tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118745402012-01-19T17:31:02.420-07:00This weblog is dedicated to THE GODDESS and to SAVING THE PLANET -- by gently replacing God the Father with God the Mother by the year 2035. Too simplistic? Nope, I don't think so. Male gods are dangerous, to men as well as women. Female deities are ROLE MODELS for UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. People are biologically programmed to need religion of one kind or another. (BTW, "thea"=Goddess, "theo"=god)Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.comBlogger9651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-10967724930336940772011-09-21T19:21:00.000-06:002011-09-22T17:29:19.944-06:00

Are Rick Perry, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann salivating over the thought of executing “adulterers,” gays and lesbians? Chip Berlet says, “Yeah, could be. We need a few journalists with enough nads to pry the truth out of them.” Chip writes for the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Progressive, the Nation, and other publications.  _______________________  Thnx to

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One of the most gruesome and grisly monsters ever to threaten our Mother Earth is the Kochtopus. In this week's Mother Jones, the Kochtopus is at it again: trying to eat the EPA, lacerate labor unions, and rout all but the right-iest of the right-wing media. Go HERE to see. So, dear readers: what Magic you hide right now up your sleeves, pitch at all eight of those Kochtopus knees!

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Right on, dudes at Westboro Baptist Church and the Supreme Court of the USA! Yu have hit the proverbial nail on its very head! Yu are so SMART! The god Jehovah does despise America -- along with the world and everyone in it. He and his triplet bros, Yahweh and Allah? They all hate humanity. All ya hafta do is dance around a bit in their "holy books" to see what I'm sayin' is true. SO WHY

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-19931032922132187892011-03-02T06:20:00.004-07:002011-03-02T06:30:22.350-07:00

"NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is considering making it a felony to follow some versions of the Islamic code known as Shariah, the most severe measure yet put forth by a national movement whose members believe extremist Muslims want Shariah to supersede the Constitution." MORE>>>Alriiight! We're on our way! Next we need laws making it a felony to follow any god of Abraham!*_______* (And the

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John Fiala, Texas Priest, Charged With Hiring Hitman To Kill Teen Who Accused Him Of Sexual Abuse Behold! The war god Jehovah in full swing! Gobble the forbidden bird, and then squash what’s left so it can’t squeal. In my book, Switching to Goddess*, I explain why we need to trade in Jehovah and our other war gods for the peaceful, unconditional-loving, guiding goddesses many human societies

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-82685181047592330322010-06-29T15:33:00.004-06:002010-06-29T15:37:56.934-06:00

Wheeee! Oprah Winfrey is hunting down new TV talent! Go HERE to help Karen Tate land a Goddess-Spirituality TV show. Vote for Karen’s show as many times as you want/can/have the time for – but do it before July 3, because that’s when the voting ends. Golden chance – help push the Goddess out there for the entire world to see and love!

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Today, William left the following on an older post : “I have read your book, Switching to Goddess and very much liked the first half of it. But i have to say, i have real problems with the theory that famine and starvation caused the rise of patriarchy.“People starving to death still happens today. And the problem of starvation is not that people turn into savages, Reports from charity

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-60124254591322831642010-03-21T19:40:00.003-06:002010-03-21T20:01:49.494-06:00

Today, my right-wing Cousin Harold got the following from me: Dearest Cuz, Since you detest taxes, why are you still using things taxes buy? When your house catches fire, put it out yourself!If someone burglarizes you, jail the burglar (I KNOW building your own jail is expensive, but … so are taxes). You can’t drive on roads -- they’re paid for with taxes -- so you’ll have to knock on doors

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...THE TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION! My deepest regrets to all my Texas friends. But really, dear ones, you might want to spit-polish your politician-picking process. I should be able to drop the following story into the TOO WEIRD TO BE TRUE pot. Unfortunately, since it IS true, it can’t be pitched into the pot: Here’s the story: According to the new Texas state education guidelines,

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-49950780807934539912010-02-12T17:24:00.005-07:002010-02-12T17:45:58.134-07:00

The awesome and metacool Karen Tate (California Goddess minister, author, and radio host) has asked me to tell you that .... "....Voices of the Sacred Feminine Radio has been creating an archive of the brightest minds of our time for the last twenty months.... This is in response to your requests!"Just some of the guests interviewed since last September:Layne RedmondJudy GrahnStarhawkJoan

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-91195484920016515652009-12-24T17:43:00.003-07:002010-01-03T06:48:04.330-07:00

In the new 3D blockbuster film Avatar, the good guys worship the Great Mother Goddess Eywa! Finally -- a film with some real religion in it. I know it’s late, but if you still haven’t zeroed in on that perfect holiday gift for that special someone, BUY HER/HIM A TICKET to Avatar! (Mercy, buy tickets for that un-special someone. Buy tickets for everyone on your block. This is a film

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-63764496642811477802009-12-21T11:28:00.008-07:002009-12-21T11:59:25.930-07:00

