Jim Valentine lumps gay people and pedophiles together. And he doesn’t want any of them living in Idaho.
The Post Falls business owner posted a message in bold letters on his reader board this morning: “Peds queers fags your (sic) in Idaho now…”
That’s what northbound drivers on Pleasantview Road see when they drive past the sign for his landscape supply and horse-boarding business, Dixie Services.
And…guess who’s flag he’s flying…
“People are kind of numb. I think they need to wake up a little bit,” said Valentine, who drives classic cars emblazoned with the Confederate flag. One has a horn that plays “Dixie.”
Yes Jim…people are kind of numb. And you’re kind of a numbskull. Well…I hear Idaho has its share of folks who greatly admire the Third Reich and fly the swastika, and never mind that the closest they’ve ever been to Germany is a side order of sauerkraut. Why not idiots who love the Antebellum south and fly the confederate flag too. Maybe he’ll take confederate money in exchange for his services.
You have to wonder what southerners think of all this. Ex governor of Virginia, senate candidate and all around racist prick George Allen grew up in California, yet his college dorm was festooned with confederate battle flags, and the occasional noose. He’s as southern as a Hollywood riverboat, but he longs for Dixie just like Jim does. Like all those northwestern American Slavs, Saxons and Jutes dressing up in their brownshirts and swastikas, fantasizing themselves pure blond-haired Aryan stock and longing for the Vaterland. And come to think of it, Hitler was an Austrian anyway, not a German.
A new Bible translation is causing controversy after it cut out difficult parts surrounding economic justice, possessions and money.
The new bible version, released by the Western Bible Foundation in the Netherlands, has created a storm by trying to make the Christian gospel more palatable.
According to Chairman Mr. De Rijke the foundation has reacted to a growing wish of many churches to be market-oriented and more attractive. "Jesus was very inspiring for our inner health, but we don’t need to take his naïve remarks about money seriously. He didn’t study economics, obviously."
Oh obviously. And we can ditch all that love thy neighbor crap too apparently. But I reckon we already knew that.
This is a joke btw…
Hundreds of Western Bibles have been sold in the first few weeks, whilst anxious Christians filled newspapers and web logs with their doubts.
Sometimes Christians seem to have more anger than humour, however. The names of the board, ‘De Rijke’ (meaning ‘the rich’) and ‘Fortuijn’ (meaning ‘fortune’), as well as the holes in the pages of the Western Bible hint to the truth: the Western Bible is a joke.
…but you want to bet that in a couple years folks will be reading devotedly it in the pews of mega churches from one end of America to the other?
I wonder how many American Baptists realize their faith originated with the Dutch. There’s an old joke about how one Dutchman is a belief, two Dutchmen are a church, and three Dutchmen are a schism.
If God Had Wanted Clean Bathrooms He Wouldn’t Have Created Men
Well I’m glad to see the United States isn’t the only non-Muslim country with a jittery religious kook bin. They’ve got it bad in Norway too, of all places. First it was the zoo. No…not the kook zoo…the one in Oslo…
(Oslo) Oslo’s internationally acclaimed Natural History Museum is being assailed by Norwegian church groups over an exhibit called "Against Nature" which shows same-sex animal pairs.
The exhibit documents homosexuality among penguins, parrots, giraffes, whales and other animals and insects. A translation from Norwegian into English of a statement at the exhibit says
"We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear — homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature."
The exhibit opened Thursday features a photograph that attracted considerable attention of two sexually aroused whales rubbing together. Another shows two male giraffe’s engaged in sex.
"The sexual urge is strong in all animals. … It’s a part of life, it’s fun to have sex," exhibit organizer Geir Soeli told the Reuters news agency.
But conservative Christian groups are accusing the museum of displaying pornography. One evangelical pastor said museum directors should burn in hell.
The exhibit was partially funded by the government and church groups are demanding an investigation into how the grant was made.
Next thing you know they’ll be picketing the natural history museums that dare to tell their visitors that the earth isn’t really flat…right?
NORWAY has become embroiled in a dispute over toilets and the nature of masculinity.
The matter blew up because a primary school headmistress tried to ban boys from urinating while standing up.
Anne Lise Gjul, the head of a mixed primary school in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand, wanted to introduce the ban after complaints from cleaners that many boys could not aim properly.
The measure has upset right-wing Norwegian politicians, however, who say it blurs a God-given distinction between the sexes.
