Ireland’s atheists are battling a blasphemy law while the year of gay China is moving forward. And you won’t believe what you’ve been eating. These stories and more on today’s list.
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Annals of Irish Jurisprudence, Blasphemy Division, Cont.
Ireland’s Minister of Justice is proposing to amend his new blasphemy law by providing, as a defense, that a person accused of blasphemy can “prove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific or academic value” in blasphemous matter.
The Joy of Dirt
Grub, filth, grime, muck, gunk, slag, grit, grunge, smut, dross, dust, sludge, squalor. Insulted, hounded and despised, dirt these days has nowhere to hide.
Obama Double-Crossed Progressives on Health Care
Are you feeling like a chump yet? If you’re a good progressive, and you wanted single-payer health care for all, or, second best, Medicare for All Who Want It, or third best, a robust public option, or fourth best, a paltry public option, now you’ve got nothing, nada, zippo.
Bernanke: Rewarding a Catastrophe
The Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke for another four-year term.
Irish Atheists Challenge Blasphemy Law
An atheist group in the Irish Republic has defied a new blasphemy law by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations on its website.
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You don’t know the half of it. I changed to chicken on the advice of my wife. It’s all bull shit. Go vegetarian.
But on a larger scale, the U.S. continues its unflagging march to War. President Johnson’s War on Poverty turned to a war on the poor, and that has metasticized to a war on the middle calls. Remember Clinton’s end of Welfare as we know it. Now, let’s look at the Wives of these Wall Street magnates to see how New “Welfare Queens are faring.”
Travellers of fourteen countries have been put on the “Watch List.” All of these countries are Muslim. Are we serious? Get a grip! The nation, the people, or as Johnson once said, “The people, P-e-e-p-u-l, the people. But it goes unheard. We are nuts accordingling to the polls and the paid, repetitive callers to C-SPAN.
The story is Omar whatizname wore the bomb in in his shorts, and it happened on Christmas Day. Surrprisingly a gift to the shadow government of the U.S.: Witness the fat-ass Sheuer on C-SPAN on Monday Jan, 4th
Oh my God!
And the Media will continue this facade until the everyone (in their polls?) accepts that the Freedoms that those bozos have been fighting for, and have been losing, are gone. We are shit in their eyes.
Where are Barack Obama, Mitch McConnel, Blowhard Boehner?
Eddie,
I know you are there. You were a jerk then, and marriage won’t help you. You are a jerk now.
Quelle Surprise! Haiti on the Mend
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By garth, January 4, 2010 at 12:16 pm Link to this comment
Larry,
You don’t know the half of it. I changed to chicken on the advice of my wife. It’s all bull shit. Go vegetarian.
But on a larger scale, the U.S. continues its unflagging march to War. President Johnson’s War on Poverty turned to a war on the poor, and that has metasticized to a war on the middle calls. Remember Clinton’s end of Welfare as we know it. Now, let’s look at the Wives of these Wall Street magnates to see how New “Welfare Queens are faring.”
Travellers of fourteen countries have been put on the “Watch List.” All of these countries are Muslim. Are we serious? Get a grip! The nation, the people, or as Johnson once said, “The people, P-e-e-p-u-l, the people. But it goes unheard. We are nuts accordingling to the polls and the paid, repetitive callers to C-SPAN.
The story is Omar whatizname wore the bomb in in his shorts, and it happened on Christmas Day. Surrprisingly a gift to the shadow government of the U.S.: Witness the fat-ass Sheuer on C-SPAN on Monday Jan, 4th
Oh my God!
And the Media will continue this facade until the everyone (in their polls?) accepts that the Freedoms that those bozos have been fighting for, and have been losing, are gone. We are shit in their eyes.
Where are Barack Obama, Mitch McConnel, Blowhard Boehner?
Eddie,
I know you are there. You were a jerk then, and marriage won’t help you. You are a jerk now.
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