Barak Hussein Ebolama

It's been a while since the last boil has been Lanced, but I've stopped taking the medication, and the voices are back.

Why has the "Ebola crisis" divided along political lines?
What about it is so political that it pits the right and the left against each other?

Right Wing Ebola Pills

I got it figgered out.
It is actually tailor-made for the WWJBD (What Would John Birch Do) crowd.

First and foremost, it's just the best thing ever for creating fear, and this is the
right's stock in trade. They just aint happy unless they are crying wolf while wearing
Chicken Little suits. They haven't figured out yet exactly how to tie ebola to socialism, but give them time.

The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz

Second, this is appealing to Republican politicians who now have the opportunity to portray themselves as "tough on plague." Bullies look for an easy mark, and the Ebola lobby is very weak.

Yippee

Sure it's fun to vilify poor people for being poor because they are moral failures, but even filet and lobster gets boring if you have it EVERY day. So it's always good to have a new target to puff up about.


Additionally, those left-wing weenies are always prattling on about science, and we don't want public health policy based on something like science, for God's sake.

Godless Communist Scientist

But the the best reason for it is what seems to be the right's only reason for existence. They get to blame Obama.
While watching them choke on their own vomit is amusing, one must wonder what Obama could do to actually gain some measure of approval.

He could:

1. Gather up all the West African Ebola victims
2. Then nuke West Africa (for good measure)
3. Air drop the Ebola victims into Isis strongholds (just for fun)
4. Then nuke Syria (just because)
5. Hang himself in the Oval Office.

And they still wouldn't be happy.

I'm touching myself.

But Ebola is small potatoes...

compared to a REAL threat

9. WWJD (Who Would Jesus Deny)

Pity the "religious" who hate Obamacare. They've got a lot to juggle. They have to find a way to pretend something about God and his regional managers-Moses, Jesus, Allah, Joseph Smith, Jim Jones, and the megaphone guy on the corner. Not only them, but the others claiming to be the intellectual inheritors of a guy who impregnated his half sister and went on to murder his son because voices in his head told him to do it. They have to pretend that all these guys will let them ignore the poor.

It doesn't matter what your flavor of Abrahamic religious kool-aid is, each one has this very pesky notion that you have an obligation to take care of the poor.
Damn, that's inconvenient if you hate the notion of healthcare.

It all starts with the Big Kahuna who says right here in Duderonomy 15:17 (just for Dudes):

"If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any town of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother, but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks."

Wow doesn't that just suck if you're a Jew who thinks Obama is a Socialist for wanting Americans to have healthcare. Maybe God meant everything EXCEPT health care.

We'll skip ahead to Islam (saving the biggest Socialist for last). We all know what the Koran says, don't we? Kill the infidels, get 72 Virginians in heaven.

The only problem is that no one, except a bunch of "sheetheads" have actually READ it. And when it comes to caring for the poor, it pretty much sucks too.
"Believe in Allah and His messenger, and spend (in charity) out of the (substance) whereof He has made you heirs. For, those of you who believe and spend (in charity),- for them is a great Reward." (57:7)


Damn, can't a pseudo-religious conservative brother catch a break here?

But by far, the most demanding on this topic is that rabble rousing socialist trouble maker, The One, The Only, The Son of God, The Messiah.....Barak Obama.
Whoops, I meant Jesus of Nazareth.  What a trouble maker.

Mark 10:21-22: "Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, 'You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.' When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions."


What kind of crap is that?

If he came around again, trying to peddle that kind of hogwash, they'd crucify him. Oh wait, they already DID that. Well, they would crucify him again, or worse, call him a MODERATE. God help him. No doubt, Christians have the toughest row to hoe here, because they are supposed to do their best to be JUST LIKE CHRIST. 
But wait...It gets worse:


"Whoever says 'I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him."    1 John 2:4

                                                                                                                                          






                                    He's back, he's pissed. 
                                    He's taking names and kicking ass.

So, bad news for our Torah/Bible/Koran thumping Brothers and Sisters who think that they are not absolutely commanded to care for the poor, and view Obamacare as Socialism. It's not so much that they are misguided, misinformed, or have had their brains scrambled by Fox.


They are just bad people.


Wretched lying sinners  damned to hellfire, who, regarding Obamacare,  must ask themselves:


WWJD
Who WOULD Jesus deny?

