Today’s oddity is from Liverpool psychedelic pop band Stealing Sheep, who bring us this weird (and beautifully filmed) vision of a rustic country ritual.
Wait, it’s Saturday again? Crap, means I have to work again tonight.
I actually had this scheduled to post last night, but apparently I set the time wrong.
Morris dancers do occasionally warp time/space.
re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea
Morris dancers do occasionally warp time/space.
But do they do the Time Warp?
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I actually had this scheduled to post last night, but apparently I set the time wrong.
What a relief, I though that perhaps the CCJ thread turned LGF into Groundhog’s day.
re: #6 Dr Lizardo
While highly entertaining, the Time Warp is not an invocation of the Elder Gods. Morris Dancers are on the other hand channeling the darkest forces in the cosmos.
The full @tedcruz interview by @chucktodd is worth a watch http://t.co/f0QTQuFcFq
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) October 18, 2015
He is a loathsome man who seems to see self-aggrandizement as the only goal of his position.
I don’t care for Ted Cruz much either.
That looks like a variation of the Morris Dance.
re: #8 The Ghost of a Flea
While highly entertaining, the Time Warp is not an invocation of the Elder Gods. Morris Dancers are on the other hand channeling the darkest forces in the cosmos.
True…..but the Time Warp did summon Dr. Frank N. Furter.
re: #9 bratwurst
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He is a loathsome man who seems to see self-aggrandizement as the only goal of his position.
I don’t care for Ted Cruz much either.
Honestly, I don’t know which one of those assholes is more despicable.
Gowdy fabricated redactions on to Clinton’s email to make it look like she’d outed a spy. http://t.co/zxY5v90ya2 pic.twitter.com/QV6AAHhb26
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 18, 2015
This is infuriating. He leaks info…FALSE info…several times and the media just eats it up.
Okay, really?!?!?
The reason why the #BenghaziCommittee is taking so long is because, “We don’t know what we’re looking for,” says @RepAdamSchiff
— Meet the Press (@meetthepress) October 18, 2015
re: #14 Jenner7
Now that’s what I call a fishing expedition.
“…Early each year, the town of Whittlesey (Whittlesea on the station’s name board) in Cambridgeshire hosts a festival called Straw Bear which starts with a parade through the town of the people dressed AS the Straw Bears and all the Morris Dance sides who will perform that day in the streets.”
“…straw was carefully selected each year, from the best available, the harvesters saying, “That’ll do for the Bear”.
strawbear.org.uk
re: #16 jaunte
Looks like a Ghillie suit.
re: #13 Jenner7
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This is infuriating. He leaks info…FALSE info…several times and the media just eats it up.
It’s Whitewater all over again, the media printing the falsified “outrage” on the front page, then posting the redaction/correction on A16 a week later.
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This is infuriating. He leaks info…FALSE info…several times and the media just eats it up.
You can always rely on the stenographers in our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press to lie any lie for the Republican Party.
Now where have I seen “CCCP” before????????
It never ends with the family values crowd.
Anti-gay GOP senator caught posting photos on the gay hook-up site, Grindr
“You know I’ve been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I’ve been taking pictures. I don’t remember taking this particular picture but I’m not gonna say I didn’t take it. I’d tell you if I remembered taking the picture, but I don’t.”
That was Puerto Rico’s GOP senator Roberto Arango’s excuse as to why images of his naked ass showed up on the gay hook-up app, Grindr.
Published photos from the application show “a man’s nude upper body with a cell phone obscuring his face,” and another showing “a rear view of a nude man on his hands and knees.”
Kevin McCarthy is gonna be one of those names that Republicans years from now will spit and cross themselves upon saying. Because the rush to prove he was wrong about the committee has only further highlighted just how much of a partisan joke the committee is.
And the situation in Israel escalates further:
Haaretz: One Killed, 10 Wounded in Shooting Attack in Southern Israel
One Israeli was killed and 10 were wounded in a shooting at the Central Bus Station in the Southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva on Sunday evening.
Among the wounded, two are in serious condition. The others sustained light to moderate wounds.
According to the police, two terrorists were involved. One was shot by soldiers or civilians at the scene and was critically wounded. Another barricaded himself in the restrooms and was shot dead by police when he opened fire.
The bus station is a closed compound with security guards posted at the entrances. It is unclear how the gunmen managed to get past the guards.
According to a statement released by the police’s southern district, the identity of the terrorists is currently being ascertained. The possibility that there was another terrorist on the scene has been ruled out for the moment, though police are combing the area.
Over the weekend, three Israeli officers were wounded in separate terror attacks in and around Hebron. Six Palestinian assailants were shot dead during alleged knife attacks, including two in the capital.
re: #19 Joe Bacon
You can always rely on the stenographers in our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press to lie any lie for the Republican Party.
Now where have I seen “CCCP” before????????
Hockey jerseys when we beat those godless commies at Lake Placid! USA! USA! USA!
(yes, I know it’s pronounced like “es es es are.”)
re: #20 Skip Intro
It never ends with the family values crowd.
Anti-gay GOP senator caught posting photos on the gay hook-up site, Grindr
If you follow the link to the Washington Post in that Deadstate article, you’ll discover that the story is from 2011.
I enjoy a good “anti-gay Republican outed as gay on Grindr” story as much as anyone, but why is Deadstate recycling a four-year old story now?
