Now that you've seen this truly evil and untrue advertisement for Jesus from Answers in Genesis, watch the video.
These are very sick puppies!
If you're interested in reading the truth about Sweden (and the other Scandinavian countries and their "godless" societies), pick up a copy of Phil Zuckerman's book, Society Without God.
Bishop Spong hits several nails on the head here. There is no hell; hell is an invention of the church. The church hates like hell to give up hell because hell is a means of controlling the hoi polloi and the church is in the business of controlling people!
This is appropos of nothing much, but it's truly funny. It's an Evian water commercial and in French, but the language is of no consequence. I got it from a friend in France who has thought about having another baby but after watching this is not sure that's a good idea.
This is all over the blogosphere, so it's not exactly news, but Bernie Madoff has hired a prison consultant to help find him the "best" or most appropriate prison in which to spend the rest of his miserable life.
What the hell's going on here?
There seems to be a consensus among "those that know" that Bernie will not enjoy the luxury of the so-called "country-club" facilities because he was a very, very bad boy!
But, he doesn't want to go to a really dangerous prison, either. My god, he's an old man and can't really defend himself, and can you imagine the damage some redneck white supremacist might do to him in the showers?
When Madoff received his 150-year sentence, the judge did recommend he not be thrown to the wolves in one of those famous hell-holes where the worst of the worst roam around foaming at the mouth.
But, the judge can only recommend. Now, if Madoff is allowed to say anything about his future, he can call up his consultant's recommendations and plead his case. But the ultimate decision is made by the Bureau of Prisons.
What the hell is going on here? Who gives a rat's ass what Madoff wants? While maybe not a violent serial killer, he sure ruined the lives of a lot of people!
He hires a prison consultant?
Please. May the BOP ignore his pleas and give the old nasty what he deserves. For 150 years!
"Abandoning your office and your state, while patting yourself on the back and framing your dereliction as some sort of selfless, patriotic act isn't narcissistic. It's pathological."
This is a summary quote of an excellent article on Ms. Palin's resignation speech. You can read it in its entirety here.
Jeb Bush, ex-governor of the state of Florida, has said previously on several occasions that he was not going to run for prezident of the United States.
Who could blame him, considering that his brother, George W., is the most disliked prezident in history and was such a massive failure that the history books will need to be greatly expanded just to summarize all his dirty deeds and his incomprehensible stupidity?
But blood, as they say, is thicker than water, and Jeb is a chip off the old block, as they also say, and daddy thinks he should run and would be a good prezident, so now it appears that Jeb may be considering, God help us!, to offer himself to the American people as a candidate for the White House.
According to Deeky at Shakesville, "Recent robocalls to Iowa asked potential voters which of the following they'd most likely vote for: Huckabee, Palin, Gingrich, Jindal, or Jeb Bush ... "
What a group, huh? Huckabee, the self-anointed spokesperson for God and righteousness, who believes in a fundamentalist Christian theocratic state; Palin, who's too damn stupid to walk upright without help; serial adulterer and now convert to the Roman Catholic institution, the ever nasty Grinch, Gingrich; Jindal, another convert to Roman Catholicism who does exorcisms in his spare time, never letting his substantial intellect get in the way of pious religious extremism...and then there's Jeb Bush.
You might think Jeb is less likely to lead America into a nuclear holocaust because he doesn't have a stupid grin on his face all the time like his dumber brother, but don't be fooled. Jeb is a dyed-in-the-wool right wing fanatic, and another Roman Catholic convert who tends toward theocracy, dogmatism and reliance on authority - his!
As governor of Florida, he screwed up the entire educational enterprise with a system of testing that did nothing but dumb down the school population. He was also a vociferous fighter for vouchers so parents could send their kids to private (read religious, read Catholic) schools on the public's dime. He further fought for the right of the religious right to impose their non-scientific "Intelligent Design" crap on our high school students - you know, on the basis that students ought to know about different interpretations as to how life came to be.
