The Wall Street Bull Is a False God

The Old Testament God hates false idols. The Golden Calf as Wall Street Bull and a great story of how clergy from several faiths occupied Wall Street, Boston and D.C. Read about it in HuffPo

Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair Munk Debates, part two

Continuing the Munk Debate clips. Parts six to nine.

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine

Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair Munk Debates, part one

Journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens debates UK ex-PM Tony Blair a recent Catholic convert on  the motion that religion is a force for good. This Munk Debate took place at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto last Friday.

The debate was made public by the organisers in nine parts which I am embedding below starting with parts two to five. The debate begins somewhere in the middle of the second clip. Parts six to nine will appear in a later post.





Part Three




Part Four



Part Five

Limbaugh says "Don't give money to Haiti"

After his stellar performance yesterday in which he pre-emptively accused Obama of using Haïti to gather even more support from light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks (!?), and Pat Robertson's soulful and collected venom at Haitians for having made a pact with the devil, now Limbaugh his telling his audience not to donate money to Haïti.

My friend who sent me the link wrote this: "And the tsunami victims were also non-white. I guess black people in trouble get hated special? Or did I miss vitriol against the tsunami victims?"

Though I don't think Limbaugh has any fondness for black folks, I think what is summoning extra vitriol here is that Haitians happen to be of the same race as this president whom he despises so.

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