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Sounds like a good Michael Jackson album title.

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Can it Flower-wanna-be. We don't need newbers here.

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Indeed. And as I think of it more, I can't think of a prominant national protestant sect that I'd characterize as more liberal, since Unitarians shouldn't really count. Episcopalians are about the same. Lutherans are in the same range, but I think a bit more conservative. Presbyterians have a less centralized structure, so there may be non-celibate gay ministers there, but it would not be a universal acceptance.

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What did I say. "Admittedly radically left wing." Yeah. I was trying to pull one over on you. Good thing you're too smart for me. I'm busted.

I believe the term is:

WHIFF

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He's Catholic?

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They'll burn in hell because of thier liberal, yankified beliefs. A couple women mud-wrestling with each other never bothered us good ole boys, though, you bigot, you.

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What variety of whiff would it be? I must say, I don't believe it was any recognized type whiff, and I would venture to guess that Paigow has not ceded to you the abiltiy to coin new varieties.

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We prefer the term Papist around here.

Hatemasters
 

Elvis Costello.

Hatemasters
 

the 80s were a nadir for EC. High marks for the 70s and revival in the 90s but some very okay work in the 80s

Hatemasters
 

Do you mean Presley or Costello?

United Methodist Church
 

I don't suffer too many fundamentalists, but from what I've seen, the Southern Baptists have a real issue with low membership standards. In all seriousness, its very hard to discern the Southern Baptist televangelist programs from an episode of Cops.

I watched one SBC preacher talk earnestly about how women have a duty to not disagree with their husbands. I thought it was a joke, or the guy was some nut. Then I saw him again listed as one of the frequent religious leaders who visit the White House! The crazy bastard is a Harvard grad. Yet he believes the world is 6000 years old!

Fuck all that talk of poor minorities in New Orleans. Those people may be poor, but they seem to have common sense and will do just fine given some opportunities. What we need to really tackle in this country is the lower-to-middle class crazy white trash problem. It appears the SBC is the best place to start. They seem to flock there like flies on shit.

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I've given up trying to figure out all of those christian sects out long ago. That these guys and these guys are both Baptists confirms what the nuns always told me about protestants picking and choosing what they want and ignoring the True Church. ;)

United Methodist Church
 

They always tout their fucking charity, as though giving a few million after a hurricane somehow makes up for the years of societal damage they inflict on us all.

Is there annoy who can quibble with the notion that this nation would be a far better place if we exiled the SBC to Madagascar? They're a tumor on the country - an oozing pus-filled chancre in the nation's colon.

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Which one? There must be at least a dozen Southern Baptist churches near where I live.

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all we need do is get the Baptists snake-handling and stryknine drinking. You start doing that shit each sunday, and pretty soon you find yourself worrying less and less about what the other guy is doing, plus it has the benefit of culling out a good percentage.

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Its easy. Ask them to dance. If they won't, put em on the boat.

cetchup
 

I don't even know what the subject is today. I feel out of touch with all of all y'all.

Have we all agreed that the Alito thing is a go?

cetchup
 

no no no. big problems. A DU regular poster who writes a blog thinks there's a problem because he dissented in a case about whether a cop can get sued for searching a person using a search warrant the cop thought was okay.

United Methodist Church
 

Is that it?

cetchup
 

I'm going to log on to DU now and see if I can find out if balt's avatar is posting again. that should tell us something.

What happened to Ty?

cetchup
 

Yes, but I'm the only one on record with the "Over"

Quote of the Day
 

It carried a maximum sentence of 5 years. I'll bet Libby can cut as good a deal as Berger, including giving up his security clearance.

Important Legislation
 

Thanks god for the Democrats:

H.R.4210 Title: To provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Sponsor: Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4] (introduced 10/2/2005)

Cosponsors: (none)

Committees: House Government Re form; House Rules

Latest Major Action: 11/2/2005 Referred to House committee.

Status: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Important Legislation
 

That one is a lunatic.

S_A_M

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2.

And for more unintentional funnies, this quote from an article about W's miserable approval ratings.

