Geesh, no wonder Jesus wasn’t married (or was he?)

They say that Jesus spent alot of time with men.  Twelve disciples, hanging around together all the time?  Could it be?

Probably not. Personally, I think he was married to Mary Magdalene (who was not a prostitute, as is often portrayed) but for some reason, the accepted version of the Bible has kept him single and celibate, which would certainly confirm his divinity, as the human male is destined to be thinking about sex all the time.

So, I found this website, The CatholicSource: rochesterturning.com RSS Feed

Senate GOP propose 25% ‘Do-Nothing’ energy tax on Americans and a $4 trillion climate tax on our children

MEMO TO THE MEDIA:  The nation’s energy and climate problems have reached the point where obstructionist politicians cannot be given a free pass to simply criticize those attempting to solve those problems while offering no credible alternatives or business-as-usual policies.

At 11:30 ET, Senators Boxer and Kerry (and others) will introduce the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.  For the cost of about a postage stamp a day per U.S.Source: Climate Progress RSS Feed

Conservatives Wrong on Polanski Extradition

Roman Polanski

The director Roman Polanski is a significant artist of international stature. He is also 76 years old. More than 30 years ago, Polanski had sex with an underage girl in California. The judicial proceedings which took place at the time were improperly influenced by the superfluity of media attention focused on a famous Hollywood director entangled in a sex scandal.

Marina Zenovich’s 2008 documentary film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired made it generallySource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed

Five More Iranian Nuclear Sites Discovered

Five more Iranian Nuclear sites have been discovered, according to the following report. Why wouldn't Iran go full force ahead with their nuclear ambitions? They certainly are not going to get any resistance from the new and improved USA under President Barack Obama. US troops are fighting for their lives and the lives of innocent Afghanistan citizens while the commanders on the ground are begging for more troops. Unfortunately our dear leader doesn't have time to sit down and meet with theSource: Right Truth RSS Feed

Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks- 3 pm Central

Ten minutes to gametime with the Bears coming off a big win last week by a mere filed goal against the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, who's by the way playing the Cincinatti Bengals this afternoon... also at three central.. (NFL.com)
With these star Seattle players injured; Matt Hasselbeck, Lofa Tatupu, Walter Jones, Leroy Hill, Marcus Trufant, Sean Locklear, Josh Wilson. I'm picking the Bears by ten when all's said and done..Chicago 30, Seattle 20
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Climate Change: World Must Ratchet Up Pressure on Obama (Le Figaro, France)

“Future news from September, 2012: After eight infuriated, highly-armed polar bears seize the U.N. General Assembly, the world suddenly realizes it confronts a new form of terrorism.”

As the climate Change Summit in Copenhagen draws ever closer, pessimism is growing over whether the biggest gas emitters will take action to stop what most scientists assure us will be a catastrophe. And in the minds of a majority if not most people outside the United States, it is our nation, even Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed

Maddow: Ken Burns on America's Best Idea

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Big thanks to Shoq for tipping me off to this segment.

It's hard to cogitate when you're immersed in the cesspool that passes for political debate nowadays that this country has actually seen worse days than this. Our economy has been worse, unemployment was higher and journalism was just as yellow.

But as documentarian Ken Burns points out, we also had a president who was willing to invest in ourSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

Is the Earth Actually Cooling?

Opponents of action on climate change are doing their worst to interpret the data to obfuscate the unmistakable trend of global warming. Today, their bamboozlement made it into the newspaper of record. The canard that global temperatures are somehow stabilizing or even cooling off was repeated in the New York Times:
The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climateSource: TommyWonk RSS Feed

The truth about ACORN

From the NY Post:
ACORN has quietly become one of the Big Apple's biggest owners of low- and moderate-income housing, amassing a real-estate empire worth at least $50 million, The Post has learned.
New York ACORN and a tangled web of affiliates own or manage nearly 1,500 housing units across three boroughs and draw in an estimated $5.7 million in rents, fees and profits from sales.
The properties are controlled by an opaque collection of nonprofits, holding companies andSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Silly Season Begins: Baucus Bill Amendments

So far, there are 534 amendments to the Baucus Bill.

