Jesus' General

just in case you need another reason NOT to shop at wal-mart...

Jesus' General

"Obedience is listening attentively,
Obedience will take instructions joyfully,
Obedience heeds wishes of authorities,
Obedience will follow orders instantly.
For when I am busy at my work or play,
And someone calls my name, I'll answer right away!
I'll be ready with a smile to go the extra mile
As soon as I can say "Yes, sir!" "Yes ma'am!"
Hup, two, three!"

oh man...
this is some scary scary scary scary scary stuff...
(not exactly enlightened criticism on my part,
but as so often happens these days I find myself
lacking the words to describe the state I'm in...
AAARRGGHHH!)

The New Republic Online: Iraq'd
Today has been a day full of laughing out loud at sad things for me...but this one...this one had me rolling on the floor...

via calpundit...who's now over at www.washingtonmonthly.com

Yahoo! News - Purported Al Qaeda Letter Calls Truce in Spain: "The statement said it supported President Bush (news - web sites) in his reelection campaign, and would prefer him to win in November rather than the Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), as it was not possible to find a leader 'more foolish than you (Bush), who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom.' "

SEE! Bush has foreign support too!

Calpundit: More Employment News

ok...this makes the even weak job gains weaker...
check it out...
turns out Bush really is a big government Republican.

This Modern World: "Now of course, the free traders in the audience are already composing lengthy emails about the inevitability of change and the invisible hand of the free market and so on--but here's the problem: the invisible hand only functions efficiently when labor and capital are equally mobile. Unfortunately, here in the real world, pretty much any job can be outsourced, but human beings are still stuck living where they live, in Buffalo, New York, or Little Rock, Arkansas, or wherever they may be. They're not going to move to Bangalore to keep their jobs. And since the cost of living is considerably higher, even in Little Rock, Arkansas, than it is in Bangalore, they simply can't compete, and the invisible hand is transformed into an invisible fist which pummels one side at the behest of the other--not exactly what Adam Smith had in mind. And decades and decades of progress for working people in this country are simply wiped out, as we devolve further and further into a winner-take-all, screw-the-rest society. "

This is the argument we ALL need to be making right now!

Opinion / The Irish Times on the Web / ireland.com: "



Tuesday, August 11, 1998

When marriage between
gays was by rite



RITE AND REASON: A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai. It shows two robed Christian saints. Between them is a traditional Roman pronubus (best man) overseeing what in a standard Roman icon would be the wedding of a husband and wife. In the icon, Christ is the pronubus. Only one thing is unusual. The 'husband and wife' are in fact two men.
Is the icon suggesting that a homosexual 'marriage' is one sanctified by Christ? The very idea initially seems shocking. The full answer comes from other sources about the two men featured, St Serge and St Bacchus, two Roman soldiers who became Christian martyrs.
While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early Church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly close. Severus of Antioch in the sixth century explained that 'we should not separate in speech [Serge and Bacchus] who were joined in life'. More bluntly, in the definitive 10th century Greek account of their lives, St Serge is openly described as the 'sweet companion and lover' of St Bacchus."


via buzzflash

Eschaton

Don't Switch Horsemen Mid-Apocalypse
- Bush/Cheney '04

I love it...

WOODTV.com & WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids news and weather - Adult magazine part of school fundraiser (via bookslut)...

hmm...sounds like I should be reading more science fiction...

one day I'll have time to write something insightful, fix comments, and do other acts of bloggy goodness...
but not right now...
sigh...

the american street: �Free� Trade, Offshoring, Jobs and the Concept of "Ownership" in General

Calpundit: Conservative Lysenkoism....The Definitive Report

O.k. there are those who would like to argue that the president isn't a moron... I know, I know, I don't see it either...but if he's not a moron then I think this article proves, if there was any doubt, that he is evil and a clouder of men's minds.

TOMPAINE.com - The Dreyfuss Report

you'll want to go ahead and bookmark it...

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: February 15, 2004 - February 21, 2004 Archives: "This is the arsonist in your house telling you that stranger outside with the hose can't be trusted. "

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News

of course they're cousins...
and skull & bones...
what they don't tell you is that they are reptiles!

USA Vanguard - This is how Bush supports our troops

"An army of veterans twice the size of that involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom has lost health insurance benefits since Bush took office."

AlterNet: Alan Greenspan and the D-Word

I like Greenspan better back when he supported the gold standard.

RealityFuel -> 50 Book Challenge

I do most of my reading at work, so I'll have to e-mail myself notes and post in the evenings...
but 50 books should be no problem...never counted how many I read a year so this should be interesting...

Metro Pulse/Gamut/Our Sacred Ditty: "The 'at least' could also be understood to mean that there's not much to being an American, that freedom's some kind of a base condition, leaving much to be desired. I Googled the phrase 'at least I know,' and one of the most quoted uses of the phrase after Mr. Greenwood's came from Timothy McVeigh's mother: 'At least I know he's human,' she said. Well, that's something to start with. "

via South Knox Bubba
which I probably found offa Atrios...

anyway, wow...the whole article is great...but the McVeigh reference is just perfect...

Salon.com | Manufacturing the environment: "McKinney insisted that NAM is just trying to play the same game as the 'Sierra Club, sky-is-falling crowd.' As he explained it, 'We're all part of the same ballgame, we have the same goals -- to get our message out through the media, make our case as best we can, and convince voters to get the type of policymakers in office who will see things our way.' "

uhhh...no...
their game is about saving the planet...your game is about $$$....