A few Winter Solstice Goddesses:• Alcyone (Greek): Alcyone is the Kingfisher goddess. She nests every winter for two weeks, and while she does, the wild seas become calm and peaceful.• Ameratasu (Japan): In feudal Japan, worshippers celebrated the return of Ameratasu, the sun goddess, who slept in a cold, remote cave. When the other gods woke her with a loud celebration, she looked out of the

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-73151790394702932622009-12-19T18:52:00.005-07:002009-12-19T19:03:27.586-07:00

Lou Engle, a big YAJ* dude (Jehovah followers think he’s metacool), is actually telling Christians to martyr themselves in the name of anti-abortion. As in, “be willing to die” for the "cause." He’s also shouting about a 2nd American Civil War – Abortion-Rights dudes in the left corner, and Right-to-Lifers – where else? -- in the right. (Pssst! Don’t tell anyone, but I think he means ‘war’

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-3838283646494863582009-12-19T09:16:00.008-07:002009-12-19T10:00:24.020-07:00

Action star Mr. Chuck Norris says Obamacare woulda killed Baby Jesus. Shooting back from the hip, Washington Post writer M. Kessler says Christian-dude Chuck Norris woulda killed Mary even before she’d delivered Jesus. Afterall, Mary was an unwed mother. Before he’da let her give birth in his holy Christian manger, Chuck woulda let her freeze to death out on the plains. Dudes, dudes, I say!

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-58801081563467285602009-12-14T07:49:00.009-07:002009-12-14T09:17:16.283-07:00

Why are so many suffering apoplexies over the simple notion that, in the past, the world might have revolved around goddesses? Take, for example, Mr. Robert Sheaffer at “The Debunker’s Domain.” Mr. R.S. must have spent months -- if not years -- scouring the planet for every document he could scare up that might possibly besmirch the notion of Goddess. For the best yucks, read all the way to

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Since Mother Earth is suffocating under skanky loads of human flesh, doesn’t it follow that the world’s true heroes are our radically fab and super-cool childless men and women? Those who say, “No. I refuse to add to the refuse. I WILL not use my body to pound out more earth-polluting human flesh!" In honor of these most awesome of the Earth’s awesome, I hereby dub today, December 10, “

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Yikes! Two days ago, one of the biggest US newspapers ever – The New York Times –actually printed an article about that “little-known” Goddess culture, Old Europe! And from what I understand, this article was plopped onto the front page of this Grandmama of all US newspapers! According to the article, since Old European figurines, jewelry and other stuff are currently on display at New York

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By being slaughtered, raped, or both, women can claw their way into Jehovah’s heaven.Or, by pumping nails into the heads of peacefully sleeping men:“Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be…. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-54650174144692236642009-09-17T06:15:00.003-06:002009-09-17T06:32:55.245-06:00

"In the 21st century, the Islamic burka, the full-face-and-body veil, adopted by more women every day, has become the most potent human symbol on earth. But what exactly does it symbolize? Many say it stands for piety. No, that's wrong, says Marnia Lazreg, an Algerian-born professor of sociology at the City University of New York. Piety has little to do with it; the Koran doesn't even mention the

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-68253928511072582432009-08-28T10:16:00.007-06:002009-09-12T11:28:59.641-06:00

Ever notice how YAJ* barks and bites at himself -- 24/7? It’s not just Yahweh stomping on Allah, Allah jumping on Jehovah, and Jehovah yammering away at Yahweh. It’s Baptists beating up on Methodists, and Methodists mopping the floor with Mormons. And each sect beats up on its own, the Reformed Baptists blistering the Free Will Baptists, and the Evangelical Methodists bellowing about how the

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-74617792406085738092009-08-06T04:42:00.003-06:002009-08-06T04:57:18.591-06:00

This article in NewScientist is worth a look-at. Says what I do in Switching to Goddess: anyone who thinks warfare is in our genes is off track: OPTIMISTS called the first world war "the war to end all wars". Philosopher George Santayana demurred. In its aftermath he declared: "Only the dead have seen the end of war". History has proved him right, of course. What's more, today virtually nobody

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-82769745837164310292009-07-10T17:32:00.005-06:002009-07-11T07:57:03.403-06:00

Am microwaving chicken wings, brussels sprouts, squares of sweet red peppers and broccoli spears for dinner. The aroma is wafting out to me on my sunporch and I’m salivating. AND thinking about how the wonderful chemicals and substances and nutrients in these foods come directly from Mother Earth – really, they ARE Mother Earth, Her gift to us.Amazingly, She gives of Her Body to sustain us and

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-69265501983639128342009-06-25T19:13:00.009-06:002009-07-05T05:50:33.704-06:00

This poem moved me to tears. Called "Dressng the Bride," it was written by Goddess Pages Editor Geraldine Charles. Geraldine captures the heart & soul of what on this blog we call the 6000-year "slippery slide" of the Goddess into Her current underground hideaway. But read all the way to the end, because there you'll find a golden promise: Sure, ‘twas as though the granite bonesAnd flesh of

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-73183317283552124852009-06-21T08:58:00.001-06:002009-06-21T09:01:08.103-06:00

