Shop less, share more

There's a growing voice of Christianity making the rounds this season called the Advent Conspiracy, Christians who are, supposedly shockingly, discouraging consumerism. I fail to see what is in the least shocking or conspiratorial about this.

Shop less, share---give---more is ALWAYS what I've been reminded to do, being taught early on that Jesus is the reason for the season. (Rhyming makes learning easier.) Yes, we received presents---lots of them!---and toured mall displays, sometimes the Museum of Science & Industry's Trees Around the World exhibit, along with driving around neighborhoods shamelessly wishing aloud, "I wished our house looked like that" or "Whoa look at the lights on that tree!" So what.

Stop running yourselves in debt on the pretext of celebrating Christmas

Although we always got gifts it was always slightly doubtful that we would; there remained the threat of adhering strictly to a churchy Christmas: hymns, Christmas play, and rounds of dinner. Sanctified but square...like Catholics. In retrospect I realize our parents were bluffing (I think) but as a child the prospect appeared anything but. And there was, naturally, no way to argue against the holy spirit of the holidays. Unlike beastly children today we knew it was incorrect to expect, as if our little asses were entitled, to receive more than a bag of fruit and nuts and socks or underwear. Swear to God.

Therefore, when I read in the Times article how the Advent Conspiracy founders, which, to be clear, have nothing to do with Seventh Day Adventists, resolved to embark on "a radical experiment" in which "they urged congregants to spend less on presents for friends and family, and to consider donating some of the money they saved as a result" I thought to myself, Radical? Huh? Radical is installing a menorah or goddamn Buddha piggy bank in a Christian house of worship, including those comically lame store-front churches. I don't shop from car trunks, visit alley way doctors or worship in what used to be porn cinemas or laundry mats. Tacky.

The Advent Conspiracy is launching the right message but there is nothing radical about it: Stop running yourselves in debt on the pretext of celebrating Christmas. Rather than fuss and bah-humbug the absences of "Merry Christmas" and Nativity displays be a stalwart follower or more altruistic human being and donate monies to charities and poor peoples. It would be a wiser and definitely more Christian use of one's pay checks than the greed, lust, envy vices perpetrated by retailers.

So if retailers report that consumerism was down this season, fine. What good is a Sony Playstation if the light bill ain't paid.

Most people if given less than half an opportunity will still gladly make fools of themselves. If within range of a camera they will proudly record it. Stupidity for posterity, I suppose.

SSpartan

Limbaugh dropped & Taitz dismissed

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Two Obama-hating clowns got smacked down today: big, fat racist idiot, Rush Limbaugh and bitter, delusional racist Orly Taitz.

Pigman Limbaugh was dropped---dropped like a bag of poison oak---from the group seeking to buy the St Louis Rams football team. While his fans fired off emails of support his friends gave him the boot because, unlike fans who have nothing to do with the man except rant their white men's burdens and encourage his rantings, his friends are about business and having Mr Limbaugh in the group was detrimental to business. As a blind supporter of failed businessman Geo. W. am sure Mr Limbaugh can appreciate a rational move, e.g. dropping his fat ass, made by businessmen who actually aim to make a profit from a lucrative investment.

Said the leader of the bidding group Dave Checketts:

It has become clear that his (Limbaugh's) involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions.


Good old Orly got her birther ass handed to her by Judge Clay Land who got tired of her numerous conspiratorial suits against the President's citizenship. Undaunted by her initial dismissal Dr Taitz kept on filing suit after suit with the aim of exposing our President as a non-American illegal alien. Not only was the case thrown out this time and called "frivolous" but she was fined $20,000 with the hope that it might encourage her to get a life.

Or as Judge Land wrote:

[using the Court] as a platform for a political agenda disconnected from any legitimate legal cause of action.

Damn, that's gotta smart. But, of course, this only means one thing to these Republican nutters: more incentive to hate our black president!!

What's in Limbaugh's luggage??

!!COVER GIRL, INDEED!!

Republicans: Racist & Retarded

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The Republican Party has shown itself in the past two weeks to be so blindly racist and retarded that they will root against the United States of America just for spite. They really hate having a Negro as commander in chief. Remember, one of the first admissions of GOP bitterness came from, to borrow Senator Al Franken's book title, big, fat idiot Rush Limbaugh who publicly declared, "I hope Obama fails."

Wm. F. Buckley, Jr, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater would have nothing to do with these hate-mongers.

Conservatives, who cast their lot with the Republican Party as if bound by an obligatory umbilical cord, express resentment and paranoia at EVERY thing the President does. When he addresses schoolchildren the conservatives cry, Brainwashing! When he confers with our allies the accusation is 'elitism'; when with our enemies, a sell-out. The go-it-alone cowboy diplomacy of W. gained us nothing but, hey, progress and cooperation are overrated.

