Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Religion
…where is your precious G-d now?
Not even Jesus can save your sorry, losing ass.
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 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 High Priestess Kang as Amusement, Religion
…and your makeup!
Report: Retailer halts sales of ‘Jesus’ cosmetics
Singapore store removes range extolling virtue of ‘Looking Good for Jesus’
SINGAPORE - A cosmetics range with cheeky taglines that extolled the virtues of “Looking Good for Jesus” has been pulled from stores in Singapore after some Roman Catholics complained the items were disrespectful, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Promising to “Redeem your reputation and more,” the product line included a “virtuous vanilla”-flavored lip balm and a “Get Tight with Christ” hand and body cream, as well as bags and other items sold by British retailer Topshop and produced by Blue Q, The Straits Times said.
Wing Tai Retail, which manages Topshop in the city-state, removed the range late last month after receiving complaints, the newspaper said.
“These products trivialize Jesus Christ and Christianity,” it quoted Nick Chui, 27, one of the complainants, as saying. “There are also sexual innuendoes in the messages and the way Jesus is portrayed in these products.”
On the packaging of one of the products, Jesus, wearing a bright white robe, looks heavenward while a blonde, heavily made-up woman with an arm draped across his shoulder gazes dreamily at his face.
“Why would anyone use religious figures to promote vanity products? It’s very disrespectful and distasteful,” the report quoted 24-year-old accountant Grace Ong, also Catholic, as saying.
An unnamed Wing Tai Retail spokesman apologized for offending the Christian community, the Straits Times said. Wing Tai Retail officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday because the company’s office was closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
The report did not say whether the products were sold by any other Singapore retailers.
Christians make up about 15 percent of multicultural Singapore’s population of 4.5 million people. About half of Singaporeans are Buddhist, Muslims account for another 15 percent, and Hindus around 5 percent.
Seriously. They should consider peddling this shit in the South. Finally! A makeup suitable for young Baptist girls!!!
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 LOL Swedes, Religion, T3h Intarweb
…Scientology!!!!
Or should I rephrase that. Project Chanology.
Apparently, our Scientologist friends have absolutely no sense of humor. Nor do they want to know how scamilarious their “*religion” really is. In the spirit of good natured trolling and lulz, Anonymous, the folks of the seedy underbelly that is t3h int3rn3tz, have been working their hardest to expose the wacky, zany craziness. L Ron’s peeps Tom Cruise and The Fresh Prince are not happy.
Humorless phucks.
Now, there are rumblings of law suits and, “pwnership.”
What the hell.
You mean to tell me that a religion is so insecure that it gets its proverbial knickers in a twist because people are trying to have some innocent fun? Or…is there something to hide.
I will be heading into town later today to do some food-shopping. Perhaps a trip to Gothenburg’s Scientology Centre will reveal some more dirty, dirt cum scoop?
Dare I knock on the door?
Posted by High Priestess Kang as IJC, LOL J00z, Politics, Religion
The January 2008 - Tevet/Sh’vat 5768 issue of the Raleigh Cary Jewish Federation News landed in my postbox the other day. It’s interesting reading, even though I am not active in the local Jewish scene (for reasons you will glean from my post). Over a bowl of Rice Krispies, I peruse the paper and stumble across something rather upsetting. And embarrassing.
There is an article written by Susan Behrend about Dr Sandra Alfonsi’s address to Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh. Dr Sandra Alfonsi is the head of Hadassah’s Curriculum Watch. According to the article (and some very brief googling), Dr Alfonsi speaks at various engagements, reporting on the, “widespread attempt on the part of educators to present material about Islam, to help students understand some of the conflicts in the world today, especially 09.11.” The article goes on to explore the sources which are universities with departments of Middle Eastern Studies and with money given by Saudi Arabia.
According to Dr Alfonsi, the text is riddled with inaccuracies about Israel and the Holocaust.
Furthermore, the article states:
- Lesson plans on the Israel-Palestine conflict direct students to pressure the government to cut off aid to Israel.
- Social Studies texts list the names of the world religions deleting all mention of Jews and Judaism.
- Discussion of the Bible starts at Exodus, not Genesis, thus deleting all connection of the Jews to the land that is currently Israel.
- Some material presenting Islam to American students has them practicing Islamic prayers.
The article goes on to report that Dr Alfonsi has met with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to express concerns and ask questions about textbooks being considered.
