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Christine O'Donnel

Okay, gonna say this right now: I have no idea who Christine O'Donnel is, but OHMAI is she weird!

As the former head of the clumsily named Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT), O’Donnell was the Tipper Gore of the 1990s, attending lewd and lascivious rock concerts just to tell stoned, Satanist teenagers that they were going to hell. "Walking through the crowd I also noticed more pentagrams than crosses around the teenage necks," she gasped. At a 1997 music festival in Washington, D.C., the Catholic killjoy “distributed thousands of brochures with information on the failure rate of condoms, on AIDS, on sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, pornography and the movement of former homosexuals.”

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT
It's like going to Duke and expecting to find some dude in a UNC shirt.

(this one was made in Skitch, which is why the lines are so smooth!)
BUT YEAH
Christine O'Donnel is quite the character... ¬.¬

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"Ground Zero Mosque" My Ass/Controversy Time! Vol. 4

Charlie Brooker on the "Ground Zero mosque":

To get to the Cordoba Centre from Ground Zero, you’d have to walk in the opposite direction for two blocks, before turning a corner and walking a bit more. The journey should take roughly two minutes, or possibly slightly longer if you’re heading an angry mob who can’t hear your directions over the sound of their own enraged bellowing.

Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is “two minutes’ walk and round a corner” from something else isn’t actually “in” the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes’ walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen’s pillow. That’s how “distance” works in Britain. It’s also how distance works in America, of course, but some people are currently pretending it doesn’t, for daft political ends.

New York being a densely populated city, there are lots of other buildings and businesses within two blocks of Ground Zero, including a McDonald’s and a Burger King, neither of which has yet been accused of serving milkshakes and fries on hallowed ground. Regardless, for the opponents of Cordoba House, two blocks is too close, period. Frustratingly, they haven’t produced a map pinpointing precisely how close is OK.

That’s literally all I’d ask them in an interview. I’d stand there pointing at a map of the city. Would it be offensive here? What about here? Or how about way over there? And when they finally picked a suitable spot, I’d ask them to draw it on the map, sketching out roughly how big it should be, and how many windows it’s allowed to have. Then I’d hand them a colour swatch and ask them to decide on a colour for the lobby carpet. And the conversation would continue in this vein until everyone in the room was in tears. Myself included.

That hasn’t happened. Instead, 70% of Americans are opposed to the “Ground Zero mosque”, doubtless in many cases because they’ve been led to believe it literally is a mosque at Ground Zero. And if not . . . well, it must be something significant. Otherwise why would all these pundits be so angry about it? And why would anyone in the media listen to them with a straight face?

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SCANDALOUS

THEY HAVE RAPTOR JESUS ON THERE, BUT THEY DIDN'T EVEN PUT IN THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER?!?!?!?
BLASPHEMY!

I've only heard of Raptor Jesus because one of Nora's old classmates did a report on it, and Nora told Papa and me. Raptor Jesus is hardly a meme, or even well-known.

The FSM, though-- the FSM is well-known! While He isn't a meme (technically), He's older and more creative than the Raptor Jesus thing. Also, Pastafarianism is actively practiced by protesters everywhere! Like, in almost every single Gay Pride parade nowadays, there is at LEAST one person with a homemade FSM on his head, or in full Pirate regalia. There is not, however, a guy with a dinosaur mask and Jesus clothes.




Also there doesn't seem to be any Pirates vs Ninja references anywhere. Hmmm. That really is a meme...

All in all review: maybe 3 stars out of five. The image itself is charming and funny, but I just can't get past the lack of FSM or Pirates-vs-Ninja...

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Pray For Your Enemies

LOL

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Mass Hysteria

Continuing with last night's Jesus post, here's a video of preacher Kenneth Hagin insinuating mass hysteria. It's the same breed of freakishness as the various dancing crazes in Europe during the Middle Ages.



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