Daily Blend: Friday, August 13, 2010

Carl Paladino (R-NY) [source: Buffalo Rising]

I feel conflicted: Should we thank the Vatican for so effectively alienating large parts of there adherents these days, or should we not, considering how they only do so with their policy of shielding child-molesting priests?

• Aussies and Brits fleeing the Roman Catholic Church in droves, all thanks to the Vatican’s little clerical child abuse problem.

• Tea Party favorite gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R-NY), degenerate.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• What better mental health treatment for PTSD-stricken soldiers to get than religious proselytization from military chaplains? Yet another reason why religion has no place in the armed forces.

• Obama administration deliberately screening what scientists can share with the public regarding the Gulf/BP oil spill.

• Arianna Huffington writes about how Sarah Palin unknowingly uses Jungian principles to connect with so many people.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Glenn Beck compares President Obama to the Devil, claims many Republicans are “progressives”. Horror film at 11.

• Who wants a witch’s spell for a better ass?

• Thought Bush-isms were bad? Meet former VP Dan Quayle. Wow.
  (via Political Irony)

• Is Fox News being censored about the “Ground Zero Mosque”? At first, my reaction was “nonsense”, but then I realized I can’t remember one single case of Rightist opposition to the Cordoba House that came from Fox News itself. Censored by their co-owner, the (very much Muslim) Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal? A delightfully ironic thought.

• So Glenn Beck refuses to go out in public without a bulletproof vest and a score of bodyguards? Though I’m amused at what his own rhetoric is doing to him, I will be quite grieved if I hear he was actually proven right to take such protections. Keep your attacks rhetorical, folks.

• Vox Day weirdly attempts to tie dwindling numbers of natural history educators to pro-feminist atheists. Sound a little desperate there, Vox.

• Vintage Tokyo subway posters encouraging good manners.
  (via The Agitator)

• Doggycide: Deputy shoots and kills dog whilst serving an eviction notice.
  (via The Agitator)

• “Had I known that sooner, I would've killed way more people.” The Onion can be both funny and scary.
  (via Blag Hag)

• Religious Right throws a fit over Judge Walker lifting his temporary stay on his Prop 8 ruling, thus allowing LGBT people to marry as soon as August 18.
  (via Right Wing Watch)

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