As Jews, it is imperative, per our teaching/scripture, to learn. The pursuit of learning is paramount to Judaism. And here we sit, as some sort of book-burning witch hunt, criticising what is in texts. Now, in practice, I do not disagree with being concerned about inaccurate portrayals of history. History has been revised for many years to facilitate whatever political process the student lives in/under. I do find it disconcerting that history may have been bastardized. I also find it disconcerting that the article fails to demonstrate exactly how history has been bastardized.
What really concerns me is this level of fear mongering, however.
Are Jewish children, Christian children, children who are agnostic, atheist, Buddhist, Humanist, etc… not supposed to learn about the Islamic faith? How are the children, the future of any society, supposed to learn without exploring all religions? And…why are demands being made that children learn one way but not the other?
The article cites valid concerns. I feel compelled to repeat that. On the other hand, I cannot help but take away a sense of witch-huntery and a strong, Zionist message.
One of the things that drove me away from routine worship was the fact that I could not find a synagogue that did not co-mingle politics and faith. I want to be able to worship without hearing dramatic accounts of how certain Jewish sects in Israel discriminate against others. I want to be able to worship without being hit up for bucks to support Israel.
All of this is very challenging for me to wrap my head around, since, as I age, I become more comfortable with the need for Israel. Jews do need a homeland to protect them from disgusting and horrific events such as the Holocaust. 5,700+ years has proven that the concept of being anti-Semitic isn’t going anywhere.
On the other hand, what does it say about a group of people who are expressing deep concern about children learning something which may be different? Doesn’t that show fear? Doesn’t that demonstrate some level of intolerance? Doesn’t that make us just as guilty as those who persecute us?
Sparky and Adam Smith’s son goes to a fantastic school in Morrisville. Shortly before Christmas, Dock and I went to Sparky and Adam’s house for a cup of holiday sneer. We looked at some schoolwork from Sparky Jr. It was a coloring book of all the major religious holidays, Christmas, Eid, Chanukkah (ok…that’s not major but you get my drift) and Diwali. The exercise was to teach the children that there is more out there than what is practiced in their home. This promotes tolerance. This promotes actual education. This promotes harmony and understanding. This makes me want to send whatever offspring I have to that exact, same school.
What happens if we take that which is different out of textbooks simply because of politics?
While I appreciate Dr Alfonsi’s desire to protect history and report, accurately, on the Jewish struggle, I cannot help but feel compromised by the fact that someone is willing to censor and limit knowledge. I cannot help but question our own actions. I cannot help but wonder if we are doing the same thing we, as a religious minority, resent in a Christian society.
So long as it is an, “us against them” mentality, there will never be peace in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter. This is not to discount the great, “Islamic threat” to the world (and I gag as I write this). But there is also a great, “Christian threat” and a great, “Jewish threat.” So long as there is rabid ideology, understanding will never be reached.
One cannot demand accuracy, equal time and fairness without offering it up, themselves. One cannot condemn financing from one nation with a political agenda, while accepting and/or donating money to a similar cause. One cannot turn to an institute of higher learning for accurate facts to support their ideology and condemn those who do the same thing simply because they disagree. This stinks of hypocrisy.
Perhaps I am the, “Worst Jew in the World” for thinking this. Perhaps I will be ostracised for not fully supporting this endeavour. That is a risk I am willing to take. I cannot, as a Jew, ask for tolerance and respect without offering it up myself. I cannot, as a minority, expect equality when I’m not willing to grant it. I cannot, as a human being, allow anyone to remain fully ignorant so long as I have my keyboard and an internet connection.
The risk is too great.
It is one thing to ask for equal time and accuracy in historical reporting. It is another thing to act is if your message is the only message which needs to be heard.
Aren’t we better than this?
*note: unfortunately, this article is not on-line, otherwise, I would have done due diligence and linked it.
Posted by High Priestess Kang as News, Religion
Every Jew’s favorite Chanukkah meat.
Grocery Store Goofs with Hanukkah Ham Ad
NEW YORK - This was REALLY not kosher.
A grocery store in Manhattan made a food faux pas, advertising hams as “Delicious for Chanukkah.”
Chanukkah — an alternate spelling for Hanukkah — is the eight-day Jewish holiday that began Tuesday evening, and hams — as well as pork and other products from pigs — can’t be eaten under Jewish dietary laws.
A woman who saw the mistake over the weekend at the Balducci’s store on 14th Street took pictures of the signs and posted them on her blog.
Jennifer Barton, director of marketing, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the signs were changed as soon as the error was noted.
She issued an apology on the company Web site, saying the company would be reviewing its employee training.
