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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...?
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
-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.
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"
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
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.
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מזל טוב Alysa Stanton!!
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Forget green. The world is going Lincoln all over.
World Number One golfer? Tiger Woods, black.
Number One entertainer in the world? Michael Jackson, black.
Leader of the Free World? Barack Obama, black.
Chairman of the Republican National Committee? Michael Steel, black.
Box-office golden boy? Will Smith, black.
Womens professional tennis? The Williams sisters, black...and bootylicious
Reigning style in music and street fashion? Hip-hop, black; and gangsta rap, Who-da-fuck-you- callin'-black-beeeeaaatch? black.
Number One daytime talk show? Oprah Winfrey, black
Can't-lose woman's attire? The little black dress, black.
Number One consumed beverages? Black coffee, black tea, and Coca-Cola, black. That's right.
Color of half the day? Night, black.
And now, the world has a black woman rabbi. Hello?
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lysa Stanton has been ordained (June 6. Mark your calendars) as (mainstream)Judaism's first black woman rabbi, having successfully completed rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. This coming Saturday, August first, she will hold the pulpit at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C. So if your future travels take you to or through the great state of North Carolina and you happen to think you might perchance notice the place tipping...well...you might probably possibly be on to something.
מזל טוב Alysa Stanton! (that's Hebrew for "congratulations")
Forget green. The world is going Lincoln all over.
World Number One golfer? Tiger Woods, black.
Number One entertainer in the world? Michael Jackson, black.
Leader of the Free World? Barack Obama, black.
Chairman of the Republican National Committee? Michael Steel, black.
Box-office golden boy? Will Smith, black.
Womens professional tennis? The Williams sisters, black...and bootylicious
Reigning style in music and street fashion? Hip-hop, black; and gangsta rap, Who-da-fuck-you- callin'-black-beeeeaaatch? black.
Number One daytime talk show? Oprah Winfrey, black
Can't-lose woman's attire? The little black dress, black.
Number One consumed beverages? Black coffee, black tea, and Coca-Cola, black. That's right.
Color of half the day? Night, black.
And now, the world has a black woman rabbi. Hello?
A
lysa Stanton has been ordained (June 6. Mark your calendars) as (mainstream)Judaism's first black woman rabbi, having successfully completed rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. This coming Saturday, August first, she will hold the pulpit at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C. So if your future travels take you to or through the great state of North Carolina and you happen to think you might perchance notice the place tipping...well...you might probably possibly be on to something.מזל טוב Alysa Stanton! (that's Hebrew for "congratulations")
Lycurgus on modern America
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One of the glaring handicaps with a Republic attests to the old adage of having too many cooks in the kitchen: the soup is spoiled. What starts out all right---proper ingredients, suitable cookery, eagerness to prepare a delicious dish---gets bogged down in minutiae and ego centrism and conflicting loyalties.
A great many folk like to (claim to)wonder what Jesus would do as if 1) they would adhere to what Jesus would do or 2) Jesus would know what to do. In reading some quotations attributed to Lycurgus, Spartan lawgiver, I was stunned by some things that struck close to home.
We proudly tout our democracy and American way of life as a model for the world. In several respects we're right. Many, many people validate this belief by their stalwart and never ceasing immigration and emigration to America. Who in the hell is beating down the door to get into Beirut or Baghdad or Guatemala; or, hell, Finland?? Lycurgus, however, was not sold on democracy nor what we know as capitalism, both of which are married to the American image and spirit.
To the laconic lawgiver, the best way for Spartans to thwart invasion of their homeland was "by remaining poor, and each man not desiring to possess more than his fellow." BLAM! POW! Take that consumerism!
And what about border control and this long ass fence to keep out desperate Mexicans ad hoc genus? What say you, Lycurgus, on homeland security? Well, Lycurgus, would say, "A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." OOOH SUCK ON THAT!
Too much of a good thing can even be a bad thing and the United States of America may learn, retrospectively, that even the melting pot can hold only so many elements before the soup is spoiled and distasteful.
One of the glaring handicaps with a Republic attests to the old adage of having too many cooks in the kitchen: the soup is spoiled. What starts out all right---proper ingredients, suitable cookery, eagerness to prepare a delicious dish---gets bogged down in minutiae and ego centrism and conflicting loyalties.
A great many folk like to (claim to)wonder what Jesus would do as if 1) they would adhere to what Jesus would do or 2) Jesus would know what to do. In reading some quotations attributed to Lycurgus, Spartan lawgiver, I was stunned by some things that struck close to home.
