The doddering old fool who predicted the rapture is now revising his estimate to the Fall, giving us all another opportunity to point and laugh. And I agree with Dan Savage that it’s right to point and laugh, because these fuckers derive not a small bit of pleasure from imagining that the rest of us are going to die and suffer while we’re at it. There’s a whole lot of cruelty packed into their wacko fantasy, and there’s nothing wrong with ridiculing a crazy delusion that’s one part biblical spare parts, one part deadly sperm buildup, and one part bloodlust.
Religion
This Time The Shits For Reals
Laugh all you want, Mayan 2012 is right around the corner, bitches:
No quitsies this time.
C-Street Sluts
New information about the sexploits of C-Street resident John Ensign:
Doug Hampton learned of his wife’s affair with his boss two days before Christmas 2007 when he discovered a text message from Ensign to his wife that said, “How wonderful it is. … Scared, but excited,” according to the report.
Among other allegations in the report: Doug Hampton then confronted his wife and called Ensign to let him know he was on to the affair. He even ended up chasing Ensign in an airport parking lot. The day before Christmas, the two couples met in the senator’s office, where Ensign wept and apologized. Then the families met with their children.
And then they celebrated Christmas together the next day, according to the report. But the affair apparently didn’t stop there.
Ensign told Cindy Hampton he wanted to marry her in early 2008 while they were attending the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, according to the report. Doug Hampton took a trip abroad that year to Iraq and Afghanistan with the senator, where another incident occurred, as Hampton described to ABC New’s ”Nightline.”
“I asked John, ‘Hey, can I use your phone? I want to call Cindy.’ He says, ‘Sure.’ Instead of scrolling to Cindy Hampton, he scrolls to ‘Aunt Judy,’ like covert, cover-up for Cindy Hampton, and I realize, wow, wow, something is seriously wrong,” Hampton said.
Ensign’s spiritual adviser, Tim Coe, and others later confronted him at his Washington, D.C., home, according to the Senate report. He agreed to end the affair. But Hampton saw the senator’s car and his wife’s car in a hotel parking lot two days later. Hampton called Coe.
Coe called Ensign, telling the senator, “I know exactly where you are. I know exactly what you are doing. Put your pants on and go home.'”
Ensign initially said he would not leave the hotel room, telling Coe, “I can’t, I love her,” according to the report.
Before we cast judgment on yet another ultra-right wing hypocritical religious pervert, we should all stop and ask ourselves one important question: “Whose wife would Jesus screw?”
BTW- I’ve never been married, but if someone told me they were banging my girlfriend, I doubt I would celebrate Christmas with them the next day. These people are all nuts, whether it is their repressed homosexuality, the love auto-erotic asphyxiation while wearing two wetsuits and a dildo, the fetus in a jar fetish, the bathroom blowjobs in parks, the toe tapping, or whatever.
The Last Word (video)
Further to Cole’s post, here’s the video:
Mediaite claims that Graham “owned” LOD. I don’t see it. Graham was creepy and babbly and sounded like he was lying. Am I wrong? Of course not.
The Last Word
I’m not sure if you all caught it or not, but Larry O’Donnell just wrecked Franklin Graham, who apparently thought God would save him from looking like a first class clown regarding his birther nonsense and whether or not Obama is a Christian. By the end of the interview, Graham was nearly babbling incoherently. Graham basically did for Christianity as a whole tonight what decades of child rape did to the Catholic church.
I’ll post the video when I have it.
Rev. Franklin Graham Thinks Obama is a Kenyan Muslim
Who doesn’t, these days?
Franklin Graham, son of TV evangelist grifter Billy Graham has officially joined the Racist Birther Brigade:
Rev. Franklin Graham wonders: Why can’t Barack Obama produce a birth certificate?
The son of the legendary Billy Graham told Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s “This Week” that the president “has some issues to deal with” when it comes to proving he is indeed an American.
“He can solve this whole birth certificate issue pretty quickly,” Graham said. “I was born in a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. And I know that my records are there; you can probably go and find out what room my mother was in when I was born. I don’t know why he can’t produce that. It’s an issue it looks like he can answer pretty quickly.”
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“That’s funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here…” Benjamin Franklin edition
I’m working on another volume in my Pequod-like pursuit of Megan McArdle* (see, after what went on here earlier today, I’ve got a Melville mindworm going), but just to show that I’m not dead yet, I thought I’d toss in a little lagniappe to a discussion begun here in John’s post of a day or so ago.
There, I learned that some idiot I’ve never before had the dystopic experience of encountering had this to say about the notion of an intellectual commons:
But Barton says that the Bible, Ben Franklin and the Pilgrims all opposed Net Neutrality because it violates the rights of huge corporations to charge higher rates and discriminate on content, calling it a “wicked” policyand “socialism on the Internet.”
Here’s David Barton’s own words on the subject, just to show that the snark version is, in fact, deadly accurate:
But we talk about it today because it is a principle of free market. That’s a Biblical principle, that’s a historical principle, we have all these quotes from Ben Franklin, and Jefferson and Washington and others on free market and how important that is to maintain.
Well, as it happens, I’m reading a really excellent book: Common as Air by Lewis Hyde, which is, among much else, a detailed and beautifully written archaeology of what the founders — and Franklin primus inter pares — thought about ideas, ownership, and the commons.
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One thing Hyde reminds us of is that Franklin himself did not claim ownership of ideas that he himself saw as the product of many, the inheritance of all, and the property of none. He did not patent the lightening rod — instead communicating with David Hume, among others, to make sure that the world — at least those with access to learned journals — could make free use of both the research implications and the practical value of his investigations into the behavior of electricity. He didn’t try to hang on to the rights to the Franklin stove.