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So, all of you who have held up George W. Bush as a paragon of Christian virtue: how do you ‘splain this?

George W. Bush, outgoing President of the United States, now says that the Bible is “probably not” literally true.

Bush also says that evolution is not incompatible with the Bible.

Adding to his statement that he is “not a literalist”, Bush also hedged immensely when he said that the most important lesson in the Bible is that “God sent a son”. Ummmm… Georgie baby, if you studied the Bible at all, you would know that God sent His only Son.

I saw firsthand eight years ago that the Cult of Bush was anything but Christ-like. Bush and his faithful do not worship God: they worship raw, naked power. Bush just happened to say the right words and the “evangelical conservatives” – who are by far the ...

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What the hell is it with employees bathing in restaurant sinks lately? A few months ago it was “Mr. Unstable” who boneheadedly decided to post a video of himself cleansing in the sink at Burger King in Xenia, Ohio: a stunt that got not only himself but a bunch of others fired.

Now it’s the KFC in Anderson, California, where three female employees also took a bath in the sink normally used to clean utensils.

Two of the girls have been fired, and the other has already left on her own. They took several photos of themselves wearing swimsuits while carousing in the steaming-hot water (click here for more ‘cuz many of y’all will no doubt be interested anyway) and then posted them on Myspace in a gallery called “KFC Moments”.

I don’t know which is the more dumb: that they did this to begin with, or ...

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Today’s edition of the News & Record (the big newspaper in Greensboro) has a front-page story – like most other papers across the country this morning – about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich getting arrested for corruption regarding the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.

The headline in the News & Record reads: “Senate seat alleged for sale”

So when was the last time a Senate seat wasn’t for sale in this country?

If he did this, then Blagojevich should be thrown in, no… under the jailhouse and left to rot. But let’s get real folks: politics in the United States has become a high-stakes poker game with a buy-in that drastically exceeds the means of the average citizen. Unless you are filthy rich or otherwise have socially astute connections, you have no chance of running for high office.

Hell, it takes a fortune just to hire enough lawyers who ...

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You know, Jesus beat and chased the money changers out of the temple because they had turned His father’s house into a den of robbers.

So what would His reaction be if he saw His father’s house turned into an automobile showroom?

A single photo demonstrates how screwed-up America has become…

Three vehicles – one from each of the major domestic auto makers – were brought to the altar of Greater Grace Temple, one of Detroit’s largest churches. They were there to help with an appeal to Heaven: that God might do a work in the souls of the President and members of Congress and move them to give Ford, General Motors and Chrysler a fat juicy bailout package.

Sayeth the Reverend Charles Ellis…

At one point, Ellis summoned up hundreds of auto workers and retirees in the congregation to come forward toward the vehicles on the altar to

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A store clerk was trampled to death this morning after thousands of shoppers stampeded into a Wal-Mart in New York when it opened for “Black Friday” at 5 a.m.

And this was the scene at a Wal-Mart in Concord, North Carolina (about 2 hours away) when shoppers stormed the electronics section and fought for the last Xbox 360…

EDIT 5:06 p.m. EST: And now two people have been shot to death in a Toys R Us in California....

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On a quiz covering fundamental American history, civics and economics conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, United States elected officials crashed and burned. Politicians averaged 44 percent, while average citizens scored better but not by much: 49 percent. The test was given to 2,500 Americans.

Want to try it yourself? Here it is.

How did I do? Not bad: my score was 90.91%. I missed three questions, but one of them I’m inclined to contest if that were possible and the other two, I have to wonder about also. Maybe that’s giving away too much already about which questions they are 😛

So… what does this test say about us as a country?

The Founders understood that the United States would only endure and thrive if her people were educated, vigilant, and actively seeking enlightenment. Hard to say that we’re doing any of that.

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Yeah you read that right: eHarmony, the relationship-matching website that’s found especially strong popularity with Christians, is “going gay”.

From the story in The Wall Street Journal…

A settlement Wednesday between eHarmony Inc. and the New Jersey attorney general requires the online heterosexual dating service to also cater to homosexuals, raising questions about whether other services that target a niche clientele could be forced to expand their business models.

The settlement stemmed from a complaint, filed with the New Jersey attorney general’s office by a gay match seeker in 2005, that eHarmony had violated his rights under the state’s discrimination law by not offering a same-sex dating service. In 2007, the attorney general found probable cause that eHarmony had violated the state’s Law Against Discrimination.

As part of the agreement, the Pasadena, Calif.-based company will develop and market Compatible Partners, a Web dating service for same-sex couples, and will

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This is what happens when otherwise normal individuals don’t think for themselves with the minds that God gave them…

It was thirty years ago today – November 18th, 1978 – that the Jonestown Massacre occurred at the People’s Temple Agricultural Project near Kaituma, Guyana. Following an ambush at a nearby airstrip (which took the life of United States Representative Leo Ryan), People’s Temple founder and leader Jim Jones told his followers that their enemies were coming to destroy them and that the only option left to them that afforded any “dignity” was to commit “revolutionary suicide”.

Jones then ordered his faithful to drink cyanide-laced fruit drink. Many families used syringes to squirt the deadly poison into the mouths of infants, before they themselves ingested the fatal fluid. All told, 909 people – including Jones, who was later found with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head – killed themselves ...

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USA Today is running a story about the high rate of crime among the Transportation Security Administration’s federal air marshals. One marshal used his badge and top secret security clearance to smuggle cocaine and drug money. Another attempted to “disappear” his ex-wife via a contract killer (who was another federal air marshal). Still another used his authority to engage in child pornography. There have been dozens of such cases since 9/11, when the number of marshals ballooned from about thirty to more than thirty thousand.

Maybe it’s time to reiterate a suggestion that I made over two years ago. During the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks I proposed the creation of “citizen marshals”: ordinary American citizens who, after a background check and some training, would be allowed to carry firearms on commercial airlines as a volunteer service to their fellow countrymen.

From my post in 2006:

Such persons

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A few days ago on this blog I wrote about how conservative Christians bore much of the blame for the election of Barack Obama. That they had let their pursuit of power blind them so much that they failed to see Christ and what He stood for anymore.

And now, writing in Jewish World Review (a very good publication, I might add), Cal Thomas doesn’t just echo those same sentiments, he articulates them far better than I could.

From his essay “The Religious Right, R.I.P.”…

Thirty years of trying to use government to stop abortion, preserve opposite-sex marriage, improve television and movie content and transform culture into the conservative Evangelical image has failed. The question now becomes: should conservative Christians redouble their efforts, contributing more millions to radio and TV preachers and activists, or would they be wise to try something else?

I opt for trying something else…

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