That man can be domesticated.

It's beginning to look like the rule of Zaius may start early- "Florida monkeys revolt, citizens remain calm."

I, for one, welcome our new Patas overlords.

Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

Okay fellow Obama supporters it's time to give up the charade. The fine investigative journalists over at Taylor Marsh's place have figured us out. The jig, as they say, is up.

Marsh and her team have put together airtight logic on this one. Since no reasonable person could compare the records of Senator Clinton and Senator Obama and come to the conclusion that Obama might make a marginally better President (even when it simply comes down to her vote for the war) then there has to be something else in play. Mass insanity? Religious fervor? Food poisoning?

None of the above. The answer is that we must be in some sort of cult or something.

Don't believe me? Check out some of the comments from this thread--

It's amazing to me the amount of stuff in the ether about the OC,AKA the Obama Cult. I think this CNN piece us just devastating. I can't imagine how someone in a small town in Wisconsin watching this won't get the willies at the OC weirdness, or as they say the "creepiness."

You cannot hide from us. We are the OC. We are legion.

At first when I did searches for Obama's Cult, there was little to be found. Every day, there is more and more on it.

I'll admit it's been a difficult task to shield our political subterfuge even as our movement was growing.

There is no Barack Obama -- just a chameleon who changes personalities to blend with his surroundings.

Not a chameleon so much as a toad...

A Hypnobomatoad.

Stare into the eyes of the Hypnobomatoad and --

OBEY!

Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye.

Swinebread comes out of the closet as a Planet of the Apes fan. I'll admit I'm in there with him.

What're we doing in that closet?

Picking ticks off each other and flinging poop at each other. What'd you think we were doing?

That, and enjoying the remarkable acting chops of one Charlton Heston.

The video Swinebread links to is pretty damned funny, particularly if you've seen the Simpsons bit it's riffing off before.

Take your stinkin' paws of me, you damn dirty ape!

Damn, dirty hippies are apparently trying to ruin everything in Kentucky (and America.) I'm sure Digby and Duncan will be on the case.

It's a question of simian survival.

Those that know me know I'm not one to cry "racism" at the slightest turn of phrase but I have to say President Bush's statement today on the release of a Spanish version of the national anthem made me feel a little creepy:

"I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English," the president said during a news conference in the Rose Garden, "and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English, and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English."

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"One of the things that's very important is, when we debate this issue, that we not lose our national soul," he said. "One of the great things about America is that we've been able to take people from all walks of life bound as one nation under God. And that's the challenge ahead of us." (CNS News)

Intended or not once you begin to talk about preserving "our national soul" you're going to sound like a segragationist railing against "race-traitors" for those in interracial marriages.

The beauty of the melting pot that is America is you may not be able to identify all the ingredients that when into the stew to begin with but the final product will be a wonderfully diverse. America is more Paella than hotdog. Sad that Bush doesn't see that.

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

I'm sure you've seen this insane story about administration plans to nuke Iran based on Sy Hersh's investigative reporting. The thing that scares the hell out of me about this is that Bush will probably do it just because it is so utterly insane.