More Proof The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
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More Proof The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
By Doug Patton
December 9, 2008
In the inmates-are-running-the-asylum department, too many cases are popping
up to ignore them. Here are a few modest examples:
At the state capitol in Olympia, Washington, Gov. Christine Gregoire (a
Democrat, of course), has approved the placement of an atheist sign for public
display next to a nativity scene. The sign reads: "At this season of THE
WINTER SOLSTICE, may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels,
no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and
superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. Placed by the Freedom
From Religion Foundation on behalf of its Washington State Members."
Tell that "hardens hearts" nonsense to the millions of Christian believers who
have been martyred down through history at the hand of atheist monsters like
Stalin and Mao. Personally, I wish I could get a little freedom from the
unbelievers who have so totally screwed up life in America.
In an unrelated Christmas story from the Netherlands, a gay group in Amsterdam
has organized a "Pink Christmas" festival featuring a nativity scene with two
Josephs and two Marys. The rationale for this bizarre display is "to increase
the range of options for homosexual men and women during the Christmas holiday
week" and to "encourage people to think about homosexuality and religion."
Just what I want to think about at Christmastime.
In Bloomington, Indiana, an undercover pro-life college student told a Planned
Parenthood "nurse" that she was 13 and had been impregnated by a 31-year-old
man. The nurse told the girl not to disclose her age or the age of the man.
She then encouraged the girl to lie and say that the "boy" in question was 14.
Apparently, local police, although they have been notified of the statutory
rape implications in this case, have chosen to do nothing to investigate
Planned Parenthood. They did, however, post extra security around the clinic
in case of a "pro-life backlash."
In Great Britain (which is no longer so great), Muslims have so cowed the
government that public schools have stopped teaching about the Holocaust. It
seems that a significant percentage of the Islamic population in the U.K.
(which is growing by frightening quantities) believes the same fairy tale
espoused by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- namely that the holocaust
never happened.
Also in England, the popularity of chaste pop idols like the Jonas Brothers
has not been exalted. In fact, girls caught wearing "purity rings," signifying
that they wanted to remain virgins until marriage, were forced to remove them.
Apparently, the authorities didn't want the slutty girls to feel ostracized.
In Congress, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), after having violated about half of
the federal tax laws, is staying on as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways
and Means Committee. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, the
king and queen of congressional oversight of the banking industry, are still
in charge of running their respective asylums. Frank, whose boyfriend ran a
prostitution ring out of the congressman's townhouse back in 1990, and who
more recently was involved in a homosexual affair with an official of Fannie
Mae, one of the bankrupt quasi-governmental entities Frank oversees as head of
the House Financial Services Committee, sees no conflict between his public
and personal life. Pay no attention to that little gay man behind the curtain.
Speaking of Congress, the heads of the so-called Big 3 auto manufacturers were
summoned to Capitol Hill for a little public flogging before handing them
their bailout money. Of course, they had to be humiliated further for daring
to fly in to Washington on their corporate jets (an admittedly stupid PR move
when begging for billions in public alms). The great irony here is that
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a jet available to her at all times as
well. Not to worry, though, because the auto makers have been so cowed that
they drove to DC in their own "green" vehicles the next time they came calling
with their hands out.
It's like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" meets "Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington." Except that Mr. Smith is in a straight jacket in a rubber room
while the loons run the asylum.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political
speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in
newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including
Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state
editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougp...@cox.net.
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