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The results are in and I’m pretty excited; Obama will be the next U.S. president.  I can’t say for certain he’ll turn things around but I was willing to give him a chance and see how he does.  Over the past couple years Republicans have taken a beating and last night was no exception.  Hopefully the Republicans can take their party back from religious extremists because they’re killing it right now.  They have potential; Lincoln was a Republican and he was a Deist so they weren’t always so crazy.

I kinda feel a little sorry for McCain.  He’s 72 years old and has been running like mad for this campaign.  I don’t really dislike McCain, I just think that he wasn’t the guy for the job this time.  Palin is a psycho; I don’t feel badly at all about her not getting in.  That would have been …read more »

I really can’t wait until the title is “former president”.  This scares the crap out of me.

If you are a religious person, you understand that once religion takes hold in a society it can’t be stopped.

- George W. Bush

They do make a cute couple though, don’t they? 

Here’s an article from the Washington Post online that caught my attention today. Here is the most frightening and disturbing piece:

As recounted by former speechwriter Bill McGurn, who was at the meeting, Bush told Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun that “the church is the rock — it is the only thing that can withstand the wave of secularization, which says you can kill someone else to make your own life more convenient. He said the Catholic Church must never give in on this.”

This is an obvious attack on secularists with an implicit threat …read more »

So Traci was watching this show on Discovery Health about this hick family who were raising 16 kids, all of which they created and gestated by themselves. My first thought was that it was some crazy religious thing. My second thought was that these were really selfish people. How in the hell can two people raise 16 kids? They can’t and they don’t. These two have the older kids raising the younger kids. Apparently it’s okay to steal the childhood of the older children in order to keep the baby factory going. In order to answer the “weird religious thing” question for Traci I looked them up. Guess what? I was right. It is some crazy religious thing: …read more »

It’s about time somebody did this. Finally someone refused to cover the superfluous, retarded, ridiculous, pointless, and idiotic story of Paris Hilton’s irresponsible DUI and subsequent incarceration/media frenzy. Every day in Iraq American boys and girls-our children, brothers, sisters, uncles, friends, and neighbors-are dying needlessly in Bush’s oil jihad. The Dark Lord is high on Jesus and running around the world blowing things up like a maverick gunslinger, all the while throwing American bodies into the fire faster than he could snort a line of coke in his party days. Iran is gearing up to blow us or our interests up, al-Qaeda and their sympathizers hate us more than ever …read more »

I hear a lot from religious leaders about the power of prayer. For example, we have a National Day of Prayer. Apparently our president talks to God-and God answers him; that’s who told him to invade Iraq. When those coal miners were trapped in the Sago mine disaster in West Virginia the townspeople prayed for their safe return. Initially it seemed to be working; reports were that all but one miner had miraculously survived. Joyful praise for the holy father erupted, only to be replaced by acrimonious disdain after they learned they had been “forsaken” and all but one had died. (Even the Governer proclaimed the initial reports a “miracle”. I’ll save miracles for another post.) Hell, I even received a holy hanky that was supposed to become infused with miraculous power through prayer.

The point is there are millions of people who swear by the power of prayer. I’ve always been skeptical that there’s a personal god out there listening to our wants, needs, and desires and then granting them in a seemingly arbitrary fashion. How does God answer prayers? Who gets want they want, who doesn’t, and why? No one seems to be able to answer these questions without invoking some version of the “great cop-out”: God works in mysterious ways. That’s the easy way out, essentially saying ‘I don’t know and you shouldn’t be asking’.

So after 9/11 I did a lot of thinking …read more »

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs tore through a packed shopping area of a mainly Shi’ite district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 60 people in the worst attack since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in the city five days ago.

“Mission Accomplished!”

I was driving past a church in my neighborhood a week or two ago and I noticed their sign. I normally read the signs on churches, mostly because they can sometimes provide some comic relief. I have a few favorites from the years past, most notably a couple churches in West Virginia. One church had a bright red scrolling sign which read “Big Bang Theory: Yeah Right!”. Another had created an acronym for the word Bible which read: “Bible: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”. At least that one was clever. I’ve also seen a few bumper stickers worth mentioning: “Evolution is Science Fiction”, “Big Bang Theory: God said ‘Bang!’ and it happened”, and “Eternity: Smoking or Non-Smoking?”.

As impressed as I am with the seemingly overwhelming idiocy of this …read more »