Oops! I forgot the h/t to Balloon Juice.
As more proof of their Astroturfiness, here's a municipal broadband activist recalling similar tactics:
The group behind all of this, Freedom Works, is an astroturfing group I’ve dealt with before on our municipal broadband issue that I write often about on Stop the Cap! It suckers ordinary citizens into advocating against their own best interests by… well, making stuff up and scaring them. They always hide their true funding backers, pretending to be a “consumer group.â€
It's pretty damning: Ship 'em in, give 'em talking points, and let 'em go!
Oh, I forgot: There was a briefly lived French-Southern fusion restaurant called "Le [French word for 'neck'] Rouge."
It was pricey, so I never went, but it sounded awesome.
Some of Nashville's finest pizza is made by Middle Eastern cats. Pizza Perfect and Tabouli's have great pizza. The latter also serves really good (for Nashvegas, anyway) Middle Eastern food, like kebabs and stuffed grape leaves. Their marinara is to die from.
Lutheran being a religion, the cuisine would be German or Swedish and/or Norwegian, depending on who lived in the neighborhood. Original owners probably did name the shop after the medical center and the halal was added by later, new owners.
Or it could involve a lot of Jell-O.
I kid. The only Jell-O at my recent Lutheran church potlucks has been my fault. I brought that pink stuff with the Jell-O and the cottage cheese and the Cool Whip and the fruit cocktail. It may be creepy suburban food, but it sure is good!
I just temped for a local religious institution's educational wing, and everything for those poor chirrens was done in Comic Sans.
During my brief tenure, I changed what I could, but there's so much out there!
I made sure to tell my permanent replacement that Comic Sans is an abomination unto the Lord. I think/hope she'll get it, since she's a costume designer by trade, and therefore not visually retarded.
Okay, I'm lazy and haven't read all 832 comments, but I wanted to send Teresa a link to this rundown(!) of the Twilight series by a young ex-Mormon, "LDS Sparkledammerung."
She points out the aspects of Mormon theology and culture woven into the books with silliness and bad Photoshopping like a cruder version of The Editors's "Keyboard Kommandos" series.
It kept me up giggling way past my bedtime.
I'm kinda late to the party, but Jesus Christ, people!
I haven't read the whole thread, because it came down to people defending fucking Ralph Nader for using the the fucking term "Uncle Tom."
Do you not understand that there is no defense?
Do you not understand that it is indefensible?
Do you not understand that for a white man to use that term is incredibly presumptuous?
Do you not understand that while I love my seatbelts, I wish for Ralph Nader to eat a bag of dicks?
Check out Gilliard's take on the roundheels for roundheads.
But still...I wonder if, perhaps, the Democrats were more willing to publicly quote scripture, and say things like "who would Jesus torture?", "what does the Talmud say?", or even "is this Islamic?" we might not be in a better place today.
Wonder not. Of course we would.
But the Mara Vanderslices of the world advise against it, because 24 is real popular and stuff, so Democrats are just supposed to say that abortion is icky.
Because that's what faith is all about!
Oy. I'd be happy to offer some recipes to help our Norwegian friends consume their Stalinist crustacean overlords, but I'm from Maryland, and our crabs are tiny and delicately flavored. Not to mention scarce, these days.
Re: Possums. Possums are gross, y'all. They're nasty little prehistoric-lookin' creatures who eat your phone lines. I rememember descending into my scary basement-cum-coal scuttle and coming face-to-face with one of the little fuckers. We both screamed bloody murder. One of them ossified right next to my furnace. I think I need to mount his skeleton as a warning to others of his icky kind.
Re: Invasive plants. My dad once plotted to plant kudzu around the house my mother bought. For me and my brother to live in. He didn't follow through, but really. Divorce is ugly, y'all.
My backyard is consumed by Japanese honeysuckle. That's what it's called, but it doesn't flower like regular honeysuckle. It just sends runners everywhere and vines that have a conveniently slippery outer casing that makes it hard to pull.
And then there are the Fuckin' Mimosas.... I love their frou-frou, powder-puff-lookin' blossoms! But the ones that take root in your yard don't bloom, they just get in the way, and they have tap roots all the way to China.
Well, I was born in that there decade, and I had an early waking. They sky was bluer then. I remember the smell of pot then, but wasn't old enough, or hip enough, to smoke when I was kindergarten.
Dude, neither was I. I was talking about the Banana Splits. I saw them live at a race track in the 2nd grade--�Pimlico, I think.
Sorry, shoulda made it clearer what I was talkin' about.
Oh, and about our pal, Mr. Castagana, Radar has the FBI affadavit with all the gory details:
One of the Stewart letters featured a "picture of a recently deceased tsunami victim with a condition known as Priapism, an erect penis on a cadaver." Handwritten on the picture were the words, "Jon Stewart, Fuck Your Wife."
Stay Classy, Katherine Harris supporters!
I will never make that "L" sign on my forehead, ever, ever again!
