Gift rift: Evangelicals split over plan to ban presents

Gift rift: Evangelicals split over plan to ban presents: "Our task is to help them understand that the solution is not blaming secular people, civil libertarians, Jews, gays or anyone else,' Lerner wrote, 'but instead to recognize that the emptiness or feeling of loneliness of 'lack' has been forced upon them by market values that they need to become aware of and then reject.' "

A Fine Man and a Grand Heart - Rabbi Marc Gellman

Marriage and the Jesus Miracle: "So it must be: a voyage apart in the same direction. Grapple the two vessels together, lash them side by side, and the first storm will smash them to pieces. This is marriage, in the bad weather of modern civilization. But leave the two vessels apart, to make their voyage to the same port, each according to its own skill and power, and an unseen life connects them, a magnetism which cannot be forced. And that is marriage as it will be when all this is broken down."

This wall keeps Mexicans in Mexico

Rich Lowry Fails Again To Make A Salient Point "There is an elementary moral distinction between a wall built to keep people out and one designed to keep people in."

Listen up rightie: the idiot doing your thinking for you is letting you down.

We Killed All Those Folks For This ??

Independent Online Edition >Iraq Is Disintegrating: "Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated."

Maybe somebody in America will notice that the Righties are wrong.

Bush Can See Dick

Goodnight mom, goodnight W: "...the fact that we are discussing this program is helping the enemy." But there is simply no evidence, or even reasonable presumption, that this is so. And rather than the leaking being a "shameful act," it was the work of a patriot inside the government who was trying to stop a presidential power grab."

"In the meantime, it is unlikely that Bush will echo President Kennedy in 1961. After JFK managed to tone down a New York Times story by Tad Szulc on the Bay of Pigs invasion, he confided to Times editor Turner Catledge that he wished the paper had printed the whole story because it might have spared him such a stunning defeat in Cuba.

This time, the president knew publication would cause him great embarrassment and trouble for the rest of his presidency. It was for that reason—and less out of genuine concern about national security—that George W. Bush tried so hard to kill the New York Times story."

The "nuts without balls" democrats guide Bush's hand as it pats your ass in the dark. That's why democrats need to wipe the smirk off their faces.

Fabricated Links - Extra Spicey or Smoked ?

Bush Will Believe Any Evidence That Keeps His Mind Off The Next Drink: "But like the uranium yellowcake claims since determined to be fraudulent that are at the heart of the CIA leak case, the administration's original allegations about Zarqawi's trip also seem to be melting away. An updated CIA re-examination of the issue recently concluded that Saddam's regime may not have given Zarqawi 'safe haven' after all."

When we're out of National Guard Units, Bush will send in the scouts: Boy, Cub, Eagle, Bluebird, Pathfinder, Girl -

"Brownies, you're doing a great job !"

We give our hands in promise
To hold our country dear,
And abide the Girl Scout Law
Each day throughout the year.

Sorry we died mom, but thanks for supporting the President !

Jonah Wails But The Caravan Continues On Its Way

Goldbergs For A Small America: "We expect Democrats to want the government to do everything, but at least they have the consistency to raise taxes in order to pay for it. Republicans lack similar convictions. "

Workplace Masturbator Seeks Respect

Onan The Barbarian Dials Up An Actual Man: "As you may know, Murtha will not talk with me. Is that responsible? This is by far the highest rated prime time daily news program in the country. Why wouldn't Murtha want to engage this audience?"

Because your audience includes those Americans for whom a news story is dogs fucking on the convent's lawn. Also because Murtha tries to avoid associating with men who jack-off while talking on the phone with colleagues.

Trust Bush, Not Your Lying Eyes

The Alpha Thug Salutes His Prick : "Democratic leaders sternly criticized President Bush yesterday for saying former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) is innocent of felonious campaign finance abuses, suggesting his comments virtually amounted to jury tampering before DeLay stands trial.
'The president of the United States said a jury does not need to assemble, that Tom DeLay is innocent,' said Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). 'To have someone of his stature, the president of the United States, prejudge a case is something I've never seen before.'"

For the holidays, let's put the DeLay back in Bush.

Peggy Noonan Tries Again To Make Sense

Anything Heard At Delphi Is True: "Pat Buchanan said a few months ago something bracing in its directness. He said a constitution doesn't make a country; a country makes a constitution. "

When she's not bronzing a NY Firefighter, she's shining shit for the Foxpackers at the Cato Club.

