Noteworthy Quotes

So Dubya goes to war because god told him to. There's a woman down in Texas who bashed in her kid's skulls for the same reason.-- Ed Krebs

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.--Timothy Jones

Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.-- H. L. Mencken

Flip Flopper

I'm sorry, but who's the flip-flopper??

It's Dick

Dick Cheney!

Faux in the Henhouse

Networks to ignore debate camera rules

So, the networks plan on ignoring the rules set forth regarding what camera shots they can and can't use, but it turns out...it doesn't matter. Wait till you find out who'll be providing ALL the camera feeds from the debate.

As part of a pool for all the networks, Fox News Channel is operating the cameras at Thursday's debate, scheduled for the University of Miami campus.

That's right. Faux News will be controlling the shots and, of course, they would never cast der linkisch Führer in anything but the best of light (nor would they ever cast Kerry in a good light) so go ahead and use whatever shots you'd like. Duhbya will come out shining and Kerry an failure.

Fear Mongers and Liars

Repugs Admit Mailing Campaign Literature

A liberal religious group, the Interfaith Alliance, circulated a copy of the Arkansas mailing to reporters yesterday to publicize it. "What they are doing is despicable,'' said Don Parker, a spokesman for the alliance. "They are playing on people's fears and emotions."

Well, duh! That's what the Republican Party does! It plays on people's fears and emotions. "You're not safe! The terrorists will get you unless you vote for us! (Except that then they turn around and pat themselves on the back for what a great job they're doing in the war on terra). We need to ban gay marriage or the Democrats will force you all to be gay! (Then they call themselves "compasionate" conservatives. Oddly enough, these blatant contradictions seem to go completely unnoticed by the great unwashed masses). The liberal terrorists will take away your Bibles and your guns! They'll outlaw your CXT and make you all drive Mini Coopers! They'll force your wives to have abortions and become witches! They'll rape your daughters! And YOUR SONS!!!"

The Republican party certainly can't rely on the record of it's leaders. And falling back on facts or logic or reason would never work for the party of criminals and hucksters.

Crucifix Kills...Big Surprise!

Falling Crucifix Kills Woman

Well, killing is what they were built for...although, historically, they weren't intended to be dropped on their victims. But, hey, whatever works.

Thanks, Office of Faith-based Initiatives!!

US Health Plans include one with Catholic Tenets

So, let me see if I have this straight. BushCo will be allowing the health insurers to jack up the deductibles (i.e. BushCo is catering to the behemoth "Health Care" industry rather than We the People, for whom it is sworn to advocate) with the "incentive" of letting federal employees put their own money into a tax free account (which will be invested by other friends of BushCo -- the ones on Wall Street -- so that they too can profit) that can only be used for said deductibles. Wow, what a great plan! Well, until you realise that the net result is that employees will still be paying more for health care. But wait...there's more! In addition to having to pay higher deductibles, services will be limited according to guidelines set forth by...waaaaait for iiiit...the Catholic Church! Yea! No contraceptives will be covered, no abortion services will be covered. Four more years! Four more years!

Stupid Reich Winger

Blathering from a Reich Winger re: the Pledge "Protection" Act, aka the "Holy shit, a challenge to having God endorsed as the head of this country through the Pledge almost passed the Supreme Court, so let's ham-string them quick!" Act.

In fact, the atheist Bellamy did not include the words “under God” in his original version of the pledge.

Umm. What? I'm sorry, did he really just use the word "fact" in the same sentence as trying to pass Francis Bellamy off as an atheist?? Bellamy was a Baptist minister!! Maybe some of that money those nut-jobs are pouring into the BushCo campaign war-chest would be better spent on hiring a fact-checker. Or, maybe the facts were just too inconvenient in this case. Nothing like agenda and ideology trumping reality.

Miracle Births

Monkeys fly out of my butt and I can prove it. But, the monkeys don't like to fly out of my butt when people are watching, so if you'll please come back tomorrow, you'll find monkeys in this room with me and that will be conclusive proof that they flew out of my butt.

For more iron clad logic of this type, read the article below:

Kidnapping ring called "miracle births" by leader

Churcharson.com

Xtians upset over churcharson website

Sounds like the tables have turned. Remember when the anti-abortionists put up the Nuremburg Files website with a hit list of abortion providers' names, home phone numbers, and home addresses? They said it was free speech. (Turns out it wasn't protected speech and the site was shut down, although the group continues to keep a website similar to the original at christiangallery.com). Now Christians are crying fowl over churcharson.com which calls Judaism and Christianity "mind control" and advocates their violent overthrow.

Extreme Nut Job

A Bonk Job Speaks Out (or: Ain't Free Speech Grand?)

The Democratic Party isn't inciting church arson - just yet.

Nothing like starting right off the bat with a statement that announces in no uncertain terms: "I'm a wacko and I'm not afraid to make wild, unsubstantiated claims!"

But, despite its occasional pious pretenses, the Democrats see Christian America as enemy terrain.

Grammatical butchery aside ("its" is singular possessive, "Democrats" is plural), imagine the shock millions of Christian Democrats when they discovered this ruse of anti-Christianity that is the Democratic party!

Here, at least, the party of Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich is willing to overcome its ingrained pacifism and engage in the rhetorical equivalent of total war.

I'm sorry, the party of who now? Dean and Kucinich are hardly representative of the Democratic party. I only wish they were! And what a nice dig about the Dems pussy image. I guess this guy doesn't realize that, not only are most Dems in Congress in favor of the War in Iraq, but that more Dem leaders have served honorably in war time than Republican leaders.

The latest issue of The New Yorker contains a 12,000-word profile piece on Al Gore, in which the former vice president disgorges his views on a variety of subjects.

