Also, a little public service announcement for a long time friend of CotL. Montag from Stump Lane wrote to inform us that there’s a new addition to the blogosphere — Mustard Mellon featuring the artwork of none other than Montag’s own little offspringlings. If you’re into neo-primitive duct tape sculpture and stop motion Lego dioramas (and who isn’t?) then Mustard Mellon is the blog for you!

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

The Washington Post is reporting that Stevens’ indictment concerns the failure to report more than a quarter million dollars in goods and services he received from Alaska oil firm Veco and two other people. Video after the fold.

Reading like a badly drawn Jack Chick tract, the comic book features two concerned Oklahoma County voters, toga-wearing gays, trench-coated henchmen,  a devil opposing Rinehart’s election, and an angel for the forces of good (otherwise known as Rinehart). The comic also alludes to a conspiracy by homosexuals and “good ol’ boy liberals” to keep Rinehart out of office. You see, last year Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed felony charges against Rinehart alleging that Rhinehart’s 2004 campagin had violated campaign finance laws.

Sheriff John Whetsel, also targeted by Rinehart’s comic book, calling it, “extremely pathetic and very bigoted. I was taken back that in 2008, a candidate would use that type of inflammatory material and do it under the name of being a Christian.”

University of Oklahoma political science professor Keith Gaddie called it one of the strangest things he’s ever seen. Gaddie noted, “I’ve never seen a comic book with the phrase ‘anal sodomy’ in it before. That was a new one for me.“

Rhinehart’s fellow Republican, Oklahoma County Assessor Leonard Sullivan, expressed his concern. Sullivan said, “I’ve really encouraged him on more than one occasion to get professional help. He really needs it.”

Allen, on the other hand, thinks differently,

If Brent Rinehart were to receive professional help, he’d be like Faulkner without alcohol or Hunter S. Thompson without drugs. Would Van Gogh have done any interesting paintings if he had gotten professional help? I hope Rinehart declines any treatment so the world can have more of his work. God made plenty of talented writers, gifted artists, and people who can spell.

But he only made one Brent Rinehart.

While it might be fun to laugh at Rinehart, I’m really given to wonder if Oklahoma voters are really so intellectually impoverished as to be swayed by Rinehart’s graphical delusional rantings and conspiracy theories. I know there’s probably at least a few, but I have to think that the majority of Oklahoma County voters will be insulted by Rinehart’s bigoted comic book. At least I hope that’s so.

If you’d like to see Brent Rinehart’s full comic book, you can download a PDF.

]]> http://neuralgourmet.com/2008/07/13/edward-tabash-threat-religious/feed/ http://neuralgourmet.com/2008/07/05/carnival-liberals/ http://neuralgourmet.com/2008/07/05/carnival-liberals/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:29:43 +0000 Leo http://neuralgourmet.com/?p=119 The 68th edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up at Globally Rational, chock full of extra liberal goodness. Get it while it’s warm. Carnival of the Liberals returns on July 16th with everybody’s favorite fireman, Montag, burning up the blogosphere at Stump Lane. Send Montag your liberal best via the magic of blogcarnival.com.

Updated: I misread the schedule. Situation Awareness will actually be hosting next time.