Comments on: The Sotomayor Hearings May Now Continue…

By: Kit Kittappa

Kit Kittappa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:47:23 +0000

Hindus in “modern” India, still smear their forehead and doors with cow-dung ashes (sympathising with Shiva who smeared himself with ashes from cremation grounds). Should’nt we allow a Hindu priest to smear the senate doors with cow-dung ashes?

By: John Larberg

John Larberg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:18:32 +0000

Man! To be a mystical shaman that places magical ointments on buildings for living! I might start a business that predicts eclipses and gets rid of them once they occur.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:20:34 +0000

Sounds like OCD to me. http://ffrf.org/fttoday/2003/april/index.php?ft=sapolsky

By: David D.G.

David D.G. — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:29:51 +0000

The guy still creeps me out, but I suppose his heart’s in the right place…?

Heart? Apparently.

Brain? Not so much.

~David D.G.

By: marfita

marfita — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:41:48 +0000

we know if it had been any of that crazy “Lutheran oil” again, we’d all be screwed
Bwah-hahahahahahahaaaaaa!

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:48:03 +0000

During the plague years when black death was rampant in Europe the doors of plague victims were painted with a red cross, not to cure anyone but to warm others not to enter.

Is this oil thing like that? You see a greasy door and realise that it is an unsafe environment and so avoid it? It’s like a public service or something? Either that or literally hundreds of people are supporting his delusional behaviour and allowing him to make a right tit of himself. I find that to be quite cruel. It’s obvious that he needs help.

By: PrimeNumbers

PrimeNumbers — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:28:26 +0000

He should be locked up in the loony bin! Or at least stopped and arrested while the oil is tested for biological weapons, toxins or nerve gasses.

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:01:11 +0000

I have to say I feel a little sorry for him and a little affection for him. He’s kind of like a harmless village screwball, and I wonder if some of the Senators and Congressmen he’s befriended think of him that way, so they let him oil his way around the Capitol. He seems to be a very kindly person who wants his country to be good and successful. He had that same positive, hopeful attitude when “anointing” the door through which President Elect Obama was to pass on Inauguration Day.

He’s also really into magic. Very special oil with special qualities, cross marks on the door with special qualities that must be applied just so, words with special qualities that must be spoken just so. It’s all so magical, so caught up in the necessity of the ritual itself, as if just wanting and thinking those good, hopeful things is not sufficient without the magic oil, magic marks and magic words.

So while I think that on principle he and other shaman, witch doctors, soothsayers, oracles and prophets have no business being officially sanctioned or paid by the government to shake their rattles, murmur their spells, mix their potions and portend their visions, I suppose we should be glad that he just smears oil on doors instead of lamb’s blood.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:29:33 +0000

The guy still creeps me out, but I suppose his heart’s in the right place…?

Too bad his brain is in his rectum.

By: manyhats

manyhats — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:20:51 +0000

Someone find a voodoo priest to sacrifice a chicken, or whatever they do, to sanctify the same room. See if he gets past security. What a crock of… Who decided to let him do this?