If God's So Great, Why Do You Keep Losing?

Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation League answers the most important question in Christendom today: If god's so great, why do you keep losing? Nonbelief is gaining popularity, as is secularism, and despite its loud shrieking otherwise, christianity as a whole is become increasingly irrelevant in the world today. Why is that?

Apparently because god's got a plan, and it's insane.

God is always most concerned about his people and is constantly working all things together for their good and His own glory. including, but not limited to, rape, slavery, child molestation, torture, disease and any other sort of suffering humans are capable of When we read the scriptures we see some predictable historical patterns.

First, God graciously saves and delivers his people. from the danger he placed them in Then there is a honeymoon filled with blessings. and after the new belief smell wears of . . . Then God’s people become complacent and backslide into various sins and idolatry. which god didn't see coming why? So God sends prophets to call his people back. he could have just spoken to them directly, but whatever. The prophets are killed. wait a minute. sure, the romans killed jesus, but god killed moses. So foreign enemies, drought and wicked kings etc. are sent to afflict his people. because just appearing directly in front of the people is too much to ask. After suffering, sometimes for long periods, the people cry out to God for mercy and they repent. Then God sends a savior to rescue them. The people are blessed and the cycle starts over. that's insane.

suppose you marry a person and they slide into alcoholism. maybe they always drank a little too much, but before you married them, you didn't really notice quite how bad it was. your spouse's alcoholism starts to effect your marriage and your life, and you hold an intervention. your spouse walks out and ends up homeless, still an alcoholic. eventually, life on the streets wakes your spouse up, they get into rehab and come begging to you for another chance.

if it's the first time this has happened, you might even say yes. alcoholism isn't anyone's fault, your spouse is clean and really seems to have everything under control.

what if it's the 5th time? the 20th? the 50th? would you keep doing that over and over and over again?

i didn't think so. so why does this make sense for an omniscient, omnipotent deity?

This tells us a lot about human nature and God’s providence. This pattern is most vividly on display in the book of Judges where we see a downward spiral of Israel after taking up residence in the Promised Land.

John Mackey is a Moron

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John Mackey, of Whole Foods, has a solution to the health care crisis that won't cost us a dime. Eight solutions, in fact. Eight idiotic solutions that would do absolutely nothing to help the working poor or middle class, but would doubtless do wonders for the health care industry.

 1. Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. so, requiring people that don't have money for health care to pay more towards health care would solve our health care problems? define "our". For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees' Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.

Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time. Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully. Our plan's costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.

think about this for a second. i have a $500 deductible. i rarely have $5 left over at the end of any given week, so for me, $500 may as well be $5,000,000. So, yes, I do have an incentive to spend the first $500, but not carefully. I have two choices: don't use health insurance at all (=death), or run up the $500 bill at the beginning of the year by going to the ER. the ER will send me bills, but i can pay them $5 a month and still use their services next time.

Mr. Mackey's theory seems to be that the reason health care is so expensive is that people just aren't being "careful" with their health insurance. he seems to think people are going to doctors for kicks, getting tests for fun, and just generally treating health care like Disneyland.

What planet is Mr. Mackey living on?

 4. Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying. most of the mandates are aimed at coverage specific to women such as birth control, pap smears and cancer screening. beyond that, "individual customer preferences"? health care isn't a clothing store, and who "prefers" cancer treatments? and why should my health care be held hostage by what most people "prefer"? I'm sure most people aren't even aware of the needs of someone with porphyria, let along have a preference for them.

6.  Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us? does anyone here really think that choosing your treatments based on price is a good idea? oh, it's most often the way we choose, but not because it's a good idea. the fact of the matter is, if you need a treatment, surgery, medicine to save your life, you need it. the fact that it's more expensive than your house is irrelevant- or should be. you need it.

8. Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren't covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program. fuck making sure tax paying Americans have health insurance- let's leave it to the chance that if there's a box to check, random strangers will donate enough to provide health insurance to those that need it. that's a way better strategy.