"If boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way that they have done for generations, then it amounts to an assault on God’s creations," thundered Vidar Kleppe, the head of Norway’s Justice and Order party.
Happy Monday. There isn’t a crazier thing you’ll see all week then a bunch of Norwegians thumping the bible for the god given right to pee standing up. And you thought they were bad here in America.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — Even as the Bush administration urges Americans to stay the course in Iraq, Republicans in Congress have put down a quiet marker in the apparent hope that V-I Day might be only months away.
Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past year was a lump sum of $20 million to pay for a celebration in the nation’s capital “for commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not surprisingly, the money was not spent.
Now Congressional Republicans are saying, in effect, maybe next year. A paragraph written into spending legislation and approved by the Senate and House allows the $20 million to be rolled over into 2007.
The original legislation empowered the president to designate “a day of celebration” to commemorate the success of the armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to “issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Actually…I am kinda surprised the money was not spent and the celebrations not held. The republicans (and Joe Lieberman…but then, I repeat myself…) seem to think that things are going swimmingly over there and no amount of bloodshed can seem to convince them otherwise.
U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, one of Washington’s leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn’t like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers. After reading a story Wednesday in the New York Times, he decided to raise a fuss.
Foley, running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Graham, plans to deliver letters today to Gov. Jeb Bush and Attorney General Charlie Crist, singling out Lake Como nudist resort in Land O’Lakes, which hosted a bare-skinned youth camp that ended last week.
Foley said the camp, sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, appears to exploit children to make money.
The camps operate under a Florida law that allows people to be nude as long as they’re not lewd. Foley wonders if state statutes should change. Thus the letters to Bush and Crist.
"What’s wrong with your kids going to Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls or sports camps?" Foley, the West Palm Beach Republican, said Wednesday from Washington. "It’s beyond the pale that this is a normal way to bring up a 14-year-old child."
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Foley, a fifth term congressman, denies that he’s raising the nude camping issue to bolster his chances for the Republican nomination for Senate.
Well your chances of holding any office at all are pretty slim now aren’t they?
The Representative Foley "scandal" is really worthy of a whole book on hypocrisy…
Deux…
On the one hand, we have a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys…
Trois…
On the other hand, we have a Democratic party that worships (not likes, WORSHIPS) a man named Bill Clinton who did not send suggestive e-mails as far as we know, but who had a barely legal intern give him oral sex…
Quatre…
We have a Republican man in Congress who sent e-mails to teenage boys asking them what they were wearing…
Cinq…
…and an entire party, the Democrats, whose primary constituency, besides the teachers’ unions, is homosexual men and lesbian women…
Six…
I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys…
Mark Foley, co-author of the Internet Child Protection Act, supported by the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, is discovered having Internet Chat Room Sex with a 16 year old former congressional page boy. At one time he had an 84 percent rating from the Christian Coalition. He’d voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act, refused to commit to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and after being outed by a reporter for the Advocate, offered lukewarm opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment. He consistently refused to acknowledge his sexual orientation, even as it was an open secret on Capital Hill. But in the world of republican virtue and morals, being homosexual is alright, so long as you’re ashamed of it, so long as you keep your sexuality in the shadows, in the gutter, where they think it belongs…
Murder trial set for wife and lover, who allegedly lived in closet before killing husband
Almost 16 hours after Martha Freeman’s husband was strangled and beaten to death in the couple’s upscale south Nashville home, she finally reported his death to police.
If her decision to wait was puzzling, so was the explanation she gave police: She claimed her lover, an illegal Mexican immigrant who was living in her closet, killed Jeffrey Freeman after Freeman discovered him snoring in his makeshift abode.
But prosecutors deny Martha Freeman’s version of events that led to the April 10, 2005, murder, and are expected to outline their theory during opening statements next week in the 41-year-old widow’s murder trial.
Freeman and her former lover, 36-year-old Rahael Rocha-Perez, are each charged with first-degree murder in the violent bludgeoning of Jeffrey Freeman. If convicted, they face life in prison.
When police responded to the 911 call that Freeman asked a neighbor to make, they found the body of Jeffrey Freeman, 44, lying face-down in the master bathroom.
His head, which had sustained multiple blunt-force trauma injuries, was wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag and the rest of his body in a sleeping bag. A medical examiner’s preliminary examination also detected possible signs of ligature marks around his neck.
