Archive for January, 2008
Freedom and democracy in Afghanistan
If you bothered to listen to the king this past Monday you’d heard him state that everything’s great in the newly minted democratic Afghanistan. There’s only one problem. A 23 year old journalist was recently sentenced to death for blasphemy in what appears to be vengeance for his elder brother’s stance against local [...]
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Stop the presses! Bigot found in church!
A choir member at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church up in Washington decided to quit the choir because “80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than [she does].” She stated this in two emails sent in December and January and people are a bit [...]
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God needs better lawyers
Religious people do weird things and when they’re not doing weird things they’re apparently coming up with ways to get around doing things their god wants them to do. Case in point:
A Jewish law apparently exists that states every seven years the farming land held by Jews has to lay fallow for an entire year. [...]
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What’s new in racism
The scandal involving District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal here in Houston has brought to light a new way to be a racist without actually saying anything “racist”. The word is “Canadian” as in “a couple of Canadians on the jury felt sorry for the defendent and convicted him of a lesser charge”. The Canadians in question? [...]
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Holy Joe to attend GOP Convention
Joe Lieberman says he’ll attend the Republican convention should his buddy McCain win the nomination as he will “probably be more welcome there”.
Gee. I wonder why.
Maybe it has something to do with his endorsement of and campaigning for John McCain and him now being an official member of McCain’s campaign after getting elected [...]
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A look at Kenneth Copeland’s Empire
CBS news recently did an investigation into the grandfather of the money making scheme called the “prosperity gospel” Kenneth “Holy Warrior” Copeland an this is what they found:
Four private jets, an airport/strip and a lakeside house over 18 thousand square feet in size? If I didn’t have a conscious….
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Pope Benedict: Don’t fire me, bro!
The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science can say who man is, where he comes from or where he is going”, the Pope said.
Science, of [...]
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