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"God Told Me To Resign" 2007-11-28 17:10:00 Richard Roberts, former president of Oral Roberts University, told his students today that God told him to resign. Although apparently, before his resignation, God told him to deny the allegations. But, I guess, the closer Roberts was to getting forced out, God then just said, "Give it up!".Now, it begins to make me question yet again when people here God speaking to them, are they just voicing the echo in the back of their head to justify their questionable behavior? Or, as other people may call it, a cocktail of self-delusion and just plain old crazy.As I said before, religion is quite a profitable racket. The man was spending money when the university was $50 million in debt. The man bought a stable of horses and paid for his daughter to go to Bermuda. Perhaps, Bermuda was supposed to be a religious pilgrimage of sorts, but I don't buy it. Next, he might have paid for expensive umbrella stands like those Enron crooks did.After his resignation, Roberts announced that for "the first Read more:Resign
Intelligence Genes Hard To Find; No, I'm Not Kidding 2007-11-28 16:16:00 Although this may not be news to some of you, researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London have attempted to find the genetic strands in our DNA that result in intelligence.The conclusion is that intelligence is due to upbringing, social factors and hereditary traits. So when dense people just don't get it, they can no longer claim their ancestors were morons to justify their own stupidity.I have always thought the things that separated stupid people from smart people was their unwillingness to listen to others, their inability to employ logic and reason for matters that require pure common sense and their constant belief that they are always right despite how many times they are proven wrong.Let's not also forget another important characteristic of a stupid person: the inability to grow up and act as if you're older than 11 years old.This probably sounds like someone you know. In fact, these are the majority of people you deal with everyday. And, if you don't recognize the Read more:Genes
The Great Prophet Mohammed Bear 2007-11-28 13:48:00 A British teacher has been arrested in the Sudan after letting her class name their mascot teddy bear Mohammed
. She has been officially charged with offending religion and may be subjected to a punishment 0f 40 lashes, jail for one year and a fine.Offending religion? How can you possibly offend what is already offensive to those of us who don't subscribe to superstition meant to control and frighten people? It is sometimes amazing the level of backwards thinking that religion has brought to this world.Incidents like this make me wonder why religious people are so insecure about their beliefs that they have to punish any little comment or remark questioning religion as something offensive. Does the entire belief system of Islam crumble to the ground because some teddy bear shared the same name as your prophet?No, but it often comes across as looking rather ridiculous. Read more:Great
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Rudolph Giuliani: The Old Days 2007-11-28 13:26:00 The above video shows how much Giuliani
handled things with grace back in 2001 when he was mayor of New York City.Does anyone want to see him blow his top off at the slightest provocation in the White House? Read more:Rudolph
Jesus and Mary Flapjacks with Maple Syrup! 2007-11-28 08:32:00 Repent now! Marilyn Smith of Port St. Lucie, Florida discovered the image of Jesus
Christ and Mary on the pancake she made Sunday morning. And, like any good Christian, she did what was right and is trying to sell it on EBay to the highest-bidding sucker.Hallejuah! Hallejuah!The Ebay listing says "'This is a spiritual, unusual and unique pancake that we believe to be holy." So let's all pray to the powers that emanate from this pancake that started with a griddle, some Aunt Jemima mix and probably some holy water.Personally, from the picture above, the one on the left looks like a tall Jawa. And the one on the right looks like a rather pissed off Michelin Man. Picture below for reference. Read more:Maple
Wanted: Editor for Spanking Videos 2007-11-28 07:52:00 So, I am looking for video editing work this morning and found this:Looking for an FCP editor. We are looking for an editor to do a rough cut of a 50 minute erotic spanking video. It was a three camera shoot so the editing is pretty basic. Pay is $150 for a rough cut.I am pretty desperate for work at this point. But, besides the ludicrously low pay, could I ever be that desperate to want to cut a 50 minute spanking video? As an editor, I'm not even sure how I could possibly stretch out the act of spanking into something that long.Is there actually supposed to be some sort of story to this? Is it 50 minutes of some chick confessing how much of a bad girl she is while getting whacked in her bare behind harder and harder? Do we go into deep character development and find out how her messed up childhood led to a life of stripping, prostitution, drugs and the occasional spanking fetish video?I am also astonished how the ad modestly boasts that they had a three camera setup, as if they had Read more:Editor
