It would appear that most Americans can agree on at least two things lately. First, the Tea Party movement does not represent the country’s political independents,  (See Christian Science Monitor.)

And second, The Supreme Court screwed up.

You guessed it, everybody hates the decision to open the campaign finance flood gates to corporations from home and abroad.  Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.  And, nine supposedly intelligent people can get together and make absolutely stupid choices.  The right, the left, and what’s left of the middle all agree.  The supremes got it wrong.

Flatus The Elder

And then the turkey said what?

Miles is always happy to be anywhere.

Why does organized religion have such a problem with sex and sexuality?  I understand that in the biblical sense cleanliness is next to godliness and disease was considered a sin.  Refraining from sex meant avoiding disease.  But, the church tends to get hung up on the pleasure of it all.  They have yet to reach a workable paradigm.  In the case of sexual identity, gays and lesbians are somehow considered less than human.

Gene Robinson finds the Anglican movement towards a two tiered system unacceptable.

Robinson, who was in Britain to speak at the Greenbelt festival at Cheltenham Racecourse this weekend, added that he could not accept the archbishop’s recent comments that if the Episcopal church refused to uphold the current moratorium on consecrating actively gay bishops or blessing civil unions, the communion might have to be reorganised into a two-tier, or “two-track” model. “I can’t imagine anything that would be more abhorrent to Jesus than a two-tier church,” he said. “Either we are children of God and brothers and sisters in Christ, or we aren’t. There are not preferred children and second-class children. There are just children of God.”

While the Roman priests’ abuse of women in the case of Miami’s Father Babydaddy shows a complete breakdown of morality. Continue reading ‘Just like the Republicans, the church keeps tripping over its sex perspective’ »

This is kind of important so I’m lifting it verbatim from AP/Yahoo:

By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer – Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:17PM EST

Framed for child porn — by a PC virus

If you have been wondering what’s been going on or not going on, I have to say that I have not been physically able to keep up with my blogging since the beginning of October.  To make a short story long, I noticed a lump in my groin area back in the spring and had it checked out by my doctor.  She referred me to a urologist who then referred me to a surgeon who said he knew not what the lump could be.
So, after an ultrasound and then a cat scan it was determined that I did in fact have a lump in my groin and no one knew what it was.  The urologist determined that under the lump I had a hernia so we all took a vote and decided the lump had to come out and be analyzed and the hernia had to be repaired. Continue reading ‘Reports of my demise have been greatly exagerated.’ »

Barack with Joshua DuBois

Anyone who could add 2+2 and get 4 most of the time knew that Bush’s office of faith based initiatives was nothing more than a bone for the religious right radicals to placate their extremism and keep them on the Republican side of the aisle. Progressives have become surprisingly disappointed to find that Barack is reluctant to dismantle and discard the OFBI perhaps because he sees it as one point where his precious bipartisanship can be developed and put on display.
If you want to find information about grants awarded to religious organizations…….good luck. If money has been given out it has been behind closed doors or under secluded tables in back rooms in the dark of night.
OK maybe the disbursements have not been all that clandestine, I just have not been able to find any information on what is supposed to be public records.
Continue reading ‘Much ado about nothing’ »