“The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” — Jesus (John 10:11)

What kind of “shepherd” is the wrong Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.? Does going all over television this past weekend, “defending” himself and further spouting his bigoted lunacy at the expense of his good friend and congregant (i.e “sheep”) senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama (whom Wright dismissed as acting like a politician), qualify as “laying down his life for the sheep?” Resoundingly, no! Wright showed absolutely no concern for anyone but himself.

He didn’t come off like a man defending himself, but a shameless huckster with a personal agenda to push. In fact, he single handedly negated all the prior defenses of him, most especially that we’d only seen a handful of cherry-picked, out of context snippets which didn’t truly represent the man and his beliefs. Wright himself proved that those “out of context snippets” are exactly who the man is and what he believes. Wright’s major accomplishment this weekend was getting Obama to finally denounce him and run the other way as fast as he could.

Wright not only didn’t “lay down his life for the sheep,” he saw a wolf coming (that evil ol’ “MSM”), picked up the sheep (Obama), and threw it to the wolf to save his own hide. Then he drove into town and signed a deal for his new book, How I Fought Down The Evil, Bigoted Wolf!

What did Jesus have to say about that?

“The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.” (John 10:12-13 NIV)

Cares nothing for the sheep. Wright is the definition of an hireling. He’s an embarrassment to every community to which he belongs. He’s an embarrassment to Christians, he’s an embarrassment to his former congregation (especially the Obamas), and he’s an embarrassment to African-Americans (unless y’all think that talk about whitey giving you AIDS is helping you out). I hear Local 825 of the Union of Pompous Windbags is even considering revoking his membership.

For now, Hireling Wright is riding his 15 minutes of fame for all they’re worth. You can’t get rid of the guy, he keeps popping up like a bloated corpse in the Hudson River. And I’ll bet right about now that’s exactly what Obama wishes Wright was.

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Current Events, Democrats.
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I only bring up this blurb about the latest rumored stunt casting, because it’s such a great line.

In one of the silliest bits of theatre news, we’re told that some producer in the UK is interested in casting Britney Spears in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Now, I ask you, how silly is that? Can you even picture her in a torn T-shirt, screaming “Stella”? I don’t buy it for a second! — Billy Masters

Britney Spears and Tennessee Williams, two names that should not be brought up together. Tennessee Ernie Ford, on the other hand….

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Celebrities, Entertainment, Theater.
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Take any list of seemingly random links and you’ll inevitably find unintended patterns in them, sometimes amusing patterns. Take this list of links to stories on MSN today:

Also on MSN
Photos of Star Jones through the years
Is cutting fat enough?

It wasn’t for Al Reynolds….

(And, yes, those are separate, completely different articles!)

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under The Funny Side of Life.
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You know those little, disposable nylons they have for women who want to try on shoes? Do men who wear shoes without socks use those when buying shoes? Nope, huh?

Think about it some more. Grossed out yet?

Frankly that’s a look I’ve never understood. “Look at me! My shoes squeak and make wet farty noises when I walk. Aren’t I cool?“

What’s worse, regular shoes without socks, or sandals with socks?

Posted: April 25th, 2008 under The Funny Side of Life.
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More MySpace “friend” nonsense.

This afternoon, the following subject line graced my email summary:

MySpace Friend Request Trista would like to be added as one of your friends!

Hi Gene,

Trista would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.

Et cetera.

So, I logged into my MySpace account to check this “Trista” out. The control panel blinked happily “New Friend Request!” I clicked on it. The friend request page was blank. Nothing. “No friend requests pending.”

Huh. Now what was that about?

MySpace sends out an email when someone supposedly wants to be your friend, but nothing if they take it back. I think they should send a second email in such cases, something like:

MySpace Friend Request The biatch changed her mind

Hi Gene,

Um, forget we said anything.

Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Life Journals, The Funny Side of Life, Websites.
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