March 08, 2007
What a hypocritical piece of
Seriously?
Newt Gingrich admitted that he was having an affair during the witchhunt against Clinton.
Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up before deciding in the fall whether to run.Ummmm..... how bad would the field need to be for him to think this is a GOOD idea? ... OH yeah.... there is Jeb.....
"Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than 20 years younger than he is."
"His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery."I don't know which is more amazing... that he is considered part of the moral majority or that many women would shtup him.
"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them," he said in the interview. "I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm ... not proud of."
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February 21, 2007
Bring their Buddies Home
What a beautiful display and a very dramatic artistic comment. One of the things that struck me most about the hub-a-balue over Bush coming to Chattanooga was a news story showing the students at CSAS. It said that the older students held signs about the war and katrina. One young lady said, "I wish they had slowed down and read what we had to say. We will be voting in 2008 and we have a voice."
Watch this touching video of this installation:
From the NCtimes article:
The vigil was one of several throughout the country planned for the same time. Others were scheduled for Laguna Beach, Palm Springs and Gainesville, Fla.
Event organizer Jeeni Criscenzo of Oceanside said she organized the event, dubbed Bring Their Buddies Home, as a gesture of respect for members of the U.S. military who have died in Iraq and to urge an end to the American military's role in the conflict.
She and several other organizers said they regarded the rain as helpful in setting an appropriately somber tone for a vigil they repeatedly likened to a work of art.
"If this is the canvas, the rain is the paint," Criscenzo said.
This was the second such vigil that Criscenzo has organized. The first was held in Carlsbad in November 2005.
On Monday, participants, dressed in black at the organizers' request, began to sign in and line the sidewalk at 9:30 a.m. At 10 a.m., a bugler played taps, signaling the mournful start of the event. The vigil continued until 11 a.m., punctuated by an occasional horn honking from passing motorists.
The participants stood silent and motionless as dark clouds scudded overhead and ocean waves pounded the beach below and behind the sidewalk where they stood.
A letter-sized sheet of paper bearing the first name and first letter of the last name of each fallen service member was pinned to the chest of each participant. The paper also included the service member's rank, branch of service, hometown and age.
Criscenzo said the full last name of each service member was omitted because it could not be determined whether surviving family members would have approved the name of their loved one being used in the vigil.
Judy Hess of Chula Vista, one of several volunteers who helped register participants, wrapped the feet of one little girl in a stroller with trash bags to keep her dry.
"The troops are in worse weather and worse conditions than we are," Hess said.
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I'm BAAAACCCCK!
Did you miss me? I thought so...
So .... quick thought.....
Today is the day that us, the religiously clueless, point to our co-workers heads after lunch and say, "You've got something right there" *pointing to middle of forehead.*
And you thought I was going to write about Bush.
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August 24, 2005
B-U-S-H, trouble.
Come on, Bush, we know you can't spell trouble! Not without Karl Rove in your ear anyway.
Stepping up their response Tuesday to an antiwar movement that has gained momentum in recent weeks, President Bush and his aides said heeding protesters' wishes to withdraw troops from Iraq would "weaken" the United States' broader efforts to combat terrorism.
Oh yea, and when are we going to start to combat terrorism?
And what happened to Mission Accomplished????
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Backtrack Pat.
So, let me get this straight, You didn't mean we should assasinate him... You meant we should "take him out and pray for him?"
again to quote:
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
HE NEVER SAID "Take him out"... He said we ought to do it.
Pat Robertson often makes comments that many find outrageous. Here's a selection:
-From a 1992 fund-raising letter: The "feminist agenda" is a "socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
And I ask you what is wrong with that?????
-Aug. 2, 2001: On "The 700 Club," Robertson proclaimed that gay groups had better stop flying flags celebrating Gay Pride Month at Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Fla. - or else. He said all involved would incur the wrath of
of God if they did not heed his warning"
"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes," Robertson declared on the air. "It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
-On the Sept. 11 attacks: On "The 700 Club" two days after the 2001 attacks, Robertson's guest, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, suggested that "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America" helped cause the attacks.
"I totally concur," Robertson replied.
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," Falwell said.
"Jerry, that's my feeling," Robertson responded.
Both men later apologized.
-Oct. 13, 2003: Robertson, after reading a book on the State Department:
"If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom (the area of Washington where the department's office is), I think that's the answer. I mean, you get through this, and you say, `We've got to blow that thing up.'"
-Oct 19, 2004: From CNN, on the Iraq war.
Robertson: And I was trying to say, "Mr. President, you better prepare the American people for casualties."
"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." Well, I said, it's the way it's going to be. And so, it was messy. The Lord told me it was going to be, A, a disaster and, B, messy. And before that, I had deep, in my spirit, I had deep misgivings about going into Iraq.
From an Associated Press story on White House reaction: "The president never made such a comment," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
-May 1, 2005, on ABC's "This Week," about federal judges: "I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together. There is an assault on marriage. There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war. ..."
Interviewer: "How can you say that these judges are a more serious threat than Islamic terrorists who slammed into the World Trade Center?"
Robertson: "It depends on how you look at culture. If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings."
-Aug. 22, 2005, on Venezuela's President Chavez: "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said.
Now tell me how Robertson is different from any other extremist terrorist?
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August 23, 2005
ACLU SUES TENNESSEE
In Tennessee, the American Civil Liberties Union and
the Tennessee Equality Project are suing the state,
claiming that it failed to give adequate public notice
before approving the language of a proposed marriage
amendment.
More than 90 lawmakers in Tennessee have voluntarily
joined the suit to defend the state’s actions. The
lawmakers are represented by the Alliance Defense
Fund, a religious legal group.
Yay!
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