Poor, Persecuted Christians....

All this whinging lately about how horribly, horribly persecuted Christians are in this country is really making me sick. Particularly when it seems to be the Christians that are doing all the goddamn persecuting. You know, like kicking students out of school for being gay. (Bolds mine)

The University of the Cumberlands' rule against gay students appears to put the school's hopes for a pharmacy school on a collision course with national accreditation standards that prohibit discrimination against gays.

Last week, the Southern Baptist university dismissed Jason Johnson, 20, a sophomore theater arts major from Lexington, after he disclosed on a Web site that he is gay. That action put the spotlight on the University of the Cumberlands' rule against homosexuality and extramarital sex. A school policy says both are "not consistent with Christian principles."

That rule seems in direct conflict, though, with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the only group that can accredit new and existing pharmacy schools in the United States.

Okay, all you "Colleges are filled with Liberals that want to destroy Christianity and Conservatives" mouth-flappers: Name one school in the United States that will expel you for being Christian. Or for being Conservative. One.

I'll just wait over here.

Fortunately, this school seems to have some students that, you know, actually think in a Christian manner.

The 2005-06 student handbook says: "Any student who engages in or promotes sexual behavior not consistent with Christian principles (including sex outside marriage and homosexuality) may be suspended or asked to withdraw." A copy of the handbook provided by the university confirmed the policy was not spelled out in 2003-04, when Johnson chose to attend.

After Dreyer's Web post on Thursday, students' blogs showed mixed reactions.

Renee Kuder, a University of the Cumberlands senior, says some students are publicly questioning the school's values. "They're being hypocritical, by Christian standards," she said. "If we love each other, accept each other for who we are, why are they kicking him out?"

Johnson said he hopes students' "faith is renewed because people are standing up for what they believe in."

And it's not just at The University of the Cumberlands.

Gay and lesbian students face expulsion at scores of evangelical Christian schools across the country if they come out of the closet while enrolled.

In all, more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities ban gay-lesbian-bisexual and transgendered youth, according to Soulforce, a pro-gay interfaith group. In this country, religious organizations are allowed to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, said Richard Lindsay of Soulforce.

"It's their right legally, but what we're saying is it is not their right morally," he said.

When University of the Cumberlands student Jason Johnson gushed online about his "wonderful dating adventure with a beautiful boy named Zac," he quickly discovered how unpopular gay sexuality is among conservative Christian school officials.

He's not the first gay student expelled from a Christian school for going public. Conflicts are becoming more common as society becomes more accepting of homosexuality and as students turn to the Internet to share intimate details of their lives.

A student at John Brown University in Siloam Spring, Ark., was booted after he revealed his sexual orientation on his Web page. Students at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., and at North Central University in Minneapolis have been kicked out in the past year, Lindsay said.

Stiiiiill waiting for that long list of expelled Christians.... (checks watch)

You know... maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't feel this animosity and "persecution" if you weren't using your religion as a weapon to destroy the lives of others. Maybe you wouldn't feel as if people dislike you for being Christian if you weren't suing for the right to be a bigot.

Knock off the sob story, folks. It's bullshit; everyone knows it, and you're embarrassing the real Christians. Stop fabricating things like the War on Easter, and try using your Christian beliefs to enrich your life, rather than making others miserable. You might just feel closer to God.

UPDATE: Shaker Zack passes along these tips on Fighting and Winning the War on Easter. Happy Jesuster!

(Can you tell me how to get, how to get to cross-post street?)

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“Pro-Life” Agenda Further Exposed as Anti-Woman

Some pharmacies are now refusing to fill prescriptions for post-abortion vitamins and antibiotics.

If they can’t punish you with a forced pregnancy, then they’ll settle for possibly rendering you sterile with a uterine staph infection.

Heinous.

