Monday potpourri.

Lots of over-dramatic analysis this week:

from occupied ga:

[Sotomayor] is an anti-gun statist who believes in racial inequality - a hard core leftist. She is a greater threat to us and our way of life than Pol Pot or joe Stalin ever were.

Talisker

The Left will not be defeated until it is universally understood that they do not want to "win," nor do they want to "teach" a better way - what they want, pure and simple, is that anyone who disagrees with them be killed. In this they are identical with Muslims.

That's why arguing with a liberal is so futile, and why you can almost see the liberal laughing at your efforts - they can't believe you don't understand what they really stand for, and how they absolutely don't give a damn about the truth of anything. To a liberal, anyone who actually believes in the truth is - literally - an idiot.

Literally an idiot? Huh?

grumpygresh

Bibi has got to hold firm. He stands alone for western civilization like Winston Churchill did against the barbarians.

On to other fare.

Blueflag has a conspiracy theory where no one gains:

[Sotomayor breaking her ankle] sounds weirdly familiar. Didn’t another prominent woman Democrat have to miss an important function because of an ankle injury? Clinton? Pelosi?

Maybe it’s an Arkan-break ;-)

DogBarkTree is not happy about Stephen Colbert's support of the troops:

I hope he gets fragged in the face.

Boogieman has the best revisionist history I've ever heard:

I think you need to check your facts. Galileo was never put on trial by the Vatican for his scientific findings. He was called before the Inquisition for refusing to stop teaching a theory he could not prove.

In fact, he had pledged to the church to stop teaching this theory until he could prove it, but then reneged on that agreement.

The threat of burning at the stake was a pretty standard threat to deter perjury, not a bullying tactic to cow Galileo into silence. I think the fact that Galileo did perjure himself during the trial, and was not burned at the stake, establishes that it was in fact quite a hollow threat.

Galileo - big fat liar!

Arthur McGowan is a Holocaust denier of a sort!

On the opening day of the Holocaust Museum, a friend of mine set up a small table near the entrance, with the bodies of babies retrieved from dumpsters in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. When people saw what they were, they let loose a torrent of curses—at her. Then they went inside to participate in lamenting the Holocaust.

I have never had the slightest interest in visiting the hypocritical, morally hollow “Holocaust Museum.”

TheOldLady has a great argument against Sotomayor:

OMGosh. I just noticed that [Sotomayor] looks a lot like the little “Latina” b**** who tried to beat me up in the bathroom in junior high. I grabbed her wrists, and when she tried to kick me, I put my shin crosswise in her way. Her thug girlfriends left when they saw that she was losing. Then I just forced her slowly down on the floor. She never bothered me again.

I wish I could do the same to sodastraw-or, who is too young to be the same gal, and get the same result.

Quite the story. I guess beating the crap out of some bully in Junior High made quite an impression on her. Or it's a pack of lies.

Finally counterpunch blames the stolen election in Iran on Obama. Witness the "logic:"

0bama went to the mideast really believing he had the magical gift to change the paradigm with the awe of his presence. He honestly believed Iranians would see him in all of his benevolent magnificence and rise up to unclench Iran’s first and take 0bama’s outstretched hand by casting Ahmadinejad aside. Iran saw it for what it was, and decided they wanted no part in it.

Had 0bama not tried to meddle in Iran’s election, Ahmadinejad almost certainly would be out of power now.