My buddy Kevin over at LeanLeft is experiencing technical difficulties and unable to post. Since he’s unable to blog for a couple of days, I will step in and pitch hit. Here’s what you’re missing:

Bush is evil.
Rove is eviler.
Ashcroft is the evilest.
Republicans are bad, uhhmkay.
The Iraq thing isn’t going so well.
The Bush administration is up to some nefarious plot.

You have been updated.

Now there are 10 losers. And by losers, I am predicting the Democrats have no chance of winning the presidency in 2004. I’d bet one cold beer on that.

You may not believe this but SayUncle is a Christian. Yup, I believe in God. Why? One reason is that it seems too coincidental that some random carbon-laced gob of goo was energized into life. What are the odds of that? I’m guessing about the same as the odds of a tornado tearing through a junkyard and assembling a mint condition 1965 Buick Wildcat. I am, however, not overly religious. I don’t preach the gospel or really ever bring my religious views up in conversation, unless asked.

My parents were never big into the church thing. They never went and never made me go. When I was a wee lad, I attended a church because I wanted to. My parents went once, to witness my baptism. I decided at this early age that some of the stuff in the Bible was made up. No one lives to be 900. I also found (in addition to stuff being made up) that those whose job it was to teach this stuff reacted poorly (often making up more stuff) when asked about things that were inconsistent with the Bible. I asked the good reverend one day (again, as a wee lad): What happened to the dinosaurs? Why aren’t they in the Bible? His response was that odds are they died in the flood. He didn’t address their lack of mention in the Bible. As a wee lad, I realized this guy was full of shit. Partly because of the dinosaur thing but also because he told us we were going to Hell for listening to Top 40 tunes. Actually, him telling us that didn’t bother me but the zeal with which the congregation tore into it did. It became a witch hunt. All others were fond of tattling that so-and-so listened to Maniac by Michael Sembello. It became a collection of groupthink that was no damn good for anyone. I realized then I wasn’t too keen on organized religion. It leads to people doing crazy things, like flying planes into buildings. I didn’t go to church after my realization. I now attend a church once a month because my wife has asked me to after a 20 year or so break. The difference is that this new church is not insane and is actually quite tolerant of a lot of things that churches aren’t known to be tolerant of.

Religion is like fire insurance to a lot of people too. People have fire insurance (or religion) in case their house catches fire (there is an afterlife) not because they believe it’s very likely their house will catch fire (or there is an afterlife) but being without insurance (religion) in the event there was a fire (or afterlife) would really suck.

And the beautiful thing about Christianity is that all is forgiven. You come into this world as a sinner (another thing I took issue with, by the way) and you go out as one. Doesn’t matter what you do or don’t do, you’ve sinned. But Jesus makes it convenient in that all you have to do is call on him, repent, believe he died for your sins, and quote John 3:16 and you’re A-Okay. Well, that’s not the intent of the gospel by any means but that is how it is portrayed to anyone seeking to convert.

Apparently, the Bible says that buttfucking and cocksucking are wrong (the Bible has been wrong before, see above). So, the Vatican is telling its political minions not to support gay marriage because it’s a sin. Of course, we’re all sinners anyway so what’s the point? We accept that we sin, repent, and move on. The Vatican didn’t come out quite so strongly during its recent scandal. They didn’t issue any mandates about not buggering little boys. They didn’t tell their political minions to prosecute their wayward child-buggering priests. In fact, they fought it quite extensively.

They’ll go to bat for pederasts but not for two (or more) consenting adults doing whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. The church will protect the disgusting antics of some members of its priesthood but not keep its nose out of the lives of others? Clean up your own mess before making one somewhere else. It’s disgusting.

Jeff, who headed up the party that nominated me for Secretary of the Interior, has a post where he is requesting names for the party. Didn’t take long for someone to suggest Anti-Idiotarians.

My suggestion: The Little L Party or the Hey, you! Get out of my government party.

I am remiss in not posting this sooner (it took me that long to get around to reading the whole thing) but AlphaPatriot tackles the psychological disorder known as being liberal.

Zoiks!

A drunken Croat flasher got more excitement than he bargained for when he pushed his penis through a woman’s fence and her dog bit it, local newspapers said on Friday.

The visibly drunk man was walking down the street and started swearing and shouting at the woman for no reason. He then shoved his penis through her fence, unaware her dog was on the other side, police said.

The bitten man himself reported the incident to the police.