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I enjoy a good “anti-gay Republican outed as gay on Grindr” story as much as anyone, but why is Deadstate recycling a four-year old story now?
Slow news day.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I enjoy a good “anti-gay Republican outed as gay on Grindr” story as much as anyone, but why is Deadstate recycling a four-year old story now?
Slow news day?
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I enjoy a good “anti-gay Republican outed as gay on Grindr” story as much as anyone, but why is Deadstate recycling a four-year old story now?
Slow news day!
re: #14 Jenner7
Okay, really?!?!?
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re: #31 Tigger2
I would be surprised if they could find their own dicks.
That’s easy enough, they’re the one”s with “R” beside their names.
/
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I enjoy a good “anti-gay Republican outed as gay on Grindr” story as much as anyone, but why is Deadstate recycling a four-year old story now?
Because suckers like me will fall for it.
re: #28 Archangelus
Sorry ‘bout that, seemed funnier than it probably is in my sleep deprived mind…
re: #32 Targetpractice
That’s easy enough, they’re the one”s with “R” beside their names.
/
Neither of them can count past 10 without taking off their socks and shoes.
Guess what they have to drop to try to get to 21…
re: #32 Targetpractice
That’s easy enough, they’re the one”s with “R” beside their names.
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I don’t know how anyone with a brain cell could vote for them.
Years ago I can understand but not the way they are now.
I always love it when a random guy who isn’t following me on Twitter suddenly jumps into my mentions telling me I should ignore Chuck Johnson. Erm, more than 4500 Twitter shares on that post so far seems to indicate that more than a few people are interested.
I think Dr. Carson is rapidly approaching Peak Derp:
Ben Carson: We could have caught Osama bin Laden earlier if we had drilled for more oil http://t.co/0uZ549wt44 pic.twitter.com/oWVWkk8NQP
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 18, 2015
Hide yo’ wife! Hide yo’ kids!
Social media is so filled with hate. It’s nice to break from it and be with a loving wife every now and then. Screw you. Mwah.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 18, 2015
re: #41 The Vicious Babushka
Good thing hateful social media is there to ignore Crowder.
re: #41 The Vicious Babushka
He wants to watch “Married With Children” reruns.
Hey Julian? Who’s your buddy?
Revealed: Ecuador Thwarted Deal Between Julian Assange And Swedish Prosecutors
So Assange had a deal worked out with Sweden where they would come in, interview him and get a DNA sample, hopefully starting the beginning of the end of his mess.
Ecuador threw a fit demanding that Sweden acknowledge Assange’s asylum status, sign a treaty with Ecuador and basically let make Julian shut the hell up and let Ecuador handle things.
The thing obviously fell through and I’ll give you one guess as to who leaked this story to the press.
What a bunch of grateful and wonderful people in that mess.
re: #40 Targetpractice
I think Dr. Carson is rapidly approaching Peak Derp:
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— jim (@jlcoffeecup) October 18, 2015
re: #40 Targetpractice
WOW! I wonder how he gets from A to B with that?
re: #41 The Vicious Babushka
Hide yo’ wife! Hide yo’ kids!
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If he would stay off of social media some of the hate would be gone.
re: #48 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
WOW! I wonder how he gets from A to B with that?
Power of wishful thinking:
“Declare that within five to 10 years, we will become petroleum independent. The moderate Arab states would have been so concerned about that, they would have turned over Osama bin Laden and anybody else you wanted on a silver platter within two weeks,” he said at the time.
This Week host George Stephanolopolus pressed Carson to explain his thinking.
“How would that have worked? How would you have gotten the moderate Arab governments to turn over Osama bin Laden in two weeks?” the host asked.
“Well, I think they would have been extremely concerned if we had declared — and we were serious about it — that we were going to become petroleum independent, because it would have had a major impact on their finances,” Carson offered. “And I think that probably would have trumped any loyalty that they had to — to people like Osama bin Laden.”
An incredulous Stephanopolous challenged Carson, saying, “But they didn’t have any loyalty to Osama bin Laden. The Saudis kicked him out. He was their enemy.”
“Uh, well, you may not think that they had any loyalty to him, but I believe otherwise,” Carson said without further explanation.
I got a retweet from John Fugelsang and now my mentions are filling up with this, drowning all the Derp==>
“The politicians who say ‘Obama is coming for your guns’..” #UniteBlue #tcot #FeelTheBern @JohnFugelsang pic.twitter.com/wXRXG2lXc0
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 18, 2015
re: #49 Tigger2
If he would stay off of social media a lot of the hate would be gone.
Twitter is a hate delivery device.
re: #40 Targetpractice
I think Dr. Carson is rapidly approaching Peak Derp:
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Peak Derp is a myth.
And as if Afghanistan or Pakistan are known for being oil-rich or “Arab”.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Anyone think it’s a slow news day?
I haven’t been paying attention, had family visiting all week.
I could be wrong on that ‘slow news day’ thing.
re: #48 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
WOW! I wonder how he gets from A to B with that?
I’m guessing he’s justing grafting “stopping terrorism” onto the existing derp of “if we produced more oil, we wouldn’t have to gently cup Saudi Arabia’s balls.”
Yeah, think about that for a second: The GOP has built their entire obsession with the idea of AGW being a “hoax” on the idea that governments across the world are trying to wreck their economies by cutting back on oil production/consumption. Now here comes Carson, saying that in 2001, all we would have had to do to get OBL was declare that we’d been “petroleum independent” by 2010.
