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I originally had much more to say about this, but I’m going to dispense with the flowery rhetoric and cut to the heart of the matter…

The so-called “evangelical conservative Christians” had damned well better look in a mirror if they want to see who is most responsible for Barack Obama winning the race for President on Tuesday.

And now there is no reason to be angry, and no rationale for “blaming God” for Obama’s victory, as I have seen too many Christians seriously doing. God had nothing to do with Obama winning. If anything, He let the people of America have what they wanted… and He absolutely played fair with many of those who profess Him as Lord.

“Christian conservatives” paved the way to Obama’s historic win because they sold out their values for sake of worldly power.

People like James Dobson and the Focus on the Family crowd: ...

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World-renowned moonshiner and American folk hero Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton (shown at left, along with one of his finely-crafted distillation apparatuses) has had his sentencing delayed until December 15th in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, Tennessee.

Popcorn Sutton, you may recall, pleaded guilty in April following a raid by them meddlin’ revenuers on his “likker makin'” operation in Cooke County, Tennessee. Widespread belief among Popcorn’s many fans (and I consider myself one of them) is that if he had stuck with brewing the “white lightning” in his hometown of Maggie Valley, North Carolina, he would still be in operation today. Crossing the state line was a big mistake and now he’s looking at a 15-year prison sentence and half-million dollar fine. Which is ridiculous because (a) Sutton is practicing a form of art that isn’t necessarily immoral, and is deeply rooted in the heritage of Appalachia, and (b) if you know ...

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Mr. Unstable’s parents are no doubt proud of him…

The Burger King in Xenia, Ohio is minus a bunch of employees and one manager tonight because this guy decided to cleanse himself with a bubble bath in the restaurant’s dish sink! The location’s operators have thrown out all the utensils that came in contact with “Mr. Unstable”, and have said that the sink has been sanitized twice. I’ve heard at least one person suggest that perhaps the entire Burger King be razed and burned and the ground sown with salt.

If you must (and you probably must) here’s the complete video showing the now-unemployed Mr. Unstable taking his bath in the sink…

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Electronista is reporting about policies with the Department of Homeland Security that now allow its agents to legally detain laptop computers from anyone it wants to who’s crossing the border into the United States… and never return them to their rightful owners. This includes American citizens, also.

As of last month, Homeland Security (still the most Nazi-ish name for an American government agency that has ever been) can seize not just laptops, but iPods, videotapes and DVDs, books, and pretty much anything else it wants, without there being any suspicion of wrongdoing on the part of the person entering the country.

If this does not violate the undue search and seizure clause of the United States Constitution, then I don’t know what does. No doubt that a lot of DHS employees are looking at this as a goldmine of opportunity: “Hey Bob, didn’t your little girl want a new iPod? ...

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When he goes to Beijing for the opening of the Olympics over a week from now, George W. Bush will “worship” at a church there, it’s being reported.

Now for the part of the story that the Bush Administration doesn’t like to talk about…

The “church” that Bush will attend is no doubt going to be one of the state-approved churches that the communist government of mainland China keeps under its control. It will not be a congregation of believers who are free to worship as they best understand the leading of the Holy Spirit. They cannot even appoint their own leaders for their churches: the Chinese government determines who are the pastors and other officials, even installing its own priests for the supposedly “Catholic” churches there.

(By the way, Bush did the same thing almost three years ago and I wrote about it then, too.)

The church ...

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And now the dirty secret of whatever success “the Surge” had rears its ugly head…

Military.com is reporting that ex-rebels in Iraq are demanding more money, or else they will go back to the ranks of Al-Qaeda and begin attacking American forces again. The money that’s been paying the former rebels to begin with has originated with the United States government.

So all this time we’ve either been funding an army of mercenaries that used to be shooting at American personnel, or we’ve been outright bribing them, depending on what your take on the situation is. I don’t know if all of the diminished violence in Iraq can be attributed to this chicanery, but it’s a safe bet that a big chunk of it will be.

I’m reminded again of the last phase of the Roman Empire, when that government was reduced to hiring barbarians to fill the ranks ...

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The last time that I flew anywhere was this past December, when I went to the Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival in Texas. I took Southwest Airlines – a carrier with superb service, I might add – out of Raleigh-Durham International Airport. And one of the few unpleasant memories that I have from the trip was watching the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) goons at RDU doing things like throwing bottles of baby formula and shampoo out, telling travelers that it was “regulation”. And not one traveler protested, because everyone knew that the TSA goons could have them arrested or worse for “talking back” or some other bullcrap. I also saw things like how the TSA scans for “shoe bombs”: they actually made one girl take her flip-flips off to have them x-rayed, and made another remove her ballet flats.

It’s stuff like this that makes me chalk up TSA as one of ...

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Y’know, it’s funny: I remember when Bill Clinton was President, and access to him and his staff was being “sold” in exchange for donations. It was some of the worst corruption of the highest office in the land, and a lot of us were right to have been angered by it.

So then here comes George W. Bush, and we were told that he would “clean house” and that this sort of thing would never happen in his “ethical” administration…

…only to find out that the Bush Administration is involved with the same thing. Long story short: if you donate enough to the George W. Bush Presidential Library, you get access to Dick Cheney and other Bush officials, and possibly even Bush himself.

This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that the only thing that makes the current White House administration more upstanding than the ...

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The United States federal government may soon be taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Anyone else out there know how much raw badness this portends?

Nobody I’ve spoken to about this in the past couple of days – and y’all might be surprised at who this includes – believes that either of these two mortgage houses is solvent. And nobody in the government seems to be talking about anything but a bailout at the expense of the taxpayers.

More shades of that “Hell Époque” thing that I wrote about back in January....

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Walt Disney World has declared that its employees will be exempt from a new Florida law allowing citizens of that state to keep personal firearms locked in their cars while at work.

And how exactly does a company like Disney – which is Florida’s largest single-site employer – get around law like that?

By taking advantage of a loophole that was added to the bill just as it was approved as legislation that “creates an exception for companies whose primary business is to manufacture, use, store or transport explosives regulated under federal law.”

Since Walt Disney World has a permit for the vast arsenal of fireworks it keeps on its grounds for its famous pyrotechnics shows, the company is construing that this exception can apply to them and is thus legally declaring their company to be a munitions dealer!

Maybe Disney can transfer John Locke from its Buena Vista division ...

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