We proudly tout our democracy and American way of life as a model for the world. In several respects we're right. Many, many people validate this belief by their stalwart and never ceasing immigration and emigration to America. Who in the hell is beating down the door to get into Beirut or Baghdad or Guatemala; or, hell, Finland?? Lycurgus, however, was not sold on democracy nor what we know as capitalism, both of which are married to the American image and spirit.
And what about border control and this long ass fence to keep out desperate Mexicans ad hoc genus? What say you, Lycurgus, on homeland security? Well, Lycurgus, would say, "A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." OOOH SUCK ON THAT!
Too much of a good thing can even be a bad thing and the United States of America may learn, retrospectively, that even the melting pot can hold only so many elements before the soup is spoiled and distasteful.
Birthers is a dumb name for racists
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This is some funny @#%! Birthers, as they've taken to calling themselves, are racists pure and simple. They hate---hate---that Americans elected a black man, also known less complimentary-ly as a darky, spook, coon, nigger, to the highest office in the land over their old white man and his hapless female running-mate. How could this happen in my lifetime, they cry, in my great superpower country?! At any rate, birthers sounds like a name better suited for opponents of test tube babies. They should just go back to calling themselves Klu Klux Klan or, say, poor losers or, better still, undemocratic un-Americans.
This is some funny @#%! Birthers, as they've taken to calling themselves, are racists pure and simple. They hate---hate---that Americans elected a black man, also known less complimentary-ly as a darky, spook, coon, nigger, to the highest office in the land over their old white man and his hapless female running-mate. How could this happen in my lifetime, they cry, in my great superpower country?! At any rate, birthers sounds like a name better suited for opponents of test tube babies. They should just go back to calling themselves Klu Klux Klan or, say, poor losers or, better still, undemocratic un-Americans.
Happy 50th Hawaii!!
This marks the 50th Anniversary of the fiftieth state in the Union.
Hawaii was the last territory to become part of America and is the birthplace of our President Obama. What, what, we haven't acquired new territory since the end of WWII??! Whoa, imperialism ain't what it used to be.
Oh well. Happy birthday!
Lucky to be Obama -15 (Hawaii)
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The great state of Hawaii has once again acquiesced to Republican curiosity and hate-mongering rumors and confirmed, unequivocally, the legitimacy of President Obama's American birth. The 44th President of the United States was born in Hawaii in 1961. How sweet it is!
But reality doesn't comfort some GOP nutters. "They just keep asking over and over and over again," Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said. These are the same people, after all, who liked the 43d President and his documented incompetence.
For many, the reality of President Obama stings like a mother----! That puts a smile on my face. Here are just a few of the haters. Aloha haters:
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Rush "I hope he fails" Limbaugh
Sarah "Clueless" Palin
Lou "???" Dobbs
Ann "Crazy Bitch"Coulter
Mrs Rothschild, aka stupid rich girl
Hillbillies
FOX News
Alan "Blowhard" Keyes
The great state of Hawaii has once again acquiesced to Republican curiosity and hate-mongering rumors and confirmed, unequivocally, the legitimacy of President Obama's American birth. The 44th President of the United States was born in Hawaii in 1961. How sweet it is!
But reality doesn't comfort some GOP nutters. "They just keep asking over and over and over again," Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said. These are the same people, after all, who liked the 43d President and his documented incompetence.
For many, the reality of President Obama stings like a mother----! That puts a smile on my face. Here are just a few of the haters. Aloha haters:
Orly "Russian Birther" Taitz -&- Walter Bagdasarian
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Rush "I hope he fails" Limbaugh
Sarah "Clueless" Palin
Lou "???" Dobbs
Ann "Crazy Bitch"Coulter
Mrs Rothschild, aka stupid rich girl
Hillbillies
FOX News
Alan "Blowhard" Keyes
Lawyer's Statement on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The lawyer for Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Charles Ogletree, published this statement on behalf of his client:
This brief statement is being submitted on behalf of my client, friend, and colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This is a statement concerning the arrest of Professor Gates...Professor Gates informed the officer that he lived there and was a faculty member at Harvard University. The officer then asked Professor Gates whether he could prove that he lived there and taught at Harvard. Professor Gates said that he could, and turned to walk into his kitchen, where he had left his wallet. The officer followed him. Professor Gates handed both his Harvard University identification and his valid Massachusetts driver’s license to the officer. Both include Professor Gates’ photograph, and the license includes his address...Professor Gates then asked the police officer if he would give him his name and his badge number. He made this request several times. The officer did not produce any identification nor did he respond to Professor Gates’ request for this information....
Talented Tenth arrested. WWOD?