OPEC would have laughed their asses off.
re: #50 Targetpractice
*sigh*
Knew it. No joy in it, though, it’s so fucking predictable.
Geritol ads do not have a twist ending.
The US only gets 13% of our oil from the Persian Gulf area. Another way of looking at it is that the US only buys around 10% of the oil sold by the Middle East.
re: #57 Targetpractice
Yeah, think about that for a second: The GOP has built their entire obsession with the idea of AGW being a “hoax” on the idea that governments across the world are trying to wreck their economies by cutting back on oil production/consumption. Now here comes Carson, saying that in 2001, all we would have had to do to get OBL was declare that we’d been “petroleum independent” by 2010.
OPEC would have laughed their asses off.
Well, we have so much oil in the country that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is running ads urging that the ban on the export of oil be lifted.
It’s really confusing, Obama has destroyed oil production in the U.S. according to the wingnuts but we have enough to export to other countries?
re: #40 Targetpractice
I think Dr. Carson is rapidly approaching Peak Derp:
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Per that interview:
An incredulous Stephanopolous challenged Carson, saying, “But they didn’t have any loyalty to Osama bin Laden. The Saudis kicked him out. He was their enemy.”
“Uh, well, you may not think that they had any loyalty to him, but I believe otherwise,” Carson said without further explanation.
Not to mention OPEC would have responded not with shock and horror, but by simply boosting oil production as they are now, cratering the cost of a barrel of oil and so making it financially ruinous to pursue increased oil production domestically. Unless Ben was proposing a massive subsidy program to keep oil companies drilling, there’s just no way they would have gone along with this crazy scheme for more than a few months. They might have drilled, but as soon as they struck oil, they’d have capped the wells and sat on them until prices started to rise again.
re: #50 Targetpractice
“Uh, well, you may not think that they had any loyalty to him, but I believe otherwise,” Carson said without further explanation.
Journalists should start challenging him for some supporting evidence for his beliefs, as if he’s running for an important office.
Social media is so filled with hate. It’s nice to break from it and be with a loving wife every now and then. Screw you. Mwah.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 18, 2015
I approve! The best way to lower the volume of hate on Twitter is for @scrowder to stop tweeting. https://t.co/ItwIQBxFqd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2015
re: #66 Charles Johnson
Tweeting about “gonna hang with my wife, not haters” is just a wee bit Doth Protest Too Much. It’s like stage whispering.
A Cruz fan arrives in Plano for Prestonwood Baptist Church forum.
Confirmed to attend are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former business executive Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
dallasnews.com
re: #41 The Vicious Babushka
Wonder whose wife he’s talking about.
re: #59 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
The US only gets 13% of our oil from the Persian Gulf area. Another way of looking at it is that the US only buys around 10% of the oil sold by the Middle East.
That may be true, but consider the influence they have over our market. They decided it’s time to end the investment in fracking and other oil extractions and were able to drastically lower the price of oil across the entire world by raising production. The only way we’d because petroleum independent would be to completely shut off flow from the rest of the world, which would, among other things hurt our trade and the value of our currency.
As long as our economy is so dependent on oil, we’ll never actually be free of OPEC influence.
re: #68 jaunte
A Cruz fan arrives in Plano for Prestonwood Baptist Church forum.
I hadn’t heard anything about a derp festival going on in the news. .
re: #71 Belafon
It ‘snot only that, but a lot of the countries who make the stuff we use depend on Middle Eastern oil, so we use it indirectly.
re: #44 b.d.
Hey Julian? Who’s your buddy?
So Assange had a deal worked out with Sweden where they would come in, interview him and get a DNA sample, hopefully starting the beginning of the end of his mess.
Ecuador threw a fit demanding that Sweden acknowledge Assange’s asylum status, sign a treaty with Ecuador and basically let make Julian shut the hell up and let Ecuador handle things.
The thing obviously fell through and I’ll give you one guess as to who leaked this story to the press.
What a bunch of grateful and wonderful people in that mess.
It’s a South American country being prickly because its leadership feared Assange’s proposed deal would be seen as Ecuador being brushed aside as the business was handled by rich white nations. South American governments do not want to seem ‘submissive’ in such cases and sometimes would prefer no deal so that they can project the right image domestically.
Its just politics as usual.
re: #20 Skip Intro
It never ends with the family values crowd.
Anti-gay GOP senator caught posting photos on the gay hook-up site, Grindr
OMG! OMG! OMG!! Did you see the pic? ROTFLMOA!!
“You know I’ve been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I’ve been taking pictures. I don’t remember taking this particular picture but I’m not gonna say I didn’t take it. I’d tell you if I remembered taking the picture, but I don’t.”
Duuuude, the only way you take a pic like that is if you’re gonna show it to your proctologist. Or Grindr, I suppose.
I scared hubby when I started laughing. God, that pic. Brain bleach, please.
re: #72 Tigger2
I’m in Plano for the North Texas Presidential Forum at 3. Cruz! Carson! Bush! Fiorina! Huckabee! Santorum! pic.twitter.com/CC7pOwYBfY
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
It’s a big evangelical do.
Prestonwood scores high on the “churches that look like Star Wars weapons” scale pic.twitter.com/8uxThfL5pt
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
Far enough away from me I didn’t know it was happening, close enough for me to consider buying a short range missile.