In this not-to-be-missed video, Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's best Christian, explains marriage to everyone else:

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It’s no accident that the Christian Bible is peppered over 300 times with the words “war” and “warrior.” It’s no accident either that the History Channel offers almost nothing but shows on war and the bloody, blood-soaked Abrahamic religions*. Fact is, there’s a wicked chilling link between war and the Abrahamaic religions*: It’s the Abrahamic and other war religions that cause war. So how do

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-38779493050512497002009-06-21T07:06:00.008-06:002009-06-21T08:05:07.496-06:00

Seems everyone who's anyone in the northern hemisphere celebrates (or has celebrated) the Summer Solstice. Everyone except YAJ* that is, who despises Mother Earth as much as flies despise flypaper (because She's way more powerful than he is. Temper, temper, YAJ*!)“Most societies in the northern hemisphere, ancient and modern, have celebrated a festival on or close to” the Summer Solstice. For

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These technically fab but amazingly violent illustrations come from a rare antique children's book I found recently. I'm blown away by how violent and chillingly callous this book is. I can't believe that only a little over 100 years ago we, in our YAJ*-based culture, were reading this stuff to our four- and five-year-olds. The book has four stories. The pictures you see here come from "

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-1406970653325028272009-06-19T07:44:00.006-06:002009-06-19T08:08:20.066-06:00

You’ve seen it: Christians behaving badly. Very badly. They murder doctors (see two posts below), they murder their own children*, and they’ve even been known to wipe out entire flocks with one fell swoop of their poison-Koolaid pitchers (enter “Jim Jones” and “Peoples Temple” into any search engine and read all about it). Where’d this pipe spring a leak? I’ll tell you where: In the Old

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-81154231500774955962009-06-19T05:19:00.003-06:002009-06-19T06:44:12.298-06:00

Compared to his dad Jumping Jehovah at least, Jesus plays ball more like a goddess than a god. For example, he says, “Suffer the little children to come unto me” (although you’d be hard pressed to find him doing anything awesome for, to or with any of the kiddies in the Holy Bible). He says, “Hey! Listen up dudes! I’m really serious about this: Do. Not. Hit. People. Or do anything else

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-1426762224418256252009-06-16T07:21:00.006-06:002009-06-16T07:55:46.013-06:00

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting fed up with the “Religion is so bad to us -- why won’t it go away” camp. (See this article and the snippets from it below).First, dust off your anthropology books, sweeties. Religion won’t go away ‘cause we humans exit mommy’s womb blank slates – stupidos, really – and we need something to clue us in on how to behave. Animals have all the luck – they’re

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-72882261138993789872009-05-31T18:03:00.009-06:002009-05-31T18:57:44.285-06:00

Sweet Babies, this is your Auntie Athana speaking.I've come to bark at you again about how we've gotta boot YAJ off the planet before he boots us all off, along with all other life on earth (well, YAJ would have a hard time booting cockroaches, lice and sharks off our Mother. These dudes have been around so long they have tricks up their sleeves to smear and spank just about anything that might

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-11548149472587523332009-05-19T05:45:00.010-06:002009-05-19T06:15:35.869-06:00

Hot-off-the-press: Rumsfeld used Bible verses to help keep G.W. Bush in the Iraq War:ON THE MORNING OF Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-62383207412770369452009-05-16T11:49:00.007-06:002009-05-16T12:30:01.578-06:00

After we humans lost the Goddess as the center of life, liberty and sunny joy,* we morphed into a totally wacked out, wiggy species: ”Today most of the world’s business is conducted by wolf- and dog-like dominance hierarchies peopled by packs of young men headed up by top-dog alpha-males."Like a bunch of starving psychotics in a small sandbox, the world’s major nations today spend most of their

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-34290610053485660032009-05-08T06:31:00.004-06:002009-05-08T06:40:21.117-06:00

A few tidbits from a review of James Lovelock's new book The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: THE GIST OF THE BOOK: "‘The Earth, in its but not our interests, may be forced to a hot epoch, one where it can survive, although in a diminished and less habitable state. If, as is likely, this happens, we will have been the cause… too many people, their pets and their livestock - more than the

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-39121901008302120912009-05-07T06:56:00.002-06:002009-05-07T07:06:40.763-06:00

This is an oldie but "goodie": a 2007 article I bumped into about how UK Muslim teenage girls are being beaten up in the streets if they refuse to become Muslim. Some are in for double trouble: beaten up AND forced to quit the university. If you've ever wondered how sects as skanky as the war-god religions* have swamped the earth -- they've now infected over half the world's population --

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-90428313768477375772009-05-03T10:16:00.002-06:002009-05-03T10:22:42.213-06:00

Anyone wanna take a stab at answering a friend of mine? "I'm reading [Switching to Goddess].... One thing that occurs to me is that many of the people you are apparently addressing, i.e., religious people who are slave to male god concepts, hold very dear the idea of personally communing with God by means of prayer. "Almost all the religious people I know (i.e., the two or three) plus my own

