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Monday, June 16, 2014

Weird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria #107


Alan: "These Christians" are American "Taliban," as eager to impose The Ten Commandments 
as their Islamic counterparts are eager for the imposition of Sharia Law.
Whether "Christian" or "Islamic" they usurp God's throne by idolizing themselves.

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Tom Weston S. J.

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In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the existence of two covenants tells us 
that God finally compromised with "him"self.

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American Taliban and Voter Suppression 
The Newsroom
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-newsroom-tea-party-is-americas.html

First Scene, First Episode
The Newsroom
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/aaron-zorkins-newsroom-season-1-episode.html

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"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotations

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Indiana high school teacher fired for being an atheist

Congressman adjourns Idaho GOP convention amid infighting and jeers from attendees

FL woman kidnaps daughter to prevent her from being vaccinated, studying black history

Illinois man shoots ex-wife, her boyfriend in head as 100 people watch at high school reunion

Fox News freaks out over 4Chan hoax that feminists are plotting to end Father’s Day


Stephen Hawking explains killer robots to John Oliver: “You’re an idiot”

Rifle-toting MI man won’t be charged after frightening cops with revolution talk


Colorado man pleads not guilty, says he ‘mercy’ killed wife after accidentally shooting her

Fill ‘er up, comrade: Kentucky town will begin selling its own gasoline to keep prices down

John Oliver challenges FCC head Tom Wheeler to prove he’s not a ‘f*cking baby-eating dingo’


Laura Ingraham: Cantor lost because he doesn’t think trading Jewish rep. to Taliban is funny

New apps let parents control kids’ access to smart phones, tablets from their own phones

University of Texas astronomers discover possible sister to Earth’s sun




Fox News: Iraq violence proves Bush was right about ‘pretty much everything’

Pistol-packing people of Walmart: Indiana man charged after gun goes off in checkout line

14-year-old Idaho boy claims ‘stress’ of brother’s autism made him murder father and brother


Supreme Court: Gun purchasers must report when they are buying firearms for other people

Judge reneges on promise to deaf girl with 65 IQ, sentences her to 15 years in baby’s death

Obama’s executive order expanding LGBT job protections largest in US history

Supreme Court rejects appeal over school graduation in church

Hackers steal Domino’s Pizza customer data, threaten to publish info if ransom not paid


Army upgrades lesbian’s discharge to honorable 35 years after booting her for being gay

Supreme Court: Anti-abortion group can challenge Ohio ban on false campaign ads
 

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