Gotta hand it to the guy for being able to convince so many people that he was a Christian while he ignored the New Testament and the words of Jesus (you know, all that stuff about loving, not judging, one another, a book about our responsibility to the less fortunate and a reminder to be grateful for all that is given), and all while chasing the almighty dollar and endless narcissistic power.
Gotta hand it to the guy for his ugly, narrow-minded honesty, and it's just a shame that the Ralph Reeds (at least before he was exposed as the hypocritical fraud all those uber-rightwing anything-but-Christian "Christians" are) and James Dobsons stepped in to put more finesse to their collective brand of hate. I much prefer the clumsy, out-of-the-closet variety. The irony of his supporting Reagan, the non-Christian, over the actual Christian, Carter, for president is not lost on me.
Nonetheless, I wish his family peace and choose to pray for his soul, as it is in serious jeopardy and has been for decades. While Karma would dictate that he comes back as a gay feminist Muslim liberal with a law degree and a job at the ACLU, who fornicates on a whim, I nevertheless hope he returns in his next life a much better human being: one that chooses to pray, for example, for something other than vacancies on the Supreme Court that Bush Junior can fill. He's got a lot to fix and even more to make up for.
As an unreconstructed segretationist and apartheid lover even into the 1980's, gotta love his consistency. While his Telletubby rant solidifies his place as a moonbat, there's no need to expound on his legacy -- Jerry did the work for me.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10806.html
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Friday, May 4, 2007
The Dimkus Debacle
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/9A2F7DDAC3823136862572CF0067840A?OpenDocument
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/theres-no-dying-in-baseb_b_47481.html
The sheer stupidity of the Cubs/Cards rivalry being compared to Iraq aside, the problem is that Shimkus just doesn't get it anymore.
The day he decided to ignore his promise to his constituents to only run for three terms, just because W asked him to, is the day he sold his soul. He consumed the power-flavored Kool-Aid without regard to what that might cost him. He hitched his wagon to Denny Hastert, joined the Beltway power structure, and ignored his own promises and responsibilities, both to his constituents and to the pages in his charge, in order to maintain that power.
God works in mysterious ways. There are paybacks to failing to do the right thing when that tempting carrot is dangled before you.
Tragically, he dehumanzied and destroyed his argument through a clumsy and silly analogy (as an aside, someone should tell him that there are a fair number of Cubs fans in certain parts of his district). Satire is not for amateurs, Mr. Shimkus. Leave it to Stewart and Colbert, please.
This is not a game. This is about war, which is about the deaths of innocents and soldiers. He made himself, and all of Southern Illinois by association, the butt of jokes when there's nothing funny here.
Frankly, I understand and agree with the Pottery Barn Rule he was so badly mangling, but instead of communicating that he made a jerk out of himself.
He's so out of touch that he's merely shocked and surprised by the backlash. He should be ashamed of himself -- for forgetting where he came from, for being too inarticulate to make an argument without some idiotic sports reference, and for turning himself and all of Southern Illinois into a punchline.
Interestingly, the (for lack of a better word) "newspaper" that covers a good part of his district has been stone silent about this matter, and has not responded to inquiries about why they thought his constituents didn't need to be informed.
www.thesouthernillinoisian.com
Maybe they are too busy covering the "high five" gossip in Springfield.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/theres-no-dying-in-baseb_b_47481.html
The sheer stupidity of the Cubs/Cards rivalry being compared to Iraq aside, the problem is that Shimkus just doesn't get it anymore.
The day he decided to ignore his promise to his constituents to only run for three terms, just because W asked him to, is the day he sold his soul. He consumed the power-flavored Kool-Aid without regard to what that might cost him. He hitched his wagon to Denny Hastert, joined the Beltway power structure, and ignored his own promises and responsibilities, both to his constituents and to the pages in his charge, in order to maintain that power.
God works in mysterious ways. There are paybacks to failing to do the right thing when that tempting carrot is dangled before you.
Tragically, he dehumanzied and destroyed his argument through a clumsy and silly analogy (as an aside, someone should tell him that there are a fair number of Cubs fans in certain parts of his district). Satire is not for amateurs, Mr. Shimkus. Leave it to Stewart and Colbert, please.
This is not a game. This is about war, which is about the deaths of innocents and soldiers. He made himself, and all of Southern Illinois by association, the butt of jokes when there's nothing funny here.
Frankly, I understand and agree with the Pottery Barn Rule he was so badly mangling, but instead of communicating that he made a jerk out of himself.
He's so out of touch that he's merely shocked and surprised by the backlash. He should be ashamed of himself -- for forgetting where he came from, for being too inarticulate to make an argument without some idiotic sports reference, and for turning himself and all of Southern Illinois into a punchline.
Interestingly, the (for lack of a better word) "newspaper" that covers a good part of his district has been stone silent about this matter, and has not responded to inquiries about why they thought his constituents didn't need to be informed.
www.thesouthernillinoisian.com
Maybe they are too busy covering the "high five" gossip in Springfield.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Aunt Nancy's brag book
http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Player.mxp/AffiliateID-c89c913e-dd31-40ca-a07f-45d39aba7edf/Florida/Boys_Varsity_Baseball_Spring_06-07/AreaID-7bcaf5fa-f8bd-4fe8-a970-f05012cd05b2/SchoolID-0423ac0f-b73d-474e-aced-5ce1a205b812/AthleteID-69263514-2fbe-45b1-ad33-02a8e0f23e77
and
http://www.njcaa.org/schmain.cfm?sid=28&divid=1&gender=w&slid=14&menu=11&schmenu=5&cid=1370&teamid=58672&athleteid=168252&seasonselect=367
and
http://www.njcaa.org/schmain.cfm?sid=28&divid=1&gender=w&slid=14&menu=11&schmenu=5&cid=1370&teamid=58672&athleteid=168252&seasonselect=367
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