#36923: Chris Clarke — 08/22  at  12:04 PM
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#36935: Alencon — 08/22  at  12:39 PM
Now, now. Not ALL Republicans are crazy. I'm sure if we look hard enough we'll find one that's merely delusional.

Seriously this is really incredible. Either Dr. Frist is scientifically illiterate (scary since he's a medical doctor) or he's simply pushing ID to make the Christian Right Wing of the GOP happy in which case I can't say much for his integrity.

Hehe, I wonder if the Christian Right even realizes that IDer's accept that the Earth is at least millions of years old and not the 6 day thing 6,000 years ago?

#36941: coturnix — 08/22  at  01:13 PM
Ditto, PZ!

#36942: Feisty Republican Whore — 08/22  at  01:21 PM
Hey baby, I'm no Republitard! I wrote about the same Fristiness that you did today--and I agreed with you!

http://feistywhore.blogspot.com/2005/08/bill-frist-if-you-keep-this-up-youre.html

Some Republicans are just folks who want to defend their country and not be taxed so dang much, ya know?

#36945: Roxanne — 08/22  at  01:35 PM
Indeed!

#36959: — 08/22  at  02:48 PM
In the interests of fairness, I think I need to point out that what Hewitt actually said was (emphasis mine)

if ... the avian flu does make the big jump or terrorists again strike the United States ...

He certainly didn't give me the impression that he thinks terrorists are behind it. I can't believe I just defended Hugh Hewitt. Oh well. He also accused Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid of trying to score points with their party's "increasingly hard-lined base." I think I need a new irony meter.

#36961: — 08/22  at  02:59 PM
What else can you expect from people who listen to the imaginary words of Jesus and ignore sweet, sweet reason?

That's a bit strong, don't you think? Or is this your "Blog Like a Conservative" entry?

#36962: — 08/22  at  03:00 PM
PZ, I think you misrepresent Hewitt in using talk radio to discuss or overchat up "crises" by the artful use of the word "and" and the closing of the premise by "talk radio will be the go-to source as it always is in a crisis", which were earlier given two examples of. Or Fox News' next week-long block of over punditry the next time something crawls up a right-wing nut's ass.

As for Powerline, there is this quote: "I watched a couple of absurdly theatrical matches, in the most recent of which The Undertaker was upset by somebody or other." I think this clearly demonstrates the author knew it was fake.

#36966: PZ Myers — 08/22  at  03:15 PM
Hey, people, look at the Pandagon article. This is "blog like a conservative day" -- I was deliberately misstating the content of their articles. Wasn't the Malkin example silly enough to tip you off?

Man, I'm going to have to ban you all now.

Trackback: Lefties Rule, Wingnuts Drool Tracked on: Sadly, No! (81.209.188.69) at 2005 08 22 13:36:55
Via Pandagon, an excellent post at Pharyngula exposes the sneaky dishonesty of so-called 'conservative' bloggers. I know that the orcish minions of those conservative villains will flood my comments with odious lies Instapundit has failed to respond repudiating such tactics,...

#36967: — 08/22  at  03:19 PM
Jeez, how stupid does somebody have be that they mispell "brain"?

#36968: — 08/22  at  03:21 PM
[Comment deleted for insufficient patriotic enthusiasm]

#36972: ekzept — 08/22  at  04:03 PM
the Financial Times quotes an analysis by pollster Daniel Yankelovich which reads in part:

Some 77 per cent of Democrats said they worried about mounting casualties in Iraq, compared with 33 per cent of Republicans. There were similar divisions based on the frequency of attendance at religious services, with those who regularly attend more confident about US success in Iraq.

Mr Yankelovich attributed that pattern to a concentration of white religious Protestants in the Republican party, and to the relationship President George W. Bush established with them after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001.

“After George W. Bush characterised the perpetrators as evil, his leadership began to look like a moral mission,” he writes. “His response resonated with the public at large, but particularly with its most religious segments.”

the results of the poll will appear in Foreign Affairs.

#36982: — 08/22  at  05:08 PM
You're not blogging like a conservative. You left the comments open.

#36988: — 08/22  at  05:31 PM
Hey Doc. Just wanted to say it's my first time posting here. Thanks for letting me post! I've been reading for weeks just waiting for the chance to be able to finally leave a comment. I so enjoy reading all of the regular posters here. Thanks, all! I'm a true pharynguloid now!

#36990: Jim Lippard — 08/22  at  05:35 PM
FYI, Michelle Malkin is actually an atheist who used to be quite active on the alt.atheism Usenet newsgroup.

#36992: Jim Lippard — 08/22  at  05:48 PM
Doh, my comment should be deleted...

#37009: — 08/22  at  07:37 PM
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Shortsniffer is here too? I'm gone.

#37010: — 08/22  at  07:39 PM
Republican whore said:

Some Republicans are just folks who want to defend their country and not be taxed so dang much, ya know.

Intriguing. So you do not wish to financially support(or pay taxes for) the premptive war your party's leader intitiated.

Please, if you can, reconcile these positions. If you argue for spending cuts, please state where they should occur and how they will offset Iraq war spending.

Q11

#37013: — 08/22  at  07:58 PM
That's Shortssniffer, GregH. Get it right bud. And I'm everywhere, pal.

#37014: — 08/22  at  08:03 PM
You're my worst nightmare!!

#37024: — 08/22  at  10:20 PM
My Dad is a Republican. At age 92, he voted for Kerry last year, possibly the first Democrat he's ever favored with a vote. Why? Because his idea of Republicanism involves controlling taxes, not picking fights in foreign lands, reducing excess, bureaucrat-induced regulation (he's not against regulation per se, especially if it prohibits really egregious corporate behavior), and keeping the government's nose out of what should be people's private business.

Maybe you "real" Republicans (like my dad) need to go off and start your own party, or at least try harder to reclaim it from the right wingnuts.

#37025: — 08/22  at  10:33 PM
We have:

http://www.mypartytoo.com/

RBH

#37039: the amazing kim — 08/23  at  03:08 AM
Surely there has to be some gene for this aggressive, oppressive, brain-numbing irrationality?

#37040: Feisty — 08/23  at  03:36 AM
Quantum11 said 'bout yours truly: Intriguing. So you do not wish to financially support(or pay taxes for) the premptive war your party's leader intitiated.

[Rolls eyes.] Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I hope you're being intentionally obtuse. [Pulls out copy of Constitution]. Lemme quote just the very first line of that document:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Provide for the ensure domestic tranquility, common defense, ensure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity? Well, that very well sounds like a document meant to ensure that we don't get KILLED BY TERRORISTS OR ANYONE ELSE WHO IS ACTIVELY SEEKING TO KILL US. It ain't very tranquil here when terrorists are flying airplanes into our tallest buildings, unable to be stopped because our money went to something less important than intelligence or defense.

Nowhere does our Constitution say things like Congress shall "subsidize Industry X to make the people in Industry X more likely to vote for a candidate" or stuff of that nature. All I want are candidates who realize the primary goal of the Federal govt. is to make sure we don't all die...cuz I could care less if agriculture is being adequately subsidized if my city gets dessimated in a terror attack because people said, "Eh. We don't need to worry about those silly terrorists."

I happen to think disrupting terror cells who are actively trying to KILL US is quite important. Not only is it important, it's THE DUTY of the Federal government!!! This link is a slideshow which enumerates all the terror attacks of al-Quaida since 1998.

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/007162.php