Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

A consequence of cucumbers

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Come on, man.

Let there be snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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Morning Devotion Open Thread

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1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

ETA: Bugger. My YouTube embed is not working. Video to follow. Amuse yourself at my expense.

EATA: I think I broke the internets.

I may just be very drunk.

EOATA: Shorter: Drunk fictional old lady likes a piece of music and makes an ass of herself. Normal day really.

I can’t remember who pointed to this in the comments, but thank you, and pipe up if you’d like a hat tip.

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  6. 6.

    pacem appellant

    Is there supposed to be a picture? There’s a big blank space followed by a passage from the OT that’s usually quoted by fundies to disparage atheists. Franchement,I don’t feel devoted at all after a 9am insult.

  8. 8.

    Mike J

    I was expecting DougJ’s Cockwork Orange post to be next.

    What’s the big empty space? I checked in three different browsers and it’s blank in ffox, chrome and even edge.

    Never mind. I just checked the source. it’s this.

  11. 11.

    Mike J

    How about something more uplifting that bronze age ire?

    Ohio early voting starts today.

    Sara Goldstein ‏@Sara_Goldstein 5 hours ago
    Gloria & Shelly have been at the BoE all night cause they are SO determined to be the 1st to vote for HRC in Greene #OHVotesEarly #OHHillYes
    (Pic at link)

  12. 12.

    Ajabu

    This is supposed to be satire, right?
    I thought I had accidentally stumbled onto a Value Voters site.
    As my dear old grandmother would say, “WTF???”

  20. 20.

    Xenos

    How meta… Are we supposed to guess the YouTube video that was meant to be embedded?

    My guess would be the lines recited by Samuel l Jackson Pulp Fiction.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    I think it might have been Ozark, but could be misremembering. It was in a comment last night “Your moment of zen.” Was recorded by an orthodox choir during Pope Francis’ recent visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan.

  26. 26.

    lowercase steve

    They are singing the “our father,” right? Not the same as the verses quoted below the video.

    Also, complete aside but note that in orthodox churches women veil themselves during services.

    “The man existing under God should not have a covering over his to show he is immediately subject to God; but the woman should wear a covering to show that besides God she is naturally subject to another.” -St. Thomas Aquinas

    ETA: ah no they ARE singing Psalm 53. Sorry. They also sang Our Father….that made news because the Pope cried.

  32. 32.

    sigaba

    I was the one who originally linked to this, I got it off Rod Dreher’s blog. THAT GUY’s down in the dumps lemmie tell you.

  35. 35.

    FredW

    @sigaba: I saw it over there as well. Every once in a while he has stuff that makes you think — and realize that all “Christian Conservatives” are not Pat Robertson/Jerry Fallwell types but then other times you think “Man, what century does he think this is.”

  36. 36.

    O. Felix Culpa

    It’s beautiful. That little girl has a lovely voice and impressive composure. Thank you, SP&T.

  39. 39.

    schrodinger's cat

    In the same vein.
    Land of Shiva, a piece by ARR (who is a Muslin BTW) for the movie Ranjhaana, set in Benaras (also known as Kashi or Varanasi) captures the essence of an aarti complete with chanting in Sanskrit, temple bells and conches.

  40. 40.

    hovercraft

    Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll
    He’s losing the real evangelicals. Sad.

    Donald Trump has fallen further behind Hillary Clinton and now trails her by 8 points among likely voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, with 1 in 5 Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualify him from the presidency.

    The national tracking poll was launched after Sunday night’s second presidential debate, where Trump was pressed to explain his comments in a 2005 videotape about grabbing women’s genitalia. He described the remarks, which first surfaced on Friday, as “locker room” banter and apologized to Americans.

    The poll released on Tuesday showed Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had increased her lead over Trump, the Republican nominee, to 8 percentage points on Monday from 5 points last week……..

    Trump, however, appears to be shedding support among evangelicals, who are usually a wellspring of support for Republican presidential candidates. Monday’s poll showed that Trump had only a 1-point edge over Clinton among people who identified as evangelicals. That’s down from a 12-point advantage for Trump in July.

  43. 43.

    jenn

    @hovercraft: I no longer remember details about the various attacks on Bill Clinton, and really don’t care to reacquaint myself with them, but isn’t she the one who had multiple versions of the same event, and when called out on it by someone, said there was money in it?

    I have always thought that the imbalance of power in Bill’s affairs was inappropriate and therefore wrong, but also that, given the massive investigations of everything and everything to do with him by people with a vested interest in taking him down in whatever way they could, the fact was telling that the only thing they got him on was lying about a consensual affair.

  45. 45.

    hovercraft

    @jenn:
    I have no idea what the details were, but I do know Kellyanne was one of Ken Star’s little elves who did all the digging behind the scenes, and her husband was one of the lawyers behind Paula Jones.

  46. 46.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @catclub: Yes, I didn’t see it right away, but eventually noticed that the blonde woman was conducting. Not what I would have expected for some reason (knowing absolutely nothing about the Georgian church), but cool.

  48. 48.

    Rusty

    Thank you for this, beautiful and moving. The Psalms are a source of the calls for justice. This seems very relevant to us, “Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread…”. This is the powerful taking advantage of weak, a call for justice. I get that many that post and read here are not religious, but for some of us it is the source of our actions for justice (really listen to that Methodist we are all supporting).

  49. 49.

    Msb

    Sarah, thanks, that was so beautiful. And I’ve always wanted to hear the language Jesus spoke. Thanks, other juicers, for the other music links.

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