A note to all Republican politicians who are GOPing all over microphones as if they were urinal cakes: the election was last year. You lost. How about getting off the endless campaign cycle? The country is in trouble. It might be nice if you did something except sniping from the sidelines.

A note to all right-wing conservative pundits who are spewing enough crap to cause a nationwide plunger shortage: could you at least think before you spew? All you're doing is fertilizing America's garden-variety crazies who feel compelled to punctuate your rambling bloviations with bullets.

Since Obama's election, with subtle cheerleading echoing over the airwaves and the internet, paranoid right-wingers have murdered three policemen (the gunman feared that Obama sent them to take away his guns), a physician who performed abortions (wrote the shooter, the doctor "is the concentration camp 'Mengele' of our time...") and a guard at D.C.'s Holocaust Museum (because the 88-year-old white supremacist wasn't crazy about Jews, blacks and all those who'd impose restrictions on his bat**** crazy quota).

Ignoring, for a moment, the misnamed conservative punditry (I say misnamed because the word "pundit" is derived from the Hindi world "pandit," which translates into "learned," and Webster's Dictionary defines "pundit" as "a learned man" or "teacher." When I think "learned," I don't think Rush, Sean, Bill or Weepy.), since their main job is to say anything that will secure them fame and a following, the behavior of elected Republican officials of late has amounted to nothing less than rancid red meat tossed out to the disenfranchised.

In ancient, pre-Clinton times, it was fairly uncommon for a politician to diss a sitting President personally. Once Newt Gingrich and his contract players slithered into office, however, it became the norm to take any kind of cheap shot at the Commander-In-Chief; the same sort of cheap shots that would have aroused holy Hell during Bush's Reign of Error if lobbed by Democratic politicians.

Beginning during the presidential campaign, the Republicans, at that point led by the McCain-Palinistas, have consistently taken the sub-strata road verbally; encouraging fear and loathing in terms of race, religion and even birthplace, thus stoking the paranoia of dim-witted white, God-fearing citizens who fear the loss of their majority status.

In the last two weeks alone, GOP snarkmeisters have attempted to smear Obama as everything from a dictator to a doormat.

House Rep. Eric Can'tor assessed Obama's reaction to the troubled auto industry thus, "It's almost like looking at Putin's Russia."

Mittens Romney blamed the current fiasco in Iran on Obama's "apology tour" of the mid-east. "It's very clear that the president's policies of going around the world and apologizing for America aren't working," he intoned, envisioning a magic wedgie.

Sarah Palin, the patron saint of victimhood, declared, "screw political correctness" before she warned of a Federal takeover of every state in the union. "We need to be aware of the creation of a fearful population," she said without any visible signs of irony, "and fearful lawmakers being led to believe that big government is the answer, to bail out the private sector, because then government gets to get in there and control it. And mark my words, this is going to be next, I fear, bail out next debt-ridden states. Then government gets to get in there and control the people."

For good measure, she opined, "Our government is supposed to be working for us. We are not to be working for our government. It's our will to be imposed on them."

She then burned a copy of "Elements of Style" and declared war on David Letterman.

Forever presidential candidate Newt Gingrich intoned that "(Obama) bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy." (This guy is amazingly perceptive.) He also declared, "I am not a citizen of the world." The world tweeted him back, "thanks."

Congresswoman Michelle "Bats" Bachman declared, "We have a gangster government."

And that's the polite stuff. I won't even get into Obama being a fascist, a terrorist sympathizer, a secret Muslim or an illegal alien.

Last April, the Department of Homeland Security issued a 10 page memorandum - ironically, prepared when Bush was still in office - warning against the rise of homegrown right-wing extremist groups. The memo was entitled "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment."

"Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely," the report read. "It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

It compared the current climate to the 1990s, "when right-wing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers."

It cited proposed restrictions on weapons as likely to increase membership in extremist groups and expressed concern the groups might try to recruit veterans.

The report also warned about a surge in anti-Semitism, saying that the bad economy and job losses could be exploited. "Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish 'financial elites,'" the report read. "These 'accusatory' tactics are employed to draw new recruits into right-wing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs."