We're back in "Mighty Joe Young" land, watching three hours of a sad incident involving a big gorilla.

Girl meets gorilla in big, hairy mess of a movie: "Even if this were the first gorilla-in-love movie ever made, audiences would come away vaguely dissatisfied, suspecting there was an intriguing idea buried somewhere in here, but it didn't quite come off. "

Geesh, I hope not. But recall please that reviewer Mick LaSalle didn't think Titanic was so hot either. Although I also recall that I tended to agree with much of his criticism. This does not seem to bode well.

America Is Now Only a Beautiful Story About the Past

USATODAY.com: "'Sneak and peak' raids. The government would still, with a warrant, be able to break into your home or business, poke into anything there and not have to inform you for 30 days - and there's an escape clause to justify further delays. Most troubling, the Justice Department recently acknowledged that 88% of the search warrants issued under this provision have been used in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism.
Defining terrorism. One section creates a definition of domestic terrorism so broad that it potentially could be used to include acts of civil disobedience - such as protesters blocking a road or simple trespassing. It also allows for forfeiture of an organization's assets without criminal conviction and without a prior hearing."

I have outlived my fatherland. What replaces it is the fullfilled dreams of the enemy.

'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion'

Guilt, Blame, Sacrifice and a Suffering: "Philip Pullman - he of the marvellously secular trilogy His Dark Materials - has called Narnia 'one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read'.
Why? Because here in Narnia is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America - that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right. I once heard the famous preacher Norman Vincent Peale in New York expound a sermon that reassured his wealthy congregation that they were made rich by God because they deserved it. The godly will reap earthly reward because God is on the side of the strong. This appears to be CS Lewis's view, too. In the battle at the end of the film, visually a great epic treat, the child crusaders are crowned kings and queens for no particular reason. Intellectually, the poor do not inherit Lewis's earth."

Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had enormous meaning ..." So Lewis weaves his dreams to invade children's minds with Christian iconography that is part fairytale wonder and joy - but heavily laden with guilt, blame, sacrifice and a suffering that is dark with emotional sadism.

Inouye Reminds Bush To Shut Up

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005: "'As a Veteran of World War II, I know what it's like to fight a war and put your life on the line every day. I also know what it takes to win a war, and I know that politics and an attack machine like the President's plays no part in it."

As Promised, Torture Led To Bush's Bad Decision

How Much More Bullshit Do We Have To Take From This Moronic President ?: "The Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner while in Egyptian custody who later said he had fabricated them to escape harsh treatment, according to current and former government officials."

In statements before the war, and without mentioning him by name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then the secretary of state, and other officials repeatedly cited the information provided by Mr. Libi as "credible" evidence that Iraq was training Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons. Among the first and most prominent assertions was one by Mr. Bush, who said in a major speech in Cincinnati in October 2002 that "we've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases."

The question of why the administration relied so heavily on the statements by Mr. Libi has long been a subject of contention. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, made public last month unclassified passages from the February 2002 document, which said it was probable that Mr. Libi "was intentionally misleading the debriefers."

The document showed that the Defense Intelligence Agency had identified Mr. Libi as a probable fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda involving illicit weapons.

When does it become OK to point out that Republicans are killing everything decent about America ?

Katrina Is Still Killing - Meet David Before He's Gone

We Must Help - We've Got To Find A Way To Help: "...someone asked what day of the week it was, prompting a response from one officer that Osofsky will never forget. 'He said, 'I know what day it is. Every day is the same day; it's the day after the hurricane.' '"

David, an artiste - and a person like many of the people I've known throughout my life, explains in words that chill my heart, "I'm one of those people who just got hit real hard. I'm very scared," he said, his voice barely audible, his face hidden beneath the hat. "I'm scared because I don't have any identity anymore."

The combination of sadness, guilt and despair has prompted him to consider suicide.

"Being here right now, this exact moment, is one of the most painful moments of my life," he said.


My country's abysmal response to this catastrophe is one of the biggest surprises of my life.

Nazis, Righties and Persians, Oh My

This Guy Knows He's An Asshole - But He Just Wants To See Us Cringe: "'Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that they condemn that person and throw them in jail,' IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
'Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?' he said.
'If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe -- like in Germany, Austria or other countries -- to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.'"

