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The Elliot Spitzer Affair

March 11, 2008 John Eliot Spitzer, FBI, Federal Officials, Governor, Hookers, New York, Prostitution, Prostitution Ring, republicans, sex, Vitter

Good grief, could any more be made of this? New York Governor Elliot Spitzer had apparently been paying for a little something on the side, so now the Republicans demand that he resign. Senator David Vitter (R. Louisiana) was implicated in a prostitution case, but never resigned…why the double standard? Saying he’s involved in a prostitution ring is like me saying I’m involved in the fast food franchise business just because I ate at McDonald’s one day last week.

Business Crime Fun Stuff Humor Society

Idiots of the Week for March 7 2008

March 7, 2008 John alligators, Franklin County, Polk County, Shooting, St. Petersburg, Washington State, Work

We’ve got a brief recap of some of the idiotic news from the week ending, March 7, 2008. A man swimming with gators for a second time, and a guy having his friend shoot him so he can get some time off work.

Crime Election Politics Society

Idiot of the Week Awards for February 29 2008

February 29, 2008 John Anderson SC, flags, Hypocricy, lapel pins, republicans

It’s a tie, one is a politician and the other a criminal…might be hard to tell the difference I admit.

Culture Religion

Annual Pew Forum Survey on Religion in America-The Results Are In

February 29, 2008 John Catholic, Megachurches, Pew forum, Protestant

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released annual survey results that indicate nearly half of American adults leave the Ã¢â‚¬Å“faith traditionÃ¢â‚¬Â they were raised in to either join another religion or drop out of organized religion altogether. Ths year though, the unaffiliated Ã¢â‚¬â€ people who say they are religious but donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t claim allegiance to any particular institution or tradition Ã¢â‚¬â€ are now the fourth largest religious group in America.

Crime Culture Gay Issues Religion Right Wingnuts Society

Ellen DeGeneres Remembers Murdered Gay Teen

February 29, 2008 John Ellen DeGeneres, Murder, YouTube

All these religious right wingnuts think they absolve themselves of any responsibility for the violence purpetrated against gay people when they say, “Oh we don’t hate gays, we just hate the sin.” Bullshit. This is what you have wrought, and you will stand in judgement for it. These wingnuts love to invoke the Old Testament wrath of God when it comes to homosexuality. I’d remind them the prophets of the Old Testament were usually warning of God’s wrath in the context of how corrupt the religious leaders’ of that time had become. Micah summed it well: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”