Al Gore, How Do We Love Thee!
Tomorrow is Nobel Peace Prize day -- the day that Gore-illas hope will launch the man who "used to be the 'next President of the United States'" on a quest to win, once again (and this time for keeps),...
View ArticlePardon My Enthusiasm
Seriously, why don't people in the media just write headlines like: "Obama Supporters Are Batshit Insane" "Rally For Obama Felt Like Jonestown" and "Area Woman Sees Barack's Face in Grilled Cheese...
View Article"Is Barak Obama the Messiah?"
The meme has been floated recently that there is an element of religiosity in the discourse surrounding the Obama camp. A website has gone up, for example, that asks "Is Barak Obama the Messiah?"...
View ArticleFor Sale, On E-Bay, get your Clutch Hankies, Fainting Couches and Worry Stones!
For all those who are shocked that Senator Obama, Democratic Nominee for President, is not the Messiah who can part waters and stop FISA bills from passing with a single swoop of his hand, I encourage...
View ArticleOBAMA AS THE MESSIAH (HILARIOUS READ)
Sorry for the short diary but I found this on timesonline in the uk. i dont know wether to laugh hysterically of cringe because this may be used against him. Here is the editorial in its entirety....
View ArticleAlan Colmes asks Hannity: What's not true about this? w/video
I searched yesterday's diaries and didn't find this so I thought some of you might be interested in enjoying a little comic relief. I was skipping around the channels on Friday and happened to land on...
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Now Repeat After Me...We're Electing a President, Not a Messiah
So Barack Obama is tacking to starboard. That's steering to the right for you landlubbers. But as a politician who lives next to those inland seas we call the Great Lakes, he must have seen sailors do...
View ArticleThe Messiah
McCain and co, might want to trend carefully in defining Obama as "the one" even if in a negative, mocking light. Voters might take a look at the crumbling economy, the gas prices, the crazy state of...
View ArticleObama: deflect attack by giving credit to the people
I was disturbed by the first McCain "Celeb" commercial, splicing together images of Obama, big columns, suggestions of "the biggest in the world," and porn stars (celebrity is too polite a description...
View ArticleIt's Time To Admit The Ten Truths Of This Election
Until we do that, we won't be prepared for the election.
View ArticleThe Blasphemy of the Right
Once more, a conservative uses the word "Messiah" in connection with Senator Obama, as if to allege that Obama's supporters view him as such. Unfortunately for that "argument," the only ones who...
View ArticleObama: You have let me down
I was a SUPER HUGE, BIG TIME EVER, NUMBER ONE FAN of Obama. I read all his emails, I wore an Obama T-shirt, I even told a friend or two about him. I drank the Obama kool-aid till I puked like a...
View ArticleMore Evidence
Yes, folks, it looks like Obama is the anti-Christ. From Reuters: "President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are appearing in Italian nativity scenes this year, alongside the baby Jesus and...
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LaHaye Vs Obama: The Obama as Antichrist Accusation
Assessing Damage from a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Insurgency in a Time of Severe National Crisis This Topic is not Dead While not willing to actually label Obama...
View ArticleMessiah found in Guantanamo Bay
Today, after his swearing in, Obama did not waste time signing new legislation, including the closing of Guantanamo Bay's infamous republican gulag.
View ArticleA Prediction
Back in college in the early 80's I had a class where we got into a discussion with the professor on the future. A question was asked, "What are some interesting predictions for the future of...
View ArticleBarack Ain’t No Saint
Let me state right up front that when I say "Barack Ain’t No Saint" I mean it in the context of "Saint Ronnie." That is, the Saint Ronnie, that with one turn of a phrase, precipitated the collapse of...
View ArticleJesus Christ, Swines and Dead Microbiologists
[Authors note: My article below Is Jesus Christ Coming Back to Earth in MMXXIII (2023)? was widely posted March 6, 2009. Research for the article came from an out of print book by Ian Gurney, the...
View ArticleWhat if the Biblical Ruth came to America Today?
Learning from Shavuot & Pentecost: Can We Share Our Food? Can We Share Our Talk & Tongues? Can We Relearn how to Share our Work & Rest? This coming Thursday evening, May 28, there begins...
View ArticleWho understands Iran? The press? I wonder.
Here is an article in the New York Review of Books entitled Divided Iran on the Eve by Malise Ruthven who is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket...
View ArticleMESSIAH
More and more people at work are referencing our President, Barack Hussein Obama, as The Messiah.
View ArticleClinton Statue Unveiled in Kosovo: What if it was Obama?
One big thing struck me reading this article about a statue of Clinton being unveiled in Kosovo. What's that "thing", you may ask? "Some conservatives are bitching and moaning about Obama being viewed...
View ArticleSaturday Night Loser's Club, Vol. CLXXXVIII: Standing for Hallelujah Edition
While self doesn't have the numbers (loser, he) to back up this next statement, one presumes that the historical occasions are extremely few where the simple act of standing up can lead to a tradition...
View ArticleKeeping Expectations of Leadership in Check
It is a truism that leaders are few and followers are numerous. This is itself an inequality that we don't often contemplate, nor feel any compulsion to amend by direct action. No flurry of blog...
