This is absolutely hilarious. A Greenville NC Catholic Priest is under fire because he told his parishioners to repent of their sin (if the voted for Obama) before receiving communion.
I don’t know why I find this funny because I actually agree with the guy. As I said I don’t agree with most things practiced in religions today but its a fundamental of the Catholic faith that abortion is wrong (even though the Priests and Fathers do it to cover their crimes). So any Catholic who voted for Obama should repent because the guy supports things their religion says is wrong.
And no I’m not about to call down fire from heaven on the man because this is a free country. If you don’t like what he says go find yourself a gay loving pro rights pastor. They’re not hard to find these days you know.
Video (as usual) can be found after the break. VIA: The Church of Jesus Christ
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FDR revolutionized the Presidency (in terms of communication) when he began his weekly radio messages telling the American people exactly what he was doing to fix the Depression and WWII. Now Obama has taken that a step further with his use of YouTube. Obama will be giving his weekly address and fireside talks via the radio (as usual) along with a YouTube video cast in which he will basically do the same thing FDR did.
Of course half that will be said will just be PR and help with his reelection bid but on the other hand it does seem like the biggest step ini terms of communication between the President and his people since FDR. Oh well the first video can be viewed below.
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They say all is fair in love and war, so I’m guessing that this also applies to politics. Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Likud Party leader and Prime Minister hopeful) knows that all too well.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” noted Ron Dermer, one of Mr. Netanyahu’s top campaign advisers. “We’re all in the same business, so we took a close look at a guy who has been the most successful and tried to learn from him. And while we will not use the word ‘change’ in the same way in our campaign, we believe Netanyahu is the real candidate of change for Israel.
So obviously the Netanyahu campaign is not denying it. What is striking is how this has suddenly become a political discussion by the media who think Mr. Netanyahu does not represent the change for Israel as Obama represented it for America citing such things as his wanting to cut off peace talks with the Palestinians.
The only notable differences in the layout of both sites is that in Hebrew everything is read from right to left. Good luck interpreting the site.
I should point out that the pictures and website link I have are the Russian version (thus reads from left to right). The Hebrew version can be found HERE.
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If there is one thing I admire about Obama it is his tech-savvy. He may not be the Steve Jobs or Google guys but he does have his name in history as being the most technologically advanced president-elect in US history, unlike his opponent who thought 1080i refereed to a BMW model.
Well turns out that the device that said opponent ”created” won’t be allowed in the oval office. Obama has always been a fan of Blackberry’s (which is quite obvious looking through photos on his campaign trail). But according to the Presidential Records Act which requires correspondence between him and his cabinet in the official record and ultimately up for public review it looks like Obama’s Bold won’t be graduating with him to the Whitehorse in the next 65 days.
Mind you, Mr Obama was not the only one who faced this predicament. Eight years ago when Bush was sworn in he sent out an email from his than email address g94b@aol.com telling his 42 friends the following:
Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace
I’m just wondering if Obama will be able to get around this loophole? I guess when you’re a Barack anything is possible although his advisors don’t seem that optimistic about the situation.
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In just another instance of how our civil liberties are slowly but surly being taken away the Justice Department has just confirmed that law enforcement officials do not need warrants for their “Triggerfish.” In case you’re wondering what the hell that is, Triggerfish reefers to cell phone tower that law enforcement officials use to track a persons whereabouts by tricking the cell phone that the tower is legit.
So far triggerfish can only can only be used to pinpoint the approximate location of the individual in question, and it cannot snoop into phone calls, but its only a matter of time before that changes.
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This marks the 300′th post on this blog so I decided to celebrate by talking off the top of my head (not that its anything new for me). It was funny I was browsing the internet today and came across an article found that depressed people watch more TV than those who do not. In case you haven’t noticed most shows have added significant numbers to their viewing audience.
But wait a minute, I thought that hope has come to America because Obama won? I’d be expecting half those people to be celebrating. But you know what, I’m not that surprised that no one is really celebrating Obama’s victory. While I am happy he won I don’t see any reason to celebrate because so far I have not seen or heard anything that I can say is going to drastically change our current course.
And don’t tell me not to be so negative about the dude, because half of the people who would have a problem with me saying anything would want to shoot the current President if they got the chance. Have a good day!
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