Bringing you the other half of the hateful, bad boy's club, Pat Robertson. Still insisting that The Devil Went Down to Haiti, Robertson repeated the self proclaimed "True Story" on his "700 Club" today, but realizing it hadn't played well yesterday, the hell-bent, money grubbing shill did a considerable amount of double talk and back peddling, when CBN attempted to back him with yet more about the 1791 Slave Rebellion which is charged with starting this mess.
Raymond Joseph, Ambassador to Haiti, has a different version which is historically accurate.
As promised, a bit of historical sanity. Haiti's Ambassador,Raymond Joseph, just may know more factual aspects of this blow-up than Pat Robertson. He explains how the defeat of France inspired the French, not only to leave Haiti, but to give us a bargain basement price on a certain piece of property, and double the size of our country! If this is the Devil's work, a lot of believers are living in it! Oh yes, and there will be a written quiz.
Oh you say, Pat Robertson is no longer America's leading Christian! Oh, okay... I guess that title would now have to go to the Reverend Rick Warren who helps fund the Uganda Christians who support life imprisonment and the death penalty for being gay.
Not to be out done Rush Limbaugh used the quake to attack President Obama's quick response as "light skinned" race politics. Oh, he also blamed communism.
Right-wing despots Papa Doc and Baby Doc were prefixed and suffixed by an endless stream of right-wing military fascists who were anything but communists. A moderate socialist, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. was elected in 1991 and lasted 5 months before the US helped depose him. He was again elected in 2000 and retained power for 3 years before be was again deposed with US help.
No, being the poorest nation in our hemisphere is because of what George Bush the Father so well expressed in 1980 when he defined Reaganomics as VOODOO ECONOMICS. Also called the Tinkle Down theory and the Yellow Rain. It is not race or religion that drives a nation into corruption, but abject poverty in which basic survival is based on bribery.
As you know, bribery at low levels is a horrible horrible thing while bribery at the highest levels is the cherished American way of life.
This is of course God's Plan, who works in mysterious ways...
Here we have a Fox News host interviewing another Fox News host while they both inject direct references to how "FAIR and BALANCED" that is! Gosh...
So let me get this right, God took some time off this week from his busy schedule planning the destruction of Haiti - that's what being poor and VOODOO will get you - to give his chosen Sarah a multimillion dollar deal at Fox News. Obviously God is a joker, a smoker and and a midnight toker.
The silliness of this beyond the pale interview can get one thinking that the Tea Baggers, the Birthers, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Tom Colburn, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Demint, Sarah Palin, David Vitter and above all Fox News are the greatest boon to the Democratic Party in the history of American politics.
One would think that, but as soon as you factor GOD into the American electorate, all bets are off. The religion pages
Those out front of this issue which denies gay couples marriage rights JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE have OF COURSE no concept of freedom, liberty, equal rights, civil rights, human rights, justice, fairness or even common sense of that matter [Would not it be better for gays to have committed long range relationships rather than bathhouse frolics]. But as we can see from these interviews this overt fascism comes from... Yes you guessed it GOD'S PLAN.
It seems it does not matter much which religion or what God. God says! And that is that. Well unless God or his progeny says something bad about rich people or good about poor people, then it's just so much crap that needs to be ignored, re evaluated or - as the Schlaflys' are doing over at conservapediea.com - re written. It is God's Plan to rewrite the Bible!
Especially this part! Holy Crap!
"In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 22:12)
Sound familiar?
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." Karl Marx.
HOLY CRAP!
You know the denial of logic, reason, and common sense regarding evolution comes from one paragraph in one book. Weighing in at about 2 grams while on the other side of the scale there are thousands of tons of hard factual evidence. As in this case, the only thing that keeps the injustice viable are three sentences in that same book on once side, and the United States Constitution on the other.
Also remember that book also rates a BJ about the same as a having a shrimp cocktail or ham sandwich. I have a confession to make. I once experienced all three sins in about an hour one time. Of course I wore a hat with a lightening rod atop it.
But the dumbest thing of all is how Republican propaganda has so successfully caused the VAST MAJORITY of Americans to believe that it is the American Government that is evil rather than the 30 years of over the top usury Bankers have charged us, keeping our wages and salaries stagnant while increasing their own by 400%, promoting and profiting from our debt and steal our homes, our children's' educations and even our health.
The response? Gatherings in public parks to cheer them on and scream about government regulation being Marxist Nazism. Gosh, oxymorons on oxycotin.
"Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need." Acts of the Apostles’ 4-34
Or the shorter version...
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." Karl Marx.
"In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 22:12)
Back when I was in school we were forced to memorize a speech by this Portia lady. It was in regards to a banker named Shylock practicing usury to demand a pound of bloody living flesh from a client. It began:
"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as a gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes..." [from memory]
These days Portia would be singing praises to Shylock while taking an extra 35% of the bloody flesh for herself. And then go stand on the public gallows platform to brag about it. Oops! Did I get Portia and Ayn Rand mixed up again?
Forget that Domino's is tied for third place with Pizza Hut and Pizza Inn as the worst damn pizza in the world. Though good for cheaply stuffing ones over stuffed children with calories. Give them that.
But remember that Domino's founder billionaire CEO and primary share holder Tom Monaghan (up until he sold the company in 1998) was the biggest contributor to radical Pro Life group Operation Rescue - when run by "intolerance is Beautiful"Randall Terry - and most all other Pro life causes including fundamentalist groups such as The Word of God.
Don't give up on this one, take it to the end! Had to laugh like Hell...
American Christianity, which Mr Hume advocates as forgiving, is nothing of the sort.
Our American brand of Christianity is the loudest voice we have promoting war, capital punishment, corporal punishment, three strikes you are out, mandatory sentencing, revenge, throwing away the key, proliferation of handguns and assault rifles, denying due process and not to forget our greatest advocate for TORTURE! My God, Earth to Brit!
To put this all in perspective here is a recent quote from Hume about his gay Son, Sandy Hume, who committed suicide in 1998 after a DUI arrest.
"I want to pursue my faith more ardently than I have done. I'm not claiming it's impossible to do when you work in this business. I was kind of a nominal Christian for the longest time. When my son died, I came to Christ in a way that was very meaningful to me. If a person is a Christian and tries to face up to the implications of what you say you believe, it's a pretty big thing. If you do it part time, you're not really living it."
If I were gay and my father was the News Director of a silly right-wing cable news channel, I would have probably done the same.
In defense of Brit Hume - who is after all just a right-wing propagandist making his living working for a silly right-wing cable network - he most certainly has the right to express his beliefs when and where he pleases.
On the other hand, when people like Brit Hume give their PRIMARY LOYALTY to supernatural deities rather than their country, state, district or family, they have no business in government. It is not only sedition, but what drives the terror.
There are millions of lovely people of all religious denominations,non-believers, and those with an open mind. Do we hear from them, no. We hear from the loudest, and most idiotic of every belief system...enter Brit Hume. You are guaranteed a roll in the aisle when Brit Hume discloses his entire knowledge of Buddhism as he encourages Tiger to gain his old life back, and we learn from Dan Savage why
Christianity, as practiced by Hume is the perfect religion for wife dumping politicos.
By the way, Brit Hume's advice was completely unsolicited. Man of the world that he is, he's assessed Tiger's situation, and knows just the cure. Hume comments that "Tiger is said to be a Buddhist..I don't think that faith offers the kind of
forgiveness and redemption offered by the Christian faith." Thanks to Dan Savage we know just what Brit means about the flexible faith as practiced by Hume. Thanks to - of all people, Don Imus, we learn a great deal more about Buddhism than.....Brit Hume, for one.
Substitute an even bigger hypocritical "marriage is sacred" gasbag Rush Limbaugh who has been divorced three times. And of course the long list of such Republicans screeching about the Sanctity of Marriage, and actually voting against giving Gays the EQUAL rights. Senator Ensign, Senator Vitter, Governor Sanford etc...
BTW, Karl Rove dismisses any constitutional right to privacy for women...
On a connected note...
There is a custody battle going on between divorced lesbians. One denounced homosexuality to become a Fundamental Christian and refused visitation rights of their 7 year old child to the lesbian. Because of breaking the law, the courts in Vermont reversed custody to the lesbian. The US Supreme Court has denied review. The crazy Taliban lady is on the run in Virginia which also recognizes her as on the run. Mom and Daughter Go AWOL in Lesbian Custody Case
Again we see the GREAT DIVIDE. There is no doubt whatsoever that this child would be better off out of the hands of an ignorant, intolerant, Christian fundamentalist. It's like giving our children over to the Taliban. ALL religious fundamentalists should not be allowed to become teachers, intermarry and should all be put on the no-fly list. Our Religion Pages
It is being reported over and over again on Fox news, CNN and MSNBC that a Colorado woman and her new born child have "returned from the dead"*. Father and husband Mike Hermanstorfer credits "the hand of God."
