Blaming Obama for the ‘blood moon’
By Steve Benen
Overnight, sky gazers were able to enjoy a rare and beautiful sight: a so-called “blood moon” in which Earth’s shadow completely covers the moon
It wouldn’t have occurred to me to connect this to politics in any way, but as Brian Tashman noted this morning, WorldNetDaily manages to “fit criticism of President Obama into nearly everything it publishes, including its story in Monday’s lunar eclipse.”
Citing the president’s comments from January – “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” – about using executive orders and executive actions in the face of congressional obstruction, right-wing pastor Mark Biltz told WND today that the “blood moon” is a divine warning to Obama that God has “more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”
“In the book of Joel it mentions three times about the sun and the moon going dark and in context it also mentions Divine wrath against all countries that want to divide or part the land of Israel,” Biltz said, touching on a frequent Religious Right claim that Obama administration efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal will lead to divine punishment.
“Like Pharaoh the leaders and pundits of today will realize when it comes to crossing the red lines of the Creator of the universe he has more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”
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Objective observers can probably agree that WorldNetDaily publishes some pretty nutty stuff – which is their right, of course, but doesn’t negate the nuttiness.
The larger question for me, however, remains the same: given how far on the fringes WorldNetDaily really is, why in the world do Republican members of the United States Congress treat the deeply strange website as a legitimate outlet?
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And yet, here we are. WorldNetDaily is comfortable telling readers that the blood moon may be related to President Obama’s agenda, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), among others, is comfortable talking to WorldNetDaily about some his more mystifying conspiracy theories.
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Just trying to keep track, there are so many nutballs out there calling him Marxist or Terrorist or Martian...don't want to get my crazies tangled up.
Rand Paul on using drones in America;
"I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him…
If there’s a killer on the loose in a neighborhood, I’m not against drones being used to search them out, heat-seeking devices being used, I’m all for law enforcement. I’m just not for surveillance when there’s not probable cause that there’s a crime being committed."
WND should be ashamed of itself, promoting crazy RWing terrorists is NOT cool! 
As I recall, she has some experience with poultry butchering--and with bull.
astronomical events are NOT heavenly signs.
Good gods.
Nor do they predict doom and gloom.
Why do people give credence to these people???
My head hurts.