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link Whos the woman who fought Murdochs foam foe? – CBS News.

Well it’s about time.  One of the trademark antics of the left has been to ‘pie’ people they don’t agree with, typically those on the ‘right’.  How a guy with a pie plate full of shaving cream could have passed through security at a high level gathering of British MP’s  is another issue.  Must have not been on the checklist of dangerous items.  Pie plate full of shaving cream, “not on the danger list, carry on, pip pip”.

Rupert Murdoch’s wife can be seen in the video executing an overhead smash on the assailant and then turning the pie back on him.  Good on her. For the longest time, idiots from the fringe left have staged all kinds of juvenile stunts on speakers they don’t agree with in the mistaken opinion that the ‘punked’ factor will curry favour with their peer group…other idiots.   As the old saying goes, it’s all fun until someone loses an eye and while this has thankfully not happened, the real reason this stuff still occurs at all is because there has been no consequence to this behaviour.   Being hauled away by security people and getting a stern scolding  is not exactly a consequence.  What are they, 12? Getting slapped around a bit for perpetrating an assault on another  is a much more tangible risk to dufus behavior.  

If the perpetrators of the left’s puerile antics were exposed to instant consequences of their actions, it could get very amusing before it all ends.  What if the perps were made to eat soap, or write lines of penance on a blackboard 200 times, or wear a dunce cap?  What if their mothers dragged them out by their ears in front of a live studio audience?  In the best circumstance, a black trapezoid labeled “5 tons” would drop on them instantly a la Wile E Coyote.

If one cares to go back and do some research, it is never the normal people that perpetrate juvenile publicity stunts to shut people up. You never see someone dumping a bucket of offal on Michael Moore during his blatherings.  Bill Maher is free to spew any and all manner of vulgar rhetoric without anyone giving him a deserved bitch slap.  Now that I think about it, with all the ad-hominem, misogynist barbs hurled by Maher at Sarah Palin over the years, it’s a wonder Todd Palin doesn’t invite Maher up to Alaska for a boys’ weekend….just to chew the fat.

link Its not the end of the world when doomsday prophets get it wrong | World news | The Guardian.

There was no point in putting in the effort to comment about this until the fateful moment had passed.  So whew, here we are. Preacher Harold Camping was wrong.  Again. Good news for us.  Bad news for those who stopped bathing, brushing their teeth and who recently took out big loans.   It’s easy to dismiss this recent call for the apocalypse as just another quack job by some fringe nuts.  Until you read about how much money had been spent spreading the fear and the amount of people involved in the doomsday publicity.  From some accounts, over a hundred million dollars was spent to publicize the end of the world, not to mention the untold numbers of followers, new and old.

To most rational people, the level of interest in the campaign must have been a mystery.  Really?  One person was endowed  with the ability to foresee the future, or at least the end of the present?  As preposterous as this seems, how is it any different than any other religion?  Notwithstanding Stephen Hawking’s ruminations, whether  there’s a heaven or a hell may be up for debate, but it may be prudent to hedge your bets.  In the case of some faiths which promise a fixed number of virgins upon death, that claim may be iffier.  Certainly it would be discouraging for the women of that faith.

Still, even more preposterous is the idea that killing certain groups of people in real life will ingratiate you to the supreme poo bah in the next.  But in matters of faith, it’s hard to belittle anything that may give people structure and comfort.  Faith happens to be one of the good traits of human nature.

On the other hand, it’s hard to explain willful stupidity.  In matters of faith, proof is elusive.  In matters of ideology, the evidence is easier to discern.  At the moment, the ideological battle going on for the hearts and minds of the  U.S. voter being waged in the media  has never been more laughable.  Infinitely more stupid than the Rapture claims are the utterances from some media personalities who mysteriously still have jobs.  One of the more recent doozies is from Bill Maher, whose tenuous grip on sanity is slim indeed.  According to Maher, the GOP want a “misogynist, racist and homophobic presidential candidate”.   Hmm.  According to Democratic ads in support of the despised Obamacare program, Republicans want to dump grandma off her wheelchair over a cliff.  And how can we forget the articulate Alan Grayson who stated that the Republican solution to the health crisis is for people to die.  MSNBC talking head Dylan Ratigan says that Republican rhetoric is “based on abandonment of arithmetic and fact”.   According to an AFL-CIO union stooge named Damon Silvers, “republicans literally deny clothing to foster kids to give rich people tax cuts”.  We’re on watch now to see which GOP candidate will be accused of eating babies and small dogs. These are only some of the well known  loons that cater to the contingent of idiots who believe their pearls of wisdom…despite all evidence to the contrary.

Like the Rapture preacher, people are free to say whatever they want in a free society.  And like the Rapture congregation, people can believe what or whom they like when it comes to the media.  However, the sheer scale of naivete at best or stupidity at worst is frightening.  Even more frightening, they all get to vote.  Oy.