Twitter Updates for 2010-03-13
- Kim Jong-il visits places http://bit.ly/99bKxQ #
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The world just got more awesome
Glenn Beck works for FoxNews which is owned by NewsCorp which also owns HarperCollins who in turn owns Zondervan, the bible company. That’s right kids, bible buying is funding Beck. Your bible dollars, in some small way, are funding the wild-eyed charlatan that’s currently telling people to abondon their churches if they teach the commonly understood themes of the new testament.
Sometimes the world is just too awesome for words.
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-11
- Who wants a burger? http://bit.ly/apkqM3 #
- I would expect matress stores to be open late. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-09
- Rogue Dead Guy for dinner. http://twitpic.com/17g7bd #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-08
- Little donught factory in hilliard has an Oreo donught. They also sell out of everything by noon. http://twitpic.com/176vm6 #
- It's time to pop over to the underground kitten fighting ring and drop some green on a match or two. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-07
- Pre show warm up. Beer. Whiskey. My fantastic new pink shirt. #
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06
- Night shots of NYC and Las Vegas http://bit.ly/a92bUe #
- This Saturday at the Treehouse Electric Grandmother CD Release Show! It's going to be a great time! #
Disturbing trend
This story was haunting for a number of reasons.
Now Pray is both a Birther and a Truther. He believes he is following an illegitimate, foreign-born president in a war on terror launched by a government plot—9/11. He admires soldiers like Army reservist Major Stefan Frederick Cook, who volunteered for a deployment last May and then sued to avoid it—claiming that Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus unfit for command. Pray himself had been eager to go to Iraq when his own unit deployed last June, but he smashed both knees falling from a crane rig and the injuries kept him stateside. In September, he was demoted from specialist to private first class—he’d been written up for bullshit infractions, he claims, after seeking help for a drinking problem. His job on base involves operating and maintaining heavy machinery; the day before we met, he and his fellow “undeployables” had attached a snowplow to a Humvee, their biggest assignment in a while. He spends idle hours at the now-quiet base researching the New World Order and conspiracies about swine flu quarantine camps—and doing his best to “wake up” other soldiers.
Mother Jones – Oath Keepers and the Are of Treason
I know there are people out there like this, people that believe the world is ending and that the government is laying plans to enslave us all. That’s been around and it will continue to be around. What really bothers me is that these extreme fringe groups are getting interviewed and written about in large mainstream publications as more than just interesting looks at obscure beliefs. The journalists writing about groups like these, in a misguided attempt to be completely objective, put groups like the Oath Keepers on equal footing as respectable groups. By reporting things like this as just another point of view id gives them a legitimacy they would have never been able to get on their own.
Twitter Updates for 2010-03-05
- Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. #
- New Zealand decided to give up thinking about this whole "body image" thing. Weight Watchers' endorsement of McDonald's http://bit.ly/cnm2O4 #
- Everything in this article makes me happy http://bit.ly/b2TF28 #
Reverend B. Joseph Schmidt: Demonologist
This is too good to pass up. A clearly reputable and sane exorcist claims there is satanic influence in the Vatican
“A renowned exorcist in Rome recently released a book of memoirs in which he declares to know of the existence of Satanic sects in the Vatican where participation reaches all the way to the College of Cardinals.”
Any article that begins like that has my full and undivided attention. If the article then goes on to use words like “demonologist” and “exorcist” without a hint of irony it can be assured to find a special place in my heart.
In a book of memoirs released in February, the noted Italian exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth affirmed that “Yes, also in the Vatican there are members of Satanic sects.” When asked if members of the clergy are involved or if this is within the lay community, he responded, “There are priests, monsignors and also cardinals!”
The story goes on to tell about a second “young buck” ghostfighter that takes up the task of defending the Vatican against the baseless and obviously crazy accusation that demons are roaming it’s halls.
After reading reports of Fr. Amorth’s accusations pointing a finger at members of the clergy, including cardinals, Fr. Fortea declared that it is a “duty of justice” to speak out in their defense.
Whenever I read about demon hunters and ghostfighters and real honest-to-goodness-I-can’t-believe-they-get-paid-to-do-this demonologists, I’m confronted with the simple fact that I chose the wrong career.