At first I thought it was an elaborate joke, but it didn’t take long to discover that it’s actually a still from a new Tea Party sponsored documentary (I use the term loosely) which basically seeks to establish that Krischun ‘Muuurkha = Good, and Left Wing Soshalism = EBUL.

Strap in folks, it’s about to get crazy:

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And now it’s going to get even crazier:

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The guy in the second video is such an obvious liar that it’s a little bit painful to try to watch all the way through, but do your best.

The religious right accusing everybody else of historical revisionism and promoting an inclusive mind-set… The irony burns.

As we approach the next election, the examples are worse. Chuck Norris? Seriously? Seriously seriously?

But somehow the worst is Victoria Jackson. She’s just so … baffling. She’s playing a ditzy blonde character while ranting about Tea Party talking points. Is she joking? Is she serious?

Julia Sweeny, who has apparently been a target of Jackson’s, believes that she’s serious. Or to put it another way, “She’s not Andy Kaufman,” so she’s not yanking the audiences’ chain. She wants the laughs she gets from her “dumb blond” character, but also believes the opinions that character is spouting.

Sweeny considers how counterproductive Jackson’s style is:

To me it would be like, like if there was a “comedian” who’s character was a Marxist-Leninist. He wears a beard and small round glasses and all black and he says things like: The Government should own all the land! People should not be allowed to own any money! Free Enterprise should be stopped!

And then he has a soap box that he carries around with him, and he puts it out there – and it even says “Soap Box” on it, and he gets on top of it and yells and gesticulates like a cartoon of communism.

And he’s on talk shows and everyone laughs at how nutty he is.

Only he really believes what he’s saying. He may be somewhat confused about why people are laughing. But he doesn’t care enough to analyze it, he really just wants the laughs. He hears the laughs, and he’ll happily take the laughs.

Now, wouldn’t you have a certain contempt for this person?

That makes Jackson sound like she’s desperate for the attention, not matter what kind of attention. But in playing both self-mocking comedian and pundit at once, she’s doing more damage to her side than anything else. Which, of course, means that I hope she keeps it up.

I guess Wooden has never had oral sex, ’cause sperm can’t germinate there, either. Oh wait, I bet he has.

What an ignorant moron.

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You might have already heard about this, but if not, it’s worth a laugh. Ed Young, a mega-church pastor, is staging a publicity stunt where he and his wife stay in bed for 24 hours on the roof of his church.

Talk about a bunch of weirdos:

To encourage members of his congregation and others to take part in what he calls a “sexperiment,” Dallas pastor Ed Young and his wife Lisa began staging a “bed-in” on Friday morning, laying in a bed on the roof of their Texas church for 24 hours.

They say they want to illustrate that sex begins in heaven.

“It’s time to put the bed back in church and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,” says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Church.

While in bed, the Youngs plan to have bedside interviews via skype with various pastors and friends to “discuss tantalizing truths about sex as God intended,” according to their website.

“God said that we are to make love within the beauty and the covenant of marriage,” says the pastor.

Right. Well, whatever floats their boats.

A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews has prevented some women from voting in local elections in Jerusalem. It’s the latest step by the extremely pious Jews to try to force their practices on others.

Israel’s Channel 2 TV video showed the men screaming at a few dozen women, demanding that they leave a voting station Wednesday. Then the men pushed them away.

The incident happened soon after Jerusalem’s secular mayor, Nir Barkat, left the station after speaking out against gender discrimination.

Recently Israel’s ultra-Orthodox minority have become more active in trying to impose gender segregation beyond their communities. Women have been forced to the back of some buses that serve their neighborhoods.

The vast majority of Israel’s Jews object to such measures.

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Via Joe.My.God.

“Don’t try this at home – unless it’s the Lord.” Thanks, Rick, now as soon as God shows me his ID …

Get it? Pain in the… nevermind.

On the other hand, they’re both mythical creatures — so I guess this is perfectly appropriate.