WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?!

It’s well understoof, by this same logic, that South Caroline is the most Muslim state in the US

The most Muslim state in the US is not SC but rather Allah-bama.

Anyway, to me the new missile defense logo looks like we are attacking a crescent.  Doesn’t that mean Obama is anti-Islamic?

All of this ignores the islamofascist conspiracy that is DreamWorks.

When I looked at the new logo I saw a Vulcan Idic badge.  Star Trek lives and invades everywhere.

OMFG!  We’re through the looking glass here people!

I only hope that Glenn Beck, Real American™ can decipher all this and tell us how to thwart the swarthy hordes determined to destroy the Last Bastion of Liberty and Freedom and Last Best Hope for Mankind before it’s too late!

We need to organize a campaign to collect chalk, chalk-boards, and Vicks VapoRub for Beck before the IslamoFascistKenyans figure out what we’re doing.  It may already be too late!...

BTW, I heard that when you play the sound of the words “Barack Hussein Obama” backwards, it says “Turn me on, Dead Man”...

Don’t forget the Proctor and Gamble stars and moon logo that sets the christers tongues awagging…I think the moon triggers rabidity!

We’ll know it’s a conspiracy when they replace “e pluribus unum” with “Noli turbare circulos meos!”

Looks like Wilson Bryan Key is still popular with right-wingers, years after they graduated middle school.

I need to go find my old Illuminati cards and start using them to write letters to the editor again…

Taoist Apocalypse. It has more fireworks and owns more Western debt.

The Christian right won’t be happy until the symbol is a giant cross.

First rule of Worldwide Conspiracy Club: You don’t talk about Worldwide Conspiracy Club

Second rule of Worldwide Conspiracy Club: You don’t make logos pointing out the existence of Worldwide Conspiracy Club

Seriously. If the Illuminati are as dumb as the right-wing kooks figure, how are they still holding on to power?

Now, if *I* was the Grand Poobah of some gigantic conspiracy, I’d drop symbolic hints everywhere pointing to some innocuous group to throw off the idiots. And, let’s face it, to have a bit of fun at their expense.

I need to go find my old Illuminati cards and start using them to write letters to the editor again…

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But…but…but…

The Missile Defence Agency is ST. RONNIE’S boondoggle!  There was no evidence that Edward Teller had ever produced X-ray lasers, but that didn’t stop Ronnie from throwing billions of dollars at him so that he could be just like the President he played in that movie b/c really, what was the difference between his day job then and as President?

It’s a waste of money, a fortune in war-mongering welfare, so how can it be helping our enemies?

It’s not like it’s GREEN.

“It’s a waste of money, a fortune in war-mongering welfare, so how can it be helping our enemies?”

...oh, but that’s just what they want you to think!  In reality the American Missile Shield has been the single most important advancement in peace and security since the Neutron Bomb!

And now the Kenyan Usurper wants to take this magnificent tool of Peace Through War and use it against us to change America into an Islamic “Republic” and forever dim the last precious light of Freedom…

Even now Al Gore, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader are laughing maniacally at our naive cluelessness.  Wake up America!

The first thing we American Patriots can do to stop the impending dhimmitude apocalypse is to buy a new Hummer while we still can.  It’s our sacred duty as Americans…

This is so interesting, and here it is that I work for the MDA!!!

I got this the other day concerning the logo

To all MDA employees,

There are references on the Drudge Report and other media outlets to a ‘new’ MDA logo. In fact, the official MDA seal has not been changed or replaced. There is a different logo on the public MDA website, to which the media reports are referring. This logo was developed approximately 3 years ago, in support of MDA recruiting efforts, and is not linked to any political entity.

If you are contacted about this matter, refer the interested party to MDA Public Affairs.

Thank you.

I always thought that once Obama got his feet wet and started pushing ahead with complex, controversial issues, like health care and bank bailouts, there would be enough substantive grounds for his opponents to attack him. IOW, I expected ludicrous shit like this to dry up and blow away. I guess that was pretty naive.