Then John Mackey makes the most appalling argument I have ever seen: Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter? no, they have the same right to health care as they do to food and shelter. everyone should have food to eat, a roof over their head and health care when they need it. to argue that starving children and homeless people prove that i don't deserve affordable health insurance is . . . i'm not sure what to call that. sociopathic? i dunno.

Following the "Canadians die waiting in line" meme, we get this (from the owner of Whole Foods, remember):

Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices. if you're sick, it's your fault, so go die in an alley you fatfatfatty.

Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age. really? care to cite that evidence? eating at Whole foods will reverse Alzheimer's and Multiple Sclerosis and Arthritis? really? fucking really, you fucking lying prick?!

You know what, Mr. Mackey? The next time you get sick, I bet you'll go to a doctor, the finest doctor money can buy, not eat an apple and hope for the best.

Gaddafi Is One Sly Mofo

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Selwyn Duke of American Thinker (lulz) gives Muammar al Gaddafi, Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (that appears to be an official title. and you thought "president" was cool.) more credit than I would have thought possible. You'll see.

While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good cinema damn, i think i just choked up my skull, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction NO! it wasn't a documentary?!. With Greece's fertility rate of 1.36 children per woman -- well below the replacement level of 2.1 -- "big" is not a modifier demographers would associate with today's Greek families. In fact, a more accurate film might be called My Big Fat Muslim Wedding. does Mr. Duke get how averages work? there are big Greek families. not every Greek family involves a mother, a father, a child and part of a torso.

the next five, count 'em five, paragraphs are devoted to the demographic woes of notArab people. white europeans? not reproducing enough. asian? not reproducing enough. mexicans? no reproduco enougho. (though they do "stream across our sieve-like southern border" by the million.)

next up: ageism!

The young and vibrant are the worker bees; they are the inventors, innovators and creators of wealth. old people are like leeches, lazy, stupid leeches. They drive the economy. Of course, the elderly may take jobs out of necessity or boredom, lazy, stupid leeches! but they can match the economic engine of a peak-working-years population little more than they could match it on the athletic field. because in America's increasingly white collar economy, old is a disadvantage . . . asshat. This is part of the reason why famed economist Adam Smith taught that decreasing population correlates with economic depression. Adam Smith died in 1790. I'm guessing that prior to penecillin and pacemakers, "old age" was a different thing than it is today.

after the appetizer of ageism, we get to the main course: racism.

Now we come to the death of the West. Many of you know that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, the face of 1980's terrorism, has been relatively well-behaved for nigh on 25 years now. he's busy being the Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Of course, this may be because Ronald Reagan effected a bomb-induced attitude adjustment in 1986. first of all, people died. be respectful. secondly, a lot has changed since 1986. The Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union fell apart, the socialism scare is . . . oh, yeah. Yet, such punitive action, while sometimes necessary, seldom yields a permanent change in behavior without a permanent change in vital signs. It didn't scare Saddam Hussein or the Taliban sufficiently, that's for sure. oh, for cryin' out loud. (Of course, they don't wear dresses, either. he included a link here. to a pay site. i'd just like to say: Muslims- they dress funny, hahahhahahaaha. asshat.) But is faint-heartedness on the part of Gaddafi the reason? Or is there another factor? Well, a clue can possibly be found in something he once said:

"There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don't need terrorists, we don't need homicide bombers. The 50 million Muslims will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades."

translation via Mr. Duke: "Islam will spread through breeding like Mexicans through a sieve!"

Is this Gaddafi wearing pragmatist's clothes? instead of dresses! Perhaps he realizes that the West is voluntarily committing civilizational suicide, aka birth control and all he need do is stay out of its way. Gaddafi's so sly, he doesn't car if winning happens now, or 100 years after he dies. Now that's one sly mofo!