, Spanking
The CNN YouTube Republican Debate 2007-11-28 07:24:00 Tonight is the CNNYouTubeRepublicanDebate
. I'm sure we can look forward to many things from Mitt Romney's flip-flops to Fred Thompson's cluelessness and, of course, Rudolph Giuliani's ever-reliant exploitation of September 11th.I'm also sure we can expect CNN to cherry pick the questions. Any tough questions posed by thinking members of the public will be shunted aside for moronic questions by the many uninformed masses of this great country of ours.It isn't like CNN holds the highest standards for their questioning either. In the last Democratic debate, Wolf Blitzer asked the candidates: "Is human rights or the protection of our country more important? Yes or No". Of course, this is a question that can be answered so simply with one word. A couple of candidates attempted to answer with details but were cut off by Blitzer.I wonder myself often recently how these debates really could be a giant waste of our precious time, as much as I wonder how much money and how many years of
Mormon Cartoon 2007-12-07 12:27:00 The above video, although banned by the Mormon
church, apparently teaches the origins of mankind as taught by the Book of Mormon.It starts out echoing the origins of Superman, throws in some racial hating, and adds significant science fiction and a flat out bizarre interpretation of history. And, oh yeah, it eventually attempts to sort out the whole bigamy issue.Since I knew little about Mormons, I can now safely they believe in the same crazy shit as all other religions do. By the way, the more I learn about religions, the less I will sleep at night. It looks like I'll have to order some more Valerian Root. Read more:Cartoon
Extra! Extra! Hurricane Predictions for 2008! 2007-12-07 10:51:00 Take your bets! Because the first predictions for hurricanes have come in from William Gray at Colorado State University six months before the season starts. There will be seven, I repeat, seven Atlantic hurricanes, three of which will be "serious".Don't you just love the good news? Here are some more predictions:Antarctica will melt away half of its land masses. Polar bears will sail on tiny icebergs and accidentally turn up in Mexico. When they try to head to the U.S. for colder climates, they will be detained, interrogated and waterboarded at the border.Swarms of locusts will invade the mainland, followed by four strange beings on horses. The locusts will succumb to smog in the atmosphere and the four horsemen will realize they need more than four men on horses to bring about that apocalypse they've been talking about.Osama bin Laden will still be alive and free and making viral videos.American will elect the wrong person president, proving nothing was actually learned from the pa Read more:Extra
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CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed 2007-12-07 09:48:00 Here's something to ponder considering the recent story about the CIA destroying interrogation tapes of al Qaeda suspects. Here is what Gerald Posner who wrote a book called Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 offers:You might also recall that in my 2003 NYT bestseller (reached #2), Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, my last chapter was titled, "The Interrogation." Based on two active US intelligence sources, I was the first to disclose Zubaydah's interrogation. To date, I am the only reporter to have printed the info about what happened to him. Zubaydah, wounded when he was captured in Pakistan, was fooled in a fake flag operation to believe that the Saudis held him. Instead of being afraid of the ‘Saudis,’ he demanded to talk to three Saudi princes (one, the nephew of the King, who happened to be in the U.S. on 9/11). He gave his interrogators the private cell phone numbers of all 3. He did the same regarding the chief of Pakistan's air force. Aft Read more:Tapes
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Movie Moment of the Day: "Bad Santa" 2007-12-07 09:20:00 Throughout the month, I will be presenting many highlights from this movie as there are plenty and they never fail at making me laugh. Read more:Moment
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Mitt Romney's Faith & Politics Speech 2007-12-07 04:57:00 Mitt Romney
