Step away from the Oshry before she brings Walrus Bolton back to her viddy log to stare at her breasts.

Meanwhile, here’s some Antidote for Exposure to Neocons with Jihad Envy.

The conspiracy photo is great.

That photo is hilarious – is this a TBogg original work?

I wish. It’s been floating around teh internets

You laugh, but I’ve got a sister who buys that whole black helicopter/secret UN code on road signs crap. Her church and Jeebus told her it was twue!

My sister-in-law frequently forwards the latest in loony chain emails. My wife is tired to directing her to snopes.com, but we’re afraid of what would happen if these things continued to occupy her thoughts unopposed by that which we call “reality”. (This was today’s subject.)

I’ve got a sister who buys that whole black helicopter/secret UN code on road signs crap

I’ve found most people who are genuinely worried about secret all-powerful government conspiracies have absolutely no problem with the news that the NSA/CIA was recording every single phone call and reading every single email in America without warrants or oversight under Bush.

In their view, the two situations are not even remotely similar.

I said this before and got spanked, but that didn’t teach me a lesson.

Yes, you have been seeped in crazy for longer than time itself. I would be in trouble if you took an extended break; that would force me to go to Roger Ailes and Jesus’ General, two sites I don’t really like, for my snark dosage. But if you must, it’s better not to go insane.

We don’t need you cracking up.

After all, if you’re gibbering in a corner who’s gonna keep Fenway off the roof?

A troll at S,N! suggested it was a distraction from the Holocaust-comparers in Wash.

Could’ve been a parodist, but one never knows.

Good luck with the reality bit. I felt the same way about my wingnut sister who always forwarded the very latest SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO WE HAVE A CHANCE AT STOPPING THIS…

I diligently replied with Snopes and, when necessary, other factual sources refuting every single thing in the communication.

Finally one day she said, “Well, I don’t check everything out — I’m much too busy. I just thought it was something you should know.”

I gave up. It’s freed up a lot of time for me since I decided it was hopeless.

“Loonapalooza”

Please, Tbogg, don’t go. You can’t.

You complete me.

People who send those “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS????!!!!” emails think Snopes.com is part of the cover-up conspiracy–Obama’s people “got” to them.

I have finally decided that the best response to this stuff is: eye roll. . . “delete.”

I found a good way to get off thos emailing lists is to not only do a “reply all” with Snopes, but to add a snarky line about what kind of Christian would send such a vile, hateful lie without spending 60 seconds to see if it was true.

This also cuts down on the ol’ Christmas card list, BTW,,,,

What drives me nuts is the people that, when engaged in discussion, just “know” some fact to be true without offering any coherent reasoning/proof behind it. Realizing that it is impossible nor profitable to argue with a revolving door, I just give up and use the ‘ol “We just have to agree to disagree.”

I have to assume that by “vacation” you mean “a stealth mission to track down the Princess Jesus Boobies masturbation tape”.

“…add a snarky line about what kind of Christian would send such a vile, hateful lie without spending 60 seconds to see if it was true.”

This is very effective; call the liars on their lies to all of their contacts. You’re not trying to change the original sender’s mind, just preventing the spread of misinformation.

It works better if your target is still capable of feeling shame, so don’t bother trying it with politicians.

Hillary w/jetpack. That funny.

Obviously I have been reading way too much of this crap in the service of blogging and I really need a vacation.

Snark never sleeps.

Ha! I tried that “agree to disagree” over an easily debunked with Snopes bit of email lunacy from my wingnut father. That was 2 years ago and I haven’t heard from him since. Well, except for the “I believe it, so GOODBYE!” email I got in reply. He always was a paranoid righty, but now he has shoved all his relatives away in favor of his BFF, Rush and O’Reilly. One-sided conversations (meaning “yelling”) always were his specialty.

Stick: It helps to think of Rush/Faux/Beck as a cult with the usual cutting off of contacts with non-believers, the non-reality based world-view, etc. A couple years after my Dad died my Mom took me aside to say there was something about my father I should know. I immediately though, OMG he was married before and I had step-siblings or something. Nope, she whispered, “he listened to Rush Limbaugh.” I knew Dad was a Republican but I was horrified. My Mom assured me that she didn’t let him listen to him when she was around and if my Dad turned Rush on in the car my Mom “made him turn that idiot off.”

Well, considering that’s pretty much what folk religion in general is based upon, it’s not a surprise.

TBogg, you cannot take a vacation because my sanity depends on you reading this shit so I don’t have to sully my innocent mind with all the paranoid bullshit. Yes, you are taking one for the team. Enjoy your martyrdom!