Ink Lake

Peter Likes

Amy Dreher

From yesterday’s Dyke March. Note she is referring to the man, not Jesus, who I suspect, would be happy to be in the march.

Happy Purim

Salt Lake City has only about 3,500 Jews, so I doubt I’ll be able to find any hamentashen. Last year, when I brought some out to give to someone, they had never seen or heard of them.

Mighty White Of Him

Pope Benedict XVI lets us Jews off the hook for killing Jesus. Phew!

100% Thoth Approved

Chris Bodenner

 

As a self-created being himself, Thoth especially appreciates self-created things. He has been quoted as saying,

“Mazel tov. Now don’t fuck this up.”

A touch condescending, you say? Dude, he’s Thoth, self-begotten, and self-produced. Master of both physical and moral law. He made the calculations for the establishment of the heavens, stars, Earth, and everything in them.

The Lord of Ma’at abides.

Fish Rot From The Head

In the summer I wrote about the Catholic priest child-abuse scandal, and as I wrote then, the truth will out, and unfortunately, it is puke-inducing.

In a 1997 letter to Ireland’s bishops, Archbishop Luciano Storero wrote concerning the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Advisory Committee plan to notify law enforcement when abuse occurs,

...procedures and dispositions which appear contrary to canonical discipline and which, if applied, could invalidate the acts of the same Bishops who are attempting to put a stop to these problems. If such procedures were to be followed by the Bishops and there were cases of eventual hierarchical recourse lodged at the Holy See, the results could be highly embarrassing and detrimental to those same Diocesan authorities.

In particular, the situation of “mandatory reporting” gives rise to serious reservations of both a moral and a canonical nature.”

I can confirm that the rape and abuse of children is indeed embarrassing and detrimental to Diocesan authorities, not to mention not a picnic for the children who have been raped and abused.

 And yet, John Paul II, who appointed Storero, is on his way to sainthood. As Andrew Sullivan wrote,

How will history look on a church that made a saint out of a Pope who ignored, suppressed, and had underlings covering up the rape of countless vulnerable children? In Ireland, the abuse was so severe, so long-running, so protected by a vile collusion between church and state that the attempt to hush it up is damning. It seems to me a stretch to argue that the Church under John Paul II returned to a very papal hierarchical structure and simultaneously say the Pope has no responsibility for the mass rape and abuse of children he so blithely presided over.

I wrote about this before. I don’t believe in God or Hell; and John Paul, Benedict, and Sortero all better hope that I’m right.

Job Pressure

It occurred to me the other day, that Jesus, being a Jew of course, must have gotten circumcised. Who was the guy who got that gig? Talk about pressure.

Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.

God Give Me Strength

Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens before a sold-out crowd in Toronto, debated the proposition that religion is a force for good in the world.

Fomer P.M. (and new-minted Catholic) Blair should be thankful Hitchens became an American, and never had to debate with him for his supper.

I’m glad to see Hitchens, who is battling esophageal cancer, was hairless, but otherwise looked in pretty good shape. In any event, he pretty much wiped the floor with Blair.

Witch-doctor, former-Gov. Huckabee, perhaps you’d like to give it a go? I know Oxford isn’t Harvard.

The whole debate can be heard here. I strongly recommend it.

One Of My Favorite Gods

That’s right homies, Thoth is in the house!

With the head of an ibis, and a super-cool name, he is One, self-begotten, and self-produced (i.e., no mother or father, he made himself).

He not only is credited with inventing the 365-day calendar, Wikipedia states that the ancient Egyptians believed him to be the author of all works of science, religion, philosophy, and magic.

The Greeks further declared him the inventor of astronomy, astrology, the science of numbers, mathematics, geometry, land surveying, medicine, botany, theology, civilized government, the alphabet, reading, writing, and oratory.

They also gave him props as the true author of every work of every branch of knowledge, human and divine.

Report Card Time

As Lord John Wharfin famously said,

“Character is what you are in the dark.”

True enough, but in politics, it’s the reverse. The stances you take in public are the ones that matter.

With that in mind, here are some grades on the whole mosque thing. I’m only giving grades to people/groups who know (or should know) better.

Mayor Bloomberg	A
George W. Bush	F
Archbishop Dolan	C
Pres. Obama:	B
Harry Reid	D
ADL	F
Fareed Zakaria	A
Ted Olson	A

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Governor Paterson’s Brilliant Idea

So the governor had the great idea to offer money to the ‘ground-zero mosque’ folks, to move somewhere else.

That’s brilliant. If back in 1963, George Wallace had only thought of offering cash to Vivian Malone and James Hood to enroll in another school besides the University of Alabama, a whole lot of fussin’ and jawbonin’ could have been avoided.

Putz.