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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 01:52 PM
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Is "Blogs4Brownback" a joke?
That's what Raw Story says. They claim that it has devolved into a parody blog, and that Olbermann, ThinkProgress, Andrew Sullivan, etc. have cited posts and comments from there.

Funny thing is, the blog's owner says it's not a joke.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/You_must_be_joking_Suspected_rightwing_1105.html

In August, the blog recommended that Lindsay Lohan should be shipped to Guantanamo "for public drunkenness, for obscenity, for failing to strap her chest down..."

Later, they ran an eye-grabbing headline that "Anime Encourages Murder."

And then, last month, a brutal condemnation of the game Donkey Kong, "in which a monkey kidnaps a young girl to satisfy his bestial desires."

Are these people serious?
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 01:54 PM
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1. Yes, they're serious - that's the mainstream of the Republic party
and, shouldn't they be scolding themselves for noticing that Lindsay Lohan's hooters weren't properly "strapped down"

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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 02:14 PM
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2. I'm pretty sure it's a joke
at first I did not - it's very well-executed satire, imo. I read a lot of that site, and eventually started to change my mind. And I think their claim of it not being a joke is part of the joke, much like with Colbert.

I could be wrong though - I do know some people who fit that mold, unfortunately.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 04:27 PM
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3. Parody, I think, but well done
Take this example:

Science, being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, tells us that atoms are composed of positive parts, called protons, negative parts, called electrons, and neutral parts that are incapable of moral decision, called neutrons. As usual, when scientists tell you something, you can usually find the truth if you look in the opposite direction. What scientists label “positive”, the protons, actually- by their own theories- huddle in the center of the atom, slothful and lazy, sheltering the morally timid neutrons. The ones who go about, energizing things and spreading the Gospel, are the electrons. This leads me to believe that electrons are actually the positive moral force here, not the lazy, good-for-nothing neutrons and certainly not the vile, wicked, electron-counteracting, equivocation-enabling protons.

Electrons are the positive force in the atomic world. They are God’s servants. What, then, could they be, if not angels? Doesn’t this explain how the Lord is at work in every piece of technology we currently operate? Electrons power them all; ergo, the Lord, through the direct intercession of His servants, the angels, powers it all. It also explains smiting; thousands of angels come down from the Heavens and enter the skulls of the evildoers.

http://blogs4brownback.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/angels-and-atoms/
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