Wow. Thank you for this. I knew it was coming, but still.....

Thanks paikea,

Some of these thoughtless folk seem to think us non-believers are a threat to their invisible friend but really it's their intolerance of others that puts the most pressure on their religion.

And they wonder why we resist their imperfect idol.

I wish they would look at themselves in the mirror and if they took an honest look they would see they have become the very thing they claim to be fighting against.

Anyway I am done with these people. These people are driving me totally and utterly insane.

I know they think they are right and we are wrong and they are entitled to their own opinion, but I said it on a post and I shall say it again, they are part of the problem and not the solution.

This is disgraceful behaviour. It is a shame some of these people don't take the time and get to know Muslims in their own country, I am sure they would be pleasantly surprised. As you know my recent post on the "Unheard Voices of Islam" highlights what a difference it makes to get to know people.

Luckily something like this will not get very far off the ground in the US, but nevertheless actions such as these should be condemned.

Miss P! :) The Right don't have discussions, they make unassailable pronouncements. Simply by dint of thinking it they are magically correct. They give God his orders. It's His job to fall into line. Okay, so they stole a presidency. The non-voters allowed it. In recent weeks I've seen three laughable (vox) examples of the Right at work. The first, as you know, was a load of unsupported tripe that was easy to pick apart. The next was a wacko calling himself a moderate and the third was a post purportedly from a senior military officer who basically gave the American military all the credit for everything, everywhere, ever. The way he told it, no other country (or ally) ever lost a soldier in battle; it was all America. Oh, okay. I'll just write to the historians here and ask them to revise the 100,000 deaths of Australian soldiers in all wars. Apparently, they didn't happen. That's a comfort. Less comforting is to find out from these impeccable sources that the seven members of my family who died in wars were actually Americans and not, as I'd previously suspected, Australians.

The rise of the Internet was always going to be a great platform for the nutcases because, let's face it, no one else will listen unless they're chained in such a way as to make gnawing through their leg and escaping the chains impossible. It's not helped along by silly comments from others expounding views that are plain nuts, such as the American president being the leader of the free world. What rubbish! He or she is the leader of America but that's the limit of it. Verifiable facts bear this out. My personal favourite is the one where everyone is jealous of America. That's always good for a laugh.

So a small bunch of boneheads want to make an amendment outlawing Islam. Yep, that's going to happen. And while they're at it they might make it clear that defending America against all foes, foreign and domestic, means the real moderates and the Left are going to get a workout, too. Implementing those will turn America into the second-largest concentration camp in history after China and will leave a population of, at a guess, around 30 million real (read: far right-wing) Americans, each of whom will have to guard and or kill an average of nine people as well as run a country, produce food, power, build, etc. They won't have to worry about education. They've managed to get this far without any. :)

Ultimately, they'll all live in caves, forget how to make fire, and console themselves with the chant "We made America great!"

Thanks, Michael. I think I come a distant second at stand-up comedy when you factor in the efforts of the Right. :) And on that note ...

Folks, let's all get some perspective on the Right. They're just a bunch of naughty kids who will, if allowed, do predictably naughty things. Personally, I blame the inventor of red juice concentrates and sugar-baked cookies. The minute we turn our collective back they're into them and then they go bouncing off the walls for an hour or until they run out of words ( a remarkably shorter time period) before they fall asleep at their gun-imaged screen saver and drool all over the keyboard. Yes, they 'waterboard' their keyboards.

Here's an elegant solution to the education-resistant strain of humanity that is the Right. Round 'em up, I say! Put them all in one place and ask them to discuss the problem of "What to do with the non-white, non-Right". They'll play nicely, waterboarding each other with passionate if somewhat odoriferous spittle, for a minute. Then the disagreements will begin. Sooner or later the smoke will clear and that will be the end of the Far Right. Then we can take their guns from their cold, dead hands and the world can get on with the important affairs of the 90% of humanity who are not political boneheads.

And look, the Righties are always starting petitions which are going to 'save' the world (America). If only they could find that elusive 51st signature. 50 signatures represents one vote from each state, so that's America covered with an obvious majority. It's the vital 51st that shows the world agrees. The Right are the poor, misunderstood and caricatured 'intelligentsia'; they even give God His orders and He'd do 'em, too, just like He did with all the non-ticket holders for Noah's Ark, and Sodom, and Gomorrah, and the Tribe of Ham and anyone else who isn't a far-right American, just like God made us to be.

The Right are like Huckleberry Finn with a chip and ammo. Oh, and red juice concentrate and sugar-baked cookies. They rely on the apathy of people to not cast a vote, knowing that if they weren't the Right would be obliterated from the political landscape, just as they have been from polite and informed society. They're the modern equivalent of the loony family member we hid in the basement, but others can still hear their muffled rantings as they sit in a corner, rocking and drooling, and doing unspeakable things to themselves. [Did anyone get a visual on that? :) ]

Point out an undeniable fact that contradicts their assertion and watch them foam. It's like seeing a snail crawl over salt.

My advice, for whatever minuscule amount it's worth, is to make an informed vote. In doing so America will give the Right the political annihilation it so richly deserves, and will substantially lessen the likelihood of retaliatory military and or paramilitary acts on American soil.

Oh, and hide the red juice concentrate and sugar-baked cookies. That should stop at least a few of them campaigning for the return of Joe McCarthy. ;)