The cemetery in which the mother and child clawed their way out of their graves is not known at this time. Whether it be God or Zombies responsible is still being investigated.
* According to the New Testament "returning from the dead" has a minimum rot time of at least two days.
Imagine this ad running on American television! WOW! We almost imploded seeing a little boob for almost a whole second at the Super Bowl!
Gets me thinking that perhaps the issue behind our brand of intolerant Evangelical Christianity is that the Human Genome project will find that such people lack the humor gene. In fact I was just thinking about all the funny parts in the Bible! I wrote them all down here for you
Outside Knuckledrag, Oklahoma the state's two REPUBLICAN Senators are known as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The latter, Senator Daniel Inhofe, is the dullest knife in the Senate drawer and America's highest ranking elected official screeching to the world that Climate Change is hoax. The former, Senator Tom Colburn is an Evangelical Christian Fundamentalist whackjob whose life is dedicated to denying pregnant women and gays their human rights.
Nine hours before the health care vote, Senator Colburn - knowing full well that a very sick Senator Robert Byrd would have to brave a major snow storm to be wheeled in on a hospital bed or wheelchair to cast the 60th vote with Democrats - asked all Americans to pray that Jesus will come to Washington DC to intervene by either making Senator Byrd too sick of too not alive to keep him from voting. Which goes well with the prevailing attitude of American Evangelical Christianity, JESUS KILLS.
This is not only a reflection of how American Evangelical Christianity has been so grievously corrupted by the political Right, but also a reflection upon the Republican Party which has turned Jesus into a well armed, violent, free market executioner.
As I am sure the effort of the Schlafly Family over at Conservapedia to rewrite the New Testament reflecting modern right-wing intolerance and and free market economics, the Xmas story of the three wiseman will have the presents given to the Lord of Peace changed from Gold, Frankenstein and Myrrh to Gold, .357 magnum and a signed copy of Ayn Rand's "The Virture of Selfishness".
I must also remind yall that though Oklahoma has the two top wingnut Republican Senators, down here in Dumbutt, Texas matters are not much better.
The campaign for Governor of Texas has begun. Governor Rick Perry is ahead - mostly due to his infamous speech at the first Glenn Beck Tea Baggers rally where he threaten Texas succession from the Union. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is no slouch and is doing her best to sink into the wholesale bigotry and intolerance of Texas culture.
Every week we seem to see one of the other take a new dive deeper into some form of Right-wing Shitism. Lately it has been who most rabidly supports Texans taking their Mach 10s and Uzis into bars. Sporting events is the next step we hear...
"If its real to you, it’s money to us!" The UFO Abduction counselor. And the Minister, the Preacher, the Rabbi, the Mullah and the Priest.
A few years back I went to visit an old psychologist friend who was at the time making a good living counseling UFO abductees. I was eager to talk with him to see if, as I suspected, there was any difference between being abducted by aliens and fundamentalist religions. From a distance, and before speaking to him, I had my answer in the T-Shirt he wore, "If its real to you, it’s money to us!"
I feel the need to premise this category with a few comments on religion. Keep religious fervor our of the government and away from me and mine and it’s just fine. I do understand that it is something many require to help them make it through this life.
I believe we have souls that if not filled with something or other, will probably cause us to not have a very good time of it, though the issue is what exactly we choose to fill it with.
Many of us find it quite easy to fill it with love of family and friends, hobbies, sports, politics, music, art and of course GUNS! But many others do not enjoy such easy options and instead require it filled by a glowing globe of supernatural firmament.
That need for the supernatural can be seen as a strength or a weakness, but when it becomes fanatical or forced upon others, it's the most dangerous thing in the world. Oh you need not ask questions, when God's on your side.
A few years ago then Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota found himself in serious trouble when he wrongly stated that religion was for the weak AND stupid, which is not something one can say in Minnesota - nor anywhere else in this country. In fact, the trouble he gained from that statement was the impetus of him not running for office again. Even rightly stated that it is for the weak OR stupid doesn't get very far either.
Don’t kid yourself, most of the terror in the world past and present is and has been more about religious faith than anything else. Contrary to public opinion, governments and secular charities do far more than churches in alleviating poverty and misery in the world.