The election of President Obama was also cited as a key recruitment tool. "Many right-wing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearm ownership and use," the report said.

It said that twice in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, "extremists appeared to be in the early planning stages of some threatening activity targeting the Democratic nominee, but law enforcement interceded."

The report said that "lone wolves and small terrorist cells" represented the nation's biggest terrorist threat because their low profile made it difficult to intervene before they act.

Of course, the right wing went apoplectic. RNC stooge Michael Steele honed in on DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, declaring the report to be anti-Republican. Said Steele, "This is the height of insult here. I mean to segment out Americans who dissent from this administration, to segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration, and labeling them as terrorists...to me, it's the height of insult."

Naturally, the paid conservative shills howled at the moon. Apparently forgetting to take a chill pill, Rush Limbaugh said that the report from "Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama" portrayed "standard, ordinary, everyday conservatives as posing a bigger threat to this country than al-Qaeda terrorists or genuine enemies of this country like Kim Jong-Il."

Many professional mourners saw the report as an attempt to quash the conservative tea-bag parties, where concerned citizens could gather and protest non-existent tax hikes and the deficit and illegal immigration and abortion and anti-gun groups and gay marriage and tree huggers and, uh, black presidents.

Michelle Malkin wrote a piece entitled "Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real," calling the memo a "piece of crap" that "demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party."

Sean Hannity dismissed the DHS report as "coming from a guy that started his political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who bombed our Pentagon and Capitol, and sat in Reverend Wright's church for 20 years."

For good measure, he added, "Now if you disagree with that liberal path that President Obama's taken the country down, you may soon catch the attention of the Department of Homeland Security."

At a tea-bagging extravaganza, Glenn Beck warned attendees "the government may need to watch you."

At another tea-bagger bash, Neil Cavuto scanned the crowd. "These are great people here. I wouldn't call them kooks or fringe."

Joe Scarborough summed it all up with the sage, "They're nuts. Janet Napolitano has gone nuts."

(Note: See definition of "pundit," paragraph four, above.)

And, in unison, conservative quipsters denounced the government for not singling out any violent, murderous left-wing extremists groups...because there aren't any. They gave it a good try, though, leaping into the Way-Back machine to talk about Jane Fonda and anti-war radicals from the Vietnam era and stuff. Oh, yeah. There are those eco-terrorists who kill...uh....property, real expensive property. In conservative circles that's apparently as bad as murder.

Six weeks after the DHS report and after the tea-baggers had gone home to simmer, pro-life militant Scott Roeder shot and killed Dr. George Tiller as the doctor acted as an usher in his Kansas church. Roeder was a follower of "Operation Rescue" and was a frequent poster on their web sites.

The paid shills weren't exactly outraged by the murder, shifting into "stuff happens" mode. Those who had singled out Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, prepared a massive dish of oratorical waffles for their audience. Leading the culinary non-mea culpa crowd was Bill O'Reilly who had dubbed the doctor "Tiller the Baby Killer."

Randall Terry, head of Operation Rescue, obviously knew he wouldn't be invited to the funeral when he noted: ""The point that must be emphasized over, and over, and over again: pro-life leaders and the pro-life movement are not responsible for George Tiller's death. George Tiller was a mass-murderer and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed."

So, boys and girls, if you think someone is transgressing an unwritten moral law you believe in, feel free to whack 'em. It all evens out.

Less than two weeks after Tiller's death, 88 year old neo-Nazi James von Brunn drove to D.C. and left a note in his car reading: "You want my weapons - this is how you'll get them. The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America's money. Jews control the mass media."

He then, fully armed, strolled into D.C.'s Holocaust Memorial Museum and shot and killed a guard, 39-year-old Stephen T. Johns, a black man. Von Brunn was then shot by other guards before he could target any of the museum guests.

The right-wing valiantly tried to dance around this twofer tragedy: a black man killed by a white extremist who was gunning for Jews. Michelle Malkin declared that the shooter wasn't "left" or "right," he was "just plain loony." Besides, neo-Nazis were actually left-wingers.

Yes, she said that.

