One last tantalizer for today’s opening of "Borat," which I anticipate seeing this evening. A positive review is sure to follow, as are plenty of protests from the overly sensitive.
Daily Archives: November 2, 2006
Another fundamentalist hypocrite
Schadenfreude defined:
The Rev. Ted Haggard stepped aside as senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church and resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations by a former gay male escort that the two had a three-year sexual relationship.
The church issued a statement saying Haggard "could not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations made on Denver talk radio this morning."
By the way, Haggard — featued in the movie "Jesus Camp" — was a leading opponent of gay marriage in Colorado. He is (was) also a key adviser to President Bush.
Another fundamentalist hypocrite
Schadenfreude defined:
The Rev. Ted Haggard stepped aside as senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church and resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations by a former gay male escort that the two had a three-year sexual relationship.
The church issued a statement saying Haggard "could not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations made on Denver talk radio this morning."
By the way, Haggard — featued in the movie "Jesus Camp" — was a leading opponent of gay marriage in Colorado. He is (was) also a key adviser to President Bush.
Mommy, can you get me that doll that nags?
Pity the child whose parent buys them this for Christmas:
The Dr. Laura Action Figure stands 11 inches tall and is packaged in a display box that includes her biography and photos from her personal collection. Dr. Laura herself was involved in the creation of the doll to ensure that this action figure is as true to life as possible.
It came from 1989, Dutch edition
Walking that fine line between the obscure and the once-popular, with a little assistance from the Urban Dance Squad.
Crabby bitch
Thanks to Queerty for introducing the Malcontent to the aptly named Madeline Crabb, one of those "concerned" harpies for America who spends most of her time obsessing over homosexuality.
She’s largely irrelevant, but shouldn’t be ignored since her vitriolic views are shared by many on the far right. This spite could’ve easily been spewed from the pursed lips of Dobson or Falwell or any of their legions of followers:
Homosexuality is not noble, no matter what the know better (read: liberals) crowd says. God called such behavior an abomination. Period. But if that’s not enough for you, let’s hear what the homosexuals of stellar character have to say.
The Homosexual Manifesto, which appeared in the Gay Community News in 1987 states:
We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image.
The goal of homosexuals is to infiltrate every area of society to force their disgusting sexual lifestyle choices — their perversions — on all Americans. They are doing it through legislation like "hate crimes bills," and the Courts, using fear and intimidation tactics that would make the Nazis proud.
What Crabby bitch ignores is the above "manifesto" was intended as satire. Author Michael Swift introduces his essay as "an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor."
And, just to be clear, we only want to sodomize your cute sons. The ugly straights can procreate all they want, but will be relocated to Kansas, Iowa and the Dakotas.
First time caller, long time listener
How’s this for fat and unbalanced questioning (from the president’s appearance on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show yesterday): 
Q: One of the things, if I may make this personal, one of the many things I’ve admired about you is that you see down the road 20 or 30 years. You just illustrated that with your comment. What if down the road 20 years we look back to this time and with 20-20 hindsight realize we blew it. You’re not, as far as it sounds to me, you’re not going to let that happen. You’re going to do whatever it takes to secure victory.
(Except fire Rumsfeld and reverse the botched strategy that’s seen Iraq descend into chaos.)
Q: Mr. President, we hear a lot of things from troops in Iraq, both troops that are there and troops who have returned. To a man and woman, they are shocked, they say, when they get back here, turn on the news, and look at the reporting of how things are going. They think there are tremendous successes that have taken place in Iraq. Not just governmentally over there, but military successes that aren’t being reported, and it frustrates them. I think they’re a large voting block, they and their families, and as they come back and watch I think they’re going to be active in this election as well.
(Is there a question there?)
I’m really beginning to hate the Limbaughs of the world, not so much because of their beliefs but due to their blind allegiance to incompetence and the inference that anyone who disagrees is, at best, a traitor. I don’t know where the hell us centrists are supposed to go, as both parties continue to dash towards the fringes, with their respective brainwashed bases following blindly. No time for rational discourse, or common sense solutions, just increasingly rabid finger-pointing that accomplishes nothing but division.
Disturbingly, that’s what both sides seem to want.
Mommy, can you get me that doll that nags?
Pity the child whose parent buys them this for Christmas:
The Dr. Laura Action Figure stands 11 inches tall and is packaged in a display box that includes her biography and photos from her personal collection. Dr. Laura herself was involved in the creation of the doll to ensure that this action figure is as true to life as possible.
Science damn you!
(Nihilism alert)
Another pointed “South Park,” brilliantly debunking the hopelessly naive argument that, without religion, we’d have no cause for conflict. Man is, by nature, territorial, and world peace is a juvenile illusion that can never be achieved. I’d like to be wrong, but history is on my side. Or was I sick the day we studied the Utopian period?
It came from 1982 (cont’d)
I sure had crappy taste in music when I was a child. More evidence here, compliments of Steel Breeze.
Noted and quoted, pathological edition
I wouldn’t expect him to say anything else, but still …
President Bush said Wednesday he wants Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.
“Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them,” Bush said in an interview with The Associated Press and others.
Meanwhile, in Iraq …
In a sign of how violent the month was, an unusually large number of October’s deaths occurred in combat. Ninety-nine of the troops were killed in action, compared with 63 in September, 58 in August and 38 in July. Only two other months had more U.S. troops killed in action — November 2004 (125) and April 2004 (126). …
The Reuters news service, citing data from Iraq’s Interior Ministry, reported that 1,289 Iraqi civilians died last month in political violence — nearly 42 people per day — up 18 percent from the 1,089 such fatalities in September.
Madonna, the victim
Pity poor Madonna. She truly is the Material C–t:
“I have people say to me when I’m walking down the street, ‘Why did you adopt a black child?’ I don’t dignify their question with a reply. But there is a lot of racism in the world. I think that’s underneath a lot of people’s prejudice about me adopting David. A lot of people have a problem with the fact that I’ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.”
Admittedly, there’s plenty of bigots out there, but nowhere in the coverage of Madonna’s abduction, er, adoption, has race been mentioned. And does anyone actually believe she strolls down the street among the masses? Not without a phalanx of bodyguards, each of whom would likely clothesline anyone who dared offend Dame Ciccone.
When are people — my people, in particular — going to stop falling for this shit?
This is the same woman who distributed copies of her children’s book, “The English Roses,” to AIDS orphans in Malawi. I guess everyone’s a potential customer —
“My parents died of AIDS and all I got was this crappy book written by an old Anglophile hag.”
Noted and quoted, self-loathing homosexual edition
It’s a badly kept secret in Hollywood that Neil Patrick Harris (“Doogie Howser,” for those over 21) is gay. I’m not sure why he feels the need to stay in the closet — it’s not like he’s a leading man, a la Cruise or Travolta, who stand to lose much more if they were to be honest about their sexuality — but, regardless, that’s his choice. Still, I would make sure my publicist was a little more delicate with the denials:
“He’s not of that persuasion.”
Oh, so it’s a persuasion now? Sounds like something Falwell or Robertson would say.
Happy Halloween (a day late)
Have you seen “Jesus Camp” yet? These clips break my heart, particularly when I hear some of the snide remarks made towards the children in the film (who, in essence, are given no choice but to believe). That makes them victims, not punchlines:
“I don’t want candy, I want the meat”;
“Warlocks are enemies of God” — that means you, Harry Potter!
There’s something quite sinister about stealing a child’s innocence, whether it be sexually, mentally or even spiritually.
Site of the nite
Some stirring live performances, via “Austin City Limits,” can be found here (the clips from Guided by Voices and Bright Eyes are especially recommended).