Let it be said Freeman had provided for her boyfriend…
Metro Nashville Police Department detectives also found the closet that Martha Freeman claimed her lover lived in for about a month before her husband’s death.
The 2-by-8-foot storage space contained a foam pad, pillows, blankets, three loaves of bread and several objects of diversion, including a Nintendo GameBoy, a radio, and several adult magazines.
Investigators also found an "overnight bag," which contained lingerie and pictures of Martha Freeman in various states of undress.
Swear to god if I hear One More Jackass yap at me about how same sex relationships are unstable I am going to punch them in the face…
In February, there were several press reports about the Bush administration exercising message control on the subject of climate change. The New Republic cited numerous instances in which top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and scientists at the National Hurricane Center sought to downplay links between more-intense hurricanes and global warming. NOAA scientist Thomas Knutson told the Wall Street Journal he’d been barred from speaking to CNBC because his research suggested just such a link.
At the time, Bush administration officials denied that they did any micromanaging of media requests for interviews. But a large batch of e-mails obtained by Salon through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the White House was, in fact, controlling access to scientists and vetting reporters.
The best bit is this:
When NOAA press officer Laborde was contacted to discuss the e-mails, he denied that interviews were subject to approval from White House officials. Confronted with his own e-mails, however, he said, "If you already knew the answer, why did you ask the question?"
Maybe he wanted to see if your nose grows when you repeat the white house storyline Kent.
The American Heart Association and the Chicago Lake County Health Department hosted a breakfast forum to encourage more towns to pass smoking ordinances and make the entire county smoke-free by the end of 2007. Why asks you? Well of course, because smoking is bad for your health. Consider for example, the damage smoking does to your heart and circulatory system.
There were piles of bacon and ham. There was a tray filled with steaming scrambled eggs. And next to that, another one bursting with thick slices of French toast slathered in fried bananas and powdered sugar.
Let’s hear it for tobacco prohibition. Fried bananas? Were they deep fried by any chance? Swear to god I hear one more thing about how bad for you cigarette smoking is this week and I’m going to go out and buy a pack and give it another try.
One thing we can say that this new definition of ‘Planet" does for us, is make it impossible for the foreseeable future to declare that we’ve discovered planets orbiting around other stars. Until we can know they’ve cleared their "neighborhood" we don’t know that they are planets. So planet hunters will now have to call themselves something else. Large Space Objects Of Indeterminate Classification hunters or something…
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is – and isn’t – a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have laboured since Copernicus without one.
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The decision by the international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects will have to meet before they can be considered for admission to the elite cosmic club.
For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn’t make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a . . . nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit."
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s.
Instead, it will be reclassified in a new category of "dwarf planets," similar to what long have been termed "minor planets."
Can’t have those oddly orbiting sons of bitches prancing around in our gentlemen’s club. By this definition there are no planets in any solar system until…what…billions and billions of years after all those frickin’ big ball shaped things we all used to think were planets formed? Seems that way. Earth, by this definition, was not a planet until sometime after, maybe sometime well after, the collision that many now think gave it its moon. Jupiter was not a planet until after it had "cleared out" its orbit. So what was it then? A dwarf planet? A Maybe It’ll Be A Planet Someday If Something Bigger Then Jupiter Doesn’t Come Along And Pulverize It Planet? What the hell?
I’m sorry…this is a definition of planet written by people who seem to think every other solar system in the universe probably looks pretty much like this one. And never mind all those weirdly orbiting big honking planets we think we’ve detected around other stars out there. Hey…maybe they’re fucking dwarf planets now too. By this new definition we cannot call any object we detect in orbit around any star besides our own a planet, since we don’t have the ability yet to see if they’ve "cleared out" their orbits or not. And…when, exactly is an orbital neighborhood cleared out? We would need to pin down the definition of that wouldn’t we, because that’s the precise moment when Dwarf Planet Jupiter, or Extra-Extra-Large Dwarf Planet Jupiter, or Soon To Become But Not Quite Yet Even Though It’s Probably Already Bigger Then Every Other Goddamn Not Exactly A Planet Yet Planet Jupiter became Real Planet Jupiter.
