Know your enemy
My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. ~Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides My mother is a fundie. So was I, before I woke up. I thought I'd share some thoughts on what that means, personally...
View ArticleHuckabee's Biology Lesson (with poll)
This is my first diary. I am doing it out of frustration and would rather be (pick one: running, diving, flying, skiing, climbing, reading) on my Sunday. But there I was in front of my TV at 10 am....
View ArticleA God for All Reasons
Last night I woke up to find a glow-in-the-dark hand writing on my bedroom wall. This is what it had to say:
View ArticleA Huckabee Sampler: More Batshit Than You Realized
Even some people here are charmed by Mike Huckabee. And why not? He chats amiably with pundits like Tim Russert, humorously discussing his squirrel-eating college days. He's appeared on Colbert Report,...
View ArticleThe Transformation & You (Part I - Paradigm)
The observation has been made that the most apt comparision of Sen. Barack Obama's leadership may not be to that of FDR, or JFK, or the Reagan Revolution, but toTeddy Roosevelt, at the dawn of the 20th...
View ArticleYour Sunday Atheist: Contraception Edition (w/poll)
Welcome to the 2nd installment of YOUR SUNDAY ATHEIST. This week we will discuss a few different items in the news with a common theme. Click on the headlines below to read the entire articles that are...
View ArticleSee (Palin’s) Top 10 Non-Denom Bible Beliefs
Sarah Palin describes herself as a "bible-believing Christian" and says she attends "a non-denominational bible church". What does this really mean? What do members of these churches believe? Read on.
View ArticleWhat it means to be Pentecostal
With the Sarah Palin selection, and the news reports that she was raised Pentecostal and still attends an Assembly of God church occasionally, I have been posting some comments to answer questions...
View Article"They broke me" -war hero surrenders to fundamentalists
In a vain appeal, former POW John McCain begged the Republican Convention to End ‘the constant partisan rancor’ and cease the vitriolic attacks on Democrats, liberals and the media that have been the...
View ArticlePalin says Iraq war is about oil supply?
Ok i have been going through interviews of Palin and i think i am on to something. I do not have the skills to trim this clip down so please just click to the EIGHT MINUTE MARK and listen to what she...
View ArticleDeeper than the deeper issue at hand
For anyone that missed it the first time around, please read LithiumCola’s The Deeper Issue At Hand. It was written 3 weeks ago and it has stayed in my mind as I watch countless Palin and "I can’t talk...
View ArticlePalin's "Shining City on a Hill" a Code to Christian Right
This diary will not be as substantive as I would like, but I couldn't find this referenced in any other diaries or stories and I wanted to get it out there. Having stayed up way too late last night...
View ArticlePhD & Former Fundamentalist Rips Palin
An Open Letter to Sarah Palin: Dear Sarah, As a former fundamentalist, I'd like to call you on what you are doing. The media has found you "opaque" about your religion. Why? You have not been...
View ArticleWherein my religious friend finds Hope
I've mentioned my African-American Conservative/Republican Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christian friend in the comments a number of times before, but the email I got from him today was worthy of a diary...
View ArticleThe Pro-Life Contradiction
I can't wrap my head around so many people being against a woman's right to choose because they believe in a "culture of life" while at the same time they are against expanding healthcare and providing...
View ArticleVideo: Tracy Kerlee Is Why America is Broken
PBS' NOW interviews the Kerlees - a working-class couple in Virginia. While Sean Kerlee is your typical white, blue-collar union worker, his wife, Tracy, IS the face face of the modern Republican Party.
View ArticleThat's it, I give up. I just give up.
Do you remember Their Reality Has Lapped Our Satire? How about Their Reality Has Lapped Our Satire, Again? Or even Their Reality Has Lapped Our Satire, Three? Well, it's now lapped it for a fourth...
View ArticleAre Wingnut christian? Fundies Getting Religion, Finally??
Just caught this little interesting tidbit. Bob Jones U. Apologizes For Racism Could guilty consciouses and understanding of 'S*I*N!' finally be breaking into the christian? rights understanding of the...
View ArticleK-12 Education Challenge
Here is a K-12 Education Challenge for moderates and liberals. Right now the jingoistic social studies, anti-science religionists, dominate the elected State Board of Education here in Texas.
View ArticleThe Paradox of Religious Truth
Having spent way too much time of my life engaging in debate over the civil rights of the homosexual community, I have come to the conclusion that it has all been a pointless exercise. One can put...
View ArticleIGNORANCE, BIGOTRY, GREED - AND MORE IGNORANCE.
Ex NFL player and current Evangelical Christian Pastor Ken Hutcherson. He is what is wrong with Christianity. Christians - I'm calling on you to rid your religion of garbage like this - just as you...
View ArticleWhoever Killed George Tiller Was A CINO
Christian In Name Only. The notion first came to me after watching "Lake of Fire", a documentary about the abortion debate. But it is more about the wacked out CINOs and their views (abortion was...
View ArticleChristian Fundamentalist Terror
Those who rail against the Muslim world as a seat terror perpetrated by ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ not only besmirch nearly a billion observant, mainstream members of one of the three great monotheistic...
View ArticleC-Street "The Family" or Christian Mafia
As many know from the Ensign and Sanford debacles, there is a place in Washington DC called the C-street complex. It's a secret cult whose mission is to create a universal Christian theocracy where ALL...
View ArticleAnother Republican attempt to steal Democracy.
This crowd just keeps on giving. I was talking to a group of a few people at a party about a week ago. I noticed a man who was seeming to listen as he stood alone near us. This is the League of Women...
View ArticlePaul Krugman, Bart Stupak, and what we have to do.
