Thursday Mar 29 2007
Hacking John McCain, from Newsvine. John McCain comes out in support of gay marriage on myspace. Maybe he’ll come out for real, or use the incident as a tool for discussion.
Yet another reason to loathe Mr. James Dobson. Dobson questions Senator Fred Thompson’s spiritual leanings:
“Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson said of Thompson. “[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression,” Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party’s conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, took issue with Dobson’s characterization of the former Tennessee senator. “Thompson is indeed a Christian,” he said. “He was baptized into the Church of Christ.”
I don’t even want to know what the “pro-family” movement is. So just who the fuck is Dobson to “think” whether or not someone is a Christian? And what business is it of his to publicly question it? Why do we as a society place so much importance on the theological foundations of our political candidates? That’s THEOLOGICAL leanings. Not day to day MORAL leanings, because those seem to lose out in an avalanche of adultery, gambling, and gay hookers. Dobsons’s sheeple should be ashamed and insulted he would make such a vile comment about someone’s personal life.
Why do deeply held personal beliefs need to be analyzed by a man who runs an organizing devoted to channeling hundreds of thousands of dollars into radio and television ads promoting POLITICAL messages? By the same token, no political candidate should advertise his religious holiness either.
And of course Focus on the Family issued a bunch of bullshit to hem and haw around Dobson’s extremely insulting statement:
In a follow-up phone conversation, Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger stood by Dobson’s claim. He said that, while Dobson didn’t believe Thompson to be a member of a non-Christian faith, Dobson nevertheless “has never known Thompson to be a committed Christian—someone who talks openly about his faith.”
“We use that word—Christian—to refer to people who are evangelical Christians,” Schneeberger added. “Dr. Dobson wasn’t expressing a personal opinion about his reaction to a Thompson candidacy; he was trying to ‘read the tea leaves’ about such a possibility.”
Russian Space Debree almost hits a Lan Chili Airliner. Note to Russians: next time you’re firing your Soviet era space junk back to earth, aim for these coordinates.
According to media reports, the LAN Airbus A340 was traveling between Santiago and Auckland, New Zealand. The pilot notified air traffic controllers at the Auckland Flight Center after seeing flaming, incandescent fragments of the satellite flying through the sky eight kilometers in front of the aircraft. He described seeing pieces of debris lighting up as they re-entered the earth’s atmosphere.