Curiously, I have heard no calls to prevent the post-surgical dose of antibiotics for any other procedures, like, oh say, vasectomies. I guess when men want to control their reproduction via a medical procedure, that’s totally cool with them. On this we agree—it’s totally cool with me, too. I’d just like the same respect.

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Shameless Twits

Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says

The doomsayer is Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, who apparently has a thing for the number 16—because as Josh Marshall points out:

Stephen Rademaker works for Robert Joseph. And that's the same Bob Joseph who was charged with muscling the CIA into letting President Bush use the Niger bamboozle in the 2003 State of the Union address. And he actually managed to get it done, even after the Alan Foley and others at the CIA told him repeatedly they didn't think it was true. So he certainly speaks with a lot of credibility on this issue.

“The Niger bamboozle,” also known as “the 16 words” in Bush’s SOTU that never should have been there.

Juan Cole, who I trust hell and gone more than any dirtbag associated with this administration and their insistent warmongering, says Iran is “a good ten years away from having a bomb.” Even if he were overestimating by as much as double, five years is still a hell of a long time for a little thing called diplomacy to run its course before we all go apeshit.

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Question of the Day

As a corollary to Mr. Shakes’ Monday QotD, Linkmeister suggested, “Which single-shot movie should have a sequel?”

Hmm…I’ll have to think about this one for a bit to come up with a good answer, although I can assure you it will not be Sixteen Candles. Harrumph.

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Breaking News: White House is Full of Contemptible Idiots

The White House has angrily denied the WaPo’s piece that says Bush knew the horseshit he was spewing about those so-called Iraqi biolabs was, indeed, horseshit.

The McClellatron 3000 was trotted out to denounce the reporting as “reckless,” demand an apology, and issue the best bit of whiplashing spin I do believe I’ve ever seen.

When McClellan was asked when the White House became aware of the Pentagon field report, however, McClellan couldn’t say. He told the press corps “I’m looking into that matter” but the answer was “not the point.”

What a hog.

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Bush, in a word…

Yesterday’s QotD got a lot of responses. Here is Bush’s presidency, as described by the Shakers (with repeats omitted):

apocalyptic oy clusterfuck trainwreck coup horrorfest fucked inconceivable Armageddon unbelievable AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! stolen shit Nixon catastrophe supercatastrophicfuckshittyodious disastrous craptacular kleptocracy contemptible “interesting” FUBAR predictable disaster kleptincompetostrophic mobius stoooopid duh hellass sorry trollking conspiracy fascist villainy abomination imbecile supercrappyfascististicundemocratadocious theo-fascist morphine bushed fuuuuuuck coma-inducing puppet clusterCheney evil putrid vile ignoble crass moronic sociopathic offal racist anathema infamous murderer wisdomless Halloweenish charlatan abysmal sucktastic failure sleazy drydrunk bastard warpimper hellsfodder backwoodsy impeachable hypocritical sinister treasonous dead decayed roach funeralized licker horrendous mindless 1984 anti-human Phenobarbital apropos run! “dude” barf wrong dangerous fabulist fuhgedaboudit splunge! cataclysm heartbreaking heinous criminal Republicans vomitrocious goatfuck d'oh! scary insane unfuckingbelievable stumblebum diddledumdumdiddledoowhadafuckfuckfuckfuckfuckadeedoo catastrophic antichrist conservagasm fashtastic vulture pus shameful crackbrained horrific depraved vacuous Texecutionist unaccountable fumbler latent schizoid pussyboy arrogant Caligulian vomitous repugnant waste pathological tragic Orwellian

Even altogether they don’t really do justice to the travesty that is the Bush administration.

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Yeesh

A Missouri couple have been revealed as liars after claiming the woman had given birth to sextuplets, prompting an outpouring of donations from the community. Turns out, they never had any baby at all, no less six of them.

How did these dim bulbs think they were going to get away with this scam? Didn’t they think at some point, people in their small community might notice the lack of babies? That the local hospitals might say, “Uh, we don’t have six babies in intensive care.” What a couple of dopes.

