"There Is Not Conclusive Evidence..."

David Boies makes homophobic ass-hat evangelical Tony Perkins his bitch.

This is why he won:

'No Evidence of Harm' from Same Sex Marriage. Watch more top selected videos about: Face the Nation

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The video might not work, but I strongly encourage you to follow the link and watch this video. It is AMAZING!!!

"The witness stand is a lonely place to lie."

Sadly, I Want Him To Be My Senator

Al Franken is a great Senator. To say that should make me ill, but he is the LGBT's strongest ally in the Senate.

Said Franken: "Our nation's civil rights laws protect our children from bullying due to race, sex, religion, disability and national origin. My proposal corrects a glaring injustice and extends these protections to our gay and lesbian students who need them just as badly."

Despite the Obama Administration's push to ignore the problem, Congress will likely repeal DODT in the next two weeks through the defense appropriation bill. Only 70% of Americans are for the repeal of this bigotry, so it will be a controversial slog.

The gays are howling for the change that the President campaigned on. And by the gays, I don't mean our primary political institution, the HRC. I don't give money to that compromised organization of political apologists for a reason: there is no LGBT position that they won't compromise for a social invite.

We win when we convince enough of our straight allies (gay-adjacents) to put pressure on their families and friends. Not when we give money and credence to an organization that persists in sucking up to the (Democratic) powers-that-be and then apologizing for their lack of progress. And it looks like we will win through organized fits of indignity, as progressives join with socially-liberal conservatives to repeal disgusting, religious-based bigotry and unite to promote equal rights for all.

Plan Jesus From Outer Biblevania

I can't wait to see this: Audience of One

Thanks to EP. Watching that trailer reminded me of this:

That's Stephen Baldwin after he (via a publicist) asked good Christian folk to send money to "restore" him. While it's on Funny or Die, it was originally a serious Christian proposal.

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How transparent does nonsense have to be? Or is it all a show? Or a scam? Or an Andy Kaufman-inspired joke? How could anyone judge? Except to say: it's funny and not true.

I admit that my disgust of the credulous has no credulous limits. But by the definition of credulity, how does one distinguish tragic irony from the bottomless credulity of the religious?

Hey, All Straight Conservative Founders Of Anti-gay Christian Groups Do That

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I Think We All Called This One

We predicted that Tim Tebow's saccharine, garish religiosity would be seen as irksome and puerile by the NFL. And it's already started:

At the Scouting Combine, the Wonderlic exam is administered to players in groups. The 12-minute test is preceded by some brief instructions and comments from the person administering the test.

Per a league source, after the person administering the test to Tebow's group had finished, Tebow made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam.

Said one of the other players in response: "Shut the f--k up." Others players in the room then laughed.

Those were, I insist, the appropriate responses. By all means, let Tim murmer to whatever magical being he fancies. But to assume that everyone else in the room wanted to join him--and were sheepishly waiting for a righteous, brave Christian like Tebow to take the spiritual lead in the cosmically significant event of taking a standardized test--is as ostentatious as it is presumptuous and ridiculous.

And, as Christopher Hitchens says, rightly are the simple so called: Tebow scored a below-average 22 on the Wonderlic test. Seriously, that's pathetic. It's a test I could have aced in middle school.

So This Is Christmas...

Uganda and Rwanda both have measures pending that will persecute the gays, mostly by life imprisonment or death. The gays, after all, are responsible for the HIV plague that is ravaging their countries.

American evangelicals are responsible for this potential genocide. For years, they have been touting the anti-science Christian fiction that abstinence-only education works, and that it's the homos who are spreading the "evil." Now, as they try to back away from the genocide they secretly wished for but can't publicly admit to, they clumsily refuse to take accountability for their superstitious proselytizing and homophobic rants.

Could it be because being holy and "intimate with god" means never being wrong?

I would like to note that, in all the conferences to combat HIV that were held by Christian groups, American right-wing politicians, and superstitious African leaders, the following weren't present or considered necessary:

• epidemiologists
• virologists
• sociologists

Not a one.

Evil is real; imagined demons and devils pale in comparison to the live ones.

Why Christian Morality Is No Measure Of The Latter

As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who thinks being gay is--to an unspecified degree--evil, pardoned a murderer and child raper. The guy found his way to Jesus, so why not?

The same guy just murdered four cops.

I'm all for justice, and I believe many felons earn clemency. But using religion as a guide for that power is as dangerous as it is stupid.

Why I Loathe The Republican Word "Dither"

If you haven't heard the Republican apologetics concerning Afghanistan, their asserted criticism of the current administration is that Obama is "dithering." The few remaining sane Republicans have pointed out that additional troop requests were repeatedly rejected by Bush the Younger, and that Obama already sent more troops to Afghanistan in March.