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-86543814755241483152009-04-17T11:33:00.003-06:002009-04-17T12:20:41.388-06:00

Unbelievable! This May 2009 NatGeo article about China's Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces mentions zip & nada about that region's most totally amazing people: the Moso (Mosuo) of Mother Lake. Not only do the Moso center their lives around goddesses, they're also the only known culture in the world giving the old heave-ho to the institution of marriage. Although the article's subtitled "Searching

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-27829281287494885732009-03-11T06:19:00.003-06:002009-03-11T07:23:27.954-06:00

"...the fact is that almost all new religious movements fail...."The sociologist Rodney Stark is one of the few people who have been willing to develop specific ideas about what makes new religious movements succeed. SNIP"'The main thing you've got to recognize,' he [Stark] told me, 'is that success is really about relationships and not about faith. What happens is that people form relationships

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-17862466511762233692009-03-08T08:45:00.003-06:002009-03-08T09:04:57.053-06:00

I adore Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews and Zeus worshippers. They're all sweet, lovable beauties born out of the Goddess. It's their earth-killing, people-eating "religions" that make me want to punch holes in pillows. Sweeties, tons of religions are out there to choose from. Why latch onto the ones that are mean, ugly, and out to take the human species to the cleaners?____________________

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-15428330594260022652009-03-05T10:29:00.008-07:002009-03-05T11:12:32.739-07:00

Buried in an old box of books I snapped up at an auction last week, I discovered a great old 1934 book called Tales of the Cochiti Indians. These stories were collected by the anthropologist Ruth Benedict. Nestled in this book are 10-15 stories about the Cochiti Mother Goddess. Here, for your reading pleasure, is part of one: "The Origin of Death"They were coming up from Shipap. One of their

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Wowza! Here's a linguist says some of the words we use today were used back in the days of the cavewoman: I, who, we, thou, two, three, five. For MORE, go HERE. _____________thnx to wiccan for the foto; go HERE to see more.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-50486906302994894082009-03-03T07:27:00.007-07:002009-03-03T09:45:20.993-07:00

If Christopher Hitchens was my hero before, he's more so now. Last week he risked his life to stand up against Christians and Muslims terrorizing Lebanon. As a result, he was beaten, kicked and smacked in broad daylight, by a gang of Christian/Muslim thugs, on a major street in Beirut: Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-51471534484768989002009-02-27T18:15:00.000-07:002009-02-27T18:18:42.286-07:00

Ancient Northern Europeans believed when they died they got sucked back into the warm, loving womb of their Great Mother Goddess Holle (Hel, Ella, Hella, Holga, Helga, Holda, etc.). And then, from Mother's womb, you waltzed out into your next earthly incarnation. So -- wouldn't men return sometimes as women, and women as men? Whaddya think, dearies? And if so, would this have handed our

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-38774432095662325832009-02-27T11:57:00.006-07:002009-02-27T12:29:16.698-07:00

We humans come in two fun models: the first can make life (let’s call this model the “Gynes”), the second cannot (let’s just for the heck of it call this model the “Non-gynes”). And let’s just play a little joke, ok? Let's try to fool people into thinking it’s the type of human who can’t make life -- that actually made all life. Wowza! In my humble opinion, why things got turned totally upside

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-10914315527852295652009-02-26T09:22:00.011-07:002009-02-26T09:55:28.563-07:00

To my great shame and horror, I live in a place calling itself "a Christian nation."Today I watched a Christian dude open up a U.S. Senate session by reading from the bloody butchery book this nation lives by, one of the most barbaric books ever written: the Bible. Although your Christian minister will bend over backwards to hide it, this butchery book is dripping with HUNDREDS of little bloody

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-27742450393688422882009-02-25T18:06:00.004-07:002009-02-25T18:20:39.914-07:00

Jesus is a great guy. When times are good, people follow him like the people of Hamelin followed the Pied Piper. But when times are tough, people line up behind Jesus' dad, the war god Jehovah. With the Great Guiding Goddess, there's no choice: ya hafta be good *all* of the time.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-8270304148208585612009-02-16T05:49:00.009-07:002009-02-17T04:05:42.547-07:00

Think YAJ* isn't pounding your world into the dust behind your back? Getta load outa this: In October 2008, a group of about sixty American science teachers met to compare notes, at the Center for Science Education at Emory University in Atlanta, and they had some revealing experiences to relate. One teacher reported that students “burst into tears” when told they would be studying evolution.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-27640212595294726362009-02-12T10:47:00.005-07:002009-02-12T11:03:51.176-07:00

Why do Christians make their kids memorize only certain Bible verses -- like, for instance, "God so loved the world"? Other verses are far more to the point about how much God loves the world. For example: "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt" (Deut. 28.27)."Thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air" (Deut 28.26)."Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat" (1

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-43780071726568835522009-02-10T08:12:00.006-07:002009-02-11T09:50:52.674-07:00

