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The Teachings Of Jesus at The Brick Testament

The Brick Testament has some new illustrations on the teachings of Jesus. They crack me up. My favorite: On Love, On the Laws of Moses and, starting our president, On Forgiveness.

Madonna lobbies UK Goverment for Majical Cleaning Solution

MADONNA and her husband, Guy Ritchie, have been lobbying the British Government and nuclear industry over a magic cleaning solution.

The couple, both followers of the Jewish spiritual movement Kabbalah, approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) promoting a scheme to clean up radioactive waste using a “mystical” liquid tested in a Russian lake.

“It [...]

George Galloway tears SKY NEWS a new asshole

Thank God for George Galloway. He makes the “tough questions” in my previous post look like conservative media bias.

PR Firm Fakes “Grassroots” Video Mocking Climate Change

ABC News: Al Gore YouTube Spoof Not So Amateurish
I like the term they use for faked grassroots support; Astroturf. This whole fucking country is nothing but Astroturf. Oh well, let’s just keep fiddling.
In the movie, Gore is seen boring an army of penguins with his lecture and blaming global warming for everything, including Lindsay [...]

4 Things You Don’t See on American News

via mefi:

Exhibit #1 - Journalists who ask questions - I

Calling it what it is - terrorism against a civilian population

UK correspondant John Snow interviews Israeli ambassador about Israel’s attacks against Palestinians.

Notice that in the UK, television journalists don’t automatically defer to Israeli government represenatives the way US news people do. Why is that?

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Clean Elections is on California’s November Ballot

California is on it’s way to becoming the third state to enact Clean Money/Clean Elections campaign finance reform. Prop 89 qualified for the November ballot. I’m excited. It seems everyone is pretty much in agreement that our current method of financing public campaigns gives corporations and those with money a much bigger voice than your [...]

Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties

Interesting article:
“The real underlying issue is that fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist form is incompatible with higher education,’’ Professor Key said. “In fundamentalism, you have all the truths. In education, you’re searching for truths.’’

“Is Israel doing anything that the U.S. would not do in the same situation?”

I enjoyed this comment on MetaFilter enough to post it on my blog. In response to the question:

Is Israel doing anything that the U.S. would not do in the same situation?

God, I’m so sick of this idiotic argument.

Get this into your head: Israel is not the United States, and never will be. [...]