Religion in Politics 07/08 Version

There’s an interesting discussion going on and just now a cross blog discussion about religion and politics.  The interested parties I’ve noticed thus far are Cassandra over at Villainous Company, and Bruce McQuain over at Q&O. In turn, the discussion

So Britain has decided to sign away its sovereignty.

They will tell you that’s not what happened, but trust me;  That’s exactly what happened today.  When the event finally showed up it was rather anti-climatic, the wishes of the people

It seems that folks who aren’t even a little hesitant to rally the crowds round the “choice” to kill a baby in the womb, get downright riled when the bloodstained pictures of the act itself make it into the public

So why do patriachal societies continue to exist?   Because they work.   And because they better accomadate the different desires of the two sexes.   From the gender feminist capital of the World, Sweden, by Sue Reid, Daily Mail(UK):

The backlash

The Religion of peace rides yet again… Just down the road from me here…. Lots of coverage available to me, but this is from the Toronto Star:

A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder

John Hawkins:

For whatever reason, more than a few Liberals who aren’t very religious have a bizarre, paranoid view of Christians that is so out of touch with reality that they make the Truthers look sane. Just to name one

This is not enviromentalism.   This a hatred of the humam species, misanthropy.  Tamara McLean, News(AU)

COUPLES who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring’s carbon dioxide emissions, a medical

Captain Ed, who clearly is getting bored, or something. Early winter doldrums?

 How does one address a letter to the dictator-for-life of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Il? Would it be a “Dear Jong” letter?

(Slap!)

A bloody mess, quite literally, in Nebraska yesterday. The Jawa Report did a great job with tracking the story.

And no, don’t start with me about gun control.

One armed citizen …as opposed to a store full of sheep….would have

From ABC’s The Blotter:

A Missouri mother says she will do “whatever it takes” to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol

Anyone who thinks I’ve spent the last 40 years of my life learning how to properly apply makeup and avoid bad-hair days, only to end up donning that hideous black thing at the command of some foreign guy with a

I’m often asked why I railfan. Someone wrote and asked me that today.

It”s really a family activity.  I wrote to this point about 5 years ago… while sitting just west of my office here… in a little burg called

Noted at Right Wing News, this morning, a collection of quotes from the Daily Kos, guaranteed to keep you regular.

An example:

8) “I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and (Ahmadinejad would) probably have me killed. But still, the guy

Billy;

You had an Uncle that worked for The Rock?

(Sigh) I’d have loved to talk to him at length on that subject.

Yeah, OK, I picked up on just that one aspect of a full life. Then again,

Gina Cobb raises a great point, and one I’d not fully considered

Sometimes just the right words at just the right moment are world-changing.  “Why don’t you shut up?” was not remotely as eloquent as “I have a dream” or