From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Something to do

September 23, 2008

Every so often I get into a cleaning mood, today is that day so that’s what I’ve spent the day doing. Cleaning.  As a Domestic Ringmaster (aka: stay at home mom) I suppose it’s my job anyway, but I enjoy ignoring that part of the deal.
Anyway, here’s something for ya’ll to do. Some professor (via [...]

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XXXtian Babes gets pulled by Baptists

September 20, 2008

When it comes to the excitement over Sarah Palin being offered the VP slot no one seems to exude it more than the religious right. Tony Perkins, a Southern Baptist and president of FRC, declared her nomination “an outstanding pick”.
The key words in that last sentence is “Southern Baptist” and if there’s one thing [...]

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Ike was here…

September 16, 2008

And he tore up our neighbour’s fence.

Besides some trees that were uprooted/snapped, that appears to be the worst of the damage in our neighbourhood.  We all have electricity, water and cable as of tonight so we’re sitting pretty compared to the rest of the region.
And that’s about it. I’m just too damned tired to post [...]

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McCain: Obama made me lie

September 12, 2008

John McCain has taken to running a nasty campaign by releasing a series of smear ads aimed at Obama.   Yesterday at the national service forum McCain was asked why his campaign has gotten so nasty.  His response? Obama made him do it.
Questioned about the tone of the campaign, Sen. McCain insisted he was running an [...]

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Terrorism at the Font Conference

September 11, 2008

Ransom takes Courier and Curlz MT hostage…

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Becoming Ray Comfort in 12 Steps

September 11, 2008

As you may be aware I do not like Ray Comfort.  In fact, I’ve been considering put a post up about how Ray Comfort is one of the meanest, deceitful, bigoted and hypocritical defenders of the Christian faith I’ve come across in a long time.
Well, it looks like I can scrap that idea because the [...]

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All magic-ed out, time for a new spin

September 11, 2008

Looks like Lourdes is running out of magic despite relaxed rules on what is and is not magic.
When Bishop Jacques Perrier said the Roman Catholic Church would ease some criteria for miracles, skeptics foresaw a wave of pious believers claiming they had been healed at the famous shrine in his diocese of Lourdes.
New categories were [...]

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About that change McCain talked about

September 10, 2008

John McCain recently tried to co-opt Obama’s message of change stating more or less that he was going to change how Washington did business.  Obama fired back stating:
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax [...]

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Rape victims sent bills under Palin

September 9, 2008

In 2000 then governor of Alaska Tony Knowles signed a bill stopping the practice of charging victims of rape for assault kits.  Palin’s Wasilla was one of the towns who sent rape victims bills and whose police chief, appointed by Palin, didn’t like the decision to forbid the practice.
The new law makes it illegal for [...]

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Jeremy Hall still receiving death threats

September 9, 2008

Jeremy Hall who is suing over religious discrimination in the military is still being threatened by other service-members:
An atheist soldier at Fort Riley who’s suing the military is reporting that he has received a death threat.  The Army post says it is investigating.
Spc. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, based in Albuquerque, N.M., [...]

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