Please being the canonization process early, or

Please begin the canonization process early?

The latter, of course, and now for more coffee.

But I blame myself.

More sleep for me.

My work hear here is done.

Your appropriate penance will be sufficient donations to the almsbox.

If you really want to see the church wriggle, take away its tax exemptions since it lobbies the government.

That’s the moral leadership you expect out of a religious leader, y’know like Jimmy Swaggert, John Hagee, or Ali Khamenei.

Far worse. The raping of boys and girls, that has been going on for, probably, centuries by the paedophiles, otherwise known as priests is far worse than the dip into homosexuality by Swaggart and Hagee or the call to zap the violent oppressors (America) by Khamenei.

But it is not only the raping it is the stealing of vast sums of money by fraud. Stealing from the poor, the needy, the elderly all the while building bigger and bigger edifices and hoarding gold while laughing at the people that believe the fables put out by paedophiles in dresses and fancy hats.

Ruth is correct these crooks all live tax free in their fancy mansions and drive their fancy cars and hobnob with the powerful while they sell fear for money….kinda like the insurance companies.

Growing up in Ireland as an Agnostic I saw first hand the vileness, viciousness, bigotry and hatred of the frocked fuckers.

They seem to be just a bunch of creeps.

It’s time to start taxing the churches bigtime, if only because they are dragging the nation down morally.

Who the Hell’s a Moderate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyKBevTjVY

The fiction that works for the church is that its ‘parishioners’ get special favors from their deities by giving gifts to the church. So they get by with lots of viciousness in their minds in return for donations, that the rest of us regret because it hurts people.

But that is the “christian” way.

Not just morally, educationally. The TX school board is putting together its textbook amendments this week. (Post on it going up later at Seminal.firedoglake ) They’re doing away with heroic people in history who don’t meet their criteria. like brown sorts.

They’re doing away with heroic people in history who don’t meet their criteria. like brown sorts.

And women too we hope. Gotta purge the “imperfects” you know. I thought the school board crazies were done away with last year, or was that in Kansas?

Thanks for the post, Attaturk. As a Catholic youth I had to go over to the church sanctioned Boy Scout Troop to encounter a sexual predator. Oh well.

On a somewhat unrelated note Morning Holier-Than-Thou is bashing the shit out of a crazy/creepy former Congress person while clearly forgetting that he his own self left Congress with a dead intern in one of his offices.

Good morning all.

Actually, the craziest lost in our elections, but still has a term to serve… if you call that serving.

but there is a move afoot to national standards, which would nix the TX huge input because we order so many textbooks.

Wasn’t at least one of those wackjobs primaried last week?

But did the ethic committee actually find anything wrong with knocking off interns? if not, then what’s your problem?

Hilarious that after doing away with the ethics committee altogether, its revival is giving the right so much fun by finding stuff.

yep. see #13. so he’s trying to do all the damage he has before his 15 minutes is up.

Nevermind. Sorry Ruth.

Good morning, pups. Ms. Collins is off today, so Mr. Kristof is flying solo. In “Teach for the World” he says that judging by the number of applicants for the 2010 Win-a-Trip contest (we have a winner!), perhaps we need an international version of Teach for America.

Here he is.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes this morning. It’s cloudy here this morning, and we’ll probably get rain tomorrow, but it’s really beginning to feel like spring may be peeking through the door. It’s in the 50s this morning, and it may get up into the 70s tomorrow and Saturday. Have a great day.

Maybe the leason for today is ethics and Congress don’t often gather in the same zip code. Who could have antic……never mind.

Thanks, just don’t send them to school in TX.

At least it’s lots of fodder for the Rachel and KO enjoyment. Was watching last night’s edition, hilarity

I wasn’t too thrilled with Lawrence O’Donnell’s hilarity. He reminded me of an eighth grade boy looking up sex words in the dictionary, or oggling National Geographic for semi-nude native pictures. Even Bill Maher seemed eager to break off the discussion.

I say if we’re going to go after people for thier religion(I don’t think we should), we should start with this one.

Swim is up…

When it comes to organized religion, I belong to the Church of Maher and Carlin. If you want to connect with the Creator, just go out and sit in the woods by yourself.

The fiction that works for the church is that its ‘parishioners’ get special favors from their deities by giving gifts to the church.

Pie in the sky!