Serge, yeah, I'm young enough to remember the Sixties, and Seventies (i.e. not old enough to have done things to block them out at the time).
Oh, yeah? Well, I saw them live, man....
Sheesh! He's getting worse than Amy Sullivan, isn't he?
I worked my ass off for the God-botherin' Harold Ford, Jr., but I don't think Junior would ever be so dismissive, and not just because he lost.
I got driven back to my childhood faith in large part because of the post-2004 God wars at Daily Kos, because the screaming atheists were so all-fired ignernt.
But Wallis is as all-fired ignernt about politics. Or something. I mean, some religious left types have put together some coalitions, but they weren't the ones who dispatched me to every frickin' inch of East Nashville to pound on doors, so Mr. Wallis can keep his triumphalism to himself.
What won this election is basic human decency.
Well, in the rest of the country, anyway.
Miss Teresa, thank you so much for finding this. It might just be the thing to convince my father, the closet Anglophile, wannabe scientist. He likes to think he's all rational and scientific and stuff, but when we last discussed global warming, he talked about how Al was a Bore, and he needed to get that book by Michael Crichton(!)
I just sighed, not wanting to bring up the fact that Crichton is a hack novelist who happened to go to med school and knows no more about climatology than Rona Jaffe, but whaddya do?
He told me when I got my ears pierced that if they got infected, I'd get brain damage because your ears are close to your brain. I gave up on him as an authority at that point, and I was eleven.
Thing is, he has this utter self-assuredness, as well as a mellifluous voice and flawless diction, so he can bullshit a telephone pole.
But he does learn. He's conceded the Bush Presidency (in 2002, because of our old neighbor Poindexter and TSA) and Howard Dean. I haven't hit him with the Iraq War because I don't want to be a dickhead know-it-all, but I'll probably lord my superior judgment and predictive mojo over him on the Iran War Dance.
I would very much like to be wrong.
Well, have a beer, because you are! Happy day!
Look, you really don't know squat about religion, because otherwise you wouldn't say anything that pig-ignorant. Enemies don't get any easier to love if you know what makes them tick.
But all this seems to have obscured a question I am curious about. Has anyone here asked Barack Obama to make a statement about the situation with the Dobrich family, or seen a public statement?
Gee, I didn't know Harry Belafonte lived in Delaware.
Has there been any movement from those who actually follow the teachings of Christ to distinguish themselves from the sorts of "Christians" who appear to be on display in a certain town in Delaware, as well as rather vocally in the media and in the international perception of the US?
Le sigh. I can't decide if it's the wrong question, or what. Look: Most Christians try to live the Word the best way they know how. To go about saying, "Those guys are wrong; we're not like them" is to 1) define oneself as what one is not; and 2) judge, which is generally frowned upon in the faith.
The National Council of Churches and its constituent denominations all have governmental affairs offices that lobby the government to pursue more just policies in matters like poverty and war. You just don't hear about 'em, cause the cable squawkers are too busy milking Jerry Falwell and Bill Donohue for sound bites about teh gay.
The NCC's biggest media splash of late was the pray-in they held when Congress was passing the budget. You know, the one that slashed school lunches and taxes both. They managed one dinky article in the bowels of the WaPo.
And the fact remains that the majority of Christians, liberal and conservative alike, look askance at the accumulation of worldly power as a way to live one's faith. Rev. Boyd is not a complete anomaly. Even among mega-churches, the ones that preach Christian = Republican are a minority.
If you look over the past few years: Schiavo, Dover school board, SD abortion ban, the minute the nutters get their way, they inherit the wind. They just don't have the popular support their outsize voice would indicate.
Kevin, you're being ridiculous. You're taking fragments of that speech utterly out of context. They were part of a whole section about the ridiculousness of the blue/red state business.
Or do you honestly believe there are no churches in blue states? That there are no gay people in red states?
Oh, and to whoever said Obama is in with the centrists, I assume you mean the DLC, in which case you're very wrong.
I honestly do not understand the need to demonize the junior senator from Illinois. How such a soft-spoken man can inspire such vicious rhetoric, to the point where people flat-out lie about his vote on the Bankruptcy Bill so they can rail about his perfidy is beyond me.
Here's an interview he gave over at Street Prophets after the speech, where they talk about some of the iffy phrasing.
I really don't see how you can tie what happened to the Dobriches to mandatory pledge recitals, as odious as they are. There's a hell of a lot more going on when people suddenly see fit to run people out of town who've lived there all their lives. To pluck Barack Obama out of a cultural line-up that includes Dobson, Robertson, and Falwell seems a wee bit of a stretch.
True, it did have a character with the same name as yours truly. Quite a rare occurence. I think the last time was for Bronson Pinchot's hairdresser character in Beverly Hills Cop.
Well, there was Edina Monsoon's son in Absolutely Fabulous, but you never saw him. He was always in some remote location doing some kind of research, like collecting lava samples in the Arctic. So her daughter would always get lines like, "...and yes, I faxed the volcano."
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