Richard today asked three dynamite questions: "What would a Goddess country be like? What do you think the laws and the culture of a modern nation that modeled itself after the Goddess be like? How do you think it would be perceived by the wider world?"Fab questions, Richard. First let me say I'm not absolutely certain that a Goddess country could survive alone in today's world. That's why

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-36866495446672340962009-02-06T15:36:00.006-07:002009-02-06T19:11:09.318-07:00

Dude called Paul Martin says "pleasure" is a Good Thing, but then burbles on about "dissolute" dudes like "Suetonius’s Twelve Caesars ..., Elvis Presley, Errol Flynn, Janis Joplin and the 17th-century libertine Lord Rochester...." Dissolute? Libertine?Yikes! Those two words don't sound like pleasure to me! They sound more like icky-dip stuff! Then this dude tosses out Plato, and how Plato

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Another awesome article trumpteting the news that the more you got god, the more got a grungy, grubby place. (If I had a dollar for every one of these articles printed lately, I'd be a gazillionaire). This article was pumped out by the Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review. The subtitle snaps and crackles: "The least religious nations," it says, "are also the most healthy and

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-30233547595906845062009-01-29T05:42:00.006-07:002009-01-29T16:40:55.074-07:00

Silly me. I thought tons of mah fellow Amurcans, right along side me, believed in evolution (you know -- the Darwin kind). Not. "... while 74 percent of Americans believe that angels exist, only 25 percent accept that we evolved from apelike ancestors. Just one in eight of us think that evolution should be taught in the biology classroom without including a creationist alternative. "Among

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-27880507412517601852009-01-23T08:54:00.016-07:002009-02-14T12:54:10.530-07:00

Z Budapest's Review of Switching to Goddess, in Goddess Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 1, January, 2009, pp 6-8. This review appeared this month in Z's new periodical, Goddess Magazine, a fab new online read you won't want to miss. Goddess Magazine sings with Z's magical style of writing and view of the world. Also, it has the snazziest layout and artwork I have yet to see in any Goddess magazine. Go

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-54769713992988371302009-01-20T10:46:00.004-07:002009-01-20T11:14:52.293-07:00

Ever since Mr. Obama took his oath of office today and scooted Mr.'s Bush and Cheney out of the Oval Office, I have not been able to get this tune outa my head: "Hey, hey, the wolf is dead, the big bad wolf is dead, dead, dead...."And what an acceptance speech Mr. O gave! Smart is back in town, children, and the dudes with their brains on hold have been sent packing at last._________________

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In my local Maine Pagan group, someone asked today why Wiccans sometimes take the word "church" instead of "coven" to describe themselves. Here, according to Maine's own raven_starsong3, is the surprising answer: "Pagan groups in general are taking the title of Church for two reasons. First, they may be trying to achieve mainstream and/or legal recognition as a body equal to a Christian or

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-75300069655807593222009-01-14T05:33:00.004-07:002009-01-14T05:53:31.360-07:00

"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, 'I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,' a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin."~from Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees: A Novel, Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, page 426. So let's kick forgiveness around for a while. What does the Goddess say we should do about it?

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-54021183011624445182009-01-13T08:33:00.007-07:002009-01-14T06:01:31.637-07:00

Thanx to Judith Laura over at Medusa Coils for this fab and very complete review of my new book, Switching to Goddess (Judith is the author of She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother; Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics; and Beyond All Desiring): "This is a treasure of a book. Written with a light touch, at times humorous enough to make you lol, Switching

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"A society in which women have to hide and cover their breasts is a society in which nurturance is neglected.... The naked female breasts, as symbols of women's power, deeply frighten men. Breasts are covered for that reason alone, and not because they arouse passion and sexuality." "Today's taboos against the exposure of female breasts, while allowing males to freely expose the same anatomical

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Today I found myself riveted to Richard Dawkins' rad website, where a group of devout atheists cranked out explanations of what they do at Christmas aka "Christ's mass." Here's a small, tasty sample: "As a miserable atheist I shall of course be alone over christmas. After breakfast I will spend the next three hours tearing pages out of a bible and cursing anyone who has the temerity to ring or

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-65197572004237120622008-12-24T16:32:00.005-07:002008-12-24T17:03:19.473-07:00

Our Mother who art the EarthNourishing are thy waysThy web of life be wovenThy ways be found withinAs it is all around.Thank you this day for our bread and sweatAnd forgive us our misuse of youAs we forgive others their misuse of usAnd lead us not into exploitationBut deliver us from lording it over youAnd over each other and over fellow creatures.For thine are the waters of lifeThe feeding,

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-39527889444304908742008-12-21T15:08:00.005-07:002008-12-21T15:22:40.635-07:00

From Vicki Noble: At this sacred holy-day, I like to remember Charlie Murphy's Solstice song, Light Is Returning, to express the relief that we profoundly feel as the light is birthed again within the darkness...Light is returning Even though this is the darkest hourNo one can hold back the dawnLet's keep it burningLet's keep the light of hope aliveMake safe our journey through the stormOne

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-45745517330473186492008-12-20T13:26:00.009-07:002008-12-20T18:04:21.662-07:00

