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Eric Hovde - A GIANT Dickheaded Jerk

For the past few weeks,  Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has been running a commercial with his daughters stating how Hovde will be so unpopular in the Senate because he's such a tightwad.  It's a really ridiculous spot. If unpopularity should be a metric for why Hovde should be elected then Jeffery Dahmer's corpse should be in the Senate, not Hovde.

That's not why Hovde is a dickhead. Hovde hates poor starving people.

"I see a reporter here. I just pray that you start writing about these issues. I just pray. Stop always writing about, "Oh, the person couldn't get, you know, their food stamps or this or that." You know, I saw something the other day — it's like, another sob story, and I'm like, "But what about what's happening to the country and the country as a whole?" That's going to devastate everybody.

Hovde was bemoaning the corporate tax rate during this rant. Yep, poor corporations, they are the real victims here.

For that comment, I just donated money to Tammy Baldwin for Senate to hopefully keep jackasses like Hovde from legislating any policy in the future.

Pray to unchanging god? Why bother.

I can't tell you how many times I've debated a Christian who believes that human morality is subjective and God's can possibly not be. God is asserted to be the one true objective standard that humanity's morality is grounded in.

And what if your God changes his mind?

According to Christians, God can not change his mind because this would be against god's nature. (Whatever that is.) God remains consistent within the framework of his "plan" because god is "unchanging." (Obviously, they've never read their bible and put any independent thought on the matter.) Otherwise, if god could change his mind, he wouldn't be objective and more like us. (In other words, they believe that God is something akin to a computer program.)

Christians don't believe it though, because why do bother praying to God? To change his mind? If its his plan, a line in the code,  for your mother to suffer months of chemo only to die of cancer later, you think you can change god's mind? He has "plan" after all, and you think you can alter it? And if God later decides to save your mother's life from cancer where it was specified that she should do so, then how can you say God has a plan?

Christians do anyway, and so much for an objective and unchanging god.

Notable Quotes from Wisconsin's Recall

Republican Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefish prevailed in last's night recall election defeating my old neighbor, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and relative new comer Mahlon Mitchell -- the two Democratic Party challengers in the race. At least Democrats will now have the majority in the State Senate with John Lehman winning his race and they should be able to check any right-wing legislation that may come in the future.

All -in-all, Democrats with their Union and middle class allies were handed a pretty solid routing. I voted for Barrett and Mitchell, so I am disappointed too that they lost their respective elections. Christ... Barrett even got slapped by a supporter for conceding the election.

Tom Barrett's concession speech sums up the disappointment of the state's progressives.


 "I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if a millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."

- Tom Barrett





Scott Walker's victory speech gives us a possible indication of the future.

"This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion."

- Scott Walker







Walker says he'll move the state "forward" in a promised campaign ad. Forward by going backward on equal protections for GLBT citizens. Forward by going backward on equal pay for women. Forward by going backward on attacking union workers and the middle class.

As a progressive, I'd rather move backward with Barrett to move forward.

So if Walker is indeed recalled...

Remember a few months ago on CBN Scott Walker stated that if even he loses, God had a plan for him "beyond just serving as Governor of this state." 

Does that mean Jesus will recall Walker's soul if Walker loses the election?

You can only wonder.

Secular functions in religious buildings, like voting

I live in the Lake Country area of Southeast Wisconsin -- about 25 miles west of Milwaukee. Despite all the recent strip mall development it's still a pretty rural place. Residents here are majority Republican, which means they are also very conservative and invariably Christian. Churches dot the landscape every five or so less miles.

This morning I voted for the Democratic Party candidates, Mayor Tom Barrett for governor and Mahlon Mitchell for lieutenant governor in the state recall election. Since 2008, I've been required to vote at "Christ the King" church.  As an atheist, I never feel welcomed voting there as I am surrounded by crosses (torture/murder devices) and other Christian agit prop which always reminds me of the inherent immorality of Christian dogma. (Like teaching children they are evil because of the doctrine of "original sin and scaring them with the doctrine of hell to ensure their compliance.)

Does this place look like a secular venue where secular functions, like voting, should be held?

Yet, the irony of performing a democratic necessity -- a right no less -- at a church named "Christ the King" always makes me shake my head. (Ignore for a moment the appearance of the state endorsing one sectarian view of religion over another by requiring resident Jews, Muslims, atheists, nones, and others to vote in a church like Christ the King.) As a seemingly "free" people we elect our leaders because it is "rule by and for the people." We live in a democracy. What is not democracy are governments that are monarchies or theocracies, where political power is not extended from the people, rather by "divine" or heredity right. On one had, rule by and for the people, on the other had, rule by kings and gods.

As I stand in line with my neighbors at Christ the King church, are my neighbors even aware of this irony? Are they not aware that democracy and mono/theocracy are completely mutually exclusive forms of government?

No.

Chances are my neighbors are just biding their earthly lives so they can die and join the ultimate theocracy in the sky and worship some divine king for all eternity.

These people do not deserve democracy.

And the answer is....

Muslims can't eat pork because god said so. Why? Because he said so. Sure, we could speculate, but why bother, we are told not too and its tradition after all.  

Allah said nothing about eating humans, I guess that must be okey-dokey. Pigs must be more important if you look at that way. Shit... without a god dictating this stuff we could never figure out that child abuse and rape are wrong, but pork, well now you're talking. It's a good thing human morality is grounded in god otherwise we would do horrendous things like eat pork.   

Abomination!

Why don't Christins just kill themselves already?

This meme is making its way around Facebook and was posted by a Christian to atheists on one of the debate boards. Clever right? Clever how it implies Pascal's Wager -- the never-ending scare tactic that Christians love to use, rather than give actual evidence of god's existence.

According to Christians I'll meet god when I die. But if I am hellbound and God does indeed loves me, he could make the effort and meet me now in this life and not in some empyreal afterlife. Since my soul is sooo important to god. But, of course god won't (since he does not exist after all), which means he must prefer that I suffer an eternity in hell.

Yep, that's some real love for you.

Christians spend their whole lives, biding their time while they are actually living, so they can die and meet god someday. Meanwhile, the atheist lives their life now to give their lives meaning embracing what life has to offer now and not at some future date. (Like being dead.) Atheists, like everyone, only have one life to live. We acknowledge that... what could be more life-affirming? Waiting for death or living for today?

Since this is the case, why don't Christians hasten the process and commit mass suicide already if they are convinced they will meet him.