Billy Graham's Daughter is Weird

(via Right Wing Watch)
Anne Graham Lotz: Pornography is a Sign of the End Times 

Speaking at the Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem, radical evangelist and daughter of Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz, elaborated on her belief that the end times are here. Quoting from Joel 1:6, she compared the locust plague with the pornography industry, saying that it constitutes an “invasion” upon our land.

Okay, I'll bite. Let me see what Joel 1:6 says.

According to "BibleGateway.com," it goes a little something like this:

Joel 1:6-8

King James Version (KJV)

6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

I don't see anything about a plague of locusts. I see lion references. Lions and figs, mainly, but no locusts.
But here's how the weird lady explains it:






Wow, that's quite a leap! Jumping straight from locusts to porn. How does that thought process work? Hmm, deep theological question. . .PORN!

Hmm, Jesus says here that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. I wonder if he meant that literally or. . .  PORN!

Seriously, it works with any Biblical conundrum.

If God is all-powerful, and he loves his people, then why do bad things happen PORN!!!

The locust invasion that destroyed the land, was like an army, but was not a human army. So then I was asking myself, what non-human army is invading our world and destroying it? Just like that I could think of pornography.

What kind of porn has this lady been watching that doesn't include humans? The National Geographic Channel is not porn, ma'am!

  

(insert porno music here)

. . . what non-human army is invading our world and destroying it? Just like that I could think of pornography. Invading our land and our nation 

An army! A pornographic army! Invading our nation!

  

Look out! Here they come!

I know many's the time I've looked out my window to see an army of public fornicators marching down the street, invading people's homes and forcing them to watch.

Invading our land and our nation – just subtle, seeping corruption, destroying the fabric of society, tearing apart healthy relationships and families,

Mmmmm. . . invading! . . oooh. . .Subtle, seeping!  oh, destroying the fabric, tearing apart! Oh God Yes!

Sorry, what was I talking about?

Pornography makes more money in a year, than apple, Microsoft, Google, eBay, amazon, combined. That’s a disaster.

That's also ironic since that is a list of companies whose income derives largely from pornography. Okay, maybe not eBay, but Microsoft, Google, Apple - you think they wouldn't take ahuge hit if internet porn ceased to exist?

Funny Woman of the Day -- Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorenson writes the comic strip Slowpoke.

This Is Who They Are

South Carolina Gov Vetoes Abuse And Rape Prevention Funding, Calls It A Distraction

  

Quit distracting me! I'm trying to destroy a state here!

Haley explained these vetoes in the Department of Health and Environmental Control budget by writing, "Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement, but nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health." 

(emphasis added. By me.)

Oh. I see. Victims of rape and abuse don't make up a particularly large voting bloc? So who cares about them?

This is your Tea-Party, America. This is who they are. They do not care about anything except enacting policies to further enrich the already wealthy or damage government's ability to do anything positive. Trying to prevent rape and domestic violence? That's just a "distraction."

Mitt Doesn't Get It

I know this story is a couple weeks old, but I've been busy.

(via Think Progress)

Romney Doesn’t Dispute He Helped Send Jobs Overseas, Tells Press To Call It ‘Offshoring’ Not ‘Outsourcing’

Seriously? Do you really not get that that is so much worse?

"Outsourcing" is not necessarily a bad thing (although it usually is). If you are, say, a clothing store, and you need a computer program to track inventory, it makes sense to "outsource" that job to a company that creates software rather than trying to hire your own computer programmers who will be unnecessary once the program is written, or hoping that one of your sales staff might have a knack for computers. Outsourcing a job that is not in your company's wheelhouse makes perfect sense.

"Offshoring" is always always always a bad thing. Sending jobs to a some low-wage third-world company so you can pay slave wages to children working in prison-level conditions rather than hiring Americans who might expect a halfway-decent wage? Always bad. There's no situation in which you can justify that.

 

See? It's just "offshoring!" What's the problem?

And yes, "outsourcing" is often done for nefarious reasons, like shifting work to a non-union shop, but it doesn't always have to be villainous.

 

Manslaughter?  Your honor, my client has merely committed First Degree Murder!

“This is a fundamentally flawed story that does not differentiate between domestic outsourcing versus offshoring nor versus work done overseas to support U.S. exports. Mitt Romney spent 25 years in the real world economy so he understands why jobs come and they go,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. 

Of course he understands why they go. They go because you send them to China.

Funny Woman of the Day -- Lizz Winstead

Lizz Winstead created the Daily Show.

She was also one of the creators of Air America, and the person who discovered Rachel Maddow.

Also, she's a funny comic.