It's bad enough he's anti-LGBT, anti-woman and anti-abortion. But worse -- and something few are talking about -- is that Ricky Warren, the Jumping-Jehovah dude Obama picked to open his inauguration, seems to be in bed with Christian Dominionists. Dominionists want to kill democracy, the presidency, and the Constitution. "Time to go back to kings," they say. But the "king" would be their

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-59264954710457571322008-12-16T17:52:00.004-07:002008-12-16T18:12:05.274-07:00

HERE'S an article that caught my eye today. It's about how Muslims are leading the world around like a cow with a ring in its nose, 'cause we're all frightfully frightened of the fatwa, and about how the West started the whole shebang all by its lil' ol' lonesome self: "The lesson of the Rushdie Affair ... is that liberals have made their own monsters. It is the liberal fear of giving offence

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-8774859608236261502008-12-14T10:26:00.006-07:002008-12-14T10:49:20.392-07:00

HERE'S a good article on how "religious" people breed like flies. "Religious" people pump out more babies -- in many cases a *lot* more babies, says this author, Andy Gottlieb. And, those babies typically adopt their parents' religion.* By "religion" Andy of course means daddy-god religion (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist). So, what Andy's really saying is daddy-god people have more

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-72702261698439053432008-12-09T11:45:00.006-07:002008-12-09T11:52:30.177-07:00

HERE, in an old issue of Goddess Pages, is a great article by Max Dashu on the way in which "objective" academia shakes in its shoes when confronted by Goddess. Thnx both to Max and to Geraldine at Goddess Pages for all you each do for the Goddess Movement.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-79478050669509033582008-12-09T09:05:00.003-07:002008-12-09T09:28:01.753-07:00

Dear Anonymous American Soldier who left a comment today on my old 1/2/06 post, "Bible Verses for the Kids to Memorize", First, I adore you, and the Goddess adores you. Second, I beg of you -- don't threaten me with Christian promo propaganda like "I only hope you will realize the truth in God's word before judgment day comes." It makes me laugh and giggle til my stomach ties itself into crampy

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-68836003832534719732008-12-08T14:39:00.013-07:002008-12-08T18:04:03.172-07:00

Last night after watching the award-winning movie Lonesome Dove, I cried so hard a river now runs through my living room. What is it about the ending of this movie that makes it almost as bad as watching a best friend die? And then it hit me. I think Lonesome Dove taps into the old Goddess world. Lonesome Dove happens in the Old American West. When two ex-Texas Rangers, Augustus "Gus" McCrae

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-82369691792397774392008-12-06T16:16:00.006-07:002008-12-08T14:39:19.101-07:00

Want a thoroughly entertaining yet damnably depressing picture of exactly how Big Money is using YAJ* to decimate the US? If so, put your paws on a copy of John Grisham's The Appeal. What a read! I finished it late last night -- and tangoed through a night of tossing, turning and tangling the bed covers until I "woke" the next morning at the first sign of light in a window._________________*

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-73565819768631243092008-12-05T06:31:00.003-07:002008-12-05T06:48:55.242-07:00

Yesterday, anti-thesisofreason asked, "So do you think we should get rid of all male deities? Are there any that would be worth keeping?"Personally, anti, I believe there are tons of male gods worth keeping. Last winter, we had quite a party on this blog about male gods, with lots of people chiming in on the topic. [See "Goddess and the Good Gods" from last March]And after reading Sannion's

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A few weeks ago, Kristina dropped off a little note* announcing that trading gods for goddesses would drag us straight down that ugly, weedy path of "imbalance." Now, I was sure Geraldine Charles' recent article over at Goddess Pages had taken care of this piece of trouble "balance" already. But what do I know. Kristina, I'm wondering: How do ya define "imbalance"? Is dropping too much love

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-8931149146384415012008-12-01T08:33:00.007-07:002008-12-01T13:45:54.479-07:00

Even though the Great Goddess has been bopped around a lot over time by the daddy gods, these bad daddies have never won the war they've waged against Her. Oh, sure, they've tried hard to crush Her into dust, but every time they knock Her for a loop, She just bounces back again, in their faces, laughing. Here's a look at just one of these bat-down, bounce-back sessions: It didn’t take Jumping

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-37145270620646131222008-11-16T12:12:00.004-07:002008-11-16T12:26:00.437-07:00

On this blog the goal is to switch from daddy gods back to Guiding Goddesses. Until it's guided by Goddesses, we'll never have a healthy world. As things stand now, all the daddy gods who guide us are -- think about it -- vicious, violent and skanky-janky war gods If you had a car programmed to wheel you down roads leading to war zones, wouldn't you junk it? And if you spotted a car designed

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I am appalled at the way the Christian Church ran like a Mack truck over California law Nov. 4. This morning the New York Times even saw fit to do a front-page article on it. I know we're all fed up with fear, but this is something to be afraid of. And I don't see people being nearly afraid enough. The Christian menace is gaining on us again. Pull out and reread your copy of John Sugg's

