Tuesday, July 28, 2009

...on the Ryan Commission Report

One of the most uncomfortable and heartbreaking videos you'll ever see...

Family of Hate (Again)

What kind of parents take kids on vacation to picket Walter Cronkite’s funeral, telling mourners yesterday he will burn in hell? John Avlon tags along with the sick clan behind the Westboro Church.

More HERE.

Fool!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Will Travolta leave Scientology?

There's a rumor going around that one of Scientology's most powerful proponents, John Travolta, is looking to leave the draconian religion once and for all. After the year he's had, it would make sense.

According to the Daily Mail - who rounded up some interesting quotes on the matter - it appears to be a very real possibility. To say Travolta's had a rough go of it recently would be putting it very, very lightly.

More HERE.

Peter Hitchens - radio debate



HUMOR: Climate Change Denial 101

Liberty Patriot Freedom Republic University is proud to present Climate Change Denial 101, an introductory four week course in the art of climate change denial featuring a new prayer topic every week, presented for the objective fundamentalist in an unbiased, socially conservative dominionist setting. Upon completing CCD 101, students should be able to defend the fossil fuel industry, willfully ignore and wildly mis-interpret data, and reconstruct their own apologetic to the secular consensus held by climate researchers.

Week 1 Introduction
-- An overview of the global warming conspiracy with vigorous classroom discussion of why facts and science have an unfair liberal bias (All six pages in text booklet), and a careful review of the NASA Global Temperature Record with correct interpretations written by our crack science faculty (Attached graph). The class will then pray the demons out of James Hansen's soul.

More HERE.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Mark Sanford: Cheating SC Gov Says God Will Make Him Better

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released Sunday that God will change him so he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader.

"(W)hile none of us has the chance to attend our own funeral, in many ways I feel like I was at my own in the past weeks, and surprisingly I am thankful for the perspective it has afforded," Sanford wrote in the opinion piece widely published online Sunday by South Carolina newspapers.

Sanford, a two-term Republican, returned from a mysterious, nearly weeklong disappearance last month to reveal a romance with a longtime friend in Argentina. In a series of Associated Press interviews, he described the woman as his "soul mate" but said he would work to repair his relationship with his wife, Jenny, the mother of their four sons.

Some lawmakers have called for Sanford to resign, and one state senator plans hearings on whether state money was used to facilitate the trysts. A criminal probe found nothing illegal.

Sanford and his wife left the state earlier this week for an undisclosed location and are expected to return Sunday evening, spokesman Joel Sawyer said.

In the opinion, Sanford vows to work with lawmakers he's long fought and cites scripture and his faith in God – just as he's done in his few public appearances since admitting the affair.

"It's in the spirit of making good from bad that I am committing to you and the larger family of South Carolinians to use this experience to both trust God in his larger work of changing me, and from my end, to work to becoming a better and more effective leader," he wrote.

More HERE.

Baptist Publication Fakes Signatures on Kern's Morality Proclamation

Paralysed Kids Buried For Healing

Muslim woman in Malaysia sentenced to caning for drinking beer

Vatican launches inquiry into 'abusive' religious order

Mass 'Kiss-In' Protest At Mormon Temple Leads To Confrontation

Basiji militiaman: I raped virgins before their executions

Woman says she feared Alamo would hurt her sister

Neil deGrasse Tyson on "2012"

Apologists for Evil - Pat Condell

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Chilling extremism

Gov. Perry Appoints Board of Education Chairman

"...she has fervidly advocated for Creationism in the classroom enough to draw plenty of criticism."
Story HERE.

Inside the 'Legion of Christ'

When Todd Carpunky was 16, he joined the Legion of Christ. I his six years with the Catholic order, he bore witness to a culture of sexual abuse that rocked the Church. Here, he talks candidly to Peter Stanford about the secretive world created by the order's founder while the papal authorities looked the other way.
Story HERE.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Find God, win a trip to Mecca (or Jerusalem, or Tibet)

Turkish game show enlists imam, Greek Orthodox priest, rabbi and monk to try to convert atheists, with pilgrimage as reward.