Bachmann is concerned about the rise of the SOVIET UNION

[IglooDame]

Just heard that Michelle Bachmann is calling the 5.8 quake on the East Coast today "The Obama Earthquake".

Sorry, I gotta call BS on that one...

 

[Formaldehyde]

There are apparently a lot of Twitter jokes and satire flying around regarding DC and the earthquake.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-phillips/first-responders-in-dc-ne_b_934434.html

America's major news outlets worked tirelessly throughout the afternoon to broadcast real-time updates on the absence of anything worth reporting following a magnitude 5.8 earthquake epi-centered just 90 miles from the nation's capital. The quake was felt from Philadelphia to Boston and in the words of MSNBC's Martin Bashir, Mahthuh's Vin Yawd, where President Obama is vacationing to the consternation of hotheads and Hillary Clinton supporters.

Sources close to the President reported that he and Mrs. Obama intend to keep their plans to accompany Sasha and Malia on a planned excursion to The Green Room to peruse the Stephenie Meyer collection.

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the city's population to stop calling 911 unless they had real emergencies to report. Bloomberg added, "And while I'm up here, I'd like to take this opportunity to distance myself from anything David Letterman ever said."

Only two Republican presidential candidates chose to comment officially on the quake. Michele Bachmann told a crowd of supporters in Wamsutter, Wyoming, that "Anyone who didn't know there were faults in Washington hasn't been paying attention," adding, "This is most likely an act of God, one that He has been waiting to visit upon us for our iniquity since we elected a Muslim to the presidency."

Texas Governor and Just For Men spokesmodel Rick Perry released a written statement, surprising journalists who doubted he could write. In it, Perry cited his state's policy of teaching alternatives to accepted plate tectonic theory. Perry claimed, "Texan kids have a choice. They can believe the 'scientists,' with all their molten core and fractured crust hoo-ha, or they can believe that God, in His wisdom, has sentenced a race of orcs to inhabit the deep and that they, during times of terrestrial unrest, amass great armies beneath our feet that would unleash upon us the fire and anguish tempered in their hellish crucible."

Putative G.O.P front-runner Mitt Romney did not comment upon the event, which surprised pundits insofar as only by comparison to Bachmann and Perry could a guy who believes in magic underwear seem actually rather sensible.

 

[BasketCase]

Yeah and Michelle Bachmann isn't as radical as Cotton Mather but what kind of standard is that?

A very straightforward one. Radicals consider elections to be merely tools used to control the people; radicals therefore prefer to work outside the system and have a tendency towards violence. Michelle Bachmann does not.

If religion is apolitical, why is there such a thing as the "Religious Right"?

That label was invented by the left.

Religion is apolitical.

Amen to that. Give to the poor. Love your fellow man. Avoid violence. Love the sinner. Those are some ways in which Christianity is liberal rather than conservative. Christianity is a random hodgepodge of Republican and Democratic campaign planks.

 

[Traitorfish]

A very straightforward one. Radicals consider elections to be merely tools used to control the people; radicals therefore prefer to work outside the system and have a tendency towards violence. Michelle Bachmann does not.

That strikes me as being very close to tautological. (Also contrived ahistorical nonsense, but we'll take this one step at a time.)

Because that label was made up by the left.

The question was whether or not this political bloc exists, not what your opinion is on any given label. (And let's remember that one of the traditional names for a right-of-centre European party is "Christian Democrats", the most famous examples being in Germany and, historically, Italy, so it can't possibly be argued away as some left-wing invention.)

Amen to that. Give to the poor. Love your fellow man. Avoid violence. Love the sinner. Those are some ways in which Christianity is liberal rather than conservative. Christianity is a random hodgepodge of Republican and Democratic campaign planks.

You seem to be confusing religion as something which you personally subscribe to with religion as a social phenomenon, which is really what the originally issue was. By your usage I could quite easily claim that "Marxism is apolitical", if I happened to adhere to a detached, purely analytical form of Marxism.

 

[Mise]

Sorry, I gotta call BS on that one...

I may have made it up. It could be true for all I know.

P.S. Democratic senators have defended the Obama administration, saying, "We inherited this earthquake ... Without Obama's intervention, it would have been an 8.9, and not a 5.8."

 

[Leoreth]

The question was whether or not this political bloc exists, not what your opinion is on any given label. (And let's remember that one of the traditional names for a right-of-centre European party is "Christian Democrats", the most famous examples being in Germany and, historically, Italy, so it can't possibly be argued away as some left-wing invention.)

Though it has to be noted that these parties traditionally had strong roots in social welfare as well (out of Christian motivation). Parts of that have been forgotten, became unfeasible because the Social Democratic parties became less radical or became so ingrained into the European conception of a state that they've become natural for these parties, even though the American right would be up on the barricades against it.

You seem to be confusing religion as something which you personally subscribe to with religion as a social phenomenon, which is really what the originally issue was. By your usage I could quite easily claim that "Marxism is apolitical", if I happened to adhere to a detached, purely analytical form of Marxism.

Which is true, isn't it?

I may have made it up. It could be true for all I know.

P.S. Democratic senators have defended the Obama administration, saying, "We inherited this earthquake ... Without Obama's intervention, it would have been an 8.9, and not a 5.8."

 

[Traitorfish]

Though it has to be noted that these parties traditionally had strong roots in social welfare as well (out of Christian motivation). Parts of that have been forgotten, became unfeasible because the Social Democratic parties became less radical or became so ingrained into the European conception of a state that they've become natural for these parties, even though the American right would be up on the barricades against it.

That's true. Christian Democracy is an example insofar as it represents the local centre-right, rather than because it actually analogous to the position held by Bachmann, who would probably accuse them of being communists.

Which is true, isn't it?

Well, as I said, you could certainly argue as much.