In case you didn't hear last night, Orrin Hatch has one that exempts from the Cadillac Plan tax offsets, wait for it, I'm not making it up: ANY STATE THAT BEGINS WITH THE LETTER U. (Salt Lake Tribune) Funny thing is, since most people (including members of Congress) don't read the bills, much less the amendments, there are things like this attached to bills going back years. Orrin must be getting old - this is the ONE BILL thatSource: 2008 Democratic Convention Watch RSS Feed

The drug price issue is ripe for demagoguery

Commentary by James Shott
Politicians love issues that get voters upset and they use them to attract votes. One of those is the cost of drugs and the evil, greedy pharmaceutical industry. People think they’re being ripped off when pills cost more than a few cents each, and some enterprising politician will likely use that issue to his or her advantage.
You can make the argument that a drug that is effective in treating a serious medical condition is worth whatever it costs, butSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed

New at Reason: Radley Balko on Shaken Baby Syndrome

Beginning in the late 1980s, the U.S. saw a surge in the number of people prosecuted for shaking infants to death. Research at the time suggested that the presence of three particular symptoms could only mean a child had been vigorously shaken to death, and the that the assault took place just before the infant lost consciousness.

But as Senior Editor Radley Balko explains, in the early 2000s, the medical consensus on shaken baby syndrome began to shift. In the meantime, thousands ofSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed

Brzezinski: Shoot Down Israeli Planes

We almost missed this little nugget of wisdom, buried as it was in an interview with Gerald Posner at The Daily Beast:

How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message

by Gerald Posner

September 18, 2009

… How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest?

We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Puppy Routs Deer

photo: Karen L. Myers

click on photo to link to photo essay

Our 11-week-old puppy, Uhlan, is a Tazy, whose mother is from Kazakhstan and whose father was bred in St. Petersburg, one generation removed from Kazakhstan.

Tazy is just the preferred name in Kazakhstan for the local version of Saluki, known earlier in the West as the Persian Greyhound.

Tribal dogs like ours are prized by sighthound enthusiasts for their strong Source: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed

NYC Terror Plot Suspect, Father Arrested in Colorado

NYC Sports Stadiums, Fashion Venues Researched by Man Eyed in Terror Investigation

FOX News

Investigators found research on New York City sports stadiums and sites related to the city's Fashion Week events on the computer of a man being questioned in an FBI probe of an alleged terrorist plot, ABC News reports.

Authorities have made few public comments about the progress of theirSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed

Brit Hume says that crying racism is bad. What about when Glenn Beck does it?

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[H/t Heather]

Brit Hume has a new standard for our discourse: If you accuse someone of racism, you've cheapened the argument.

On Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier on Friday, he joined the chorus of Fox anchors decrying even the possibility that racism might be behind some of the vitriol that's been directed at President Obama.

Baier: So does this work? What does this do to debate when it's thrownSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

Nick Clegg’s blogger interviews

This morning a group of 10 bloggers interviewed Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. The questions ranged over a wide area and here are a few selected highlights:

MPs’ expenses: Nick eloquently made the link between safe seats and good behaviour by MPs: “if you want to keep MPs honest, don’t give them safe seats for life … safe seats corrupt public life”. He said his one real regret over how he had handled the issue was not making the point more forcefully that whilstSource: Liberal Democrat Voice RSS Feed

random 80s hottie flashback

Remember that hot black woman in the bad Schwarzenegger film ‘Commando’ ?

Her name is Rae Dawn Chong, and her father is Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong fame.