OT, and sorry if I’m repeating what anyone else has said—-this site is going ka-ka-cuckoo in Firefox but comes up normal in IE. Anyone else have that problem?

I’m with DAS. Can’t wait till Iran issues a statement denouncing the logo of the crusader running dogs. (They’re on the same page with the wingnuts on so many other things, so why not.)

Words cannot describe how weary I am of all this. Everyday is some other outrageous accusation. When will it end?

Moopaw: If emails had a voice, I imagine this one would be recited in a weary voice, with some hint of snearing disgust at the fact it had to take some time out of its day to deal with a horde of morons.

Seconded, Bitter Scribe. Back in ‘08 I naively thought that a lot of this partisan noise would die down after the election. Ha, ha. Clearly I overestimated the maturity and patriotism of conservatives and Republicans (not that Mr. Breitbart is a conservative in any meaningful sense).

I also have trouble viewing this site in Firefox… it may be the adblocker, but that’s just a guess. I’m currently using Google Chrome and it’s working like a charm. (Haven’t tried using Apple Safari yet.)

an Alinsky acolyte

If conservatives knew more than zip-squat about Alinsky they might admire them. He believed in showing the little guys how they could help themselves fight the powers-that-be to accomplish their goals. He encouraged the natural leaders in the community to step up. He opposed LBJ’s War on Poverty because he knew the money would flow to the “already haves” and the “have a little, want mores” than to the have-nots. And in truth the funds often came in the form of pork and full employment for social workers. (Alinsky believed that self-interest motivated people, and lifting people out of poverty would put social workers out of a job.)

Instead, they think he was some kind of Commie radical. But most of the time he worked with various Christian congregations and their leaders.

“they might admire him”

grrr.

Hector, once someone’s been designated an Official Republican Supervillain Traitor, they’re always a combination of Satan, Hitler, and Count Dracula. It’s always a Fight to the Death against the Most Evil Creatures Ever.

No, no, no…the problem is that Real Republican Men want any symbol involving something militarish - especially things that involve long, hard objects like missiles - to look like a phallic substitute, preferably with eagles and arrows and lightning bolts and stuff as decorative elements.  NO CURVY FEMININE-LIKE SYMBOLS ALLOWED!

This whole meme was started by neocon Frank Gaffney.  The man is just an insufferably racist pile of shit.

You naïve fools!  By attacking President Obama at every turn, we’ve taken the gubernatorial seats in New Jersey and Virginia, won back a Senate seat that had been held by the Democrats for over four decades, and have managed to, at least so far, frustrate the Democrats’ goals of destroying our health care system.  The operating assumption in both parties is that the Democrats will lose seats in both Houses of Congress come November, with a chance that the GOP could retake the House.

It’s still a long time until the election, and things could change, but right now, our tactics are helping us, not hurting us.  You tell me why we should change.

“It’s still a long time until the election, and things could change, but right now, our tactics are helping us, not hurting us.  You tell me why we should change.”

I know this one! 

The reason you should change is because you’re helping to create an ungovernable nation in which the disparity in wealth, income, access to proper healthcare, access to proper education, and basic opportunity is so great that we’re on the verge of a Second American Revolution — except this time our revolution will be a lot like the French Revolution.  But we’ll use guns on the Bankers, Wall Streeters, and Insurance Company execs instead of the Guillotine…

Oh, and while you’re here, Dana, why don’t you weigh in on the Great Logo Controversy…?

I forgot to mention that Sally Quinn is the Marie Antoinette of the age.  Off with her head!...

The reason you should change is because you’re helping to create an ungovernable nation

I believe that’s been the Republican strategy for decades.

I got no idea why Republicans hate America so much…

Meh, that’s nothing.  I should dig up the link about Lady Gaga being a tool of the Illuminati.  Now there’s some scary shit.  She’s totally hiding all their secrets in plain view!

  I need to go find my old Illuminati cards and start using them to write letters to the editor again…

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You wouldn’t like it.  Scott no doubt plays as the Servants of Cthulhu.