Reached by phone late Tuesday, Sarah Everson offered no explanation. "I'm not talking to anybody right now," she said, "because nobody gets it."

Oh, I think people get it. I think they get that you provided photos of a fake pregnancy and posed on the front page of the newspaper with six matching outfits and let people set up a fricking website dedicated to raising funds on your behalf and that people who have known you say you’ve tried to pull a hoax exactly like this before. I think they get that you’re one nasty crackpot, babe.

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Blend

Pam’s been totally on fire lately with a slew of great posts (along with her co-blogger Russ), so I recommend heading over and indulging in some great blogging at your earliest opportunity. I particularly want to direct your attention, however, to this one on the southern strategy of the Dems and who’s been asked to speak to the issue at the Yearly Kos convention. Yeesh.

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Screeching harpy scrapes out new screed with her talons

Boil on the ass of humanity Ann Coulter is coming out with a new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, and because she’s such a funny gal, it’s being released on June 6—or 6.6.06. Ho ho ho.

Bitch, I wish I were the Devil, because that would mean I had the power to turn you into Clinton’s penis, so you’d have to spend the rest of your life being repeatedly plunged deep into godless liberal cunts with the entire conservative movement blaming you for all the ills of the world.

(Hat tip Green Knight, who’s got another funny little observation at the link.)

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It's Stories Like These

...along with all the troubles Bush and his winged monkeys are having these days that make me think The Supreme Being is getting sick and tired of these bozos.

Cue crazed Fundie frothing!

Ancient Fossils Fill Gap in Early Human Evolution.

Yes, evolution. Choke on it, fundie bitches!

LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution.

The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.

The Australopithecus genus is thought to be an ancestor of modern humans. Seven separate species have been named. Au. anamensis is the most primitive.

"This new discovery closes the gap between the fully blown Australopithecines and earlier forms we call Ardipithecus," said Tim White, a leader of the team from the University of California, Berkeley.

"We now know where Australopithecus came from before 4 million years ago."

Sorry, can you speak up, Tim? I can't hear you over all this wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Along with the hominid fossils, the scientists discovered hundreds of remains of pigs, birds, rodents and monkeys as well as hyenas and big cats which gave them an idea of the habitat in which they existed.

"Here, in a single Ethiopian valley, we have nearly a mile-thick stack of superimposed sediments and twelve horizons yielding hominid fossils. These discoveries confirm the Middle Awash study area as the world's best window on human evolution," White added.

I eagerly await the first batshit-insane Pat Robertson quote. Should be a lulu.

(Cross-post... I just met a girl named Cross-post...)

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CrossWalk America

Here’s something worth a look: I just got a press release from a group called CrossWalk America, which is a newly-formed, moderate/progressive Christian group beginning a 2,500-mile walk across America on Easter Sunday to “promote the core values of Christianity they feel are often overlooked in today’s divisive world.”

The basic assumption of both CWA and NLS:CFJ is that moderate and progressive Christians have been overly content to remain silent as fundamentalism has gradually eroded mainstream Christianity in the public sphere. We believe it is time to “stand up and be counted,” calling the church to be church, in voice and action.

A quote by Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), sums our stance up well:

"When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist; When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist; When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist; When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew; When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."

Good for them. Let’s see if the mainstream media bothers to give it half the attention they grant to the likes of Buchanan, Falwell, and Dobson.

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Insanity

Quite literally, if you define insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. (Which, I’ve just noticed, is the same point Shaker Truth made, who gets the hat tip.)

A confidential Treasury Department review of a United Arab Emirates firm's pending purchase of the British-based contractor that makes components for a tank used by the U.S. Army is expected to go to the White House as soon as this week, according to administration officials.

The proposed $1.2 billion deal is almost identical to Dubai Ports World's takeover of the British firm that operated American ports from Miami to New York.

