Keith Olbermann explains to Trump supporters that their leader is insane.

Really can't disagree with any of this.

Sarah Palin proves that Einstein's quote about insanity holds true.

Perhaps you remember that at the end of one of Palin's recent Facebook posts she wrote, or had written for her, the following: 

And stay tuned for the next step in finally shooing away the pesky numbskulls in what was once "mainstream" media. I'm going to do my part. I'll soon announce the most helpful, satisfying, exciting leap YOU can take with me as we help build America's future together.

We of course all had a chuckle at that, and I even made this joke at the time, " Uh oh, it looks like Palin might be ready to launch another Sarah Palin Channel for her five remaining supporters."

Well the joke's on me, because that is exactly what she did.

I present to you Sarah Palin.com.

It is essentially the same crap she posts on Facebook, only this time it's on a blog. (Which I thing we all know is way more legitimate.)

To kick it off she even advertised it on her Facebook page.

So Palin's attempt to undermine the "untrustworthy" MSM is to launch yet another online depository for her crazy batshit?

You know because that worked out so well last time.

Oh, we are going to have SO MUCH fun with this.

Restaurant employee finds proof for God in eggplant. So THAT'S where its been!

Courtesy of WTSP:  

When an employee at Gino's Restaurant in Baton Rouge cut into an eggplant Monday, he found "GOD." 

Chef Jermarcus Brady couldn't believe what he was seeing. "I saw a miraculous image formed by the seeds," said Jermarcus Brady. "It spelled out the word God!" Chef Brady has many responsibilities, one being cutting, salting and sauteing eggplants. 

"When you sliced into it, the pattern showed from the seeds that were forming in the inside the letters G-O-D as God," said Brady. "I couldn't think of anything. I just had to tell somebody to come look at it." 

Brady says he is no stranger to life's struggle, and his faith has gotten him through. He raised four kids on a limited income before becoming a chef. 

He says the significance of the rare eggplant seeds aren't lost on him. "Through the road, he's showing me that 'hey, I'm real' and that's the only thing I can depend on," said Brady.

Yep, I'm real, I'm all powerful, and the best way I can find to demonstrate that is to rearrange some seeds in an eggplant. 

Boy He sure does work in mysterious ways.

Personally I don't see how we could have doubted him once his son's image showed up back in 2011.

I mean some things are just irrefutable.

President Obama's new White House counsel compares the Tea Party to Jonestown. Surprisingly that does not go over very well.

So John Podesta, Obama's new White House Counsel gave an interview, some time ago it seems, to Politico, during which he said the following about the Obama administration:

“They need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress,” he told me. 

Whoops. 

Though to be fair the similarities between the group that followed Jim Jones into a cyanide Kool-aid mass extinction, and the group currently sacrificing the country on the pyre of obstructionism for obstructionism's sake, are hard to miss.

Podesta realized that this might result in some additional heat coming at the White House and issued this tweet:

In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment. I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) December 18, 2013

However if he thought that was going to be enough to satisfy the Teabagger, well he has another think coming.

Courtesy of USA Today:

Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, took offense with the Podesta comment. 

"If this is the attitude of the new White House, it's hard to see how the president gets anything done again," Buck said. 

Jenny Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, called Podesta's comments "despicable." 

"Any man who is so historically ignorant as to compare millions of Americans who cherish freedom with the macabre and mass suicide at Jonestown is unqualified to hold any position of authority," she said. "We recommend Mr. Podesta read a book on basic American history."

"Historically ignorant" my ass, Podesta is simply pointing out what can happen when a group of people start to follow a crazed madman (Ted Cruz), or mad woman (Palin), into the abyss.

You know what I say? Fuck em if they don't like the comparison!

If these lunatics don't like being compared to other lunatics in history, perhaps they should start acting less like lunatics. 

MIchelle Bachmann is an idiot, and possibly a traitor to this country.

Courtesy of the New York Post:

Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said. 

An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last week claimed Abedin’s family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked for a probe to see if she is helping the Islamist organization. 

The man was questioned by the NYPD and the State Department and has not been charged, sources said. 

The idea that a member of Congress would make such careless, and unfounded, charges against a member of the administration, which results in threats of violent against that person, should result in that member of Congress being impeached or charged with treason in my opinion.

Bachmann is a crazy person, but even THAT should not be used to defend these actions. And the people of Minnesota should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this horrible individual to represent their state.

Bachmann's insanity has gone on long enough and it is time for the people of Minnesota to take responsibility for their lack of judgement.

