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CafePress Is Officially Cool with Selling T-Shirts Urging People to Pray for Obama’s Death

Yesterday, we reported that CafePress had halted sales of T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Pray For Obama: Psalm 109:8,” which in Bible-talk means pray that “his days be few; let another take his office.” After some thought, they’re selling them again. Go here for the full panoply of CafePress bumper stickers, mugs, and shirts containing prayers for the president to die and for his daughters— per Psalm 109 —to “continually be vagabonds, and to beg.” The Psalm 109 items were indeed briefly taken off the market yesterday, a CafePress spokesman tells Gawker, after some controversy developed about the appropriateness of veiled death threats as bumper sticker material.

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CafePress Is Officially Cool with Selling T-Shirts Urging People to Pray for Obama’s Death

Christian Conservatives Praying for God to Kill Obama

There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet: someone’s coined a bumper sticker slogan encouraging people to pray for Barack Obama . But here’s the funny part: it’s really a secret Christian code for “Kill the President!’ Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with the message “Pray for Obama—Psalm 109:8” on the highway, only to look up the verse and find, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” People — like the commenter “Panama” on INGunOwners.com , to pick one guy completely at random — think this is “too funny.” The next verse in Psalms is, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.” Anyway, now it’s a real thing: CafePress is selling T-shirts and bumper stickers , the Christian Science Monitor is wondering whether it’s ” funny or sinister ” to pray for Obama’s death, and Rachel Maddow referenced it last night on her show . Psalm 109 is known as ” A Cry for Vengeance ,” which is one of the foundational values of Christianity, along with small-business tax cuts.

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Who currently subsidizes abortion? Many pro-lifers don’t know

As is now widely known, added to the health care reform bill just passed by the House of Representatives was a provision barring access to abortion called the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. Passed with the support of sixty-four Democrats, Stupak-Pitts doesn't merely prohibit coverage of abortion in a public option. It also forbids women who receive a federal subsidy from purchasing any health insurance plan that covers the procedure, even if the abortion is paid out of a separate pool of private premium dollars (for all the background and details, see my colleague Emily Douglas' post)

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Who currently subsidizes abortion? Many pro-lifers don’t know

The Four Clips that Prove ABC’s V Is Anti-Obama Propaganda

When the new ABC sci-fi series “V” premiered last Monday, everyone wondered if its titular Visitors were an allegorical critique of the Obama administration.

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The Four Clips that Prove ABC’s V Is Anti-Obama Propaganda

In a Terrifying Alternate Universe, Vice President Sarah Palin Claims Victory

On election night, Sarah Palin threatened to “go rogue” by delivering a speech someone else wrote for her, but John McCain refused so she didn’t. Now you can read the addresses — both concession and victory — she would’ve given. The Daily Beast has an excerpt from Sarah from Alaska , a new Palin bio , with the speeches writer Matt Scully wrote for her on election night: A concession speech in which she lauded “black citizen” Barack Obama for winning, and a victory speech in which she announces that her husband will thenceforth be known as “the First Dude.” Reading the victory speech is chilling in a Man in the High Castle sort of way—what if McCain/Palin really did win the election, and we’re all just characters in a blog or something?

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In a Terrifying Alternate Universe, Vice President Sarah Palin Claims Victory

Hatch: Healthcare bill could be end of two-party system

The Utah Republican worries about consequences for the GOP if healthcare reform passes.

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Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.

The End of Prohibition “I think this would be a good time for a beer,” Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2-percent lager legal again, some months ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition.

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Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.

Hello, Samantha Burke and Jude Law Love Child!

Jude Law, meet your love child! No, seriously, here she is! Your hot baby mama, Samantha Burke, who you didn’t even recall meeting (or sexing she revealed she was pregnant, is debuting the adorable offspring on the cover of Hello! Just thought you’d like to know! Five-week-old Sophia sure looks cute on the British celebrity gossip magazine cover (and presumably the 14-page spread). But that’ll be the first Jude’s seen of her

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Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen: Married!

Sorry, Ivanka Trump’s wedding . You weren’t the only star-studded shindig of the past weekend: Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen are now husband and wife! “They did get married over the weekend,” a source close to the cute Mad Men actress and the eccentric Saturday Night Live cast member. “It was really fun.” Word that Moss and Armisen were a couple first surfaced in early January, when Armisen was spotted checking out Moss’ Broadway play Speed-the-Plow in NYC.

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Obama Thesis Hoax Punks Rush Limbaugh

You could call it a Rush to judgment.

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Obama Thesis Hoax Punks Rush Limbaugh