Republicans want no loyalty paid to the President. (Un-American?) They want no civility paid to the President. (Disrespectful?) They lust for President Obama's---America's---failure just so they can squeal with retarded glee, We told ya so! And by extension, That's what ya git fer ilecking a smarty blacky! This is today's GOP; Wm. F. Buckley, Jr, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater would have nothing to do with these hate-mongers.

Thankfully, these people (some prefer to call themselves birthers) do not travel abroad and, so, their willful anti-Americanism and hatred stays at home, sparing other peoples 1) a face to finally associate with a Bush voter and 2) the embarrassment of asking, Are you really American?

President Obama v. the Fear

President Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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I was travelling on the autobahn this afternoon when the radio announced that President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Not understanding German I doubted the driver translated correctly; but when I reached Berlin I rushed online and read the news: President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Holy cow!

His detractors celebrated his failed campaign for us to host 2016 Summer Olympics---talk about "un-American"!---but let's see: Olympics host...Nobel Peace Prize...? Naw, there is no comparing the two. And the President didn't even campaign for this one!

2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter applauded the Committee for making a "bold statement of international support for his [Obama's] vision and commitment." Al Gore, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner, echoed the accolades and support.

Eat that Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck.

here is a list of Peace Prize winners since 1980

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APA is pro-gay

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The American Psychological Association (APA) now declares at least one form of therapy to be bogus: gay-to-straight counseling. They've yet to come clean on the other 1002 expensive, useless, intrusive batteries administered by equally expensive, spuriously useless, utterly intrusive psychologists. But this bias towards gayness is amazing.

Of all human behaviours and misbehaviours the APA would have us believe that, above all, sexual behaviour cannot be manipulated? Gay-to-straight therapy is not just about a homosexual person working towards functioning heterosexuality; it is, in sum, about sexual orientation. If a same-sex orientation cannot be helped, changed, altered, redirected then where does this leave sexual offenders?

By declaring worthless and bigoted any therapy which aims homosexuals towards normal opposite-sex behaviour, the pro-gay APA, in effect, repudiates all psychological treatments for healthy sexual behaviour.

I do not accept this foolishness because it discredits will power, volition, ambition, re-education. It means pedophiles cannot turn away from pedophilia; adulterers cannot refrain from adultry; rapists cannot resist raping; incestmongers cannot refrain from incest; chronic masturbators cannot keep their hands off themselves; animal molesters cannot turn away from bestiality; porn addicts cannot keep from porn; sadists cannot enjoy sex without inflicting pain, and masochists cannot enjoy the same without receiving pain; and arsonists who get off from arsony are hopeless fire bugs.

The un-happy homo is happy but he just fails to realize it

The Association, with its history of whimsical rationalizations and moot diagnoses, confuse happy with healthy and popular with progress, and this comes to the delight of gay-rights activism. Queer activist, Wayne Besen despises groups like Exodus International, which counsels homosexuals away from faggotyness.

"Ex-gay therapy is a profound travesty that has led to pointless tragedies," cheered Mr Besen, "and we are pleased that the APA has addressed this psychological scourge.

Many buggers, like Mr Besen, Boy George, and Merchant Lucas, are in flamboyant bliss (happy) but that does not mean the glad activity is 1) okay or healthy and 2) okay or healthy for everyone else. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that many practicing homosexuals or homosexually curious persons are not happy with themselves. They want to change and have done so. They want to be straight. They want to be ex-gay. Too bad, according to the APA (and folks like Mr Besen). The un-happy homo is happy but he just fails to realize it. Put another way, Go wallow in your cum-dumping, Tom of Finland and boy-love misery until you get loud and proud.

Two snaps and a bag of chips, Dorothy!

This means a man is what he is and he cannot change, let alone hope, to be any thing different. His track is laid for him and his destiny is sealed. Well. If that's the nail in the coffin, then what further need have we for psychologists?

UPDATE: Exodus International apologizes and shuts down.

Organized religion is a business

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Organized religion is a business like any other by which I mean it's aim is to make money to perpetuate itself. Some would even call it a scam for its oceanic clause: buy in now and receive riches beyond your imagination when you die. So it is a bit perplexing that homosexuals, characterized by their love beliefs in sodomy, instant gratification, casual hook-ups, cruising, want acceptance from churches; but, then, they so want to be accepted.

And acceptance is a-coming.

Days ago the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted overwhelmingly to permit openly homosexuals to serve as clergymen(and women). Not just members but actual pulpit leaders. Gone are the days where one reserved his same-sex urges in deference to his holy faith. The one caveat is this: said sodomites must be in "committed relationships." Presumably because committed relationship means love. Love. Oh if only the world would pipe down and heed the love calls of gays and hippies, it would be a much better, safer, happier place albeit full of head lice and drama queens. Either the 4.7million member business, uh, Protestant denomination doesn't realize many homosexual couples welcome threesomes or will find a way to justify this form of "committed relationship" along church doctrine.