If so, he simply notes what civilizations from the good to the bad to the ugly dress wearin' mooslins! always have understood, that their success largely hinges upon their ability to replenish that invaluable resource: people. except for old people, who are like wrinkly vampires. lazy, wrinkly vampires. For example, the ancient Romans at one point became obsessed with the idea that they weren't creating enough babies which had everything to do with their deep understanding of the writings of Adam Smith?; Joseph Stalin, hardly a pro-lifer, outlawed abortion; and the Nazis had their Lebensborn program yeah, they were just a little interested in eugenics, which requires, you know, teh bebbes. And even today governments are taking note of the problem. To name a handful, Russia, Poland, France and an Italian town are offering citizens substantial monetary incentives (i.e., cash and sometimes tax breaks) to be fruitful and multiply. Yet it isn't working -- and for good reason: a cultural problem cannot be solved with a political solution. yeah, you can't buy my uterus with a tax break. Why, even demographically correct Augustus Caesar "demographically correct"? what does that mean?, who wielded absolute power, could not remedy the birth dearth among Roman nobility. i guess his power wasn't quite so absolute, now was it?

This almost universal concern is warranted because a people is like a species: a failure to reproduce leads to extinction. OW! Teh Stoopid, it burns! that is such an amazingly racist biology fail, i'm not sure what to say. Americans are not a species. Nor are Muslims. human beings are a species, but we're in no danger of dying out. Now, this doesn't mean that neutron bomb-like cityscapes how can cityscapes be like neutron bombs? does he perhaps mean a cityscape after a neutron bomb? in which case, why use a neutron bomb? N bombs are as destructive as A bombs, the added benefit is that they kill more people, not destroy more buildings. lie in the West's future. More likely is that its peoples will be dominated -- and supplanted -- by other cultures. so, the future will be exactly like the past? amazing! hey, Mr. Duke! Yeah, you! the land you're standing on belonged to the native peoples of the Americas- until they were dominated and supplanted by Europeans. Oh, its new master may not be Islam; it may be China, India or, even more likely, different groups in different parts of the West. who? who's left if we remove the US, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Europe, China, India and the entire Muslim world? Venezuela? The point is that while the Third World and Asia are following in our footsteps, they are far healthier demographically and may be able to recover. But we may soon be at the point of no return.

Now the question is, does this matter? does what matter, that the world is continuing just as it always has? If you listen to the left, our demographic demise is something to be ignored when possible and applauded when not. it's just the way things are, don't get your panties in a twist about it. As Kathryn Joyce did in an incredibly snide and stupid article titled "Missing: The ‘Right' Babies," yeah, she called you on your racism the concern about the West's baby bust is often chalked up to just "old-fashioned race panic." pretty much. The left's implication is that cultural suicide is our civilization's comeuppance. cultural suicide? talk to some real live middle easterners, Mr. Duke. They listen to our music, watch our movies, wear our clothes- we'll be all right.

The irony of this is that the people extinguishing themselves are leftists, people who aren't enlightened enough to understand that their "enlightened" values will die with them. people enlighted enough to understand that lots of brown babies isn't something to panic about. Whether tomorrow brings us a Chinese hegemon unlikely, a worldwide caliphate unlikely or, more likely, a bipolar or multi-polar world you mean a world the same as ours? what?, it may be a place ruled neither by the virtues of Christendom i'll be happy, anyway nor the values of those crucifying her why would you want that, Mr. Duke?. When the people who birthed political correctness disappear i'm fairly certain we're not supposed to go in the rapture, they won't be able to reproduce it any more than little baby libertines. what. the. fuck. Of course, also true is that the West's glorious triumphs, such as its unprecedented respect for human rights, would also fade into history. yes, no one will ever respect human rights again without America to give them an "attitude adjustment".

And this is something mature racist people consider. Would the world be a better place with China as the dominant force? If you have trouble with that one, ponder how the Chinese are currently raping Africa as they zealously exploit the continent's resources. They are making European colonialism look beneficent. probably not.

Mature racist people also do something else -- they acknowledge facts. And what bothers me about the current debate over population is the steadfast refusal to do so. there is no problem here. human beings are not dying out. as a whole, we're fine. all you're left with is the argument that certain types of humans need to be encouraged, and certain other types discouraged, and we call that racism. If you believe that man is a pox upon the planet, be forthcoming. If you think he needs to cut his numbers by 90 percent, make your case. If you want a "Planetary Regime" to control world population -- which Obama's science czar John Holdren wrote about before i was born, btw. -- stand and be counted. But, as liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "You're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts." Before debating where we should go, there must be an acknowledgement of where we are. you're a racist. there we go. i acknowledged it.

