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Forgive me, but when entrepreneurial theocratic fascists deigning to speak on behalf of God™ lose a round, it’s my obligation to take notice and gloat a little. From The Houston Chronicle comes this glorious tidbit straight from Heaven™:

Robertson Loses Broadcasters’ Board Seat

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela’s president and Israel’s prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters’ board of directors.

Robertson, founder of the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, was one of 38 candidates for 33 board seats during the NRB’s recent convention. The group represents mostly evangelical radio and TV broadcasters.

NRB President Frank Wright said there was no broad effort to distance the group from Robertson. But “there was broad dismay with some of Pat’s comments and a feeling they were not helpful to Christian broadcasters in general,” he said in Wednesday’s Washington Post.

In the past few months, Robertson suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment for pulling out of the Gaza Strip.

Ouch, Pat! 33 board seats, only 38 candidates – and you couldn’t make the cut. That’s gotta hurt.

Far be it from me to be an optimist at this early juncture, but if the past few weeks are any indication of where this country is heading – it almost feels as if it’s atleast begun the process of waking up from it’s 6 year dalliance w/ BushCo. and its associated tendrils’ neverending stream of bullshit. It’s possible we’ve just been travelling through a brief rip in the fabric of the space-time continuum, however – where rationality and sanity are still valued – so I’ll reserve any semblance of true celebration until November of this year.

Wikipedia has the skinny on his holiness here.

Find a restroom, wouldya Marion?
Kthx.

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 Pat Robertson: “The dark people are  coming! The dark people are coming!   And it’s all Jean Paul Sartre’s fault!”

 In the shadows of the Coretta Scott  King funeral, it’s somehow oddly  apropos that we have the increasingly  unhinged Pat Robertson chiming in on  the breeding status of whites in Europe.  Media Matters has the skinny.

Excerpt:

Well, unless you believe in God, there’s really no future. And when you go back to the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, the whole idea of this desperate nightmare we are in—you know, that we are in this prison, and it has no hope, no exit. That kind of philosophy has permeated the intellectual thinking of Europe, and hopefully it doesn’t come here. But nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate. And they just can’t get it together.

Since the philosophy of exisentialism has alot to say about the importance of personal responsibility – is it really any wonder theocratic fascists such as Robertson choose to view it as the boogeyman? Afterall, such a philosophy doesn’t fabricate imaginary demons, angels and an omnipotent deity to explain away the plight of humanity or use such phantasms as tools for subjugating the masses. Nor does it create post-mortem fantasylands where your lifelong fealty to state/church authority is finally rewarded. In short, it deals with reality. And we can’t have that. Not in a world ruled by conmen like Bush, Cheney and Robertson. A philosophy that opts to meditate on reality as a beginning premise is an absolute threat.

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Media Matters: Top Alito myths and falsehoods

Center For American Progress: The Alito Myths

Balkinization: The Basic Case Against Alito

And this should send shivers up your spine and down the other side…

Christian conservatives rally for Judge Alito:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Christian conservative leader Rev. Jerry Falwell said on Sunday that confirming Federal Appeals Court judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court would be the biggest victory for his constituency in three decades.

“What we’ve worked on for 30 years, to mobilize people of faith and value in this country, what we’ve done through these years is coming to culmination right now,” Falwell said at a rally on the eve of Alito’s confirmation hearing.

“Now we’re looking at what we really started on 30 years ago, reconstruction of a court system gone awry,” Falwell said at a rally at a Baptist church in Philadelphia and broadcast on Christian radio and television.

“There could be a reconstruction of the U.S. Supreme Court in our immediate lifetime,” said Falwell.

Help prevent theocratic dictatorships: It’s time to call your senator, folks.

Live video of the hearings available via C-SPAN here.

SCOTUSblog is liveblogging the hearings here.

See also this metafilter thread.

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And in that spirit, enjoy Chomsky v. Dershowitz won’t you? It’s on!

Tom Tomorrow’s Year In Review is worth a look-see, too.

One more thing, you can decorate your own Merry Fitzmas tree here.

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Why the Creationism fight matters

Here’s a comment on the Minnetonka Creationism issue that I want to talk about because it’s a good starting point for why this is important. No disrespect intended to Anonymous.

I worked for Dave and he’s a good man.

He may very well be a good man. I don’t know him, so I really can’t agree or disagree with this statement. His approach to science standards, however, are wrong and harmful.

(Via Continue Reading At Minnesota Politics.)

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