Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants, Religion
Whoops!!! Elizabeth Dole picked the wrong woman to smear.
Not only am I *praying for Kay Hagan to wipe the electoral floor with Dole’s bouffant, I hope she is compensated appropriately for having to endure this filth.
And…might I add…I saw this vitriol air four times from 08.30 to 11.00 this morning on two local television channels. Classy!!!
Hagan sues Dole over ‘g-dless’ ad
RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan on Thursday sued Sen. Elizabeth Dole after the Republican refused to stop airing an ad questioning Hagan’s faith.
Hagan also rolled out her own television ad Thursday in which she tells voters “I believe in God” and cites the Bible’s Ninth Commandment to decry her rival’s tactics.
Dole’s ad questions why Hagan went to a fund-raiser at the home of a Boston man who serves as an adviser to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, an atheist advocacy group.
The ad ends by showing a picture of Hagan while another woman declares in the background, “There is no God.”
“Elizabeth Dole’s attacks on my Christian faith are offensive,” Hagan says in her ad. “She even faked my voice in her TV ad to make you think I don’t believe in God. Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday School. My faith guides my life, and Sen. Dole knows it.”
Referring to the Ten Commandments, Hagan concludes her response by saying the campaign is about creating jobs and fixing the economy, “not bearing false witness against fellow Christians.”
Dole said the ad does not question Hagan’s faith, only her agenda and associations.
“All I know is that she was willing to travel to Boston, and it was done in a way that, I think, she didn’t want people to know about it,” Dole said.
Hagan’s campaign had demanded that Dole stop airing her ad, and they followed through on their threat of legal action, filing paperwork in Wake County Superior Court as a prelude to a libel and defamation suit.
Dole’s campaign called the suit “frivolous” and said they would try to get it dismissed.
Dan McLagan, a Dole spokesman, said the campaign had no plans to pull the ad from the air, calling Hagan’s promise of a lawsuit an empty threat aimed at distracting voters.
“The ad will be up until it reaches its saturation point,” McLagan said.
The dispute comes amid a tight race leading up to next Tuesday’s election.
A WRAL News poll released Wednesday showed Dole holds a 46 to 42 percent lead, with 9 percent of voters still undecided. A different polling firm said Thursday that Hagan has a 52 to 46 percent lead.
*prayers may not be answered as High Priestess Kang does not believe in Jesus Christ.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants, Religion
An update, from the good folks at WRAL, regarding Elizabeth Dole’s G-dless commercial cum campaign smear against Kay Hagan.
Please contact the Elizabeth Dole office and demand this advertisement is removed immediately. And…demand an apology for all religious minorities and people of the Atheist/Agnostic crowd, too.
Hagan demands Dole take down ad on faith
RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Senate candidate Kay Hagan angrily demanded Wednesday that incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole take down a new ad that questions the challenger’s ties to an atheist political group, calling the spot a slanderous and pathetic attempt to maintain political power.
Hagan’s attorneys sent a cease-and-desist order to Dole’s campaign, saying the “libelous” ad should come down within 24 hours. The order promised legal action if the ad stays on the air.
“It is so unbecoming of a woman like Elizabeth Dole,” Hagan said. “This is a fabricated, pathetic ad. How dare she attack my faith. Is Elizabeth Dole that desperate to keep this Senate seat?”
A Dole campaign spokesman said they had no plans to remove the ad from the air.
“It’s silly and ridiculous,” said spokesman Dan McLagan. “Clearly the Hagan folks are panicked that they got caught going to a fundraiser with a group that the vast majority of North Carolinians would find objectionable.”
Dole’s ad questions why Hagan would attend a fundraiser at the home of a man who serves as an adviser to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee. The group mobilizes atheists to emphasize the separation of church and state and other issues.
Hagan, who went to the September fundraiser at the Boston home of activist Woody Kaplan, is a Christian who teaches Sunday school at her local church. She held a news conference Wednesday with her pastor and family to defend herself.
Dole’s ad comes as a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows Hagan with a slight advantage over Dole, 47 percent to 43 percent. The poll was conducted Oct. 22-26 and included 601 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The 30-second television spot shows clips of some members of the Godless Americans Political Action Committee talking about some of their goals - such as taking “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance and removing “In God We Trust” from money.
“Godless Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras. Took Godless money. What did Hagan promise in return?” the narrator says in the ad.