When I ponder our materialism, promiscuity, frivolity and selfishness, our abortion-mill archipelago i repeat: what. the. fuck. that churns with Nazi-like efficiency, hey, you godwin'd your own article! it occurs to me that perhaps the leftists are right -- just not for the reasons they think. we're wrong even when we're right. It's not sins of our past that haunt us but those of our present, and maybe the euthanizing of Western civilization is, after all, our comeuppance. at this point, if everyone like you dies, i'm okay with western civilization dying off tomorrow.

I Have a Vagina- There Is Some Maintenance Involved

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In case anyone missed it, I have a vagina. And labia. And a clitoris. And pubic hair. But not an appendix.

I prefer to keep my pubic hair trimmed down, though not entirely shaved. I like the way it looks, I like the way it feels, and since it's my body, I can do what I want with it. What anyone else chooses to do with their pubic hair (male of female) is entirely up to them. I can understand not wanting to discuss your own, or other people's, pubic hair, but we all have pubic hair. There's nothing dirty or vulgar about pubic hair, any more than there is something dirty or vulgar about toenails or eyelashes.

Unless you're Patrick Archbold and a group of Catholic commentors, in which case a harmless Schick ad (above) is the END OF THE WORLD. If you can't view the ad, women walk by topiaries, and as they walk by, the topiaries go from overgrown to neatly trimmed in a variety of shapes. It's not the slightest bit vulgar, and I can't believe a child would have a clue what that was about. I really can't imagine a less offensive way to promote a product designed to be used to trim pubic hair. (A product I now want, because I gotta tell you, sharp scissors have their risks.)

The UK ad is a little more suggestive, though I wouldn't consider it vulgar, and no resident of the UK would, either. (They're a little more . . . open across the Atlantic.)

Patrick, however, is left boggled.

The US version of the ad, while slightly less explicit is in the same vain. I saw this ad during prime time on a cable channel. It boggles the mind how any network would accept an ad like this during prime time, or any time for that matter. This one is called "Bushes."

Women are obviously the target audience for these vulgar and disgusting ads. I highly recommend that if you are currently a Schick customer that you immediately cease purchasing their products and that you let them know why. Ads like this have no place on television. If you see one of these ads, I also suggest that you contact the network responsible and complain.

Women, and their dirty, nasty vaginas, are the target audience! Their dirty, disgusting, filthy vaginas that should never be seen or thought of. Ever!

Oh, and in the same vein.

Patty-kins channels me in the first comment: Ewwwww. Just the suggestion of those icky women's naughty parts! Yucky! Now I'll never be able to pretend my wife is the highschool quarterback tonight.

NC Sue overuses the sarcastiquotes: Our "culture" isn't very cultural at all, but crude. Yes, the ads are offensive, and yes, I will steer clear of Schick. For one thing, if it's a quality product, it can be sold without resorting to ads like this. For another, I'm simply tired of vulgarity. And finally, as you say, ads like this have absolutely NO place on prime time. Nor does nasty language or thinly veiled sex on our sitcome.

Susan doesn't use that razor. That particular razor.: This just reaffirms my decision to not have TV service. And I'm glad I don't use that razor.

Scott W apparently knows the location of the mouth of Hell: Solution to television crassness:

1. Unplug TV.

2. Load TV into suitable vehicular conveyance. a fucking car, dude?

3. Drive to mouth of Hell.

4. Drop TV in it.

5. Never look back.

Maurisa may be suffering from swine flu (because there's nothing nauseating about topiary): Ewww! I actually may not have caught onto the American version of the ad until seeing the British one. Makes my stomach churn.

Arthur may have missed the point (especially considering where cute little babies come from): We're not allowed to get pro-life ads showing cute little babies on television but they can put ads on about trimming their nether regions into heart shapes? not to belabor the point, but how on earth could i trim my labia into a heart shape? you trim the hair, dude, not the region.