Jeb was also a big fan of providing private entrepreneurs (of which he is one, with the help of moneyed friends!) the ability to dip their grubby little hands into the public pot...and so we have, in part, a private prison system, which doesn't seem to have worked out too well!
Under Jeb, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, 'cause the rich were granted the right to pay less taxes and the state's infrastructure went to hell -- Florida's bridges are, in truth, falling down.
And, well, we don't even want to begin to talk about 2000!
Jeb is just another Bush in a suit sans cowboy hat. He carries all the elitist baggage of the Bush family and if you haven't yet read Russ Baker's Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, And What Their Influence Means For America, get thyself to a bookstore!
You may think George was a nightmare. Jeb will make that nightmare look like a pleasant dream!
But, hey, Daddy think's he's a "good" man and would be a "good" prezident. The problem with that is that Daddy doesn't know the different between good and goofus.
He's baaaack! Sam or Joe the plumber showed up in Florida yesterday, July 4, at a Tea Party to protest the government's rapacious tax policies...I caught just the tail end of it, but I believe it was in the town of Apopka that the dimwit paraded his nonsense. There's a lot of nonsense "paraded" about on July 4th.
Sam (Joe), as you recall, is the unlicensed plumber who failed to pay his taxes, but was nevertheless put on a pedestal by the Republican Party as a symbol of the "average" working American for whom the Republican Party lives and dies.
Oh, stop laughing. That's true!
This empty-headed twit spoke yesterday about how the government is bad and taxes are bad and he has the answers. What are those answers? Hmmm. He did suggest that people ought to read the Constitution. Other than that, I'm not sure. Don't pay your taxes?
Now, Joe (Sam) admitted one time that he'd probably take "handouts" from the guv'mint when he retired, albeit reluctantly...even though, if he was truly a working man he would have paid in substantial monies to the government in order to get some of it back.
Sam (Joe) further failed to mention how he would pay for police and fire protection, construction and repair of roads, regulation of airplanes, trucks and railroads, prisons, schools, and lifeguards, etc., etc., if people didn't pay their taxes.
Nevertheless, the hoi polloi stood around, applauded his "stimulating" rhetoric, took pictures of his bald head, and generally acted patriotic. Patriotism comes alive on July 4th, you know. In Florida, all true patriots buy illegal fireworks (they have to lie to get them) and then proceed to blow up hundreds of dollars worth of the stuff in their driveways, threatening to burn down their neighbor's houses and drive the local animals into hiding.
Not so long ago, I read that Joe (Sam) might enter politics. It depends on what God tells him to do. But wouldn't it be nice to have a "real" Uncle Sam?
Sarah Palin has resigned as governor of Alaska and will leave office at the end of July. Lucky Alaska! Can you imagine this airhead in a national office? Once again, we're reminded of the fact we narrowly avoided a national meltdown. It seemed possible not so long ago that the next president might be the increasingly dotty John McCain and the next vice president might be the strident, nasal, whiny, nitwit from Alaska.
The gods must have been smiling on us.
Here's her resignation speech. I'd suggest one try to make some sense of it, but that would be like trying to understand the New Testament book of Revelation. It can't be done!
Now that you've seen this truly evil and untrue advertisement for Jesus from Answers in Genesis, watch the video.
This is all over the blogosphere, so it's not exactly news, but Bernie Madoff has hired a prison consultant to help find him the "best" or most appropriate prison in which to spend the rest of his miserable life.
Jeb Bush, ex-governor of the state of Florida, has said previously on several occasions that he was not going to run for prezident of the United States.
He's baaaack! Sam or Joe the plumber showed up in Florida yesterday, July 4, at a Tea Party to protest the government's rapacious tax policies...I caught just the tail end of it, but I believe it was in the town of Apopka that the dimwit paraded his nonsense. There's a lot of nonsense "paraded" about on July 4th.
