and add to that how do you manage to stay near him without repeatedly kicking him in the crotch? You could justify it by saying the chemtrails or Bilderbergers made you do it.

(Actually it depresses me that I've apparently done so poorly in life that I work with an ignorant crotchstain like that.)

America is paying a high price for ignoring mental health issues for the past 40 years.

Hell, I had one the other day believing the first known computer was made over 2,000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

This machine has the oldest known complex gear mechanism and is sometimes called the first known analog computer,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] although the quality of its manufacture suggests that it may have had undiscovered predecessors[21] during the Hellenistic Period. It appears to be constructed upon theories of astronomy and mathematics developed by Greek astronomers and is estimated to have been made around 100 BC. In 1974, British science historian and Yale University Professor Derek de Solla Price concluded from gear settings and inscriptions on the mechanism's faces that the mechanism was made about 87 BC and was lost only a few years later.[22] It is believed the mechanism was made of a low-tin bronze alloy (95% copper, 5% tin), but the device's advanced state of corrosion has made it impossible to perform an accurate compositional analysis.[23] All of the mechanism's instructions are written in Koine Greek,[9][not in citation given] and the consensus among scholars is that the mechanism was made in the Greek-speaking world.

"Paranoid Style in American Politics"...

Written in 1964.... could have been yesterday.

The right appeals to the paranoids in Murika... always have.

Been in Creative Speculation lately?

I know some otherwise perfectly sane and intelligent Democrats who subscribe to the ideas purported in the film "Loose Change." My own otherwise perfectly sane and more-left-than-me husband will occasionally narrow his eyes at me and say, a propos of nothing, "what happened to Building Seven?

that they actually might be getting stupid enough to believe that garbage that they are being sold.

What happens when Obama leaves office without using his black army to take everyone's guns and send them all to FEMA camps?

You shake the crazy tree enough and some nuts will fall out. And this guy is a bona fide nut. The part that gobsmacks me is in his field (engineering) he's as competent and capable as you could hope for. Very intelligent people who fall for very stupid theories are some of the scariest people, in my opinion.

Then they'll go on to the next rage d'jour the media and pulpit tells them is threating their way of life while their pockets get picked and they slip further down into squalor.

Haele

(a Republican wife of my sons friend) who proudly showed me a picture on the wall of her antique decorated home, an "actual photograph" of George Washington. Not a painting, "an actual photograph" she said. Mind you, she is educated and in her thirties. I pointed out that cameras were not invented yet back then and she looked at me with a blank stare, and I just gave up.

Camera Obscura was a very popular 18th century method of using mirror to project an image on paper that the artist would then quickly trace and then ink over for (in some cases) a very life-like, almost photographic quality sketch of the person. A lot of portraits started out that way, as the artist could get the basics of shape and tone down without having the subject sit for hours on end. I'm not sure but that several artists or illustrators may have gotten Washington to sit for a Camera Obscura sketch that later became a medal or a book plate or a poster, and what your friend has is the results of that sitting.

I'm in my 50's and building a Camera Obscura was a common 6th/7th grade science project when I was a kid, so I know the difference when someone tells me a picture was made from a Camera Obscura and a picture was from a Camera. Your 30 year old friend was probably feeling the effects of the dumbing down of public schools.

On edit - not to say she wasn't extremely confused or easily led by a scammer. But just pointing out she might have been proudly mistaken about what she heard if the picture in question might have been authentic from the period.

Haele

thing with the 22 Amendment, declare martial law and all that?

I do all kind of oppo research every day by listening to Limbaugh and Levin, but I don't do Alex Jones. I can only handle so much insanity.

Sadly, by that time, he'll be all caught up in the latest kooky conspiracy theory about President Warren.

the Cupid shuffle. But don't know a republican who isn't ridiculous.

Be sure to do it loudly enough for the rest of the office to hear.

IN THE MEAN TIME, point out the obvious....why didn't Obama do this in 2009, 2010, or 2011 and avoid all of that re-election crappola in 2012?

three and half bad years and then he really shows himself. Look for the end in 2016.

I have argued with these RWNJs since 2008. They have a well-rehearsed answer for everything.

Like any cult follower, they are told up front to not listen to anything that would sway them from TheTruth!©.

They're the walking dead zombie apocalypse. Just waiting to be animated by Glenn or someone else.

It's hypnosis. Scary, ain't it?