TakE a Bow (or a knee)

Tebow-ing (verb) - To get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different. (Urban dictionary).

A virgin. A devoted christian. A fluke quarterback. And a (short term) ticket price bump. But above all, a long lasting meme.

What the Jets did acquiring Tim Tebow yesterday (not long after they extended  40 Mil contract with their own Marc Sanchez) is perhaps a publicity stunt and nothing more. Why they did it, I don't really want to think about. What amuses me in this story is the social aspect of it.
 
A virgin is coming to the proverbial S&G*. And a righteous one. The new owners want to keep him in New Jersey, far away from the temptations of the big city nightlife, to preserve his innocence as long as they can. But the clergymen, they have more faith in the man, they have courage and they are ready to seize this gift. They're rejoicing in this new ray of mercy, planing big offensive on the team Night, visualizing full churches and empty nightclubs.

Will young Skywalker succumb to the dark side of the soul crushing cynicism and treacherous pleasures of the flesh or will he overcome and bring a new light of salvation to the damned?

Sounds like fun, anyway you turn it.

Man, can I talk shit!



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* as in Sodom and Gomorrah

STOP

Halt!

Blossom everywhere, she said to me. I see nothing. I don't believe her. I try not to hear her. It's impossible not to hear her. All I hear is her. I'm lucky I see nothing anymore. I remember how it was with her all around me. Like drowning in her. Dissolving. This way I have blissful nothing in sight. If only she would stop talking.

Halt!

Yoda once said: Shadow of greed, jealousy is. Fuck him. Or in the words of great master Anthony Lane: Break me a fucking give! Of course it's greed. I greed you! And yeah I'm jealous. Like a green hellfire. Look at you! Who wouldn't be!

Halt!

Hello, my name is The Ex and I live alone in an ant hill. Echooooooo! Echoooooo! Graaaaaaa! Chirp Chirp! Echooooo! I'm having a blast!

Halt!

Still a newbie: Zelda?

So we got out of the Staten Island Ferry and out of the terminal onto the street and there was a wild turkey, like, walking haphazardly between cars, pecking occasionally something off the sidewalk. I'm, like, look, a wild turkey. And some people whipped out their cells and snapped a couple of photos. The turkey, btw, totally cool. I'm, like, let me call 311 to report the poor animal, a car could hit it or something. And as I'm, like, listening thru the messages, waiting for an actual person to talk to, the turkey had a couple of close encounters with cars. Finally, somebody answered and I was like, I don't know if this is your kinda thing but there's a wild turkey on the street in front of the SI Ferry Terminal and I'm afraid something's gonna happen to it. After some time the operator needed to inform himself about the matter, here's what he asked:

- Is the turkey injured?
- No. Well, not yet.
- Does it attack people?
- No.
- Sir, according to the information I have, wild turkeys are native to NYC and Animal Control reacts only if the animal is hurt or attacking people.
- So, just leave it be?
- Well, yes sir.
- Oh, OK. Thank you!
- Have a nice evening.
- You too.

And as I hung up, the turkey spread the wings and flew right up the first tree in Battery Park.

Now I see this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_%28turkey%29

9/11: The Solution

For me, it all boils down to two points:

1) If the area around WTC site is a hallow ground it should be proclaimed so by the US Congress, along with the boundaries and regulations. It should represent all Americans, regardless of religion, sex or race. Hence, it should not exclude American Muslims as a "unholy" elements.

2) If America is indeed in war with Islam itself then that should be also addressed in Congress: ban it, legalize measures against it and treat it as an enemy or terrorist organization in whole.

Everything else is pure rhetoric.

9/11: Ay Shari'a

So you say Muslims want to impose a religious law on us all?

There's a New York State senator named Diaz. He's a Democrat. He's also a pastor. Every time there's an issue of legalizing gay marriages, he threatens to switch to Republicans if the Senate moves to a vote.

There's a Catholic Monsignor in Washington DC named Sullivan who threatens: if legislation passes the law on gay marriages, Catholic Church “will cut its social service programs that help residents with adoption, homelessness and health care “.

Po-tay-toe, po-tah toh!

9/11 Series: I wonder

tell me something: why a wacko, a lunatic from nowhere with only 50 followers has the whole world's attention?
A so
let's then acknowledge each and every wacko and lunatic
yup
but not because of me. Hello, I mean, imagine a response: "You're wacko! Totally obscure and unimportant, whatever you do doesn't matter!"
and the situation is magically defused
but noooo
throw a religion in an equation and there's some more burning
of flags and stuff (even preemptive)
i am so pissed off
but, let me tell you
this shit really upsets me, I mean, Obama really comes up weak
he has to prove he's a christian
he has to send Muslims a message
that even though it's stupid
he cannot simply forbid the man to do stuff.
man
and all 2 months before elections
I'm really at unease
fuck

9/11 series - Pt. 1: Once upon a time, exactly 50 years ago...

... when then presidential candidate JFK said:

 

These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues — for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.



But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in — for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in.



I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.



I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.



For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.



Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood...

 

 

Transcript of the whole speech: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16920600