It's a quiet day in the Glorious People's Republic of Soviet Birtherstan. Today's dispatches has a gift idea for Terry Lakin to mark his military service. "One Pissed-Off Vietnam Vet" spouts off about conspiracy theories.
Dean Haskins sets a date for his Birtherpoluza. Dr. Kate goes further down the Conspiracy Land playing board. And Ron Ewart continues to tout his future loss in the courts.
14 July - At the Pest and eFail, "One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet" goes off on a tear again.
"I used to think that it was the book publishers who started conspiracy theories: you know, like Oswald was programmed by L.B.J., so they could sell more books. but if you’re a real conspiracy aficionado, you have to have more layers, like maybe it is actually the tree-huggers who are the ones responsible for spreading myths, so they have to cut down more trees to print more books so the environmentalists rack in more donations to protect more forests. And that’s the beauty of such a system of belief: whatever you want to make up, works. It’s okay to be far out, to be outrageous. The downside of that kind of entertainment is that when something brazen but true comes down the pike, people just brush it off as yet another meaningless conspiracy theory."
So basically "All conspiracy theories are crazy except for the one I personally believe in", right?
"We have a few such animals running around America right now. We have the “Obama is an illegal Muslim immigrant who lied his way to the White House.”"
You mean the one that the Pest and eFail spews forth every day??
"My mother, for instance, still maintains that “he showed his birth certificate.” Oh, well, what can you do?"
Your mother must be wondering if she did drop you on your head and forget she had done it.
