Mortal Spin: Speaking of Hate, Ladies and Gentelmen, Ann Coulter

By BlackJack

Well we all survived the day of the beast - or so it would seem. Of course the day had no real biblical significance anyway... The current calendar system was adopted, adjusted and rearranged to the point that it has no actual relevance to the birth or death of Jesus. As John Stewart said - Wasn't the real date to worry about June 6th, in the year 6?

Today's Logic Stew:

Two more soldiers from North Dakota died in Afghanistan on Monday. The soldiers were members of the Security Forces of the 188th Air Defense Artillery, which is based in Grand Forks and has a battery in Bismarck. I just got done doing a Patriot Guard ride for Spc. Hermenson last Friday. This makes me sick to my stomach. No Bin Laden and our kids are dying over there - meanwhile all of our concentration is in Iraq which never attacked us.
Jon Tester, a rancher from Big Sandy, Montana won that states Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. His opponent was the DLC chosen one John Morrison, the next generation of a Montana Democratic dynasty. Tester beat the DLC machine while raising half as much money. Might be time for the old guard to wake up and realize that there are good Democrats outside the normal circles who can win.
The Senate Hate Amendment (The same-sex marriage ban) was blocked earlier today. The measure failed 49-48 which is still too close considering Martin Luther King died 40 years ago. Hats off to Senator Dick Durbin of my home state of Illinois who said "This is not about the preservation of marriage. This is about the preservation of a majority". Dead on. The Republican 'Get-Out-The-Vote' bill is dead. Let's try to fix some actual problems.
Sen. David Vitter said about the Hate Amendment "I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one". Where is Senator Vitter from you ask? Louisiana. Apparently two men kissing is a bigger disaster than what Katrina did to New Orleans, which he represents.
Ann Coulter's new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" hit the shelves yesterday. In the book she writes about the widows of men that died on September 11th: "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." She claims the widows are self-absorbed saying that the women act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."

Coulter, the right-wing's favorite acidic-bulimic, says her criticism was aimed at four New Jersey women whom she dubbed "The Witches of East Brunswick," after the town where two of them live. In response the women issued a joint statement yesterday: "Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching the men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day".

I'm assuming Ms. Coulter isn't one of them there 'Compassionate Conservatives'?
Resident Bush, on a campaign stop in Omaha, Nebraska today, urged immigrants to learn English and to embrace the American culture if they are to become citizens. He hand picked Homeland Defense Secretary Michael Chertoff to head up a new program to educate the immigrants. With that kind of backing I'm assuming the "American culture" Mr. Bush was speaking of includes consenting to phone tapping, civil rights abuses and each one should give up his first born to go fight for oil.