The video ends by showing a picture of Hagan while another woman - Godless Americans PAC executive director Ellen Johnson - declares in the background, “There is no God!”
McLagan said the end of the ad was not misleading, arguing the woman’s voice is clearly not the Democratic lawmaker. He said the spot does not question Hagan’s faith, only why she would associate with a group with an atheist agenda.
“The concern is that she’s going to support judges that have the same world view that she’s taking money from - or oppose judges who have the opposite” world view, McLagan said.
Hagan said she had never heard of the Godless Americans PAC until Dole’s campaign raised the issue prior to the event. The fundraiser had a number of other hosts.
“My question is, does Elizabeth Dole vet her supporters based on religious beliefs?” Hagan said.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants, Religion
This morning, I was confronted with one of the most horrific political ads of the season. Desperate Elizabeth Dole ran an ad against her strong competitor Kay Hagan.
In this ad, the Dole campaign highlights how Kay Hagan had the audacity (not to mention freedom under the law of the Constitution) met with a group called, “G-dless Americans.” The ad further details that these people don’t believe in Jesus.
WHAT THE PHUCK.
This is base. This is disgusting.
As a spiritual person, a Jew, I was completely horrified. So - as a non-Jesus believing spiritual person, I am to assume that I am now G-dless according to the definition of Elizabeth Dole?
I called the Dole campaign office. The phone was answered on the first ring by a very patient woman (who sounded as if she had been hearing complaints for a while). She persisted to tell me that the ad was factual.
Fine. Kay Hagan met with, “G-dless America.” Who gives a phuck who Kay Hagan meets with as it relates to religion? Americans can meet with any religion they want. It’s our right.
But more importantly - what’s Jesus got to do with this madness? This ad has the most bigoted undertones I have heard in ages. So…you don’t believe in Jesus? Phuck you.
As a religious minority, I reminded the Dole campaign that there are *gasps* Jews in North Carolina. There are Buddhists. There are Hindus. There are Muslims. There are Atheists. There are Agnostics. And so forth. And we all vote.
Please call Elizabeth Dole and tell her to pull that offensive ad and demand an apology. Her campaign headquater’s number is: 704.633.0014. For those of you outside the United States, you can email the campaign at info@elizabethdole.org.
Stand up and be heard. Please.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants
Imagine if the Republicans really had their way in the events of this week happened:
Retirement - forget about it. You did away with entitlements, including social security. Your money, which you invested because you wanted privatization, is funding an executive’s golden parachute.
Civil Liberties - forget about. FISA did away with that.
Health care - forget about it. Medicare and Medicaid are, “entitlements.”
Smaller Goverment - forget about it. You wanted a lean, mean fighting machine and instead, you created a bloated mortgage lender and flawed insurance carrier.
Yes.
You did all of this when you voted for Bush twice.
And why?
Because Bill Clinton got his c0ck sucked in the White House and 09.11.
And yet the lot of you, none of whom are remotely capable of fending for yourself *without* government, still believe in the dogma. You still believe that McCain represents change? You honestly believe that McCain didn’t create the *EXACT* bullshit you’re bitching about???
Go ahead. Empathize with the person who lost $2 million in the past three days. Just remember that they had that to lose. You don’t. You never will. No matter how much you want to believe that hard work is the path to the American Dream.
This isn’t about voting FOR Obama. This is about voting AGAINST those who continuously anal-rape you.
In summary:
McCain/Palin = Big Government
Posted by High Priestess Kang as IJC, Op/Ed, Rants
…but it’s not a joke. Really.
So one of the hens from The View, Sherri Shepherd, decided to make a funny:
She also tells the mag that that it is hard being ‘taken to task about her faith’ on The View:
“Oh sometimes I say, ‘Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Myers (evangelists) would be so good at this table. They could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved. I ask the Lord, ‘Why am I here?’ I have to trust God when He says, ‘Because I said so.’”
Ok. This isn’t a joke. This is an actual, motherphucking, huge-ass, gorilla of a problem.
Why do, “Christians” feel audacious enough that they think they can lead someone to being, “saved?” Furthermore, why do, “Christians” feel like people should be saved? Maybe we don’t want to? Have you ever thought about that, folks?
At first, I was seething because Barbara Walters is a Jewess, like me. Living in The Bible Belt/The South, I hear this shit incessantly. People thinking they mean well but they, ultimately, don’t. They’re just being narrow minded, self-absorbed, selfish and disrespectful.
