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History PalinizedBy Martin Longman
If you could turn stupid into a fuel, you could use Sarah Palin to leave the Solar System. Her appearance at Liberty University set a new standard for idiocy in a public figure. Before I quote her, I want to remind you that Thomas Jefferson was so dissatisfied with the New Testament that he cut out all the references to miracles and the resurrection, creating a new book we call The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. He explained his rationale this way:
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
He was actually hostile to several forms of Christianity. Of Catholicism, he said, History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government, and In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. In a letter to John Adams, dated April 11, 1823, Jefferson wrote I can never join [John] Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.
Finally, as a prelude to introducing you to Palins comments, I want to introduce you to Jeffersons thoughts on Christmas...
Read on at your peril: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/history_palinized048099.php
The Palin quotes caused my brain to crawl out of my ear and slither into the bathroom, where it wept uncontrollably for hours and hours...but the Jefferson quotes are quite informative.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)I read it at my peril. An absolute misunderstanding of what the concept of critical thinking entails. When are they fueling the vehicle and when does it depart?
malaise
(269,157 posts)How about a simple coherent sentence in English?
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)but I can think big, eh?
malaise
(269,157 posts)She cannot even think of one sentence that makes sense.
kardonb
(777 posts)that a University should even invite such a numbskull to give a speech there is absolutely stunning ! What a waste of time , and a waste of the student's money who are looking for an education , not senseless gibberish .
malaise
(269,157 posts)That is not a university - that's a religious nut house.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)And PRAISE the Princess of Darkness!
malaise
(269,157 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)I had a dream that instructed me to follow a star in the night sky to purchase this book. I don't usually buy books because the nearest book shop is miles from my trailer park. Buying it on Amazon was super convenient, and I could do it from the office of my trailer park. The book was just as I had dreamed it would be. It was a clarion call for people like me, with more tattoos than teeth, to fight to protect Christmas. It's not just a holiday for getting drunk and overspending at Walmart, it is a celebration of our little lord Jesus and his gift to humanity. Speaking of gifts...I didn't even know Sarah Palin could write...but boy can she ever. Some of the sentences were really hard to read but mostly she is careful to avoid big words, and this makes it easier to read. I am sending this to all my family who won't be able to join me for Christmas. Just because they have limited books at their prison library doesn't mean my family (who are all Sarah Palin fans) shouldn't have the chance to read her powerful words. I will say it was a bit tiring to read it because there are a lot of pages and my mouth got tired from sounding out all the words, but don't give up. I also want to mention, that when libruls say Sister Sarah is a low information shrieky howler monkey with all the subtlety of a jackhammer on a hangover in August, they are lie-telling. Get this book for all the inmates in your family.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)Now THAT is a masterpiece of subtle, intricate satire! Whoever that is should write for the Onion or the Daily Currant, if they aren't already.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)I just stopped smoking. but this Ridiculously Ignorant Person makes me want to light something else
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)n/t
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Maybe before she spouts off about christians and Christmas she could try this.
And you might be able to use her stupid to get out of the universe, but if you used her brains as fuel it wouldn't power an ant on his moped halfway around a bb.
edit:forgot Christmas
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)why don't we just give up and go full bore war on x-mas? I for one would gladly napalm one of those pesky and annoying nativity scenes that crop up everywhere after, hmm Halloween it is now. Next year I suppose the war will start on St. Patrick day.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)is minuscule. Every now and then some group objects to one of the literally thousands upon thousands of representations of the Nativity or Christ in Christmas, but it's hardly a blip on the screen. The "War" is utterly trumped up.
As for Sarah, she's one of a kind, that lass. One of a kind.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)Submariner
(12,507 posts)Sarah Palin To Host Outdoors Show On Sportsman Channel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/sarah-palin-show_n_4413091.html?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=Media
We just can't seem to get rid of this douche nozzle.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)They ALL - to a person - believe things exactly like that. We are talking about somewhere around 25% of Americans including a fair number of doctors, lawyers, teachers, "journalist" and otherwise educated people.
I remember soon after Barack Obama was first elected President - my otherwise nice and reasonably intelligent Aunt Betty saying, "My problem with Obama is that whenever our country turns away from the Biblical principles that our nation was founded on we get into a lot of trouble." I couldn't figure out which point to argue first. All members of the Christian right to a person and without exception believe this version of history similar to what the former Alaskan Governor is espousing. They would be completely unaware that there is any other historic perspective. They would have never heard it and would consider the suggestion that there was even a strong secular-humanist component in the founding of the Republic to be nothing less than a Communist lie. We are not talking about some fringe of the fringe. We are talking about roughly 25% of Americans and probably the majority of registered Republicans of today.
treestar
(82,383 posts)It's amazing that the lawyers can believe it. They forgot Constitutional law. Maybe just memorized it for the bar exam and forgot about it when it did not apply much in practice.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)she says, as she pockets her hefty speaking fee.....
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)we could stick a fuse in her ass and aim her at some distant, empty section of the universe. We could name a constellation after her - The Big Dip, maybe. Or maybe we could send her into an elliptical orbit in the solar system - a comet of sorts. Comet Vomit we'd call her. She could be recognized by the "tail" of bullshit that would pollutinate the heavens as she orbited at a distance far enough to spare us her whiz-dumb.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)ever written about the commercial enterprise that bear Jesus' name. Jesus and Jefferson would both have admired one another I think -- and both been saddened by so much of what was around them.
But think on this point. How many politicians could say today what Jefferson wrote?
If they aren't figuratively burned at the stake today, they are certainly chased from any consideration for public office. Yet Jefferson said these things and was regarded as a giant among the founders.
What does that tell us about the glide path we are on?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)- courtesy of Charles Pierce:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/out-on-the-weekend-120613
cprise
(8,445 posts)...than the 21st century Liberal's tendency to turn their websites into wailing walls about stupid/ignorant people. The resulting storm of web links ensures the RW miscreants in question will have Google rankings that are at least respectable.
Unfortunately, I've noticed that the wailing consumes so much of their grey matter that most any progressive solution that comes into view looks alien to them.
There is, however, this tiny bit of energy left over which they expend in fawning over 'Big Dog' and other followers of Ronald Reagan.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)that more than 40% thought Sarah was competent to be President.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)of history or something similiar