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Media Needle: Mark Halperin sucks at Photoshop.

Urantian Sojourn: Have another hit of self-esteem

Swandiver: I almost missed this terrific documented history of the Teabaggers' monumental Fail against Janeane Garofalo. h/t Dr. Zaius

HOLY CRAP (sent in from Mike): Blasphemy...Christianist lies, they can't accept the truth ...Vacation Bible School at C Street House...All in "The Family"...Freethought of the Day...Coincidence (not) of the day...Drunk in the Holy Spirit...Darwin's Birthday?...Paul Cameron, religious sh*theel...Mr. Deity...Aryan Jesus...

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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oh really's picture

Correction: Mark Halperin sucks. Period.

Maggotpunk's picture

Sure it's historical fact that America wasn't founded upon the Christian religion. However, in the sake of compromise I will give them some Christian principles the nation was founded upon. I'll give them slavery, genocide and oppression of women. Perhaps that will make them happy.

ysbaddaden's picture

The problem is there's no doubt that most Americans at the time were Christian (excluding Amerindians), and of course slaves were forcefully converted. Jews and Islamists were also present in America then.

However, the majority being Christian did not make America Christian in it's origin under our Founding Fathers who were of the Enlightenment philosophy. The bulk of the Christians were largely so by birth, and it was often only observed only on holidays or rare special occassions like baptism, christening, marriage and funerals.

Methodists and Baptists weren't even around yet, at least not in America. The earliest mention of Baptists were in 1534, and it was toward a vaguely identifiable group in England that opposed infant baptism. Methodism didn't form until 1738 when the Anglican priest John Wesley developed it, but he remained to his death an Anglican priest.

The first Baptist Church in America was founded by Roger Williams in
1638 in Rhode Island, and during the founding of our Country didn't extend far from there until the second great revival period of 1790's to 1840's, but because they were Congregational in nature, never were a powerhouse in government. That's why the Baptists were among the first to claim seperation of Church and State to protect themselves from larger denominations like Episcopelians (Anglicans) and Presbyterians (Church of Scotland), as well as Roman Catholicism.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

01jack's picture

That the Founders were christian religious doesn't really matter to these people's thesis that there is no separation of church and state. It's sort of a reverse ad hominem. They could have been a bunch of howling, screeching witches but that doesn't change the words they put down in the Constitution and the two hundred years of jurisprudence interpreting it.

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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

curtilingus's picture

Another installment of idiocracy: health care explained with dolls by a reporter who used to have some respectability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NQyJGutvs

Alice X - Chomsky Nader's picture

You should watch that again. Forget about the dolls and listen to his exact words. They are well chosen.

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Plays With Dolls To Explain Health Care Reform

He hits the nail dead center on the head.

The entire health care system should be driven by concern for the best interests of the patient.

His statement

2:05

…Too many people in Washington are receiving too much money from this guy [he circles the head of the 'health insurance man' doll] and as a result they are making decisions based on what is in his best interests, health insurance man. What is in the health insurance man's best interests, and if what is in insurance man's best interest happens to be contrary to what is in patient's best interests,

NO ONE IN OUR CONGRESS SEEMS TO CARE.

And I don't understand why our health care debate is not a patient driven debate, efficient delivery of health care to patients, is how health care should be talked about, in my opinion.

One thing I would change is that there are a FEW people in Congress who do care. It is a short list to be sure.

The phrases health care versus health insurance reform are loosely juggled.

I am reformed.

I have been saying all along that Single Payer was the only way. I now believe that Full National Health is the way.

Bernie Sanders does not even go that far. But I am to the left of even Bernie Sanders.


statusquObama, change you can only pretend in

curtilingus's picture

Thanks alice. I was listening to his words but the dolls were unnecessary and became a distraction. This guy was a respectable business reporter and now he is following Glenn Beck. Some of the things Beck says are true too, but spouted with so much insanity that you have to get your message from somewhere else.

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As a supporting member of the "Freedom From Religion Foundation" I always look forward to your "HOLY CRAP" section. I've just recently purchased a book, by DAN BARKER whom is the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A former minister and evangelist, Dan became a freethinker in 1983.

His latest book... NEW! Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists Item# B30, in addition to these other two titles... The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To the Bible - by Ruth Hurmence Green Item# FBM3 as well as, Women Without Superstition - Hard-Cover: Edited by FFRF, co-president ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR Item# FBM8

It's not just our nation's monetary Goliath's that shape our planet... it's the knowing and naive that contribute accordingly.

PS. Burning the books never had a chance vs. evolution, it was merely a retarded thought. "pun intended"

...It's much better to have a(Freethought), then pay → 10% ;)


Study the symptoms not the virus...

Saitia's picture

Well. have another few hundred hits... ;-D

Thanks, BG.

Batocchio's picture

It's hard to keep up with all the crazy coming out of that C Street house.

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