- Phoenician in a time of degenerate Shangri-La decks

The reason you should change is because you’re helping to create an ungovernable nation in which the disparity in wealth, income, access to proper healthcare, access to proper education, and basic opportunity is so great that we’re on the verge of a Second American Revolution — except this time our revolution will be a lot like the French Revolution.  But we’ll use guns on the Bankers, Wall Streeters, and Insurance Company execs instead of the Guillotine…

Don’t forget concrete company owners.  Dana’s a wingnut, and it’s all “blah blah blah” unless the pain affects them personally.

By attacking President Obama at every turn, we’ve taken the gubernatorial seats in New Jersey and Virginia, won back a Senate seat that had been held by the Democrats for over four decades

Dana, contrary to the myth that has been constructed by GOP pundits and the MSM, what happened last November in Virginia and New Jersey was not particularly notable, if you bother looking at the recent history of gubernatorial races in those two states.  Going back to the 1980s (and in the case of Virginia, the 1970s), the party that isn’t in control of the White House ALWAYS wins the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey.  In 2000, when Bush was appointed POTUS, both states were being run by Republican governors… the following year, Democrats won both races.  In 1993, both states were run by Democrats, and the following year, Republicans won both races.  And you can trace this pattern back to the 1980s.  For whatever reason, Virginians and New Jerseyites have a tendency to elect governors from the opposite party of the current president.  What happened last November was just the continuation of a pattern that has been going on since Reagan’s presidency.

I’ll grant you that the victory in Massachusetts was a major pickup for the GOP, but even in that case, I think it was the stunningly overly presumtpious nature of the Democratic candidate which led to the defeat.  The Democrats foolishly took victory for granted, they didn’t field the best candidate possible, and that candidate didn’t treat the election as an actual contest in which she would have to campaign aggresively in order to win.  Coakley assumed that the election was over once she won the Democratic primary, and her campaign went on cruise control while the Brown campaign ran right by her when she wasn’t looking.  Had the Democrats even put in twice the effort they had and not taken the Massachusetts voters for granted - had they actually ran as if they had to earn the victory - the outcome could very easily have been different.  Voters don’t like hubris, and unfortunately, the Democrats displayed a lot of hubris in assuming that victory was already theirs in December.

Oh, and while you’re here, Dana, why don’t you weigh in on the Great Logo Controversy…?

By now you should know that Dana doesn’t do inconvenient questions, especially ones that call into question the sanity and competence of his own party. He’s the same on the abortion issue and same-sex marriage, afraid to face the facts and logic that make his positions absurd.

I mean, I’m perfectly willing to look at the MA Senatorial election and place the blame squarely where it belongs: on the Democratic candidate’s sloth and arrogance. Dana wouldn’t have the intellectual integrity to do the same thing about a similarly incompetent GOP candidate: he’d just blame the loss on external forces (probably Dem dirty tricks and the MSM).

I forgot to mention that Sally Quinn is the Marie Antoinette of the age.

Man, it was so satisfying to see WaPo dump the Queen of the Villagers’ self-indulgent column from the print edition after the little snit-fit over her kid’s wedding—if they understood that the digital platform is more important than the dead-tree edition, they’d have dumped her entitled courtesan’s arse entirely.

Now if only the NYT will do the same to Sally’s buddy MoDo.

Speaking as a graphic designer, this is pretty ridiculous. You are using shapes and colours as a shortcut to commonly understood themes. Arcs and swoops to indicate speed and movement are part of the visual catalog of the past few decades. Blue and red are already part of our nation’s colours. You get the feeling if Betsy Ross unveiled her original design today, some folks would be going, “I dunno about them stars. Muslims and Commies use those. And that red has got to go!”

Incidentally the new logo reminds me more of the mission patches from NASA’s space shuttle missions. It’s not super original but I could see coming up with it without having seen Iran’s logo at all. We are after all, talking about using ovals and circles to indicate a planet with objects in geosynchronous orbit around it, and possibly intercepting some of those objects. You’d be a dumbass to think circles and shapes derived from circles and negative space invoking circles wouldn’t be involved.

