South Park Conservative?!?

"South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias," by Brian C. Anderson has just been published recently. I get the feeling that the right will do anything to find rationale in their positions reflected somewhere in today's pop-culture scene. When I saw the title of the book and read about the author, I was strangely taken about. Was this guy watching the same TV show I was? Yes, the show trashes the Hollywood Elites (those horrible creatures) and fur-wearing, animal rights loving, environment kissing, PC radicals. But it also trashes Religion obsessed freaks. (Hello, does anybody remember all of the shows trashing Jesus??). Frank Rich has a great column (God love ya Frank) on this whole brouhaha.

Yet again, extreme right-wing radicals are trying to justify their positions. Sorry, the book doesn't hold water.

Rosie

Good old Rosie O'Donnell is starring in a Halmark Hall of Fame presentation this Sunday. She plays a developmental challenged person. I hear it's a real stretch for her. The Times' review said "This is a deeply--even thrillingly--embarrassing movie." Hmmm...sounds delich. I wonder what Ms. O'Donnell had to say in her blog?

The White House

I don't know what I was thinking?! After going to the official White House web site, I finally see all of the good President Bush is doing and how he is saving the world from "Evildoers".

I especially like Jenna's Blacklight Freakout room in the basement of the White House.

And who knew that the ever talented Karen Hughes resembles Bea Arthur?!

But, most informative is Lynne Cheney's Bio. Didn't Dick Cheney hear that public figures are fair game for satire??

Lynne Cheney

God bless Lynne Cheney. She's a rightous sister. Here is what she's had to say recently about the Virgin Mary in appearing in Chicago. Check this out. But be warned....it is a little graphic...and I warned you before you went there.

Arthur Finklenstein

OK...check out this about Arthur Kinkelstein. Mr. Finkelstein is a Republican operative/consultant who has worked on the campaign's on many Republicans who have spoken out that homosexuality is an intrinsic evil and not normal. He worked within the Republican party last year to work on passing the Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. And yet, Mr. Finkelstein got married to a man last year.

In the blog, homocon writes about how there were "more important issues last year other than sexual identity, such as national security." If that was the case, why did he vote for somebody who has actually done things to make us less safe (meaning President Bush). If there are issues of fiscal responsibilty, why would you vote for the most fically irresponsible President this country has seen since the Harding administration? Those arguements just don't hold water.

People who feel that their sexual identity is personal and shouldn't matter to anybody so they keep it secret help facilitate a culture which discriminates against LGBT people. They seem to feel no obligation to the LGBT people before them--like those who faught back at Stonewall, the actup activists who faught against ignorance and discrimination surrounding AIDS, Equality organizations in eery state who helped bring awarenes to high suicide rates among LGBT Teens, hate crimes, and harmful queer targeted legislation. In the age of Will and Grace, they feel comfortable benefiting from a level of cultural acceptance that allows them to act on homosexual desires, while aiding the forces that destroy that freedom.

I don't see how any self-respecting homo can accept the very freedoms that people have died for in the past and work against those battles for their own personal enrichment.

What is faith?

I came across this blog online and I have some comments to add.

Freedom from fear has nothing to do with "trusting the authorities to help clear out the dust and prosecute the evildoers." You are somehow relating fear as only about terrorism or authorities. A person can have fear of anything and this has nothing to do with our government or terrorism. You can have fear of traveling, flying, people of other race, cultures, parents, your boss, choices to make in life, homosexuals, etc. Fear in and of itself can be paralyzing to an individual. Fear and Faith are at opposite ends of the spectrum of feelings and beliefs. When I refer to Faith, I am including religious beliefs, spiritual beliefs and beyond. Freedom from fear in your example (of a potential terrorist attack), would mean that it wouldn't matter what the outcome of a terrorist attack was and whether or not the "authorities would prosecute the evildoers". If I had complete Faith that would mean that I would believe everything would turn out OK whether or not the "evildoers" are brought to justice, it doesn't matter. Because they will in the afterlife.

I was born and raised Catholic and the faith that you talk about has nothing to do with the Faith that I learned growing up. Again, it doesn't matter whether our ultimate leader believes in God or not, if my faith is strong enough, it doesn't matter what our President believes.

"If you believe in God and you believe that you are on God's side, your faith assures you that the evildoers will get it in the end." This is another comment that you make and it is disturbing. The level of arrogance and vengeance in your statement, if you really believe that, is the kind of remark, from what I grew up believing, that would earn you eternal damnation. Faith in God and following the teachings of Jesus Christ only grant you entrance into the gates of heaven. You aren't God and can't say whether or not somebody else "will get it in the end". To assume you know who the evildoers are or who will get it in the end is arrogance. Christ taught complete forgiveness of everyone and to love our enemies. So to think that somebody should get it in the end, is not forgiving them for their actions and it is against Christ's teachings. Based on my beliefs, this kind of thinking that you have is just as bad as actual terrorists murdering people. In terms of Christ's teaching, there is no difference.

What I grew up believing is that faith is a very personal and private matter. To brag about one's faith or to speak about it loudly goes against everything that Christ taught.

As for carnal/mortal laws or truths, how do you know what they are? If you are getting them from Exodus, and they include opposition to abortion and homosexuality, then you must also believe that slavery is a good thing and we all must slaves, if a woman has an affair, she must be stoned to death in the public square, you can eat pork and you can't mix dairy and meat. You cannot pick and choose which laws from the Bible you want to apply to life. Either you believe them all, or you take the book for what it is worth.

And a quick side note about Bush appearing as a regular guy. I am going to be a little judgmental here, but Bush is not a regular guy, he is an Ivy league educated man who hasn't had to work much in his life. Every business venture that he entered into, somebody has had to bail him out. They have failed. If he didn't have wealthy parents and a trust fund, he would have trouble supporting himself right now. The small talking, tree cutting man from Texas is an act to win votes and apparently you bought into it. Clinton was at heart a regular guy. He grew up in an alcoholic household, very poor in the south and worked his ass off to go Oxford and be a Rhodes Scholar. Like his politics or not, Clinton's ability to relate to the common man is home grown. Bush's is strictly a PR move to get votes.