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Ann Coulter hearts Huckabee
Ann Coulter writes in her latest column, "Huckabee... fits their (liberals) image of what an evangelical should be: stupid and easily led."
So much for that 11th RayGun Commandment thing, huh?
As much as we hate to say it, The Slobber Goddess may actually have a point here. We've always thought the Huckster is kind of a nutbar and he has had a difficult time handling anything but softballs in the so called debates.
And face it, haven't we had enough fun with Bush and Dick? President Huckabee? I don't think so.
The Democratic Party could do worse than having Mike Huckabee win the Republican nomination. The nation could do much better.
Update: According to his own staff, he doesn't know shit from shine-ola!
"The Huckster's note to self: Fire that sumbitch!"
Labels: Ann Coulter, Democrats, Huckabee, Republicans
Merry Christmas
Mrs. Stash said the table was too cluttered and it needed the Christmas runner.
I put the Christmas runner on as requested.
She wasn't happy and did it herself.
Sometimes, I wonder why I bother.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Ted Neeley... Wow!
Stash and the family just got back from a Seattle farewell performance of Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh, the man has pipes!Labels: Jesus Christ Superstar, Seattle, Ted Neeley
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Just Kidding!
"Hey! Come on. You knew I was lying then. What's the problem?"
Labels: Lieberman
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Surprise! Lieberman to endorse Republican.
Sen. John McCain, trying to build momentum toward a reprise of his 2000 New Hampshire primary victory, is piling up high-profile endorsements, including one from another political maverick, Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
The Connecticut senator, an independent who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee, was scheduled to announce his support for McCain at a town hall meeting Monday morning in Hillsborough.
A Lieberman adviser said the senator decided to back McCain despite being a Republican because he believes his colleague from Arizona "has the best chance of uniting the country in its fight against Islamic terrorism."
The adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement, said Lieberman would continue to caucus with Senate Democrats, and said his decision was not a reflection of any lingering tension with his old party after high-profile Democrats abandoned him when he lost the Democratic primary during his 2006 Senate re-election campaign.
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The Connecticut senator, an independent who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee, was scheduled to announce his support for McCain at a town hall meeting Monday morning in Hillsborough.
A Lieberman adviser said the senator decided to back McCain despite being a Republican because he believes his colleague from Arizona "has the best chance of uniting the country in its fight against Islamic terrorism."
The adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement, said Lieberman would continue to caucus with Senate Democrats, and said his decision was not a reflection of any lingering tension with his old party after high-profile Democrats abandoned him when he lost the Democratic primary during his 2006 Senate re-election campaign.
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Labels: Democrats, John McCain, Lieberman, Republicans
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Michael Vick Sentence
After pleading guilty to abusing dogs for fun and profit,
Micheal Vick , multi-millionaire former pro-football phenom was sentenced to 23 months.
Does this make any sense? After all, that's only 3 months in dog years.
Labels: Micheal Vick
Friday, December 14, 2007
A brief respite from a crazy world
Labels: Bruddah Iz, Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole, Iz, Over the Rainbow, What a Wonderful World
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Willy Horton Hears a Huckabee?
Apologies to Dr. Seuss
Labels: Arkansas, Huckabee, Murder, Rape
Huckabee's Religious Beliefs Are Just as Wacky as Romney's, So Why Should We Care?
By Melissa McEwan - Shakesville
I truly cannot begin to express how profoundly exhausted I am with election stories about religion, in no small part because they are getting sillier and sillier--and this is surely the silliest yet:
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, ''Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?''
I mean, this is to what our national political dialogue has been reduced by these idiots. Rather than teasing out the flaws in Romney's policy platform, Huckabee instead impugns his character merely by accusing him of believing Jesus and Satan are brothers, because everyone knows that's way wackier than believing that Jesus is God's son but Satan is just a fallen angel!
Are you fucking kidding me?
It's bad enough that presidential candidates are debating the finer points of theology in the first place, but that the debate is supposed to prove who would make a better President of the United States is manifestly preposterous. We have lost the plot, people.
Listen, I don't give a shit if a politician is a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Pagan, a Zoroastrian, a Scientologist, a Pastafarian, or a worshipper of the Great Pumpernickel Loaf from the Eighth Dimension of the Planet Zorgon. All I ask from the people who want my vote is that they not attempt to legislate their personal spiritual beliefs or pen asinine resolutions proclaiming their belief system to be Teh Greatest in Teh Universe!!11!!!--or even "one of the great religions of the world," because you'll never convince me in a million years that a government overtly sanctioning such feelings of supremacy has nothing to do with despicable shit like "Happy Hanukkah" eliciting a beating.
I'm an atheist; I'm married to an atheist; I've got friends who are atheists; atheists contribute to this blog; I also have family members who are Christian; I've got friends who are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and Buddhist and Pagan; religious people contribute to this blog--and the one thing on which all of us agree is that religion doesn't belong in politics, because all of us are smart enough to have long ago discerned the basic freakin' concept that religion, no less one very precise manifestation of one specific religion, is not the singular genesis of morality. No one's got the market cornered on morals.
What someone believes has only the capacity to convey about them that they believe that thing. Saying "I'm a Christian" or "I'm agnostic" or "I'm a Sikh" says nothing about a person's intrinsic character, despite what plenty of people who wear each of those labels (and others) would have us believe. Whether one believes that Jesus and Satan were respectively God's son and a fallen angel, brothers, gay lovers, or characters in a fairy tale shouldn't serve as a substitute for the collective quality of a person established by actions; what one believes does not equal who one is.
So it doesn't really matter a fig to me whether Romney believes Jesus and Satan are brothers; I still know he's a disingenuous, opportunistic, integrity-challenged dodo. That Huckabee is trying to make it an issue only confirms that he is a brainless, ethically-impaired gobshite, hiding behind his religion because he's got nothing else to offer.
Their respective religious beliefs didn't figure at all in those calculations.
Labels: Christianity, Huckabee, Mormon, Romney
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Daisy Chain
Dick Cheney rapes America.Haliburton rapes the American and Iraqi people.
Haliburton/KBR employees rape their co-workers.
There has to be a Medal of Freedom in here somewhere!
Labels: Cheney, Haliburton, KBR
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Romney's Religion
Sure, it's no more bat shit than any other religion.. the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, Lazeruth, The Chosen People, etc. ... just as hokey, but after his speech Romney's the hot issue.
Labels: Mormon, religion, Romney
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