(I’m so not very keen on whoever decided to bevel that thing though. It looks like somebody discovering layer effects in Photoshop went apeshit.)

Also, why is nobody concerned about AT&T;‘s ties to Muslim states? (Or to Darth Vader?)

In It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis’ novel about a Fascist takeover of the U.S., there’s a ludicrous sequence in which the American fascists adopt a five-pointed star as their symbol, thereby distinguishing themselves from Jews and Soviets, both of whom use six-pointed stars. Then there’s a major shitstorm when someone notices that the star on the Soviet flag is, in fact, five-pointed.

When I first read the book as a kid, I thought that was pretty farfetched. Now I’m not so sure.

Dana, you really needed to add an aside in your comment about how much you love your wife and kids and how great they are in order to achieve the complete level of narcissistic vacuousness and irrelevance we have come to expect from your participation here.

It’s still a long time until the election, and things could change, but right now, our tactics are helping us, not hurting us. You tell me why we should change.

As I understand it, the point of the government is to run the country.  It’s not a football game, where the point is to be the team on top.  So I suppose the Republican’s tactics are working OK if the idea is to score more points than Democrats.  But since legislation isn’t getting passed—legislation that Republicans actually like as long as Obama isn’t backing them—it seems like Republicans are actually failing at running the country adequately.

Because the last time we let you fuckwads elect a president you intentionally ran this country — along with several others — into the shitter, and now you’re throwing a screaming hissy-fit because no one patted you on the back for a job well done.

You haven’t read the memo?  Not only is Bush a Liberal now, he was *gasp* a Liberal all along!!

Curse those wretched Liberals and their shitter-wards country running!

You naive fools!  By attacking President Obama at every turn, we’ve taken the gubernatorial seats in New Jersey and Virginia, won back a Senate seat that had been held by the Democrats for over four decades, and have managed to, at least so far, frustrate the Democrats’ goals of destroying our health care system.  The operating assumption in both parties is that the Democrats will lose seats in both Houses of Congress come November, with a chance that the GOP could retake the House.

It’s still a long time until the election, and things could change, but right now, our tactics are helping us, not hurting us.  You tell me why we should change.

It’s naive without the double dot i inflection.  I know you’re in a fantasy land but go read the actual polls on healthcare, most americans want the overhaul.  The majority want a public option so that the legislation has real bite. 

Course you’re arguing we should sell our national parks to people who will charge others to park, thus making them un-national parks.  You’re a blithering idiot with ideals that hurt everybody.  Thankfully the few elections that have happened since 2009 have been nothing but blips.  2010 will be a banner year regardless of what idiot pundits think and the democrats will hold onto the majority.

Well, where ELSE would they have gotten that incredibly unlikely red-white-and-blue color scheme?

The scary thing is that I’ve heard people actually say that in all seriousness.

Dan, I like to badger the wingnuts (they’re so *cute* when they puff up confronted by facts).

This is *precisely* the meme going around their circles.  Conservatism wasn’t shown to be a failure by the Bush years - it’s simply that Bush wasn’t conservative *enough*!

Piator, they do this every time a conservative loses and/or becomes unpopular.

Ford wasn’t conservative enough, Pappy was conservative but they wasn’t in 1992, Dole wasn’t a conservative, and Dubya wasn’t a conservative after 2006.

They’re like the Marxists who tell us that the Soviet Union wasn’t REAL Communism, and REAL Communism would work if we just gave it a chance, see!

Also, even though Reagan raised taxes, extended the solvency of Social Security through a deal with Democrats,  negotiated with the USSR (a country way more scary than a pissant one like Iran), and (gasp!) gave amnesty to illegal immigrants, AND signed a treaty outlawing torture, HE was the most conservative conservative EVAR because he won elections and didn’t end his term with an approval rating below freezing.