Might as well report that the sky is blue
Can someone tell me why it’s news that the Catholic church is still a bigoted institution? For example, a day or so after California declared that it was unconstitutional to ban homosexuals from legally marrying, it was considered “news” when Pope Ratface declared that the Catholic church still considers homosexuality to be icky.
And today the Telegraph has decided that it’s “news” that the Catholic church still considers women to be less than men. A total shocker, eh? Bet you never saw that one coming at all!
So, in keeping with the spirit of reporting news that really isn’t news, here’s some other “news” for you:
- Cats have four legs.
- Dogs bark.
- Beer is a liquid.
- Tobacco is a plant.
So, how about you? Got any news that isn’t news? Be kind and share with the rest of us.
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Christian Marines evangelizing Iraqi Muslims
As if the situation in Iraq wasn’t bad enough it appears that American marines are contributing to the problem by attempting to convert the Muslim residents of Fallujah to Christianity.
According to this report, unidentified Marines are said to have passed out evangelical coins at the gates of Fallujah while serving as guards.
One side of the coin asks “Where will you spend eternity?”. When you flip it over you’re told how “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16″.
This comes on the heals of another story about a sniper sing a Koran for target practice near Baghdad.
If this story turns out to be factual, I hope the marine(s) involved are severely punished because every time one of them does something like this they slander not just their fellow marines, but every American soldier in Iraq.
The fact of the matter is a lot of Muslims are convinced that America invaded Iraq for the purpose of converting them to Christianity. This kind of shit “proves” it and makes Muslims both fearful and/or suspicious of the American soldiers they encounter.
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Kieffe & Sons issue apology for bigoted ad
The owners of Kieffe & Sons Ford dealership out in Mojave that I recently wrote a post about have issued an apology for the bigoted ad they aired on a local radio station:
“For 15 years, Kieffe and Sons Ford has run ad campaigns that focus on current events. We have chosen to do this rather than presenting typical car sales ads. We do this through an agency that develops the material and sends us a package of commercials to review. From this, we select commercials that we distribute to area radio stations.
Frequently we emphasize humor and patriotic themes, as we are located adjacent to two military bases. Public response over these 15 years has been hugely positive, often eliciting calls and visits from appreciative individuals.
Regrettably, the commercial that has prompted the current objection to religious sentiment (”Under God”, “In We Trust”) was not closely reviewed by our dealership before it went live. The commercial has been replaced.
We apologize to all who were offended. It is Kieffe and Sons’ intention to support America and the freedoms that make this country great.”
Rick Kieffe, President
Personally, I don’t believe that the the ad was “not closely reviewed”. However, they have apologized and it’s not one of the fake “sorry if you were offended” apologies that appear to be in vogue these days.
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Michigan Democrats pass abortion legislation
One of the arguments for supporting the democratic nominee this fall is that a failure to put a democrat in office will result in the further erosion of reproductive freedom.
This argument annoys and angers me because 1) it’s fear-based and 2) democrats have been selling out women for years now. If there’s one thing Democrats have become quite consistent at it’s declaring the rights of women to be something “we” can afford to undermine.
The latest example is SB 776 in Michigan which was just passed 74-32 with 24 Democrats voting for it. It outlaws, on the state level, so-called “partial birth abortions”. There is no exemption for the health of the mother.
Yet, board after board, blog after blog, talking point after talking point insists that unless I vote Democrat this fall my rights as a woman will be eroded. That sound you just heard? That was me snorting at the preposterous idea that my rights as well as the rights/privileges of others will be protected by Democrats.
It’s become quite clear that when an election season rolls around, there isn’t any group/idea the Democrats won’t sell out in order to get/remain in power.
So until such time as the Democrats quit selling out women, gay people and a host of other groups/ideas - fuck them all. I will no longer be party too such a scam.
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Pat Condell: God is not Enough
Here’s a new video from Pat Condell who apparently has his own site now as well as a collection of his videos out on DVD.
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Ford Dealership to Non-Christians: STFU
Kieffe & Sons, a Ford dealership in California, has been running a radio ad since approximately February telling people who support the separation of church(es) and state and atheists to “sit down and shut up” .
The ad, found at The Consumerist, has a man saying:
Did you know that there are people in this country who want prayer out of schools, “Under God” out of the Pledge, and “In God We Trust” to be taken off our money?
But did you know that 86% of Americans say they believe in God? Now, since we all know that 86 out of every 100 of us are Christians who believe in God, we at Kieffe & Sons Ford wonder why we don’t just tell the other 14% to sit down and shut up. I guess maybe I just offended 14% of the people who are listening to this message.
Well, if that is the case, then I say that’s tough, this is America folks, it’s called free speech. And none of us at Kieffe & Sons Ford are afraid to speak up. Kieffe & Sons Ford on Sierra Highway in Mojave and Rosamond: if we don’t see you today, by the grace of God, we’ll be here tomorrow.
This is some classic Christian supremacism here in case you didn’t notice.
Kieffe and sons have a right to say whatever the fuck they want cause “this is America folks, it’s called free speech” but anyone who disagrees with Kieffe and his boys needs to “sit down and shut up“.
In other words, constitutional rights are fine and dandy just as long as one doesn’t go too far and think that they give one a right to not only practice those rights free of Christian interference but use them to speak out against and/or work to end Christian supremacism.
Then it’s all “there are more of us than there are of you so obey or be punished”.
Can’t you feel the love?
UPDATE: Just wanted to point out some great letters in the comment section by Jenny & Brian. If you’re on Facebook and are interested Amanda has started up a user group about this . You can contact the dealership at the link above and Ford. Feel free to copy & paste your letters in the comment section below.
UPDATE 2: JW Horne, the apparent producer behind this ad has decided to join us with this comment claiming, in short, we’s all be stupid mofo’s who just don’t get it.
UPDATE 3: JW might think we’re idiots, but Kieffe & Sons has apparently realized that it stepped over the line and has issued an apology for the ad.
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Can we vote her off the island?
Here’s a little gem of a story. A kindergarten teacher in Florida had one of her charges stand up in front of the class and then preceded to have his classmates vote him out of the class. This was after the boy was forced to listen to each of his classmates state why they didn’t like him.
He was then kicked out of class and sent to the office where he spent the rest of the day in the nurses office. Apparently, the school didn’t even bother to call the child’s mother about the incident.
So, I cast my vote to have the teacher kicked out of the class, the school and the entire profession of teaching. Why?
When I was a senior in high school I attended this computer course across the road from the main school. One day I came to class to find that there had been an attempted suicide in the bathroom. A young woman had sliced her wrists open.
Why did she do it? She was picked on without mercy for years. The adults did nothing. Nothing. I know because I had registered my own complaint about the behaviour of her tormenters years before when we attended the same school. I remember to this day being told that the adults just didn’t have the time to punish the jackasses and make sure they didn’t do the things they were doing.
The worst, however, was yet to come. Our teacher decided it would be great fun to mock her in front of us. To my knowledge that hateful merciless sorry excuse for a teacher still works for the school after being suspended for a fucking day after the parents/guardians of some of us submitted their own complaints about her.
And that’s why this one needs to go - permanently. She is unfit to be put in charge of children. We adults are supposed to stop this kind of shit in it’s tracks, not ignore it or worse - actively promote it as this one has done.
UPDATE: Here’s a video of an interview with Alex Barton’s mother about the incident:
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