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This bill recently passed in the United States House of Representatives: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hr110-847

Since many of you are very much like the Representatives in the House, and won’t bother to read the bill, I’ll include some quotes about what one of our Nation’s newest laws is for:

“House Resolution 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.”

” Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world;

(2) expresses continued support for Christians in the United States and worldwide;

(3) acknowledges the international religious and historical importance of Christmas and the Christian faith;

(4) acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States and in the formation of the western civilization;

(5) rejects bigotry and persecution directed against Christians, both in the United States and worldwide; and

(6) expresses its deepest respect to American Christians and Christians throughout the world.”

Sick. Just sick. In a rational world, every one of the SIXTY co-sponsors (58 Rep, 2 Dem) should be relieved of their duties immediately. But, the twisted reality is that this blatant pandering to the Christian weirdos in our Halls of Congress passed by a margin of 372 to 9. Disgusting.

This is what I’m talking about when I say before the century is out, it will be completely illegal to be an atheist in this country. I expect severe persecution at some point. Think WWII-style internment camps, because they’re coming. I love the thought of having some jack-booted thug waterboard me until I swear that Jesus is my savior. Some of you will think that’s sensationalist, but believe me it is not far from where we are today to that point.

These zealots will not rest until they force everyone to bow to their completely fabricated invisible omnipotent being. It’s sickening that almost no one in Congress has the onions to stand up to this bullshit.

Fire them all.

Here are the nine reps who had the good common sense to vote Nay on this:
Ackerman
Clarke
DeGette
Hastings (FL)
Lee
McDermott
Scott (VA)
Stark
Woolsey

To the 9: Thank you for having some conviction and for understanding our Constitution.

I have read all the BS about this “Spygate” nonsense between the Jets and the Patriots. To cut through the crap, let’s take a realistic look at what happened.

In week 1, Jets security staff catch the Patriots taping defensive coaching signals in the Meadowlands. The camera is confiscated and the tape is reviewed by the NFL. The Patriots are guilty of cheating, and are punished for it. It is worth remembering that the league itself had warned teams before the season specifically not to tape opposing coaches.

Somehow, in this country of front-runner worshippers, everyone has decided that it was really Jets coach Eric Mangini who was in the wrong, beacuse a team that’s winning surely can’t be bad (rolls eyes). Let me just state what a fat load of BS that is. Coach Mangini has endured every type of abuse from Bill Belichick since taking the head coaching job with the Jets. Bill Belichick has not missed one single chance to make clear his childish hatred of Eric Mangini. As far as I can tell, the only thing Mangini ever did to Belichick is to contact a Patriots assistant or two about joining him on the Jets’ staff. This has somehow unhinged Belichick to the point where he will do anything within his power to attack Mangini. Somehow, the press has turned this around so that Mangini is the bad guy. Bizzare. Stupid.

So, let me state again that not only do I think Mangini was justified for preventing another team from cheating on us, I think it’s high time he publicly told Bill Belichick to f**K off. The hubris of Bill Belichick is legendary, and not in dispute from anyone. If you’d believe the press coming out of New England this week, Mangini wouldn’t even have been born, much less become a man, if it weren’t for Bill Belichick. Mangini would still be handing out press clippings to the beat writers if it weren’t for Belichick. Mangini would’ve never gotten laid, graduated from college, gotten married, had kids… heck, Magini wouldn’t even _exist_ if it weren’t for Belichick. They say Mangini owes his entire career to Bill Belichick. I don’t really see it that way. If someone does you a favor, then tries to lord it over you forever, then they’re an a**hole, just like Belichick. Even if Belichick was instrumental in getting Mangini started in NFL coaching, that does not mean that Coach Mangini would never have gotten a job. It certainly doesn’t mean that Mangini should look the other way as another NFL team blatantly cheats on us. In fact anyone who thinks that doesn’t have any integrity. If some one was paying _me_ a million dollars a year to win ballgames, I’d turn in folks cheating against us, too. That’s your job. I would never consider looking the other way as a team tried to gain an illegal advantage over us, that’s for sure. I’m glad our coach sees it the same way.

Apparently all of this drama started because Belichick ordered Mangini not to interview for the Jets HC job. Now, that right there is an a**hole move. I have never heard of a head coach doing anything other than helping their assistants get jobs. Now that we know more about Belichick, it isn’t too suprising that he’d pull that shit, he obviously only cares about himself. He obviously thought Mangini owed his career to him and that he should basically live forever in his shadow, gratefully scraping along at the feet of his master. What a load of crap that is. I sincerely hope that Coach Mangini leaves behind the high road that he has taken this entire time and calls out Belichick’s childish behavior some day. Because, really Mangini has taken a whole heap of ugly disrespect from Beilchick, and hasn’t responded negatively even once. So, I think it’s cool that he busted that a-hole for cheating.

It was like Coach Mangini was finally saying, hey Bill, F-you too, you jerk.

I hope he says as much publicly sometime.

I’m down with the sickness, as that song goes. Just Tuesday, I felt a bit off, but boldy stated to a co-worker, “I am stronger than these microbes!”. Ha! HAAA! Never talk shit to a germ or it will teach you your place real fast.

I’ll spare you the details, but I will share my personal nickname for this particular strain of funk: ‘The Sweaty Fever’

Try not to get it.