The Spagnostics and the Pastafarians follow the Spaghedeity and believe in the sanctity of pirates. What's not to like?!
More info: Homepage: http://www.venganza.org/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Sept 19th is coming fast.
... but Jesus has finally come out with a rebuttal to John Lennon.
Lennon had made very controversial comments back in 1966 regarding the waning popularity of Jesus and the Catholic church.
Jesus had been slow to reply, first allowing Republicans to have their say. But it turned out the Beatles were more popular than Republicans and the sarcasm of Lennon's comments was allowed to be understood. Lennon's comments soon drifted into popular culture...
... and then even into academic culture, as hippies soon became professors. (Yes, you need this for a quality education.)
But with the death of George Carlin, who made a few suggestions for Jesus' reply as the priest in Dogma, Jesus has released this statement:
"Who's bigger than Jesus now, John?! Who's bigger than Jesus now?"
These quickie news channels really need more communication between the ad department and the news department.
Rupert Murdoch is basically Conrad Black on crack. Whether he meant to or not, in this video he admits that he tries to shape news content to fit an agenda rather than to tell a story the way it happens.
Here is a documentary about the Mr. Murdoch, and more than enough reasons to question everything he stands for.
by jgr80
Today is the birthday of Mary Travers, La Bolduc's. She would be 114 years old. I know of La Bolduc from this:
This was always one of my favorite Heritage Moments because I noticed she sings over an Irish pipe tune.
The gal had no formal musical training. She got the tunes from her dad who taught her the instruments he knew how to play by ear. She could never read music.
Despite my fondness of the vignette, there are quite a few gaping holes in this heritage minute. The song in the video was from her 3rd recording. By then, Mr. Beaudry already knew her despite the surprise on his face.
Her first two recordings flopped. Then a 3rd recording, which had "La Cuisiniere" as the main song, changed everything. It was released for the Christmas shopping season, and before the holidays were over, she was a household name in Quebec. In the middle of the depression, on her first tour, she earned $2000.
In 1994, she was honored with a stamp by Canada Post. My first "when-I-was-your-age" moment... Stamps were 43 cents back in 1994?!
These commercials were dangerous. I remember sitting in front of that TV for hours waiting for them to come on during The Racoons...
In stead of sitting in front of the TV, I shoulda been out in the driveway practicing my slapshot...
Hmm... all this talk about what I was watching when I was a kid and I still haven't said anything about the greatest ongoing television commercial theme song ever... the Hinterland Who's Who...
Sssssplendid
Sometimes good editorialists do bad editorials.
I usually like Olbermann's rants, and so to redeem his stature after his ridiculous Hillary Clinton speech below I thought I should post these brilliant and hilarious anti-Bush sentiments. Sorry it's divided. I couldn't find one that was one video.
by jgr80
Big shock. Slate reports that the sinking ship that is the life of Hillary Clinton has a 0.5% chance of success in her bid for the Democratic nomination. Whatever. American politics is a freakshow. I don't care.
I care about the media though. Remember last week... the assassination thing? RFK and Obama have more in common than people think? The I-can't-drop-out-because-my-opponent-could-die card? Right?... yes, that one...
Let's have a look, eh...
Big words mean big news at the New York Post...
The Washington Post may be a bit more balanced... a bit...
The New York Times, again, on the aftermath rather than the comment itself.
Here's what she said...
quite clearly, she is talking about the month of June, and not anything morbid.
and, again, here's how some folks decided to report it...
(haha, the flinch at 1:37)
Debates without opposition can be so one-sided. I love the end of this video when he invokes all of the political violence over the years merely to say that it should not ever be invoked.
Sure, she's had a terrible campaign, and is probably one of the most conservative candidates to run for the liberal side of America... and maybe she was out of the race long ago, but the outrage is on the same absurd parallel as when a boob blinked on stage during the superbowl.
Open your eyes.
by jgr80
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." - Andy WarholBob Barr is running for President of the United States. Recently, he won the right to run on the well-known Libertarian ticket.