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
It’s a good thing those mega-churches that host these presidential forums don’t hold those type of events when trying to figure out who should run their church, they’d be even more wingnuttyish.
re: #78 Belafon
Watch out, they have a planet-buster.
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
That’s what I said. lol
I don’t agree with the evangelical way of interpreting the bible, it’s not what I remember learning when I was young.
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
$5 for spotting an African American that isn’t affiliated with the Ben Carson campaign.
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
How can anyone set foot inside a room like that and think they’re going to church? That’s hideous.
re: #82 b.d.
Even the embedded reporter is Whitely.
LIVE STREAM of @GOP presidential forum at @Prestonwood can be seen at http://t.co/501hhJFUBe at 3p CDT.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 18, 2015
So, I mentioned that we had family over for the weekend. The two daughters of my sis who passed away in May brought their families - one from The Bronx, one from Maryland. It was the first time they’d seen each other since the memorial service for my sister.
In the course of conversation, my one niece mentioned that her son was playing guitar in the school band, and he was really excited about it. But he had to borrow a guitar from the school because he didn’t have one of his own, and their money’s tight so they couldn’t get him one. They said that Joe (the son) was really excited to get to school on the days he had band practice, and after I talked to him for a while, I made a decision and spoke to my wife about it before we went to sleep last night.
This morning before everyone left, I called Joe aside and told him I had a problem - I had this acoustic guitar (a 7/8 size, perfect for young hands) that wasn’t getting played. Then I asked him if he’d do me a favor and take it home and play it for me.
I hooked him up with a tuner and a couple of sets of strings and told him in order to keep it, he had to practice every day. I think by his serious reply, he’s going to do just that. I’m one guitar lighter today, but it felt really good getting another young player on the path.
SCHEDULE for @Prestonwood presidential forum. All times CDT. Live stream at http://t.co/501hhJFUBe. pic.twitter.com/DGuerqR4Um
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 18, 2015
re: #87 jaunte
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re: #70 GlutenFreeJesus
Wonder whose wife he’s talking about.
“a loving wife” suggests:
1) more than one
2) somebody else’s
3) not an actual person with a name
re: #76 jaunte
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It’s a big evangelical do.
Why is there an American flag in a church?
re: #88 b.d.
I’d rather spend the rest of the afternoon gouging my eyeballs out.
Trump is not on the menu.
re: #83 stpaulbear
How can anyone set foot inside a room like that and think they’re going to church? That’s hideous.
If they wanna revise the tax code, they need to start by seriously tightening up regulations on exemptions for religious institutions. That would no doubt be met by howls about the persecution of Christians, but I’m pretty much past giving a damn at this point—tighten it up for ALL religions.
re: #93 jaunte
One of the sacred objects.
It fells so Jesusy
Live http://t.co/2HP6bra5m6 Start the conversation #MillennialPolitics #Belnformed #ntxforum @dnapr pic.twitter.com/ijwJcxQ558
— DNA PR (@DNAPRGROUP) October 18, 2015
re: #94 b.d.
Looks like they scaled a Fox News set up to basketball arena size.
re: #87 jaunte
No food/snack breaks, no intermissions, just 3 hours and 40 minutes of straight derp.
re: #80 jaunte
Watch out, they have a planet-buster.
Just a medium-grade planetary turbolaser with its own dedicated shield generator. Powerful enough to deter old Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers but it wouldn’t win a duel with a pair of Imperial II-class Star Destroyers.
/Stay on Target!
Yes because threatening to drill for oil would work so well. Wouldn’t OPEC just drill more oil and plunge prices?
re: #80 jaunte
Watch out, they have a planet-buster.
Lies, The Lord Believers’ research capability sucks.
(Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri reference for those not familiar)
Gah, it’s too hot in here! They turned on the radiators today, apparently full blast. and now it’s so hot I can barely breathe. It’s like 46° right now with a hard freeze predicted for overnight. Guess maybe I’ll go partially open a window or something.
It seems Steve Crowder’s loving wife isn’t putting out, because he’s back derping on Twitter.
To give everyone a sense of scale of the church, this compares it to a baseball and football field:
PrestonwoodAnd this is inside:
Insidere: #90 b.d.
Why is there an American flag in a church?
That’s a church? Looks more like a higher-end concert hall to me.
re: #94 b.d.
It fells so Jesusy
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I did a bid for a mega church - looks very similar. Huge media control room, restaurant, bookstore, classrooms/child care. bleah.
re: #101 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe “wife” is his nickname for his right hand?
re: #87 jaunte
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5 minutes for The Star Spangled Banner and 13 minutes for America the Beautiful?
re: #104 Stanley Sea Toujours
We ain’t got time for the poor we need to build us a giant church y’all!
re: #103 Dark_Falcon
That’s a church? Looks more like a higher-end concert hall to me.
It has to be big to hold all the money they scam off of the people.
re: #104 Stanley Sea Toujours
I did a bid for a mega church - looks very similar. Huge media control room, restaurant, bookstore, classrooms/child care. bleah.
I used to attend the local megachurch, shortly after they completed their new facilities. Looked very similar. This was the church whose pastor flew around in a private jet and who invites Michele Bachmann for regular visits.
re: #102 Belafon
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That’s what I call a mega church. Do its members have tailgate parties before the service? Probably takes an hour to get out with the traffic.
