Environmentalism as a religious creed is the new black of the Left. It's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between religious nuts like this guy who says Katrina is God's retribution for the South's racism and environmental-mystics like the Minister of the Environment in Germany who blame every natural disaster on global warming, which, as we all know, is Chimpy-McBush's fault.

And I thought the Kennedy's were Roman Catholic? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., though, looks like he has converted to the cult of blame-every-bad-thing-on-Bush-induced-global-warming cult.

Never mind that none of these prophets who claim to know the mind of God/Gaia/Mother Earth (insert deity here) bothered to check out the racial identity of those hardest hit by the hurricane or check out NOAA charts tracking the number of hurricanes over the years.

Somewhere, I'm sure, Fred Phelps is reading God's mind and finding that the true blame for Katrina's devestation rests squarely on the shoulders of the gays.

So, who or what is responsible for hurricane Katrina? I am. It was either suffer a terrible hurricane or blind. God told me so.

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From The Paranoid Style:

Such a strange, strange world we live in now of David Duke praising Cindy Sheehan's scapegoating Israel.

George Bush who risked his presidency to free millions of Iraqis is to be the moral equivalent of Jefferson Davis — but perhaps is just as hated by the unhinged Right because he is not enough like their beloved Jefferson Davis.

Forcing imperial Japan to surrender is the same as terrorists blowing up the World Trade Center.

And stopping the genocide of Saddam and promoting constitutional government are warmongering.

And all this nonsense transpires in the midst of a war in which the only way we can lose is to turn on each other and give up.

VDH has identified the common thread that runs through all of these counterfeit pearls.

(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia)

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BREAKING: An anonymous source tells The Jawa Report that, despite media reports, the end of the world is not yet upon us. The source indicates that we are not, in fact, doomed!....DOOMED!!....DOOMED!!! as MSM sources suggest.

"Hurricanes," say our source, "are local phenomenon. "If you live in Portland, OR, for instance, you are probably not going to be flooded out of your home."

Further, the source suggests that there may actually be news other than Hurricane Katrina. Some of this news is reported to be more important. The Jawa Report could not confirm this.

Developing......

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Next week is the annual APSA (American Political Science Association) convention, which will be held this year in Washington, DC. A number of us affiliated with The Jawa Report plan to attend, but we'll probably not be in the majority. The unofficial theme of this conference of PoliSci eggheads is something like: "Dare We Call It Fascism?" And you know what the "it" is.

So, given that situation I found this observation by Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom darn near irresistible, bless his heart:

If it weren’t so very sad and transparent, it might just be amusing how many scholars in today’s progressivist academy purport to be “investigating” questions they are quite clearly begging, only to act “intrigued” by the cumulative “findings” they’ve so clearly predetermined.

Alas.

I'm planning to wear a small "stars and stripes" in my lapel pocket, just for the sheer Saul Alinsky in-your-face irony of it all. Anyone else willing to make the statement link to this post, or to the crosspost on Demosophia (or both) and we'll set up a meeting time and place. It'll be fun.

Update: Rusty has a better idea. Either leave a comment here, with your despammed email address or email me or Rusty.

Demosophia: demosophia-at-gmail-dot-com
Rusty: mypetjawa-at-gmail-dot-com

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The current Kos strategy of "divide for the hell of it" reflects the view of a segment of the Democratic Party who believe that the politics of unreason will serve them well. (The link is to Iowahawk's cut and paste of the Kos post, because who in their right mind would give another link to Kos if they didn't have to? Much better to give the link to Iowahawk.)

In November of 2003 I posted a lengthy piece refuting a similar claim made on Daily Kos that had the adult-children in the Dean Campaign breathless. I'll reproduce that article below, with a few edits. The bottom line is that it's not enough to feel secure that the strategy, repeatedly promoted by the "petulant wing of the Democrat Party," wouldn't win elections, or even a nomination (a fact that I accurately predicted back in 2003). The point is that win or lose the strategy is simply bad for the country. Which is to say, in no uncertain terms, that it's pretty much boneheadedly anti-American, or even anti-democracy, for that matter, since it's probably not good for any country. With good reason Christopher Hitchens calls these folks "domestic masochists."

Read "Centrifugal Politics"!

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Pat Robertson has lost it. We all knew the day was coming, but it has finally arrived. The longtime leader of The 700 Club has publically called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.

“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Robertson said. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop.”

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