Morgan Freeman gets it.

Courtesy of Politico:

Actor Morgan Freeman is crossing his fingers that President Obama wins another term. 

“I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama,” Freeman said on “Tavis Smiley” on Tuesday. “…He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He has proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he’s managed to get accomplished in the face of so much pushback is amazing.” 

“The Shawshank Redemption” star added, “And I think — this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought — we’re going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't re-elect him because people on the other side of the fence scare me.”

Yes that is the point that I try to make time, and time, again.

No President Obama is NOT perfect.

Yes there are a number of things that I disagree with him about.

But the people who are now in charge of the Republican party are OUT OF THEIR FUCKING MINDS!!!

So how is there even a choice anymore?

And don't give me that third party candidate shit, because any vote that is NOT for Obama is a vote FOR insanity, whether you want it to be or not.

According to former Navy Chaplain homosexuality is the result of "gay demons" which can also possess animals. Oh, well that explains...wait what?

Former Navy Chaplain, Gordon Klingenschmitt, who founded lobbying group The Pray In Jesus Name Project, appeared on a progressive talk show this week to criticize President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage.

This is the rather startling exchange he had with the host David Pakman:  

“The problem is, nobody’s born a homosexual,” he said, explaining that all gay people are converted via “marketing” because the LGBT community “has an agenda” to “repopulate their population by recruiting the children of heterosexuals.” 

Klingenschmitt added that “anyone who’s studied” genetics knows that homosexuality is not an inherent trait, simply because LGBT people aren’t capable of reproducing and passing that genetic trait along. Though Pacman didn’t immediately challenge it, that’s a claim as bizarre as it is untrue, as scientists have long known homosexuality can be attributed to genetic traits and many LGBT people have reproduced thanks to the help of platonic opposite sex partners. 

“That’s what this whole marketing scheme for pro-homosexual movement is all about,” 

Klingenschmitt insisted, reiterating his point about repopulating the LGBT community. 

That’s when Pacman hit him with the science on homosexuality in the animal kingdom. 

“Let’s step back for a second, Gordon, and say okay, let’s assume you’re right that homosexuality among humans is only because of marketing,” Pacman countered. “What about in the 4,000 other species that have homosexuality? Because, as far as I know, they don’t have TV. They don’t have advertising. They don’t have the iTunes store to recruit people. How is it that humans are gay sometimes because of marketing, but 4,000 other species… Why? Is it something else?” 

“It is entirely possible — we know from the Bible, for example, when Jesus cast the devil out of Legion, he went into a herd of pigs,” Klingenschmitt said. “So, it is possible for demons or the devil to inhabit or invade animals just the same way they invade humans, and that causes the sin of lust.” 

Picture of gay demon. For you skeptics out there.

“So, what you’re saying is, in humans it’s marketing that makes people gay; in animals, it’s the souls of gay humans who have invaded the animals,” Pacman replied. “That makes them gay?” 

Klingenschmitt laughed and scratched his temple. “Well, I think you twisted what I’m saying there,” he said. 

“No, I don’t think I did,” Pacman responded. 

Backpedaling, Klingenschmitt explained that he believes marketing to be “related to the demonic, because the devil wants to recruit people into sin.” He added that even Pacman himself was being used by the devil to promote “the homosexual agenda.” 

“I don’t promote homosexuality any more than I promote being tall,” Pacman deadpanned.

Man there is SO much stupid in this exchange that I almost don't know where to start.

Essentially there is literally NO way to reason with a person who views social change, biology, and sexuality through the prism of Biblical superstition.

No matter which carefully researched, and scientifically sound facts you were to introduce, this individual would simply discount them because he sees the world as a child sees the world, broken up into simple categories of bad vs good, evil vs non-evil, and satanic vs godly.

With those definitions in place, especially as this person clearly sees himself as an instrument for for spreading the message of good, there is no way to communicate the ridiculousness of their argument.

Now Klingenschmitt is clearly a nutjob, but the rationale he uses to justify his seemingly insane world view is not THAT dissimilar from the one used by a large number of devout Christians to view the subject of homosexuality.

