Jim Jeffries on religion (video: venomfanex at YouTube)
Don’t even think of clicking the start arrow if you’re easily offended by grown-up language or by people who actually tell the truth about people who make shit up for fun and profit.
(tip: Atheist Media Blog)
Lorie Zapf wants to replace City Councilmember Donna Frye, but she might not be all that comfy hanging with some of San Diego’s other elected officials, according to CityBeat’s Justin McLachlan:
“I absolutely want to keep homosexuals out of public office and not be allowed to influence our schools, textbooks, altering marriage, children, and on and on,’ [San Diego City Council wannabe Lorie] Zapf wrote in a 2006 e-mail exchange obtained by CityBeat between her and James Hartline, an anti-gay activist.
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She also made it a point to tell him she supported his cause: “I like that you are trying to keep homosexuals and homosexual activists out of public office because we both know what the long term agenda is.” And later: “I do believe homosexuality is a sin. I have three homosexual first cousins. I love them all and would ‘be seen’ in a photo with them. I believe they all live in sin and frankly all are very unhappy people and had horrible childhoods as well.”
Has Zapf progressed from those statements?
When presented with copies of the e-mail, Zapf said her comments to Hartline “do not accurately reflect my views or actions then or now. For many years prior and after this e-mail, I’ve hired gays in my business and have endorsed gays for elected office. But, I recognize my words may still be hurtful, and I apologize for them sincerely.”
And … puft! … as if by magic, her comments vanished in a puff of rainbow-colored patchouli smoke and we all lived happily ever after and got along famously.
Not.
One thing to remember: Closeted homophobia festers in the dark looking for a release.
(video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
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.
(tip: Atheist Media Blog)
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.”
The Washington Post has more:
“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.
Skagway? I’m not touching it.
Eddie Izzard on religion (video: melinda923 at YouTube)
Eddie Izzard from his killer DVD, Dress to Kill. Faith-free fabulocity.
