"Since you stepped in the rain, we gonna step in the rain with you."

Not sure, exactly, what that means, but Al Sharpton really knows how to make a point.

"Dominion," or, a wolf in sheep's clothing

In an otherwise interesting piece on the Humane Society's strategy behind California's Prop 2, we run across this paragraph:

Fearing isn’t appearing in any TV ads, and she doesn’t eat pork chops; she’s a vegan. But she says that, for her, one of the most significant of the long list of Proposition 2 endorsers — which includes the Center for Food Safety, the Consumer Federation of America, United Farm Workers, the California Veterinary Medical Association, Jane Goodall, Robert Redford, Wolfgang Puck, among hundreds of others — is Matthew Scully, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, who also wrote Sarah Palin’s convention speech. Scully is the author of the book “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy.” For Fearing, Scully helped her put inchoate thoughts about being an animal activist into words. Scully doesn’t argue for animal rights but for humans to show mercy. “One doesn’t have to pull them from their place and demand perfect equality to care for them,” he writes of animals in one of Fearing’s favorite passages in his book, “to refrain wherever possible from harming them, as only man the rational and moral creature can do.”

Yeah, my emphasis. Did Scully, a Christianist, know he was writing a speech for someone who advocates aerial hunting of wolves?

The Gulag

I didn't weigh in on the McCain cross in the dirt pseudo...whatever. It didn't really interest me, and far be it from me to try to analyze someone's religious fantasies be they true or false. There are, literally, a trillion reasons (or 4,000 and counting depending on your preferred metrics) to be against McCain and whether or not he made up a Christmas fantasy isn't one of them for me.

So this strikes me as particularly funny.

But I thought God wrote the Constitution

Wow. Just wow.

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.”

Excellent idea, Huckster. (Deut. 13, 13-18)

13. Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

14. Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

15. Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

16. And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

17. And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

18. When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

I think that may be a reference to Salt Lake City, but I could be wrong. One thing's for certain, though, we'd finally clear up those confusing dietary laws. Say g'bye to the FDA:

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Doomed

If fans of the NY Metropolitans were already upset by the trade of once-can't-miss-prospect Lastings Milledge for Brian Schneider and Ryan Church, this should do wonders to soothe their feelings:

Two years ago, Church told The Washington Post about a conversation he had with the Nationals’ chapel leader, Jon Moeller.

“I said, like, Jewish people, they don’t believe in Jesus,” The Post quoted Church as saying. “Does that mean they’re doomed? Jon nodded, like, that’s what it meant. My ex-girlfriend! I was like, man, if they only knew. Other religions don’t know any better. It’s up to us to spread the word.”

Made aware of Church’s comments by Rabbi Ari Sunshine, then in North Carolina, now in Maryland, Bud Selig replied that he was “deeply offended” and found them offensive.

Church subsequently apologized. The Mets, sensitive to the incident, delayed making the trade for a week while they checked into it. They found that Moeller had been responsible for prompting the comments from Church.