CE- with a grain of salt

[rockysigman]

Actually I think he'd be a pretty decent President.

But perhaps my standards have lowered a bit in the last couple years.

[phil]

mary said:

rockysigman said:

I wonder what it was like to have this guy as a science teacher.

Awesome, obviously.

I mean, think about how often you were bored shitless in high school science.

Now think about if your high school science teacher talked about Satan a lot.

Kent Hovind for President!!!

Actually I think he'd be a pretty decent President.

But perhaps my standards have lowered a bit in the last couple years.

LoLoLoLoLoL !!

[Proud]

Looks like it's too late, but if any of you guys stumbled upon a PlayStation 3, you could've had tacos for life:

Taco Bell is trying to do a good deed. The first person who agrees to give up their PlayStation 3 to Taco Bell will get the equivalent of tacos for life. Your console (should you choose to donate it) won't go to a Taco Bell manager. Instead, the Bell is giving the PS3 to the Boys & Girls Club.

"The PlayStation 3 is on every teen's holiday wish list," said Bob Fulmer, Executive Director, Taco Bell Foundation. "That's why we're offering one lucky individual tacos for life in exchange for giving Boys & Girls Club teens a gift that will keep them in the game."

If interested, send your name, email address and phone number to [e-mail]. The offer expires December 1, 2006. It's first come, first served, so if you want to make the ultimate holiday sacrifice (and get some free tacos in the process), email sooner rather than later.

[Kensterberg]

The Word: Truthiness

AP via CNN.com

'Truthiness' is the word of the year

POSTED: 10:48 a.m. EST, December 9, 2006

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) -- After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness."

The word -- if one can call it that -- best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

"Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

"We're at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people's minds, and truth has become up for grabs," said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. "'Truthiness' is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue."

Other Top 10 finishers included "war," "insurgent," "sectarian" and "corruption." But "truthiness" won 5-to-1, Morse said.

Colbert -- who once derided the folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster as the "word police" and a bunch of "wordinistas" -- was pleased.

"Though I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honor me," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

"And what an honor," he said. "Truthiness now joins the lexicographical pantheon with words like 'squash,' 'merry,' 'crumpet,' 'the,' 'xylophone,' 'circuitous,' 'others' and others."

Colbert first uttered "truthiness" during an October 2005 broadcast of "The Colbert Report," his parody of combative, conservative talk shows.

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And that's The Word.

[rockysigman]

It's time for the This Modern World year in review (first part anyway). Wahoo!

[dolly]

Neat cartoon.

The poisoned Russian spy totally passing you guys by then over the water? How totaly cool that we get to mistrust the Ruskies once more. Up the Kremlin! Muslim fundie terrorism was getting sooooo old.

*token one off CE post by non-American*

[kmc]

And to think, we thought our administration accomplished nothing.

[strat-0]

Oh, it's getting plenty of play over here, Dolly. Putin had nothing to with it - he said so.

[dolly]

Of course he didn't, Strat. Putin is a President. Presidents never get involved in murder and corruption.

[shin]

Hoosier Edward Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore, was arrested in Columbus Dec. 4 and charged with operating a vehicle under the influence — his second alcohol-related arrest in less that four months, according to the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department.

Tinsley, 48, who lives in Columbus, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.14 — almost twice the level at which an Indiana driver is considered intoxicated. He posted $755 bond.

On Aug. 26, Tinsley was arrested for public intoxication, according to the sheriff’s department.

www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/LOCAL/612120413

[rockysigman]

Conservatives represent American values.

[maarts]

Gee whizz. I never thought that lying, corruption, hypocrisy and generally acting like a giant douchebag would be considered as being American Values...

[Galactus]

According to Jim Rutz, republicans are scientifically more moral then democrats.

wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53227

[phil]

Love that site ...

Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self Defense (book)-PRE-SALE

by Charl Van Wyk


What would you do if armed terrorists broke into your church and starting attacking your friends with automatic weapons in the middle of a worship service?

Would you be prepared to defend yourself and other innocents?

Would you be justified in doing so?

Is it time for Americans to consider such once-unthinkable possibilities?

There is one man in the world who can address these questions with first-hand experience.

His name is Charl van Wyck – a South African who was faced with just such a shocking scenario.

In "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defense," van Wyk makes a biblical, Christian case for individuals arming themselves with guns, and does so more persuasively than perhaps any other author because he found himself in a church attacked by terrorists.

"Grenades were exploding in flashes of light. Pews shattered under the blasts, sending splinters flying through the air," he recalls of the July 25, 1993, St. James Church Massacre. "An automatic assault rifle was being fired and was fast ripping the pews -- and whoever, whatever was in its trajectory -- to pieces. We were being attacked!"

But van Wyk was not defenseless that day. Had he been unarmed like the other congregants, the slaughter would have been much worse.

"Instinctively, I knelt down behind the bench in front of me and pulled out my .38 special snub-nosed revolver, which I always carried with me," he writes in "Shooting Back," a book being published for the first time in America next month by WND Books. "I would have felt undressed without it. Many people could not understand why I would carry a firearm into a church service, but I argued that this was a particularly dangerous time in South Africa."

During that Sunday evening service, the terrorists, wielding AK-47s and grenades, killed 11 and wounded 58. But the fact that one man – van Wyk – fired back, wounding one of the attackers and driving the others away.

...