Take a look at this Facebook rant from a Kansas middle school social studies teacher:

"All this talk in the news about gay marriage recently has finally driven me to write. Gay marriage is wrong because homosexuality is wrong. The Bible clearly states it is sin. Now I do not claim it to be a sin any worse than other sins. It ranks in God's eyes the same as murder, lying, stealing, or cheating. His standards are perfect and ALL have sinned and fallen short of His glory. Sin is sin and we all deserve hell. Only those who accept Christ as Lord and daily with the help of the Spirit do their best to turn from sin will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There aren't multiple ways to get to Heaven. There is one. To many this may seem close minded and antagonistic, but it doesn't make it any less true. Folks I am willing to admit that my depravity is just as great as anyone else's, and without Christ I'd be destined for hell, if not for the undeserved grace of God. I'm not condemning gay marriage because I hate gay people. I am doing it because those who embrace it will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And I desire that for no one."

In other words homosexuality is just as much of a sin as murder. Now keep in mind that this is a man who teaches in the PUBLIC SCHOOL system, not a Christian school, and who has influence over the developing young minds of prepubescent children that have no idea how illogical his point of view is, or how out of touch it is with the way the world is changing.

And undoubtedly SOME of the people he has influence over are just now becoming aware that THEY themselves might be gay. Imagine how quickly those kids will stuff themselves back into the closet, and slam the door, when surrounded by this kind of insane homophobia!

I know that I sometimes take heat for challenging the Bible, or taking Christianity to task, but considering that it is where these people find their"facts" to support their disgusting point of view and their inspiration to attack people who do not fit their interpretation of normal, what choice do I really have?

I mean gay demons possessing animals, really?

What is the definition of insanity again?

I believe it was Albert Einstein who said "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

With that definition in mind, check out the frenzy of activity over at this Palin-bot site:

Texas Organize4Palin volunteers have arranged a charter bus trip to attend Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” rally in Indianola, Iowa, on Saturday September 3rd. 

Governor Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker at this event and many Palin supporters believe this will be the very day she will declare her candidacy for the 2012 election to defeat President Barack Obama.

Keep in mind that these same people were also CONVINCED Palin would throw her hat into the ring during her last book tour, and again when Glenn Beck came to Anchorage, and yet again during the premiere of "The Undefeated," and at various other times too numerous to mention.

Like miniature poodles running for the door every time they think they hear approaching footsteps, these idiots become excited every time Palin clears her throat, convinced that THIS time she will really do what they are breathlessly waiting on pins and needles for her to do.

What they still fail to realize, even though I have been selflessly attempting to educate them for almost three years now, is that Palin IS doing what MOST of us expect her to do.  Which is to continue faking a run for the office of President of the United States, while teasing these idiots into ponying up even more money for the opportunity to once again be disappointed that she did not declare.

Right now this whole thing seems like a crazy experiment in stubborn endurance, the goal of which is to see how long these people will dangle on the line with only a brief appearance here, or a pseudo political advertisement there to give them hope.

As much as I personally dislike what Palin is doing to these people, I have to admit that I find myself almost impressed that she has managed to successfully string along a portion of her once much larger group of supporters for all of this time. I don't know exactly what it says about her, or them, or celebrity-politics in general, but it has lasted far longer than I would have thought possible even a year ago.

And I once again have to say that I worry about the fragile emotional condition that will surely be the result once she finally cuts these people loose.

Can anybody really watch this woman and NOT think she is a complete moron? Updated!

Unbelievably Palin does not even get 23 seconds into this interview before telling her first lie.  It has yet to get below zero in either Anchorage or Wasilla.  Pathological liars lie about everything!

Now I am a guy, with all of the accoutrement's and bison-like body hair to prove it, but even I was offended by Sarah Palin's accusation that feminists of the 60' and 70's focused on seeing themselves as "victims" and that they send a message to young women that "society and men will hold them back and hold them down."

Now just let that roll around in your brain for a moment. 

Is it possible that Palin has NO idea what it was like for women before the Women's Rights Movement started on the long difficult journey toward equal rights?  Is it possible that this moron actually believes that things have always been as they are now, and that these pioneers are simply whiners?

Sarah Palin referring to herself as a "common sense, conservative, Constitutional  feminist" (Where is "feminism" in the Constitution?) is a slap in the face to the women, like my own mother, who worked demeaning jobs, sometimes two at a time, to raise their children in a world where their contribution was worth almost half the dollar amount that a man, doing essentially the same job, was worth to their exclusively male bosses. 

If those brave women had not stood up for themselves and demanded equal pay and equal opportunity Sarah Palin would not even exist.

Think about it.  If far more competent and capable women had not demonstrated that females could enter politics and do as well in that arena as their male counterparts, Caribou Barbie would not have been able to pageant walk and wink her way onto the national stage. 

I bet Gloria Steinem is kicking herself right now for opening the door to this idiot.

At the 3:30 mark Palin essentially allows everybody to see how little she understands or respects the feminist movement by characterizing the conservative women who emerged victorious during this last election cycle as "strong, powerful, smart, and adorable."  "Adorable?" 

Right now Susan B. Anthony is beating her head against the top of her casket in frustration.  What a complete joke.

Later Palin refers to the hard work of our "foremothers." But since she seemed to disrespect the "foremothers" of the sixties and seventies who could she be referring to?

Maybe we could just ask her.

"Can you name your favorite foremother Ms. Palin"

"All of them."

Of course, what was I thinking?

Is it too early to start drinking?  I mean it IS Thanksgiving.

Never mind I can get through this, only two thirds of the way left to go.

Sister Sarah also seems to have been laboring under the belief that Bristol was "too busy and too accomplished, as a seventeen year old daughter" to have sex? (5:35 in the video).  What in the hell does THAT mean?

Not to be too mean on Thanksgiving, but from what I can tell, having sex and getting pregnant, ARE Bristol's biggest accomplishment.  Let's face it, without having made that decision would she be getting paid for speaking engagements, or been given a spot on DWTS? 

Uh, nope!

Instead of giving thanks to God for her success on DWTS Bristol should be thanking Levi's raging hormones and condom-less penis. Now wouldn't THAT be an interesting prayer for Sarah to overhear?

Next up in the interview Sarah gives, I kid you not, parenting advice.

(My prediction for Sarah Palin's next book "How to raise an Oxycontin addicted, vodka guzzling, baby factory, in a Jim Jones style compound, for only 12 million a year."  Guaranteed to be a bestseller!)

At the 10:46 mark the Grizzled Mama rises up, manicured claws at the ready, to address poor little Willow's attempt to protect her family from the scurrilous attacks made by a young man on his own Facebook page, when he dared to write "Sarah Palin's Alaska is failing so hard right now."

Her description is that he was "blogging very, very negative things about the family?"  Which raises the question, is Sister Sarah unable to differentiate between criticism of her family and criticism of a television show?

The facts are, for those of us who recognize reality when we see it, that Willow went to this kids Facebook page, where he was expressing his opinion about a reality show to HIS friends, and started bad mouthing him in front of his friends and family. How is THAT defending your family against an attack?

I believe that Willow saw it as an attack because these children have been raised to believe that when anybody offers an opinion, even a fairly innocuous one, about them, or their family, they are essentially under attack.

For most people hearing somebody make a factual statement about you, or having them disagree with your point of view about something,  is no cause for alarm. But for the Palins it is time to fire up the ghostwriters, aim your attorney in their direction, and then top it off by going after their sexuality.

Now at the 12:30 mark Palin makes the comment, referring to Willow using inappropriate language in her attack on Facebook, that SHE needs to "guard my conversation more around my kids." Is she admitting that Willow learned to say "fuck," "shit," and call people a "faggot" from HER?

(From what I have heard about the language in that house I certainly would not doubt that, but I can't believe she would admit it on Fox News in front of her fans.)

Then immediately after saying how wrong it was for Willow to use that type of language Palin turns right around and brags about her kid being tough enough to take on the people "calling her little brother bad names and doing all that they can to discredit the family."

I have looked through the transcript of the Facebook back and forth several times and I cannot see where ANYBODY said anything at all about Trig .  (You can check for yourself here) So essentially Sarah lied about that fact just to gin up even more sympathy for her poor victimized family. That is truly pathological.

When Sarah asks out loud why they can't sue when stories about them show up in tabloids, the answer is because the stories about her family are usually true. And if they aren't completely true there is enough truth in them that they do not want to focus any more media attention in that direction.

Okay now around the 14:08 mark this interview dips into some truly bizarre territory when Queen Esther suggests that the reason why the world seems unjust toward their family is because "man has fallen."

"Man has fallen?" The reason Palin offers to Willow to explain why people call her family out on their lies and obfuscation is because of "Original Sin?"  In other words ALL of the Palin's difficulties are traced back to when that bitch Eve convinced Adam to take a bite out of an apple? "Holy misunderstanding scripture Batman!"

Gee and here we are wondering why Willow pounds down Vodka like a Russian sailor on shore leave?

If this clip does nothing else, it offers a bizarre look inside of a very troubled mind. One that sees demonic forces and Satan himself as barriers standing in the way of her aspirations.  And where the struggles of women, because they might be liberal, are of no value since all they really had to do was to stop seeing themselves as victims. In short it is the mind of a person with no understanding of why or how things are the way they are.  Only that when things go in her favor it is God's will, and when they don't evil is to blame.

