False Sense of Maturity

Cynthia Charlotte Lynch, 43, a 6-foot-tall divorcee with close-cropped hair, never gave any hint of racial hatred or prejudice, said Attorney Fred Henderson DeMier, who represented her in a drug case.
Lynch apparently contacted the loose-knit group known as the Sons of Dixie or Dixie Brotherhood over the Internet, then traveled by bus to Louisiana for the initiation. Investigators describe her as gullible and vulnerable and believe the trip was her first outside the Tulsa area.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

MPP and our allies across the country passed nine out of 10 marijuana-related ballot initiatives yesterday … and also defeated a bad initiative. This makes yesterday the most successful day in MPP’s 14-year history.

Unless Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., intervenes, some of the argument in the Supreme Court chamber next Tuesday morning may sound at times like a typical conversation in a seventh grade boys’ restroom — the uninhibited use of four-letter words.

And, if Roberts allows it, such a display of blue language will be heard on TV and radio — in the middle part of the day — across America, and may be read the next morning in many newspapers. But, apparently, not in every news outlet…

Christopher “don’t call me Chris” Hitchens is starting to lash out…I think he was too gung-ho about supporting the “war on terror” but he is a good advocate for anti-theism.

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

Delivering what his campaign billed as his “closing argument”, Obama told a crowd in Canton, Ohio, that “there’s so much at stake” in the week ahead.

“We cannot let up for one day, one minute, or one second in this last week. Not now,” he said.

Obama told voters it was up to them to “give this country the change we need,” as he tried to make the case that Sen. John McCain is too similar to President Bush to bring about that change.

FREAKED-OUT firemen had to use a pneumatic saw to cut off a piece of steel pipe stuck while being used as a sex toy - by a 73-YEAR-OLD man.

The crews were called in when staff at St Luke’s Cornwall Hospital at Newburgh, near New York, couldn’t remove the pipe by normal methods because of the extent of the swelling.

Some guys from suburban New Jersey are about to go on trial for terrorism charges:

Five foreign-born Muslims raised in Cherry Hill go on trial tomorrow on charges that they plotted to launch an attack on Fort Dix from the back of a pizza delivery truck.

Evidence indicates they practiced at a shooting range in the Poconos and in paintball games in woods and farms in the Hammonton, N.J., area.

They talked strategy, philosophy and religion at another suburban landmark - a Dunkin’ Donuts.

And they attracted the attention of the FBI after they had the Circuit City in a Mount Laurel strip mall copy a video of one of their Poconos trips.

Former Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan will make a public appearance today as part of a public relations campaign:

The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a “new beginning” for the group.

Hundreds of religious leaders of different faiths have been invited to the event planned for Sunday, a rededication of the group’s historic Mosque Maryam on the city’s South Side. Farrakhan is scheduled to speak.

Farrakhan certainly has a tough job ahead of him, considering some of the horrible thinks he has said and done in the name of Allah:

He’s also played down some of the group’s more controversial beliefs. The Nation of Islam has taught that whites are descended from the devil and that blacks are the chosen people of Allah.

A good reminder that you don’t have to be white to be racist.

Thank you to Jeffery Sanders to point out B.S. despite his political leanings. Here is what he saw on the wall of a McCain campaign office in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Anti-Obama Sign

he saw the sign Thursday when he stopped to pick up tickets for today’s McCain rally at Florida International University.

“To label someone as the next Hitler is beyond outrageous [and] offensive. And it needs to be addressed. And if Barack Obama does the same thing to McCain I would expect the same reaction,” he said. “That was not American.”

Sanders, 23, is a registered Republican. The Palm Beach Community College student said he is thinking about voting for Obama.

And for the Republican Chairman to act speechless? Come on, like no one knew it was there? What are we 6 years old again? Those excuses don’t work anymore.

Chicago Tribune endorses Barack Obama, first time it has endorsed a Democrat in its 161 year history!

On Nov. 4 we’re going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.

The strongest candidate to do that is Sen. Barack Obama. The Tribune is proud to endorse him today for president of the United States.

Will this next part silence any critics?

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.

We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.

If you have ever dreamed of suing God, this case sets a bad precedent for you:

A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served, because of his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God.

He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”