Clinging to the (Flying) Spaghetti Monster

Liberals continue to bludgeon common sense like a red-headed stepchild.  I'm forced to wonder if their refusal to abandon the farcical belief that political dialogue contributed to Saturday's shooting is in fact an attempt to see just how far they can alienate conservatives.  The other alternative is that, once presented with a potential weapon to use against conservative rhetoric, they are incapable of letting said weapon go - regardless of how it makes them look.  In either case, the sheer irrationality of their position completely invalidates any claim made that they want to converse via rationality instead of raw emotion. 

Now, I know I've already made it clear that the political media had no influence on Loughner.  Again, how do I know?  I know it the same way I know blind people don't find beauty in a mountain sunrise and I know deaf people don't mind me talking to myself.  When the physiological apparatus for interpreting a given stimulus is non-functional, the stimulus cannot affect that person in a meaningful way.  Loughner couldn't process political dialogue meaningfully any more than a deaf man could feel vibrations and glean a conversation from it.  The relevant brain functions simply don't work. Loughner's reality, like all active schizophrenics, is derived from within.  What we consider objective reality, by definition, makes no sense to him.  Quite the opposite.  It is threatening to his personal reality.  I would call this Reason 101, but people shouldn't need even an introductory course to put these pieces together. 

Of course, all psychological expertise aside, the ever-increasing biographical evidence is all that's needed.  We now have old associates claiming that Jared Loughner was a left-wing liberal.  We know for a fact that he wasn't Republican.  Loughner was a registered independent.  And we know irrefutably that Loughner's hatred of Giffords long preceded (by years) the current political climate.  Any half-functioning brain would place the probability of political dialogue affecting this chain of events in the same category as the idea that the shooting was really a hit ordered by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I had sincerely hoped that President Obama would step up and squash the political dialogue hypothesis once and for all when he spoke at tonight's memorial service for the victims.  Not that I'm too surprised, but his speech was a complete disappointment.  The Washington Post claimed that Obama was trying to rise above the rhetoric - he was not placing blame.  I had to scratch my head a bit, because they made that claim immediately after quoting Obama as saying we need to start, "talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."  Umm, what do they think he's referring to?  He probably thinks his speech was conciliatory and leaderlike.  To anyone with conservative leanings, it's yet another slap in the face of responsible behavior.

I'm not sure why the Washington Post was willing to publish sensible opinion pieces that denounce the idiocy that is the political dialogue hypothesis (commentary by George F. Will and commentary by Charles Krauthammer), and then laughably misinterpret Obama's remarks. 

At the end of the day all I can do is congratulate liberals for doing a fabulous job of widening the gap between ideological camps.  When tragedy would have naturally pulled us together, irrational blaming drives us further apart.  Good work!

P.S.  I do sincerely hope no legally insane liberals read my blog.  No doubt it would drive them to murder Democrats.  Such is the mighty power of my rhetoric!   Muhaahaahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!