At any rate, this new acceptance will, no doubt, entice open homosexuals back to the coffers, uh, congregation. Gay-friendly means more green. Cha-ching! Let he,she, he-she, and butch dike who hath much disposable income giiiiiiiive to the Lawd!

Going back to Indiana

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Since Michael Jackson's death his hometown, Gary, Indiana, has garnered more attention outside of the daily police blotter. There's always been stifled debate about turning the Jackson 5 home on 2300 Jackson Street into a proper tourist attraction but too, too many mice and no balls means the cat never gets her bell necklace.
More than anything else, local resentment of the family's fame and success killed the trip to the historical registry...and we all know Gary knows killing. Even the city's historical society skims over the Rock&Roll Hall of Famers.

But now da Mayor Pink Panther is all abluster about turning the Jackson house into a point of interest. Beating his cuff links to the punch, though, are two entrepreneurial women from Chicago experienced in guided tours who have started the "King of Pop Hometown Tour," a four-hour long bus tour from Chicago through Gary.

Hmmm, now why didn't someone from G.I.! or Lake County think of this...?

Ranters come alive on Buzz Yahoo!

The ranters who comment on Buzz Yahoo! are hilarious in a scary---yet, funny---way. Any article on the President whips them in a bullybully frenzy. I LOVE reading their paranoid, racist crap. I love that my President is black!


even Felix the Cat is cracking up at this white noise!!

check buzz.yahoo.com for the latest hysteria

"Death to Obama" and militia nuts

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As if President Obama, the first black president of the USA, doesn't have enough to worry about upon inheriting an economic recession, quagmire wars, and stuck-on-Bush ring-wing haters perpetuating division in the "United States of America," now the President---and the nation---has to register the scope of blatant hatred from some extremely vocal whites and Republicans.

Maybe these haters are not such a "minority." They certainly are not silent. But, more importantly, they certainly are not the majority! Birthers, Rush Limbaugh, militia enthusiasts which are cropping up in the country like illegal immigrants' extended family members, and bitter ass white citizens all hate our President.

They can't stand that Barack Hussein Obama is their president! In fact, they feel bold enough to protest with loaded guns and billboard death threats that actually declare "Death to Obama" (see above image).Whoa!

Anywho, that fool with the death threat sign has now been arrested by Secret Service and so of course neo-conservatives, of all people, are shouting comparisons to KGB and Nazi Germany. Poor losers, petty minds, bitter hearts. My, my, my is this what they mean about the South rising again?

The infamous yawner gives sigh of relief

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Clifton Wms, the Illinois man who was jailed for three weeks after the Court found him in contempt with a "loud noise" that's been arguably described as a yawn, was freed this morning by the same offended judge, Danny Rozak, who insisted Mr Wms was not imprisoned for yawning.

"I just first of all want to make it clear - you were never in custody for yawning - you never were. It was a sound...that was offensive to the court," explained Judge Rozak, who may have formally sold bridge insurance to New Yorkers.

At any rate, am sure Mr Wms was far from bored this time in court and probably gave a big sigh of relief...after holding his breath for three weeks. Hehehe.

Abuse of power at heart of Henry L Gates arrest

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Radley Balko at Reason Magazine presents a wonderful, logical argument on the meat of the Henry Louis Gates, Jr arrest: abuse of power. The arresting officer went beyond his entrusted authority by arresting someone who questioned and offended him; arrests are for detainments of crime offenders not hurt feelings.

Read it here. Henry Louis Gates: "Teaching Moment"

From strange fruit to root water...?

From hanging 'em to "watering" the trees with 'em. Billy Holiday crooned about the strange fruit lynching produced and now American chauvinists---angry whites, birthers, right-wing 'soldiers' a la Wm Kostric---are reminding citizens of the need to, as Thom Jefferson phrased it, water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Hello! Damn, they don't make town hall meetings like they used to.

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Welcome aboard mamasita!

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Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justice.
She was confirmed by the Senate, becoming the nation's first Hispanic judge. This Administration is just full of delicious firsts.

Hasta luego

American journalists freed from North Korea

News too good to have any muck on it! The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, and their families are rejoicing; journalists and democracy lovers are thrilled; the White House and State Department and Americans have cause for celebration; and Bill Clinton has every reason to smile. He's still got it; and, more importantly, now we've got back the journalists.

Mayor Pink Panther ready to cash in on Jackson fame

After all of this time, the city of Gary and its Mayor Pink Panther are finally "seriously" talking about capitalizing on the historicity of The Jackson 5.

Historical status eyed for Jackson neighborhood - Chicago Breaking News

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