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A guy near Seattle has crucified Santa Claus and put him on display in his front yard. The whole thing is meant to protest the over-commercializing of Christmas.

Obviously, this has upset quite a few folks around there.

This whole “crucified Santa” thing has been around for at least a dozen years now. Supposedly, the manager of a department store in Tokyo put Santa on a cross for a store display around 1994, because he was told to do something for Christmas and he didn’t know what the holiday was about or what people usually did for it. And then last year some dude in Canada did the “Santa nailed to a cross” shtick too.

I hate to say this, but I kinda see where these guys are coming from. I didn’t start my Christmas shopping until this past week. In years past, I used to enjoy going out ...

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About a year and a half ago, I had a first-hand encounter with the Westboro Baptist Church – aka the “God Hates Fags” church – when a bunch of them came to WGSR (where I was working at the time) so that Shirley Phelps Roper could do a live interview. In my initial report I wrote about how the Westboro Baptist members were singing really blasphemous “parodies” of well-known songs.

Well, Phillip Arthur found something: a music video by the Westboro Baptist Church. It is, quite easily, the most evil music video that I have ever seen in my life.

If you are bothered or offended easily, you may not want to watch this. The entire thing is very disgusting, but it’s the last several seconds of it that are especially nauseating. Whoever it is that put that little kid up to this, should be hauled-up on charges....

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Here’s an interesting story via Fox News Channel…

Muslim Brides Undergoing Painful Vaginal Surgery to ‘Re-virginize’ for Wedding Nights

Monday, December 17, 2007

On her wedding night, Aisha Salim will hand her blooded sheets to her in-laws as proof of her virginity, according to a story in The Daily Telegraph of Australia.

But there’s one problem. Being a modern English university graduate, she is far from the traditional untouched Muslim bride.

Like most woman her age, Salim has smoked, drank, had sex and even lived with one of her past boyfriends.

However, if the devout Muslim family of her soon-to-be husband – or even her own family – knew this, she could be murdered.

Aisha has opted to have her virginity surgically restored in a delicate but painful surgery called hymenoplasties — where the hymen is re-created from the already torn tissue, or a new membrane is inserted.

“If

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Yes, even from somewhere deep in the heart of Texas, I am still committed to holding Ron Price accountable for his misdeeds!

Just a little reminder to everyone that it was one year ago today that Ron Price, admitted sign thief and disgraced member of the Rockingham County Board of Education, promised us the “complete and factual account” of the “sign incident”. If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you already know that Price was caught stealing campaign signs belonging to Congressman Brad Miller on the night before the 2006 election. Price went on live television on election night and blamed “goons” for going after him and then said that he wished that this hadn’t raised such a “commotion”. And then he said that the full story was coming soon.

Well Ron, it’s one year later and you still haven’t given it to us.

And don’t even think ...

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This Associated Press story comes from Buford, Georgia, where the Mall of Georgia is located (one of the best-designed shopping malls that I’ve ever been too)…

Man arrested for truck showing images of aborted fetuses near Atlanta area mall

The Associated Press

BUFORD, Ga. — Police have arrested a Missouri man for driving near the Mall of Georgia with a truck that showed large, graphic photos of aborted fetuses.

Gwinnett County police arrested Robert Roethlisberger Jr., 44, for disorderly conduct Friday. He was released from jail Monday on $1,200 bond.

Police went to the area after a caller reported seeing a panel truck displaying “bloody” and “gory” images. The truck had two large banners on each side and a banner on the rear of the truck, police said.

The images on the banners included the headless and bloody torso of an aborted fetus and the partially crushed head of

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This may be one of the most screwball things that I’ve ever read. And I’ve read plenty of screwball in my short time in this world…

There’s a story at the Daily Mail website about women who refuse to get pregnant. Who have gone so far as to choose to be sterilized. Because to them, babies are “not eco friendly”. They have rendered themselves incapable of having babies to “protect the planet”.

So in order to preserve the beauty of the Earth, it now becomes morally righteous to wipe out people who can enjoy and appreciate that beauty. Ooh-kaaaaaay…

I long ago came to distrust Radical Environmentalism (which I capitalize because it really has become a religion as much as Christianity or Buddhism or what have you). Radical Environmentalism is the “observer effect” taken to an ecclesiastical extreme and turned into a weird cult of neo-flagellants. I ...

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A family in Idaho says that a sheriff’s deputy tried to murder their dog.

Apparently the deputy came to their door, demanded to see the dog and claimed that he was there to kill it after a complaint had been filed. When the dog’s owner asked to see proof the deputy is alleged to have replied “I don’t need any proof”. He was then led to the dog and he shot it multiple times with a rifle.

What I can’t figure out is why the dog’s family just let the deputy go ahead and shoot it. The dog survived, by the way.

It would have been a far better thing for the family to have disobeyed and called the deputy’s superiors before this goon was allowed to go any further. And if worse came to worst, they should have shot the deputy dead.

No, I’m not kidding either.

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The very first episodes of Sesame Street are out on DVD. But they carry a warning label: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” And this is not intended to be a joke either, according to this New York Times article. Seems that a lot of things have changed since Sesame Street‘s first broadcast 38 years ago this month. Among the items listed as unacceptable for today’s children: Cookie Monster smoking a pipe during “Monsterpiece Theater”, Oscar the Grouch is now seen as having untreated depression, and how there are too many “rural — agrarian, even — sequences” in the early episodes.

I have a question: how many of the “child experts”, who sit around all day finding stuff like this to nit-pick about, actually have children?...

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Here’s Richard Moore’s write-up about what happened during deposition in the Ron Price lawsuit against Richard and his wife Debbie. There are two big reasons why I’m posting it here too: one, because Richard gives his perspective on what happened when Doug Hux interrogated me. And two, because Richard Moore, although he’s not the lousy blogger like Ron Price is, is a man who just can’t leave stuff consistent on his Political Soup website. Richard, haven’t you heard of archiving stuff?! Anyhoo here it is for permanent record (and with proper citation, which I always do anyway)…

THE INCOMPLETE BUT ENTIRELY FACTUAL
ACCOUNT OF THE RON PRICE LAWSUIT DEPOSITIONS

D-DAY NOVEMBER 15, 2007. It wasn’t exactly the allies storming the beach at Normandy, but it was a bloody, painful assault on one witness. I am talking about Deposition Day in the Ron Price defamation lawsuit against my wife ...

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Since I’ve commented on what happened at the deposition yesterday, I might as well throw in my two cents on something else regarding disgraced Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price. It has to do with something that he wrote on his own blog last week…

“It should be acknowledged that public education is not a right but a privilege given to the youth of today to secure the future. Over 75% of the public paying for public education do not have students in the public schools but all pay for public education to provide a means of securing the blessings of liberty and prosperity for ourselves and our posterity.”

So now Ron Price, school board member, is telling us that our children have no right to public education.

Funny that he didn’t mind telling us that during last year’s school board race.

Ron Price has obviously ...

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