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In recent days, conservative blogs and Twitter feeds have been ablaze with the latest craze, the posting of the message "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8."
When you look up the scripture in question it reads, "May his days be few, may another take over his position."
While this may seem to some like harmless eliminationist rhetoric used by the extreme right for laughs, the verse immediately following makes the message far more disturbing.
And before anyone excuses this toxic use of scripture as nothing more than the wish that President Obama not be re-elected to a second term of office, the next verse in the psalm reads, "May his children be orphans and his wife a widow".
In fact, the entire chapter is about the prayed for death of an evil person. Not to mention that anyone who knows enough Bible to have thought about this verse in particular, surely knows the entire chapter and appreciates its message. Pretty scary stuff
If West Virginia would like to start doing something to counter the stereotype that all of its citizens are illiterate, it could start by snatching Surber from his office at the Charleston Daily Mail, shackling him, and stuffing him into the back of a Cessna headed for Mississippi.
Some people don't like the use of insulting terms, but when you write about a mouth breathing, professional wanking fool like Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail, faithfulness to truth requires the use of such words.
Surber really is an embarrassment to West Virginia. If he ever left the state, the collective IQ of the population would rise significantly.
Even more hilariously, the article Don Bob slobbers over is a reprint of a blog post written by one Stanislav Mishin, a Russian lunatic who wishes that the Confederacy had won the Civil War. Not that Don Bob would have a problem with that.
So what is the momentous "correction" which the wingnut Russian blogger delivers to Obama and which Surber thinks worthy of a mention on his blog?
The head of the nation is the czar; his lieutenants are commissars.
Funny, but Don Bob either forgets to mention, or doesn't remember, that not only has Obama appointed czars but also George W. Bush - the best president ever since St. Ronnie - appointed drug czars, energy czars, war czars, and more czars than Don Bob could shake his pitchfork at.
And for a final giggle, read through Surber's quote from Mr. Mishin, and you'll see that Mishin refers to Bush 43 as Obama's "leftist predecessor." It makes you wonder whether Don Bob even reads the stuff he quotes.
The editorial views of the Charleston Daily Mail are guided by a rightwing fringe lunatic. Says something about the "news"paper.
The Charleston Daily Mail's mouthbreathing, piss-poor excuse of a human being Don Surber wrote:
Science cannot explain global warming
about a new study on why the planet was hot 55 million years ago. I'm surprised with Surber's "knowledge" of science, he doesn't argue the earth is only 6,000 years old so there was no way it was hotter before it existed. Surber and other rightwingers have latched on to the study as "proof" human activity causing climate change is a myth.
And yet, we are supposed to spend trillions of dollars capturing carbon dioxide based on a guess that apparently has no historic basis.
But I'll leave the Surber mocking to the professionals at Sadly No!:
Watching some of the high-traffic wingnuts "do" science is a guilty pleasure, particularly when "done" by folks like Ace o'Play-doh and Don Bob Surber, both of whose scientific backgrounds appear to have been mostly garnered from careful study of NCIS reruns. Usually, their pseudo-scientific expertise on climate change is applied to a news report that it snowed in Las Vegas, or a rare southern sighting of the abominable snowman in a shopping mall in Mobile, or melting polar icecaps on Mars where there are no SUVs. ("Explain that, libs!")
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Now, here's the money quote from the abstract:
At accepted values for the climate sensitivity to a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration, this rise in CO2 can explain only between 1 and 3.5 °C of the warming inferred from proxy records. We conclude that in addition to direct CO2 forcing, other processes and/or feedbacks that are hitherto unknown must have caused a substantial portion of the warming during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Translated into simple English (in the event that Ace or Don Bob Surber are moving their lips and scratching their foreheads while reading this post), the study doesn't say that carbon dioxide doesn't cause global warming. In fact, the study relied on "accepted" values for the correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global warming. The entire point of the study was that smaller increases might result in more global warming than predicted, particularly if there is a "feedback" process involved. In other words, it's not a question of whether the planet is fucked, it's a question of whether it may be fucked worse than we thought.
It's almost as if the editors of Science Daily had thrown down a banana peel in front of Ace and Don Bob and were hiding behind an office plant waiting for those two stooges, and an army of other wingnut bloggers, to slip and fall on it.
Surber is given editorial space by the Daily Mail to consistently put out inaccurate information for rightwing propaganda purposes.
Meanwhile, those of us who live in the real world have to deal with the fact that not only is climate change real and human activity has contributed to it, but the situation is most likely even worse than people suspect.