Exploring the Megachurch Phenomena:
Their characteristics and cultural context
Scott Thumma, PhD
“…If there is a common message shared by all megachurches, it is that they want to portray what they do as more vital than other congregations, somehow better than “ordinary” Christianity. Megachurch pastors can often be heard commenting that they are “not just playing church.” Nearly all megachurches have a conservative theological orientation. An overwhelming majority would be considered Evangelical, Charismatic, or Fundamentalist. Even the megachurches from moderate and liberal denominations often stand out as having a more conservative theology than do their counterparts.”
re: #112 darthstar
That’s what I call a mega church. Do its members have tailgate parties before the service? Probably takes an hour to get out with the traffic.
Prestonwood has over 40,000 members, one political party and one hairstyle.
Fox announcer just explained that one of the players “served three tours in Afghanistan…FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. Oh, I would have guessed he was there on behalf of some other country…thanks.
As a pet owner, I’m begging you to sign and share this petition.
Toni Preckwinkle and the Cook County Board of Comissioners: Reform the Department of Cook County Animal Control. change.org
re: #111 thedopefishlives
I used to attend the local megachurch, shortly after they completed their new facilities. Looked very similar. This was the church whose pastor flew around in a private jet and who invites Michele Bachmann for regular visits.
That kind of ostentation is really gross. Yyyuck. It also reminds me of a business, factory…
re: #114 b.d.
Prestonwood has over 40,000 members, one political party and one hairstyle.
My parents have started attending Lake Pointe Church, which is a large church that has to have three services to accommodate everyone (it also has a parking garage). They claim to be nondenominational, but my dad says they’re really just Baptists.
Views inside Prestonwood:
This is such a weird country pic.twitter.com/nccm7rqtmm
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg
Maybe “wife” is his nickname for his right hand?
Well apparently he did find a person to enter into the contract of holy matrimony, just like Chucky. I don’t know if Mrs. Crowder is Asian or even hot.
re: #115 darthstar
Fox announcer just explained that one of the players “served three tours in Afghanistan…FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. Oh, I would have guessed he was there on behalf of some other country…thanks.
Said a la Michael Buffer?
re: #116 WhatEVs
As a pet owner, I’m begging you to sign and share this petition.
Toni Preckwinkle and the Cook County Board of Comissioners: Reform the Department of Cook County Animal Control. change.org
Signed and shared on FB.
re: #85 makeitstop
Good for you! Very nice.
re: #94 b.d.
Not even an attempt to look religious. Notice the flag where a cross or painting used to be. So bleak and empty, like a 70’s auditorium. No beauty. No plants, stained glass, artwork or sense of mystery at all. Yes, the Catholic church has its huge cathedrals, but at least there was an attempt to elevate the mood beyond that of a cafeteria hall.
re: #114 b.d.
Prestonwood has over 40,000 members, one political party and one hairstyle.
I see a lot of white people.
Crowd of several thousand snakes through @Prestonwood waiting for doors to open for @GOP presidential forum at 3p. pic.twitter.com/ZpPy7Hn7BQ
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 18, 2015
re: #85 makeitstop
Sounds like a fair trade in satisfaction for the first time you get to hear him play it, whether in person or by Skype or YouTube or a copy of the band concert. Major great-uncle points! :)
Just a coincidence that they scheduled this North Texas Wingnutpalooza to coincide with the Dallas Cowboy’s bye week?
re: #104 Stanley Sea Toujours
I did a bid for a mega church - looks very similar. Huge media control room, restaurant, bookstore, classrooms/child care. bleah.
In Chicagoland we call such places “shopping centers”. A large church looks like this on the outside and like this on the inside.
Note: the above photos are of Saint Clement’s, a basilica-style church in Park West neighborhood of Chicago (often considered part of the larger Lincoln Park area).
— miles reed (@milesjreed) October 18, 2015
re: #119 jaunte
I like this one:
“Woe be unto my followers that tasteth not the sizzle.” —Mark 98:14 pic.twitter.com/5s55kNWznc
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
re: #131 The Vicious Babushka
I liked that place a lot better when it was a basketball and rock concert venue.
Just what Jesus would want: A place where people can go and never have to interact with the rest of the world.
Imagine going to a church so big that its golf tournament needs its own permanent kiosk pic.twitter.com/iNCUAPMOOr
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
re: #134 jaunte
I liked that place a lot better when it was a basketball and rock concert venue.
I am still dumbfounded that the Church of Joel took over the Summit, I saw ZZ Top there.
Wow, Donald is PROUD of leading a lynch mob back in ‘89.
“@AnnCoulter: Read this DJT full-p ad from 1989 and tell me DonaldTrump is a Johnny-Come-Lately “fake” conservative: pic.twitter.com/DBNIc3MIOl
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
re: #114 b.d.
Prestonwood has over 40,000 members, one political party and one hairstyle.
I’m Not Religious so I’m probably a poor judge, but I can’t imagine having any sort of meaningful religious experience in a huge auditorium. It must work for some people, but I suspect it may be a way of avoiding intimate connections in a religious context while still feeling holier than the neighbors.
re: #135 Belafon
That’s the next phase. A housing development next door so all your neighbors are also members. If it weren’t for the parking, I bet it already would exist. Then you could call it a “community”.
After that it would be “Six Flags Over Jesus” a planned amusement center.
Then it would incorporate into a city (has it already done this?)
re: #123 A Cranky One
Good for you! Very nice.
I was in that exact spot as a kid - I had a piece of junk guitar that I found in someone’s garbage, and it wasn’t really good enough to learn on. I won’t miss the guitar, I have plenty. I thought it was a good idea to pass it on.