But Republicans have one Army General (ahem!) complaining publicly, one who would have been fired before he had a chance to get on TV were Cheney still around. And so, every Republican sad-sack now uses the word "dithering," as though taking time to formulate and contemplate strategy is somehow gay and French. And as though 7 years didn't pass when they were in charge. How did we get to a point where 40,000 more troops were SO important to our strategy that not deploying them in a short few months allegedly becomes the difference between "surrender" and "victory?"

Note to Republicans: you lost power because you are not serious people who care about anything important. Proof?

Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.

Yet, somehow, if a guy in office 11 months decides to take his time before sending 34,000 people into one of the world's worst shit-holes, he "dithers."

I Take It Back

Maybe I wished that Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown was just a quasi-science fiction album and not a prophesy. With what's going on in this country now, the opus was the latter.

So, I change my review of Green Day's last album: 21st Century Breakdown is the best punk album of this decade.

If you've seen the evangelical Christian-driven racist protests fueled by Republican apologists/cynics, doesn't the following ring a bell?

I am a nation
a worker of pride
My debt to the status quo
The scars on my hands and a means to an end
It's all that I have to show

I swallowed my pride
and I choked on my Faith
I've given my heart and my soul
I've broken my fingers
And lied though my teeth
The pillar of damage control

I've been to the edge
And I've thrown the bouquet
Of flowers left over the grave
I sat in the waiting room
Wasting my time
And waiting for judgment day

Praise liberty
The freedom to obey
Is the song that strangles me
Well don't cross the line

Oooh dream, America dream
I can't even sleep
From the light's early dawn

Oooh scream, America scream
Believe what you see
From heroes and cons?!

Or, to quote my favorite radio liberal talk show: we have become a nation of "angry asshats."

I want to leave now...

Book Review: Republican Gomorrah

Max Blumenthal worked his way into the heart of the modern Republican machine and researched the origins of the Christian evangelical movement. His pedestrian result, Republican Gomorrah, still reads as a brilliant summary of what backed the Republican rise to power after the disastrous 70's and later took them down in the late 2000's: the sadomasochistic authoritarian wish-thinking of the religious right.

Blumenthal introduces his book with a story about Eisenhower, who despised McCarthy and the "persecution" thinking behind him. Using Eric Fromm's clinical dissection of the authoritarian mindset, he links RJ Rushdoony, Francis Schaeffer (who, strangely, was pro-gay), and James Dobson to the rise of an autocratic, fascistic anti-Enlightenment movement that hates the freedom it so cynically promotes.

Whilst narrating the lurid story of the rise and fall of the evangelical-driven Republican party, Blumenthal uses Fromm's Escape From Freedom to explain how its leaders and followers formed a culture of sadomasochism: prostate yourself to the master (here, the mass delusion of fundamentalist Christianity and its leaders), admitting you are a sinful creature in need of Jesus (and "Christian" father figures like Dobson). That masochism gives its followers the strength to sadistically prey on those considered lesser, weaker, and outside of "The Family." Twisted racism, misogyny, and homophobia were contemptuously played as "death" cards to rile a group of disillusioned, privileged middle-class white dopes into promoting a sectarian anti-egalitarian social agenda, a hoary righteous platform both espoused and ignored by the most cynical amoral reprobates imaginable, and a fiscally conservative agenda that was anything but.

One of the more interesting narratives in the book is how Dobson hated Gingrich and Armey because they were too "secular," ie they didn't pay homage to Dobson. If you wonder why the two moderate Republicans in the last election were Obama and Clinton, it's because Dobson systematically replaced any fiscal, reasonable conservative with superstitious twats subservient to the odious, born-again (and admitted Dobson follower) Tom DeLay.

McCain won the Republican nomination because the religious base was split between the fiscally moderate Mormon Romney (who believes that Jesus and Satan are brothers!) and the fiscally irresponsible Huckabee (who believes in every crazy anti-Semitic, racist superstition the religious right loves). After McCain won, the only way to appease those "Family" voters was: Sarah Palin, a hot meat puppet of the neocons who had the intellectual prowess of her Down Syndrome son Trig, and who was admittedly tied to Alaskan Christian Dominionists (many of whom wanted to secede from the US). As someone who lives in a part of our country that actively engaged in treason roughly 150 years ago, I have nothing but contempt for a woman who schtupps a former member of a secession party whilst campaigning that middle-class white people in fly-over country are "real Americans" --as though the multicultural, multi-religious, diverse people of industry living more closely together in urban areas aren't. Palin, and the religious right, failed to see that their charges against the elitism of the "others" were nothing more than a condemnation of their elitist simpleton culture. They still haven't grasped that moderate Americans have figured it out.

The book is sickening; it's no wonder the Republicans have lost every single intellectual supporter they had, from Goldwater to the Buckleys to libertarians like me.

