The neighbor of the Beast

Was walking and simply had to take this photo of the neighbor of the Beast. And it's a Kennedy no less!
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Just add "ZILLA"

Yes. Just add "ZILLA" and you'll never get the image of a giant dominatrix lizard out of your mind.
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Apparently Jebus wrote the Constitution

If you think you've seen it all when it comes to the Christian Right, then you've not seen it all together in one single painting, just dripping with wingnuttery and Christion propaganda. Welcome to Jon McNaughton's Evangelical Crap-o-rama! It has Jebus Chrispies holding the Constitution (because you know Jebus wrote it) and a bunch of stereotypical icons reacting to this grand realization of "what truly makes this country great." You can buy the print for a few hundred bucks, but of course, it's more fun to go to the page because there, it's interactive!

You can scroll your mouse over anybody and it'll tell you all about them. In a small window to the side it'll also show you a larger portion of what you're pointing at, though I usually had to aim it at a person's crotch before their face showed up, since it was off a bit. Go figure. And you can play a Satanic version of Where's Waldo... because Satan is hidden in this picture. He looks just like that Millionaire Matchmaker woman if you ask me. Also spot the "activist judge" crying for what he's done to America. You can even point at his spilled papers, each telling you all about the horrible bills that have ruined our great land... Roe v. Wade, Everson vs. Board of Education... you name it. It just gets better and better the more you read it.

But for more fun, I thought I'd add a few touch-ups. Enjoy!

May have to click to see it large enough to read.
Feel free to pass on, just give credit where it's due. Thx!

EDIT: Another poster brought this one to my attention as well. Well played.

Global Warming Deniers

I really like getting these Progress Reports from Think Progress. They're so researched and full of linky goodness, and they really lay shit out on the line. After the recent NYTimes article about the EPA's Alan Carlin, who denies global warming but is shown to have no real merit or experience to do so, and the also recent attempts to say fluctuation in warming levels means it doesn't really exist at all, it's more than obvious these people are not out to find the truth on the matter, but only tiny pathetic instances to find the truth they want to be true, which isn't. small nugget that they like and think it nullifies the boulders of evidence that they didn't, which they were denying all that time but now actually verify by embracing the nugget as good news that the boulder has stopped.

Here's the Progress Report:

Business Backlash Against Deniers

With the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference

in Copenhagen, Denmark, taking place this December, the world is looking to the U.S. to provide decisive leadership to tackle climate change. The U.S. Senate, which has been caught up

in a fierce health care debate, hopes to

approve climate change legislation before the U.N. conference. One of the biggest roadblocks to passing global warming legislation is the intense lobbying effort by various industry groups that have adopted extreme right-wing positions

on the issue. These organizations include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

, American Petroleum Institute

, the National Association of Manufacturers

, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity

(ACCCE). Yet many U.S. businesses that do not hold global-warming denier

views have started to revolt against the extremist positions -- which are based more in ideology than business sense. Several major businesses, such as the nation's largest utility company, have left

these business alliances altogether, and others are working in coalitions that are fighting to curb climate change.

THE UNRAVELING OF THE CHAMBER: One of the most prominent ideological opponents of efforts to fight global warming is the Chamber of Commerce, which has had a long history of climate change denial. In 1992, the Chamber sponsored a cross-country tour by global warming denier Pat Michaels to "refute the global warming warnings

." Most recently, Senior Vice President William Kovacs called for a new "Scopes Monkey Trial" that would put "the science of climate change on trial

." Additionally, its president, Tom Donohue, is on the board of serial polluter

Union Pacific, which has paid him millions of dollars

since 1998. Many businesses, "fed up

" with the Chamber's extremist position on the environment have left the organization in recent weeks. Pacific Gas & Electric

(PG&E) -- a massive energy provider for northern California -- was the first to leave, citing "irreconcilable differences

" with the business federation. In a letter to the Chamber, PG&E chairman Peter Darbee wrote that the Chamber has been involved in "disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort the reality

of these [climate] challenges." Soon after, Public Service Company of New Mexico and Exelon, the nation's largest utility

, also left the Chamber, citing similar

concerns

. Most recently, shoe giant Nike decided to leave its board (but retained its membership in the Chamber), saying it "fundamentally

" disagrees with the Chamber's lobbying efforts against climate change legislation. Other business federations, such as ACCCE, have also faced their members' ire. Recently, utility giant Duke Energy quit ACCCE over differences with "influential member companies who will not support passing climate legislation in 2009 or 2010

."

A POSITION BASED IN IDEOLOGY: The opposition to aggressive climate change legislation by business federations like the Chamber and ACCCE is based in right-wing ideology, not realistic concerns about the economic impact of climate change legislation. While the Chamber has continually attacked the clean energy and global warming legislation being debated in Congress as "economically disruptive

" and has said that it would "strangle the economy

," the truth is that clean energy legislation has the potential to create millions of new jobs. Even the conservative National Association of Manufacturers -- which has in the past sponsored global warming denier rallies

-- admits that the House's Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act could create as many as 20 million new jobs

by 2030. A study by the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute found that ACES and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act could create a net gain of 1.7 million new jobs

. As Richard Trumka, the new president of the AFL-CIO, has said, there is no conflict between the cutting carbon emissions and protecting job growth. He told an audience at the Jobs, Justice, and Climate conference last month, "If we take on climate change at scale, we will create jobs at scale. For every $100 billion invested in a green economy, we create 1 million new jobs

."