Only a hopelessly partisan media would consider the reflections of a man who once defined e pluribus unum as "out of one, many" worthy of a dog's obituary, let alone 12,000 words.

So, it's okay to slam Gore over a gaffe (or two, or three...we all make them), but we should proudly ignore the train wreck of intelligent thought that is GWB? Yes. Yes, that's it. GeeDUHbya's inability to even speak coherently just goes to show that he's a common man, a man of the people. Well, I don't want a comman man in the White House. I want an extraordinary man in the White House!!! But, I digress. We were talking about the insanely partisan liberal media. Take this piece that I'm critiquing, for example. A steaming pile of liberal propaganda if I ever saw one!

In the course of inflicting his wisdom on readers (great turn of phrase!) , Gore had this to say about the faith of George W. Bush: "It's a particular kind of religiosity. It's the American version of the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi Arabia, in Kashmir, in religions around the world: Hindu, Jewish, Christian and Muslim."

Webster's Dictionary defines religiosity as "affected or excessive devotion to religion."

In other words, the man who he defeated in 2000 (correction: illegally defeated in 2000) is saying that the president is either a big phony who feigns piety, or a wild-eyed fanatic -- like the Saudis who keep their women swathed in black from eyes to toes and make suspected adulterers shorter by a head.

Yeah, that's pretty much right. Keep in mind, though, before we start accusing Gore of painting all Christians with the broad stroke of the bonk-job brush, he did say "particular kind of religiosity"

When he speaks of a "fundamentalist impulse" in Christianity, Gore is also degrading and demonizing evangelical Christians.

Not necessarily. Gore is describing a particular vein of Christianity. If that includes some evangelicals, then so be it.

The term fundamentalist implies fanaticism, which suggests mental instability, which in turn insinuates a tendency to violence.

So, believing that an invisible man who floats in the sky above the clouds and wreaks destruction on nations who practice tolerance and humanity isn't a sign of mental instability? What about believing that dead people can walk? Or any of a number of fringe-of-sanity tenets that fundamentalist Christianity holds?

When the left says fundamentalist it means - "takes religion seriously, believes in the Bible literally, thinks The Ten Commandments are more than suggestions, disagrees with the ACLU on abortion and same-sex marriage" (actually, that's fundamentalist Christians...there are other religious fundamentalists who don't believe in the Bible, or give a rats ass about the X Commandments or the ACLU): in other words, miscreants, mutants, degenerates and the criminally insane - the sort of folks who would never get a grant from The Heinz Family Foundation. (Nice little dig at Kerry's wife).

Wow. If this guy seriously believes his own vitriol, I feel sorry for him. What a dismal world he lives in.

Liberals in the news media sneer at "fundamentalists" (the left's code word for evangelicals) as ignorant bigots.

If the shoe fits.

As Gore does here, by speaking of Christians like the president in the same breath as Saudi Arabia and the Kashmir - where Moslems on steroids shoot, bomb, and behead infidels.

Muslims on steroids?? WTF is this guy talking about?

The Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson was one of three dozen mainline clergy (Church of the Good Social Activist) who signed on to an Amicus brief in support of the atheist father who argued the allusion to God in the Pledge violates the First Amendment's establishment clause.

Allusion? The allusion to God in the Pledge??? "One nation, under God, indivisible..." That goes a bit farther than simply alluding to a god and that's why the lawsuit was brought.

Who exactly did the Democrats expect Bartella-Peterson (a card-carrying member of the religious left) to reach out to...

The religious left? I thought the left hated religion. Now there's a religious left? I wish this guy would stick with his definitions, arbitrary as they may be.

The Democrats have an entrenched anti-religious worldview. I speak here not of rank-and-file Democratic voters (who often are blue-collar Catholics and black evangelicals), but the party's radicalized leadership.

If you don't mean Democrats then don't say Democrats. Still, even the DLC and DNC are hardly bastions of the radical left.

Like the good liberals they are, Democrats see traditional religion as an impediment to human happiness and progress.

Wait, "Democrats", or the radically left wing Democratic leadership? See, now I'm confused. ;-)

Religious voters (defined as those who attend services weekly) tend to be patriotic, pro-defense, and in favor of limited government...

"Patriotic" is a word that has lost its original meaning as of late. Lately, it would appear to mean "blindly following the government into which ever country it chooses to invade and over which ever Constitutional right(s) it chooses to trample". Additionally, most Americans (not just religious voters) are pro-defense. Unfortunately, the current regime isn't pro-defense, it's pro-offense. BushCo will invade who they please whether or ont they have justification. And finally, as for religious voters being in favor of limited government, BushCo has expanded government more than any administration since Roosevelt. The trouble is, when Roosevelt expanded government, it was with programs that helped the lower income class in need. BushCo has expanded government to the detriment of the working class, the elderly, and the environment and to the benefit of the über-wealthy, corp-whore-ate elite. So why would religious voters who favor limited government vote for Bush?

The party of Gore and Reich doesn't go quite as far as an incendiary website, http://www.churcharson.com/, but the same contempt for "religiosity" animates all three.

Bullshit! Complete and utter fanatical speculation based on absolutely no logic or proof. The majority of Democrats are religious and could therefore never hold contempt for religion. Talk about being intellectually stunted!

Superstitious Nit-wits

Cancerous Growth Confused for Genetalia Resulting from Witchcraft

A Question of Semantics

Equal Time for Jesus

The CEF (Child Evangelism Fellowship) identifies itself as "a Bible-centered worldwide organization composed of born-again Christians whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ."

I prefer the more honest term, "mindfucking".