But yeah, when Fred Phelps calls you fair and balanced, you’ve got a big problem.

And Adolf Hitler was a German statesman, end of story.

The Journal-Gazette, as we’ve come to expect around here, didn’t drop the ball. In turn, Phelps & Co. picketed in front of the newspaper office where both the J-G and the N-S are published. As the N-S reported subsequently, Phelps was there to protest the J-G’s lies and to praise the N-S for being so fair and balanced.

While in town, Phelps also demonstrated in front of the Presbyterian and other churches, calling them “sodomite whorehouses” and “fag enablers,” but only the J-G reported these epithets verbatim while the N-S skated around these as well as godhatesfags.com. I pointed these facts out when I was called on my blog entry, only to be told that I had scooped the paper on what it hadn’t yet published.

The only thing more gratifying than landing a much better job was seeing the N-S having to eat crow just a few short months later when Phelps started agitating at military funerals.

SWIFT boat.

SHORT bus.

I do admit I figure what they do is the next thing to condoning or paying for swiftboating, and I think if they find a voting booth they’re voting for W or Huckabee. Once you disrespect gravesites there’s no going back.

Saddam: seriously long purgatory where he has to be towell-clad with Ron Raygun. Gerry Ford? Holy shit, he pardoned the spawnof Satan to be President. Well no hedidn’t actually The current sad excuse putsNixon to shame. Nixon never thought of signing orders.

Actually, these chickenhawk assholes never gave a shit for the Constitution, American Government, or a single US citizen. If nobody’s watching, they probably intend taking over. They do have it all in place.

Or they’re actually even too stupid for that. But they did pull the short boat thing. And Americans were that guttdom stupid.

Saddam Hussein

In 2003, before the fall of Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War, Phelps wrote Hussein a letter praising his regime for being, in his opinion, “the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets.”[49] Furthermore, he stated that he would like to send a delegation to Baghdad to “preach the Gospel” for one week. Hussein granted permission, and a group of WBC congregants traveled to Iraq to protest against the U.S. The WBC members stood on the streets of Baghdad holding signs condemning Bill and Hillary Clinton and anal sex.[50] After Saddam was hanged, Phelps released a video commentary that stated that both Saddam Hussein and Gerald Ford (who had died the same week) were now in Hell.

As is so often the case, Wikipedia is as good as it gets, per my knowledge of efforts to unravel the paper trail from Topeka by parties noted above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

The bottom line is that there’s Fred, his wife, the nine kids he still speaks to (no one is quite certain how many they had, but more than nine), their families, and other in-laws to the tally of 70 to 90 Westboro “members,” or perhaps “stockholders” in the touring company is a better term. There’s one couple and one or two others who are on board the Phelps train, but otherwise they’re all family.

Like the Gennaro family, but in their own way, scarier. I regret to confirm that Alex’s point is spot on: they’ve been loathesome slime for years at funerals of people they liked to mock, including theater people’s funerals because, well, you know . . . but until they went after military funerals, there was next to no police/security response from civic bodies.

Once they saw the TV cameras following the flag-draped coffins, the light bulb went on and the new act was rolled out, and suddenly we needed federal legislation. Hmmmmm.

I hope it is fair for someone like me to point out that Fred Phelps represents almost nothing recognizably Baptist (i’m not one, but still), let alone Christian. I’m not for Huckabee, but he doesn’t deserve comparison to this human excretion.

Add in the fact that he “doesn’t believe in” letting members marry outside of the church, which is almost entirely made up of his grandchildren and greatnieces/nephews, and you have something Sinclair Lewis couldn’t have dreamed up on a bender.

They could have inserted some acknowledgment the woman is assassinated. The more this story gets jerked around, the more it sounds like Michael Palin insisting the parrot is dead and John Cleese telling him it isn’t. But when you’re talking about sitting on nukes, maybe it’s not so funny. (Which was probably Terry Gilliam’s point in the first place.)

Aside from anything else, everybody involved swore there was nothing racial about the pursuit like a rabid dog of Barry Bonds (including reproters never prosecuted that leaked sequestered Grand Jury testimony) , but Roger Clemens, the Roid-Rage poster-child gets his day in court with 60 Minutes. Steroids can make you able to pitch when you’re hurt. Steroids never added an inch to a homerun. These are medical facts. So for the Michelin man white pitcher rthe jury’s out and for the black guy that looks just like Magic at the same age, he cheateId. I guess it was Barry that threw the splintered bat at Mike Piazza after almost killing him with a 97mph fastball about a week earlier.

It’s your country. It doesn’t exactly suck, but it sure as shit is not what anybody expected. if they actually read the Constitution.

I’ll explain,, if you like.

I understand the economics. So do they. They had to have a backup. They sure as hell didn’t print this before she died. NFW. Whatever history says, Musharraf killed her and he did it for whatever AQKhan passes his way. That’s what I think. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m pretty sure I’m not.

Shipping this when the only guy in the world, who’s a catspaw for AQ Khan, that wanted her murdered, that’s Bushian.