Radical Islam is one facet of a real problem: politicized fundamentalism, period. Until King acknowledges the at least equal (and realistically, much greater) threat posed by the proliferation of Hutaree-style Christianist hate groups around the country, he's no better than these mouth-breathers.
Disgusting. And particularly so given King's odious support for the IRA.
Let's not forget the fact that so-called "American" Catholics, a substantial proportion of the population, owe their allegience first and foremost to a foreign prince.
Let's not forget, either, the significant fraction of the population of the American south who continue to pledge allegiance to the flag of a traitorous rebellion. Seditionists, one and all.
We can't all be as patriotic as Newt Gingrich.
5: The old "I'm so patriotic I didn't notice where I put my cock" dodge.
He just fell forward and thought of America.
It's one of those days when I hate everything. I also just watched a Rachel Maddow segment about things going on in MI, and am pretty much ready to throw in the towel.
It doesn't help that Peter King looks cartoonishly villainous in all of those photos. They're the kind of shots you'd expect to see in textbooks in the depressing sections about terrible things. Or an Alan Moore comic.
It's one of those days when I hate everything.
Yeah. My day started with rain and an early coffee house altercation when another habitué and I got in a shouting match with some yahoo making dumb jokes about "government workers." Any other day either one of us could have ignored him, probably, but today wasn't the day.
On topic (more or less): Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham (R-7) recently introduced a bill to repeal child labor laws.
My day is currently feeling mildly inconvenient due to my roommate recently having acquired a puppy and then this evening leaving the puppy home alone in a crate, meaning when I come home from work it wants all this attention and whines like a banshee if I leave its sight.
Yes: my biggest problem at the moment is an adorable puppy.
Rain and more rain.
The tenant upstairs from my work office apparently harbors a dog that he crates during the day, and I listen to various levels of scratching/scrabbling and the occasional whine all day long. Boo.
I don't seem to have anything upbeat to add as a counter at the moment.
I shouldn't have read the headline, as I couldn't read past it.
The puppy just peed on some clothes that are on my floor. AWESOME.
17: No, but it was my running clothes, so I have to wonder if they wicked properly.
From the article: [Crazy dude from Arizona's] nascent organization got the spotlight when better established Muslim groups were passed over.
Ah, the old "Republicans find some weird fringe character and give him an enormous megaphone" routine. Maybe Slate can give him a column.