To quote Paul Krugman from yesterday: "And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has...
View ArticleHi...I'm ProgressiveCelt; and I'm a fundamentalist
I have "Ah-ha" moments at the oddest times. Driving to work this morning, grumbling about traffic and my fellow drivers on I-5 who took the time to scrape dime sized holes in the frost which had built...
View ArticleNo more tiptoeing around it. Evil is evil-call it out.
Every day, when I open any news publication or blog or when I turn on the TV, I expect to see headlines and stories documenting what is happening here: Fundamentalist so called "religious leaders" are...
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Unless Liberals Unite, The Future Is An Endless Tea Party
I've been saying ever since the so-called "Clintonista" vs. "Obamabot" wars broke out during the last election (with only a barely-maintained cease-fire in place to this day) that everyone... and I...
View ArticleFor a while, this is still a Demcracy
I don't know how long it will last but I have cudo's for one person: Rachel Maddow. The woman is still fighting for freedom. She still supports the best candidate we have elected and that is President...
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Things ARE looking up...See the bright side!
Despite all-out propaganda blitz, 24/7, on all channels, for over 40 years, geared up to hysterical proportions for the '08 elections, the "American" peoples rejected monopoly corporate fascist...
View ArticleTexas strikes another blow for Constitutional rights
Oh, great: AUSTIN – Republicans on the State Board of Education Thursday soundly rejected a Democratic-backed proposal to require that Texas students be taught the reasons behind the prohibition of a...
View ArticleI defriended an old friend on Facebook. My rant!
I have been friends with this individual for many years. She is a fundamentalist Christian who excused everything the GWB did because he was a Christian. I posted one of the great videos made by the...
View ArticleCO-Sen: New Website to Hold Republican Candidates Accountable for their...
Cross posted from Coloradopols *Full Disclosure: I am the new Press Secretary at the Colorado Democratic Party. Jane Norton and Ken Buck are two extreme candidates, too extreme for Colorado. That is...
View ArticleTeach Your Children Hell: Fundie Winning Money Race - Tampa Schools
A divorced family man who believes that teachers should have the academic freedom to bring God into the classroom but that they should never, ever, be allowed to mention the theory of contraception, is...
View Article"Freedom:" The Right of Religious Fundamentalists to Discriminate Against...
Fundamentalist Christians want "freedom" to discriminate against people who don’t share their beliefs and consider anyone who doesn't a threat to their own "freedom." Written by Amanda Marcotte for...
View ArticleSen. Jim DeMint is an Idiot
Once again the king maker of the tea party is showing his true colors, its still about christian fundamentalism, always was always will be. Once again the idiot from South Carolina revisits old...
View ArticleHow to Get Out the Vote for Grayson
Friday night, I interviewed Rep. Alan Grayson and talked with him about "Turk Out The Vote." That's the program where we try to get our listeners and everyone else to make calls to turn out the vote...
View ArticleMississippi State Senator Jumps on Secession Bandwagon
I remember reading Jed's story on the Arizona State Senate going tenther this morning, and sighing heavily while facepalming. Then when I went to the Mississippi State Capitol today and had a look at...
View ArticleOf Pigs and Chipmunks
I was watching a clip of Glen Beck on the Rachel Maddow show when I suddenly realized Mr. Beck looks like a chipmunk - wide-eyed, bushy-tailed, puffy cheeks and all. This was a really refreshing...
View ArticleUPDATED! Tennesseean Kossacks : Stand Up for Science!
UPDATE! Today TN SB893 died a quick death in committee! It is survived by a whole bunch of relieved parents, and will be missed by no one. FANTASTIC! I simply wanted to share with you the message I...
View ArticleBill Moyers conversation with Garrison Keillor on Cspan part V
Here are the links: Cspan video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/... Transcription of Cspan video: http://solutionsearch-tbug.blogspot.com/ Bill Moyer's Journal: http://www.pbs.org/... Books:...
View ArticleIs it possible to be a Christian fundamentalist and a liberal at the same time?
I’m about to interview a fundamentalist preacher who claims to be a liberal and ask him that very question.
View ArticleRandy Randians ramping up deprivations
For some time now, I've been reluctant about referring to the political animals hogging the media as Republicans, conservatives or fundamentalists. They obviously care nothing for res publica, the...
View ArticleWhy I Sound "Too Preachy"- A Biographical Bit
It has been suggested that I sound “too preachy.” Yeah, that should have been expected. Let me introduce myself a little more to those of my neighbors who, so far, have only smiled and waved. As you...
View ArticleSunday Gamblers
Needing milk, I drove to the closest convenience store, and it didn't take more than a minute on the road to realize I was in the midst of the weekly throng of Sunday Gamblers. Each has bet his life,...
View ArticleThe Fundamentalist Say They Are Victims of Hate from "Homosexuals and...
Lately, it seems that every single day there are countless new stories in the news and floating around the Internet about how fundamentalist wish to condemn LGBT people. Just a few minutes ago, I saw...
View ArticleLetter To A Conservative Fundamentalist Tour Director
About a month ago, I attended a school field trip with my niece and her class. We traveled by bus to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Livingston, Louisiana. The tour of...
View ArticleHomosexuality is Illegal If
You read the title correctly. Even though homosexuality is known to specifically exist in hundreds and hundreds of animal species and is documented among humans across time and place for thousands of...
View ArticleWingnut Tip of the Day: Why Same Sex Marriage is Bad for Kids
Pam Spaulding just posted about a piece from Christian News Wire with five "reasons" that same-sex marriage is bad for kids. Just to keep things honest, I wrote up a rebuttal to the wingnut idiocy...
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