My niece just texted me. As soon as they got home, Joe took the guitar to his room and has been playing it non-stop. That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.
re: #140 CarolJ
That’s the next phase. A housing development next door so all your neighbors are also members. If it weren’t for the parking, I bet it already would exist. Then you could call it a “community”.
After that it would be “Six Flags Over Jesus” a planned amusement center.
Then it would incorporate into a city (has it already done this?)
I think it would be tough to do it overtly with equal opportunity housing laws.
re: #140 CarolJ
That’s the next phase. A housing development next door so all your neighbors are also members. If it weren’t for the parking, I bet it already would exist. Then you could call it a “community”.
After that it would be “Six Flags Over Jesus” a planned amusement center.
Then it would incorporate into a city (has it already done this?)
I think Jim and Tammy Bakker tried something like that a long time ago.
re: #143 Stanley Sea Toujours
“Here at Prestonwood, we’re always in the present tense!”
re: #140 CarolJ
That’s the next phase. A housing development next door so all your neighbors are also members. If it weren’t for the parking, I bet it already would exist. Then you could call it a “community”.
After that it would be “Six Flags Over Jesus” a planned amusement center.
Then it would incorporate into a city (has it already done this?)
“I owe my soul to the company store”
re: #133 Belafon
Counting all that money works up quite the appetite!
So they have churches that hold that hold 40K people—that’s more than the entire population of some small towns. And we’re to believe this is a persecuted group? Uh-huh, right.
re: #138 The Vicious Babushka
Wow, Donald is PROUD of leading a lynch mob back in ‘89.
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Lynch people who were later shown to be innocent no less.
re: #149 CuriousLurker
Well, they’re extra sensitive.
re: #147 b.d.
“I owe my soul to the company store”
“I want you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks, and take His hand.”
re: #149 CuriousLurker
So they have churches that hold that hold 40K people—that’s more than the entire population of some small towns. And we’re to believe this is a persecuted group? Uh-huh, right.
That number is almost 3X the population of my entire county.
re: #147 b.d.
“I owe my soul to the company store”
We are born in a Pullman house. We are fed from a Pullman shop, taught in a Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church and when we die we shall be buried in a Pullman cemetery and go to a Pullman hell.
re: #87 jaunte
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The only thing missing from that program is when everyone kneels down and prays to the golden calf…
re: #149 CuriousLurker
So they have churches that hold that hold 40K people—that’s more than the entire population of some small towns. And we’re to believe this is a persecuted group? Uh-huh, right.
If they weren’t being persecuted, they’d have churches that hold 50K people. Come on, get with the program already.
Would the old white guy please report to the front hall
Full house here at #NTXforum in Plano pic.twitter.com/VCSLdTnBUZ
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) October 18, 2015
*sigh* Okay, feline overlord is complaining about… something: “Meeeeooowww, warble garble, meeeeeoowwwww!” She’s moved from the floor to the table next to me so she can get right in my face, so I guess I’d better go figure out what the problem is.
Later, lizards.
re: #138 The Vicious Babushka
Wow, Donald is PROUD of leading a lynch mob back in ‘89.
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Does he think the internet has forgotten the context of that ad? He was on a tear castigating the Central Park Five, presuming them guilty as rapists and murderers when they were in fact completely cleared of all charges. Trump has never apologized for his behavior then, opposed the city’s settlement with the Five, and continues to malign them whenever the issue is brought up.
re: #149 CuriousLurker
Based on the 2010 census, the church would be the 71st largest city in Texas, out of 32K+ cities or towns.
re: #155 Joe Bacon
They’ve made it more subtle by praying inside a tremendously expensive piece of real estate.
Check out our Pizza Station, where our chefs prepare a variety of pizzas and pastas in a wood-burning stone oven.
Or try our Sizzle Station, where you can have made-to-order Angus burgers, chicken sandwiches or quesadillas, just to name a few of the items on the menu.
re: #157 b.d.
I think I can see the right field foul line from here!
re: #159 goddamnedfrank
Does he think the internet has forgotten the context of that ad? He was on a tear castigating the Central Park Five, presuming them guilty as rapists and murderers when they were in fact completely cleared of all charges. Trump has never apologized for his behavior then, opposed the city’s settlement with the Five, and continues to malign them whenever the issue is brought up.
Hey, in today’s GOP arguing for the execution of people who were later found to be innocent probably (certainly) isn’t a negative.
re: #135 Belafon
Just what Jesus would want: A place where people can go and never have to interact with the rest of the world.
They don’t even interact well with each other.
When new to town, we attended for about 18 months. Enjoyed the music. Tried to talk to folks, make friends to no avail. Could not get a sense of community there. Seemed a bit snobbish and only very superficially friendly. Ended up joining a smaller church and it was a better fit for our family and children.
Visited November 2013
went to church for christmas service got there 1 HOUR early, could not find a seat on all levels, reason being people were saving whole rows of seats for there friends who were coming late. I could not believe it, told a usher and all he could say was I.m sorry.
wrong answer. would I go back, NO,Visited January 2015
re: #159 goddamnedfrank
Does he think the internet has forgotten the context of that ad? He was on a tear castigating the Central Park Five, presuming them guilty as rapists and murderers when they were in fact completely cleared of all charges. Trump has never apologized for his behavior then, opposed the city’s settlement with the Five, and continues to malign them whenever the issue is brought up.
