Are you having problems finding a costume for you or your little one(s) this Halloween? The Onion is in with some sage advice for those tough decisions.
I was always the hopeless little tomboy. I used to like to wear my Dad’s overcoat, buttoned up over a pillow wrapped around my head, and a bloody looking scarf tucked into the neckline. Voila! Instant headless horseman. Actually I just liked wearing Dad’s topcoat.
Senator Boxer is having some difficulty with some of her colleagues. Can you guess who?
Someone remind me, what is it that republicans actually do these days?
Apparently Sarah Palin is going to be on Oprah Winfrey’s show. I am not a fan of Oprah, but Sarah and Oprah might be an interesting pair to watch. Headzup gives us a preview.
Heh.
There is another book coming out on Sarah Palin. It’s called “Going Rouge”, and looks hilarious. More from VideoNation and The Insider.
Now there is a book I will check out from the library.
The Onion with breaking heart news in the fencing world!
Is nothing sacred anymore? Please, help protect the honorable sport of fencing from bad behavior!!
We were a bit distracted last week from real news. Lee Camp explains.
An analyst from MSNBC commented that the country probably lost billions of dollars in productivity, because we were all watching a giant silver mushroom floating around Colorado. Jon Stewart had the funniest line I heard. He said on the day we all thought that there was a child in the balloon, everyone was saying “OMG, save balloon boy!” The next day everyone was saying, “OMG, kill balloon boy!”
Karl Rove has been a wee bit upset with the White House lately.
From MSNBC last week. Psycho birther, Orly Taitz is in a bit of trouble.
Federal Judge Clay Land slapped birther Orly Taitz with a $20,000.00 fine, for filing what he calls a frivolous lawsuit, by . In a scathing 43 page order District Judge Land claims that Ms Taitz is attempting to misuse the Federal courts to press “wild accusations”. The move follows a lawsuit by Taitz demanding President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying an army captain to Iraq and Afghanistan. Judge Land writes that Taitz behavior in the case borders on delusional
You remember Ms Taitz. She was on all the news shows earlier this summer. And just last month, she was convinced that she would have President Obama “out of office in 30 days.”
Another late set of tubes. Sigh. Not sure why I am having trouble writing again, but if I can just make myself do these Tube Diaries, it helps. I picked the tubes days ago, but have been enjoying a bit of nice Minnesota weather for a change;~J (it is 54 degrees right now!) However, I am watching the only two shows on CNN I like; Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour; so I thought I would hit the tubes and spin them out.
The Onion is in with some terrific advice for women, who are affected most by the recession.
So sick, and yet so very funny. An Onion a day helps keep the stalkers away;~J
Michael Steele is talking again. He is beginning to compete with Michele Bachmann in teh crazy department.
“Moo, moo.” As I said the other day, he has a way with words.
“It’s not even a website” snip “It’s a new tool to communicate the new GOP.” LMAO. A website that doesn’t work. A total metaphor for the new GOP.
Here he is at it again.
What does that even mean? To me, it sounds like he wants a bunch of cops to beat the shite out of the black guy. Would that be President Obama or just Democrats in general?
Lately some folks have expressed concerns about the Bible. Are they atheists or non Christians? Nope, just a group of kooks who think the Bible is too liberal and they have decided to remedy the situation.
I have long believed that the right wing Christian fundamentalists, if confronted with the actual ‘return of Jesus’, would promptly stomp him to death.
Andy Schafly and the folks at Conservapedia have formed a group called the Conservative Bible Project in order to “take the text back to its supposed right-wing roots.” As a non Christian, I am not that familiar with the Bible, but I am fairly certain this effort would all but eliminate Christ from the Bible.
And thus Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis, begat the Conservative Bible Project with the mission to expunge liberal language and interpretation from the Holy Book.
The project is foremost these days on Schlafly’s Conservapedia, the three-year-old conservative alternative to Wikipedia that provides “trustworthy” and “family-friendly” accounts of evolution, homosexuality and whatever else strikes the fancy of his team of home-schooled students culled from his online history courses at Eagle Forum University.
Schlafly, in an interview with The Star, details examples of what they’re looking for: the parable of the adultress in John 8:7 of the New Testament is one, in which Jesus warns about casting that first stone. Not exactly family-friendly.
“This is a permissive story used by liberals to oppose capital punishment,” says Schlafly. “It is saying there can be forgiveness without repentence.”
Another comes from Luke 23:24, where the crucified Jesus says “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
“The simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing.”
So too the modern translations have taken his preferred 400-year-old King James Bible and diluted it, reducing references to Hell from 54 to a metaphorical handful.
“Hell is there in the Bible as real justice,” says Schlafly. “If people think it doesn’t exist, they think they can get away with anything.” Notwithstanding the sixth commandment.
The current translations of the Bible are laced with “liberal wordiness, compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities,” the project says. To that Schlafly adds the unisex “emasculation of Christianity” that uses gender-neutral pronouns.
He figures the few dozen recruits toiling away at the New Testament book by book should be done within a year. “We may not have as many credentials” as the wildly liberal biblical scholars holed up in universities (“80 to 90 per cent of them voted for Obama,” he says), but they have enthusiasm and energy.
Schlafly’s own favourite Bible passage is the story of the prodigal son because “it conveys a beautiful insight into forgiveness and love.”
Why the prodigal and not the adultress? “God is entitled not to be fair. He asked for forgiveness and the adultress did not.”
Toronto bible scholar Charles Kim, who leads study groups with the United Bible Fellowship at Ryerson University using the New International version, already finds the Bible conservative enough.
“A lot of people experience Jesus’s forgiving grace when they read that passage” about the adultress, said Kim. “The Bible also describes incest in Genesis. In the midst of these shocking stories, we find how God reveals himself.”
