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According to the BMI, I'm no longer obese - I'm now merely overweight. Still have a long way to go though. 205 is where I want to be and I'm at 244.

And let's not get into that whole "the BMI is a lie" BS.

Deflecting Blame Early

I ended up listening to about ten minutes of American talk radio today. It was quite inadvertent, I assure you. I was just trying to listen to Blag Hag talking on the radio about Monday's upcoming Boobquake. But I got to the online radio station about 20 minutes early.

I don't know who the speaker was, but he was going on about how the Corporations, in cahoots with the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations and the Obama Administration, where going to get rid of the right-wing and impose martial law. His evidence? Officials are talking about what they might need to do if the Tea Party movement turns violent. This, the fellow claimed, was proof that they (you know... them) are going to stage a terrorist attack and pin the blame on the movement. By pointing out that they'll need to do something, they're setting you up because they have every intention of doing that something down the road, whether it is justified or not.

There's a couple of possibilities here:

1. He's right!
   
2. He's a true believer who just happens to be a paranoid nutbar.
   
3. He doesn't believe this, but he does believe in his cause. He also recognizes that the Teabaggers turning violent is a distinct possibility and is setting up the plausible deniability/conspiracy theories now to prevent the cause from being totally discredited.
   
4. As above, except he doesn't even care about the cause, he's just cynically manipulating people for the ratings.

There are probably other explanations, but I think that covers the big ones.

What do I think? I'm split between #3 and #4. In both cases, the forces behind the Teabaggers seem to be aware that someone is likely to go through with something tragic. They want to make sure they can twist this to their own ends rather then getting the slap down they'll richly deserve for goading some gun-toting hair-trigger nut into it.

He had a lot of other things to say about how banks need to be controlled and the danger of unfettered corporate control in our lives. Why he had to mix that all in with the crazy I'm not sure.

As an aside, does anyone else get the impression that the whole Tea Party march on Washington is like a cross-burning writ large?