RWingers on twitter are arguing that the 5 are not innocent.
re: #165 Timothy Watson
Hey, in today’s GOP arguing for the execution of people who were later found to be innocent probably (certainly) isn’t a negative.
As long as they’re black.
re: #164 jaunte
Live streaming now:
prestonwood.churchonline.org
Rather corporate-sounding. Do they have a line you can call to be put on hold for a while to complete the experience?
re: #149 CuriousLurker
So they have churches that hold that hold 40K people—that’s more than the entire population of some small towns. And we’re to believe this is a persecuted group? Uh-huh, right.
Privileged far more than prosecuted. Thin skinned and well funded, tax free and powerful in politics. Not a good combination by any measure.
re: #167 Stanley Sea Toujours
RWingers on twitter are arguing that the 5 are not innocent.
It’s another refrain of “they’re no angels.” That’s what Trump retreats to now, asks what they were doing there, that they couldn’t have been up to anything good. As if that’s at all relevant to the fact they were falsely accused of a very specific crime and he wanted to kill them over that false accusation.
re: #167 Stanley Sea Toujours
RWingers on twitter are arguing that the 5 are not innocent.
But of course they are.
One reason why I hardly ever go on Twitter anymore. Peak wingnut/derp is a myth and I get sick of seeing evidence of that.
re: #167 Stanley Sea Toujours
RWingers on twitter are arguing that the 5 are not innocent.
I don’t want to look at that. Knowing Twitter, it’ll just be a Mount St. Helen’s-level eruption of hatred and racism.
re: #162 Amory Blaine
I already know the answer to this but do those Church restaurants have cash registers at the end of the lines?
re: #157 b.d.
Would the old white guy please report to the front hall
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To be fair, church congregations tend to skew older, regardless of race.
wink, wink
“We made it clear everyone was invited to come, but we believe the right people are in the room today,” Pastor Jack Graham said. #NTXforum
— Anna M. Tinsley (@annatinsley) October 18, 2015
re: #175 b.d.
I already know the answer to this but do those Church restaurants have cash registers at the end of the lines?
I’m sure that they take Master Card, Visa, American Express, Discover, Carte Blanche, Diners Club and Apple Pay!
re: #175 b.d.
I already know the answer to this but do those Church restaurants have cash registers at the end of the lines?
Yes. They’re like the kind of food court you’d find at a stadium.
Is it me, or do those churches seem the religious equivalent of white flight? Build massive fortresses with no doubt dozens of ushers in communities far away from just about anyone. Certainly no chance of a casual uninvited visitor who may look “different” or a homeless person who sits in the pews for warmth. No worries about being surrounded by a “changing community” with its demands for inclusion. Meanwhile the old churches in the old communities become anything but churches-housing, bars, whatever, meaning the presence of the church becomes even more remote.
re: #146 jaunte
“Here at Prestonwood, we’re always in the present tense!”
Because historical context puts the lie to their messages, probably.
Trump says he will cut the EPA as Prez: ‘We’ll be fine with the environment’ http://t.co/UBU9N6N0dF pic.twitter.com/vbaetLedMt
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 18, 2015
re: #162 Amory Blaine
And the “Water into Wine” sipping station.
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
‘Cuz the environment was in such good shape before we had an EPA, it was founded for no reason whatsoever.
re: #177 b.d.
wink, wink
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I’m sure ol Pulpit Pimp made sure that the “EXTREMELY RIGHT” people were in the house!
No policy proposals. Democrat bashing and talk of “butchering babies”.
re: #181 CarolJ
Is it me, or do those churches seem the religious equivalent of white flight? Build massive fortresses with no doubt dozens of ushers in communities far away from just about anyone. Certainly no chance of a casual uninvited visitor who may look “different” or a homeless person who sits in the pews for warmth. No worries about being surrounded by a “changing community” with its demands for inclusion. Meanwhile the old churches in the old communities become anything but churches-housing, bars, whatever, meaning the presence of the church becomes even more remote.
Presumably you also get the choice of being an enthusiastic volunteer (many of whom probably actually miss the services because they’re busy with childcare or directing parking) or getting a cosy feeling of belonging with absolutely no obligation to anyone there.
A deputy was shot dead at a Minnesota hospital Sunday after the suspect he was guarding grabbed his gun and opened fire.
No comment about how stupid NRA types think non-trained citizens could handle any kind of close-encounter circumstance better than a trained deputy.
Oh. Oops.
re: #181 CarolJ
Is it me, or do those churches seem the religious equivalent of white flight? Build massive fortresses with no doubt dozens of ushers in communities far away from just about anyone. Certainly no chance of a casual uninvited visitor who may look “different” or a homeless person who sits in the pews for warmth. No worries about being surrounded by a “changing community” with its demands for inclusion. Meanwhile the old churches in the old communities become anything but churches-housing, bars, whatever, meaning the presence of the church becomes even more remote.
In this case, no, since Plano’s growth wasn’t really driven by ‘white flight’*, but rather by a desire for open space, a lawn and an attached garage.
Note: I put ‘white flight’ in quotation because for Chicago and a number of other cities it was really “middle class flight”, as most of Chicago’s black middle class left the South Side for a small number of inner suburbs (Maywood, IL is an example).
re: #188 calochortus
Presumably you also get the choice of being an enthusiastic volunteer (many of whom probably actually miss the services because they’re busy with childcare or directing parking) or getting a cosy feeling of belonging with absolutely no obligation to anyone there.
