A young journalist fled his home nation for his life after seemingly moderate tweets about the prophet Mohammed infuriated his country men. He was detained in Malaysia and is said to be awaiting extradition to the fundamentalist shit-hole kingdom also known as Saudi Arabia on the charge of religious blasphemy. If found guilty he could be sentenced to death. What kind of awful things could he have posted? [Read more…]
Another encouraging jobless report, another sign the Great Recession is over, more reason to hope the pain millions still feel may soon lesson. And you now what an improving economy with a democrat in the WH during an election year means, right? [Read more…]
Every now and then an otherwise fantastic organization makes a bizarre, counter-productive, and/or puzzling decision that makes no fucking sense when examined in the light of day. Such was the case when the Susan Komen cancer group tried to ban Planned Parenthood, on a flimsy, transparent excuse, from their deep bench of life-saving players. [Read more…]
It’s not enough that winguts demanded, and Komen for the Cure folded, to demands the charity sever its long-standing relationship with Planned Parenthood. Mow wingnuts are insisting the org denounce stem cell research too:
(RightWingWatch) — Lou Engle’s Bound4Life, which pushed LifeWay bookstores to stop selling Komen’s “Pink Bible,” commended Komen but like Perkins, asked the group to go even farther to please the far-right by abandoning their support of stem cell research. The group gloated that while “Komen says these public criticisms are not a factor in their choice to stop funding Planned Parenthood, it’s hard to believe that the pressure didn’t impact the decision.
Giving into bullies is a very bad idea. for anyone. Bullies are never satisfied, they always want more, and they’re not interested in being friends.
She’s a witch! That may be a little comical what with Life of Brian and the weight of ducks and all, but the story linked below is nothing of the sort. Our staunch oily allies in Saudi Arabia literally put a woman to death for being a sorceress:
(SacBee) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery. The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman’s crime. The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.
I’m all for giving faith healing grifters a hard time, up to an including doing hard time when and if they cause harm to trusting victims. But this is sick. Since the details of this case are a state secret we can only speculate that this particular lady did not practice state approved magic and sorcery, aka Islam.
For weeks I’ve been hearing annoying radio ads for some kind of business opportunity speaking deal with Rudy Giuliani and Colin Powell. There were some other big names too, one from sports, I think, and someone related to Warren Buffet. What surprised me was the advertised price, $1.95 per office. Not per person, per office of people, causing any skeptic’s spidey sense to tingle. The dog and pony show finally came through last month and a friend of mine went. Surprise surprise, it’s a combo proselytizing and self-help sales pitch rolled into one. [Read more…]
You may not realize it my skeptical friends, but you are part of a vast army that hates Christmas. You are an unconscious agent, quietly activated every year, as part of the well known liberal conspiracy to hate Christmas cooked up decades ago: [Read more…]
For those of you lucky enough to be away from the news, and computers, I am envious. But you did good, you shopped well, incidents of pepper spray and over competitive shopping aside. In fact, online and real world sales punched out a decent Black Friday and Internet weekend or whatever you meddling kids are calling it these days. [Read more…]
"Oh gosh, who could it be ..... SATAN?!"
Of course, it had to happen. Samuel Mullet, leader of a breakaway cult of the breakaway Amish, alleged architect of haircutting sessions for those he judges not Amish enough, may have done what every other religious cult leader seems destined to do: [Read more…]
Really, you just have to read the baby-cooking crazy shit these clowns believe. This is relayed via TPM from a nutjob site:
In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter,” Geller writes. She continues that if you like freedom and hate sharia, you should boycott Butterball and ask them to stop selling these nefarious birds.
Other warnings have been issued by several wingnut activists and serial grifters, including the claim reportedly made by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association that ‘every turkey sold by Butterball has been sacrificed to Allah first!” What if the Sharia Turkeys join forces with the atheist Otters from Go God Go and begin cracking Christan skulls on their tummies?! Oh nooooo! Thanksgiving is dooomed!