And we all know how well that went over.

[Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)] said he was particularly angry at the White House and Treasury Department for failing to give him straight answers about the deal, considering one of Doncasters's plants is in his district in Rincon, Ga.

…"We have been pestering them about this, trying to get some person to understand this for more than a month. Today I had my first conversation. I asked to speak to the treasury secretary. I ended up talking to an assistant secretary at Treasury who does not know when the investigation will finish or whether a recommendation has been made," he said.

Mr. Barrow added, "I don't think it's politicizing the process to know what the hell is going on.”

No shit.

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Righty Reactions

Since Spudsy and I both wondered what the reaction of conservatives would be to today’s WaPo story, and others have noted the same in comments, here’s a little round-up for you.

Mostly, conservative bloggers are seizing on this paragraph:

Intelligence analysts involved in high-level discussions about the trailers noted that the technical team was among several groups that analyzed the suspected mobile labs throughout the spring and summer of 2003. Two teams of military experts who viewed the trailers soon after their discovery concluded that the facilities were weapons labs, a finding that strongly influenced views of intelligence officials in Washington, the analysts said. “It was hotly debated, and there were experts making arguments on both sides,” said one former senior official who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.

But as Maha points out: “No cigar, righties. The Administration didn’t say, we think these trailers might be mobile labs. It said they were, unequivocally. And the evidence that they weren’t was then suppressed. That was dishonest. And it’s part of the now-familiar pattern — the Bushies cherry-picked intelligence, believing what they wanted to believe, discarding anything that didn’t support their conclusions.” Indeed. So moving on to the round-up…

The aforementioned most popular response is exhibited by Powerline, Confederate Yankee, The Political Pitbull, In the Bullpen, et al, all of whom blame the WaPo for the placement of the above-referenced paragraph, because it’s not part of the lede. In the Bullpen:

One problem with many media outlets in today’s politically biased journalistic world is that there are maliciously written articles with inaccurate ledes and the actual juice of the reports lay well within the whole. Anyone who has ever studied journalism at even the elementary levels knows that most readers stop reading an article after the first few paragraphs. Of course that assumes in the age of the Internet readers actually click to the full story and read more than the headline and the lede paragraph or teaser attributed on a media outlet’s web site.

A quick etymology lesson. Newspapers are papers that contain news. News is something that is new. Everyone with me? Okay, it’s the Bush administration’s choice to ignore contradictory evidence and withhold its existence from us, which is, in fact, new. That they had experts who were feeding them what they wanted to hear is, in fact, not new. Ergo, that allegedly damning information is neither news not the “actual juice of the report.” Nice try, though.

The Corner relies on the old sniff-and-dismiss technique:

It's going to take some time to mull over the big WashPost scoop today by Joby Warrick claiming the Bush administration ignored warnings from experts that trailers in Iraq were not mobile bio-weapons labs -- the story is a classic trust-us-with-anonymous-insiders story. (Of course, ABC White House reporter Martha Raddatz was already dancing a happy anti-Bush dance on ABC this morning.)

But one indication of how the Post wants to pack a partisan wallop on this is right there for Post readers at the bottom of A-12, which is entirely devoted to the Warrick story: The latest update on "Iraq War Deaths," with "2,360 Fatalities" in bold, which, when put on the same page, whispers: "Bush lied, people died."

The temerity of the WaPo for pointing out that a cause had an effect! My god, what is the world coming to? Unconditionally supporting the lying scumbags whose deceit resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 soldiers is an interesting take on supporting the troops, btw.

And my personal favorite, Outside the Beltway, takes a look and feels a bit worried, but reassures:

Now, there is some wiggle room here for the president. That “intelligence officials possessed” information does not mean that the president did. That the report was “transmitted . . . to Washington” does not mean that they reached the White House. Especially not in two days. Then again, they clearly knew within some reasonable span of time, which means they were being dishonest if the claims were “repeated by top administration officials for months afterward.”

