The Daily Show’s Jason Jones interviews Dan Barker, of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Barker, rightly, wants Mother Teresa off her Vatican-ass-kissing US postage stamp.
As for that whole Mother Teresa is a “great humanitarian” codswallop, read Christopher Hitchens‘ Mommie Dearest – The pope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.
Only one person in history was less deserving of being honored with a Nobel Peace Prize. So, here’s a compromise: Let’s put Mother Teresa’s face on condoms destined for distribution by Obama’s PEPFAR in Africa.
Apparently Canada’s death panels were kind to the reigning queen of American tea-baggers. Young Sarah Palin and her family, according to a report from the Huffington Post, used to slip across the border to take advantage of that single-payer healthcare action in Canada:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic?”
Look up “irony” in the dictionary you stupid con. It comes after “idiot.”
“My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada,” Palin said a speech Saturday night, according to the Calgary Herald.
Palin spoke before a paying audience of 1,200 in Calgary, with tickets costing between $150 and $200, the Medicine Hat News of Medicine Hat, Alberta, reported.
From John Shook, writing at the Center for Inquiry:
Religious people can be racist, and that’s not news. But are they more likely to be racist than non-religious people? A new study now confirms this hypothesis.
The February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a meta-analysis of 55 independent studies conducted in the United States which considers surveys of over 20,000 mostly Christian participants. Religious congregations generally express more prejudiced views towards other races. Furthermore, the more devout the community, the greater the racism.
Those aren’t exactly replicas of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that the Christian Ku Klux Klan ceremoniously torch to spark fear.
And we know, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that Christians love torture, while the least support for torture comes from those who never attend religious services. 77% of American Evangelicals asked supported the invasion of Iraq, according to another Pew survey:
Solid majorities of white evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics favored the U.S. taking military action to end Saddam Hussein’s rule. Support was strongest among Evangelicals, 77 percent of whom supported war, compared with 62 percent of Catholics and mainline Protestants. But only 36 percent of African-American Protestants supported military action, and seculars — respondents who said they were atheists or had no religious affiliation — divided evenly on the question (44 percent in favor, 44 percent opposed).
Much of secular Europe, on the other hand, opposed the invasion of Iraq — Freedom Fries, anyone? Just out of curiosity, where and when does that whole living what we’ve more or less come to think of as a Christ-like life part kick in?
Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion(video: Funny or Die)
From Funny or Die: “Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.”
Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Jake, and Antonio Scarlata star in Ron Howard’s short feature, Presidential Reunion.
