Time for the Crazies

And as we all know, Rush Limbaugh can be as crazy as they come.  He is getting his reality mixed up with fantasy.  Yesterday on his radio show (and why does he still have one??), he made this conspiracy theory:  The villain in the new Batman move is named Bane and it is a "purposeful" attempt to equate villainy to Romney's Bain capital, and it will influence voters."  Now, he thinks that the moviegoers are all "a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop-culture crowd. And they’re going to hear ”Bane” in the movie, and they are going to associate Bain."  (Entertainment Weekly)

Why is he worried about the brain-dead?  And really, it is not like they changed the name of the villain just to associate Bane with Bain.  The villain has been around since 1993, first appearing in "Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1". (WIKI)  Bain Capital has been around since 1984.  Bane, "although primarily a villain, ... is a complex character and has worked to take down drug lords." Bain "is one of the world's leading private investment firms managing approximately $65 billion in assets under management." (Bain Capital)

Not sure there are two many similarities between the two.  Now, Bane "has sometimes had Batman's financial backing and direct assistance."  Perhaps, Bain Capital and Batman have more in common?

Doubt that.

Because the Bible Tells Me So

There are some people out there who probably ought not read the bible.  They definitely take it too seriously sometimes.  Pastor Curtis Knapp, of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, probably ought not.  In a recent sermon he stated that the government should start killing homosexuals because that's what the bible says.  (JoeMyGod)

"Is it His word or not? If it’s His word, he commanded it. It’s His idea, not mine. And I’m not ashamed of it. He said put them to death.  You got a better idea? A better idea than God?"  Well, I am not so sure God himself wrote the bible.  There were a few other guys during that time that had their pens to paper.

There are a few other things that the other guys, saying it was from God, jotted down.  No playing football: "You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you." (Pigskin)  No tattoos: "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord."  No polyester: "nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." Expensive clothes and jewelry: "Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments." (11Points.com)

Doubt the pastor preached on these.  And what about that part that God wrote about "Thou shalt not kill"?  If it's His word, he commanded it, right?

Don't Fence Me In

One man's plan to rid the world of homosexuals has gone, as they say, 'viral':

"I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress,”

“Build a great big, large fence – 50 or 100 miles long – and put all the lesbians in there.  Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce."  (CNN.com)

What about this idea that a "man of the cloth" wants to kill off people?  Isn't that no killing thing in the top 10 things you aren't allowed to do?  Now, some church members, who declined to give their names, defended their pastor, saying his words had been taken out of context. "He said he would feed them!" Oh, so he is not killing them, just not letting them reproduce.

So, the pastor at the Providence Road Baptist Church thinks that fencing in the queers and lesbos is going to make them go away?  Does he know where queers and lesbos come from?  Straight parents.


Perhaps there should be another fenced in area.  How about those "men of the cloth" who sexually abused kids, that is proven in 4,000 pages from the confidential files of nine Franciscan religious brothers who were accused, and the $28 million that was paid to the victims?  (HuffingtonPost.com)

Maybe they need to be corralled and have food air-dropped.  And maybe the pastor from North Carolina can join them.

Is it Politics, Religion or Just Hate?

You all know what "it" is.  "It" is homosexuality.  And, so, is the lack of equality therein related to politics, religion or hate?  Many stand by the politics.  Left-Wing liberals want equality for all.  Right-Wing conservatives want no equality.  Many stand by religion.

A Danish vicar refused to perform a funeral for a dead 74 year old lesbian because he wouldn't perform weddings, and would "not therefore perform other church services for gays."  (PinkNews.co.uk)

But, perhaps the religious is all wrong.  Maybe the religious basis has been misunderstood and/or mistranslated.  Daniel A. Helminiak, who was ordained a priest in Rome, is a theologian, psychotherapist and author.  He definitely thinks that all these people just didn't understand exactly what the bible was saying.  He thinks "the Bible is ho-hum on homosexuality." (CNN.com)

Even in the sin of Sodom, it isn't actually homosexuality that the bible is pointing out.  It is more: "pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48-49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach/Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man’s property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12)."

