James Madison and the Sacred Trinity Bush is Trying to Destroy

George: If You Don't Like Checks and Balances,

Blame Little Jimmy!

James Madison is often called the "Father of the Constitution" - a title he heartily disliked. But the "withered little applejohn" (he was our shortest President at barely 5'4" and weighed a scant 100 lbs.) really did write much of the Constitution and also the Bill of Rights. He patterned the framework of our government after his own Virginia Plan and was very proud to see the first rulings of the Supreme Court.

"He envisioned a strong federal government that could overrule actions of the states when they were deemed mistaken." * He was not exactly a "man of the people" (he was a disdinguished property owner and had slaves), but he was no pluralist. He was the biggest champion of Separation of Church and State.

Our current leader, George II, like Mike Huckabee, would like to make changes to Mr. Madison's magnum opus:
*Wikipedia

Bush's Lies and Washington's Honesty

For President's Day Weekend:

GWB compared to some lesser Presidents

#1: Two Georgies: One honest and the other....

Historians tell us that George Washington never said "Father I annot tell a lie..."He did, however, tell the truth when it came to foreign affairs: he did not want any more wars and took the steps necessary to keep the U.S. out of foreign conflicts. For example, he composed a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793. He also favored a strong central government, a national bank, and an effective tax system.

He was also strong supporter of complete religious toleration. Once when hiring men for a construction project at Mount Vernon, he voiced what kind of workmen he wanted: "If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists." In 1790, he wrote a response to a letter from the Touro Synagogue, in which he said that as long as people remain good citizens, their faith does not matter. *(Wikipedia)

Washington sounded more like a Democrat than anything else.

Our current George has not quite gotten the hang of telling the truth while in office. He was certainly blase about not being able to find WMDs - the premise about which we went to war in Iraq:

So, there you have it: the First George tried desperately to keep us out of war, while the last one tries desperately to keep us in it.

* Can you imagine George II saying this in front of his good friend and advisor, Pat Robertson?

GANGSTERS HAVE HEARTS TOO! But Do Televangelists?

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Happy Valentine's Day... Massacre!

Call me old fashioned, but I think that on February 14th, we should honor the people who did more for the violin case than any musician:


Al Capone - Fred "Killer" Burke - Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn - Fred Goetz. Together, they attempted to execute Bugs Moran, the boss of a rival gang, from Chicago's North Side. And while they didn't succeed in killing Moran, they earned for themselves a place in history that capped The Roarin' Twenties (it took place in 1929). Capone himself was not present - he was "vacationing" in Florida - but he was the mastermind. Capone's image, by that time, was so infamous that everyone knew he orchestrated the massacre. This image has lasted even into today's perception of the typical "gangster", but did you know that the great "Scarface" started a program to provide Chicago school children with daily rations of milk? And during the Depression, Capone sponsored many soup kitchens for the poor and homeless.

So gangsters have hearts, too. Maybe some of them are made of brass slugs, but they're there.

And who are today's gangsters? Are they carrying violin cases or...bibles? One of our earlier posts was on the people we call "televangelisti". They threaten your soul's alienation from God if you don't "contribute." Televangelist Paul Crouch (TBN Broadasting) even sounds like an old gangster in his death threats:

God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to You, God. It is Your work, it is Your idea, it is Your property, it is Your airwaves, it is Your world, and we proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the Name of Jesus, and all the people said Amen!

Crouch and his network have many people cowering in fear: reprisal in the form of a bullet is one thing, but death coming directly from God is another. Crouch could have given lessons to Capone.

If you want to "give from the heart" on Valentine's Day, I suggest you steer clear of someone who is telling you that God blessed him with a 10,000- square-foot mansion and a private jet and that if you give to his/her ministry, you will receive "tenfold". I just happened upon what looks like a fairly worthy faith-based charity: FRC Ministries (http://fhcministries.blogspot.com/). It's very new (and, honestly, fairly green), but it looks a hell of a lot more respectable than any of today's televangelists.