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-66178155141263112342008-11-13T08:12:00.006-07:002008-11-13T08:39:10.447-07:00

As we all know, the ancient Pagans were so ho-hum about homosexuality they didn't even have a word for it. To them it was merely one side of sexuality, no big fat deal. Then, about 2000 years ago, YAJ* two-stepped into the picture. And in order to yank power away from Pagans, YAJ specialized in carving people up into separate groups and then pitting the groups against each other. So 2000

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-10697972620449567982008-11-11T07:28:00.005-07:002008-11-11T08:15:54.389-07:00

Much to the horror of Christians in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, the Supreme Court recently ruled to allow the Church of Summum to post its Seven Aphorisms in the town park alongside the Ten Commandments: “They’ve put a basically Judeo-Christian religious text in the park, which we think is great, because people should be exposed to it,” Mr. Temu [of the Summum Church] said. “But our principles

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-22223169243902667542008-11-01T08:39:00.002-06:002008-11-01T08:43:08.044-06:00

My Dear Fellow Americans, If you want four more years like the last eight, vote for this man, Mr. John McCain.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-25799760581793224822008-10-31T08:06:00.002-06:002008-10-31T08:18:41.499-06:00

My dears, Here's wishing you a smashingly sensational Samhuinn this year. Hoping it will snap, crackle and pop for you, with all kinds of magical meaningfulness. Love, xxx ooo,Athana

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-65100112874120126952008-10-31T07:05:00.006-06:002008-10-31T10:45:46.989-06:00

Can we really, by the year 2035, replace god the father with God the Mother? Yikes, people! That's a scant 27 years from now! On the other hand, 27 years ago, America saw one of its last lynchings.* And now, exactly 27 years later, we're on the verge of [KNOCK ON WOOD!] landing an African-American in our Oval Office.The push for Obama is being driven by the young. Even Evangelicals under

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-43276995470801091952008-10-29T06:37:00.007-06:002008-10-30T05:12:55.499-06:00

Even Cable news is aghast these days about the ghoulishness of American Christian extremists -- most specifically about their recent "2012 letter." You know, the one that says if Barack Obama gets elected the world is going to end? My opinion? Far, far scarier than Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, or any other radical Muslim group are our sweet lil' ol' American Christian extremists. This

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"It is evil to describe a child as a Muslim child or a Christian child. I think labelling children is child abuse and I think there is a very heavy issue, for example, about teaching about hell and torturing their minds with hell." ~Prof. Richard Dawkins, whose next book will focus on children and religion. MORE>>>>

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"Of all the praises that can be sung about our Great-Goddess ancestors, probably the most stunning of all is their ability to live for hundreds — and in some cases thousands — of years without plunging into the hell that is human warfare. ..."Otherwise well-educated people will tell you we’re born biologically primed to wage war. That it’s in our genes. Frankly my dears, these people don’t have a

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Anne Johnson over at The Gods Are Bored has pronounced Halloween a Holy Holiday: Every year around this time, the Christian Wrong starts moaning and groaning about the fact that public schools celebrate Halloween, but they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter or St. Patrick's Day ......... ooops!... I'll concede to the Christian Wrong that public schools devote an afternoon every year to a Pagan

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Yesterday, brian charles and I chewed the fat about psychopimp leaders like Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Hitler and Stalin (see yesterday's post). You know -- silver-tongued dudes who get people to drink poison Koolaid, and then lie down quietly to die? Since we've all been hatched in desert-god cultures teaching us to crave one Big, YAJ*-like, Daddy-human to follow, brian thinks none of us is

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Feeling good today, are we? Well here's something to fix that. New article about the right Reverend Jim Jones and his be-jungled Jonestown. Read it, and I promise: in no time flat you'll fall into a pink-pickled funk. Turns out the author moved into the house of the parents of the woman who, in 1978, deep in the jungle in Jonestown, Guyana, helped pass out the poison punch that killed the

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-69603316444740369242008-10-23T15:20:00.004-06:002008-10-23T15:33:22.167-06:00

Sorry, babies, I've been so busy bothering myself about the recent Giant Financial Hiccup of Western (and Eastern) Civilization that I've been badly neglecting you and this Very Important Blog. Not to mention worrying about our World Savior, Barack Obama (no, no, I do believe he was born in a manger), and trying to market my book, Switching to Goddess, which is due to hit the shelves next month

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-72657350053279523542008-10-17T07:49:00.004-06:002008-10-17T08:16:26.407-06:00

Two new books on the frauds and follies of YAJ* the Great -- this time among the Mormons: The first, DEVIL'S GATE: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy, by David Roberts, tells about how in the mid 1800s, Mormon leader Brigham Young murdered many of his own followers, by talking them in to traveling West not in covered wagons, but by dragging everything they owned behind them --

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-63135392780680986182008-10-04T05:01:00.006-06:002008-10-04T06:53:10.425-06:00

