Speaking of right wing radicals, today is Red Mass. This is where the papist right wing Supreme Court forces U.S. government officials to get lectures from the pulpit of the Catholic Church in complete violation of the separation of church and state, though they deny it as if we're too stupid to see it for what it is. If there were any real justice the Catholic Church would be outlawed for the blatant rape of tens of thousands of children! It makes the Taliban seem thoughtful and compassionate.

Seems like the Left is mewling like scared kittens.

Jon Stewart and Colbert are doing road shows to stem the tide.

Meanwhile Obama swung right and appointed the guy who said the Left was unreasonable to the top position.

Even your friends are starting to dislike you, leftos.

@2 You wish! Typically deluded right winger. You and your ilk are just puppets of corporate thieves that want to keep the gravy train going so you can rob pensions and homes. You won't win.

@1 Oh God Vince, please stop being on my side. Please get as far away from my side as possible. I mean the Catholic Church is like the Taliban? Really? They brainwash angry disenfranchised young men into blowing themselves up in crowded places in order to slaughter as many innocents as possible?

For fuck sake; I'm no fan of the Catholic Church, being an atheist, but when we lose the ability to make basic judgments about the difference between the Taliban and a peaceful, if superstitious and often idiotic, organization, we're doomed to loose the debate.

And banning the Church? I constantly wonder how we got from the Left of the 60's to one so enamored with using the coercive, violent power of government? What happened to having a healthy skepticism towards ALL authority?

Fucking ridiculous.

I'm starting to get a little concerned about Vince. He used to kinda-sorta mostly make sense, but lately he's just been nutso.

Bailo, of course, has always been nutso, so no surprises there.

@4

I'm pretty sure that there has been the odd incident of violence here and there in Northern Ireland that had something or other to do with Roman Catholicism.

Which of course the Church condemned, but then again Islam is a religion of peace.

@7 I don't think the Church has been openly violent for a good five centuries. Then again I have no desire to defend the Catholic Church as some wonderful institution, only to make the point that the kind of histrionics that involve comparing the American Catholic Church to the Taliban (or say Obama OR Bush to Hitler) are not going to further any of the Left's social goals. It makes us no different than nutty Tea Partiers...

I was at Kos' talk--and his point was that the social objectives of America's religious right and the Taliban are eerily aligned, not their tactics... ("But at least we don't behead people", he argues, is a stone's throw from picnicking at lynchings--common practice as recently as 70 years ago...

In his view, (and I'll continue to inadequately paraphrase) it is our "nation of-laws"-ness is that separates us from the worst impulses of our homegrown Taliban, who STILL manage to fly planes into IRS buildings every now and again...

@4 Oh, yes, I see my error in thinking. It is much more kind to have your child repeatedly raped by adults you trust than to have them blown up. Pick your poison.