Or, check out Ministry Watch (http://www.ministrywatch.com/) where you can figure out just how much of your money goes to the homeless or towards a new Rolls Royce.

In any case, have a Happy Valentine's Day by avoiding the twenty-first century America's version of the gangster.

Are Fundamentalists and Evangelicals Permanently in the Dark?

Would Noah Have Appreciated a General Electric Stove?

Electricity on Noah's Ark? Hell, the Bible doesn't even mention a wood-burning stove. Forty days (or, in some interpretations, 140 days) is a long time to go without any form of cooked food. Did the inhabitants of the Ark have disentary as a result? Whoa! Too much non-information here! Anyway, Noah, as a good God-fearing, science-hating man would not have approved of advanced technology such as electricity, so I guess Noah's family had to make do with a "natural" diet.

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me -- the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love -- He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us -- nature did it all -- not the gods of the religions.

That was Thomas Edison, inventor of the first incandescent light, the world's first phonograph and a man who held the astounding sum of 1093 patents. In theological terms, Edison was NOT an atheist but a deist who strongly agreed with another Thomas - Paine.

Some fudamentalists point to the fact that Thomas Edison was home-schooled by his mother. They fail to mention that the textbook she used was RG. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and that later on, Edison was educated at the famously scientific Cooper Union in New York. In its 162 years, this school has had almost nothing to do with religion.

Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous quote: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." That, of course, includes the Creation Museum in Kentucky which states: "Don't Think - Believe."

Happy birthday, Tom. You would have been 161 years-old today. Would that you could have lived so long for us. But it would have been bad for you- I don't think you'd like today's anti-science movement.

Vote Bill the Cat for President! (A Vote for Bill is a Vote Against that B***ch Hillary!)

Hating Hillary: The Typical CINO Knee-Jerk Response

I googled "I Hate Barack Obama" I came up with about 25 sites.

I googled "I Hate John McCain," and came up with 32 sites.

I (naturally) googled "I hate Huckabee." 46 sites.

I googled "I Hate Hillary."

Over 400! Even T-shirts and bumper stickers are beginning to pick up on the sentiment. That's an awful lot of hate. Read the rather ill-placed logic of one conservative commentator:

"Liberals are picking up on this Hillary talk and trying to create an anti-hillary sentiment like the anti-bush crowd was blasted for. It won't work. We are anti-hillary but it's mostly for the reasons listed below. She is hated mostly because she personifies liberalism. Yes it's her policies. It's her name. It's her stupid smirks and her pride. Her carpetbagger ways and her socialist tendencies. Oh and also her husband. It's the families insistence that they are always right, even when they are wrong. (reminds me of a quote from Scarface,"I always tell the truth, even when I lie.") Too bad for democrats they elected the wrong clinton to the white house because I don't think this country can take two of them."

Hating Hillary vs. Bush Bashing:

Most Bush bashing was done in the form of jokes because, let's face it folks, he gave us a LOT of material to joke about! Comedians should honor the President with a gold medal - he kept so many of them in business. His faked "local down-home" image and his cluelessness made for some of the most hilarious moments in the history of the Presidency. Hell, for at least six years, I thought he was Dan Quayle in disquise! People actually hosted "Bush bashing" parties.

Hillary hating, however, takes on an entirely different tone. Certainly no one would host a party joking about how stupid Hillary Rodham Clinton is. She has been called crafty and even sinister, but the current criticisms imply that she is indeed inteligent.

If we look deep into all the "I Hate Hillary" statements and blogs, I think we might just find some that are pretty flimsy in motivation. These are people who NEED to hate someone. And unless you got to this blog by mistake, we all know who those people are: anti-Hillary rants will come from pulpits and bake sales, closed-minded school board meetings and people who are truly ecumenical in their hate: i.e. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coultergeist.

The I Hate Hillary League has sprung up much like the detrators of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - too fast, too shallow and too rabid. If Berk Breathed's cartoon character, Bill the Cat won the Republican nomination, CINOs would say "As long as it's not Hillary, because I hate Hillary!!"

