A couple of scumbags

Shouldn't there be some rule that people in positions of responsibility should have to deal in reality?

Lawmaker won't honor 'radicalized' Girl Scouts

Bob Morris says group supports abortion, promotes 'homosexual lifestyle'

INDIANAPOLIS – A Fort Wayne lawmaker has refused to sign on to a resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, calling the group a "radicalized organization" that supports abortion and promotes the "homosexual lifestyle."

He said he did some web-based research and found allegations that the Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood, allows transgender females to join and encourages sex.

Web-based research. Seriously, web-based research. The same kind of research that tells you the holocaust was a hoax, the moon-landing was fake and that cats can't spell? That's the research on which you are basing  your condemnation of possibly the most harmless, sweet & innocent organization in America?

 

Oh, and this might be worse:

Franklin Graham: Obama May Secretly Be A Muslim

Franklin claimed that the President began attending Church to bolster his political career and is a Muslim under Islamic law. “Islam sees him as a son of Islam because his father was a Muslim, his grandfather was a Muslim, great grandfather was a Mulsim and so under Islamic law, the Muslim world sees Barack Obama as a Muslim,” Graham said

Seriously? Islamic Law? You're going to take Islamic Law into account? I'm pretty sure that under Islamic Law, Barack Obama is considered an infidel, no matter who his father was. Of course, I'm no expert, but then again, neither are you. And even if Islamic Law does consider him a Muslim, who gives a fuck? Since when do Christian ministers care what Islamic Law says about anything? Islamic Law could say that Franklin Graham is a brain-damaged invertebrate who only gets any time in the spotlight because daddy was famous, but that wouldn't make it true. I mean, it is true, but  not because they said it.

“I can’t say categorically [that Obama is not a Muslim] because Islam has gotten a free pass under Obama,” he said. 

 

Free Pass.

So, sending more troops into Afghanistan, Drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc. These are indications of Islam getting a "free pass?" And why would Islam not get a "free pass?" Because it's not a religion of which you approve?  There are over a billion Muslims in the world. The vast, overwhelming majority of these are not doing anything wrong. It's like if you feel that Obama isn't cracking down on the Mafia hard enough, is that giving a "free pass" to Catholicism?

Even Funnier

BuzzFeed

The Craziest Thing about Dana Loesch's Rape Comment

It's not that she equates non-consensual penetration with consensual intercourse. It's not that she dismisses the concerns of women who don't wish to be poked and prodded unnecessarily with a slut-shaming "hey, they ought to be used to having stuff jammed inside 'em." We've come to expect that sort of casual horror from people like her.
No, what is really insane is that she apparently doesn't know how to pronounce "vaginal." She pronounces it "Vaj-EYE-nul."

According to her Wikipedia bio, she was born in 1978. By my calculations, she has had a vagina for 33 years. Granted, "vaginal" is probably not a word that comes up a lot in conversation. I'm sure she doesn't say to her husband "golly, hon, I could sure go for some vaginal intercourse right about now!" But she has two kids. Surely at some point a doctor must have discussed something vaginal with her.
I have never had a vagina in all my years and I know how to pronounce "vaginal."
It's really inexplicable that a grown woman wouldn't.

My favorite Part of the Latest Rick Santorum Faux Pas

Is the location where he made his assholish remarks:

“It’s sort of the optimistic spirit of America but sometimes, sometimes it’s not okay. It’s going to be harder for this generation to figure this out. There’s no cataclysmic event. It’s going to be hard. You understand it — you’re here. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t get it.”

-- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum campaigning at the First Redeemer Church in Cumming, Ga.

Cumming, GA. Which is a real place.

Take a look at their website: http://www.cityofcumming.net/

Welcome to the city of Cumming’s web site.  We hope you will find lots of useful information here.

Find out what’s playing at the Cumming Play house.

Come on, admit it.Aren't you just a little bit curious about the Cumming Play House?

Cumming Fairgrounds
Home of the Cumming Country
Fair and Festival

 

Oh, God! I'm 8 years old!

Does Anyone Really Read David Brooks?

 

Hmm, better weigh in on this Jeremy Lin while there's still time!

The Jeremy Lin Problem

By DAVID BROOKS

Jeremy Lin is a basketball player who has been playing exceptionally well lately. How exactly is this a problem?

Jeremy Lin is anomalous in all sorts of ways. He’s a Harvard grad in the N.B.A., an Asian-American man in professional sports. But we shouldn’t neglect the biggest anomaly. He’s a religious person in professional sports.

Oh my God! Have you never watched a professional sports event?

  

 

 

Seriously, there's more genuflecting and sky-pointing in a Major League ballgame than in most churches.

We’ve become accustomed to the faith-driven athlete and coach, from Billy Sunday [in a shotgun ragtime band?] to Tim Tebow. 

So, how is he an anomaly? How can a religious man in sports be considered an anomaly if we've become accustomed to religious men in sports?

We’ve become accustomed to the faith-driven athlete and coach, from Billy Sunday to Tim Tebow. But we shouldn’t forget how problematic this is. The moral ethos of sport is in tension with the moral ethos of faith, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim. . .

The sports hero tries to perform great deeds in order to win glory and fame. It doesn’t really matter whether he has good intentions. . .Ascent in the sports universe is a straight shot. You set your goal, and you climb toward greatness. But ascent in the religious universe often proceeds by a series of inversions: You have to be willing to lose yourself in order to find yourself; to gain everything you have to be willing to give up everything; the last shall be first; it’s not about you. 

Yeah, that's great, Dave. Any chance that you might some day make the same point about the Capitalist ethos? That maybe it's just a wee bit hypocritical to talk about God and Jesus all the time while living in a system that rewards the greedy, the acquisitive, the selfish the least godly amongst us?  That there might be a contradiction between claiming to worship the man who said "sell all you have and give the money to the poor" while enacting policies that ensure that the wealthiest can continue to amass more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else? How about the difficulty in reconciling "Thou shalt not kill" and "Blessed are the Peacemakers" with 10 years of constant war and sabre-rattling?  No, I don't think you'd be allowed to write for the NY Times if you were aware of those types of contradictions.

For many religious teachers, humility is the primary virtue. You achieve loftiness of spirit by performing the most menial services. (That’s why shepherds are perpetually becoming kings in the Bible.)

If by perpetually, you mean once, then sure. I mean, I'm no theologian, but other than David, I sure can't think of another Biblical king who started out as a shepherd.

 

This David ...................................................Not This one.

The most perceptive athletes have always tried to wrestle with this conflict. Sports history is littered with odd quotations from people who try to reconcile their love of sport with their religious creed — and fail.

[citation needed]

 Jeremy Lin has wrestled with this tension quite openly. In a 2010 interview with the Web site Patheos, Lin recalled, “I wanted to do well for myself and my team. How can I possibly give that up and play selflessly for God?”

Maybe you could just assume that God has bigger fish to fry and probably couldn't care less how many assists you have?

Jeremy Lin is now living this creative contradiction.  

When he was a bench-warmer getting released by Golden State and Houston he wasn't? God only notices the really good players?

 Much of the anger that arises when religion mixes with sport or with politics comes from people who want to deny that this contradiction exists and who want to live in a world in which there is only one morality

I think most of the anger comes from people who feel like they are just trying to watch a game and didn't really sign up for a sermon.  Also, it's really aggravating when dolts like you hype up a Tim Tebow or Jeremy Lin as if an athlete with religious convictions were a rarity.