This is helpful how?

Some Evangelical Marines seem to be taking it upon themselves to evangelize Iraqis with this coin bearing a Christian scripture verse. So imagine yourself as a regular Iraqi, at a US checkpoint. You go up to a burly, heavily armed Marine who checks your papers and does whatever he needs to make sure you're not a walking bomb, and after all this necessary inconvenience, he puts a funny-looking coin in front of your face. Well, you really need to get through the checkpoint to buy food or work at a job or something else important for your survival, so you don't want to get stuck. You take the coin. Oh, did I mention you are a devout Muslim?

We'd ike to ask the Evangelicals out there if they agree with this coercive form of proselytizing? Is this something Jesus would do? And politically it's really unhelpful, as it's pissing off the very people we need on our side to make Iraq a place we can leave someday.

As some of the comments show, this says to the typical Iraqi male: "You're weak, you can't even keep them from desecrating your religion." Just another thoughtless blunder brought to you by the theocrats that abound in the Bush junta.

What is it with right-wing whackos and assasination talk?

One of the crazy ladies at Fox Noise, Liz Trotta, thought it was funny to suggest that someone "knock off" Osama bin Laden AND Barrak Obama. Watch the clip here. Despicable. She retracted it a day later, but probably only because it gave Keith Olberman a HUGE club to smack Fixed News with. You know that no matter WHAT she said in her retraction, this evil neo-con really means it in her heart. Maybe Bill O'Reilly can ask his "body-language" expert about this intellectual bimbo's comment. (Holding breath....Turning blue.....forget it.)

FOX News, the people who want to "knock off" anyone who disagrees with them.

We haven't said it lately, but it always bears repeating: Have we told you lately how much we despise Republicans?

It's been how long????

Since February? It's not like we've dropped out of politics. There have been meetings with candidates, phone-banking, organizing, and caucusing. Just not blogging. The guys at the KC Blue Blog are doing a great job researching the illegalities and idiocies of the GOP. The folks at the CCP are on the case. The Hip Suburban White Guy kicks the wingnuts in the teeth with awesome regularity, and every knocked out tooth is well deserved.

So we slacked a little. To be honest, primaries don't trip our trigger. They are only tangentially related to beating Republicans. But primary season, at least in the presidential race, is coming to a close, and our candidate can get down to some serious beating of the old man, who, as Keith Olberman alludes, "screams at clouds." (We love that, Keith!)

So here's the latest in a long line of despicable crap Repubs get away with. Hillbilly Huck was talking to the NRA and joked about a gun being pointed at Barak Obama. Here's the poop, and we do mean poop, from CNN:

During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."

As Hillbilly Huck took pains to remind us all during his doomed campaign, this guy claims to be a Christian minister. We can only quote scripture here: Jesus wept.

PS: This one's for Mike, who got us off our ass.