Tag: religion
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"Oh, now, don’t start gettin’ down on the Guantanamo guards for a little water balloon play. You don’t get gooder, cleaner fun than water balloons."
Via Talkleft the Pentagon has admitted, “Well, hmmm, yeah, we disrespected the Quran.” Pentagon Confirms Soldier Mistreated Prisoner’s Quran Other Incidents Also Confirmed PENTAGON — The Pentagon has confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s Quran in violation of the military’s rules for handling the Muslim holy…
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If it wants elucidation…
This blog gets very little traffic. Monday it got over 600 hits, which is something like 575 more than it normally gets. They were almost all from the Fox News search engine. They were all looking for more news on the Louis Lamonica Hosanna Church story. Seems Fox had just posted the news and seems…
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That’s some consensual suspension of disbelief
Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana is hitting the news big time. For a couple of reasons. First off, the prayer debate. To pray or not to pray in the schools. Nola.com has he story on how some Tangiphoa teachers and administrators are flouting the prayer ban. 4th grade teacher has prayer in class, and has also Bible…
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What’s the harm of a little common courtesy
Every time I hear, “Give nominees the courtesy of a vote”, I also hear this resounding response from sofas throughout Xtian conservative America of people agreeing it’s right to at least give the nominees that courtesy, a little common courtesy, everyone deserves a little common courtesy. That’s all this is about, showing a little common…
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Remedial Sex Education with Dr. D #2
Another in a not-quite-series of Remedial Sex Education with Dr. D. Remedial Sex Education with Dr. Dobson. If you wish, you may comment and scold me for it being a sorry cartoon. My feelings will not be injured.
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"Bad, Dobson. Evil, naughty, Dobson."
Via Crooks and Liars is the Carpet Bagger Report Dobson still pulling the Senate’s Strings. Dobson speaks and… Within a few hours, Lott was telling reporters that his effort to reach a compromise wasn’t sincere and that it was just an attempt to convince moderates who “have to feel assured that every avenue has been…
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But why wouldn’t they like you if they have nice puppets?
So, horror of horrors, I had just finished doing the “Hell, located, described and measured according to Dominionist Policitical Science” cartoon, and I go in to be with H.o.p. and there he has on the television, gasp, Trinity Broadcasting Network and he is watching because it’s “Mr. Henry’s Wild and Wacky World” and Mr. Henry…
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No, Tom Delay, National Prayer Day is not an all-inclusive day of meditation, and you know this
I’ve mentioned this before. When I was ten we moved down to Augusta, Georgia. Bible Belt. I had never heard the words “Bible Belt”. It would have been unheard of to read scripture in class or pray in class where I came from (the Greater Hanford Area Radioactive Dump, which of course had its own…
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The Kansas Krusade (or Bloody, backlash, Kansas)
Kansas, Kansas. Why Kansas, I ask? I was born in Kansas. Lawrence. They have a University in Kansas. More than one! They have a really big one. KU! Home of the Jayhawks. Beat poets read there. You didn’t get Beat poets reading at Bible Belt southern universities in the 50s and 60s. But they were…
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The Blob – Friend of the Rapture
THE BLOB ATTACKS! Seriously, it does. Look around you, it’s everywhere. That bright light falling from heaven, the meteor that ruptures and spills out amorphic ooze that goes around gobbling up people? Considering the beliefs of the directors and producers of “The Blob”, it’s a safe bet it’s the fallen light of Lucifer deluding and…
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Tony Perkins – Friend of the Rapture
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Well, duh, strike me with a feather, the Family Research Council and the CCC and KKK
Via the Green Knight, who picked it up from Max Blumenthal. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (Just Us Justice Sunday) purchased the Ku Klux Klan mailing list in 1996 for $82,000.00. Tony Perkins spoke to the Louisiana Council of Conservative Citizens on May 19 2001 but declines to answer questions about his…