delivered the speech below (in 3 parts) to once again make Republican voters get past their religious bigotry towards Mormonism and vote him to be their candidate for President. Unfortunately, Romney makes this speech excluding the fact that many people today have no religion. Basically, atheists and agnostics continue to be irrelevant, possibly because most of us are suspicious of religion and politics continuing to dangerously mix.In part 1, Romney states flat out that freedom needs religion. No, it does not. Freedom is something those with religion and those without must have. No exceptions. Liberty is not a God-given right unless God is proven to exist.In part 2, Romney says there is a movement towards secularism in which religion is not to be recognized in any way in government. Now, we know even our own president will claim they recognize that he governs with a separation of church and state. But that doesn't mean they've attempted to move the line where religion an Read more:Faith
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Religion Wars! 2007-12-05 17:36:00 An American evangelist produces a video attacking Islam, using a stuffed pig named Muhammod. Hey, leave the mocking of religion to those of us who don't subscribe to any of them. No religious group is any position to mock others, considering all the damage they've collectively caused to this planet. Read more:Religion
Unborn Baby Ornament: Ya Know, For Christmas! 2007-12-05 15:40:00 For only $14.95, you too can buy the US Troop Unborn
Baby Ornament
. Here is the description:Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?Plastic replica of an 11-12 week old fetus, 3" long, holding a firearm in its precious little hand, with an assortment of other military paraphernalia, encased in a translucent plastic ornament, with a patriotic yellow ribbon on top. Includes a metal ornament hanger. If only a womb were this safe, attractive and reasonably priced! Show that you support the "culture of life" by buying and proudly displaying one of these patriotic unborn Americans.This is also available in a "Brown" model, pictured below, but those are considered cheaper and more disposable by most Christians. Read more:Christmas
Images of the Day 2007-12-05 11:20:00 The pictures above are part of an exhibition at the New York Public Library called "Multiple Interpretations". The piece is called "Line Up". Read more:Images
Watch George Bush Tap Dance 2007-12-05 08:22:00 Isn't it amazing how he describes how someone came to him and said there was new information about Iran, but didn't tell him until a couple of days ago? Wouldn't the president have to know everything?This quote from The Rude Pundit who live-blogged through this press conference yesterday says it all:Is he the goddamn President or the low girl on the text message circle about whether or not the new hot boy at school is gay? Read more:George
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Stealing from the Salvation Army 2007-12-05 07:51:00 To warm the cockles of your heart this Christmas, watch human nature rear its ugly head. Pay particular attention to the types of cars these thieves drive that demonstrate how "poor" they are. Read more:Stealing
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A Christmas Rant 2007-12-05 07:33:00 Two brothers take part in a year long experiment to only communicate through video weblogs. This is one of the entries. Read more:Christmas
Religion on The View 2007-12-04 20:47:00 In the words of Woody Allen: What I wouldn't give now for a large polo mallet? Read more:Religion
Mitt Romney Grilled on Mormonism 2007-12-04 20:13:00 I don't really want Mitt Romney
to be president. But to be grilled on what his religion believes is an irrelevant issue. Romney's losing votes and being put on the defensive simply because he doesn't pass some ridiculous Christian litmus test that says the President of the United States has to believe in certain things that some of us consider rather elaborate superstitions.Honestly, how much longer are we going to let organized religion limit our ways of thinking and hold us back in progressing forward as a nation? Religion is based on arrogance, which says, "We know what really happened thousands of years ago and what will happen after we die more than you do. But if you need me to reason and think about anything happening here and now, then...ummmm...I'll pray."Can't we all just get along and say Christianity and Mormonism
and all other religions are equally ridiculous and get on with more important things?Here is something that perfectly expresses what I feel:We must start a R Read more:Mitt Romney