Finally a few begin to see the light: "Personally, I wonder if women, generally, can have gender equality on earth without having it in heaven....SNIP"When I was a kid I used to wonder what happened to our Mother in Heaven; and if we have an only begotten son, why not an only begotten daughter? To bring this up now is not simply a matter of trying to improve the relative status of women on earth

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-45120355872751692352008-09-30T16:00:00.007-06:002008-09-30T16:17:44.763-06:00

When kings wage unjust war,When poison fills the skies,When the rich prey on the poor,When hope for justice diesWhen a spell lies o¹er the land,Of malice and of lies,Then a wild and fearless bandOf women shall ariseCrazy saints, yoginis,Peering through the gloom,Maenads and dakinisWitches grab your brooms!Sweep away the stenchSweep away the sneers!Sweep away the clenchOf hunger and of fearsDance

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"President Palin." Try that on for size. Frankly folks, the phrase makes my eyeballs freeze over. But maybe you like the ring of it. If so, vote for John McCain. McCain, the oldest man ever to run for the presidency, has 1-1/2 feet in the grave already: in addition to his advanced age, he also has skin cancer. And he refuses to show his med records. Gee -- I wonder why? If he's in such

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-31959010941648890292008-09-29T06:48:00.004-06:002008-09-29T07:04:23.338-06:00

Dear US Goddess Followers and Other Pagans, By pitching it into YAJ* churches, your government is throwing your hard-earned tax money down the sewer drain. These churches think about us the same way they think about slime on flies. Now, I ask: Why should we fork over one penny of our hard-earned money to people who'd love to whack us with fly swatters? Also, if you've been reading this blog ,

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-84343791467365175302008-09-26T07:30:00.008-06:002008-09-26T08:28:17.734-06:00

Babies, America's in big-time money trouble. How'd we get here? In a word, I give you -- tah-dah! ... "de-reg-u-la-tion"!De-reg-u-la-tion is a fancy Latin word from "reg," meaning "rules," and "de" meaning "to pitch out on the noggin."So de-reg-u-la-tion means "pitching rules out on their noggins." But the rules for the rich only. The other 95% of us still have to follow *our* rules. When

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-47971470712921362172008-09-25T06:06:00.007-06:002008-09-25T07:53:34.668-06:00

Wanna catch an African witch hunter "blessing" an American Vice Presidential candidate against "witchcraft" in her own church in Alaska?Take a peek at the clip below. English is not this dude's strong point. So for your listening pleasure, here's a short pronunciation guide: churches is "chah-ches"back is "bok"kids is "keets"god is "gawld"sorcery is "sah-sah-reelet's all is "ess ah"Mark is "

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Money: that delicious green stuff -- sweet as perfume -- that snags you the things you want (heat, light and maybe a trip to the zoo on Tuesdays). But money, kiddies, is in bigtime trouble. Although money may seem easy to understand, it's not. And whether we like it or not, we need a big, chunky brain to lift us up out of the money mess Dubya the Republican's dumped us into over the last eight

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This is so funny I could play it all day. It's the recent Saturday Night Live skit with Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin. This is not the Fixed News clip (which left out all the Palin funny parts -- surprise, surprise). This is the whole kit 'n caboodle:What's your favorite line? (Mine's "And I can see Russia from my house!")(To see this on a big screen, go directly to SNL.)

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-53004455133314069952008-09-16T10:13:00.004-06:002008-09-16T10:19:31.533-06:00

One of America's most beloved comedians, Chevy Chase, has publicly agreed this morning with my last post: John McCain, he sez, "has lost his mind":

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MCCAIN: NO Control OVER SELFMaybe it's cuz he was tortured in Vietnam, I dunno, but John McCain has lost all control over himself. If we wanna wipe ourselves off the face of the earth and get it over with, I say let's all flock out and vote for this poor soul. I mean, ya gotta feel sorry for the dude. Let's give him a break and send him to the White House! He'll probably die there (he's almost

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-72252474718042358692008-09-16T07:39:00.004-06:002008-09-16T07:46:07.720-06:00

John McCain told this joke to a crowd of Republicans: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." Although this incident was reported by the Associated Press , many papers refused to print it. See Salon.com for more. Why do you think a newspaper would fail to print something like this? Out of good taste? To protect Chelsea? To protect Hillary? To protect Janet Reno?

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-84952623798567850952008-09-15T07:54:00.002-06:002008-09-15T08:04:04.989-06:00

How could anyone not spot the link? In all of American history, the only president touting torture is also the one giggliest about a god who, at death, sends his children off into a vast underground torture chamber to be boiled in oil -- for forever.___________thnx to canbalci for the foto; go HERE to see more.

Athanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037246663178726395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11874540.post-72860534253780852072008-09-15T07:38:00.001-06:002008-09-15T07:41:47.353-06:00

Dear Great Goddess, Please help the world wake up and see something it seems totally blind to: That the earth and everything on it is being scorched by a mindset that has spread like cancer across the planet. This mindset is "... so ready to denigrate life on earth as to risk its destruction, whether quickly through war or slowly through pollution." Since the central theme of this mindset IS

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