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Juanita was bored last night so she listened to crazy radio.  Crazy radio is her shortwave.  If you people think Rush Limbaugh is bad, you need to listen to shortwave.

Anybody with a FCC license can talk on the shortwave radio.  The person with the license can also have “guests” on their radio shows.

The way Juanita figures it, it’s kinda like the internet.  “People just talk and throw it out there into the universe hoping that someone is listening – or reading – because we all like to think that we have something to say that someone else wants to hear.”

“So, I’m hardly different than the crazy people on the shortwave radio except I’m not crazy and have papers to prove it,” she says.  “I’m eccentric, eccentric as hell, but not crazy.”

“Anyway,” she continues, trying to weave her way back to the reason she started, “I heard some guys last night talking about the Survivalists.  They appeared to be one.  They said that they believed in Guns, Gold, and God.  I thought that was pretty darned weird.  I guess I was wondering what God had to do with guns and gold.  Apparently, a lot.”

“I say ‘a lot’ because I found all manner of God and gun stuff on the internet machine.  I thought God was strictly a bolt of lightening kind of guy.    I guess I was wrong,” she frets.

And then there was this mess in South Carolina.

A Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina over the weekend took some of the Tea Party’s violent rhetoric to new levels, with speakers attacking everything from President Obama’s citizenship to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sexuality.

And then there was this —

Pastor Stan Craig, of the Choice Hills Baptist Church, was particularly angry about the state of Washington, saying he “was trained to defend the liberties of this nation.” He declared that he was prepared to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.”

“So, we’ve got pastors threatening to do something unnatural with a gun.  And I have to admit that the whole ‘suit up’ thing has me worried because I’m afraid it has to do with latex and chains and whips and stuff I do not want to look at,” she cringes.

“I think the guys on crazy radio – and it is 99% old white guys – need to get back to talking about the Illuminati and Janet Reno’s black helicopters and Area 51 before somebody gets hurt.  I’m talkin’ bolt of lightening kind of hurt, because I think God still has that in his arsenal.  I imagine God’s getting hacked-off to think that somebody needs a goofy handgun to defend Him.”