Sadly No! slaps around Don Surber so we don't have to:
Poor Don Surber. Apparently he's locked himself in his shack, barricading the door with various auto parts he found lying around his living room. He's sitting in a corner clutching a .22 in one hand and three bottles of Tylenol in the other. "Obama will have to pry the Tylenol from my cold dead hands," Surber keeps muttering to himself while pointing his rifle at the front door. Surber is certain that the FBI, the CIA, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, CNN, La Raza and The Poca, West Virginia Department of Park and Recreation are all amassed just outside his door, heavily-armed and waiting for the signal to burst through the door, guns ablaze, in order to take away his Tylenol.
Part of the reason why we keep returning to the deep well of the blog postings of this Pliny of Poca - other than to ridicule his personal appearance through the magic of Photoshop - is just that there are only a handful of wingnut bloggers who manage to maintain that perfect balance of laziness, stupidity and insanity that Surber does. In any given post, there are general only slightly fewer errors than there are vowels.
Facts are stupid and irrelevant to the likes of Surber - probably why he's banned our own CA_Berkeley and WV26003 from his comments. Can't have reality introducing on whatever fantasy Surber is freebasing.
But as TinTin at Sadly, No! points out, Surber apparently can't even bother to read the material he links to in his hilarious efforts to back up his delusional claims.
The sad thing is Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail thinks he's being funny when he suggests taxing AIDS sufferers to change behavior since he's a raging homophobe. So not only does he not recognize that people don't choose to be gay, he ignores that people can contract AIDS through other ways besides gay sex.
Surber better hope there's never a tax on stupidity or bigotry because there's not enough money in the world to cover what he'd owe.
Don takes another swipe at Justice Ginsberg, with potty humor, and by #8 cannot resist a snide aside about Mrs. Obama's fashion sense. He has a real grownup discussion with a commenter about glaciers. All in one day. Stay sexy classy, Don.
explaining the difference between the district court and the court of appeals.
There was the imitation of a Jesse Helm's commercial. Mark Halperin pretends his opinion still matters and wastes pixels on the intertubes before getting to the only one that will matter. Remember, this will be very good for John McCain.
Evidently Strawman Don doesn't like foreign law, except when he does. One comment suggests The Daily Fail's blogger may be nervous about war crime prosecutions. Because everyone knows Don has this legal thing down.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail newspaper OpEd writer and rightwing blogger Don Surber has the bottom feeders over at his blog all stirred up by claiming that Obama fans supposedly called WV voters "Toothless Gun-toting, Poor, and Ignorant". But it turns out that he's actually the one who trashed us!
Leave it to rightwing blogger Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail to encourage Democratic candidates to play the Republicans' cheesy anthem by serial adulterer Lee Greenwood, God Bless the U.S.A., over the music of rock and roll legend John Mellencamp, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who still writes great songs.
Greenwood, a draft dodger during the Vietnam war, wrote the song because he wanted to cash in on the patriotic fervor of President Ronald Reagan. He wrote the song for his love of green to cash in on the love of other people for the "red, white and blue."
Now I can see why a chickenhawk faux patriot like Surber loves the song but if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton play anything by Lee Greenwood at a campaign appearance, I'm writing in Alan Keyes' name for president.
Surber also suggested John Denver's Country Roads, which proves even a blind squirrel can find the most obvious of chestnuts.
Sadly, No! mocks Charleston Daily Mail rightwing bloviator Don Surber so we don't have to.
But Surber might want to know these alarming statistics before he spouts off in blind defense about coal-burning electric plants in West Virginia:
A quick look at asthma statistics in West Virginia shows the great need
for such an effort :
-- Approximately 8.5 percent of West Virginians currently have asthma. This equals approximately 123,000 adults and 31,000 children. (WVDHHR, The Burden of Asthma in West Virginia, 2007)
-- West Virginia children had the fourth highest prevalence of asthma in the nation in 2003. (ALA, Asthma in Children Fact Sheet, August 2006)
-- West Virginia adults aged 65 and older had the third highest rate of asthma in the nation in 2006. (West Virginia Health Care Authority, UB-92 data)
-- 19.4 percent of adults with asthma visited an emergency room or urgent care center because of their asthma in the past year. (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System)
Since Surber shows so little regard for the health of his own children, he'll probably disregard these inconvenient facts, too.
Did you hear the latest about right wingnut and Charleston Daily Mail blogger and columnist Don Surber? Does anyone know how he avoids prosecution? We're just asking.
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