Author: Aaron Weber

Truth-based Processed Information Product

Via Low Culture, an indication that Our Leader is one of those people who can’t distinguish their own opinions from indisputable fact. These are the people who say “my belief isn’t based on what a religious text says, it’s based on the Gospel!”

The quotation: “I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that you’re not equally as patriotic if you’re not a religious person,” Mr. Bush said. “I’ve never said that. I’ve never acted like that. I think that’s just the way it is.”

Dream Dream Dream

Confession: I keep back issues of Dwell magazine. And they have sticky-notes stuck on the pages with things I covet. My dream home would have a kitchen where the sink is not tucked in a corner and therefore does not cause back pain when used. Or maybe even a dishwasher. That’d be nice. Also a sink that doesn’t explode, and flooring that doesn’t peel up when the sink explodes. Grr.

Total Disconnect from Reality

So, some people went down to a gay rights march in Philly to insult the marchers. Some of them were disorderly, loud, or whatever, and they got arrested. What does the AFA do? Blame it on the gay.

According to WorldNetDaily, “Homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division not only attended (the) large homosexual event…but they advised police on the scene who arrested 11 Christian protesters, says a source in the agency.” (Charges against some of the Christians have been dropped.)

The WorldNetDaily article went on to say the U.S. Justice Department is “not likely to take up the cause of the five criminally charged Christians who believe Philadelphia officials violated their civil rights.”

Did you catch that? The Justice Department will refuse to investigate the treatment of the arrested Christians because some homosexual attorneys from the Justice Department were advising the Philadelphia police on how to arrest the Christians!!!!

Now, the Philadelphia police don’t exactly have a good track record in protest-arresting: they pre-emptively jailed a bunch of RNC protestors back in ’00, delayed their processing until the convention was over, and then let them go (lawsuits still pending). But this message still conveys a total disconnect from reality.

These people are totally shocked that the force of law is not on their side, that others have rights, that their behavior is not acceptable. They’re shocked that there are, dear lord, homosexuals in the Justice Department! What has it come to? The next thing you know, they’ll be letting in atheists and socialists!

Also, if you want a look at what passes for news on the right, check out the spin on WorldNet: the UN is always bad, the ACLU is stealing your money, illegal immigration is destroying our hospitals and our culture. And they always put the word gay in scare-quotes, because they want you to know they don’t accept or believe gay people exist. Or something. Their shopping site promotes books on investing in gold, biblical child-discipline, Clintons-caused-9/11 conspiracies, and a bunch of things on the End Times.

For extra credit, compare and contrast WorldNetDaily’s coverage of The End Times with the Economist’s year-end study of end-of-the-world beliefs among religious and non-religious groups.

Message to New Hires: Just Hope They Don’t Get Sick

One NY city is reversing its decision to offer health-care benefits to domestic partners of new city employees. Now, this doesn’t touch either of the two people currently insured under this policy, who are currently insured as partners of current city employees. The city just says that domestic partners of new employees, or new domestic partners of current employees, won’t get health care.

So, you had a system which was discriminatory. You replaced it with one that was fair, but which religious groups disliked as cooties-ridden. And so now you’ve further revised it to be something everyone can hate.

You know, this wouldn’t be a problem if we had a decent health care system to begin with.