Senate Derp, DERP. Derpitimus Maximus. Derpity deeeeeeerp...

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Okay you can take that back. Say what you will about his politics, "Stranglehold" is one of the essentials of classic rock.

 

Blah. Overrated.

 

Arizona Republicans propose a bill to require and oath to graduate hgihschool

I, _______, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge these duties; So help me God.

The bold type is done by the article. It is a religious issue and is being fought that way but even if that were not a part of it just the idea that you have to swear and oath over the matter is ridiculous.

 

Isn't that the oath that military officers take upon commissioning?

 

Ugh as if high school wasn't bad enough.

 

Arizona really does not want to relinquish the crown of most craziest state in the Union does it?

 

Given they visited Ted Nugent last year for a bit less obvious comment, I don't doubt he'll be seeing Secret Service and FBI agents shortly.

Edit: I know some elected officals have been taking stupid pills lately, but I can't believe somebody elected to such a high office was actually dumb enough to say that he was praying for a sitting President's death.

 

After the past election cycle (and really the last couple of years in general) I'm not surprised at any of the stupid comments that come out of an elected offical's mouth anymore.

 

True. Still you'd think somebody that's that high up in office (A state House Speaker no less) would be at least smart enough to know that calling for prayers for the President's death will at least get you one visit from the Secret Service.

Oh and he's refusing to resign. This will be a lovely and long two years until 2014 for the GOP.

 

I will say that as a Christian that the verse in question is used a lot by us. When we have someone in a position of power in the Church or what not we don't like or agree with it's not uncommon for that verse to be thrown around. It's less used to say 'I hope he dies' as 'I hope he gets replaced soon' Heck at my dorm back in college someone would almost always use that verse at the invocation for new prayer leaders to mess with them. It's less used for death wishes and more for Christians to try and be witty with the Bible.

To be clear I'm talking about the first part, 'let his days be few and another replace him' and not what comes after. If someone includes the other stuff I would say it's inappropriate but just using the first part is a rather common phrase Christians I know use.

It'd be like someone quoting 'a plague on both your houses' and actually believing they wanted both houses to die of plague.

 

Ted Nugent is a highly overrated musician. I saw him last summer with REO Speedwagon and Styx.

 

VP of the Family Research Council talks about women in combat

I won't even quote from the article.

 

Sheesh. Women just can't handle being in combat situations. Right? Loved the part about 'it's not women peeing in front of men that's the problem, it's that men might have to pee in front of women.' There isn't a smilie for this one, folks.

Yeah, I read the article.

 

My pastor often tells us to pray for our leaders, you know, to have wisdom and such, and he occasionally jokingly refers to this verse as in, "And when I say pray for him, I don't mean, let his days be few and another take his office."

It's a clever joke. And like a lot of good jokes, it's gets really scary when you realize that some people mean it seriously.

 

One wonders if he has heard of Jael or Deborah.

 

The WORD OF GOD is now liberally biased?

I'm totally going to look at that translation in my big Bible project though. Should be fun to rip it to shreds. I mean, seriously, will these people listen to themselves? We're going to edit the Bible to make it more Republican!! God isn't a Republican and neither was Jesus. When even a powerful religious text like the Bible isn't safe from the culture wars, we've hit a new low. It's the BIBLE, for God's sake (no pun intended). It stands outside our petty divisions and expresses the words and the thoughts of God. Are we really going to edit GOD because He isn't sufficiently conservative? This is literally infuriating to me. Leave the ******* masterpieces of art out of the frigging culture war, you morons. And when it's a central foundation of my personal faith, then you had damn well better leave your hands off of it. What's next? Editing Shakespeare? Faulkner? Eliot? Hemingway? Censoring the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine? Painting over the masterpieces of art that show Jesus with long hair because he looks too much like a hippie? Who am I kidding? The people doing this Bible project would love to do all of those things. It's like talking to a brick wall.

In closing, I'd like to quote from II Peter chapter 3, verses 15 & 16:

Even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. I bet they take those verses out.

Great, now I'm too pissed to go to sleep.

EDIT: Actually, they use those verses from II Peter to justify their project!! What exactly do they think they're doing, if they're not wrestling the Scriptures in order to make them say what they want them to say? I mean, that's exactly what they're doing, by their own admission. God, I loathe people.

 

They better leave Revelation alone

Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

 

Just. Wow.

 

They're now Rage Against the Obama Election Machine, sorry.

 

Conservative Bible project is old news. Where have you been, living under a rock?