6. Stupid Geese

"It is a stupid goose that listens to a Fox preach"...  French Proverb

Or, if you hate the French, as any student of world history should, you may prefer this Irish proverb: "The Fox never found a better messenger than himself."

The Fox in this case is Fox News, sometimes referred to as Faux news.

  It's not that so much of what appears on Fox is "barnyard residue", it's that it calls itself  "fair and balanced". Fox is as balanced as a one legged epileptic alcoholic doing a jig on the top of a moving stagecoach hurtling across prairie dog territory.

  If you are a Foxaholic, you have already tuned out. It's probably better for all of us if you do. But if you did, you might miss the following little gem. 

  I have been reading a book called "Left Turn... How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind", by Tim Groseclose. He says, "In at least one important way, journalists are very different from the rest of us- they are more liberal. For instance, according to surveys, in a typical presidential election, Washington correspondents vote about 93-7 for the Democrat, while the rest of America votes about 50-50. What happens when our view of the world is filtered through the eyes, ears and minds of such a liberal group"?

  He then builds the case that...Oh well, if you haven't figured it out already, here's a visual aid.

            



Liberal Journalist

I can certainly see why if you are right wing neo-con Republican tin foil hat wearing teabagging  troglodyte, you might feel this way. If you watch CNN, for instance, you can regularly see that the moderators of panel discussions really do have a liberal bias, and they will badger conservatives to the point where the hapless victims starts babbling incoherently. Locally, the Tampa Bay Times (Pravda by the Bay) will never hesitate to run the most unflattering photographs they can find of any Republican. They were merciless with George W. Bush and would always choose a photograph that made him look like a simpleton.

I met a Pie Man going to the fair

In the recent Republican Primary race, they were even worse.  

These are actual Tampa Bay Times file photos below:

Michele Bachmann



Herman Cain



Rick Perry

 It IS only fair, considering the liberal media bias that those on the other side of the political fence deserve to have their viewpoints told to them.... I meant... represented.    And that's where Fox comes in.

             

4. OMG! My Friend is a Moron.

  It's a jarring thing to find out that your friend is a moron. By friend, what I really mean here is a "peer". A peer is someone, who by any external observance, is "just like you". Maybe you grew up in the same town, went to the same schools, worship at the same place, go to the same restaurants, have mutual friends, shop at the same stores. Someone from a foreign country may not be able to tell any difference between you. What they don't know, however, is that you've seen your friend's postings on Facebook and you have found out, by virtue of his or her political affiliation, that they are sadly, a moron. So while you are the "same", you are very very different.

You

                                           

Moron

NOT a peer

  Part of the reason for this is that folks who would never think of talking politics at a dinner party with people they don't know, will not hesitate to post politically incendiary things on Facebook.  When you're confronted with someone having a radically different perspective than you, and you believe you're clearly NOT a peer, then you are not terribly surprised.

Peer

 The real problem occurs, however, when someone who really IS a peer 

sees the world very differently than you do.

A. Liberal (Left)   -   B. Conservative (Right)

 Baby "A", for instance, grows up to Occupy Wall Street. Baby "B" joins the Tea Party

What value you ascribe to either of these positions
will be determined by your political orientation.

Who's to say?

What set my mind to thinking about this was a column I read in the stupidly renamed Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times (renamed in a pathetic attempt to appear to be more "regional"). This column appeared in their free handout you'll see around town. It's called TBT and reprises articles that have already appeared in the paper. It's titled "You Can't Debate a Liberal". Before reading the article, you have instantly formed an opinion over whether or not you're going to like it and/or find any validity in it. I am not advocating its content, or arguing against it. What it did for me was open my eyes to the possibility that there are plenty of people who are NOT stupid, NOT evil, and NOT crazy (maybe even some of them are peers) who view the world very differently. I urge you to read this article with an open mind, think of some of your peers who look at the world very differently, try to empathize with their position, consider that it IS possible for reasonable people to have very different perspectives, and then (and only then) say "Oh my God, my friend is a moron".

Click here to read "You Can't Debate a Liberal"

Just in case that leaves your tutu too twisted, here's equal time for the other side :


Click here to read "Don’t Ever Debate a Conservative on His Terms.You’ll Lose!"