"Then because the Jews have been oppressed during the Second World War, therefore the Europeans have to support the occupying regime of Jerusalem. We do not accept this," he said.

Maybe he should check the date on his God - he'll notice that it's well over a thousand years after Solomon's Temple was built.

"Why Do We Need All Those Lifeboats?" ask Republicans

You know what they say, "The ship belongs to the Captain, but the lifeboats belong to the crew": "Last month's budget-cutting bill would save $50 billion over five years by imposing new fees on Medicaid recipients, trimming the food stamp rolls, squeezing student lenders and cutting federal child support enforcement."

"Our economic policies have done the trick," said Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio), whose reliance on tricks seems so sweet, albeit unprofessional and unhelpful.

Bush Claims "Alito Is No Conservative". Also Claims "Michelle Malkin Thinks Outside A Box"

12/06/2005 Administration Says Alito Is Actually A Butch Liberal: "'Although Alito's opinions are rarely written with obvious ideology, he's seldom sided with a criminal defendant, a foreign national facing deportation, an employee alleging discrimination or consumers suing big business,' reporters Stephen Henderson and Howard Mintz wrote.
The reporters also concluded that Alito 'rarely supports individual rights,' shows 'a strong deference to police authority' and is extremely skeptical about claims of racial discrimination. Henderson covers the Supreme Court for Knight Ridder. Mintz, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, a Knight Ridder paper, worked on the Alito project during a stint in Washington."

On the tirebiter front, hate-news flinger Michelle Malkin's most recent nudeless photo shows the hot rightie lunatic beside her beloved box, thinking.

Nuke Over U.S. Could Unleash Electromagnetic Tsunami

This is from an Iranian political military policy journal:

Once you confuse the enemy communication network, you can also disrupt the work of the enemy command and decision making center.
Even worse, today when you disable a country's military high command through disruption of communications you will, in effect, disrupt all the affairs of that country. . . . If the world's industrial countries fail to devise effective ways to defend themselves against dangerous electronic assaults, then they will disintegrate within a few years. . . . American soldiers would not be able to find food to eat nor would they be able to fire a single shot.

Dread Pirate Roberts Says If You Don't Rub My Robe, I Won't Cater Your Baptism

Give Me Your Tired, Non-gay Children and I'll Return Them In A Bag

"The law schools have their own message, 'that they believe it is immoral to abet discrimination,' he said.
This time, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took issue. 'But they can say that to every student who enters the room,' she said.
'And when they do it, your honor, the answer of the students is, we don't believe you,' Mr. Rosenkranz said.
'The reason they don't believe you is because you're willing to take the money,' Chief Justice Roberts interjected. 'What you're saying is this is a message we believe in strongly, but we don't believe in it to the detriment of $100 million.'"

Ok, so according to Sandra "Bush not Gore" O'Connor, Law Schools can say to each student entering the campus' military recruiter's office, "we believe it is immoral to abet discrimination".

The schools should immediately make that a mandatory procedure.

Coulter Now Licking Balls to Get Attention

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com: "And unlike Murtha, who refuses to release his medical records showing he was entitled to his two Purple Hearts, we know what North did. (These Democrat military veterans are hardly shrinking violets when it comes to citing their medals, but they get awfully squeamish when pressed for details.) "

Like clockwork, it took only a few paragraphs for her to start her politics of personal destruction. I think that her words actually smell - right on the page.

Bottom Line: When Republican's Screw a Woman, She's Supposed To Stay Screwed !

More Sam Alito Abortion Insight !

"What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects?' "

Here's some more of his unsane plans for the women in your life:

"we should make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to brief the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, that decision should be overruled."

"abortion is not unregulable" he said, and advocated that the Reagan administration try to "nudge" the Supreme Court toward recognizing a state's "interest in protecting the unborn throughout pregnancy, or to dispel in part the mystical faith in the attending physician that supports Roe and the subsequent cases." A "frontal assault" on Roe, Alito concluded, was not preferable. A more measured approach "makes our position clear, does not even tacitly concede Roe's legitimacy, and signals that we regard the question as live and open."

This guy's a brute. Shut the court's door in his face and chase him across the tidal basin like a rodent.