same-sex acts.  It never occurred to anyone in ancient times that a certain minority of us would be born being affectionally oriented to people of the same sex.”

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Just for the moment, leave aside the whole “Bible writers were inspired by the Spirit of the living God” idea, acceptance of which would blow Robbie’s stupid idea out of the water.  Let me introduce you to two first-century Middle-Easterners.

Hideous is normal heterosexual.  Egregious is one of those homosexuals Paul didn’t know anything about.  Although Hideous has a (female)wife and kids, he enjoys getting it on with men now and then.  Egregious, being one of those homosexuals Paul didn’t know anything about, also enjoys getting it on with men now and then.

So according to Robbie, if Hideous boinks men, Hideous is sinning.  On the other hand, if Egregious performs the very same act, Egregious is not sinning at all.

I guess that means that since I’m born wanting stuff that will make me happy, it isn’t really stealing if I appropriate your brand-new Lexus for my personal use.  But since you are rich and can buy a brand-new Lexus whenever the mood strikes you, it is a sin for you to press charges against me for stealing your brand-new Lexus.

Gene Robinson needs to be deposed and to have his pointy hat and hooked stick taken away forthwith.  Not because he is a homosexual but because he is a blithering idiot.

Props to Greg Griffith.

UPDATE: Like great art, Robbie’s stupidity has many levels.  A correspondent alerts me to something I missed.

Robinson added, “The question is, are there any answers there for what we’re asking today, which is the rightfulness of faithful, monogamous, lifelong-intentioned relationships between people of the same sex, and the Bible simply does not address that.”

The Episcopal religion, ladies and gentlemen.  Where “till death do us part” actually means “till death or meeting somebody who’s REALLY hot or deciding that I’m a homosexual do us part.”  I know what I said, Lord, when I stood up in front of all those people in that church.  But you know how it is; crap happens.

HELP WANTED

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 19 Comments

If you have any lawyer friends who are looking for work, the Justice Department is hiring:

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division is seeking up to 10 experienced attorneys for the position of Trial Attorney in the Voting Section in Washington, D.C. The Civil Rights Division is primarily responsible for enforcing federal statutes and executive orders that prohibit, among other things, unlawful discrimination in voting, education, employment, housing, police services, public accommodations and facilities, and federally funded and conducted programs. The Voting Section enforces federal statutes designed to safeguard the right to vote. These statutes include the Voting Rights Act, as amended; the National Voter Registration Act; the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act; and the Help America Vote Act.

It goes without saying that the DoJ doesn’t discriminate.

The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine.

So if you know any mentally-challenged lawyers, please forward this post to…no, I can’t do it.  It’s just too easy.

BLOGGING 101

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 Comments

Run one of these things long enough and you’ll eventually run across stuff that will challenge you.  And I don’t just mean challenge you to come up with funny stuff to say but challenge you on a much deeper level.

I try to keep things relatively clean around here and that is why I really shouldn’t touch this latest vomit from homosexual writer Andrew Sullivan, who is a homosexual, on his bête noire.  Because I know that at some point, I will be sorely tempted to say the sorts of things that I never say.

Nevertheless, I will attempt it and if I do lose it, I apologize.  Commenting on Sarah Palin’s call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel to be fired because he called some fellow Democrats “f___ing retards,” Sully opens:

Did she really just call for Rahm Emanuel to be fired because he allegedly used the term “f___ing retarded” to refer to fellow Democrats in a private meeting? Last summer? Did she really?

I don’t like the term myself. I think it is offensive. I think Rahm Emanuel is offensive. But at least he’s real.  And he has now apologized. And at least he used the term metaphorically.

See what I mean?  “Sully,” you’re now asking yourself, “What if I said that I sincerely believed that you were metaphorically a f___ing six-letter-derogatory-term-for-homosexual-that-begins-with-F-contains-two-G’s-and-ends-in-T?  Would you be down with that, foreigner?”

Palin, in contrast, called her own campaign prop “her retarded baby” in private, according to an eye-witness account from the father of her own grandson who lived in her house for months and knew her intimately. “I was just in shock the first time I heard it,” Levi Johnston told CBS. Unlike Sarah Palin, Johnston has not been caught in multiple indisputable lies. I believe him over her. In fact, in any factual dispute, I believe anyone over her.

