Yeah, yeah, I know…It’s Christmas time. A time to be respectful and exhibit love and compassion towards your fellow man, regardless of their race, creed, gender (or lack thereof), sexual orientation, or politics.

Well…four out of five ain’t bad.

This thread at the Democratic Underground on the reasons for the earthquake and tsunami in Asia is so…so…PRECIOUS!. I’d like to bottle this and take it to bed with me every night, wrap my arms around its sheer lunacy and kiss it, make love to it, ravage it, whisper sweet nothings into its ear, coddle it, cuddle it, and then bronze it…no…cast it in marble and worship at its feet for the rest of eternity.

What in the name of the Lord of the Rings is he talking about?

Courtesy of Wizbang, ladies and gentlemen, may I present the “Reality Based Community:” (WARNING: PUT DOWN THAT GLASS OF MILK OR CUP OF COFFEE BEFORE READING FURTHER)

“Since we know that the atmosphere has become contaminated by all the atomic testing, space stuff, electronic stuff, earth pollutants, etc., is it logical to wonder if: Perhaps the “bones” of our earth where this earthquake spawned have also been affected?

You know, we’ve exploded many millions of tons of ordinance upon this poor planet. All that “shock and awe” stuff we’ve just dumped onto the Asian part of this earth—could we have fractured something? Perhaps the earth was just reacting to something that man has done to injure it. The earth is organic, you know. It can be hurt.”

“Space stuff?” “Electronic stuff?” The “bones of the earth?” Read on, McDufff!

“All of the injuries done to our planet are interrelated, see this Reuters report linking pollution, tsunami’s, and global warming. Those Right-wing Republican religious nuts with three or four children in an SUV are killing people daily. All of the pollution eventually sinks into the ground, & rots away the “bones” holding our planet together, and causes earthquakes.

They are happening after Xmas, when the pollution from the fever of driving around in SUV’s to buy presents and burning extra energy in Xmas displays for crass commercial (Republican) propaganda is at its worst. See this article about the December 26, 2003 Bam earthquake. The Sumatra earthquake that happened December 26, 2004 is related to the tsunami and must be related to destroying the earth.

None of this would have happened if Al Gore had been elected in 2000, as the USA would have implemented the Kyoto Treaty.”

All of the pollution eventually sinks into the ground, & rots away the “bones” holding our planet together, and causes earthquakes.

Gentle readers, it isn’t that this poster is loonier than a lakefull of yellow-billed Gavia adamsii. It isn’t that he has the scientific acumen of a dead cat or the reasoning powers of an ironing board. And it isn’t necessarily a problem with cognitive dissonance…you gotta be cognitive to have dissonance.

This is real middle ages stuff…and that’s being insulting to people who lived in the middle ages:

The Witch: I’m not a witch I’m not a witch!

Sir Bedevere: But you are dressed like one

The Witch: They dressed me up like this!

Crowd: We didn’t! We didn’t…

The Witch: And this isn’t my nose. It’s a false one.

Sir Bedevere: [lifts up her false nose] Well

Peasant 1: Well, we did do the nose.

Sir Bedevere: The nose?

Peasant 1: And the hat, but she is a witch!

Crowd: Yeah Burn her burn her!

Sir Bedevere: What do you do with witches?

Crowd: BURN BURN, BURN THEM

Sir Bedevere: And What do you burn apart from witches?

Crowd: MORE WITCHES???

Sir Bedevere:: Why do witches burn?

Crowd: Because they are made of .. wood?

Sir Bedevere: Good. So. What else does wood do?

Crowd: It floats!

Sir Bedevere: So…What else floats?

Crowd: A duck!

Sir Bedevere: So, can we conclude that since both a duck and wood float, if the witch, who’s made out of wood weighs as much as the duck then…

Crowd: Witch! Witch! Burn her! (Scientific inquiry from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Gawd…you can’t make this stuff up.