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The Home of the Brave?

September 20, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 387 Views 0 Comments

We’ve pretty much that line in the National Anthem a joke, haven’t we. A few years ago, as part of a publicity stunt, some LED boards were put up in cities around the country, and we all freaked. Most recently, we have let a child’s engineering project scare the crap out of us. We’ve become a nation of nasty, sniffling cowards. Let’s just be honest about it. Anyone that doesn’t look like us or believe exactly as we do is automatically a threat. And now, to cover our own embarrassment, we double down on the ugliness towards the kid. What a bunch of brave people.

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Is Huckabee the Biggest Jerk in America?

September 20, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1398 Views 0 Comments Mike Huckabee, Eric Fanning, Secretary of the Army, Ash Cartner

This entry is part 26 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

So Mike Huckabee’s latest rant against the Black Man in the White House. President Obama has nominated Eric K. Fanning as the Secretary of Army. What has the Huckster’s knickers all in a wad? The fact that Under Secretary Fanning happens to be gay…because, clearly, Rev. Asshole doesn’t think gay people should have jobs.

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Dark Ages in America: Now?

September 1, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 2290 Views 1 Comment Republic, Education, exploration, evolution, Creationism, Climate Change, Dark Ages

In the previous century, America, through public and private cooperation and investment built an unrivaled infrastructure. We became the country that invented the things of a new and exciting world, and we built those things. We put in place a social safety net. We weren’t perfect, but we tried, and We looked to the future with excitement and anticipation, but today, we seem to be in a rush to go backwards as far and fast as possible. We fear everything, and demand absolute security, and think it can be found in some nostalgic past.

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Scott Lively Loves Him Some Nazis

August 31, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1398 Views 1 Comment discrimination, Scott Lively, bigotry, Abiding Truth Ministries, SRO, RFRA, Religious Freedom

This entry is part 13 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

Scott Lively is an attorney who heads up something called the “Abiding Truth Ministries.” He’s risen to some prominence lately by taking his message of hate and bigotry towards LGBT people international. He found an especially receptive audience in Ugandan government officials, and helped pass anti-gay legislation which called for the death penalty for homosexual acts. His latest screed on World Nut Daily uses the same tired claims.

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Trump and Religion

August 29, 2015 B. John 1211 Views 0 Comments Donald Trump, Presbyterian, Bible

This entry is part 25 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

Donald Trump has basically been caught in a lie about his personal convictions. We start with him making a big thing in an interview about how religious he is, about how much he loves the Bible, about how he really likes both Testaments equally, and how he reads it all the time. I’d say, then the wheels come off, but they were never even actually on.

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Bill Donohue’s Usual Hyperbole

August 12, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 772 Views 0 Comments Catholic League, Switzerland, Bishop Vitus Huonder, Catholic, USCCB, Hate Speech, Bill Donohue

Bill Donohue, for those of you who don’t know, is the head, and as best anyone can tell, only employee or member of an organization called, “The Catholic League.” Bill is claiming that American gay rights activists are seeking to “criminalize the Bible,” based on a situation where a Swiss group has filed a complaint (in Switzerland) against a Catholic Bishop in Switzerland (those facists Swedes).

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Rep. Steve King, Talking Lawnmowers and The Baker Act

July 31, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1281 Views 0 Comments Lawnmowers, hate, Talking Lawnmowers, Iowa, Congress, Steve King, bigotry

This entry is part 20 of 35 in the series Gay Marriage

It worries and embarrasses me the idiocy I see in too many of our elected officials, and making it worse is the knowledge we elect them, and keep re-electing them. Evangelicals and Conservatives, especially Republican conservatives seem to try to out-stupid each other, and the rhetoric has simply crossed a line, especially on the gay marriage issue. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa[they should be really proud]) provides a ton of grist for the stupid mill, and I think his latest, were he anyone else, would qualify him for a Baker Act petition.

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The Literal Inerrant Bible

July 22, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 559 Views 0 Comments Mike Huckabee, Old Testament, Chronicles, Hebrew Bible, Inerrancy, christian, Bible, Evangelical

As the teacher of an Adult Sunday School for a few years now, I’ve had to do a lot of study, and while I’m not biblical scholar, there is one things I am absolutely certain about…the Bible is not literal nor is it inerrant. There, I said it. It doesn’t mean I don’t respect the Bible as Holy Canon, but it could not be applied to our lives today were it to be taken literally. A video by Mike Huckabee makes that point.

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Letter to Bishop Kiesey of the Michigan Area

July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 B. John 1653 Views 1 Comment Bruce Toms, Ken Carter, Rev. Benjamin Hutchison, Deborah Lieder Kiesey, Palma Ceia United Methodist Church, Michigan Area Annual Conference, Cassopolis United Methodist Church

This entry is part 24 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

Recently, a small church in Michigan, Cassopolis United Methodist, had their church Pastor, Rev. Benjamin Hutchison, taken away from them. Was it because of poor attendance, hardly, he had quadrupled the membership since being appointed. He saved the church from dying according to many members. His crime, he was in a long-term committed relationship with another man. Just after that, nearly 30 United Methodist pastors joined in a celebrating a wedding ceremony for Rev. Hutchison and his husband, and now, to further hammer home her distaste for love, Bishop Deborah Lieder Kiesey has picked out nine of them for prosecution under church law. Here’s my letter to Bishop Kiesey:

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National Box Cutter Association

June 26, 2015 B. John 1013 Views 0 Comments Gun Control, NRA, Box cutters, Charleston, 9/11

I find common ground with the Ammosexuals as they try to use a snarky graphic, and all it does is make the point in favor of reasonable gun control.

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A Brief Comment on Rachel Dolezal’s Story

June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 B. John 415 Views 0 Comments Race, Rachel Dolezal, Catlyn Jenner, Gender

Talk about one’s 15 minutes of fame. This Rachel Dolezal has created quite the discussion, and perhaps it is a worthwhile discussion. I heard one African-American woman say that Dolezal wasn’t qualified to be a leader in the black community, because she hasn’t “lived the life.” Well, most certainly she didn’t live the life of an African-American in her early years, but it seems she’s identified as African-American for some time, and did so well enough to fool pretty much everyone. So, perhaps she does have some experience in that life.