religion

This video I saw on Huffington Post. The video itself is something of a mess, with a bunch of jump-cut clips from various video sources, including from Palin's church. But kind of draws your interest ... like a train wreck.

Part of me doesn't really care what religion a politician is, but this stuff about seeking Armageddon is just a bit scary when you're talking about someone who may have her hand on the nuclear arsenal.

This is really just so stupid.

"I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven," the Oscar-winning director of "Fahrenheit 911" said. "To just have it planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River."

That's right up there in mean-spirited sentiments with the utterances of Jerry Falwell and James Dobson, who has set a pretty "high" standard of horribleness.

I don't care how partisan you are -- and I'm pretty damned partisan, mind you -- you don't sing praises of disasters that seem to play in the media game against your political opponents.

That's John McCain's new slogan. It makes me think of the savings and loan scandal and that Keating scandal.

How unfortunate.

And what of Sarah Palin, who's a big fan of forced pregnancy and has a bit of crap on her shoes. So much for the big corruption reformer.

But here's the clincher: She's a staunch creationist, meaning that she doesn't believe in science.

So she's all for:

Government controlled reproduction.

Government enforced personal agendas.

How appealing.

But wait, she's a woman! Oh, I'm supposed to vote for her because she's a woman! Oh, silly me!

Update: Josh Orton has some thoughts on this slogan.

If Chris Rock had done the same routine mocking Hillary, it would have been a big collective shrug, and perhaps some giggles. Chris Rock has always been politically incorrect and not one to hesitate poking at our sexist and racist attitudes we like to pretend don't exist.

But when those things are said by a priest at Barack Obama's church, it's a scandal?

And Barack Obama is supposed to apologize? Apologize for something someone else said?

So he's resigned his church. If that's what ended up going on at my church when I wasn't there, I wouldn't be inclined to go back, either.

But the self-righteous hand-wringing by pundits about this is nauseating. Why not stick to what Barack says, not what other people say?

Another reason why the right cannot be trusted: They have lost touch with reality.

Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.

Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott.

‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,’’ Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.