I was going to join everyone else on the internet tonight and write about so-called Christian Terry Jones and his poorly thought-out plan to burn 200 copies of the Quran come Saturday, but it looks now as though it’s been called off, or at least momentarily postponed. Jones says he decided to pull the plug […]
Tag Archives: Park51
Let’s burn all the holy books while we’re at it
Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism Also tagged burn a Koran Day, Florida, ground zero mosque, Lou Reed, quran, religious freedom, Sharif El-Gamal, Susan Boyle, Terry Jones 19 Comments
The party of imagined bravery and craven victimhood
Eugene Robinson asks a great question in today’s Washington Post… “When did the loudmouths of the American right become such a bunch of fraidy-cats and professional victims?” Here’s a clip: …The thing is, though, that the manufactured brouhaha over the Park51 project is part of a larger pattern in which the far right embraces victimhood […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Politics Also tagged asshole Republicans, bandaids, fear mongering, fraidy-cats, ground zero mosque, illegal immigration, John Kerry, Louie Gohmert, mama grizzlies, pathetic Republicans, professional victims, purple heart, Shirley Sherrod, terror babies, victimhood 15 Comments