Over the Threshold →
When someone “Likes” something that I put up, I always check out what they have to offer. I’m glad I did. Thanks to somethingsecure for this.
I never understood why a Catholic would become clergy, male or female. Now I do.
Christ and Homosexuality
There’s an ongoing joke about Jesus’s ideas on homosexuality: A pamphlet is titled “What Jesus Said About Homosexuality” and you open it and it’s blank, page after page, blank.
Of course, that’s true. Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. Though He did mention Sodom and Gomorrah, using them as examples of inhospitality to strangers—AND neglecting to mention “sodomy.”
So you have to wonder: if Jesus was God, Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, consubstantial with the Father, and so gifted at least in some way with Divine Omniscience, so He’d know there would one day be a terrible problem in Christianity and culture over homosexuality, gay rights, and same-sex marriage, why didn’t He say anything specific.
Why didn’t He say that He was abolishing all the rules in the Old Testament EXCEPT the rule against homosexual intercourse?
Why didn’t He distinguish between His forgiving the woman brought to him in adultery (“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”) and His wanting to continue to hold homosexuality against people?
Why didn’t He say anything about how homosexual marriage would defile the sanctity of the relationship of man and woman?
Why didn’t He say anything?
Did He just keep forgetting to mention it?
Transcript of tonight's Republican debate.
- MODERATOR: Hi. Here we are again. Let's get right to it and start with Speaker Gingrich. Sir, please don't get mad tonight.
- GINGRICH: No.
- ROMNEY: Freddie Mac! Resigned in disgrace! I'll release my 2012 taxes after I'm President! (Smarmy laugh.)
- PAUL: Why am I here?
- SANTORUM: I still hate gay people. And I'm still a huge dick. Look at my sweater vest! Obama's a Muslim!
- MODERATOR: Does anyone here have anything of substance to offer?
- GINGRICH: I hear Santorum is some sort of substance.
- (All laugh. Except Santorum, whose wife runs onto the stage.)
- MRS. SANTORUM: Don't pick on my husband! He just hates gay people!
- MODERATOR: Security, please escort Mrs. Santorum off the stage.
- ROMNEY: I pay Cayman Islands offshore taxes investments Bain Capital, uh, universal healthcare reform no, Obama must go!
- PAUL: Why am I here?
- SANTORUM: Still with the hating of the gay people. Sweater vests! (Takes off shirt.)
- MODERATOR: Thanks all. We're going to commercial and when we come back, I'm going to ask the candidates, "Why even bother?" Stay tuned.
This was Ben Rothlesberger’s photo when he auditioned for the part of Mad Men’s Don Draper..
Pow Right In The Kisser of the Day: Fed-up Pakistani news reporter Asad Sahi does what people in his position have long dreamt of doing, decks an overzealous New Year’s reveler live on the air.
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The best part is the anchor trying to keep a straight face as they throw back to the studio.
American reporters should be able to do the same thing when covering their cities’ professional sports teams’ fans’ post-championship celebrations.
The Kool-Aid guy said it best…OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHH
New York Giants 31, What A Big Fancy Stadium You Have 14
End of the regular season. On to the playoffs/coronation of Green Bay. I just looked in the mirror. My Rose Bowl game face has already made an appearance. Go Ducks!
Happy Birthday Jesus!
I’ll bet the cake is Angel Food.
How Life Changes in Two Years
I was perusing old Tumbls last night. Almost exactly two years ago I said the following: One of my roommates is a pretty fair hand in the kitchen. He found out that I like peach cobbler and made some for me to have when I came home from work. I said, to him:
“If you had breasts and weren’t Republican I would marry you. And they wouldn’t have to be big breasts either.”
That was before the destined to crash roller-coaster that was Maranda and the blissy giggles that is DeeDee.
Merry Christmas, Facebook. Merry Christmas, Tumblr. Merry Christmas, Tyler, Jennabee, Katey, and all others who follow this journey.
His Nomial Oppressiveness
This week the Pope declared war on parents naming babies after celebrities, fruit or popular sports cars. In an address to parents, the less than progressive pontiff pleaded with worshipers to ‘give your children names that are in the Christian calendar’. So Apple, Brooklyn and Ferrari are out, Francisco and Giulia are in.
This creates a conflict for parents who want to name their daughter Olivia since it’s a fruit (olive), a celebrity (Newton-John) and a famous place of Christian history (Mount of Olives)
Worse off yet are those who wish to name their child Gabriela since its a form of Gabriel on the plus side, but connected to Gabriela Sabatini who was a fetching tennis playing celebrity.
Of those who are little concerned by this are the Protestants who get to continue naming their children any darn thing they wish… like Kyd (David Duchovny and Tea Leoni), Ocean (Forest Whitaker) and Willow Camille Reign (Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith)
In a strongly worded critique of the country’s best-known sheriff, the Justice Department on Thursday accused Sheriff Joe Arpaio of engaging in “unconstitutional policing” by unfairly targeting Latinos for detention and arrest and retaliating against those who complain.
After an investigation that lasted more than three years, the civil rights division of the Justice Department said in a 22-page report that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which Mr. Arpaio leads, had “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” that “reaches the highest levels of the agency.” The department interfered with the inquiry, the government said, prompting a lawsuit that eventually led Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies to cooperate.
“We have peeled the onion to its core,” said Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, noting during a conference call with reporters on Thursday morning that more than 400 inmates, deputies and others had been interviewed as part of the review, including Sheriff Arpaio and his command staff. Mr. Perez said the inquiry, which included jail visits and reviews of thousands of pages of internal documents, raised the question of whether Latinos were receiving “second-class policing services” in Maricopa County.
Mr. Perez said he hoped Sheriff Arpaio would cooperate with the federal government in turning the department around. Should he refuse to enter into a court-approved settlement agreement, Mr. Perez said, the government will file a lawsuit and the department could lose millions of dollars in federal money.
A separate federal grand jury investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s office is continuing, focusing on accusations of abuse of power by the department’s public corruption squad.
Sheriff Arpaio was singled out for criticism in the report, which said that he had used racially charged letters he had received to justify raids and that he helped nurture the department’s “culture of bias.”
The New York Times, “U. S. Finds Pervasive Bias Against Latinos by Sheriff’s Office.”
And who is surprised?
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