Ummm,... well, how many Melanie Austins are there and are they multiplying or just a background constant noise? I detect a significant uptick of once fairly normal people now worried about Obama's socialist Muslim-led invasion to steal our guns and rights. And the ability to suspend disbelief and swallow any old farfetched theory whole-hog seems to be on the rise as well. Of course people were imagining Bill & Hillary knocking off dozens of their closest acquaintances 20 years ago, but it was still called "conspiracy theory" at the time. Now these things have to be treated as "political opinion", much like creationism/"intelligent design" vs natural processes in schools - we have to give the completely unfounded, unscientific, unjustified equal footing with that which has been well vetted (even if science is about steadily learning new things about our universe and environment and discarding once-cherished views - there's still a reasonable rigorous process inherent to the field - or once was)

It's worth reading this article on America's belief in creationism and thinking about how that affects what people believe about politics - rather than a cooperative process and creatively destructive process to get things done, instead it's a benevolent dictator waving a wand and things just pop up. It's the daddy syndrome vs. a million blades of anarchist grass and weeds and such. Its right and wrong pre-ordained, rather than a competitive marketplace of ideas. When we say Democrats tend to be more secular, we're really saying they have a completely different framing for looking at the world. If we talk about a wall to keep out immigrants, Democrats are probably thinking quotas, public policy, effects on the economy, logistics. Faith-based voters are thinking about the apocalypse, good-vs-evil, effects on beliefs. There is a complete disconnect in how we think about it, so of course a complete disconnect in what should be done. Now, how do I explain away the lack of attention to "love your neighbor" and all that New Testament stuff? Cause the soapbox preacher was always more effective bringing on fire-and-brimstone. Jesus and his forgiveness is personal; Jehovah is for all the rest. "Do unto others..." is really shortened to "do unto me" - texts better that way, fewer strokes.

Yeah, it's the gay in him that brings out the lizard in them - are they ride-alongs or actual lizard possessed? Was Roswell aliens or lizards or lizard-aliens? I saw this documentary a few years back, explained the evolutionary split:

Full version here (for now)

Wow, incredible. The whores come out to defend one of their own. Stigmata and sniffles coming out of ... wherever. Burroughs wrote a story, "The Man Who Taught His Asshole to Speak". The uninitiated call this a miracle; those in the know attribute it to sweat and vigor. Whose asshole is he? His own and everyone's. I feel in a communion kind of mood - come drink the koolaid.