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ANOTHER Hail Mary Pass???

Pastors back candidates from the pulpit - Faith- msnbc.com

All told, 33 pastors in 22 states were to make pointed recommendations about political candidates Sunday, an effort orchestrated by the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund.

The conservative legal group plans to send copies of the pastors' sermons to the IRS with hope of setting off a legal fight and abolishing restrictions on church involvement in politics. Critics call it unnecessary, divisive and unlikely to succeed.

That About Sums It Up...

Philip Pullman on the pointless menace of censorship | Books | guardian.co.uk

My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Wow. So True It's Painful...

The scariest thing about Sarah Palin isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America

The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that huge chunks of American voters no longer even demand that their candidates actually have policy positions; they simply consume them as media entertainment, rooting for or against them according to the reflexive prejudices of their demographic, as they would for reality-show contestants or sitcom characters. Hicks root for hicks, moms for moms, born-agains for born-agains. Sure, there was politics in the Palin speech, but it was all either silly lies or merely incidental fluffery buttressing the theatrical performance. A classic example of what was at work here came when Palin proudly introduced her Down syndrome baby, Trig, then stared into the camera and somberly promised parents of special-needs kids that they would "have a friend and advocate in the White House." This was about a half-hour before she raised her hands in triumph with McCain, a man who voted against increasing funding for special-needs education.

Have the Republicans really come up with the ultimate empty consumerist fantasy candidate possible? If they win, then I guess they have.

Surely they won't win.

Right?

Brilliant. Simply Brilliant.

Who Is Actually In Charge of This Campaign?

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | McCain Says Now Is Not Time To Assign Blame -- Only Two Hours After His Campaign Blamed Obama

Who was it who put their campaign on hold (in theory, anyway), flew to Washington, sat quietly before issuing some generic platitudes, then went home to start calling Republicans to convince them to support the bailout, then failed to get more than 1/3 of them to do so?

Who was that, again?

Can He Go Lower? Of Course He Can...

McCain camp prays for Palin wedding - Times Online

Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

Because it's obvious even to the McCain campaign that the less time he spends campaigning, the fewer people actually realize what a soulless, rage-filled fuck he is. Bring on the circus!

He's Crotchety, But Oh So Right...

I Am Not Alone...

That's Because He's a Liar...

McCain Campaign Still Active Across The Country

John McCain declared on Wednesday that he would suspend his run for
the White House and return to Washington to help resolve the country's
economic crisis. But while the candidate himself left the trail, the
campaign itself is decidedly still open for business.

Across the country, McCain campaign offices are up and running,
accepting volunteers, conducting phone banking, literature dropping and
other GOTV activities. This held true on a local, state, and even
regional level. The Huffington Post called up 15 McCain-Palin and
McCain Victory Committee headquarters in various battleground states.
Not one said that it was temporarily halting operations because of the
supposed "suspension" in the campaign. Several, in fact,
enthusiastically declared the continuation of their work. Others hadn't
even heard that the candidate for whom they were devoting their time
had officially stopped campaigning.

So That's Why She Isn't Allowed to Talk to Reporters...

Sound Familiar?

No Shit...

McCain blamed as US economic rescue deal staggers - Yahoo! News

"John McCain did nothing to help, he only hurt the process," the senior Democrat said at a joint news conference with Senate banking committee chairman Christopher Dodd.

Barney Frank, the Democratic chair of the House of Representatives financial services committee, said: "I think this was a campaign ploy for Senator McCain.

"I think they then had the problem that there might not have been enough of a deadlock for him to resolve," he said, after Dodd had earlier announced an in-principle agreement with some senior Republicans on the bailout package.

The meeting convened by Bush was a "photo op and political theater that had nothing to do with us getting to work," Dodd said.

Crazy Conservatives...

FBI: Evangelist Alamo arrested in child sex probe - Yahoo! News

Federal agents and Arkansas state police had raided the headquarters of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in tiny Fouke on Saturday and removed six girls ages 10 to 17. They sought evidence that children there had been molested or filmed having
sex.

Prosecutors sought Alamo's arrest after interviewing the girls this week, but Frazier would not disclose what the children said.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, describes the ministry as a cult. Alamo's church rails against homosexuals, Roman Catholics and the government, and Alamo has preached that girls are fit for marriage once they are sexually mature.

"Consent is puberty," he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press last week from Los Angeles while agents raided the compound. He denied any involvement with pornography.

Palin's Church...