Religious faith cannot be disparaged in any way by either the main stream media or politicians, in fact even individuals speaking privately should be advised to stay silent on the matter for the repercussions.
Faith in what we may ask? A belief in supernatural happenings and deities? Or perhaps faith in each other?
No matter, I never swallowed the former and over the past generation watching the Republican Party turn Christianity into a right-wing hate fest dependent upon unregulated free market selfishness, I’ve lost the latter.
My favorite book is Moby Dick, a fun adventure that takes a hard look at how religion drives revenge. One little clip from it stayed with me and best describes my feelings on the issue.
"Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in, then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him." Ishmael - From Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
The vicar of St Matthew's, Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, said: "Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ."Its vision is one of robust engagement," he said
The vicar has more than succeeded in stirring robust engagement! The Auckland Catholic Diocese has called the image "inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive to Christians." That was only one of the first shots fired over the bow.
The billboard of a dejected looking Joseph, with Mary by his side in bed, apparently having had sex featured the slogan above them: "Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow."
The billboard seems to scandalize people the world over rather than provoking thought and discussion of the true meaning of Christmas, as Auckland's St. Matthew's intended. Fundamentalist groups such as 'Family First' whose directer Bob McCoskrie spoke out saying it was "inappropriate and disrespectful". Fundamental groups and the Catholic Church cannot seem to get past the literal interpretation of the word virgin, which arguably has different meanings in some of the languages translated into the Bible. Even if the literal version makes you happy, Mary and Joseph are obviously in bed after her memorable Dear Diary days, such as being told that she'd bear the son of God by an angel, becoming preganant while a "virgin" through miraculous means, and likely have three kids and a mortgage by the time they're depicted in the poster. Tsk tsk for jumping to conclusions!
Poor Mary and Joseph, Spokeswoman Lindsay Freer mirrored many when she said that for a church to put up a poster which implied the Virgin Mary and Joseph had just had sex was disrespectful to the church. It was 2,000 years ago, could you forgive them if they did Ms Freer? I suppose it's too much to ask for the
detractors to ask Santa...er pray fervently for open minds, and maybe a sense of humor? Mary, Joseph, and SEX...billboard raises unholy ruckus in Auckland, NZ
The God Posse claims that "Not believing in God is a sin," making the newly sworn councilman Cecil Bothwell, "unworthy to serve." While Bothwell, and the
majority of the voters in Raleigh, North Carolina have the U.S. Constitution on their side, the God Squad has a real jewel in their defense!
The opposition has located an antiquated and over-looked glitch in North Carolina's state constitution from 1868, which disqualifies officeholders "Who shall deny the being of Almighty God." Side note:The state constitution does not
overrule the U.S.Constitution. That should be the end of it, but the battle
continues. No doubt some are hostile considering the book Bothwell released in November titled " Billy Graham's Crusade for a Wholly Christian Empire," a tell - all book which is less than laudatory about American icon Graham...just in time for Christmas giving!
Many states in the union still have laws on the books which have been long forgotten. A very few still on the books in North Carolina include: Oral sex is a crime against nature. Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields. Women
must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times. While having sex, you must stay in the missionary position and have the shades pulled. (we don't know who policed this one). No one may visit their departed loved ones late at night. The particular law being used in the attempt to oust Cecil Bothwell is simply another example of the dusty relics still in the books, and long overlooked. In fact, six other states still have the same archaic provisions on the books barring atheists from holding office. This seems to be in direct conflict with the separation of church and state. Would this be a bad time to mention a few office holders who ran on a Christian platform, only to be exposed sinning recently and proving themselves at best - "unworthy to
serve?"
The law only specifies believing in God, they do not state a religion. It is amusing to wonder what kind of bru-ha-ha could have erupted had Bothwell been a Buddist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or of the Bahai faith.
God Posse fights constitution to unseat popular Atheist councilman
We should have seen this coming. It's the classic split between the Republican Evangelical nitwits and the Godless Republican Looneytarian wingnuts which together make up the entire GOP these days. I cannot pass that statement without reminding yall that Ron Paul is an Ayn Rand (aethist) Looneytarian AND an evangelical Christian Fundamentalist and Creationist. Now that's one crazyass lunatic! They'rer coming to take him away Ha Ha! But TV interviewers like him! I think it's because has that aura of pathetic likability.