As did Glenn Beck who bantered with a guest about that left-wing nastyman Hitler.

When examining von Brunn's anti-government stance, Beck concluded, "I guess that's extremist in the way Thomas Jefferson was an extremist."

Flagging the DHS report, Beck said, "This is not the work of right-wing conservatives. This is the work of somebody today who is racist, crazy or most likely both. Common sense tells you there are very hateful people on the right and the left."

Eric Erickson of "Red State" tweeted: "Holocaust shooter, like left wing bloggers hates Bush, Israel, the war, Christians, capitalism. the list goes on and on."

Rush Limbaugh theorized, "This guy is a leftist, if anything," later adding "Anti-Jew rhetoric...comes from the American left."

Tammy Bruce, whose main claim to fame is that she's not named Gidget, blamed Obama for the shooting. She refers to Obama as "Urkel." "When beasts among us get a sense that there is no leadership or you have a panty waist in the White House, and there are no repercussions to what you do, and that this nation is bad, those kind of people tell themselves they have permission to be crazy, to do what they want to do. Welcome to Urkel world. This is what it is."

(The above is also a good definition of right-wing punditry, by the by.)

As her IQ plummeted to sub-zero freezer range, Bruce also informed us all, "Bottom line: The increasing anti-Israel rhetoric and the pandering to the Jew-hating Arab world by the Urkel administration encourages all the beasts among us."

Don't look for Tammy on any computer matchmaking sites, soon.

Colorado talk-show host Bob Newman said the neo-Nazi could have been inspired, in part, by Obama "visiting a Holocaust site in Germany with Chancellor Merkel."

Talking head Jim Lacamp said, "We have an administration that's really done a lot of class warfare, a lot of class-baiting. And so, it sets the stage for social unrest."

But it probably was everyone's favorite fun felon G. Gordon Liddy who summed up the right's extremely thoughtful take on the Holocaust Museum attack. He tweeted: "maybe Rev Wright drove James W. von Brunn over the edge..."

More red meat, please. It's all you can eat night at Crazytown Cafe.

After the Holocaust Museum attack, some folks caught on to what was in danger of happening in this country should right-wing snake-oil salesmen continue to stir the pot for profit. Fox's Shep Smith revisited the DHS report stating "they warned us for a reason."

He also talked about the e-mail he receives as becoming "more and more frightening."

On camera, he stated: "There are people now, who are way out there on a limb. And I think they're just out there on a limb with the email they send us. Because I read it, and they are out there. I mean, out there in a scary place...I could read a hundred of them like this...I mean from today. People who are so amped up and so angry for reasons that are absolutely wrong, ridiculous, preposterous."

Smith was promptly denounced by Rush Limbaugh as being a whiner. "The Washington Post's" Eugene Robinson and "The New York Times'" Paul Krugman both published pieces that made the correlation between the paranoid bloviating of right wing pundits and the trickle down effect it has in galvanizing those who feel powerless at present. (Or "the beasts" as Gidget calls them. I mean, Tammy.)

Their views were either ignored or vilified.

So, because it makes money or because it might earn votes, the GOP mantras of hate, distrust and fear will continue, blissfully lighting fuses hither and yon. The fact that most of the claims made or warnings issued are based on pure fantasy won't matter to the wall-eyed.

The fact that all of this nonsense if carefully staged melodrama, sort of like wrestling, won't matter either. Earlier this week "pundit" Glenn Beck had a Q&A session online at "The Washington Post." He was promoting his new book, "Glenn Beck's Common Sense" ("Inspired by Thomas Paine"), so he kept his tinfoil hat tomfoolery to a minimum. He even said he was often the target of right wing extremists.

That was Beck performing for the mainstreamers. Here's Beck last month addressing his own brood: "Gun sales are going up through the roof. And let me tell you something, I really truly believe the reason why -- a lot of Americans aren't paying attention to this -- is because they...does anybody remember the poem, you know, first they came for the Jews and I didn't stand up because I wasn't a Jew? Do you know that -- from Germany?

"In the end, I think this is the problem. First, they came for the banks. I wasn't a banker. I didn't really care. I didn't stand up and say anything.