View ArticleChristmas Great Recession 2010 Virtual Vinyl - side - Carols
A list of songs for side one of an online Christmas record - (virtual vinyl with two virtual sides and virtual liner notes). I'll try to get the rest of the embeds done over on the dk4 beta edition....
View Articledk4 beta - virtual ice sculpture vs. well-known chorus
Virtual ice sculpture or Tibetan Buddhist sand painting - destined to blow away when the beta is gone. It's an elegant look with serifs and such.
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Romney the Messiah
I recently ran across a teabagger complaining about all of the "Messiah" imagery associated with Obama, who challenged all comers to google "Obama messiah" images to prove his point. (I did go look...
View ArticleChristian Sharia Law Comes To Tennessee
There's something liberals and Tea Partiers agree on: we do not want Sharia law to be used in United States Courts.But there's also something liberals and Tea Partiers don't agree on: having the...
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Judge forces parent to change child’s first name–what next?
This story seems unreal in the United States of America. In short, Lu Ann Ballew, the child support magistrate who serves the 4th Judicial District of Tennessee that includes Cocke, Grainger,...
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What's in a name?
I have not come to bring peace, but the sword...and the noms Recently, a Tennessee magistrate in a case involving what a child's last name should be, overstepped not only the bounds of the actual case...
View ArticleWhy Celebrate Easter?
The Easter Sunday, and Holy Week, as it is called by many, serves as an affirmation of belief for Christians, both in terms of resurrection and salvation. In theory, at least, it is a time for one to...
View ArticleThursday Classical Music: Christmas Eve Edition
So, every Christmas Eve for the past few years I've been posting this diary in various forms.We all (I hope) enjoy the music of this Holiday Season. However, while the popular songs are nice to listen...
View ArticleA little 'Messiah' theatre
Okay, I'm a Christmas geek, so it's probably not surprising that I am also a Messiah dork. A scratchy old LP recording of Handel's oratorio with Eugene Ormandy, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the...
View ArticleThe New Messiah
During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Republicans of every stripe, and their water-carrying cadre of cackling pundits, labelled Senator Barack Obama as "The Messiah." This, along with...
View ArticleDonald Trump Declares Himself Messiah
Reading a prepared speech from his two new best friends — those teleprompters — Donald Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric to what many will see as dangerous levels. He’s openly declared war on “the...
View ArticleVictims of Donald Trump’s Sexual Assaults I Speak From Experience: Sue His...
If possible, press charges, too. I speak from experience. I was sexually assaulted by a clergyman. But I was lucky. The Statue of Limitations for sexual assault lawsuits is incredibly long in my State....
View Article“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, ..."
No longer fringe, the end times crowd is now firmly seated in our nation’s control booth.Merry Christmas one and all.www.rightwingwatch.org/…“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, Horn said...
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My Racist RWNJ Grandfather
My grandparents were Republicans and I remember them watching the RNC convention with Reagan and pointing out how much they liked him. My grandfather was chief of police of a small town in Ohio for 25...
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Top Comments--Messiah Edition
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd...
View ArticleTrump 'Humility'& 'The Chosen One' Narrative
By Ray CunneffJune 25, 2020While our minds are regularly boggled by the level of devotion and adoration accorded Donald Trump by his hardcore supplicants, sycophants and enablers, we only rarely get a...
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Holidays for all
hilarybrowngreetings.comMay the world’s 3 largest religions find common ground.(Whoops.. I misspelled ‘holiday’.. wow, just noticed. Well you know what I mean...)
View ArticleHow Trump's narcissism fooled the political elites and made him the Messiah...
The Republican party gave up decency, honesty, and integrity for Donald Trump. It wasn’t in the plan, it was a casualty—a casualty of their decision to tie their fortunes to an unstable, vengeful man...
View ArticleQAnon Trumpists flock to Dallas in order to see the resurrection of … JFK Jr.
The QAnon conspiracy cult, whose venn diagram with the MAGA crowd is almost in eclipse, is as wide-ranging a conspiracy theory as exists in the modern era. The more simple conspiracies concerning a...
View ArticleTrump's Messiah Scam Increases His Threat To America
Donald Trump has built a cult around himself. This is dangerous to America and dangerous to democracy.Cults of personality in governance are broadly incompatible with democracy. They usually erupt in...
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Saturday Top Comments: December is for Musicians Edition
So this is going to be the last Saturday TC diary for a couple weeks. At least from me. Why? It’s December. And in addition to my teaching, I am a musician. If you live in a big city, and are good...
View ArticleWhy Jesus Isn't the Jewish Messiah
I’ve explained Jewish messianism to Christians in person more times than I can count, and poorly at that. So in deference to my lazy nature, I decided to lay it down in a blog. That way if the subject...
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Saturday Top Comments. Sick Edition.
Tonight I’m supposed to sing Messiah in a glorious venue. It’s THE feel good event of my year. And where am I? In my house. Because I’m sick. Rant to follow. Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as...
View ArticleChristianity's Moral Mess
I’ve been as open about my hostility to Christianity’s morality as any of my views, frequently calling it the most egregious moral clusterfuck humans ever invented. So, I cobbled together this...
View ArticleFear Drives the MAGA movement; Trump Exploits MAGA Fear by Transforming it...
“Fear morphs into anger. We don’t want to be afraid. We don’t mind being angry. There are people on the public stage, on the political front, who understand very well that synergy between fear and...
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