…but sometimes it’s good to be wrong, n’est-ce pas? From friend of Radio Free Threedonia Bo “Bald Eagle” Clark and featuring 40 Year Old Virgin’s Gerry Bednob.
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…but sometimes it’s good to be wrong, n’est-ce pas? From friend of Radio Free Threedonia Bo “Bald Eagle” Clark and featuring 40 Year Old Virgin’s Gerry Bednob. Share on Facebook This is not a new story, but it’s new on Snopes, where I saw it. (It took them over six months to check this out.) It appears some bitter clingers—you know, typical white people—in Idaho requested a military flyover at their “God & Country” festival, at which “new military recruits [are] inducted and all military [are] [...] Share on Facebook Alright, Threedonia! You are all smarter than me, so I thought I’d ask for some help. The below passage from Luke was the Gospel reading at Catholic churches around the wide, wide world this week. I’ve heard it plenty of times, but on this hearing I noted two things I had not noticed before. I [...] Via The Other McCain Anne grew up wanting to become a nun but shunned Catholicism when she learned her older brother, Michael, was gay. I love the Bible. I love reading it, studying it and I find it continually relevant on everyday topics attendant with the spiritual wisdom inside. I don’t expect some of you to understand all that — e-mail me and we’ll have a chat about that — I’m not a blog proselytizer…. Anyway… [...] I have been amused and sickened by the latest campaign of N.O.W. (Nat’l Organization of Weenie-haters) to smear Focus on the Family — the sponsor of the infamous Pam/Tim Tebow ad — you know the one that argues that having a child is a good thing — so he can then abuse you. Now [...] Here is that outrageous and woman-hating anti-choice Tim Tebow ad that those homophobic zombie-worshiping Christianists aired in the Super Bowl pre-game. Stay tuned during the game for more woman-hating propaganda. Watch it — if you can. /snark off/ Anyone who sees anything sinister in this ad needs some serious spiritual help. You [...] Share on Facebook I was never one of the legion of admirers of “Catcher in the Rye.” Well written? Sure. But also petulant, self-serving and – despite its legendary status as a ground-breaking piece of literature, rather obvious. But then I grew up in the 60’s so cynicism and nihilism were pretty much the order of the day [...] Arizona Fall League MVP and A’s prospect Grant Desme has retired from baseball at age 23 — to seek the priesthood. From the San Francisco Chronicle’s A’s blog The Drumbeat: Desme, the Arizona Fall League MVP, said he has been considering becoming a priest for a year and a half, but he had decided to [...] Detail (showing the Americas) of a large 1602 world map made by Matteo Ricci presented to the Chinese. Here’s a fascinating New York Times review of an exhibition at The Library of Congress (through April) of the “Ricci Map”. From the review: When a map of overwhelming dimensions and detail is presented to the ruler of [...] Coded references to Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on packaging provided to the In-N-Out restaurant company, a Threedonia investigation has found. The packaging is used by residents of California, Las Vegas, NV, and Arizona and in the feeding of visitors to those states when they choose to eat at In-N-Out. The provider of [...] I’ll leave the movie reviews to those far better than I — lookin’ at you, JFNs, Totos, K. Smiths and Noltes of the world. All I know is I was blown away by The Book of Eli this morning, did not want it to end. Nowhere near as offensive to non-Christians and/or godless pagans atheists [...] Share on Facebook Most of you by now have heard that Pat Robertson blamed Haiti’s “pact with the devil” for the earthquake. Here’s the clip. Sorry to use a lefty conspiracy clip, but it’s the shortest one available and is light on editorial comment believe it or not: How Old Testament. Well it seems he’s not [...] About a week ago, I wrote a post about a Newsweek interview of Nancy Pelosi which touched upon her Catholic beliefs (and the lack of them, on certain issues). While I was certainly critical of Pelosi herself, I also thought that by not responding publicly to Pelosi’s mischaracterization of the role of bishops and ignorance [...] The following is all about religion and sex; the squeamish among you, skip it. Being nurse to a heart patient, especially a heart patient who’s also your mom, is a full-time, soul-numbing line of work. The worry is overwhelming, and harder to push out of sight when you’re working on 72 hours with no sleep. [...] Big Hollywood links to the above photo with the headline Lost Final Season Art Mocks “The Last Supper” at #7 on its marquee as of this posting. In a very literal sense it’s a “mock” up of Leonardo’s fresco “The Last Supper” of course, but the headline reads in a very condemnatory way to [...] In yesterday’s open thread, the subject of Nancy Pelosi’s recent Newsweek interview arose. First, let’s get this out of the way: the interviewer is—oy!—Eleanor Clift. So if you click through and read it, you’ll see questions like this: I think a lot of people thought that once President Obama was elected, we wouldn’t see the traditional bargaining [...] Today is the commemoration of the death of St. Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury. A learned and worldly man, Thomas was a close and trusted friend of King Henry. He was appointed by the king to a high office where he was expected to be loyal and take the king’s part against all others, [...] “any resemblance to cardboard is purely coincidental” For those of you who many not read every post and every comment (I know, I skip over most of Floyd and JohnFN’s stuff too) you may have missed a comment from trzupr to one of his seventeen siblings regarding something called, “oplatek.” Being a Polish word there is [...] For the fans of American IV: The Man Comes Around (and Hee Haw College Widow) and all that was super-Christmas cool about the Man in Black. Floyd, my apologies if you were waiting to use either of these for a special Friday Gospel this week. Share on Facebook (Which we were). Modern, merry old England is suffering from a temporary shortage of green-tight clad bowmen. Not to worry, Father Tim Jones of St. Lawrence Anglican Church in York has the answer: redistribute the wealth yourself. What would Jesus do? Shoplift! Makes a lot of sense, cutting out the middle-man and all, but why [...] Al Gore — in his most recent climate tome — has penned a poem which he read on CNN. Below in italics is Gore’s poem. In bold are some random thoughts I had as I read his work. One thin September soon What pray tell is a “thin” September? [...] As the month of November sighs and seethes and reaches its conclusion (with all signs of bleeding into December), is it too much to expect these courthouse workers to be behind their desks on 12/25? Can only hope John Wayne’s looking down and wondering how his beloved Orange County lost its backbone. The removal of a [...] By popular demand, the above logo now available at Cafe Press in a variety of items, all under $20. Yes, of course, I absolutely include my Judeo brothers and sisters in the holiday spending frenzy — Taoists, Buddhists and Muslims tired of the violent hijacking of the radical wing of their religion, too. Those of you [...] Why — global warming causes everything bad in the world honey. And if you don’t believe me — here’s a list — with links. Here’s the list: A complete list of things caused by global warming Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer [...] It seems that New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research (NIWA) is under fire for “cooking the numbers” — a la the East Anglia Climate Research Unit. The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn’t there. The [...] Cory Doctorow and the other so-called “freedom-loving” douchebags at BoingBoing put the recent hack of the East Anglian Climate Research Unit into context for us. A huge amount of email from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit was hacked and released onto the web, causing much rejoicing from the climate change denialists. They read through the [...] Prospering under people and systems where humans are the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong is and always has been dicey given the vagaries — and the very well-known dark sides — of human nature. Bottom line — I don’t and can’t fully trust any system or person whose final judge of good/evil is [...] Ireland’s Independent has an article on Phelim McAleer and his wife, Ann McIlhenny and the response they are getting to their documentary, “Not Evil, Just Wrong.” Their documentary highlights errors in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” Read the whole thing, but here are some highlights: Reaction to the film, which was three years in the making, has been [...] What is the most ethical way for a hopeless environmentalist to end it all? Spiked’s “Ask Ethan” column has the answer: Dear Ethan, After careful consideration I have decided to end my life. Things haven’t been going very well for me lately, but more importantly I am keen to reduce my carbon impact on the planet. [...] The President has cautioned America not to jump to conclusions regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan and his motives for engaging in a shooting spree. And, like Rufus (never thought I’d put Rufus and Barack together in the same sentence) the President urged us to think about the families and friends of those who have been [...] Bullshit: 1. Rubbish, nonsense I know most of you don’t have a dog in this fight, but here goes… Evangelicals know well — or should — the writings of Francis Schaeffer on worldview. He was sort of a hippy fundamentalist in that he loved art, music, etc., but had basically fundamentalist views of Christianity [...] Last Sunday in my weekly Sunday Gospel post Rufus, The College Widow (TCW) and Stephanie had a brief colloquy on the relative merits — or lack thereof of “the guitar mass” as compared to Mass being played with organ, piano, etc. Here is an especially “good” example of TCW’s complaint: Oh my Catholic brothers and [...] Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Of course we know the answer to that, but nevertheless Jason Richwine of the AEI has an interesting piece on the issue atThe American. This same principle works in places where the default and iconoclastic beliefs are reversed. Japan, for example, has no tradition of monotheistic religion, but the few Japanese Christians tend to be much [...] Kenn writes: My theory – listen up all you naturalists/nature freaks, out there – is that capitalism is natural – socialism/communism are mechanisms devised by man to subvert the natural process. Capitalism, is almost a perfect reflection of the natural word – those that hunt and gather have a greater chance of survival than those [...] |
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