I understand that some people will be offended by anything, but I would like to point out that all women have vaginas, labias and pubic hair. There is nothing offensive, vulgar or disgusting about women's (or men's) bodies, nor in the upkeep of said bodies. Morons.

It's Not Just Christians that Get Wacky About Marriage

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I've written a lot about Christians in the US that feel a need to butt into other peoples' marriages.* Today, I discovered that Christians haven't cornered the market on marriage wackiness. The Israelis have, in fact, taken marriage wackiness** to a place US Christians never even dreamed of.

You see, even though 70% of Israel's Jews identify as secular, marriage between Jews is entirely in the hands of the ultraorthodox Rabinnate, who can, and do, decide who can marry and who cannot. If the Rabinnate decides that you aren't quite Jewish enough for them, or that you're marrying someone who isn't Jewish enough, you can't get married inside your own country. You have to travel to some other country to get married, which is what happens in 1 in 5 marriages in Israel. (Your marriage will be recognized once you reenter Israel.)

Israel has passed control of all matters relating to personal status – births, marriages and divorces, and deaths – to rabbis belonging to the strictest stream of Judaism, Orthodoxy.

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Official figures show that as many as 350,000 Jews are classified by the rabbinate as having “no religion”, and are therefore unable to marry in Israel. Their only option is to wed abroad – the marriage is then recognised on their return.

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Mr Kornfeld said the rabbis’ grip on marriage has continued even though nearly 70 per cent of Israeli Jews defined themselves as secular. Even among the religious, some regard themselves as belonging to the more moderate Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism.

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Israel’s Muslim, Christian and Druze citizens – comprising nearly a fifth of the population – have their own separate religious authorities who are given exclusive oversight of weddings.

There's no mention of what happens to atheists, agnostics and the other "others" that must live in Israel (we're everywhere), but I'm guessing the nonreligious in Israel don't generally make a lot of noise about it. There are no provisions at all for interfaith marriages.

I'm trying to imagine this, and I really can't. I think that any religious involvement in government recognized legal statuses is inappropriate at best and should be abolished. Marriage in the US should follow the model of some European countries: all officially recognized marriages are secular, performed by a Justice of the Peace. The religious can then go have a second, religious ceremony, but that ceremony has no legal meaning. This entirely separates church and state, which is a good thing.

Israel has gone entirely in the opposite direction, ceding control of a legal ceremony to religious groups, to the point where those not pleasing to said religious group must leave the country to obtain the legal advantages of marriage. What happens to those unable to afford a trip to Europe to get married? Well, you need only look at the experiences of gay couples in the US to see that. It's not pretty.

I thought the US had ceded a little too much democracy to the Christian majority, but the supposed democracy of Israel has us beat by a mile. It's not good for anyone.



*You can search by gay marriage if you haven't read my thoughts on the subject, but for the lazy, shorter me: none of your business who gets married or how they run their marriage.

**Attending the World is a proPalestinian blog, but I did find numerous confirmations of their description of Israel's marriage laws from neutral parties.

The Only Thing Worse Than Islamics(sic) Is

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Liberals. Duh.

According to Burt Prelutsky anyway. (If you put a keffiyeh on Mr. Prelutsky, tell me you don't get Yasser Arafat.)

I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims other than bombing them. and encouraging US soldiers to pass out bibles. oh, and sending over the Christian Crusaders otherwise known as Blackwater. why aren't Middle Easterners all sending us thank you cards? they're so rude!, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible Americans actually began to believe it. Now we have a president who not only kowtows to a Saudi prince bowing: wrong even when it's right, apparently, but carries on as if Israeli homes are more threatening than Iranian nukes. to peace in Israel, yes. especially considering the Iranian nukes are currently nonexistent.

