Thanks, idiots, for making us the laughingstock of the world again over this Park51 community center in Manhattan:
PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.
Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.
The issue is forming a dividing line in advance of November’s mid-term congressional elections with candidates being forced to declare whether they have ever been to a library or spoken to someone who has books in their home..
“Almost 40% of Americans still support the idea of books…”
MattF
But I really like the idea of the BRAINS party vs. the NO BRAINS party.
Kryptik
The jokes on them, we’re still the most militarily powerful nation in the world! We’re not a monkey with a gun, we’re a monkey with a fucking m-16! Eat that! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hahahahaha! Heheheh….heh….
**sigh** Goddammit….
Nom de Plume
To paraphrase Chris Rock, if you want to keep Sarah Palin from stealing your money…put it in your books.
Kryptik
@Nom de Plume:
That’s a horrible idea.
I mean…what happens when they start the book burnings?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
David Broder’s column today explains that the Republican Party is completely off the rails, and this is all Barack Obama’s fault, because of the “panicked” walkback (that didn’t happen). The old fool devotes half a column to the (non) mosque controversy without ever using the words “gingrich”, ‘palin’, or ‘foxnews’, and half to the broken Senate, which after two years he apparently just noticed. Not even a shadow of a hint of a clue about his own complicity in all of this.
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective
I invite all Americans to join me in converting their cars into Mosquemobiles(tm) which can be parked anywhere there is a Republican ratfucker that needs some perspective.
You can do this as simply as purchasing a prayer rug — which can be quite a beautiful accessory for your car or ensemble — and using it to pray wherever you are.
Republicans take notice, the Mosquemobiles are coming for you.
GambitRF
Once again, the liberal media smears Sarah Palin. The only reason why she doesn’t want the library built is because it would obscure her view of Russia.
matoko_chan
conservatism==selection for stupid
quod erat demonstrandum
p.a.
‘Ignorance is Strength’. so Orwell’s pessimism was a generation early… but the $64,000 question is when will (in Digby’s phrase) the Republican Big Money Boyz try to put a lid on teh crazy? and can they succeed? (see Indiana under the 1920’s Klan, Germany 1933).
Onkel Fritze
@Kryptik:
No problem. Just use coins.
Alwhite
@DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective:
During from his last ToD my son got a Koran & has been studying it. He is fasting this Ramadan. He was affected by the people he fought for & against. Maybe Muslimobiles is not such a crazy idea.
Violet
It’s awesome that people are laughing at us for this. We deserve it.
El Cid
“Making us”? What the fuck do you think the other nations thought when we re-elected George W. Complete God-damned Idiot Violent Fuckwad Bush Jr.? And had Sarah Fucking Brainless Bitter Incomprehensible Hag Palin as a VP nominee?
matoko_chan
@Alwhite: arabic was my gateway drug to the Qur’an….. tell your son ramadan mubarak! from a sister.
:)
Rosalita
@El Cid:
FTW!
soonergrunt
Number of Americans Who Think Obama is a Muslim Nearly Doubles
We deserve to die as a country and as a species.
matoko_chan
@soonergrunt:
nah, just homo sapiens conservitanus. and they are extinct already…..its just the auxillary brains in their dinosaur hips didn’t get the message yet.
Trinity
@Rosalita: Ditto.
Cat Lady
And that should be the epitaph on America’s headstone, right before “killed by a narrative arc” and after “too stoopid to live”.
Davis X. Machina
@p.a.:
Ahoy, all you Aristoltelians!
Ignorance is strength.
The US is a superpower.
Ergo…..
asiangrrlMN
@soonergrunt: Benen and others have a theory that because the dissatisfaction with Obama is growing, his detractors want to call him the worst thing possible–which, sadly, is becoming Muslim.
That article is very funny, but ominously real-sounding. I needed a laugh after wading through the Dean clarification thread below.
Gen. Jrod and his Howling Army
I think America is more of a chuckling-nervously-while-glancing-around-for-escape-routes-oh-shit-there-are-none-shit-look-calm-smile-nod-oh-shit-oh-shit-stock.
TaMara (BHF)
@Kryptik: Unfortunately, that’s not just a joke:
Quran Book Burning Permit Denied
valdivia
funniest thing ever.
AlCo
I oppose the library: Palin’s cranium is
hallowedhollowed ground…Anya
@soonergrunt: How does that happen? Those who thought before that he was not a Muslim found some facts to back that claim. I am beginning not to believe these polls. What do they ask people and is asking the question itself putting ideas into low information Mr and Mrs Smith’s head.
Tone In DC
@AlCo:
VERY hollow.