The proper size of a congregation is that you recognize the faces, and can maybe even put names to them, of at least half the regulars. Your Sunday School should be of a size that your kids can identify everyone in their age bracket.
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
In this case, no, since Plano’s growth wasn’t really driven by ‘white flight’*, but rather by a desire for open space, a lawn and an attached garage.
Note: I put ‘white flight’ in quotation because for Chicago and a number of other cities it was really “middle class flight”, as most of Chicago’s black middle class left the South Side for a small number of inner suburbs (Maywood, IL is an example).
You mean when the FHA was subsidizing real estate developers and mortgage applicants, but only if they were white?
Redlining wasn’t some odd thing banks came up with on their own, it wasn’t about the incomes and credit-worthiness of the people — it was deliberate government policy to move all the white people out of cities and into their own segregated white towns.
re: #167 Stanley Sea Toujours
RWingers on twitter are arguing that the 5 are not innocent.
They’re guilty of breathing while black.
“Over half of this nation is women now,” says Fiorina #progress
— christopher hack (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
I really loathe Carly and can’t listen to her then I look at the schedule and feel that way about the rest of the lineup.
re: #189 GlutenFreeJesus
No comment about how stupid NRA types think non-trained citizens could handle any kind of close-encounter circumstance better than a trained deputy.
Oh. Oops.
I tend to give my first thought in cases like these to the family of the murdered deputy.
My second thought is to find out what happened to the scumbag who killed him. In this case the scumbag is also dead. And he wasn’t shot, either:
The man he was guarding, 50-year-old Danny Hammond, “gained control of Sandberg’s gun and shot him” around 5:15 a.m. Sunday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said.
Hammond also died at the hospital after a security guard used a Taser to subdue him. Officials said the suspect “experienced a medical emergency” after he was Tasered.
And since we’ve been speaking about about how Christianity is practiced, I’ll note that I think Danny Hammond heard from Jesus after he died. But what he heard was “Depart, ye Cursed, to Everlasting Fire!”
“each layer is a metaphor”-a collector gifts to a #museum http://t.co/H1bd4GEASW @mcfeeters pic.twitter.com/b2bYmiPOz6 via @GlobeOstriker
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Yikes.re: #138 The Vicious Babushka
It should be pointed out that the Central Park Jogger “Wilding” suspects that were the source of that tirade were convicted and served many years in prison but were later proven innocent and compensated by the city two years ago.
re: #192 sagehen
You mean when the FHA was subsidizing real estate developers and mortgage applicants, but only if they were white?
Redlining wasn’t some odd thing banks came up with on their own, it wasn’t about the incomes and credit-worthiness of the people — it was deliberate government policy to move all the white people out of cities and into their own segregated white towns.
Redlining predates such policies, you should know. In fact it predates the 2nd World War.
re: #200 gocart mozart
It should be pointed out that the Central Park Jogger “Wilding” suspects that were the source of that tirade were convicted and served many years in prison but were later proven innocent and compensated by the city two years ago.
And the way they were proved innocent?
One of the guys was doing his sentence at the same prison as the guy who’d *actually* done the crime. RealGuilty guy felt remorse for WronglyConvicted guy, so came forward and confessed. DNA proved he was telling the truth.
re: #181 CarolJ
Mega-churches are weird phenomenon. There’s a consumerist component—big building, lots of convenience services and “extras.” There’s a theological component: the mega-churches tend to bend toward the properity gospel, and many also dabble in prophecy…all of the aforementioned creating an American heresy in which Faith not only trumps Acts, but wealth is retroactively a sign of being blessed. There’s a socio-political component, in that along with the theology is a set of politics: the church isn’t a fortress, it’s a compound: it keeps people in (and ideologically pure) as well as out.
Basically, mega-churches are God and ritual as invented by well-off suburban people who want their material decisions validated by unseen cosmic forces. If we somehow glitched time and the Roman Empire went Mithraic rather than Christian, the American suburban well-off version of Mithras worship would look much the same.
re: #138 The Vicious Babushka
I tweeted your comment to Donald, hope you don’t mind.
@realDonaldTrump @AnnCoulter Wow, the Donald is proud of leading a lynch mob in 1989. http://t.co/spBuZtMLx4
— gocart mozart (@attymix1) October 18, 2015
re: #185 sagehen
‘Cuz the environment was in such good shape before we had an EPA, it was founded for no reason whatsoever.
By a Republican president, with Republicans and Democrats acting like statesmen and doing the public’s business.
Those were the days.
Now, another contrast to how messed up it all is now.
re: #201 Dark_Falcon
Sure, redlining did exist before the Second World War. But it wasn’t possible to have these communities grow so fast and large without the FHA and VA. But back to the megachurches. On one hand, I figure churches would have to be larger for several reasons: many older churches weren’t built for an era of cars, indoor plumbing and heating, television or many modern amenities. So I would have expected churches to grow somewhat in size just for that. But the megachurch with thousands?
re: #199 wrenchwench
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re: #116 WhatEVs
As a pet owner, I’m begging you to sign and share this petition.
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re: #115 darthstar
You mean like the British, the Germans, the French, the Dutch and the militaries of all the other NATO member countries that helped defend the United States from the existential threat of three hundred religious conservatives armed with box cutters holed up in caves in Afghanistan?
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