"[Former Florida GOP chairman now Tallahassee lobbyist Van] Poole shrugged off the CIA-leak investigation. 'Most people I've talked to think it was a big waste of money, taking as much time as it did.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/...h/bush_ap_poll

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Yes, but she's your lunatic, thank the babyjesuschristsuperstar.

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I heard that the amateur film shot by Mohammed za-Bruthuh shows a second gunman on a grassy knoll along the Strip. The za-Bruthuh film apparently has been suppressed by the Man, so no one knows fo' shizzle.

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FWIW his approval ratings are almost as low as Reagan's were mid-second term. Who was voted best President in the 50 years again?

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Shhhh, don't distract her. The more time demo's devote to proving that biggie andd tupac were under FBI, CIA, NSA, BATF, &c, &c surveillance, the less time they have to separate us from our wallets.

JFK Conspiracy, Claims Professor
 

Law Professor Donald Wilkes has written a bunch of articles asserting the JFK assasination was some kind of conspiracy. Link to Wilkies articles.

JFK Conspiracy, Claims Professor
 

He should look into the Mary Jo Kopechne, Vince Foster, Mary Mahoney and Ron Brown killings next.

Fair & Balanced. And Fabulous.
 

Out and About

Readers of the Houston Voice got a little news on the opinion pages this week: Hard-nosed Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith is -- well, if he's not gay, he's pretty damn gay-friendly.

Kevin Naff, managing editor of the Washington Blade, a sister paper of the Voice, wrote a column on celebrities who refuse to answer questions about whether they're gay. As part of the column he wrote that Smith once tried to pick him up at a Manhattan piano bar and invited him back to his place.

"We sat at the bar chatting and drinking martinis until 3 a.m., our conversation interrupted only when [Smith] paused to belt out the lyrics to whatever showtune was being performed," Naff wrote.

Come on -- straight guys like showtunes, too, don't they? Don't they?

We tried to reach Smith, but a Fox spokesperson didn't return messages. Naff says he's been getting a lot of mail, both pro and con, about the column.

"And a lot of people have said, 'Oh, you're violating their privacy, and who they have sex with, that's private,' " Naff says. "Well, yeah, who you have sex with is private…All I'm saying is, the very fact of your sexual orientation should not be a secret. It should not be something to be ashamed of and hidden."

Well, maybe. But what about the important stuff: Why did you (allegedly) turn down Smith?

"I am not single, so I was not able to take him up on his offer," Naff says.

So he wasn't a jerk?

"No, he was a nice guy and we had a nice chat," he says.

Damn. We thought all Fox anchors were jerks.

http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2...hairballs.html

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1 This is not on topic for PB.
2 This is not only the most nfh-like post you have ever made (for awhile your news story posts were at least offbeat), this actually would be the most nfh-like post nfh ever posted.
3 How exactly do you think your post will attract newbers?

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If this is true, its sad that he feels constrained to be open about his sexual orientation, much in the same way that it is sad that Hillary has to hide her sexual orientation behind a sham marriage to a serial sexual predator. She loses and the Nation loses. Personally I think Hillary and Mary Steenburgen make a cute couple.

Fair & Balanced. And Fabulous.
 

Via my provocative response.

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1. Fox News has involved itself into the political process. Anything having to do with Fox News is per se a topic for the PB.
2. Fuck you.
3. My avatar.

Lust in his heart but responsibility in his loins
 

In the category of even a broken clock is right twice a day, ex-prez and demo luminary Jimmy the Peanut Carter has come out squarely against abortion, for the babyjesus and against Clinton.


Amen.

Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday condemned all abortions and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion.

"I never have felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors," he told reporters over breakfast at the Ritz-CarltonHotel, while across town Senate Democrats deliberated whether to filibuster the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he may share President Bush and Mr. Carter's abhorrence of abortion.

"These things impact other issues on which [Mr. Bush] and I basically agree," the Georgia Democrat said. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion."

"I have always thought it was not in the mainstream of the American public to be extremely liberal on many issues," Mr. Carter said.

The worst treatment he's received, the former president said, was from President Clinton.

eta: i hope that if the Ritz-C gave him a room that the the toilet was cleared before he checked in.

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Does he blame Bush for letting France be taken over?

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He praised Mr. Bush's policy toward war-torn Sudan, which I think is a tacit indictment of the French.