"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house." --Fran Lebowitz
"Willful ignorance comes at a price." --A. Tecacca

31 January 2015

More Maladies

Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles 

Some parents forgo shots altogether. Others split vaccine doses or stretch out their timeline, worried about somehow overwhelming their children’s immune system. Kelly McMenimen, a Lagunitas parent, said she “meditated on it a lot” before deciding not to vaccinate her son Tobias, 8, against even “deadly or deforming diseases.” She said she did not want “so many toxins” entering the slender body of a bright-eyed boy who loves math and geography.

Tobias has endured chickenpox and whooping cough, though Ms. McMenimen said the latter seemed more like a common cold. She considered a tetanus shot after he cut himself on a wire fence but decided against it: “He has such a strong immune system.”

Oh shit! We have to rewrite 'Holy, Holy, Holy'.

original
Holy, holy, holy!  Lord God Almighty!
 Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
 Holy, holy, holy!  Merciful and mighty,
 God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy!  All the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, holy, holy!  Though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,
 perfect in power, in love and purity.

Holy, holy, holy!  Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy!  Merciful and mighty,
God in three persons, blessed Trinity. 

Minneapolis: January 2015


24 January 2015

22 January 2015

Hollywood responds to charges of racism in Academy Award nominations.

"Feh! Too many schvartze."

Truth in Advertising: Special Mike Jeffries Edition

Remember the bedbug problem?
“We hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don't market to anyone other than that.”  M. Jeffries


"C'mon Francis, sometimes a guy just needs a little variety to keep love alive."

original

You know what they say Rick;

illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans don't want to do and legal immigrants do the jobs Americans aren't qualified to do.
and as usual, Frothy is talking (foaming?) out of his ass: see: link


21 January 2015

Christian gun whore turns out to be just regular whore.


When reflecting on the recent three days of terror in Paris

keep in mind that during the same period, 
258* people were shot to death in the USA.
*average three-day total based on CDC data for 2010, 2011

CDC WISQARS. 2013. ‘Injury Mortality Reports 1999 and Onwards (USA).’ Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System / CDC WISQARS. Atlanta: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / CDC. 1 January.

Hoyert, Donna L. and Jiaquan Xu.2012.‘Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011 - Selected Causes.’ National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSS).Hyattsville, MD:US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control Prevention, Division of Vital Statistics,10 October. (Q6492)

Truth in Advertising 9

and that goes double for 2016

18 January 2015

Mitt's Tone Deaf World: Redux

original

Offensive or Not?: Ask Bill Donohue of The Catholic Plague

Two depictions of a central tenet of the Roman Catholic Church: 
The Virgin Mary is the Mother of God.  Jesus emerges from between her legs.

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