The South has supported virtually nobody but faith-based Republicans for as long as I can remember. How do you like your anti-environment attitudes now? Let me guess... America hasn't prayed enough for rain. If we all just turned to Jeebus, our problems would be solved.

Me! Me! Me! Me! It's all about Me! I have a Christright to a McMansion and the 2 acres of watered and manicured lawn that it sits on. God gave me a Chevy Suburban to drive myself 30 miles to and from work every day - it's a nice big vehicle and if I get in an accident with somebody who is driving an ordinary car, that person is either dead or disfigured, but that's okay because, obviously, that person was a lesser in the eyes of God. Puh-raise tha Lord!

There is no free lunch, people. Driving that SUV all over the place has consequences beyond the price-per-gallon at the gas station. Living 30 miles from your workplace has consequences.

Last I heard, the South and the Southwest have designs on the water of the Great Lakes. Fantastic! Let's destroy the Great Lakes and the economies of the upper midwest so assholes in Las Vegas and Atlanta can play golf.

Oh, wait, I forgot - Jeebus is coming back any day now, so nothing is really important anyway. Fuck the South. You deserve to lie in the beds that you made for yourselves, but you had no right to drag the rest of us down with you.

"As a case in point, 9/11 was a direct result of the Clinton Administration’s feckless responses to the numerous Al-Qaida provocations and terrorist assaults against our national interests; as well as, Clinton’s inexplicable temerity in refusing to take Osama bin Laden into captivity when offered several times by the Sudanese."

What a joke:

1) If the threat, including actionable intelligence, was so obvious, then Bush had plenty of time between January 2001 and 9/11 to take OBL out and prevent the attacks. Clinton met with his terrorism advisers at least twice a week. Bush dismissed terrorism because Clinton made it a priority, assuming that because Clinton was a Democrat, he didn't know what he was talking about. Bush wanted to concentrate on China instead (remeber the incident with the collision of an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter?) Between Bush's inauguration and 9/11, he met with terrorism adviesrs exactly twice.

2) You wanna talk about temerity? I have two words for you: Tora Bora.

3) The real reason that we were attacked on 9/11, and a major contributing factor in other attacks abroad, is that some Middle Eastern people don't appreciate America's military presence in Middle Eastern countries. - If Russia or China made some back-door deals with our government to build air bases in America, what would you do? Would you sit by with your thumb up your ass or would you do something about it? If you would do something about it, then perhaps you're really not that different from the A-rabs who want the furriners out of their homelands...

The joke continues:

"Clinton then exercised little more than his jawbone as bin Laden trained literally thousands of terrorists in his Afghan camps."

If I remember correctly, Bush was brave enough to show up at Ground Zero THREE DAYS after the attacks. He exercised his jawbone through a bullhorn and we've had nothing but happy talk from the administration ever since. By the way, literally thousands of terrorists are still being trained in camps. Why do you suppose this is still happening six years after the attacks? Why does one single terrorist training camp exist today?

Please respond with Republican Party-approved talking points.

I concur that there is a sort of regal elegance to the cockpit and nose of a 747, which is in stark contrast to the cockpit and nose of the A380. The latter looks like a beluga whale that lost a boxing match in 13 rounds. Oddly, I find Airbus's A340 to be one of the most attractive airplanes ever. One would think that the folks at Airbus could have been a bit more creative with the A380.

In any case, I'm just waiting for them to make another "Airport" movie involving a stricken A380...

If water were measured not in gallons, but in fetuses, those suthnaaahs would have a solution in a heartbeat. In the meantime, they should continue to pray since that has such a proven track record for solving problems.

That's funny, I think anybody who honestly believe that "freedom requires religion" isn't to be trusted as a president.

Let's see: Religion demands that we suspend critical thinking and objective analysis in lieu of simply accepting baseless "belief" in what amounts to little more than fairy tales and atheists are the ignorant and deluded ones? What bullshit. I mean, that's like a bull shitting, wiping his ass with a sheep, and shitting again.

The thing is, though, there is definitely a value in maintaining and promoting bullshit beliefs in certain segments of our society. How else would we convince people to give their lives in wars that serve no purpose other than to inflate the value of my mutual fund portfolio? Let their imaginary gods bless them. Cha-ching!!! Got your money, suckers!

I happened to catch four speeches at the close of the Iowa caucuses: Obama's, Clinton's, Edwards's, and Huckabee's. Clinton delivered a perfectly predicatable boiler-plate politician-speak speech to her supporters. It was utterly uninspiring. Huckabee came off as far more sincere and humble when he addressed his supporters, (I say that even though I disagree with most of his positions) he appeared earnest. Edwards's speech was unremarkable. After Obama spoke to his crowd, I realized that I had shifted from a slouching position on my couch to sitting perfectly upright - his speech had literally moved me. That's the difference, kids.

Hillary reminds me of the mayor of South Park.