Sully is referring to the guy who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter, sold his connection to the family to anyone who would pay him, posed for Playgirl and won’t pay child support.  Put that cheap-ass man-whore on the stand and anyone who’s seen a couple of episodes of some legal drama could rip him a new one without breaking a sweat.  But any port in a storm, huh, dirtbag?

While I’m at it, does anyone actually believe that Palin’s name for the child of miraculous provenance was found by her deep knowledge of ancient Norse as she claims in her magical-realism novel, “Going Rogue”? I mean, seriously. She knows about as much ancient Norse as she does English grammar.

Andy, I haven’t read the book yet but if it’s okay, I’m going to take Ace’s word for what happened over yours.  With all the drugs you take, recreational or otherwise, Lord knows what you hallucinated when you read Palin’s book if you actually did.

Andy desperately needs to be reminded of something Jim Treacher supposedly once wrote.  It’s a bit crude so you have been warned.  “Someone needs to explain to Andrew Sullivan,” said Jim, “that his favorite beverage is sometimes used to make babies.”  Ace explains why Sullivan needs to remember that.

See, Andrew, one doesn’t need a deep understanding of Norse mythology to have come across the Norse name “Trig.” There are, you see, a huge number of books about baby-names, and huge lists of such things available on the Internet, and, see, while you apparently have never before met a pregnant woman (ick!), I can assure you such women (”breeders,” to use terminology that might be familiar to you) are usually very interested indeed in interesting possibilities for naming their baby, and this interest actually increases throughout their nine-month term.

Which is what I suspect actually happened and what didn’t register in Sullivan’s drug-addled and/or AIDS-dementia-infected brain.  Back to Andy.

It’s as credible as the idea that she gave a speech while having contractions, several hours after going into labor, as she claims in her novel. It’s as credible as her amazing journey in labor with a special needs child on a plane where the flight attendants, according to the Anchorage Daily News, did not even notice she was pregnant. It’s as credible as any number of indisputable self-serving, unbalanced lies that she has told in the public record for years.

Freakshow?  Given your monomania, you should be legally forbidden from calling ANYONE unbalanced.  Then the shrieking, hysterical d-bag provides me with one of those moments when I really want to throw all my self-imposed restraints out the window.

The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.

Is it not perfectly possible that the very name given to this poor child, being reared by Bristol, is another form of mockery of his condition, along with the “retarded baby” tag?

This is what I’m talking about.  I so want to drop a six-letter-derogatory-term-for-homosexual-that-begins-with-F-contains-two-G’s-and-ends-in-T right now.  But I’m not going to and I’ll pull any comment here that contains it.

I will say this.  Anyone who would make such unbelievably vile assertions against another human being simply on the basis of religion(because that’s what Sullivan’s insanity ultimately boils down to; his white-hot hatred of conservative Christians) is as contemptible a human being as has ever walked the earth.

Andrew Sullivan is a piece of crap.  Actually, he is whatever is worse than that because unlike Sullivan, crap has uses.  Unless he repents of those digusting words, he is not a person I am obligated to or intend to respect on any level.  Ever.

I’m not using that word.  I’m not going to sink to the bastard’s level.  What you do is up to you.

And does the way in which this poor child was hauled around the country on a book tour, being dragged out in front of flash photographs in the middle of the night, barely clothed, suggest someone who actually cares for children with special needs, or rather sees them as a way to keep the spotlight on her?

You know what’s funny about moms?  They really like to be with their kids, particularly when those kids are quite small.  Something about loving them and stuff.  I guess Sarah Palin could have left her son at home but Trig’s learning the most basic stuff imaginable right now which he can just as easily learn with her as without her.

Besides, deviant, what would you have had her do?  Stay home 24/7 and stop terrifying certain British drama queens?  Put Trig in a kennel?  Rent a storage locker or a post office box and shove the kid into one of those?

Sully, you may think that you’re making Important Political Statements^TM with all these unhinged rants of yours but you’re not.  Sentient human beings have long recognized you for the psychotic bigot that whatever’s left of your brain has turned you into.