No. No. They just didn’t like the idea of that goddamn oddball Pluto being a planet. It was too small, too odd, wandering too near the edge of that dark and eternal void we really don’t know crap about and nobody likes being discomforted by the strange and the unknown, especially astronomers. So they wrote a new definition of ‘planet’ and now they don’t have to wonder what a planet is anymore, no matter how many oddballs the cosmos laughs at them with because they’ve settled all that. "The reason why the seven stars are no more then seven is a pretty reason…" Everything we discover as we explore other solar systems will fit neatly into our present model, which is not that much different from the one we had before Pluto was discovered in 1930, except that nobody is printing maps of the canals of Mars anymore. How can so many people who look so deep into the universe so long be so goddamn provincial? Maybe they’re not so backward in Kansas after all.
"It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid." –Q
[Update…] Here’s the actual text of the new definition:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
A dwarf planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
Pluto is a dwarf planet by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
All other objects orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".
This is a definition that defines nothing. What the fuck is "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit"? These are weasel words. What is "the neighborhood"? What is "cleared"? If Pluto is not a planet because it’s orbit crosses Neptune, then why isn’t Neptune also not a planet? It hasn’t cleared it’s orbital "neighborhood" either then has it, because Pluto is still in it. And if Pluto isn’t in Neptune’s Neighborhood then why is Neptune in Plutos? This is crap. The proposed definition they were having theological fits about for the past several days was more precise then this load of horseshit.
If Pluto is the prototype of "dwarf planet" then what is the prototype of "planet"? Jupiter? Mercury? Earth?
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp. advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.
The No. 5 U.S. carrier, which has slashed most employees’ pay and is looking to cut jobs as it prepares to exit bankruptcy, put the tips in a booklet handed out to about 50 workers and posted for a time on its employee Web site.
The section, entitled "101 ways to save money", does not feature in new versions of the booklet or the Web site.
Northwest spokesman Roman Blahoski said some employees who received the handbook had taken issue with a couple of the items. "We agree that some of these suggestions and tips … were a bit insensitive," Blahoski told Reuters.
The four-page booklet, "Preparing for a Financial Setback" contained suggestions such as shopping in thrift stores, taking "a date for a walk along the beach or in the woods" and not being "shy about pulling something you like out of the trash."
The booklet was part of a 150-page packet to ground workers, such as baggage handlers, whose jobs will likely be cut after their union agreed to allow the airline to outsource some of their work, Blahoski said.
I have a proposal: From now on the board of directors of Northwest Airlines and their families will have to fly to all their destinations on board airplanes that are being maintained and operated by people who need to dumpster dive in order to make ends meet.
"But I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Homosexuality is an alternative lifestyle," she said.
Cinq…
"That doesn’t make it a marriage. Some people have group sex. Should we allow two men and three women to marry? Should we allow polygamy with one man and five wives? For some people, the alternative lifestyle is bestiality. Do we allow a man to marry a sheep?"
Le Curtian…Applaus a Voux…
[Edited a tad…] I found a copy of the actual quotes she made about having gay friends and having the utmost respect for them…
What…Did The Greeks Threaten To Sue You Or Something…?
That Oliver Stone sure knows how to tell an incisive and gripping human drama about real people, doesn’t he. None of this puerile Hollywood tinseltown fairlytale crap for him. He tells gripping human dramas about real people. And he gets the facts right. Sort of…
‘World Trade Center’ omits Black soldier
The World Trade Center movie tells the story of the rescues of New York Port Authority police officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno from Ground Zero, as well as that of the men who rescued them. In real life, the officers were rescued by sergeants Karnes and Thomas. In the film, however, they were rescued by Karnes and PFC Dave Thomas; a composite character, played by William Mapother, a white actor, who is meant to represent Thomas.
World Trade Center producer Michael Shamberg said that they knew about Sgt. Thomas’s role in the rescue, but were unable to find him when creating the film. He said producers didn’t discover Thomas was a Black man until after they had started the movie. He also said that in spite of the fact that the film was co-written by McLoughlin and Jimeno was consulted for authenticity, no one ever asked them for a physical description of the man who helped save their lives.
“Frankly, we goofed–we learned when we were filming that he was an African-American,” said Shamberg. “We would change it if we could. I actually called him and apologized, and he said he didn’t mind. He was very gracious about it.”
And I’m sure Alexander The Great would have been equally gracious about being turned into a heterosexual too. Him and his…best buddy…Hephaistion. And…no way are you the kinda cowardly bottom feeding slug who would think about how much box office he’d loose in flyover territory if one of his 9-11 heroes was a black man…
Shamberg also apologized for another African-American officer, Bruce Reynolds, who was also portrayed as white in the movie.
Er…make that two black men. So…you gonna leave these guys out of the director’s cut? Make them more white?
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