Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally was - as he promised - a strictly non-partisan, non-political event. There were few if any signs or banners although a great many folks proudly wore their Tea Party shirts and carried Gadsden flags. If anything, the event had the distinct flavor of an old-time religious revival meeting, with Beck as Billy Sunday - or was it Elmer Gantry?
Anyone who paid close attention to Glenn Beck in the past month or so could not help but conclude that something momentous would occur on August 28 of this year, something astounding and transformational, something that would sweep across America like a silent and invisible tsunami of metanoia - changing the hearts, minds and souls of all Americans in the course of four hours.
o here we are, nineteen months into the first (and very likely ONLY) term of a Presidency that historians will later explain was so awful it made Jimmy Carter look like Ronald Reagan and I'm left wondering why more Republicans aren't asking voters if they are better off now than they were four years ago. Here is where we stand:
The results of the Republican primary for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat currently held by Alpha RINO John McCain are a done deal: J-Mac trounced Tea Party favorite J.D. Hayworth - an admittedly flawed candidate, but one who nevertheless could have been trusted not to play footsie with the Democrat Socialists across the aisle in Congress and, in the process, sell out his state, his party and his integrity for the accolades of the Beltway Establishment.
Proof - as if it were necessary - that, in addition to being an extraordinary huckster, Glenn Beck is an idiot. In a fit of masochistic pique this morning, I tuned into the Huckster's radio program. As I listened to him alternate between apocalyptic sermons and gigglefests with his obsequious, equally moronic co-hosts I felt like I was eavesdropping on three college sophomores yukking it up over lattes in the university snack bar during finals week.
By this time, most informed readers are aware of the growing backlash - both in New York City and the rest of the country - against the proposal to construct a 13-story Islamic community center two blocks' distance from Ground Zero. Increasing numbers of unionized construction workers are closing ranks in their vow to boycott the project. (I wonder how many of them will be able to find work again if and when the center is completed).
Strictly speaking, tasseomancy is a form of divination that involves peering at the tea leaves remaining at the bottom of a cup and then interpreting the pattern in a manner that enables the soothsayer to foretell the future of the person who drank the tea. These days, it is less a reference to divination than it is a colloquial expression analogous to "read the handwriting on the wall."
What makes this video depressing is not so much the mindless, knee-jerk statism of Congressman Stark - who apparently never read the U.S. Constitution - but the fact that the idiots, ignoramuses and lunatics who populate his district will doubtless re-elect him even after he assumes ambient temperature. Behold the progeny of gerrymandering.
On December 23, 1776 - when General Washington was preparing the rag-tag remnants of the Continental Army for a final, desperate, attack on British and Hessian forces in Trenton, NJ - a revolutionary hothead named Thomas Paine published an incendiary tract in which he exhorted his fellow Americans to rise up and overthrow the yoke of British dominion.
Better yet...how about locking up your wrinkled, sorry, senile ass in an old folks' home where you can share a room with Abe Simpson? *SIGH* There was a time when Andy Griffith possessed the kind of down-home wholesomeness America both admired and envied in the likes of Jimmy Stewart who, thankfully, passed away before senility could ever tarnish that lustre.
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