So disrespectful that a former colleague of mine actually took me out to lunch to address my life of sin. All because she was worried about me. Note: SHE was worried. SHE. It was all about HER. Not me. Not my beliefs. No respect for me - at all. The fact that I’m a Jewess and refuse to accept (let alone acknowledge) Christ as my savior had been keeping her up at night and that just won’t do!
Sherri Shepherd was not joking. She does believe this shit. Any attempt to spin this story any other way is merely that - a feeble attempt to hide her blantant arrogance.
And to her other comment about the bazillions of abortions she had: it’s a good thing. We don’t need the stupid and the arrogant procreating.
Moar abortions and less fundies, kplzthnx!
Posted by Dock Ellis as Guest Author, Rants
I’m used to seeing stupid “music” top 10 lists on mainstream news sites, but tonight I saw such a breathtaking display of tin-eared stupidity that I had to respond. The article in question is Marc Hirsh’s “Terrible Songs From Great Albums”, inexplicably published by MSNBC. I guess it makes sense- MSNBC isn’t a music site, so they probably didn’t have anyone on staff who could tell Hirsh knows about as much about music as your average tone-deaf frat boy.You can read the article here-
poopypants’ article
Hirsh is so out of his depth that he doesn’t even give us any sort of introduction or explain his criteria, he just launches into the sort of half-baked music “criticism” that’s supposed to impress us with how much he knows. After five unconvincing arguments, he gives up and just presents us with a list:
-”The Long And Winding Road” from the Beatles’ “Let It Be”
This is supposed to be a list of bad songs from great albums, right? Then why include this, the worst album the Beatles ever made? Kinda goes against the whole point, doesn’t it? Besides, why pick this song when the album also contains “Dig A Pony” and “For You Blue”?
-”Endless, Nameless” from Nirvana’s “Nevermind”
This song was the perfect coda to an ultra-commercial sellout move of an album. It was so great, a finger in the eye so perfectly aimed, that Geffen pulled it from all subsequent pressings of the CD.
-“EXP” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Axis: Bold As Love”
It’s not even a song for fuck’s sake… it’s just a joke! Jimi had a hell of a sense of humor, something nerdboy keyboard commandos seem not to understand.
-”D’yer Maker” from Led Zeppelin’s “Houses Of The Holy”
-”Jimmy Jazz” from the Clash’s “London Calling”
-”Love Ain’t For Keeping,” from The Who’s “Who’s Next”
Fuck you, these songs are all great.
-”Welfare Mothers” from Neil Young’s “Rust Never Sleeps”
Sure it’s a dumb garage rocker, but it’s a GOOD dumb garage rocker. Not all songs have to be Art.
-”The Gift,” from the Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Heat”
Every note the original VU played was complete genius. This douchebag probably didn’t get “Pressed Rat And Warthog”, either. The worst VU song is still better than anything Coldplay or The Strokes have ever done or will ever do.
-”Waiting for the Worms,” from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
“The Wall” was not a collection of pop songs. It was a concept album, which requires certain pieces for plot exposition, of which this is one. You can’t evaluate the pieces of an album like this on their individual merit, you have to consider how they fit into the context of the whole. Dumbass.
-”Start Me Up” from the Rolling Stones’ “Tatoo You”
You may be sick of it by now, but this isn’t really a bad song. Especially in the company of “Black Limousine” and “Worried About You”.
-”My World” from Guns N’ Roses’ “Use Your Illusion II”
-”Mother” from the Police’s “Synchronicity”
-”Perfection,” from Run-DMC’s “Raising Hell”
-”The Girl Is Mine” from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
-”When It Started” from the Strokes’ “Is This It”
-”Unforgiven,” from Metallica’s black album
-”Candle in the Wind,” form Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
-”‘39″ from Queen’s “Night at the Opera”
-”Pollywannacraka: from Pubic Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet”
-”Lovesong” from The Cure’s “Disintegration”
None of these are great albums.
The obvious inspiration here is Jimmy Guterman and Owen O’Donnell’s far superior “The Worst Rock n’ Roll Records of All Time”, an absolutely hysterical swipe at the dregs and misfires of rock music that also manages to be sharp and insightful. Find a used copy and forget about this idiot and his half-baked bullshit.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Tentacle Wagging
…thinks the citizens of North Carolina are idiots. Or at least her campaign staff does.