And like Joe Scarborough, who nailed the recent "controversy" over Obama telling kids to work hard and study. Watch his visible revulsion and celebrate the last of the pragmatic (small r) Eisenhower republicans.

One Of These Is Not Like The Other Ones

Take a look at the list of "The Most Religious" Colleges in the US. One can't help but notice that 2 Alabama "institutions of higher learning"--Samford and our arch-rival Auburn--make the list. I wish those were the most disturbing entries, but they are not. Take a look at #14:

United States Air Force Academy

I could go into a huge tirade here, but I'll leave it to this: who planned the disastrous Iraq invasion? The one where we bombed the infrastructure of a civilian population that was supposed to welcome our occupation (and proselytizing) with flowers and candy as they died in the dark of dysentery and chaos? Here's a hint: they believe in Super Jesus, American Christian primacy, and the John-the-Revelator apocalypse somewhere between a backwards Birmingham Southern Baptist fundamentalist bible college and an east-of-nowhere shitstain public university called Auburn.

The Air Force Academy is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Guess who else is located there: Focus on the Family, the disgusting anti-Enlightenment group of stupefied bigots headed by the odious James Dobson.

The Air Force is in charge of most of our nuclear arsenal. Sleep well...

Traditional Christian Family Patriotic Marriage Protected Again!

Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley (not the one who ROCKS!) has been trying to make it illegal for evil, anti-family homos to adopt children in his state. He is very much opposed to gay marriage.

Meanwhile, he had an affair with a 22-year-old intern. At least it was with a she, I suppose.

Good thing we have these insufferable shit stains to protect "traditional" marriage...from everybody but themselves.

Just Another Trial From The Devil, Or Jesus, Or Something, But It's All Part Of God's Plan

Slack-jawed, born-again, evolution-denying Stephen Baldwin is filing for bankruptcy.

Schadenfreude!

Lovecraft Tract

God is a blind retard.

Want To Get Your Teenage Daughter Knocked Up?

Send her to a religious school:

A new study published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that young women in their teens or early twenties who have attended religious schools are more likely than their peers to get an abortion, despite their beliefs. In fact, the research points out, these girls are more likely than those in the public school system to get pregnant without being too mature or married.

The hypocrisy...it burns....

The Meaning Of Rights, Juxtaposed

From the right, trying to get the governor of New Hampshire not to sign a gay marriage bill:



From the left, arguing for gay marriage rights in New York:



Who has the real moral authority?

Don't...Fuck...With Wendy Testaburger

"This is how my parents raised me to pose for Jesus."

What a hypocritical, benighted mooncalf! Someone should have raised her to know that she shouldn't bite the hand that does her hair.

"Wretched" Slapped Down

I posted earlier of a conversation I heard on "Wretched Radio" on SiriusXM (I won't link to the actual site).

Christopher Hitchens actually agreed to an interview with this horrid-yet-intriguing show, and I stayed in my car to hear it.

If you want to fully understand the disconnect between fundamentalist evangelical Christians and rational atheists, listen in full to the following. The host, Todd Friel (who, in the spectrum of morondom, is of the lowest wavelength), proposes a "game" in which Hitchens has to answer "what if."

This tactic is a poor mutation of their common and banal proselytizing screed, and Hitchens handles it mightily. Hilariously, Friel doesn't know how to handle the (to him) inexplicable rationality from our favorite polemicist. Like all ridiculous, deluded fools, Friel keeps asserting the same nonsense in the hope of getting his favored response. Hitchens instead gives us the most hilarious pwn we could hope for.

Gay Marriage Is So EVIL It Forces Good Christian Folk To Be Lying Phonies

Some Christer anti-homo group called the National Organization for Marriage made a scary ad detailing all the horrible things that gay marriage is doing to decent, breeding folk. It'll be running on all the major cable news stations, but you should watch it--in full--now.



Wow, all those goodly Christian Americans have really been negatively affected by allowing lying fascist reprobate homos to get hitched. Would you like to learn more about their individual stories, detailing how each of these very sincere, rights-loving, church-going Lambs of God were demonstrably hurt by fag marriage?

Well, here you go:




Thanks to the HRC.
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Can you believe that the good Christian folk at the National(ist) Organization for (self-described) Marriage made YouTube pull the videos of their actors' auditions for their fake testimony based, not on actual personal testimonies, but on baseless straw-man inventions of their faith-deluded, fear-ridden, bigoted neuron clusters?

Of course you can...

How To Get The Last Word

I caught the end of a conversation between an evangelical and a call-in atheist; it was on the Christian radio channel on SiriusXM. After getting the Christian host to not answer any real questions (instead the dope replied with standard evangelical nonsense), the atheist got the last word with this:

You don't like your life. That's why you wish for another.

The host's reply was confusion as to what the caller meant by that statement. But we all get it...