I Guess It Must Be

the cold weather that's causing all the crazies to come out of the woodwork. There's a lot of them this morning.

First, courtesy of Fox (who else?) we have this nutjob:

Lou Dobbs Tonight last night included the sage opinions of a former CIA offical and current Georgetown prof who recently called for the assassination of President Obama.

In a 12/23 column on his foreign policy website, Michael Scheuer suggested that history held in high esteem those who have killed tyrants:

As they head further down the road of losing wars and wrecking Anglo-American liberties, Messrs Obama and Cameron and their supporters in all parties would do well to read the words of the great 17th century English republican Algernon Sidney, a man who was revered on both sides of the Atlantic, who greatly influenced America’s founders, and who was executed by the British Crown for what it described as sedition. “There must therefore be a right,” Sidney wrote, "of proceeding judicially or extra-judicially against all persons who transgress the laws; or else those laws, and the societies that should subsist by them, cannot stand; and the ends for which governments are constituted, together with the governments themselves, must be overthrown. … If he [a political leader] be justly accounted an enemy of all, who injures all; he above all must be the publick enemy of a nation, who by usurping power over them, does the greatest and most publick injury that a people can suffer. For which reason, by an established law among the most virtuous nations, every man might kill a tyrant; and no names are recorded in history with more honor, than of those who did it.

This screwball is a professor at Georgetown University. I wonder if he teaches a course in fantasy literature.

And there's always Mike Huckabee, who can be counted on to start four steps to the right of reality and continue from there.

The former Arkansas governor and ordained pastor began his Fox News show by admitting that he did not have the medical experience necessary to understand 13-year-old Jahi McMath's condition but he encouraged her family to fight against any attempts to remove her from life support even though doctors said she technically "died several weeks ago."

"Every life has value and worth," Huckabee told his viewers on Saturday. "There is no such person who is disposable, one whose life has been deemed by others to be less than others and therefore expendable, I can't share that."

He continued: "The road that starts that way in deciding that some lives have less value and are unworthy of protection, that leads to a culture that tolerates the undeserved killing of over 55 million unborn children in this country. It leads to China's birth policy that limits the number of children for a family and enforces forced abortion if they deviate from the state-determined ideal."

"It's also that culture that allowed the Nazis to to hideously justify the savage slaughter of millions of Jews, disabled people, old people and those with mental illness," Huckabee said. "Let's hope and pray that the courts continue to do what every court should do, respect parents over government, family over hospitals and, above all, protect Jahi from them all."

Excuse me, Governor? She's dead. Having a machine pump your blood and aerate your lungs when your brain has stopped functioning does not count as "life."

The part I really love is that he started off by admitting he didn't know what he was talking about. That didn't stop him. Where's O'Reilly with his cut-off switch when you need him?

One of the commenters pointed out something that I've started recognizing as a characteristic of the right: arrogance. They are right, no matter what anyone else, or any piece of evidence, says.

This one's almost too good to be real:

The Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officer’s Association, (CSPSA), which says its mission is: ”To Serve the People and Protect Their Rights“, held a town meeting in Highland, Utah, yesterday, which they characterized as an “uprising” to counter “activist” Judge Robert Shelby’s ruling that has forced gay marriage on Utah.

From one of the participants, former Sheriff Richard Mack, of Arizona:

Sheriff Mack (left) told the standing room only crowd that Utah Governor Gary Herbert has failed at his job, and it is now up to law enforcement and everyday citizens to deny gay marriage to anyone seeking a license.

“The way you take back freedom in America is one county at a time,” urged Mack. “The sheriffs need to defend the county clerks in saying, ‘No, we’re not going to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.’”

Mack told the crowd federal law does not take precedence over Utah state law, saying:

“That’s a lie. That’s an absolute lie. We have a right to raise our kids without homosexuals being part of the Boy Scouts, the schools and teachers and doing everything. They can be all that, but don’t shove your agenda down my kid’s throat. We have a right to raise our kids how we want not how you want.”

Got that? If you can parse the word salad, what we have is a former sheriff from Arizona who wants to prevent county clerks in Utah from obeying the law, as a way of -- enforcing the law? I mean, the crazy's all over this one.

And this is all just from the first few minutes of surfing the web. I can hardly wait to see what else it lurking in the corners.

Found another one: have you heard of Trestin Meacham? He's the guy in Utah who's on a hunger strike to end same-sex marriage.

Trestin Meacham, a young man who combines a deep belief that same sex couples should not be allowed to marry with a weak grasp of constitutional law, has gone on a hunger strike to convince the state of Utah to "nullify" the federal court rulings which have made same sex marriage legal in the state for more than two weeks. "You can start a blog and you can complain on social networks until you're blue in the face and nothing will happen but actions speak louder than words and I'm taking action," says Meacham.

It turns out, he's just as firmly anchored to reality as the rest of these people.