Since late January, early February, North Carolina Gubernatorial candidate, Bev Perdue has been spewing her vitriol in television commercials. Instead of focusing on the issues at hand, Ms Perdue has unleashed her inner fury and frustration on fellow candidate, Richard Moore.
I had been meaning to send a little note to Perdue’s campaign staff. Alas, between the vigil for John Aherne and my new job, other things took precedence. Monday night, an article on WRAL’s website reminded me that I had been remiss in my duties as a good steward of the electoral process. I managed to carve out a few moments to write the following:
I have been meaning to send a message to Ms Perdue regarding the campaign ads on television as of late. Fortunately, WRAL’s website reported this story: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/2655617/ which served as a wonderful reminder.
I must say that I am entirely appalled by Ms Perdue’s behavior with respect to the Gubernatorial Campaign. I am currently an undecided, registered Democrat. I recognize the fine service both Ms Perdue and Mr Moore have provided/performed for our State. Ms Perdue’s incessant barrage of negative attacks on Mr Moore have been nothing but repugnant and a detriment to the cause of keeping the Democrat party in the Governor’s office.
I iterate that I remain undecided at this point in time. However, if Ms Perdue and campaign staff does not cease with the unnecessary vitriol, I will be happily voting for Mr Moore.
Shame on your campaign for this blatant level of hypocrisy. You must believe the entire electorate is completely devoid of any intelligence if you think that anyone would accept Ms Perdue’s flagrant coquettishness and ridiculous position regarding negativity given that she is so astute in dishing it out. I cannot decide whether the campaign or Ms Perdue is at fault for this form of low-brow behavior. But the article referenced above does not positively reflect on the campaign given what I have been subjected to whilst I attempt to watch television.
/High Priestess Kang
Raleigh, NC
The kind folks of Ms Perdue’s campaign responded with the following:
Dear High Priestess Kang,
We would MUCH rather talk about the issues facing the next governor of North Carolina and that is what this campaign has been focused on. Bev Perdue has released many detailed policy proposals, made many important speeches. Our ad campaign was focused on what Bev will do for the future of our state.
Unfortunately Richard Moore began the negative attacks almost two weeks ago, and we are in a position where we must respond. Too often Democrats have learned the hard way what happens when you don’t fight back. It’s unfortunate that’s the way campaigns are run.
Remember that while attacks between the campaigns continue, that does not stop Bev from talking about the real issues that will confront the next governor. Thanks for the e-mail. We certainly sympathize with your concerns.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Hughes
Bev Perdue Camp
klhughes@bevperdue.com
HUH?
How did I fail to make myself clear? These commercials, these attack ads, have been airing since late winter. It’s phucking April. There is no way these people think I cannot read a calendar properly.
Wow.
Ms Perdue’s negative ads have been airing far longer than the past two weeks so I highly doubt the campaign is simply, “reacting.” You must think I am a complete moron.
If you truly, “sympathize” you would simply take the high road and focus on the issues. There is nothing wrong with exhibiting a bit of class and dignity.
Let the Republicans act poorly. That’s their milieu; not yours.
/High Priestess Kang
What I have learned from this exchange:
- Bev Perdue’s campaign staff underestimates the intelligence of the electorate
- Bev Perdue’s campaign staff feels poor behavior is tolerable
- Bev Perdue’s campaign staff obviously lacks in reading comprehension abilities *or* doesn’t take the time to listen to the issues
Given the above, I can say, with certainty that I will be marching off to the polls on Primary Day to vote for Richard Moore. If this group of rabid tossers cannot listen to a concerned citizen during the campaign season, what on earth would leave me to believe they would listen to the voters about anything during service?
I have no delusions of grandeur. Nor do I feel that my thoughts are of such esteemed importance that I should be listened to all of the time (ok…I do). But this exchange, this display of utter ambivalence grinds my gears and frustrates me to no end.
It’s one thing to (inherently) know that elected officials view us all as common tools. It’s another thing to have the shit in your mailbox after a long day of work, earning income and putting taxes back into a system where only a few will ever reap benefits.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Tentacle Wagging
Ok. Not all white, American men. That would be a rash, broad sweeping statement which is untrue. However, there are many who really piss me off.
Living in the South requires an infinite amount of patience on my part. Unless I’m in the safety of my own home, I will usually encounter one blithering, frothing bigot a day. The fact that I smoke and thus loiter on a smoking patio when working, does not seem to help.