Wiggle room?! Ha. Intended or not, that reeks of “There is an opportunity for the president to lie yet again.” Smashing.

But, in fairness, Outside the Beltway also provides the most obvious hint of a conscience, too, even after repeating the “position of that paragraph is crap” meme.

All that said, however, it obviously became clear within a few weeks that there was doubt as to the nature of those trailers. To keep referring to them in public as if they were slam dunk evidence of Iraqi WMD is disengenuous [sic] at best…

[L]eaders in democratic societies have an obligation to be honest when addressing their citizenry. It certainly appears that that obligation was not met here.

Perhaps not so coincidentally, the author happens to have served in the military. Maybe he’s a little less sanguine about administrations who send soldiers to war based on lies than the rest of the Righty chickenhawk brigade.

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Dean reacts to WaPo piece

Michael Tomasky at Tapped:

DNC Chairman Howard Dean this morning called on the Bush administration to declassify a 2003 Defense Intelligence Agency-sponsored report that undercuts a key administration claim about Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi weapons…

Dean, at this morning’s Prospect breakfast meeting with roughly two dozen journalists, said, "We are going to call, probably today, for the declassification of the report.” He wouldn’t say whether he had already spoken to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi about this strategy, but one source said that such conversations would commence today, and that Dean would likely appear on television this afternoon to press the claim. “If the [Post] story is accurate,” Dean said, “…then the onus is on the president to prove that he did not mislead the country.” He sharpened this point later, saying that if the Post was correct, then Bush did mislead the country, and it was either a case of “incompetence, or it was deliberate. And those are both very, very serious.”

Dems: Think maybe you can find it in you to support that censure resolution now?

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Colin Powell is a douchebag.

And possibly a traitor:

On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us.

...“The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote,” Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush’s State of the Union speech? “That was a big mistake,” he said. “It should never have been in the speech. I didn’t need Wilson to tell me that there wasn’t a Niger connection. He didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. I never believed it.”

When I pressed further as to why the president played up the Iraq nuclear threat, Powell said it wasn’t the president: “That was all Cheney.” A convenient response for a Bush family loyalist, perhaps, but it begs the question of how the president came to be a captive of his vice president’s fantasies.

More important: Why was this doubt, on the part of the secretary of state and others, about the salient facts justifying the invasion of Iraq kept from the public until we heard the truth from whistle-blower Wilson, whose credibility the president then sought to destroy?

Having been called a traitor myself, for everything from not supporting the war to questioning the president’s choice of ties, it is not a word I wish to throw around lightly. It has a meaning: someone who violates one’s allegiance toward one's country or sovereign. Although the popular wisdom these days is that Bush = America, it comes at the cost of ignoring the reality that Americans = America.

Whether Scheer didn’t ask this final question of Powell, or whether he simply didn’t give an answer, I don’t know. But I do know the answer nonetheless: It was kept from the public because Colin Powell decided his allegiance to the president was more important than the right of the American people to have their Secretary of State be their ally. When Colin Powell traded on his integrity to make the case for Bush’s war at the UN, he violated his allegiance to the people he was meant to serve.

And it wasn’t just any old lie, was it? It was a lie by a man who was widely regarded as being the most trustworthy even by administration opponents. It was a lie that contributed to the nation going to war—a war that has had the inevitable result of making Americans less safe, as its battlefields have becoming a breeding ground for the virulent anti-American sentiment that fuels the very terrorist networks from which this war was purported to protect us. It was a deliberate and knowing lie, and his misplaced loyalty not only undermined our trust, but our safety. If there’s a better word to describe that than traitorous, I don’t know what it is.

And the best he’s got is, “That was all Cheney.” No, Mr. Powell. It wasn’t all Cheney. It was the president whose loyalty trumped your responsibility to the rest of us, and it was you.

(Thanks to Maha for the link to Sheer.)