A reasonable rationale, on the other hand, was never a strongpoint for some Christianists.

THIS:

.... Or THIS

To Mike Huckabee: NICE GUYS DON'T GET LAID!

And Maybe People Shouldn't Vote for Them

Dear "Aw-Shucks" Huck:

I've just read where some people in the state of Utah don't like you (gasp!). I know that seems impossible given your image as the man everyone likes, but it's true. Read it here if you don't believe me.

It's the Mormons, the feminists and the gays, you see. They're the ones slandering you so much. Demonspawn to be sure, but if you don't watch out, others of real importance will start to question things. Things like why you still haven't met with Ryan White's mother and why you won't let people read any of your old sermons. By the way, did you really say that Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan were brothers?

Maybe you should re-strategize. Everyone was diappointed when they found out George Bush was NOT Will Rogers. (He's only been trying to channel wise old Will - unsuccessfully.) And people are starting to question the whole Southern Baptist thing. The Mormon/Utah thing really goes back to the time the SBC convention was unwisely held in Salt Lake City and some 2200 SBCers went door-to-door terrorizing (uh, sorry preaching) to Mormons that they weren't really Christians.

So, Huck, people are getting a bit suspicious. "Nice guys" and "friendly next-door-neighbor" types just aren't as popular as they once were. Politics is truly a place where nice guys finish last. They don't get laid, either.



Will Rogers, the good ole' cowboy who "never yet met a man I didn't like." The picture shows that the only hat that fit him was a Stetson.

He was popular enough for people to beg him to run for public office (governor of his native state, Oklahoma). To him, being a humorist was easy: "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." He was, however, a stalwart of FDR often saying "I don't belong to any organized party. I'm a Democrat."

"Born Again Barbie" Wants to Settle Down - Not with Ken, but Tony Perkins!!

If Tony Perkins' wife, Lawana, doesn't look like this,

their 21-year-old-marriage might be in trouble!

The astoundingly beautiful lady to the left is Barbara Millicent Roberts, aka Barbie. She was born in March, 1959 (yes, she certainly looks good for her 49 years!). Her mother was Ruth Handler and her father was believed to be the CEO of Mattel, the world's largest and most influential toy manufacturer/public relations company. Her measurements are an unbelievable 36-18-33 (a bit like Scarlett O'Hara's). Her worldwide celebrity has resulted in her likeness being sold two times per second!


Ms Roberts has led a glamorous and peripatetic lifestyle: she has had over 80 careers and has even run for President (then again, hasn't everyone?). Her long-time boyfriend, Ken, was not able to keep up with Barbie's celebrity and the two broke up several years ago. Her wardrobe is not to be believed! Rumor has it, however, that despite all that glitz and glamour this jetset icon now wants desperately to settle down. And since Barbie never settles for the mundane, she has set her sights on the one person who's middle name is "family": Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.

And what of the erstwhile Ken?

In an interview with the beloved lady, Barbie told the press that Ken has been denounced as a sinister mole for the homosexual agenda. "He used me," she said simply. "I need a family and God. Not in that order, of course, but I want to be Tony Perkins' little wifey! I know God will approve, even if Tony's wife, Lackawana (sic) won't."

Mr. Perkins had no comment. This is not surprising since in his milieu, divorce is one family factor a good Christian does not discuss. Then there's the imprimatur of the Vatican; not the one in Rome, but the one in Colorado Springs: would his holiness, Dobson I, approve? Perkins may also be afraid that marriage to a megastar would prove very difficult: would FRC be able to raise enough in donations to pay for Barbie's spectacular array of outfits? Could he continue to be a chaste and devout Christian husband? Would Born Again Barbie be Christian enough - or, at least, sell to the American Christian market? Or would they both spiral down to become what most of Perkins' constituency really is. Here's actual police footage of an event in the life of a "has-been" Barbie:

Only time will tell!