"Then they came for the AIG executives. Then they came for the car companies -- and I didn't say anything.

"Until it gets down to you -- most people don't see they are coming for you at some point. You're on the list. EVERYBODY's on the list."

Gee, I can't see any connection between this kind of cranked-up paranoia-for-profit and the actions of the eagerly addled, can you? I mean, who needs voices in one's head, when there's an affable dipstick describing your inner, twisted fears on the tube?

Beck then launched into a spirited rendition of "Tears of a Clown" while imaginary anti-First Amendment throngs shot invisible arrows into his torso.

For the record, this isn't a Free Speech issue. It's an Intelligent Speech issue. It's one thing for cranky Uncle Twitchy to sit at a family gathering and declare, "All liberals hate us! Someone should take care of 'em." You can hold out until dessert before rolling your eyes. It's quite another thing for Uncle Twitchy to sit before a camera or a microphone and offer the same assessment to five million people seated at the biggest children's table in the world.

Perhaps Charles Krauthammer inadvertently summed up the state of the zombiefied right-wing wall-eyed lone wolfies when he paid tribute to Fox News. Said Charles: "What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternate opinion. It created an alternate reality."

And in this alternate reality, Cheney is a sage, Muslims want to smooch your sister, Jews own the land you live on, fetuses will be put in a higher tax bracket, fascists/commie/socialist/gays are coming for your guns, escaped Gitmo terrorists will be running the Boy Scouts and Obama's New World Order will force everyone to watch nothing but minstrel shows and eat tofu.

And, most importantly, remember all you palpitating patriots: Soylent Green is people!!!

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22348

What would you expect the Republicans to do? It is all party politics and they are in the minority.

I don't want to read all this, but frankly, although stupid and childish to keep grinding salt in wounds, remember the Democrats were doing the same stupid garbage and games. I guess it keeps those folks busy and out of other trouble.

I'll keep my money, my freedoms and my guns. BHO and all his BNers can keep his change.

Thank God, not Allah, every time he opens his mouth, more folks wake up from trance.

aren't they one and the same?

Same god - the jesus 1/3, just different title.

Not really. Allah is considered, a god, not the God.
Is Allah the Name of God?

Allah is the name of the only God in Islam. Allah is a pre-Islamic name coming from the compound Arabic word Al-ilah which means the God, which is derived from al (the) ilah (deity).

The Arabic name for “God” is the word “Al-ilah.” It is a generic title for whatever god was considered the highest god. Different Arab tribes used “Allah” to refer to its personal high god. “Allah” was being worshipped at the Kaa’ba in Mecca by Arabs prior to the time of Mohammed. It was formerly the name of the chief god among the numerous idols (360) in the Kaaba in Mecca before Mohammed made them into monotheists. Historians have shown that the moon god called “Hubal” was the god to whom Arabs prayed at the Kaa’ba and they used the name “Allah” when they prayed.

Today a Muslim is one who submits to the God Allah.

Islam means submission to (Allah), but originally it meant that strength which characterized a desert warrior who, even when faced with impossible odds, would fight to the death for his tribe. (Dr. M. Baravmann, The Spiritual Background of Early Islam, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1972)

Many believe the word “Allah” was derived from the mid- eastern word “el” which in Ugaritic, Caananite and Hebrew can mean a true or false God. This is not the case, “The source of this (Allah) goes back to pre-Muslim times. Allah is not a common name meaning “God” (or a “god”), and the Muslim must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any other than his own peculiar deity.” (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (ed. Hastings), I:326.)

there are biased sites everywhere...whether it's for or against the president or whatever the situation might be

That's what I thought, thanks

In Comparitive Religion class in college ,the text book says "Yahweh" and "Allah" is the same god.

Why'd you change it? I thought the first answer was good.

I was afraid it would lead the discussion too far off topicPlus, no matter how in-depth I went in explaining it, I dont think it would change anyones opinion so I felt a simpler response was a better course.

I love when some left winger declares the demise of the right is at hand.

Its all part of the Draconians takeover plot

Its no declaration its a fact all the demographics show this to be true.

The right wing certainly does alienate a lot of different groups of people