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Per Paul's post below, I think at this point, we ought to just make it simple on Bush and Company. Just tell us what you didn’t lie about, because apparently that’s a shorter list.

(Btw, it's nice to see Curveball making another appearance. Curveball, you may remember, was found to be “a fabricator and alcoholic.” And once again I suggest: Never trust a secret source code named Curveball.)

I don’t even know what else to say about this rubbish anymore. At some point, I just don’t give a shit whether any of these individual incidents of lying were illegal; taken as a whole, there is a plainly evident pattern of deliberate manipulation of intelligence and outright lying clearly designed to mislead the American people. They have fundamentally undermined the trust in our leadership upon which a successful democracy must rely.

If the GOP had a shred of credibility, they would launch impeachment proceedings immediately. This isn’t a partisan issue; it’s about one’s vision of America, and continuing to let these mendacious, unethical bastards stand at the helm of the ship of state, after they have repeatedly shown nothing but contempt for the American people’s fundamental right to know the truth, is indicative of a vision of America that acts in direct opposition to that laid out by the Founders. It’s really just that simple.

Is there no Republican in the whole of Congress who can acknowledge that their party has become irreparably corrupt, and that the only way to kill this monster is to cut off its head? (Don’t bother answering; it’s rhetorical.) Any Republican who cares about America is going to have to prove it by saying, “Look—we need to get rid of this guy, because he’s got three more years and America can’t bear and doesn’t deserve three more years of him. And yeah, it might mean we lose some of our control, but maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.” Short of that, they’re just a collection of complicit bastards who are no better than their disgusting leadership.

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Here's the weird thing...

So I just read this story, and by the time I got to the second paragraph I was thinking, "Yeah, so? We knew that already."

But then I realized we didn't know this already. I've just gotten so used to assuming that every claim made by this president and administration is nothing but a pack of lies, that when stuff I knew was bullshit is finally proven to be bullshit, I barely notice.

Ha! Sob.
(You, uh, might not want to look at that picture of Bush grinning a few posts down after reading this story. I don't want computers thrown out of windows.)

Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary

This needs nother tagline: "No one shocked in the slightest."

On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.

A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.

The three-page field report and a 122-page final report three weeks later were stamped "secret" and shelved. Meanwhile, for nearly a year, administration and intelligence officials continued to publicly assert that the trailers were weapons factories.

Deja Vu!

The authors of the reports were nine U.S. and British civilian experts -- scientists and engineers with extensive experience in all the technical fields involved in making bioweapons -- who were dispatched to Baghdad by the Defense Intelligence Agency for an analysis of the trailers. Their actions and findings were described to a Washington Post reporter in interviews with six government officials and weapons experts who participated in the mission or had direct knowledge of it.

None would consent to being identified by name because of fear that their jobs would be jeopardized. Their accounts were verified by other current and former government officials knowledgeable about the mission. The contents of the final report, "Final Technical Engineering Exploitation Report on Iraqi Suspected Biological Weapons-Associated Trailers," remain classified. But interviews reveal that the technical team was unequivocal in its conclusion that the trailers were not intended to manufacture biological weapons. Those interviewed took care not to discuss the classified portions of their work.

"There was no connection to anything biological," said one expert who studied the trailers. Another recalled an epithet that came to be associated with the trailers: "the biggest sand toilets in the world."

Go read the whole thing. Can this please be the final nail in the coffin?

Okay... a question to any Bush supporters that may be reading this... and honestly, I'm not trying to bait you. But how can you, with good conscience, continue to support George W. Bush?

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Correction in Fitzy Filing

The WaPo has the correction; eriposte has some good thoughts on what it means.

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Question of the Day

Your friend Joe has been in a coma for six years and has just woken up, and for some reason that depends on your suspension of disbelief, you have to summarize George Bush's presidency for him in one word only.

What word do you choose?

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Utterly Contemptible

Laugh it up, bucko.

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