What is wrong with our leaders? Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties? yes, i'm sure that's it. in fact, not being invited to cool Ramadan parties probably explains a lot of Mr. Prelutsky's rage. The Islamics uh, muslims? have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years for a good portion of that millenium, the Crusades were going on. at which time the Muslims were defending themselves from western agression. embarassing history fail. , and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union. i'm fairly certain you can't pay lip service to a person . . . oh, i get it. Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country? because the holocaust would have been okay if only Hitler had invoked Jesus? what? If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible.

Still, I would contend that Hezbollah and Al Qaeda are not as dangerous as America’s liberals. i almost feel complimented. i'm more dangerous than people who slam commercial airplanes into office buildings. go me! The Islamic terrorists can only kill so many people didn't you imply they had nuclear bombs a paragraph ago? you could conceivably kill absolutely everyone with enough of those., but those on the Left are doing everything in their power to eviscerate America. blood! there will be . . . Cap and Trade can destroy our industrial might; Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus programs combined with his delusional health care plan death panels! euthanasia! forced abortions! will not only bankrupt our nation, but lead inevitably to a rate of inflation that will impress even Jimmy Carter and peanut farmers are not easily impressed; and the budget cuts directed at our military and our missile defense system will make us increasingly vulnerable to our various enemies. hey, he tied it all in with the nukes. nice save.

The problem is that liberals are not only nuts, but inconsistent. They very much want to send our military to Africa to stop the savagery in the Sudan, but didn’t want to see it employed against the equally barbaric Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot or Ho Chi Minh. ho chi minh is still . . . no, he's dead. for 40 years now. pol pot's been dead for 11. wtf? Funny how you never hear them insist that we have no business in Darfur because Sudan didn’t attack us on 9/11 or point out that we have no compelling interest in sub-Sahara Africa. too bad you guys don't have oil. cause we'd be all over that! But that’s to be expected when people get their information from Bill Maher and Jon Stewart and their talking points from the likes of Bono and the Dixie Chicks. those kids and their atheists and their Daily Show and their rock n roll! Get off my lawn!!

Speaking of liberals, the irony is that so many of them who never believed God even existed Obama won with more than 50% of the vote. less than 5% of USians are atheists. Does Mr. Prelutsky think that atheists comprised more than 50% of voters? (never mind that most atheists did believe in god at some point in their lives) are now convinced that He is alive and well and going out on date nights with Michelle. that whole "messiah" thing was dreamed up by the right, asshat.

Getting back to Muslims, there are people who would insist that we should distinguish between those who cut off the heads of their innocent victims and those who, rumor has it, just want to live and let live. Well, I keep trying, heaven knows, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. well then, why should i bother to distinguish between right wing extremists and peaceful conservatives, Mr. Prelutsky? Gitmo for you! I hear waterboarding is just like the rides at Disney.

. . .*

Now I understand that any country that keeps electing people like Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer and Barack Obama, the killer B’s as it were, "killer B's"? Whom have they killed? you'd think that would be all over the news. doesn’t have terribly high standards okay, electing Bush proves that, but I see him on that list, but assuming we have any at all, will someone please explain why we’re allowing these degenerates into the country? you mean, people like Clinton, Frank, Boxer, and Obama, who were all born here? that's . . . confusing.

*What I didn't address was the story of an 8 year old rape victim. Supposedly, she was then abandoned by her father because of the shame she brought the family, but I'm having trouble corroborating that last bit on anything other than wingnut sites. Even if it were true, one such story proves nothing, and I'm not helping Mr. Prelutsky pimp a rape victim to prove a point.

Birthers Get a Little Funnier

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When you start citing The Globe as your source material, you've hit rock bottom, though I suspect Joseph Farah and all the other birthers may well pull out a shovel and start digging. (The shovel is made out of titanium, and it's really a jackhammer.) Look at all the other stellar journalism on display by The Globe: The Shocking Reason Trace Adkins Packed on 50 lbs!, Boozing Brad!!!, DIG UP JFK's BODY!!!!!eleventy!!!!

You'd think there would be some point at which even if you did initially buy into the whole birther racism nuttiness, you would eventually say, "Oh, The Globe? Didn't they have pictures of Elvis' alien love child last week?"