Max Blumenthal - The Witch Fighter Anoints Palin

On the first night of services, Muthee implored his audience to wage
“spiritual warfare” against “the enemy.” As I filmed, a nervous church
staffer approached from behind and told me to put my camera away. I
acceded to his demand, but as Muthee urged the church to crush “the
python spirit” of the unbeliever enemies by stomping on their necks, I
pulled out a smaller camera and filmed from a more discreet position.
Now, church members were in deep prayer, speaking in tongues and
raising their hands. Muthee exclaimed, “We come against the spirit of
witchcraft! We come against the python spirits!” Then, a local pastor
took the mic from Muthee and added, “We stomp on the heads of the
enemy!”

Zap!

More Marvel Ad Copy...

I've been quoted again! Go here for beautiful preview art.

"Warren Ellis is the only writer I've read who has never let me down… The single thing that Ellis does that makes him my favorite working writer is what makes me so excited about this iteration of the X-Men. He takes science fiction concepts and makes them believable by working through their real-world implications." – Paul Brian McCoy of ComicsBulletin.com

Oh Yeah. That Sounds Better...

Talking Points Memo | Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator

McCain's campaign insists the investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan has been hijacked by Democrats. The campaign says it can prove Monegan was fired in July because of insubordination on budget issues, and not because he refused to fire a state trooper who went through a nasty divorce from Palin's sister.

To that end, the campaign released a series of e-mails detailing the frustration several Palin administration officials experienced in dealing with Monegan. The "last straw," the campaign said, was a trip Monegan planned to Washington in July to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases.

So it wasn't anything personal. He just wanted more money for fighting sexual assault cases.

Nice.

How Can You Argue With That?

Anticreationist debate tactics - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science

All elements in the universe get their properties based on their combinations of 3 specificsub-atomic components (a trinity). Protons, Neutrons, & Electrons. No element has the same combination, in other words Gold has 79 protons, 118 neutrons, 79 electrons while Carbon (man) has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, 6 electrons or 666. This will be the number in which the Antichrist will be identified by. And because a clone does not have working sexual organs, this explains why a cloned Antichrist will not have need for a woman.

My Reviews: Week of September 19

Secret Invasion: Thor #2

Incredible Hercules #121

Ghost Rider #27

My Reviews: Week of September 12

Criminal 2 #5

Ultimate Origins #4

Secret Invasion #6

GAAAHHH! FUUUUUCCCCKKKK! SSSHHHHIIIIIITTTTT!

Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth - News Story - WFTV Orlando

Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. She was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given.

The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them.

Awesome!

TOKYOMANGO: Trend report: women who want to date withered old men

There's a new dating trend in Japan. No, it's not beautiful Korean boys or geeks from Akiba—those are so last year. Now young women are looking for "kareoyaji", or withered old men. Here are some of the traits of this highly desirable, elder guy, according to a book titled Do You LIke Ojisan?:

- He likes alone time.
- He looks good in back alleys.
- He drinks beer out of bottles, not cans.
- He likes cats more than dogs.
- There's a neighborhood a bar that he frequents alone.
- He's a nonchalant know-it-all.
- He doesn't aggressively chase after money or women.
- He accepts his age.

Hell's A'Comin'...

That's Not Right!

And it Looks like Shit...

Politics and Power Blog: vanityfair.com

Cindy McCain

Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000

Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500

Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000

Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000

Shoes, designer unknown: $600

Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

I Love This Column...

SuicideGirls > News > Politics > Crybaby Town

The mighty Republican Party, longtime defenders of women’s rights, are now hitting the airwaves claiming the only reason people are attacking Sarah Palin is because she is a woman. Please ignore the Troopergate scandal, the fact that she is married to a traitor and was at one time a traitor herself, lied about visiting Ireland, didn’t travel out of the country until two years ago, belongs to an insanely backwards church, thinks 11-year-olds who were raped by their father should be forced to give birth, used government money to fund a “cure gays” organization, tried to ban books, abused her power by firing people who opposed her views or divorced her sister, believes Iraq is a war being fought for God, and has a preacher who claimed voting for John Kerry would send you to hell. None of those things are relevant for baby time McCain. If you criticize Sarah Palin, it’s because she’s a woman with a pregnant daughter.

My Reviews: Week of September 5

Gravel #4

Dead of Night: Devil Slayer #1

Sub-Mariner: The Depths #1

I Love BSG, But This is Just Disturbing...

Photo from Flickr photostream of someone called burnlab.

Nice work!

Uniters, Not Dividers...

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets.

Sukiyaki Western Django

So this opened this week.

Is it playing anywhere around here?

Of fucking course not.

Here's what I'm missing, dammit...