Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Tuesday Tonic - Join The Party!
Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's best Christian, explains the clear choice before you.
QFT:
"If you think that life is sacred, but health is negotiable...join the (GOP) party!"
Betty Bowers sums up the current Republican party thusly:
"The grand old party: where you can be for something while you're against it!"
Monday, July 23, 2012
RIP Sally Ride
Sally Ride, the first woman in space and an inspiration to girls everywhere, has died. Dr. Ride passed away earlier today due to complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 61 years old.
"... when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at earth." |
Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies, CNN.
Sally Ride, first American woman in space, is dead, NPR.
"(In space) The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter...The view of earth is spectacular."
Dr. Ride inspired an entire generation of women scientists who watched her break the gender barrier in a new frontier and realised that they, too, could one day see that view of the earth and stars from space.
Later, Sally broke through another social barrier. She was an out lesbian who shared her life proudly with the woman she loved.
I would like to send my sincere sympathy to Dr. Ride's life partner of 27 years, Dr. Tam E. O'Shaughnessy.
RIP, Dr. Sally Ride, American Hero - May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012
Isn't That Just Ducky!
Hello there, Humans!
It is hot. I am hot!
The sun always shines.
The sky never rains.
It is hot!
My Human helped me.
I had a bath!
I am nice and cool, now.
It is hot, but I am cool.
Isn't that just Ducky!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Sunday Inspiration - The New Normal
via NBC
Oh, this looks so good. I may have to throw a party for the premiere episode in September!
Quote for the win:
"A family is a family...and love is love."
Conservative Christians Declare Colorado Killer God's Henchman
ter·ror·ism
[ter-uh-riz-uhm]
noun
1.
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
3.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
If you were frightened and confused by the horrific events in Aurora, Colorado last Friday, Christian hardliners want you to know that
...but do what the pastor tells you! |
"Jackson: I have to think that all of this, whether it’s the Hollywood movies, whether it’s what we see on the internets [sic], whether it’s liberal bias in the media, whether it’s our politicians changing public policy, I think all of those somehow have fit together—and I have to say also churches who are leaving the authority of Scripture and losing their fear of God—all of those things have seem to have come together to give us these kinds of incidents.
Newcombe: I think that’s so true. It’s as if we said to God, publicly or in the public arena, ‘get out, You’re not welcome here anymore’ and it’s as if God removed His protection from our land.
...and sometimes, "Love" hurts. |
James: And God will not be silent when he’s mocked, and we need to remember that.
Jackson: We are seeing his judgment. You know, some people talk about ‘God’s judgment must be just around the corner,’ we are seeing it." - conversation between the popular rightwing Christian radio host, Fred Jackson, Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries and Jackson's co-host Teddy James of AFA Journal.
("Rebellion against God" is code for "rebellion against unconstitutional religious influence". When civil rights groups protest the unconstitutional religious interference in government, they are accused of "rebellion against God". "Rejection of God" is code for "rejection of inappropriate religious attacks on individual rights and freedoms". When conservative Christian groups attempt to deprive citizens of their human rights, the people who protest are accused of "rejecting God").
According to the self-appointed God-spokesmen, the all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful (also silent and invisible) Creator of the Universe is understandably outraged when humankind fails to tremble in terror at the very thought of Him, yet He is curiously incapable of easily and lovingly repairing the error in His own creation. So, we are told that every now and then He causes a terrible event on earth (or fails to prevent a terrible event - same difference, really, since His presence and His absence are equally indiscernible) to remind us of our sinful failure to fear Him enough. His spokesmen then gleefully point to these disasters as evidence that all the things which threaten
terrorize, terrorise [ˈtɛrəˌraɪz]
vb (tr)
1. to coerce or control by violence, fear, threats, etc.
2. to inspire with dread; terrify
The terror evoked by random acts of violence is a feature, not a bug, in the eyes of the
God hates whoever the church hates! Are you listening, atheists and gays? |
Random terrible events happen: they always have and they always will. The evil genius of fundamentalist Christians is that they know how to use these inevitable natural and man made disasters as tools for their own Machiavellian brand of power consolidation. They harness fear and bigotry created by religious belief, redirect it into hatred toward the elements in society which threaten their own power, thus eliminating their enemies and removing all barriers to their dream of an American theocracy. They terrorize the vulnerable victims of a local or national disaster with the dread of an angry god - evoking the same terror of god's wrathful jealousy which was inculcated through childhood indoctrination - and then they direct that frightened anguish toward others whose refusal to accept Christian authority they accuse of bringing this suffering down upon innocent, persecuted Christians.
It is an awesome one-two punch: a form of terrorism more lethal to our pluralistic, democratic Republic than anything the United States has ever faced. Terrorized people historically bow to the perceived security of authoritarianism. The power of religious belief, inculcated early and reinforced regularly - especially in the public sphere - enables church elites to use the fear of God to coerce a population to destroy church enemies, to support religious agendas and to obey church elites, all without lifting a finger! Of course, in places where there is too much human-created peace, tolerant multi-cultural social order and too few natural disasters, strong Christians will do what they have to do to help
In the USA, where there is no shortage of natural sources of human misery, the Christian right still
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