I live in central Illinois in a county that has been Republican ever since before Lincoln. I mean REALLY Republican. Amazingly and against all odds, in the last election, Obama won the county with a slim majority, probably due to the fact that there are two major universities in Bloomington and Normal.
The local newspaper, the Bloomington Pantagraph, has a web site of course, and on the site they allow readers to log in and comment on stories they run. Predictably, better than half of the comments are posted by Republicans. And these aren't your run of the mill Republican moderates. I'm talking bat-stuff crazy. I thought that some of you might be interested to see just how far from sanity some of these folks have strayed. Some excerpts below.
The stories don't stay active for over a few days so I don't have any examples of stuff that went out there during the election. But these folks don't let their loony juices grow cold. They've been simmering all this time and as we all know, when you let something boil long enough, the water evaporates and the sludge just keeps getting thicker and more concentrated. So the faithful few who have survived the boiling have had their hatred and bile strengthened to a toxic density. Try not to get any on ya.
In a story that ran this past week about "Earth Hour" these excerpts appeared.
From someone who calls themself Shechem:
Get real. We plan on turning on every light in the house and running (with the lights on of course) all of our vehicles. Carbon footprint? Some folks haven't a clue. Ask your Al Gore about the carbon footprint of his house or Nancy Pelosi and her personal jet flights.
And from Mel:
It is disappointing and frightening to see how effective the dictator wannabes have become at convincing people that all problems are real and critical if, and only if, the solution is increased power for government and the political class.
From real american:
lol. Hey Pantagraph, Stalin and Hitler would be so proud of you.
From Petera
Wow! Anyone ever see the pic of the Koreas taken from space? South Korea was lit up like Senator Kennedy on New Year's Eve. What wastrels! Filthy capitalists! The greens would throw up at the sight. Now, in the Peoples' State of North Korea the land was green--totally green. It was dark. Dear Leader had the people controlled so that at night no one could turn on the lights--assuming they had power available. Of course they did. They live in a Peoples' Paradise, where guards watch one another at the DMZ to forestall people jumping to the south.
Want to know what true power is for environmentalists? North Korea. All they need is their own Dear Leader. H-m-m-m,
From normalguy
ive pulled out my christams lights ( okay maybe i never really took them down yet) and will be lit up for this event. as my kid and i turn every light on and any needless appliance i can find
From BJR
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. Yeah, tree hugging!! Don't worry, after your great Lord Worhip Merciful Messiah enacts his cap and trade carbon tax we will all have a "lights out" party. No one will be able to afford electricity. Then we will get to share in the joy of how the Taliban live.
superdad2:
This whole global warming/save the earth b.s. may be the biggest scam pulled on the American public, with the exception of The Great Savior Obama being qualified to be President. This was all started by a few people with ties to a few companies to make a ton of money and you have all fallen for it. I'm going to celebrate by turning on all my lights and burning some brush outside. Wait, I already burned last weekend, guess I'll have to find something else.
And finally, my favorite from The Cat:
This is just another "greenie" feel good stunt. Between the environmental wackos (sorry for the redundancy again) and the Obumbler/Donkey marxist/fascists (another redundancy) we are headed toward a new Dark Ages. The Luddities in the environmental movement will have us living in hovels using dung for fuel and holes for toilets while the "government" will have us all as serfs to the leftwing elites. More "hope and change", lemmings. I’m going to "celebrate" like schaem with all lights blazing and all appliances going full blast. At least we’ll get to use our technology before the Obumbler/Donkey "cap and kill" zaps our energy resources. Obumbler lemmings that believe in the Global Warming God and his prophet, AlGore; SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!! Stupidly = "progressives"
As you can see, spelling and punctuation skills are in as short supply among these folks as brain cells. If this keeps up we're going to have to change the name of my home town from Normal to (Ab)normal.
Just a quick note: I'm running this diary very early on Sunday morning in case it's something that holds no interest for folks here. I don't want someone who has more important things to say to have their diary not get the proper time on the list. So if you don't like it, please let me know but please be kind.
Thanks