Wikipedia, serving up random information to guys on spaceships, weapon systems, and hot women since January 15th, 2001.

update: AFTER posting the above line, I stumbled across this:

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/20…
Postscript: For a totally different reason, I wasSource: dispatches from TJICistan RSS Feed

Overcrowded schools par for the course

From Neighborhood Retail Alliance:
We're getting a spate of reports about over crowding in NYC schools in the first few weeks of the year. As the NY Daily News tells us: "Thousands of classes citywide are packed to the gills in all grades as schools struggle to stretch every scarce dollar, the Daily News has learned. More than 7,200 classes are over the limit set in the teachers union contract, the union says."
If true, how can this be-in the eighth year of the Bloomberg miracle?Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Study finds humans still evolving, and quickly

Plaster casts of skulls, from left to right, of the earliest fossil finds of humanoids to modern man at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, November 8, 2007. (Stephen Morrison / EPA / November 8, 2007)
The pace has been increasing since people started spreading through Europe, Asia and Africa 40,000 years ago.
By Karen Kaplan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 11, 2007
The pace of human evolution has been increasing at a stunning rate since our ancestorsSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed

Most city billboards are illegal

From the NY Times:
Since the 1940s, at least on paper, the city has restricted, or banned outright, the placement of billboards along its highways. But because of haphazard enforcement and what a federal judge described as “subterfuge” and willful lawbreaking by sign companies, the rise of the billboards — some even on city property — went on unchecked.
By the time the judge, Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan, issued a decision in the spring that upheld Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed

resource nationalism on the rise

As I mentioned hereabouts a few weeks ago, resource nationalism - of various sorts - is on the rise. This trend is worth watching closely, serving as the nearly certain harbinger of global conflict.
Forbes | Triggered by Wednesday's OPEC meetings and last week's announcement of new regulations governing Brazil's offshore oil, I am devoting this week's column to examining whether government control of the resource sector is increasing as commodity prices continue to creep up.Source: subrealism RSS Feed

The King in Colour

A rare colour image of King Edward VII taking a breather during a stroll through a Scottish estate in full Highland costume in the autumn of 1909. Recently discovered in the home of the banker Lionel de Rothschild, who took the photo, the image of the King was taken on one of the banker's regular trips to Scotland for the autumn grouse season, at Tulchan in Strathspey, 15 miles from Balmoral. Rothschild was an enthusiastic amateur photographer who experimented in taking colourSource: The Monarchist RSS Feed

AP: House Dems Face Trouble In 2010

From an apoplectic (at the foolish electorate) Associated Press:

Election trouble brewing for House Dems in 2010

By Beth Fouhy, Associated Press Writer Sun Sep 13

NEW YORK – Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their HouseSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Fact Checking President Obama

A friend emailed me this morning asking if anybody is 'fact checking' President Barack Obama's speech last night on his proposed health care. My first reaction was, "Bwahahahahah, every word out of his mouth was a lie or mis-representation" Hubby and I sat here shouting after every statement Obama made, "LIAR. LIAR. LIAR." Gateway Pundit notes that "Congressman Yells "Liar" as Obama Spews Talking Points to Congress (Video)."

To give a serious answer to my friend, yes -- people areSource: Right Truth RSS Feed

Tea anyone?...

I attended the "Tea Party" march in Washington D.C. yesterday with many other people and instead of walking in the parade the entire route we elected to watch from the starting point corner of 9th and Pennsylvania....It took two hours and nine minutes for all of those in the actual parade line to paas this starting point and at the vast majority of the time the crowd was as deep and thick as the above photo. At Pennsylvania avenue where I was the street is five traffic lanes and it wasSource: RightsideVA RSS Feed

Teabaggers Unleash the ‘Uncivil Whites’ Movement

“WE HAVE A DREAM, THAT ONE DAY WHITE SOUTHERNERS WILL DEPOSE A BLACK PRESIDENT … AND THAT WHITE CHILDREN AND BLACK CHILDREN WILL NEVER MIX AGAIN.”

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin hits the same note with No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again.

Robert Reich and the Truth About the Public Option, at One Good Move.