BUSINESSES SUPPORT CLEAN ENERGY: Although some of the traditional business federations have lined up behind climate change denier positions, businesses that recognize that they can grow by tackling global warming have started to come together in newly formed groups to lobby for aggressive legislation to curb greenhouse gas pollution. One such group is the United States Climate Action Partnership

(USCAP). Formed in 2007, USCAP is a unique effort that has brought together traditional environmental groups -- like the National Resources Defense Council

and Environmental Defense

-- with business allies such as PG&E

, General Motors

, Duke Energy

, and Siemens

. In January of this year, USCAP released the "Blueprint for Legislative Action

," which calls on Congress to pass legislation to cut carbon pollution to curb the detrimental effects of climate change. A number of other companies, including Nike and Sun Microsystems, have formed the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy

(BICEP). Leaders from the high-tech industry formed the Clean Economy Network to "accelerate progress toward a clean, low-carbon economy

." Indeed, as the Washington Post reports, companies have started to "see climate change as [a] barrier to profit

," because the damage that global warming will cause will severely hurt businesses in the long run. "If we don't move now, it just becomes more expensive, more complicated, and a bigger risk

," Brad Figel, director of government affairs at Nike, said at a recent Capitol Hill briefing. The Climate Disclosure Project recently released a report

that found that 52 percent of the S&P 500 companies have set emissions-reduction targets, an increase from 32 percent last year. While some industry groups continue to tout an extremist line on climate change, it's clear that many businesses are moving towards aggressively tackling the issue, not denying that it exists.

I have to go with Krugman... it's part of why I switched parties

I simply couldn't go with a party that refused all measures towards what matters most. I once thought that capitalism was worth protecting, but then I saw what the Right did with it, and how it's only going to get worse. And really, how can you put your money in importance above the rest of the living kingdom, including yourself? That's just insane. Krugman says:

In a rational world, then, the looming climate disaster would be our dominant political and policy concern. But it manifestly isn’t. Why not?

Well, Mr. Krugmen, as Van Jones would say, because they're assholes. Seriously, mankind is not an asshole but man who refuses to care about the rest of the world is most definitely an asshole, which means non-caring industrialized civilization's finest capitalists.

Responding to climate change with the vigor that the threat deserves would not, contrary to legend, be devastating for the economy as a whole. But it would shuffle the economic deck, hurting some powerful vested interests even as it created new economic opportunities. And the industries of the past have armies of lobbyists in place right now; the industries of the future don’t.

And those who are fighting for it are ignored, called liberals, called hippies, called terrorists (despite the fact capitalism is the greatest terrorist movement to ever exist), and given next to no air time. Those who want to believe differently find a scientist or two who say differently, decide it's simply settled, and never hear a word of reason again, happy to rest easily convinced that the environment is not in any danger whatsoever. Merely suggest otherwise with actual data, and the fingers go into the ears in what's simply the same as Christian conviction: La la la la la la la!!! I can't hear your reason or facts!!! I already believe what I want to and will not be swayed no matter what!!! La la la la la la!!! Kinda like my blond and her insistence Obama is a socialist fascist.

Nor is it just a matter of vested interests. It’s also a matter of vested ideas. For three decades the dominant political ideology in America has extolled private enterprise and denigrated government, but climate change is a problem that can only be addressed through government action. And rather than concede the limits of their philosophy, many on the right have chosen to deny that the problem exists.

Government isn't my favorite place to turn either. But that's how it goes. We can't appeal to the corporate world. They're the ones steering us to a global apocalypse in the first place.

Apparently you can tune an atheist?

It's actually been quite some time since I've done any debating on the YouTube videos created by NonStampCollector, who I admire very much. All of a sudden, one of the many Christiantards there who think they're put on earth to slam silly atheists has decided to spam all people that ever defended NSC with this:



Now if you've not seen any of the NSC videos, it'll take only one for you to realize why, when SmashBroDx (who spammed with this pathetic video) says: "NSC makes no sense. He must be stopped," he's just begging to be slammed. Especially since he named this video:

NonStampCollector is A Lyer

...yet provided in the video absolutely no defense of his position, did he? Nope. So I replied:

NSC makes worlds of sense. Unlike this, he actually has properly structured arguments. And allow me to say, I'm pretty sure he's not a lyer. I mean, I might try to strum him to make music, but I doubt it'll make music.

I think the word you were looking for is liar.

You need to know this word, since it's always good to at least know what onesself is, and spell it correctly.

The ending to this is everything I've always wanted!

Or would be... were it the real Kirk and Ray. Sadly, it is not.