Using his personal and high-profile story as a launch-pad, van Wyk wrote "Shooting Back" – which instantly became a South African bestseller, as well as a bestseller for WND, which imported thousands of copies of the original book for sale online to audiences in the U.S. and around the world.

But it was always a challenge maintaining supplies to meet the demand.

This is the first time this book, previously published in South Africa, has been widely available in the U.S. and elsewhere.

"I am honored to be a part of this historic undertaking – the republishing of this classic work in the United States," said Joseph Farah, founder of WND Books and editor and chief executive officer of WND. "We have been working on this for more than three years. Now everyone can read this amazing and important story, which has applications in terror-stricken America and for Christians and Jews throughout the world."

Far from being just a reliving of the tragedy of the St. James Church Massacre, "Shooting Back" is a thorough examination of the whole issue of armed self-defense from a Christian perspective.

It deals with burning questions that plague all conscience-driven people:

• Should we carry arms?

• When is it appropriate to defend ourselves and our families?

• What can we do when our freedom to carry arms is legislated away from us?

Using the Bible as his guidepost, van Wyk makes the case that Christians not only have the right but the duty to defend themselves and other innocents from such aggression.

What's the lesson?

“As Van Wyk’s experience illustrates, no place is totally safe — not even a church," explains Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, who wrote the forward to the book. "The notion that declaring an area to be gun-free, will keep criminals from maliciously using guns is ludicrous. Any law that makes self-defense illegal or impractical is an illegitimate law, because such a law ultimately subjects people to the criminal element. I hope that Charl van Wyk’s book will help turn the tide. South Africans – and people everywhere – need to refuse to support any laws that leave them defenseless against murderers, robbers, rapists and arsonists."

But this amazing true story doesn't end there. It's also about redemption and reconciliation. Several of the church members who were injured or who lost family members in the attacks, as well as van Wyk, later met with and forgave some of their repentant attackers.

[phil]

LoLoLoL !!


WARNED

Canada's Revolution Against
Faith, Family and Freedom
Threatens America
by Tristan Emmanuel

This book is essential reading for both Americans and Canadians even though it is more particularly directed to our American friends. Both countries face a serious challenge to their cultures. This book exposes the radical exploitation of Canada at the hands of extremist activists, leftwing politicians and a plethora of crusading activist judges, who are using their status in Canada to get at America. Their aim is marriage. But the prize is America. They want to use marriage as a weapon to systematically destroy the Judeo-Christian civilization of North America, but to do that they need America to "go gay". Gay "marriage" will open America up to the rest of the demands of the homosexual political movement. Everything from school curriculum to parental rights, adoption, the age of consent and religious freedoms will be up for grabs once gay "marriage" is made legal in America. Unless socons in both countries unite and work to resist these political opponents, we can kiss our continent good-bye.

What People Are Saying

"Tristan Emmanuel is one of Canada's leading social conservative activists. In a country where people are generally pretty meek in terms of standing up for traditional values, he stands as a beacon of light, and has garnered a reputation as an uncompromising apologist for the country's long-lost Christian heritage...For that reason alone, his book is important for Americans. It gives a virtual blueprint of the tactics we are already seeing unfold from our opponents here in America as our marriage debate advances."
JOSEPH FARAH
WorldNetDaily.com Editor and CEO


"If someone were dumping wastewater over Niagara Falls, Americans would be rightly outraged. But few seem to comprehend the socially toxic threat to the United States posed by Canada’s ‘gay marriage’ agenda. Tristan Emmanuel’s new book will help Americans understand why they are not immune from Canada’s radical social policies and how liberals on both sides of the border are cooperating, using the courts to thwart public opinion. Rev. Emmanuel’s revealing book comes at a very critical time."
ROBERT KNIGHT
Concerned Women for America


"An absolute must read for every American who values their freedom. In this eye-opening book, Canadian Christian activist Tristan Emmanuel shows how the international homosexual movement is using Canada as a launching pad for pushing ‘gay marriage,’ while systematically stripping Canadians of their religious rights. In Canada gay rights trump religious rights - and it is coming to the United States."
JANET FOLGER
Author of "The Criminalization of Christianity" and host of Faith2ACTION radio.


"Tristan Emmanuel skillfully unmasks the ugly truth: homosexual radicals are at war with Western Judeo-Christian culture. Here is a revolutionary world-wide cause, deceitful and treacherous, its foot soldiers masquerading as a persecuted group in need of special human rights - including the right to silence Christians, and to teach our children perversion as privilege. This is a must read book."
MARK P. MOSTERT, PhD
Professor, School of Education, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VAM


"Canada exports more than beaver skins and hockey sticks. Unfortunately same-sex ‘marriage’ is a product that is coming your way. It is critical to learn that truth mixed with complacency does not lead to victory. Cultural attacks must be thwarted pro actively with well-organized efforts if we expect to preserve our way of life. Tristan Emmanuel is a key Canadian leader who fought the good fight to preserve marriage."
DR. CHARLES MCVETY
President of Canada Christian College and Canada Family Action Coalition


"Neither Americans nor Canadians can afford to ignore the homosexual movement that is exploiting both their countries. Emmanuel’s book serves as a warning about how dishonest politicians hide behind the courts, how radical activists are allowed to hijack the agenda and how the public’s apathy permits massive social change. You need to read this book."
PAUL TUNS
Editor of the Interim, Canada’s Life and Family Newspaper