Then in Romans 1:26-27: "Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another."  In the Greek text, the phrase that was used was para physin.  This was translated to mean "unnatural," but "it should read atypical or unusual."

In another section, Romans 11:24, Paul used the para physin to describe what God did when he "grafted the Gentiles into the Jewish people," inserting a bad plant into the cultivated vine.  It was an unusual thing to do, not standard practice.  Paul wasn't calling God unnatural.  He was saying this was atypical.

The religious calling homosexuality sinful and unnatural because the bible tells them so, is wrong.  So, if it ain't religion, that leaves politics...

or just hate.

Yabba, Dabba, Do

So to say that Tennessee has some issues dealing with social topics is an understatement.  They have problems with women.  And losing the head basketball coach ain't it.  Republican candidate Garry Loe said he wholeheartedly supports women on the issues of housing, education and jobs, but is absolutely an anti-abortion advocate.  (RhrealityCheck.org)


Tennessee also wants to protect gun rights.  Even when it is illegal.  Tennessee Republican Tea Party lawmaker Jeremy Faison is pushing a bill that would protect gun owners who just “didn’t see” a sign prohibiting guns. So if there is a sign that says "No Guns", this law would "give gun owners a defense in cases where they didn’t see a sign prohibiting guns.” (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com)


Then there's gay rights.  There was a "controversial bill in Tennessee meant to restrict public school discussion of sexuality and LGBT issues."  They didn't want anybody to say "gay".  But, that might not happen now.  The key GOP sponsor announced on Monday that he simply wouldn't bring it up. (HuffingtonPost.com)


So maybe things are looking up in Tennessee.  Perhaps Fred and Barney should still stay away.  Probably wouldn't be able to have a "gay ol' time" there anyway.

Now that explains it all...

Somethings are difficult to explain.  Like why Santorum stays in the race (He is carrying the flag for the conservative movement - WashingtonPost.com).  Or why he would use rarely enforced obscenity laws to handcuff the pornography industry. (Porn stars are firing back! PhillyMag.com)  Or why some people have socially conservative political views in the first place.

Well, a new study may just explain it all, linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking. (HuffingtonPost.com)  Ahh, the low effort approach.  In one part of the study, bar patrons were asked about social issues before blowing into a Breathalyzer.  The higher their blood alcohol levels were, the more likely they were to be conservative.

And not just in bars.  "Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said about tests conducted in a lab setting.

In another study, "Psychological Science" showed that children who score low on intelligence tests gravitate toward socially conservative political views in adulthood.

Low intelligence/Low effort = conservatives... that does explain a lot.

Listen to What I Say... But Not What I Said

Maybe that is what good ol' Rick wants everybody to do.  First he says "The issue in this race is not the economy.," but the real issue is "because we have a government that is oppressing its people and taking away their freedom."  And that is important now!  (HuffingtonPost.com)

So, he wants the government out of people's lives.  That makes sense.  Except... when it comes to certain 'social issues' that Mr. Santorum wants the government right in the middle of.  Things like abortion and birth control.  He wants people to be able to have their freedom, unless it comes at the cost of something he disagrees with.  The right to choose is a freedom.

He also wants to interrupt another 'freedom'. He wants an end to pornography.  He thinks the Obama Administration is 'soft' on porn.  He thinks the Justice Department under President Obama “seems to favor pornographers over children and families.”  So, let's get the government in on that!  That is important now!  (WashingtonPost.com)

But, it is what he says, not what he said.  He didn't think that Penn State was soft on pedophilia in the Sandusky case.  Nor does the devout Catholic think he has to "grade the Catholic Church" on the pedophilia there.  So, let's just stay out of those areas.  (LezGetReal)

The one thing Rick ought to watch out for though, is who he might be intruding on in the porn area.  From the NewScientist:  "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds."  (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com) So, Rick's supporters are buying the stuff.

Wonder if they will still vote for him...