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Troy Newman says protesting Tiller's funeral (scheduled for Saturday morning) "would be morally reprehensible."

Yeah, but I'm hoping they'll go for it anyway. Remind everybody one more time just how much they have in common with Fred Phelps and company - that's a great idea.

Like they even have to mention that picketing the funeral would be reprehsnible.

When reading Cashill, I find it impossible not to think about Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland. Like the Red Queen, Jack has no problem, it appears, believing “six impossible things before breakfast.”

He’s a mind reader as well, perhaps with the Psychic Friends Hotline on speed dial, so able is he to tell us what someone else is thinking, or what motivates them. With his imaginary “facts” in hand, he leaps from one specious judgment to another, once again emulating his role model.

“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first - verdict afterwards.”

Like Cashill, Paul McHugh is similarly not bound in his purported “research” by rules of evidence or scientific inquiry. In fact, he is notorious for concealing the extent of pedophelia uncovered in his practice. His public and prohibited disclosure of information in the Tiller case led the Attorney General to caution him that he risked suit and worse, should he continue with that patent breach of ethics.

Kline, Cashill’s hero, was equally brazenly incompetent and flagrantly unethical. He was beaten by 20 points in his attempt at reelection. After being appointed to Paul Morrison’s vacated D.A.’s post by a narrow majority of Neaderthals on the Johnson County Republican committee, voters found his carpetbagging and mendacious ways were beyond even the pale in an extremely conservative community.

Kline wound up getting hammered when he ran against an actual Republican in a primary election. Thankfully for Kline, he got a gilded parachute: A professorship at Liberty University, founded by religious hustler and talk show host Jerry Falwell, with that 4th rate school bailed out of bankruptcy by convicted felon and cult founder Sun Myung Moon.

My personal experience with Cashill has been rather nauseating. At the Kansas premiere of “Flock of Dodos,” as a panelist Cashill declared that all scientific advances in the last millenium, I believe, were the product “of Western European Christians.” I was outraged, not realizing that Cashill was simply an imbecile, so could perhaps be forgiven for his idiocy, though not his hubris.

I pointed out to him that Christians were burning the world’s foremost scientists at the stake. He countered that Galileo wasn’t incinerated at the Church’s behest. I noted that Galileo in fact was convicted of heresy by a papal court and was only spared burning at the stake by virtue of recanting his legitimate findings. He was held in house arrest for the last 12 years of his life.

Afterward I sent Cashill a long list of Jews who had accumulated an extraordinary amount of Nobel Prizes in science, far disproportionate to their numbers, compared to Christians. I included members of many other ethnicities as well, Chinese, Japanese, Pakistani, etc., if memory serves. Cashill promised me a response, but it’s been years and I’m tired of waiting.

Damn, Frank. That was a great post.