by VorJack
You folks may remember a previous post on Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina and the book burning they were planning to have. The Church, run by Pastor Marc Grizzard, was planning to burn the usual targets: heavy metal music and smutty movies. But they also planned to torch all [...]
by VorJack
The LA Times recently had an article about a small provision in the Senate version of the Heath Care bill:
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments [...]
by VorJack
Awkward:
A priest in the Diocese of Scranton has been removed as administrator of three Throop parishes after he inadvertently displayed four photos of what a diocese spokesman called “minimally attired adult males” before the 8 a.m. Mass at St. Bridget’s Church on Oct. 25.
The Rev. Edward P. Lyman was using his personal computer to [...]
by VorJack
Here’s a little ditty I learned back in the days of Vacation Bible School:
The Lord is good to me,
And so I thank the Lord,
For giving me
the things I need,
The sun and rain and an apple seed.
The Lord is good to me.
I suspect that many of you are baffled, particularly those of you from outside [...]
by VorJack
New York state politics is famously corrupt. For a variety of reasons, Albany remains one of the last bastions of machine politics. This can make arguments very partisan, and now a county executive out in Buffalo has stepped up to show just how easily “partisan” can make the jump to “insane.”
From the [...]
by VorJack
We’re coming up on All Hallows Eve. According to one version of the story, this is the night when the gates of Purgatory are opened, and all the souls wander the earth.
So it seems like an appropriate time to recognize all the good folks for whom reading this blog must be a sort of [...]
by VorJack
Here’s an old not-funny joke I heard while living in Wisconsin:
A man by the name of Ole lives to a ripe old age and dies. He awakes to find himself in Hell, which is a bit of a surprise. Still, he figures he might as well get a look around before the [...]
by VorJack
In reading Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the families involved. I wouldn’t necessarily want to live with any of them, and they’re all pretty conservative, but they mostly seem like they’d make good neighbors. Granted, Kunzman may be going out of his way to [...]
BD: http://blog.cafepress.com/2009 /11/20/psalm-1098-update/ Designs are off the website. Huzzah for reasonable people who see the... Pray for Obama
Siberia: Darth Pope wins. 2009 Bad Faith Awards
Offred: I was wondering how long it would be before Daniel or someone posted this, dkos has been having some involved discussions... Pray for Obama
Jerdog: Couldn’t they have at least recycled all that paper? Or will anything tainted with evil 50%... The Book Burning That Wasn’t
Elemenope: Solid, except the “stop the hate” at the end blunts it slightly with corniness. Pray for Obama
bigjohn756: Pathetic… The Book Burning That Wasn’t
Kodie: I found this t-shirt on the same website: http://www.cafepress.com/+anti hate_tshirt,417804848 No real Christian, certainly... Pray for Obama
