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Conservatives in denial.

“It’s unavoidable that many will cite this as proof of the national wave of ‘Islamophobia,’ touted by Time magazine and other media outlets. We’ll have to wait for the facts, but even if the allegations prove true, one assault doesn’t a national trend make. [...] There isn’t an anti-Muslim climate.”  – Jonah Goldberg

“Certainly, there is no cresting wave of bigotry about to roll over Muslims in America: There are now slightly more than 100 such attacks each year — this in a nation of 310-plus million people.”  – NY Post

Check out this MediaMatters piece for a list of hate crimes against Muslims all over the country.

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Rachel Maddow picks up on the Conservapedia piece on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and the right’s assault on science and intelligence.

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If Republicans regain power, be afraid, be very afraid…unless, of course, you’re anti-science and anti-smart, in which case, by all means vote Republican, the political party of idiots, for idiots.

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It’s as if someone has removed the padlocks from the asylum doors…

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over what to include in Texas’ social studies textbooks surrounds the separation of church and state. The far-right members of the State Board of Education (SBOE) argue that America is a Christian nation and separation of church and state is a myth. In March, a majority of SBOE members voted “against requiring high school American government students to learn that the nation’s Founders barred government from favoring or disfavoring one religion over all others.”

At the opening of yesterday’s session — where the board gave final approval to the social studies standards — far-right member Cynthia Dunbar gave the invocation, in which she used the prayer to push her anti-church-state separation agenda:

Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England or the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present: a Christian land governed by Christian principles. I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it. … I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion.

Call it the Glenn Beck Syndrome.  History conflicts with your beliefs?  No problem.  Simply state what your historical preference is and – presto! – instant history rewrite.  You now have a perfect match for your whacked out conservative beliefs.  The only caveat is that you need to preface your rewrite with, “The Founding Fathers intent was…”.
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Actually, this is an idiot/great quote post.  First the idiot quote.

“Where is the oil?  It’s not on — except for little of chunks of it, you’re not even seeing it on the shore yet.”  -Brit Hume

And the great quote:

Britt Hume isn’t sure there’s actually a massive oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

But he was absolutely fucking certain there were WMD’s in Iraq.

Hmmm…which cable news network does Hume work at?

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