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May 13th, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- John Hagee, an influential televangelist who endorsed John McCain, is apologizing to Catholics for referring to the Roman Catholic Church as "the great whore" and calling it "the apostate church." [Source - Associated Press] Good start. Now apologize for blaming Katrina on homosexuality and 9/11 on secularism, you worthless son of a bitch scumbag. If there is a hell, you will definitely be in it in the afterlife, you utter cunt.

What does it say about America when the best drama on TV is science fiction? We have given ourselves over to parable and burlesque in our entertainment. But it begs the question, "why do we need to entertain ourselves?" I think the metaphor of "holding a mirror up to reality" is good. But I think that entertainment also serves the proverbial "soul" the same way religion does. So, no wonder religion fights as hard against other religions as it does against art, the non-movement movement. Well, I take that back. Movements in art are motivating, just like religion. But religion leans toward more organized, authoritarian movements, and art has always been religion's free-form cousin. Just as "a DJ saved my life", art saved the life of Michaelangelo, surely a homosexual living on the cusp of the darkest of ages in Italy, supported by a closeted Vatican and moneyed aristocrats and merchants. Then, also, draw the parallels between the art and music ...

Does alcohol and IRC mix? You decide. <chr1s> security through obscurity has been an unmitigated disaster for microsoft <stim> less garbage out there tailered for you <Adversary> linux himself said it, you shouldnt have to deal with the os. you shouldnt know its there. <stim> linus is a tool <chr1s> agreed <stim> who was never in line with linux <Adversary> heh <stim> stallman is far more "linux" than linus can ever hope to be <badlogic> windows 9 microsoft linux :) <stim> for the argument consider linux being a collection of apps, not just the kernel <Adversary> anyways... this all misses the point... <stim> that you have a retarded troll <stim> about licensing of other peoples software? <Adversary> i say we trolled eachother <stim> u trolled my nuts, with your mouth <chr1s> i like how the linux community at large keeps declaring the death of zfs, and everyone else keeps ignoring ...

Two things. About a week ago Senator Obama said a few things that seemed to denigrate the working, White-ethnic poor. I watched the Republican campaign of Senator McCain and the Republican-light campaign of Senator Clinton react negatively to those comments, and in typical form the Obama response was swift and concise. What I didn't expect was this piece: http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/04/11/pavoters/index.html Joan Walsh is the editor-in-chief of the transparently pro-Clinton Salon.com online news magazine. In it, she goes on to say this about the recent Obama-working-poor "gaffe": Barack Obama does have an affluent, educated, Ivy League sense of self-righteousness and entitlement that my Irish Catholic working-class side occasionally chafes at. So does Michelle Obama. So does Jeffrey Toobin. So do some of our Obama supporting readers. So sue me. And I was prepared to try to explain the mounting irritation about Obama's remarks. But ... then I ...

And lo, suddenly the world changed. Within the entire glass menagerie of specious right-wing counter-arguments made whenever some boorish, wrong-headed, dubious, illegal or insane Bush/neocon policy is challenged by their opponents, "they attacked us" and its rhetorical cousins are the most annoying retort I commonly hear. "What do you suggest? Therapy? Hugs for the terrorists?" the argument goes, "they attacked us, we have to fight back. " First of all, who are "they"? Well, if you are talking about 9/11, "they" were largely Saudi Arabian middle-class college students. "They" were goaded into the operation by the son of a Saudi construction magnate of Yemeni decent and an Egyptian doctor, who were in turn disciples (at least in spirit) of an Egyptian dissident named Sayyid Qutb. In America, the "they attacked us" crowd likes to throw around terms like "jihad" and "fatwah" and "sha'ria...

You know who I am talking to. Drop out. Because this year, this election, more and younger people are finally getting excited and involved in politics, and if you steal this election away from them, they will not vote again for a long time, if ever. Drop out. You are behind. Its March. McCain's polling figures are looking more favorable day after day. Drop out. You are a conniving, slimy, reprehensible human being if you think you can broker the nomination, you dirty, partisan jerk. Drop out. Earth to Hillary Clinton, drop the fuck out of the race.

Yesterday was the day that Senator Barack Obama won the election: