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Now It’s On…

by John Cole|  August 19, 201012:02 pm| 27 Comments

This post is in: Bring on the Brawndo!

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Thanks, idiots, for making us the laughingstock of the world again over this Park51 community center in Manhattan:

PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.

Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.

The issue is forming a dividing line in advance of November’s mid-term congressional elections with candidates being forced to declare whether they have ever been to a library or spoken to someone who has books in their home..

“Almost 40% of Americans still support the idea of books…”

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  1. 1.

    MattF

    August 19, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    But I really like the idea of the BRAINS party vs. the NO BRAINS party.

  2. 2.

    Kryptik

    August 19, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    The jokes on them, we’re still the most militarily powerful nation in the world! We’re not a monkey with a gun, we’re a monkey with a fucking m-16! Eat that! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hahahahaha! Heheheh….heh….

    **sigh** Goddammit….

  3. 3.

    Nom de Plume

    August 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    To paraphrase Chris Rock, if you want to keep Sarah Palin from stealing your money…put it in your books.

  4. 4.

    Kryptik

    August 19, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    @Nom de Plume:

    That’s a horrible idea.

    I mean…what happens when they start the book burnings?

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 19, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    David Broder’s column today explains that the Republican Party is completely off the rails, and this is all Barack Obama’s fault, because of the “panicked” walkback (that didn’t happen). The old fool devotes half a column to the (non) mosque controversy without ever using the words “gingrich”, ‘palin’, or ‘foxnews’, and half to the broken Senate, which after two years he apparently just noticed. Not even a shadow of a hint of a clue about his own complicity in all of this.

  6. 6.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 19, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    I invite all Americans to join me in converting their cars into Mosquemobiles(tm) which can be parked anywhere there is a Republican ratfucker that needs some perspective.

    You can do this as simply as purchasing a prayer rug — which can be quite a beautiful accessory for your car or ensemble — and using it to pray wherever you are.

    Republicans take notice, the Mosquemobiles are coming for you.

  7. 7.

    GambitRF

    August 19, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Once again, the liberal media smears Sarah Palin. The only reason why she doesn’t want the library built is because it would obscure her view of Russia.

  8. 8.

    matoko_chan

    August 19, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    conservatism==selection for stupid
    quod erat demonstrandum

  9. 9.

    p.a.

    August 19, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    ‘Ignorance is Strength’. so Orwell’s pessimism was a generation early… but the $64,000 question is when will (in Digby’s phrase) the Republican Big Money Boyz try to put a lid on teh crazy? and can they succeed? (see Indiana under the 1920’s Klan, Germany 1933).

  10. 10.

    Onkel Fritze

    August 19, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    @Kryptik:
    No problem. Just use coins.

  11. 11.

    Alwhite

    August 19, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    @DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective:

    During from his last ToD my son got a Koran & has been studying it. He is fasting this Ramadan. He was affected by the people he fought for & against. Maybe Muslimobiles is not such a crazy idea.

  12. 12.

    Violet

    August 19, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    It’s awesome that people are laughing at us for this. We deserve it.

  13. 13.

    El Cid

    August 19, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    “Making us”? What the fuck do you think the other nations thought when we re-elected George W. Complete God-damned Idiot Violent Fuckwad Bush Jr.? And had Sarah Fucking Brainless Bitter Incomprehensible Hag Palin as a VP nominee?

  14. 14.

    matoko_chan

    August 19, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    @Alwhite: arabic was my gateway drug to the Qur’an….. tell your son ramadan mubarak! from a sister.
    :)

  15. 15.

    Rosalita

    August 19, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    @El Cid:

    FTW!

  16. 16.

    soonergrunt

    August 19, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Number of Americans Who Think Obama is a Muslim Nearly Doubles

    We deserve to die as a country and as a species.

  17. 17.

    matoko_chan

    August 19, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    @soonergrunt:

    We deserve to die as a country and as a species.

    nah, just homo sapiens conservitanus. and they are extinct already…..its just the auxillary brains in their dinosaur hips didn’t get the message yet.

  18. 18.

    Trinity

    August 19, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    @Rosalita: Ditto.

  19. 19.

    Cat Lady

    August 19, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    Wayne Hayes, a pig masseur from Coontree, Virginia, said: “I is so angry right now.
    __
    “It’s like something is on fire right in the middle of my head. Like I’ve eaten a real hot chilli, but it’s gone up my nose tubes rather than down my ass tubes.”

    And that should be the epitaph on America’s headstone, right before “killed by a narrative arc” and after “too stoopid to live”.

  20. 20.

    Davis X. Machina

    August 19, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    @p.a.:

    Ahoy, all you Aristoltelians!

    Ignorance is strength.
    The US is a superpower.
    Ergo…..

  21. 21.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    @soonergrunt: Benen and others have a theory that because the dissatisfaction with Obama is growing, his detractors want to call him the worst thing possible–which, sadly, is becoming Muslim.

    That article is very funny, but ominously real-sounding. I needed a laugh after wading through the Dean clarification thread below.

  22. 22.

    Gen. Jrod and his Howling Army

    August 19, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    I think America is more of a chuckling-nervously-while-glancing-around-for-escape-routes-oh-shit-there-are-none-shit-look-calm-smile-nod-oh-shit-oh-shit-stock.

  23. 23.

    TaMara (BHF)

    August 19, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    @Kryptik: Unfortunately, that’s not just a joke:

    Quran Book Burning Permit Denied

  24. 24.

    valdivia

    August 19, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    funniest thing ever.

  25. 25.

    AlCo

    August 19, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    I oppose the library: Palin’s cranium is hallowed hollowed ground…

  26. 26.

    Anya

    August 19, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    @soonergrunt: How does that happen? Those who thought before that he was not a Muslim found some facts to back that claim. I am beginning not to believe these polls. What do they ask people and is asking the question itself putting ideas into low information Mr and Mrs Smith’s head.

  27. 27.

    Tone In DC

    August 19, 2010 at 5:04 pm

    @AlCo:
    VERY hollow.

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