It is an uneducated child's simple view of the world, not that of an accomplished and worldly adult woman.

I am always puzzled, after sitting through one of these insane interviews, how anybody with a functioning intellect could listen to her speak and still believe she has anything of substance to offer.

She is nothing more than a circus act.  There is no rabbit in the hat. The Alligator Man has a simple skin condition.  And the clowns are not really smiling.

It is all for show.  That is why the circus folk refer to their customers as "rubes."

Update:  Here is the transcript for those who cannot manage to listen to the entire interview.

Meghan McCain on Sarah Palin: "She’s either brilliant or insane." Hard to argue with that.

I don't always agree with the "man who unleashed the beast's" daughter on everything, but this time she is way ahead of the other pundits in realizing what Palin's strategy is concerning her run for 2012.

From the Daily Beast:

Wanna run for president? Quit your job, find a hot Hollywood reality-show producer, make sure your children also appear on hit reality shows, saturate every entity with tweets and Facebook updates on every conceivable subject. I dare anyone in the news to not report on one of her tweets. She doesn’t do interviews because she doesn’t need to. She can Twitter and Facebook away and then the press goes and reports on her tweets. It is so monopolized at this point that for me it steps dangerously into the realm of some strange science-fiction movie from the '60s. Saturate the American public until we forget that anything or anyone else exists or is even an option in 2012. There are no other choices, because, can’t you see, she is the only choice.

This is her strategy, and yes, she is running for president.

I have been saying much the same thing for weeks now, and am very gratified to see others starting to catch on.

However as frightening as the idea that Sarah Palin actually has a plan to get to the White House might be, the reality of how well that plan is working should ease any fears of its ultimate success.

First there is the reaction to her new reality show, the ratings for which set a fairly high watermark with its first episode, but then quickly plummeted once people got the chance to see the trainwreck up close and personal.

The second episode of the show also upset animal activists who did not view Sarah Palin playing with the still beating heart of a dead halibut as terribly Presidential, or even terribly human.

Palin's plan to garner support from Bristol's appearance on DWTS also did not quite work out as planned when her sycophants kept cheating the system to keep the oddly expanding, and completely undeserving young woman on week, after week in the place of far more deserving contestants.

In fact it became so obvious that ABC finally had to admit that their voting system was flawed and they might even have to revamp it for next season.  (Actually if they simply keep the Palins away they might be able to leave it like it is without any further problems.  I mean really, who else has fans this ethically challenged?)

Then we have the Grizzled Mama's new book.

The book quickly goes to Palin's comfort zone, the low road, by attacking Levi Johnston, President and Michele Obama, the "Lamestream"media, and American Idol?

And already the book has created a legal drama after Harper Collins filed suit against Gawker for posting pages from the book on its website ahead of publication.

"How's that First Amendment-y thing working for ya?"

So like Meghan McCain says, Sarah Palin has herself a plan.

Could it be a successful plan?

Successful? Really? What part of its "Sarah Palin's plan" don't you understand?

So to answer the question posed in the headline, I am going to go with "insane."

Sarah Palin discovers that Bill O'Reilly is just not that into her.

Fianlly! Somebody calls this idiot on her bullshit. Even hiding out at Fox News could not save her forever.

Damn!  Now I have to kind of give Bill O'Reilly a little grudging respect. That is going to ruin my whole evening!

I LOVE how she suggests that Obama should have reached out for help from the Dutch because they know how to build DIKES!  Does she really think this is a situation that calls for dyke building technology?

By the way 75% of her time as Governor was NOT "taken up by energy issues"!  75% of her time was taken up with her attempting to avoid work while hiding in her room, eating Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supremes, watching television, and scouring the blogs for negative posts about her.

Wow!  Look how manic she gets by the end of that interview! She is licking her lips, clenching her jaw, and blinking like a junkie tweaking on speed.  I wish the video did not end so abruptly because it looks like Palin was about to lose her mind in just a matter of seconds. 

Hey if any of you find a longer version of that interview please send it to me because I really want to see if her head ACTUALLY explodes or just ALMOST explodes.

Sometimes even Fox News gets tired of his insane blathering. Glenn Beck cut off in mid rant.

Gee I wonder how Beck will manage to blame this on Obama?

Oh my God, they have cloned her! Scariest picture you will see all day.

I have always wondered if I would know when I lost my mind. I guess I got my answer.