Rekers said: I have spent much time as a mental health professional and as a Christian minister helping and lovingly caring for people identifying themselves as “gay.” My hero is Jesus Christ who loves even the culturally despised people, including sexual sinners and prostitutes. Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the […]
And this from Right Pundit: An Islamic terrorist named Faisal Shahzad is the Time Square bomber according to media reports. He is Muslim of Pakistani heritage with dual citizenship in the United States, recently naturalized as a U.S. citizen under the Obama administration’s lenient open door policy. We are still attempting to confirm reports of […]
I’m really glad Marcy picked up this ball. I saw Halliburton‘s name on this story and winced. That’s what Halliburton does – the engineering part of oil wells. But I hadn’t seen their statement: Halliburton: We Worked to Spec By: emptywheel May 4, 2010 As oil continues to gush into the Gulf, I’ve been haunted […]
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy" Miami Herald By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp May 6, 2010 The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch […]
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Meet my new favorite columnist, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen: Newt Gingrich, provocateur in chief Washington Post by Richard Cohen May 4, 2010 He has a doctorate in the social sciences and taught briefly at the college level. He has been married three times, divorced twice and confessed to an extramarital affair. He has never […]
Friend ShrinkRap has an interesting metaphor for the once bigger than life Alan Greenspan – the incredible shrinking man. Nothing could be more appropriate. He seemed bigger than life to us – a Guru of Capitalism. He kept our economy humming along like a finely tuned NASCAR motor built to go the whole 500 miles. […]
I read John Yoo’s op-ed with outrage and frank amazement. Here’s emptywheel‘s take. Mine follows: John Yoo: Stupid Political Hack AND Craven Addington Disciple By: emptywheel May 3, 2010 If ever there were a doubt that John Yoo was not just a craven lackey for David Addington, but also a stupid political hack, his op-ed […]
… but at the length truth will out… William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, 1596 The details of the Legion of Christ cover-up of the antics of Founder Father Marcial Maciel Degollado are finally beginning to be known. The emerging picture of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is of a man who wanted to do the right […]
RISK The term risk may be traced back to classical Greek rizikon [Greek ριζα, riza], meaning root, later used in Latin for "cliff". The term is used in Homer’s Rhapsody M of Odyssey "Sirens, Scylla, Charybdee and the bulls of Helios [Sun]" Odysseus tried to save himself from Charybdee at the cliffs of Scylla, where […]