What is it with Teh Left and making treasonous wog shit on this most sacred and patriotic of days?

Andrew Bolt:

Why is it that whenever you hear of a politician being physically attacked by a protester, you immediately conclude: almost certainly of the Left, and probably a green?

KG (of Teh Right, and definitely not a “green”):

I’m an old man now and have never for a moment thought that the asssassination (sic) of a President would be a good thing for America. Now I’m not so sure… If this man serves… a full term America may not recover from the damage done to her. The traitorous filth – installed by the media and gullible fools looking for salvation via the half-bred fixer – are on course to destroy the Republic. If it takes a bullet to avert that, then so be it.

What is it with Teh Left Teh Right nutbags of any political persuasion and violence?

In a startling and disturbing display of musical groupthink, a wide range of waministas, leftards and feminazis are putting aside their “well-known” antisemitism (sic.) to attend various iterations of the Leonard Cohen roadshow this weekend.

Lennie pictured after winning Canadian National Lottery

The depressoleftosphere includes, at last count, Toaf, Tobias and myself. (GrodsCorp’s own Bron has told me she can’t afford it, which is even more depressing when you think about it). Representing the radical centre will be Mr. Andrew Bartlett.

I’ll be going to the Bowral show, which is in a vineyard. Unconfirmed speculation suggests that Toaf and I may well convene over a chardonnay at some point to compare notes and Al Gore tattoos.

Three questions:

1. Anyone else going?
2. Anyone planning to post reviews and pix?
3. What is it with teh left and maudlin, Canadian, septuagenarian, zen-Buddhist singer-songwriters?

Everytime we are lucky enough to be linked by Blair, we get a flood of self-righteous buffoons accusing us of “hate”. So I decided to compile a list of everything we’re told we hate.

“Leftists” hate:

• Normal people’s hapiness (!)
• Israel.
• Children.
• “Breeders”
• Success.
• Christianity.
• Anything conservative.
• people knowing about history.
• democracy and freedom in Iraq.
• Life.
• Mormons.
• the “Eton Boat song”.
• Wal-Mart.
• people with big heads.
• Cars.
• Guns.
• Suburbs.
• Straight white men.
• Jokes about sexual orientation, race, or gender.
• Jokes about anything.
• Traditional families.
• Absitinence.
• Religious zealots (except Muslims)
• The rich.
• Vouchers.
• Home-schooling.
• Standardised testing.
• McDonalds.
• Pharmaceutical companies.
• Successful businesses.
• Failed busineses.
• the US military.
• People
• Karl Rove.
• Freedom.
• Civilised society.
• Ann Coulter.
• Homosexuals.

And that’s from one site alone. So, Leftists, what do you hate?

Further to Bridgit Gread’s excellent post demolishing the wingnuts’ desperate and infantile claim that the current financial crisis in the US is the Democrats’ fault, we have the Tardosphere’s most courageous defender of free speech, KG, indulging in some more shameless obfuscation:

The left — those wholly responsible for the subprime crisis — are complaining on every outlet that they “had a deal” that would have passed into law to allow the rescue of the financial industry but for the intercession of John McCain.
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KG, who appears never to have hatched an original idea, is quoting here from fellow right-wing initialism GW of Wolf Howling, who helpfully illustrates his own execrable post with the following diagram:

Cute. But like so many wingtards, GW neglects to tell the whole story.

Here’s the second diagram from the educational Economix 4 Cockhedz series, which illustrates how free-market capitalists can socialise their losses when their avarice catches up with them (and the people they’ve exploited) and everything goes to shit:

See? Let no one say we’re not all about balance here at GrodsCorp.

UPDATE: The $US700 billion ($840 billion) “bailout” package has been approved. I hope you swallowed, free-market capitalism.

Last week, the Editor whimpered something about damned responsibility preventing him from getting one of those infamous leftard drinks known as a latte.

I was reminded of his 10.23am latte withdrawals when the book I’m currently reading, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg, mentioned them. Goldberg’s book is, clearly enough, about the rise of Christian nationalism, that is, right-wing evangelical and fundamentalist so-called Christianity. A snippet from the book’s website describes it as thus:

In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military veterans pledging to seize the nation in Christ’s name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country’s social problems.

I was amused by a paragraph she wrote and I wanted to share. Writes Ms Goldberg:

[D]uring the Democratic primary season [in 2004], the right-wing Club for Growth ran an anti-Howard Dean ad featuring an elderly Middle American couple ranting against a type that populates much of the Northeast and Northwest. The man began, “I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading…” His wife continued: “…body piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs.” Imagine for a moment, if MoveOn had run an anti-Bush ad that called his following a gun-toting, Bible-thumping, McDonald’s-eating, gay-bashing, gas-guzzling right-wing freak show. There would have been no end of hand-wringing about the supercilious secular elite and their contempt for so-called ordinary Americans. Having defined Americanism as an amalgam of anti-intellectualism, provincialism, self-righteousness, and bellicosity, conservatives then attack everyone who finds these things repellent as unpatriotic, and few mainstream voices challenge them. (Incidentally, conservative evangelicals are the only religious faction I’ve encountered who sell lattes in church.)

It seems that even one of the bastions of right-wing rabble-rousing — the pseudo-political evangelical, fundamentalist “Christian” church — cannot resist the lure of a leftie latte.

It’s a well-researched, well-presented book, very alarming and a good record of the damage the right-wing “Christian” nationalists are doing to the good ol’ US of A. I finished reading it tonight while drinking a flat white with one sugar. Go get this book. Highly recommended.

Bit (a lot) tired today and finding it hard to kick my brain into gear at work. Decided that since I couldn’t leave to go buy a latte (damn you, responsibility!) I’d browse latte porn on the intertubes instead. Tell me that photos like this — which is hilariously captioned by the photographer: “its like being in orbit over planet latte” — don’t get you salivating in anticipation of that sweet, sweet latte hit.

Typing one-handed now

As usual, Piers nails it. I, for one, won’t rest until my community — the standards of which are altogether too high — is totally fucked.