I walked through a Tea Party rally down here in dumbutt and noticed one issue the same as in Ohio. That the group should indeed move their meeting place from Pizza Hut to a gym near a Whole Foods store. I would also have liked to have heard their reaction putting a tax on Hostess products.
I am not sure why a plastic Jesus with springs for feet is a bad thing. Many have magnets, some are bobbleheads and I don't care if it rains or freezes as long as got my plastic Jesus riding on the dashboard of my car...
This is the son of Phyllis Schlafly, who is of course known as a twat. She got her start banning text books, and goes so far as trying to remove GEOGRAPHY from public schools! No need for our children to know about any lesser beings or non Christian people across the water.
How proud she must be of a son who is going to rewrite the New Testament to reflect unregulated free markets and promote such ignorance, intolerance and bigotry. Almost as proud as Lucianne Goldberg must be of her Son Jonas who has taken the mantle of America's Dumbest Conservative Columnist. The only reason he got syndication is because if he didn't Lucianne would have made make a few calls. You don't screw around with Lucianne Goldberg, she is after all, just as awful as she appears.
So why did Colbert invite one of the most intolerant Right-wing Christian airheads in America to the show? The answer is that Colbert had his Nation go to Conservapedia and add their input to the wiki-public dialogue. Which Andy immediately, fairly, and democratically DELETED! Colbert wanted a piece of him for that.
And why did Andy accept the invitation knowing he was going to be jacked around by an expert? That too is easy enough, his appearance will generate traffic, make him money, help him deny women and gays their human rights, help keep evolution out of public schools and if new people write things he doesn't like he can just delete it. That by the way is the key to promoting religious dogma, they have left burning for deleting.
This article got me thinking back to President of Uganda Idi Amin eating his opposition. What a godawful place. Legislation to call for Death for Homos and 7 years in jail for anyone harboring or not reporting a homo! Gosh... The article also puts American Evangelical Christian BIGOTS to task for going there and stirring up the anti gay pot. None the less we come off with a very bad view of Uganda. But the kicker in the article did not come until then end reminding us that Nigeria already has such laws! So it's not just email fraud from Nigeria it's the entire disgusting place. Uganda debates death penalty for gays
In a related story, our Supreme Court is hearing arguments concerning religious freedom and the Christian Legal Society at Hastings College of Law, a California State University funded by tax dollars. Rights and Religion Clash in Court
The Christians refuse to admit gays to their college approved group which is clearly discriminatory, but their argument is that the very essence and purpose of their group and their being, IS TO DISCRIMINATE against gays, thus, it has no choice put to do so.
This should not have had to go to the Supreme Court, that it has gives us no doubt that four of the justices are going to vote to extend Christian bigotry into public funded universities, led of course by Justice Antonin Benito Scalia.
By upholding the Plano School District rules on distribution of Christian materials in school the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals halted students - the children of four sets of evangelical fundamentalist creationist parents who brought the suit - from handing out Jesus pencils, Jesus Candy Canes and Jesus creationist cards DURING classes. Court Sides With Plano ISD In Candy Cane Lawsuit
The story here is not that the separation of church and state was enforced down here in Texas, but how that the present agreed upon law is that the Texas courts allow Republican Christian Evangelical Fundamentalist Creationists to distribute whatever Christian materials they wish IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS before and after school, at three annual Christian school parties, during recess, at designated tables in the hallways during school hours and at the cafeteria during lunch periods.
That's not enough for the Texas Taliban here in Dumbutt. For like their counterparts in the swath of Hell between Afghanistan and Pakistan, they want it all and they want it now. GOT IS GREAT!
They want to shove their intolerant bigoted mindless crap down the throats of ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ALL THE TIME. And for the most part they get away with it here in Texas.
"Using Constitutional quotes and arguments regarding abortion are ludicrous as that document did not include women, Indians or Blacks yet alone a fetus."
Oh you say, Pat Robertson is no longer America's leading Christian! Oh, okay... I guess that title would now have to go to the 
It is being reported over and over again on Fox news, CNN and MSNBC that a Colorado woman and her new born child have "returned from the dead"*. Father and husband 
The vicar of St Matthew's, Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, said: "Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ."Its vision is one of robust engagement," he said
By upholding the Plano School District rules on distribution of Christian materials in school the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals halted students - the children of four sets of evangelical fundamentalist creationist parents who brought the suit - from handing out Jesus pencils, Jesus Candy Canes and Jesus creationist cards DURING classes. 
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