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Update from the Garden State: Christie Coming Back Down to Earth

As the calendar has turned from August to September, there is some evidence that the Garden state race for governor is tightening. And it isn't so much that Jon Corzine is gaining on Republican Chris Christie so much as it is a case of the Christie campaign showing some signs that the recent flurry of negative attention is bring the former US attorney back to earth. In fact, the Rasmussen data reflect a rather inflated sense of the race on both sides by including the firm's infamous

Fox gives the sore losers of the 'Tea Party Express' much more than just free advertising

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We wondered, back when the Tea Party Express was running ads on Fox, why they bothered, since they'd soon be getting all the free advertising they could ask for.

And sure enough, Griff Jenkins has been filing reports from the multiple cross-country stops for the tour since its outset, provided for all the various Fox anchors (Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Neal Cavuto, Bill O'Reilly, the Fox and Friends crew) to feature in

David Gill, MD-- A Progressive Response To Obama's Speech

The "official" Republican response tonight was given by the would-be Lord Boustany, but the real GOP response was the teabagger outburst by lunatic fringe South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, trying to impress secessionists back home, when he screamed "Liar" at the president. The Democrat running against Wilson next year, Rob Miller, makes a good point:
“Representative Wilson’s behavior tonight exemplifies everything that is wrong in Washington. Instead ofSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

CPUSA: Obama Reset H-Care Debate

From the Communist Party USA:

Resetting the health care debate

Sam Webb, National Chair of the CPUSA

President Obama’s speech to Congress last night reset the debate and struggle for real health care reform. No one thought that the reform of our nation’s health care system would be easy to begin with, but what transpired recently – the fierce counter attack by the right-wing extremists, the letting loose of the demagogues of hatred, fear,Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Video of Barack Obama’s Controversial Speech To School Children

Here is the video of President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren — the speech that caused some conservative Republican parents to yank their kids from school, others to forbid their schools to show it to them, and districts in several states to either not offer it or make it strictly optional.
Judge for yourself:

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Do you think this generation of children Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed

Buffalo Buzz:Army Accidentally Grows Pot At Rocky Mt. Arsenal

A scene from Copter 4 Tuesday of Rocky Mountain Arsenal

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (CBS4) ― The Army has made an unusual and unwanted discovery at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal northeastof Commerce City. The Army is in charge of cleaning up the arsenal. Part of the cleanup includes reseeding some areas. When that seed started to grow, marijuana popped up.

It isn’t commercial grade, but it’s still an illegal drug. It’s called ditch weed or feralSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed

O-H! I-O!

It’s been a packed 24 hours for the bus crew. We’re still catching our breath and trying to find words to sum up the range of experiences we’ve had as we’ve listened to people across Ohio and western Pennsylvania. We can start with a fact, though: the people of Columbus, Ohio, rocked the walls and rafters of the Lausche Building at the State Fairgrounds Monday night. They made a racket you could likely hear all the way to the halls of Congress.

It was a joyful racket, yet aSource: Obama HQ RSS Feed

How The NYT Got Van Jones His Job

From the ‘Energy & Environment’ section of a post election victory euphoric New York Times:

Van Jones, the founding president of Green For All, an organization based in Oakland, Calif., that helps disadvantaged communities get involved in “green-collar” jobs. An Obama Green Jobs Corps?

By Kate Galbraith

November 10, 2008

Many political observers (most recently my colleague David Carr) have written about the Obama youthSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Should Texas Tech Employ Alberto Gonzales?

By Randy Cohen
NYT
It’s back to school for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Texas Tech University is paying him $100,000 to teach a single undergraduate political-science course, Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch, with an enrollment of 15, and to help recruit minority students. Supporters say he offers students a rare chance to learn from a participant in important national events. Opponents say he is overpaid and underqualified and left his last job inSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed

Obama to Acquire Control of the Internet?

Obama to Acquire Control of the Internet?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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We warned this would happen many months ago. Yet, here we are today, and people are surprised by this blatant move to assert control over the Internet and, indirectly, over those who use it. That would be you and me!
CNET NEWS has an article by Declan McCullagh titled: “Bill would give president emergency control of Internet.” You will find theSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed