The Missing Women In Guardian Piece on Paul Ryan and Abortion

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Over at the Guardian we have this little piece called Paul Ryan on abortion: not so much 'reason and science' as stealth misogyny-What bothers me about male politicians pronouncing on abortion is their basic lack of empathy with a woman's point of view.

Something happens in this is piece that is so common many just I have guessed  we decided not to press the issue anymore.

Much of the leadership of the Pro-life movement is WOMEN. The people in the trenches of the Pro-life movement are WOMEN. Many of the people that keep the fire under politicians like Paul Ryan are WOMEN. If you go the National March for Life in D.C I bet there might be more WOMEN  than men.

From issues like the HHS Contraception mandate to abortion this women  on side vs men on the other meme that so many wish to push is not the reality.

Why Are Catholic Conservatives So Less Effective Than Catholic Liberals in The Public Square

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For all the talk from the Catholic "left"  of how the "Christian Right" and by implication Catholic political conservatives are injecting too much partisan politics in the faith, the fact is the conservative /GOP Catholic facet organized movement is  a paper tiger.

Catholic Democrats, Catholics United , Catholic United For the Common Good are just three. See for how well funded and what talent two of these groups have here.

Then throw in the very closely aligned Faith In the Public Life whose staff including John Gehring, Catholic Program Director is a favorite  go to person of the media and whose staff members of are also closely aligned with NETWORK .

These groups are a whose who of past National Catholic Bishops office talent, well known theologians , clergy, bothers, and sisters  that happened to be well funded and have the media ear.

I mention this today because Father Z had a very short simple one line post at  QUAERITUR: Catholics For Romney? That is "Has anyone heard from Catholics For Romney?"

The answer is no doubt no despite the fact that Catholics For Romney is full of past Catholic Enovys to the Vatican as Co Chairs.  The most I have seen is a press release or two and that web page.

Conservative Catholics do find a nice advocate for their views in the market place of idea in Catholic Vote whose leadership of doing the best with the resources it has is an asset. However it is  nothing compared to sure complexity and well coordinated activities of the Catholic left that has an amazing ability to be quoted in the media.

Then we have the problem of the leading Catholic media that gets quoted that often seem to be of a progressive side. See America , Commonweal , and U.S. Catholic. Observe over a period of time how these publications are quoted versus  lets say people at First Things or the National Catholic Register ?

It seems on occasion the media will throw in a George Weigel and once in  blue moon a Robert George but that seems to be the limit of the Rolodex.

Why is this situation so and why does it repeat in such a  depressing fashion year after year.

First I do think there is a self serving implication by many in the Catholic media  at times that the above more progressive Catholic orgs are involved in "common good " work while the rest are just party hacks. In other words one gets a sense that some are involved in legitimate public square work while the rest are just tearing the Church apart. This is all perfect nonsense but that seems to be the memo.

Second to some extent D.C. is a company town and the media has a relationship with people that happened to have worked at the United States Catholic Bishop's Office that have now moved on to more thinly veiled partisan work. Quote your friends and the people you know.

Last but not least Conservatives are a quite herd of cats to get to agree on matters to start with. So that has no doubt some relationship to why Republican /Conservative  aligned Lay Catholics do a horrid job of getting their voice out.

In the end we got to do a better job of getting our voice out there , and not just be reminded how far behind we are every 4 years. Catholic conservatives in the lay duty of contributing to the public square and to social justice have a ton of resources. We just have to use them better.

SKC Fans Keep Afroman's Legacy Alive Through Kei Kamara Worship

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Remember Afroman's "Because I Got High"? Much like Alanis Morrisette's "You Outta Know" it was one of those rare late 90s/early 2000s pop songs that managed to sneak a blatant oral sex reference onto America's most mom-approved radio stations. Subsequently, many of us experienced that awkward moment where you are in a small confined space (i.e. a car) with one of your parents and you are both forced into uncomfortable silence by the knowledge that you are both thinking about sexual activity at the same time.

All that potentially scarring, therapy-worthy stuff aside, Sporting KC fans have found another use for Afroman's 2001 weed-rap anthem: flipping it into an ode to Kei Kamara. Witness the grandeur for yourself, recorded at last night's playoff rally in downtown KCMO. Nice work guys.

H/T to @JweavKC and @Eighmee.

Marsch's Montreal Have Anelka on the Brain

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How’s your French? Merde? Better ask for Rosetta Stone for Christmas then because if you really want to know what’s what with the Impact you’re going to need to read and listen to a lot of it. But if you are like me and only speak French after a bottle & a half of Bordeaux (and poorly even then) you can check out the latest episode of the SoccerPlus podcast because it features an English-language interview with Montreal coach Jessie Marsch.

The headline here is that he says the club are still batting around the idea of making a play for Nicolas Anelka. I repeat, Nicolas “Not Claude” Anelka. Marsch says “it’s still a possibility” and they “haven’t closed the door on it.” It would be one hell of a get, much better than that raft of aged Italians that’s been bandied about as possible DPs. Plus with him being French he could actually understand what the local socceratti are writing about him.

On second thought maybe that’s not the best move for a player as, erm, emotional as Nico.

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This post is a bit more personal. For the few readers that I have left, I feel that I owe an explanation of some sort for the sparse postings. In short, things have been happening in my life - both good and bad - that have made posting on a regular basis a challenge. I recruited Bill Fisher last fall to help out, but neither of us intended for him to run the show, and it's not fair to him that I sort of dropped out. I have not found the time to write about the dozens of articles that I've bookmarked or ideas floating in my head. Indeed, I have several unwritten drafts that have not - and likely will not, due to a lack of timeliness - be published.

When I first started this blog, I was feeling cornered by the TSA and I wanted to protest in some way. It was a great outlet for me to feel that I was making an impact. Since then, many other venues have popped up - from Becky Akers' new blogging position at lewrockwell.com to Boycott Flying on Facebook, to the many viral stories of TSA injustices. While this hasn't reduced my passion, it has reduced my feeling of responsibility to get any and all TSA-related news out there.

I have reason to believe that this summer may allow me more time to post on this blog - but no promises! In the meantime, I will continue to reflect on what this blog's purpose is now - only a year and a half after I started it up - and how I can meet that mission while keeping the content interesting. Although I feel that I've shirked some responsibility for the last half year plus, I have been so hopeful by the ever increasing backlash against the federal agency that has significantly changed my life. I don't know what is in store for this blog, but, the dissolution of the TSA and all of its shenanigans remains a fervant wish of mine.

The Brown Prophet Hates Cartoons...And French Newspapers

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This is the funniest line I will ever write...ya know what Team Islam can learn from the Jesus cult...tolerance. The most Muslim populated country in Europe is all on lock down-n-shit because some heros in the media wanted to practice their freedom of speech. The thingy about that is one persons freedom of speech is another persons unreasonable-ness concerning religious beliefs. Do any all powerful and all mighty beings really care what we eat or wear, who and how we do it with,or whether their likeness is correct or not (doesn't sound very powerful to me, it sounds..vain). Really..(totally not in chronological order)...


It seems to me that the Jesus Cult experiences far more blasphemous art installations than Team Islam. This art show in myyyyyy beautiful Philippines has a poster of Jesus with a wooden dick glued to his face. The Catholic Bishops Association cried out and DID get the show shut down, but compared to the current (unnecessary) violence in France that is over this...(spilled milk called and said stfu Islam)...

The editors of this paper pointed out a great statistic. They have published 1,000's of issues and only three times has there been controversy, and guess what kind gentle and very good looking readers...those issues had Islam on the cover. Who woulda thunk.

Really, look at the crucified Jesus with ants all over him and compare it to the next picture and tell me which religion is uptight and which religion is meh.

If I recall correctly this is from an art show in Denver last last summer.

orrrrrrrr........ this...

Can Mohammed do a self portrait series or would he be breaking his own stupid law. I dunno.

The first painting did stir controversy at the time, but no one fuckin' rioted and no one was killed. So wtf. This second depiction...you better watch out infidels...some heads are gonna roll. Howz that for tolerance.

Was it a Swiss paper that was in a hard place a couple of years ago because they dared to print a depiction of the Prophet, then the usual death threats, rioting and violence ensued.  Then from that came Draw Muhammad Day (thanks Team Atheist) and I think there have been events here and there (I forgot) and now we are here, in France, fucking shit up because a super ancient book written after the other two super ancient books said "mere human...don't do this."

G-luck France.

That's funny, I thought he would be, you know...bigger.

I've seen Dog Butt Jesus (who hasn't) but I've never seen Dog Butt South Park Mohammed. So funny.

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I'll say it...I wouldn't have sex with her.

I've always wondered why Hitch was so hard on the Saintly Mother Teresa. I think he called her a fraud, skank arse beeotch, that was totally fake when the cameras were on, but when they were off...hella if she was touching any lepers-n-such. I guess If I had read his book on Mamma-T then I would know what is the up, but in the meantime...this article will do.

Give credit where credit is due, the site that I always say isn't as good as the other sites, CNN Belief Blog has come thru with the goodies...and in a list form at that.

1. She was born a rich girl.
2. She wans't always *Mother Teresa*, she was a (normal) person before that.
3. She changed our view of the poor (apparently according to her, her poor was the poorest of the poor, the ones no one wanted anything to do with...even tho there are many that do the same exact thing.).
4. She was a marketing guru (can't really blame someone for promoting the brand).
5. She cultivated her celebrity (not a crime in my book, sorry Hitch).
6. She had a long dark nite of the soul (and this is where my hero, Hitch comes into play).
7. She's not a saint yet, officially (whatevahhhhh).


OK let's get down to it. #6.

Basically there was a period where Terry was just going thru the motions and did NOT feel the hand or the grace of God, or Jesus for that matter. There are letters from her at this time (released by the Vatican, yes, that Vatican) that pretty much say this is so. On commenting on the 39 year time period where she was faking her Christianity she wrote, " The silence and the emptiness are so great, that I look and do not see-the tounge moves (in prayer) but does not speak."

My first reaction is, ewh, she had the hots for Jesus and then...ewh. I think this is why Hitch called her a "confused old lady."

I hate to do this, but I'm gonna disagree with my hero, Hitch. Perhaps this is a brainwashed Filipino Catholic Kriss talking but...doesn't one halfta have lapses in faith/belief so that they can be redeemed one day. A faithful life is like a good short story in that there is a character that has conflict trys and fails, then overcomes the bs and at one point in it is...ugh, I halfta say it...is redeemed. Yes.

Here's the part where I do think religion is fakey fake.

The reason(s) why she went all Mother Teresa and transformed from a normal person into this celebrity saint persona is because she had a vision that Jesus spoke to her (do you hear that phone ringing, that's Paul from Damascus calling. Aaaaaa...).


While she was a missionary in India she claims that JC came and rapped to her that "Teresa, take me to the shittiest places in the poorest of the poor places on da erffs to expose those souls to me. Thanks."

Ugh, where do I begin with visions and such. First of all, Paul had a freekin' epileptic seizure on the road to Damascus. The ancients can call it what they think it is, but by today's standards...seizure.

When JC visits (a perhaps dehydrated) Mamma T he specifically mentions working in India. Gee, I dunno, I would call this self full filling prophecy. Just like all near death experiences are totally the same because we have all been conditioned to believe that a n.d.e. will go down like that, isn't the same thing happening to Mamma T in India (yes). She was lead to believe that the mission was in India (and later the world) and wouldn't you know it...Jesus in her vision said the same exact thing.

I didn't know about the she came from rich people or was a marketing guru stuffs before. I guess I now have motivation to read Hitch's book on her. The Missionary Position (dam, I miss this guy).

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Karin wouldn't lie to us...would she.

It is not etched in stone, just an allegedly super ancient papyrus, but some of the cool kid theologians, New Atheists, believers, those kookie Gnostics (I love those peeps, I really do) and other scholarly types are all excited about Jesus and his (alleged) girlfriend. Some like New Testament scholar N.T.Wright (yes, that NT Wright) has called bullshit on it already, the final review (I believe the Harvard Theological Society or something to that extent) is coming out soon and the Dan Brown-Heads are sayin' "I told you so." Me, I don't care. It's just one piece of paper with a few lines and it doesn't (yet) change anything (1).

Marry went to all of Jesus' concerts.

The 14 lines and 33 words have been deciphered and many look to number 4. Jesus said to them. My wife... as proof that dude was married. Me, believe it or not I'm not a textual critic, I do not know ancient Sumerian (I forgot the language before that, the one that Jesus probably spoke), Greek, Egyptian, hell, I don't even know english-I speak Californian, specifically the Northern variety. But that doesn't mean that I can't (or won't) read between those dirty nasty savior fuckin' lines.

1. ...not to me. My mother gave to me li(fe)...
   Obviously that is in reference to his brother asking if he had mom's credit card. After all, they were Jewish.

2. The disciples said to Jesus...
     Who  let the dogs out. You see they had been partying, you know, all that blood of Christ (wine).

That's a party of biblical proportions, yo.

3. ...deny. Mary is worthy of it.
     Bro's will be bro's. This is one of the disciples trying to tell Jesus, "Dam bro, you can do better than that (she's a fat bottom grrl). We have standards." deny is equivalent to today's "talk to the hand."

I don't see any ladies at your feet. STFU.

4. Jesus said to them, My wife...
     Not to many people know this but this was the first recorded version of the to be popular later, "Take my wife, please" joke. It didn't go over very well. He was too ahead of his time. But that's comedy.

5. ...she will be able to be my disciple...
     Modern translation...disciple=beeotch. Sorry ladies, feminism didn't come until 1,960 years later.

6. Let wicked people swell up...
     This is the most nasty one. Back in the  day they didn't say "that was sic ass shit" they said "wicked". I won't say what *swells* up...you know.

7. As for me, I dwell with her in order to...
     This is another "sorry ladies." But let's face it Jesus was 1/3 ghost-n-God, but don't forget 1/3 man so you know what that means. He did what all guys do which is settle for a relationship because he wanted the constant source of morning sex. He's just a guy like any other.

8. ...an image...
     This, obviously, is a reference to porn of the day. Obviously, right.



I certainly hope that it is true that Jesus was doin' it. I vote for the (not) prostitute Marry Madeleine. It is incorrect to say that she was a whore, that is what the male dominated clergy want you to think. She actually was well educated and came from a rich family, so you know what that means...

...Sugar momma...

(1) If conclusive evidence were to materialize that Jesus was doin' it with a wife type or girlfriend then yea, that would change modern Christianity as we know it. It would be right up there if conclusive evidence were to show that, yes indeed, a dude 1/3 man, God, ghost walked da erffs aprox 2,000 years ago. I'm just not holding my breadth.

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Yea, so anyways....feeling NOT creative right now, sort of blah and meh put together. I don't think I can come up with something witty, at this moment, if I had to to save my life. On the top ten list of witty atheist bloggers I'm number 11 right now (I even wrote that very lethargically and not into it-y). So howz about funny church signs...da da daaaaaaaa......

This is a philosophical question...can something die that never lived, you know, in like fer real life here on da erffs.

I like honesty. The back of the sign says, "drop off young innocent boys at the rectory."

I still like the liberal Jewish girls better. Those dark Spanish Catholic ladies named Marry or Teresa, with the long wavey silky black virgin hair, while very beautiful, they are no fun. 

This one says...Go Niner's. First place beeotches (2-1).

That is why all the cool kids go to the computational search engine "Wolfram Alpha". Seriously, it's nerdy good. 

I thought xtians were'nt supposed to masturbate, oh wait...some people are in relationships. FUCKKIKKK.....

It will scare the God and heaven and the B-Jeebuses' outta ya that the cool kids keep talking about also. At least that is what Team Atheist has been sayin'.

Yea, but what kind of coffee. That is how they get you. Currently we are on 5 wave coffee for those keeping score (Metro is 2nd wave coffee). Quality over quantity any freekin' day.

I'm drawing a blank on this one, sowz am I artificial intelligence or natural stupidity (or both). 

Like I said earlier....Go Niner's (fuck the Cubs).

This is so immature (and I know immature when I see it). Obviously JC wants a donkey.

We'll that's all I got today. Everything has been going really good lately. I have a few bumps in the road every couple of days or so, but my brain can handle it. I'm hoping this lack of creativity is temporary and not a sign of more lacking things to come (which was my concern a month or so ago). I'll just chalk it up to a brain day off.

Wish me luck tomorrow.

Look Who's Growing...Now

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I called the shot a couple of weeks ago and said that the next super huge war is gonna been in S. E. Asia. China, Japan and all the other countries (including my beautiful Philippines) are diplomatically fighting over a couple o' three islands right now and I'm saying the next step is fighting physically over the islands (BTW. they are really beautiful and worth fighting for. Jus' sayin'). Here's another shot called.

This is one of the side islands closer to the Japanese side. the ones near southern Philippines are awesome-r.

Just like in this years election cycle where both sides are courting the Latino vote (not so much the Asian vote, but they should, as well as the atheist vote), the courting of the none vote should not be ignored. (First) My brown shiny cousins are the "X" factor in the up coming election. One of the only peoples to actually grow in recent years is the South of the Boarder-ers (they are having hella babies, err, I mean voter's, err I mean both). They are growing in U.S. population and they are growing the evangelical Christianity population. Once again, La Raza's pumping up the numbers of evangelical Christianity, while all the other races are, like, dwindling....(I went off just now, here's the point...)....they should also be cultivating the vote of the nones.

I'm a nerdy and atheist-Asian so you know I heart this chart 3x's more than you.

Don't get it confused with the vote of Nuns (which is probably important also), I'm talking about the growing group of peeps that say the have no religious affiliation (thus nones). They are still *spiritual* to some extent (that's a cop-out if you ask me), but without the help of organized religion. A sort of recent survey from the people at Pew Research (yes, that Pew research) claims that 1 in 5 adult peeps are going all none. If this is true, and I have no reason to NOT believe it, than teh nones are a statistically bigger group than my beloved Team Atheist (I think Team Atheist, which is  also Team Agnostic, is rolling at, like, 12%-ish and because you guys are so good looking and smart you automatically see 1 in 5 and already know that is 20%. Right. Good.). So who are these people anyways....

A chart says 1,000 words, but none of them are "fart." It only rhymes.

They are the disillusioned with organized religion, but instead of taking the leap of coming out and staying out, by studying a little bit, they want to cling to the super lame position that there is something, rather than nothing (concerning God that is). No evidence or reasoning required or asked for. It's a perfectly legitamate belief and spirituality even if only it comes from the heart-n-shit...that is until of of these nones wants to debate Team Atheist (anytime anywhere nones). Sadly (this is my experience not the Pew survey) the nones apply the bad ol' religious conspiracy theory. bla bla bla...HERE. They think that organized religion is a bastardized interpretation of, let's say, the teaching's of Jesus and that  the personal, unpaved system of belief is equal to organized religion. Me, I don't believe in conspiracy theories, it's the truth that a tried and true group method whomps all over an experimental, wishy washy spiritualness of trial aned error by the individual (1). This is the best/worst part,. these nones as they are called think that organized religion is poo poo and even some kinda corrupt ancient machine that is designed to steal you money and for all I fuckin' know...your soul. So what do the nones do, ditch organized religion with there great history, record keeping and super sic infrastructure, for....

...a personal, not guided, no authority, no centuries of debating scripture, no painstaking translating ancient Sumeric to Greek to wahtevahhhh, all for the *personal* God, that I guess, one can make into whatever they want (this really proves there is no God. One God or no God I say), a God or religion that one can customize like a cafeteria lunch. Yes...no thanks.

Dammm, am I Orthodox "nothing in particular" or UN-Orthodox.

(You might wanna sit down before you read this one from me...) What the nones are missing out on is the benefits (namely structured knowledge that can only come from an infrastructure with history) that the very structure that they poo poo can provide. Sure I don't believe in supernatural stuffs, but I believe in institutions and instruction. You can self educate yourself for four years, but that doesn't equal a degree from Berkeley.  You can learn martial arts moves from Youtube videos (please don't do that, please), but if you went to a school with a hierarchy and, gee I dunno, methods, belt levels and people to practice with and teachers to ask questions to....wouldn't that be better (yes).

...survey, that is. 

What if you are religions but without institution...where is the growth (no where). If you are a none and you basically believe that there is some sort of God that created everything, but (in this instance) dude doesn't intervene in earthy/human matters, then how on erffs are you gonna come up with something like the common and very important  Cosmological Argument on your own (I guess statistically one could, but it's highly improbable). If you did manage to do that, then wouldn't there be a million gazillion different versions of it: one for each none that somehow managed to make up there very own Cosmological Argument. There might be many faces of God, but in this instance it only makes the argument for a God diluted, not stronger.


If I wuz a politician in this election cycle I would totally contemplate how to get the none vote. Hell, agnostics think they are fence sitters and undeniably they represent a pretty good voting chunk (yes, I said that). Me, personally, I believe that with some honest effort there is enuff information out there to make the decision: Is there a God, or is there NOT a God. Fence sitting is not necessary, needed or wanted.



Agnostics....(I'm putting my hand up so you and the hand can communicate freely), it is intellectual laziness that you do not decide either way. Nones...you are still clinging to ideals that children have and you will not be able to break away, or embrace, religion and God, without the guidance of a heirachy that has already thunk your questions...over and over again in a systematic and comprehensive way.

What am I trying to say...nones are a huge part of the voting block and no man is an island.

* None's On The Rise @ Pew Research

* Quote me on this one...."chicken butt."

(1) Would one individual be able to figure out math-with no help. Perhaps, but it's highly unlikely. Would an individual be able to discover, understand and convey the nature of God, with out the group help/community that has advanced all of civilization, society, even secular society, to the extent an entire group with history and sharing could. Perhaps, but it's more likely with help and numbers, Jus' sayin'.

DNC Vote On God and Jerusalem - Epic!

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Here's the deal the democrats got together and took out support for Israel and removed God from the party platform. Well, that wasn't sitting to well with those in charge of getting Barrack Obama re-elected they put it back in using a baseball bat.

Slick stuff, they took a voice vote to suspend the rules that require a roll call vote, when less than 1/2 the delegates where in the Time Warner Arena and the other half wasn't paying attention. Then they ask for a 2/3rds majority to approve the change, but the voice vote ("I" or "Nay") is clearly a draw and not a majorly needed to pass. In fact it may be better than 50% against the change.

But after three votes the Democratic chair says it passes by a 2/3rds majority. Amazing, the dems give the shaft to their delegates on live television.

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Figured it was time to revisit this Heineken commercial that popped up during the MLB All Star break.

First no that is not Amy Winehouse, remember she's dead. The band in question: Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes, an Australian group whose debut album, ‘Baby Caught the Bus,’ came out last November and includes the song ‘Love Letter,’ performed here. If you liked Amy Winehouse, then you'll get a big rush if you give a listen to Clairy and as a bonus you won't have to guess if she is high on H.

The full song is here.Yes the video is not very original, looking a lot like Lady Gaga.

US Department of Justice Steps Between Chief Monroe and DNC Protesters

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One of the interesting aspects of the Occupy protests during the DNC was the appearance of Department of Justice representatives.

In the clip below CMPD Chief Monroe, tells the reporter with the camera the DOJ “just sent them” without any request from the city. Turning the camera on the DOJ/CRS agents at the convention the reporter/camera man gets much the same answer. 

 Seems the "higher ups" didn't have faith in CMPD's ability to peacefully handle the situation and sent counselors to "mediate" the protesters interaction with CMPD Command Staff.  Which would explain the "allowed to stay" aspect of the Marshall Park encampment and Bill James sudden silence on the matter last week. One can assume James got the memo late on Monday saying "The DOJ said so". Which also might explain this little quote from the Charlotte Observer's Editorial Board "The essence of hospitality is allowing others to be themselves in your home, and we embraced just that. Demonstrators demonstrated, often led in their marches by Police Chief Rodney Monroe himself." 

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Belk South Park Fire Hazard - This is the fire exit at Belk SouthPark, which is cluttered with boxes and stock. You got to love the sign "Do Not Block Fire Door"



The trouble is this exit is one of two on the second floor that in the event of a fire customers would use to escape death. So CP was pretty surprised when one of the floor managers offered, "It doesn't look that bad".  

The Belk manager is correct it doesn't look that bad, except with the power out, smoke filling rapidly and a store filled with Christmas shoppers the death toll would be stunning.  They would all die right here, with the first person to stumble and fall.

You can guess that if this is in plain sight there are more violations behind the doors.

Cedar Posts not being real pleased with the official response from Belk looked to Charlotte's Fire Department as plan "B".  The CFD has a "on-line" form that can be completed to "rat out" violators, so CP did just that. But a week later, nothing but crickets.

The CFD form is here.

Plan "C" was a tweet with the above photo attached directed to CFD public information officer Mark Basnight. His response was classic "@MarkBasnight Sorry, not on the clock nor do the comments made on my personal Twitter account represent CFD"

Rea Road Construction - The mess on Rea Road between Highway 51 and Colony continues. The good news is that after a week of traffic tie-ups the improvements to the intersection at 51 and Rea was completed Sunday afternoon.

Bank of America - Friday BofA announced 16,000 lay offs, that will happen before Christmas.

Greed of course is good, and with interest margins shrinking and banking fees coming under the watchful eyes of the Feds, Bank of America has little choice but to try and cut their way to profitability.

Laying off 16 thousand employees when just a week before they announced they were ready to grow strikes many as odd. But this is the way Bank of America has treated their customers for years.

More from ABC News here.

Percy Craven - Cedar Posts is going to spin off Percy Craven and give him a dedicated twitter account. I doubt the world will flock to see what Percy has on his mind but if a far right leaning, 89 year old self admitted "semi" racist pickup truck driving hillbilly farmer former USFS employee now turned "full time" fisherman has something on his mind you just might read it here. https://twitter.com/@percycraven  A little insight at Percy Craven and a fish story of sorts is here http://cedarposts.blogspot.com/2012/08/percy-craven.html

Charlotte's Brittany Kerr Back In The Spotlight Sort Of

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Cedar's fav Brittany Kerr moment, the Britt makes an adjustment to her assets on national television.

 Brittany Kerr, the former Charlotte resident and American Idol contestant seen kissing Jason Aldean in a crowded Sunset Strip bar has deleted her Twitter account https://twitter.com/_brittanykerr_ after being called a home wrecker, slut, whore and so on.

Kerr claims she didn't know Aldean was married despite the fact he was wearing his wedding ring. Late Monday Brittany Kerr has issued an apology for getting up close and personal with married country singer  ... chalking the whole thing up to a "lapse in judgment."

The former "American Idol" contestant says, "The actions I portrayed recently were not a representation of my true character, but a lapse in judgment on my part."

She adds, "I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone that has been affected by this, including my friends & family." Cedar's Take: Based on my limited interactions with the Britt, she's a ding dong. Her laspe in judgement is the least of her troubles, if she thinks this guy is even remotely attractive.
 

I'm pretty sure she was hearing "baby you can drive my car" at the time and completly missed the wedding ring clue.

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I really heart hearing stories like this even tho someone got physically fucked up. Some cool girls that wuz all covered up-n-shit were walking down the street when a cleric/Iman type told them to cover up...some more. They said fuck that, but dude insisted, then the girls just straight up beat him up (according) to him. Look man, violence is not the answer, but then again...I don't hafta be correct all the time. Go covered up Muslim grlls.

How can I cover up anymore arse-hole. Look at me. Fuck you.

If we survive the Mayan 2012 super fake end of the world thing that for sure will not happen, then we can focus on the great state of Missouri. Why you ask. Well just because it is the *official* spot of the second coming of that Jesus guy people keep talking about. The Garden of Eden, yes THAT garden of Eden is in Missouri (don't tell the Christians) and it looks...it looks pretty nice, but one would think the prophet Joseph Smith could make up a better place than this. I feel like it should be greener and with more water sources. What do I know, I was looking for an apple tree.

Did a controversial movie come out or something, 'cause my beautiful Philippines (err, Southern Philippines) are up in arms and that is not a good thing because when THEY say up in arms, they mean guns. So what that my Filipino homies of the Southern Philippines are totally super poor, they don't have basics like food, water, plumbing and electricity, education...umh, toilet paper...they are saving their precious pesos so they can give it to a lawyer so dude can sue the people that made the ridicules Internet movie, The Innocence of Muslims. Philippines you fail once again (but I still love you).

"Yea you guys, if we save enuff pesos' then we can sue the people that made that film that we haven't seen."
"Mommy, I hungry."
"Shut up boy, it's for the Prophet."

Remember the old lady that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago that, with good intentions, *refurbished* a super ancient Spanish fresco of our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, first she was lambasted, then the church started making money from the debacle by charging money to tourists that wanted to see the "improvement" and now the old lady wants to sue the church because she wants a cut of the action. If you ask me, she improved the painting (looks more authentic. I'm serious. She must be a New Atheist).

I'll end with this piece of archaeological awesomeness. Jesus had a wife (I knew he was doing it all along. That dog. You go boy.). A Harvard professor claims to have an ancient Coptic fragment piece of scroll thing that clearly says "My wife..." Yes, yes, I know that this stuff is debatable-n-stuff,  after all, dudes back in the day used to have these things called sister-wives that took care of everything (cooking, cleaning) except, you know...taking care of that thing guys like. Forget that. I'm down for dude having a hottie wife in the not prostitute (don't believe the hype) Mary and that she was the best disciple and that the other disciples and the early church expunged (I've never used that word before, sounds right tho) her from the final cut of the 28 chapters of the bible and demonized her so the guys would get all the credit. Don't believe me...ask Dan Brown (don't do that I wanna remain sorta of credible).

That's my Friday link roundup and I'm sticking to it.

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Karin wouldn't lie to us...would she.

It is not etched in stone, just an allegedly super ancient papyrus, but some of the cool kid theologians, New Atheists, believers, those kookie Gnostics (I love those peeps, I really do) and other scholarly types are all excited about Jesus and his (alleged) girlfriend. Some like New Testament scholar N.T.Wright (yes, that NT Wright) has called bullshit on it already, the final review (I believe the Harvard Theological Society or something to that extent) is coming out soon and the Dan Brown-Heads are sayin' "I told you so." Me, I don't care. It's just one piece of paper with a few lines and it doesn't (yet) change anything (1).

Marry went to all of Jesus' concerts.

The 14 lines and 33 words have been deciphered and many look to number 4. Jesus said to them. My wife... as proof that dude was married. Me, believe it or not I'm not a textual critic, I do not know ancient Sumerian (I forgot the language before that, the one that Jesus probably spoke), Greek, Egyptian, hell, I don't even know english-I speak Californian, specifically the Northern variety. But that doesn't mean that I can't (or won't) read between those dirty nasty savior fuckin' lines.

1. ...not to me. My mother gave to me li(fe)...
   Obviously that is in reference to his brother asking if he had mom's credit card. After all, they were Jewish.

2. The disciples said to Jesus...
     Who  let the dogs out. You see they had been partying, you know, all that blood of Christ (wine).

That's a party of biblical proportions, yo.

3. ...deny. Mary is worthy of it.
     Bro's will be bro's. This is one of the disciples trying to tell Jesus, "Dam bro, you can do better than that (she's a fat bottom grrl). We have standards." deny is equivalent to today's "talk to the hand."

I don't see any ladies at your feet. STFU.

4. Jesus said to them, My wife...
     Not to many people know this but this was the first recorded version of the to be popular later, "Take my wife, please" joke. It didn't go over very well. He was too ahead of his time. But that's comedy.

5. ...she will be able to be my disciple...
     Modern translation...disciple=beeotch. Sorry ladies, feminism didn't come until 1,960 years later.

6. Let wicked people swell up...
     This is the most nasty one. Back in the  day they didn't say "that was sic ass shit" they said "wicked". I won't say what *swells* up...you know.

7. As for me, I dwell with her in order to...
     This is another "sorry ladies." But let's face it Jesus was 1/3 ghost-n-God, but don't forget 1/3 man so you know what that means. He did what all guys do which is settle for a relationship because he wanted the constant source of morning sex. He's just a guy like any other.

8. ...an image...
     This, obviously, is a reference to porn of the day. Obviously, right.



I certainly hope that it is true that Jesus was doin' it. I vote for the (not) prostitute Marry Madeleine. It is incorrect to say that she was a whore, that is what the male dominated clergy want you to think. She actually was well educated and came from a rich family, so you know what that means...

...Sugar momma...

(1) If conclusive evidence were to materialize that Jesus was doin' it with a wife type or girlfriend then yea, that would change modern Christianity as we know it. It would be right up there if conclusive evidence were to show that, yes indeed, a dude 1/3 man, God, ghost walked da erffs aprox 2,000 years ago. I'm just not holding my breadth.

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Yea, so anyways....feeling NOT creative right now, sort of blah and meh put together. I don't think I can come up with something witty, at this moment, if I had to to save my life. On the top ten list of witty atheist bloggers I'm number 11 right now (I even wrote that very lethargically and not into it-y). So howz about funny church signs...da da daaaaaaaa......

This is a philosophical question...can something die that never lived, you know, in like fer real life here on da erffs.

I like honesty. The back of the sign says, "drop off young innocent boys at the rectory."

I still like the liberal Jewish girls better. Those dark Spanish Catholic ladies named Marry or Teresa, with the long wavey silky black virgin hair, while very beautiful, they are no fun. 

This one says...Go Niner's. First place beeotches (2-1).

That is why all the cool kids go to the computational search engine "Wolfram Alpha". Seriously, it's nerdy good. 

I thought xtians were'nt supposed to masturbate, oh wait...some people are in relationships. FUCKKIKKK.....

It will scare the God and heaven and the B-Jeebuses' outta ya that the cool kids keep talking about also. At least that is what Team Atheist has been sayin'.

Yea, but what kind of coffee. That is how they get you. Currently we are on 5 wave coffee for those keeping score (Metro is 2nd wave coffee). Quality over quantity any freekin' day.

I'm drawing a blank on this one, sowz am I artificial intelligence or natural stupidity (or both). 

Like I said earlier....Go Niner's (fuck the Cubs).

This is so immature (and I know immature when I see it). Obviously JC wants a donkey.

We'll that's all I got today. Everything has been going really good lately. I have a few bumps in the road every couple of days or so, but my brain can handle it. I'm hoping this lack of creativity is temporary and not a sign of more lacking things to come (which was my concern a month or so ago). I'll just chalk it up to a brain day off.

Wish me luck tomorrow.