Is This Why We Need To Go To Church?

As a former Catholic and I say former because I've left and am not going back, I find this display by a priest totally offensive.

Monsignor Lisante was giving the invocation at a New York State Republican Party dinner that was also host to Dick Cheney among others.
He obviously isn't taking the word invocation in the spiritual context that it was meant. How much of Father Lasante's personal message is ever preached from the pulpit? The quote below that comes straight from his web page certainly was not on display this night.



"Too often, I suspect, we think that because our point of view is sustainably right, we have the right to belittle and reduce people who don’t get it. And we don’t. Not by Jesus’ example, anyway. He would challenge, but always with respect for the other person. Rightness, He knew, doesn’t entitle us to cruelty." Monsignor Jim Lasante

Obama vs Clinton vs DNC vs DP of Michigan vs Disenfranchised Voters

Vladimir Kush print can be found at Paragon Fine Art

Is one's political ploy another's political strategy?
Should a candidate be tarred and feathered because they put together the team that could see the big picture when it came to the fight that was going to happen down the road between the Democratic National Party and the Democratic Party of Michigan over an early primary date and then a seating of delegates at the convention?

Shouldn't that candidate have a strategy in place to position him or herself into the best possible position to win the nomination in August? Is this scheming or some kind of illegal maneuvering by the candidate or just the feeling of sour grapes by the other party.

A political campaign is like a chess tournament and if you don't have the right players and a strategy, you lose.

Michigan Democratic Primary - 2008 at Wikipedia

Your Voice Can Change The World

Talk about, volunteer for, campaign for and vote for Senator Barack Obama, President 2008.

Bruno Does Alabama

I hate to give it away but Sasha Baron Cohen's other character, Bruno is coming out with a new movie. If you loved Borat you'll just adore Austria's gay foreigner, Bruno. Check out his other videos at YouTube, of course.

Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt has a tentative release date of October 2008.

What Would The Candidates Say If No One Paid Attention

2008 Presidential Primary

Left Standing Alone

I think this photo is so telling as President Bush attends his last G8 economic summit. George is never one to be camera shy but who's isolated now?

It's John McCain...Your Name Is John McCain

I honestly don't know what this guy believes in and I don't think he does either.

Hearings vs Legislation, Who's Right?

Senator Susan Collins R-Maine is running a re-election campaign against Democratic Congressman Tom Allen. Seems they have a big difference of opinion when it comes to holding hearings regarding contractor fraud or passing legislation to prevent it, after the fact. Could fraud, saving misspent tax money and troop injury or death be prevented sooner with hearings?

SNL Stikes Again

SNL takes it to Hillary again.

In Solidarity With Our Wounded And Killed Heroes Of the Iraq War And Their Families

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life," he said. "I was playing golf -- I think I was in central Texas -- and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, 'It's just not worth it anymore to do.'"

West Virginia In All It's Scaryness

I don't know who comes out scarier!!

You'll Know When We Blow Through Your Town

Gather round my fellow ladies and look who's on the march. It's Kimberly Myers and Cynthia Ruccia heading up the Huffy, Pseudo Feminist, I Am Entitled Woman - Hear Me Roar, Blackmail/Boycott, Anti-Obama, Finger Wagging Bill Clinton - "seat all the delegates" - All Star Band.

In 1998, at a Republican fundraiser, McCain told this joke: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

This is an example of just the humor of the man these women are going to vote for in November.

John McCain Not More Of The Same?

k.b.: Folks don't kid yourselves. McCain already has top "Bushies" working on his campaign. Such as the honorable Charles R. Black, Jr. who represented Ahmed Chalabi up until the invasion of Iraq.

Black's "ties with the Bush family go back to 1972, when he and Karl Rove were jockeying for control of the College Republicans in a campaign so dirty that George H.W. Bush, then head of the Republican National Committee, had to step in and sort matters out"., reported in The Raw Story

When You Don't Know Your History, Fool

k.b.: One good outcome, if you can call it good, when a President steps in a steaming pile of dog shit and says something historically inaccurate is to,if you're an adult, use that major blunder as a teaching moment. Obviously radio talk show host Kevin James did not and he got the Chris Matthew's Hardball Smackdown. Matthew's set the little weaselly kid up good.

See Neville Chamberlain at Wikipedia.

The George W. Bush Limbo

How low can he go? Lower than his approval rating of 32% with this smear.

Read Paul Begala at HuffPost.

Islam, Gays, Catholics...............Who's Next On John McCain's Pastor Hit List

I'm currently reading a book by Alan Dershowitz, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence.

70's SMOOTH, Mr. Al Green

Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson and Mr. Al Green
It's 1973 and I'm 16 years old. Spending the Saturday's early afternoon with Don Cornelius and the Soooooul Train......Long before Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five I grew up listening to these fabulous artists.

Jon Stewart Holds An Old Fashioned West Virginia Douche Off

God Bless Texas But George Bush Is Still A Dumbfuck

And taking all his Right Wing Evangelical, Redneck, War Mongering Supporters with him. Goodbye.

Go behind the song and get the Dixie Chicks' DVD documentary "Shut Up And Sing".

Olbermann Lets Loose In Special Comment

Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!"

Stephen And Billo Do It Live

Below is a comment made on Gawker's website which initially hosted the video of Bill O'Reilly's meltdown.

Hamud Ibn Hamud posted at 03:16 AM on 05/12/08:

What's odd is that his hair appears to be beamed in from another dimension.

As if it were more of an aura, or unearthly presence, than physical human hair.

This may be because Bill's hair is actually afraid of him. Afraid that Bill might tear it out by the roots.

Living with this constant fear of violence, Bill's hair has entered a perpetual fugue state. Seemingly present, but quite somewhere else indeed.

Michael Moore And The Sodom Mobile

She Keeps Going And Going Part 2

She Keeps Going And Going

This Isn't How To Win Over Women Voters

Sweetie? Honey? Sugar? Darlin? No, No, No...........

Your President And Tax Dollars At Work

Devil's Pool: Don't Look Down

The Daily Mail has a story today on The Devil's Pool, a rocky outcropping at the top of Victoria Falls that creates a natural swimming hole for thrill-seeking tourists. Victoria Falls is the world's largest water fall -- topping out at just over 360 feet.

Take Me Home Country Roads To the Place I Belong, West Virginia

West Virginia and Kentucky - White Presidential Candidate Land

Leonard Simpson, a 67-year-old retired coalminer from Mingo County, West Va.:

“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

Josh Fry, a 24-year-old ambulance driver from Williamson, insisted he was not racist but said he would feel more comfortable with Mr McCain, the 71-year-old Vietnam war hero, in the White House. “I want someone who is a full-blooded American as president,” he said.

Read more at:"There are some votes not worth getting."

Friday Night Funny

Buy A Bunch Before They Run Out

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Makes a great Birthday, Graduation, or Father's Day Gift for the man that might need a little more swagger in his walk.

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Lanny's Nuts

Hillary Clinton Tool, Lanny Davis whines and pouts during his commentary for CNN's Primary Election Night coverage. What a big baby!