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Disney Characters Summoned To Trial 2007-12-04 16:16:00 An Italian court has sent out court summons to Mickey Mouse, as well as Donald and Daisy Duck to testify in a counterfeiting case where a Chinese man is accused of selling illegal Disney
and Warner Bros. products.Perhaps, most people need fantasy characters to deal with real issues. Would it be easier to discuss gun control if Elmer Fudd was the president of the NRA? Would most people realize how many deaths were caused by our invasion of Iraq if we had hobbits, a wizard, an elf, and a dwarf fighting Orcs in the Middle East?Or possibly take a hard look at health care by the medical treatment E.T. had when he died and was accidentally brought back to life by laying in ice? He was lucky he made it through such a cheap treatment and probably couldn't afford the more intensive surgery he needed.How about debating issues such as abortion invoking a fantasy character? Ooops, I think they already do that. Read more:Characters
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Chilean Prostitute Auctions Off 27 Hours of Sex 2007-12-04 12:47:00 Maria Carolina, a prostitute in Chile, pictured above, contributed to a televised charity event by auctioning off, in her words, "27 hours of love", starting Friday morning.Horny men will finally have a chance to justify their behavior by saying "I'm banging her for those poor disabled kids." I wonder if charitable donations like this are a write-off in Chile.You also have to wonder about the scheduling and how poor Maria will be able to have the endurance to last that long without sleeping. Has she done marathon sessions like this before where the men are practically lined up outside the door waiting their turn? Will she just get sore from all the thrusting?Let's not be judgmental here. Ultimately, she's doing something selfless. Hey, I'm more than willing to donate to a good cause if any woman wants to do 28 hours of love. Just let me be first. I don't like sloppy seconds. Or thirds, fourths, fifths... Read more:Chilean
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I Stand Accused! 2007-12-04 12:28:00 I and many other bloggers have been accused by NBC News Chief White House Correspondent David Gregory for polarizing American politics. Here is the video:It's pretty insulting to be accused by someone in mainstream journalism, whose ethics have been taking a nap since September 11th. Honestly, how many blogs would there be if journalists had actually been doing their jobs? How many journalists have traded in their souls by intentionally not reporting stories or digging deep enough in fear they were going to lose "access" to our government?Here is a more thorough response from the blog Words of Power that articulates it better than I can. My choice selections:The sad fact is that if the David Gregorys of the US mainstream news media had fulfilled their special responsibilities as the "fourth estate," which are articulated in both the US Constitution and the writings of the Founders, most us who have served as citizen journalists and commentators would never have gone into blogging. In Read more:Stand
Bush Has Hard On for Iran 2007-12-04 11:10:00 Despite a report from the National Intelligence Estimate that states Iran stopped working towards building a nuclear weapon in 2003, our Fearless Leader still says Iran is a threat and is not letting facts and evidence get in the way of starting another war before leaving office.Now, you may think the title of this post is crude. But, personally, this situation is growing more crass by the minute. That this draft dodger finds it so easy to stretch the resources of our military and toy with their lives like this is a game is rather disgusting. I begin to seriously think that his actions are never going to weigh on his conscience.To say this is about protecting us from Iran as opposed to some half-thought out plan to control the Middle East and its rich oil supply is insulting. In fact, I think the Bush administration's foreign policy has made this country less safer and that they've created new generations of radical nutjobs who will group together one day and want to take out the Sea
Rescue the Constitution 2007-12-04 08:58:00 The above ad was rejected by the Fox News Channel for the following reason:"We cannot approve the spot with it being Danny Glover's opinion that the Bush Adminstration [sic] is destroying the Constitution
. If you have documentation that it is indeed being destroyed, we can look at that."If they want evidence the Constitution is being destroyed, they just have to watch the other news channels or read the newspaper. Fox News should just rename itself the Fox Fantasyland Channel. Instead of "Fair and Balanced", their slogan should be "Delusional and Reality Resistant". Read more:Rescue
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