Of all the black men the pigs might've arrested they picked on THN of Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates---thee Henry Louis Gates---heavily decorated scholar, black history historian, influential intellectual, esteemed academician, Harvard professor in handcuffs after a white woman mistook him for breaking into his own house. Sound familiar? Technically, Mr Gates was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for angrily requesting the officer's name and badge number. Sound familiar?
If this rings foreign to you, then you might be that dumb white bitch who likes to call pigs on black people for made up crimes like, say, breaking into their own homes or walking in the neighborhood or entering a gas station in a group or looking ("stalking") or rape when it was consensual or fabricated rape when there was no contact or car-jacking and killing the babies that were in the back seat or carving words onto white bodies, et cetera.
Never mind the bogus charges were dropped within a week. One's mind arranges the mosh of things---black man, Harvard professor, arrest---into a sum and invariably thinks, muses, wonders, asks, WWOD (What will Obama do)?
In his identity quest, was the President never verified of his Negro status by a "random" police search? Not even in Chicago?! Hell, even Michael Jackson got the answer to his lyrical query. And I was just stopped and questioned by German politzei at the Berlin train station for absolutely no apparent reason. The officials were very pleasant and professional---the nicest I've ever met, really---but since they had no cause to stop me and since I committed no infraction their interruption of my day remains unfair and, evidently, racially motivated.
We can't give President Obama a pass on this one. As a candidate he was VERY vocal about the lack of federal response devoted to those abandoned to Hurricane Katrina. As the first black president of America he has got to put his foot down on things that matter to us here in America. Because, hey, if civilly dressed, un-thuggish, upstanding, law-abiding black gentleman like Mr Gates or Earl Graves, founder of Black Enterprise magazine, are subjected to racist---at best, moot---search and seizures, then, apparently, the only thing sheltering Mr Obama from bully pigs is the fact that he is the United States President. Note, I said apparently; quote the old riddle: What do you call a black man with a college degree or riches or successful profession?
Booyah!
If this rings foreign to you, then you might be that dumb white bitch who likes to call pigs on black people for made up crimes like, say, breaking into their own homes or walking in the neighborhood or entering a gas station in a group or looking ("stalking") or rape when it was consensual or fabricated rape when there was no contact or car-jacking and killing the babies that were in the back seat or carving words onto white bodies, et cetera.
What do you call a black man with a college degree or riches or successful profession?
Never mind the bogus charges were dropped within a week. One's mind arranges the mosh of things---black man, Harvard professor, arrest---into a sum and invariably thinks, muses, wonders, asks, WWOD (What will Obama do)?
In his identity quest, was the President never verified of his Negro status by a "random" police search? Not even in Chicago?! Hell, even Michael Jackson got the answer to his lyrical query. And I was just stopped and questioned by German politzei at the Berlin train station for absolutely no apparent reason. The officials were very pleasant and professional---the nicest I've ever met, really---but since they had no cause to stop me and since I committed no infraction their interruption of my day remains unfair and, evidently, racially motivated.
We can't give President Obama a pass on this one. As a candidate he was VERY vocal about the lack of federal response devoted to those abandoned to Hurricane Katrina. As the first black president of America he has got to put his foot down on things that matter to us here in America. Because, hey, if civilly dressed, un-thuggish, upstanding, law-abiding black gentleman like Mr Gates or Earl Graves, founder of Black Enterprise magazine, are subjected to racist---at best, moot---search and seizures, then, apparently, the only thing sheltering Mr Obama from bully pigs is the fact that he is the United States President. Note, I said apparently; quote the old riddle: What do you call a black man with a college degree or riches or successful profession?
Booyah!
Eff people who won't hire me
The following is an actual rant published care of Montreal's Rant line. Except for that last bit against capitalism, it's spot-on:
Fuck international tuition fees. Fuck managers who tell you continuously to call back. Fuck people who aren't hiring. Fuck people who won't hire me. Don't tell me to fill out a fucking form if you're not hiring. Don't continuously JERK people around and tell them to come back the next day when you're not even going to be there. And fuck managers who ask me if there's any days that I can't work and then ask me why and proceed to tell me that my reasons aren't valid. And FUCK CAPITALISM. Bye. [BLEEP!] [italics added]
Fuck international tuition fees. Fuck managers who tell you continuously to call back. Fuck people who aren't hiring. Fuck people who won't hire me. Don't tell me to fill out a fucking form if you're not hiring. Don't continuously JERK people around and tell them to come back the next day when you're not even going to be there. And fuck managers who ask me if there's any days that I can't work and then ask me why and proceed to tell me that my reasons aren't valid. And FUCK CAPITALISM. Bye. [BLEEP!] [italics added]
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