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Rahm Emanuel screwed up again, and said something that pissed someone off, and had to apologize, and all I can think after reading this opinion piece is I want to start a new church.

It's going to be called "Our Lady of the Perpetually Offended," and you're all invited to join.

Rahm shall be one of our saints, because pod knows that he'll never be able to keep his mouth shut. He'll screw up, and he'll apologize, and we'll forgive him, because if we didn't forgive, we couldn't be offended anew each time.

Face it, if you're pissy all the time about everything everyone says, you can't feign innocence and shock at each slight, you're just a crotchety old lady (or man) to whom no one pays any attention anyway. Sort of like the boy that cried wolf. Which, come to think of it, is probably one of the many old sayings we should investigate. I'm sure it's offensive to someone, somehow.

We shall be non-discriminatory based on politics, because even the likes of Sarah Palin or Pat Robertson can obtain sainthood - but only if they admit their sins and are truly remorseful.

Ha. Fat chance on that one. False stone-throwers they be, da both of them.

As members of Our Lady of the Perpetually Offended, we invite you to post your examples of shock and outrage, call for nation-wide boycotts, firings, and tar & feathering. That is, if other members of OLotPO don't express their outrage at your call for tar & feathers as being a stereotype of ancient English punitory rituals and a disrespect for tradition. Or some such bullshit.

Let he that is without sin cast the first stone. Go 'head. I dares ya.

Let each of your entreaties begin, "J'accuse!". It is, afterall, such a wonderfully condemnatory statement.

And that's really the point, isn't it?

Photographer: Jedzer

mebbe loony loons they be,
who sit 'n nest inna nekkie tree.

Kidmagnet & I have been admiring naked trees.

See, it all started in this discussion on birds, featuring some of her photos of winter trees and birds' nests. That led to checking out some of the eastern European photographers on Landscapes 2.0, some of their other sites.

I suggested they might be loon's nests, she felt they were storks. That set the Kid off in search of stork villages in Poland.

Who's loony, and who's just a nut?

(To see more of this photographer's work, see his Landscape 2.0 pages)

Is it any wonder that things are at a standstill, and nothing's getting done?

I wonder when they'll all stop acting like spoiled brats?

In one of the most boneheaded moves of the last 100 years, this week the United States Supreme Court ruled that the federal government may not ban campaign spending by corporations or unions in candidate elections.

Give the court a giant raspberry, ladies & gentlemen, and don't forget, that raspberry is sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Raspberry Growers.

Now, who could we possibly have chosen for our Bonehead of the Day today? Why, it's Mr. "Hatey" himself, Pat Robertson.

From the Huffington Post list, with titular commentary from yours truly:

1. Would that be Stalag 13, or Stalag 17? Census to be used to create internment camps - "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) came up with a theory too crazy for Glenn Beck: Obama wants to use the census to round up the opposition."
2. Achooo! is the new "bang, you're dead."  - Health care reform death panels - "Sarah Palin and Betsy McCaughey gave birth to the widely-debunked rumor that end-of-life counseling somehow means the old and disabled will be killed off by the government."
3. Birther bullshit - "Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary and smackdowns from the legal system, "birthers" still believe the president was born outside the U.S."
4. Bow down before me, knave! "Obama ceding sovereignity - Conservatives have been up in arms over Obama's insistence on greeting foreign leaders politely."
5. Teach 'em to read? Why, it's heresy! - "Parents were horrified that their children might be brainwashed by President Obama's message to work hard and stay in school."
6. I hadn't even heard this one! Are they just so astonished that Obama can read & write? Betcha he can walk and chew gum at the same time too - "Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams of My Father" - For some reason, a bunch of conservative bloggers think that Barack Obama couldn't have possibly written his own memoir. Therefore, former Weatherman Bill Ayers must have."
7. The socialists are coming! The socialists are coming! - "Conservatives, including Republican officials, have painted health care reform and the economic stimulus as a covert socialist power grab."
8. He's black, therefore he must be a Muslim - "A corollary to the "birther" conspiracy is the belief that President Obama is a Muslim."
9. Uh... huh? I think we have more to fear from underwear bombs - "Mike Huckabee and other conservative Republicans have advanced the idea that the U.S. needs to guard against an electromagnetic pulse attack."
10. (Ala Richie Havens... ) Freedom, freedom! - "Some Republicans are convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be acquitted on all charges and set free in New York. In fact, the government has the authority to hold KSM no matter what happens in his trial."
11. It's one for the money, two for the show... - "Sarah Palin expressed unease this fall over a redesign of U.S. currency, implying that it was an anti-Christian conspiracy. The change actually happened under President Bush."
12. Money money money, money! Money! - "A fundamental misunderstanding of currency policy has led Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann, among others, to suggest that we're going to replace our money with some new international one and lose control of our own economy."

Miss 2009? Hardly.

I quite like this one - In Orbit: Helios Prime

After I'd created & named it, I did a quick Google search to see if there really was such a planet. There wasn't, but there was this little experimental film bit, which actually seems to fit in quite nicely. Way to go, CobaltX, whoever you are!