Apparently their Jesus is also heavily armed.

As the Michigan-based militia group’s exciting web site states: “We believe that one day, as prophecy says, there will be an Antichrist,” the site says. “All Christians must know this and prepare, just as Christ commanded. . . . Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment.”

But what really stands out is the Hutaree: they are yet another  anti-goverment extremists who fear the New World Order as often stressed on #1 conspiracy nut Alex Jones’ website/radio show.  Just like Jones’ philosophy, the militia group felt a need to stockpile weapons  in fear that the government will take away their guns. (Well, in this case they did take away their guns in fear of domestic terrorism.)

The Southern Poverty Law Center, in its recent report, has noted an “explosion of new extremist groups and activism” fueled by “broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America.” SLP defines such groups as those that “engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme anti-government doctrines.”

Strange how that sounds vaguely like the rantings of  the paranoid, conspiracy theorist, talk show host, Alex Jones. This isn’t the only time  in recent memory that a lone wolf, with strong anti-goverment feelings, has acted at. Last month embittered pilot Joseph Andrew Stack flew his plane into the side of the IRS building in Austin Texas. His rambling manifesto sounded like a puffy-faced Alex Jones broadcast. Then there was also the shooting in Pittsburg of a rabid Alex Jones fan who was afraid that the government was going to take away his guns. And let’s not forget the Holocaust Museum shooting by a rifle-wielding white supremacist

Sure, Alex Jones wouldn’t condone these acts of violence,  but  does his role of being the voice of the lone wolf voiceless add fuel to the fire? Does it also help when Sarah Palin tells a crowd of angry Tea Party Patriots that they must “reload” when bricks are being thrown through the windows of Democratic party headquarters?

When you think of the Hutaree and the the sweeping conservative right’s anger over such things as the  health care bill and the Obama White House, think of the rhetoric of Alex Jones and how it influences all those lone wolves. And remember the words of beloved Sarah Palin:

“The crossfire is intense, so penetrate through enemy territory by bombing through the press, and use your strong weapons — your Big Guns — to drive to the hole. Shoot with accuracy; aim high and remember it takes blood, sweat and tears to win.”

Who would have figured that gay male prostitutes would being procured for members inside Pope Benedict’s inner circles? Shocker that Catholic priests are involved in yet another sex scandal–this time at the highest level.  Italian newspapers published transcripts of phone calls recorded by police involving  Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness,  who was caught-on-tape negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Nigerian Vatican chorister, about men he wanted brought to him for the sexual purposes of getting down papal-style.

Here’s the going rate for male prostitutes (two black Cuban lads,” a former male model from Naples, and a rugby player from Rome) at the Vatican:

2,000 euros ($2,714) per rent boy.

That’s enough to make any holy man get down and pray! I’ll lose all faith in humanity if its disclosed that the Popemobile was involved in transporting the male prostitutes to the Vatican.

Ironically, the police were tapping the Vatican’s phones as part of surveillance that was being  conducted for an unrelated corruption investigation.