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Friday, Nov 6, 2009
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I don't know why liberals would be confused. You'd think we'd be used to taking it up the ass by now. The only difference is that now we're being screwed by our own party, instead of the opposition.
Impeach.
After the crap that Circuit City pulled with DIVX - which was an astonishingly vile idea, a DVD competitor format that required ongoing payments for each 48-hour period in which you watched a movie - this is no more than they deserve.
Unfortunately, the management bastards at Circuit City who approved the DIVX concept are surely still set for life. While many of the store clerks and other workers who were the victims of management's stupidity are probably now struggling on the edge of bankruptcy.
That "doctor with the cure for a terminal disease" concept is an interesting one. I've often wondered why Christians don't take it to the next step: considering "failure" to believe in their brand of Christianity as attempted suicide. By that logic, they would be justified in using any means necessary to forcibly convert non-Christians.
And what about non-Christian parents? By raising their children in their own non-Christian faiths (or lack thereof), aren't they committing the ultimate form of child abuse (in the eyes of Christians, that is) - destroying their children's souls? Wouldn't that justify taking any action whatsoever to remove those children from the spiritual abatoir that is their birth-parents' homes and putting them in a proper Christian environment?
I've asked these questions many times before, and never received an answer from a Christian. Perhaps that's a good thing.
As an old fan of the original SNL and of the Franken & Davis sketches, I was afraid that I was the only one who remembered Tom Davis. I always hoped that he would resurface. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention!
One of their favorite sketches of mine was also one of their longest. They played political opponents in alternating TV commercials. Tom played a (presumably Republican) Senator named Winfield Adcock, in a gray three-piece suit. Al played "Pete Tagliani", his "working-man" Democratic challenger, usually with rolled-up shirtsleeves as I recall. His tagline was "So vote for me, Pete Tagliani. You'll be glad you did."
The ads escalated hilariously, with photos of the candidates with prostitutes, going on drinking binges, making homosexual advances in men's rooms, etc. God, it was funny. I wish it was available on YouTube. It made almost everything produced in the last ten years of SNL look like unfunny crap - which, of course, it is.
There was a Crazy Eddie's not too far away when I was growing up. I got some good deals there, actually. I still remember those commercials...I wonder if they're on YouTube?
(going to check)
If they really believe that reciting their magic prayer is all that's needed to give a person a chance at salvation, here's a much better way to do it: get as many attractive (Christian) women as they can. Have them go to Spring Break, and tell drunken boys that they'll have sex with them if they'll say that prayer first. Then do. Bingo! Another soul saved (maybe).
I call it "Fucking for Jesus". What do you think?
PS - I realize that this approach will not help non-Christian women (except for the lesbians, but I assume that they are already damned as far as the evangelicals are concerned). I considered suggesting offering really nice shoes to drunken women for saying the prayer, but feared that might sound sexist. Would it be?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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