Posted on June 25, 2009 by scatheist
via Skepchick.
This is a from a WABC report on Manifested Glory Ministries, a Connecticut church that appears to be performing a gay exorcism on a young man or teenager. This is fucking disturbing. The video shows him contorting as if he’s having a seizure and than vomiting. The church originally was promoting this video on [...]
Filed under: social | Tagged: church, connecticut, exorcism, gay, jesus | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 24, 2009 by allusionist
The State newspaper has published excerpts of e-mails between Gov. Sanford and the woman with whom he had an affair. This little detail is at the beginning of the excerpts:
Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, [...]
Filed under: GOP | Tagged: 2012, GOP, mark sanford, Sanford affair | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 24, 2009 by allusionist
“The bottom line is this: I’ve been unfaithful to my wife.”–Mark Sanford
Stay tuned for more details.
Update: Mark Sanford today explained his mystery absence. After conflicting details involving a trip to the Appalachian trail and a trip to Argentina, Mark Sanford today admitted that he traveled to Argentina to visit the woman with whom he has [...]
Filed under: GOP | Tagged: 2012, GOP, mark sanford, South Carolina | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 19, 2009 by scatheist
I had no idea that this was happening. Apparently students at Spartanburg High School are able to leave class and go to St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church during school hours and take a bible course. This part of the story is not a big deal. I used to do the same thing when I was in [...]
Filed under: Upstate | Tagged: district 7, lawsuit, religion, spartanburg, St Christopher's Episcopal Church | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 15, 2009 by allusionist
So, we were right. Jim DeMint made it into our last show as an example of a hard-right conservative who would be the death knell of the Republican party. We compared him to our own Bob Inglis, a common-sense conservative if there is one, and Florida governor and now senate candidate, Charlie Crist, who we [...]
Filed under: GOP, senate | Tagged: Charlie Crist, conservatism, fringe, GOP, jim demint, Marco Rubio, Republican Party | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 15, 2009 by allusionist
According to this article on goupstate.com, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal’s website, the Mayor of Spartanburg, Bill Barnet is planning on relocating downtown by renovating the old Spartanburg Water Works building in downtown Spartanburg. Mayor Barnet has been attempting throughout his tenure as mayor to revitalize Spartanburg’s downtown, and there have been significant improvements during this time. [...]
Filed under: Upstate | Tagged: Bill Barnet, city planning, cost of living, jobs, Library Commons, mayor, Mayor Bill Barnet, real estate, renovations, rich people, spartanburg, Upstate, Water Works | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 12, 2009 by filibusted
Today on the Southern Liberals Show:
Is the right on the brink of insanity? The healthcare debate is on! North Korea, still WTF!! Do you label yourself and are labels a good thing? Is Obama giving up on bringing Gitmo inmates to the US? Also on today’s show, Sexy Science, Erotic [...]
Filed under: radio show | Tagged: environment, Gitmo, healthcare, north korea, Right Wing, science | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 10, 2009 by allusionist
In a word (or two words and a letter) George W. Bush. Now, I’m ready for all of us to move on from the 8 years of disaster that was the George W. Bush presidency, and man, I’m kind of getting tired of blaming problems on him (even though he deserves it), but this graph [...]
Filed under: GOP, economy | Tagged: bush, conservatives, deficit spending, energy, environment, George W. Bush. Obama, health care, National Debt, President Obama, tea parties | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 7, 2009 by shaysrebellion
This is where we are going, for good or ill.
Clinton offered incentives, North Korea made promises, North Korea broke promises.
Bushed ridiculed Clinton’s incentives and ignored North Korea. North Korea tested a nuclear device and launched “test” rockets over Japan. Bush offered incentives, North Korea made promises, North Korea broke promises.
Obama got elected, North Korea tested [...]
Filed under: International Conflict | Tagged: Cuban Missile Crisis, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Interdiction, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Kim Jong-Il, Nikita Khrushchev, north korea, Nuclear Weapons, President Obama, Secretary of State, Six Party Talks, Yongbyon | 2 Comments »
This Woman is Dead
You don’t have to press play. You probably should not. I did then stopped it five seconds into the scene.
This is Iran today. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already heard of or seen this. It’s not the only one. I saw a few on YouTube earlier. If you follow this [...]
Filed under: commentary, politics | Tagged: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Basij, Iran Protests, Moussavi | 4 Comments »