Alas…I do have the shelter of my home and an internet connection to keep me in touch with the balanced (and I mean mentally) folks.
That is…until recently.
Everyone knows that I frequent The Local. I have been doing so since 2005. It’s a wonderful place to talk about Sweden, spar about politics and troll. I have made many a good friend through my participation.
Unfortunately, because The Local is Sweden-centric, it attracts a certain unsavory element. The element is usually white Christians from the United States who are seeking shelter from the storm of brown people, yellow people, black people, Jews, gheys and anything else they find repugnant. For some reason, Sweden is, to them, the last great white place on the planet. Naturally, those of us who have been to Sweden know this isn’t the case. But, in their narrow minds, Sweden is full of G-d fearing, blonde haired, blued eyed Christians. No other species of human being lives in Sweden, according to them.
Typically, I will use this sort of racist rhetoric as fodder and twist their words. I like drawing the bigoted sort of from under their rocks and whacking them on the nose with my evil, horrible, G-dless words. It’s fun. At times. Usually, the bigots grow so tired of being endlessly trolled, they leave. Off to seek shelter at some white love site like, “Gates of Vienna.”
Latley, there have been two posters on The Local who have been driving me bat-shit crazazy. I have seen the word, “Sambo” uttered in reference to Obama. I read posts taken from Rush Limbaugh’s playbook calling Obama a Muslim because his middle name is Hussein. I have choked on some of the most vulgar commentary about those of Mexican descent.
When people ask me why I want to leave America it is because of the moronic behavior I have described above. I do not want to live with scared, white people gripping to their tenuous hold on power. I do not want to be around such hate. I have spent my entire life trying to be tolerant of everyone, regardless of their differences.
So - here’s my little message to these filthy pigs. These people who cannot handle a world that is not white.
Please stay away from Sweden.
By no means am I an authority on all things Swedish. That said, Sweden is a diverse country. An accepting country. A country where marriage isn’t the moral code. A country where everyone mingles among each other. A country that welcomes asylum seekers with open arms.
Sweden is not the last gateway to white supremacy.
Please, for the love of G-d, leave the precious country alone, you rabid nutters. Allow me just one little shred of land where I don’t have to be around bigots, people who want the Bible to govern the land and people who aren’t afraid of someone who looks differently than white folks.
I know the nine-headed hydra of hate isn’t going away. I only wish they would go to, “Gates” or some other, equally vile breeding ground of hate.
Posted by Ming the Merciless as Guest Author, Ming the Merciless, Op/Ed, Politics, Rants, Religion
In response to a statment that “unborn children” have a right to life:
“But no one has the right to live off another human being against their will either, which is why we don’t have legislation forcing the donation of blood, marrow, and other other organs. One thing recognized in the civilized nations of the world is an individual’s–man or woman (at least in theory)–basic right to physical sovereignty. This is also why we outlaw slavery.
You may find abortion morally reprehensible, unconscionable, and even an offense worthy of eternal damnation, but if the argument is that a fetus qualifies as a person with all the attendant rights and protections thereof, it must also be subject to the same responsibilities and limitations. And one of those limitations is that it may not force the involuntary physical or biological servitude of another, regardless of the cost to the fetus. Just as you cannot force someone else to donate bone marrow to you even if you would die without it.
The choice to allow another person to use your body as a life support system, and to face all the attendant physical dangers that places you in, should always reside with you, and you alone. It’s a decision that you should be able to make for yourself, taking into account your beliefs, your circumstances, and what is physically, mentally, and emotionally the best choice for you without a course of action being forced on you by the state, a religion (and not necessarily your own, at that), or another person.
And approaching it intelligently, that also entails a responsible society that will provide for the needs of a child (including food, shelter, clothing, and education) when the parent or parents are unable to do so, and without removing the child from the parent–the pat suggestion that someone birth children in order to relenquish them for adoption if they are unable to provide for them turns my stomach, especially considering all the unwanted, unloved children already in existence that are suffering in orphanages and foster care systems. Unfortunately the ability to provide for a child often weighs heavily in the decision to have an abortion. I personally find that a terrible affront to the concept of choice.”
(Quoted with permission of the author)
Posted by High Priestess Kang as Tentacle Wagging
Welcome to my Monday. My Monday with my temperamental, little Inga. My Monday with Inga and the local SAAB dealership for a gearbox malfunction.
Oh. And she only has 54,000 miles on her.
Hooray!
