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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it's absurd, it's absurd.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>When it&#8217;s absurd, it&#8217;s absurd.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
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<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<blockquote><p>I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’ Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns… I’m not kidding. They talk a mean game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re dealing with.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- Andrew Breitbart</p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s not absurd, it&#8217;s not here. Tweet it like you mean it]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>If it&#8217;s not absurd, it&#8217;s not here.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Tweet it like you mean it</h2>
<!-- tweet id : 114671656529707009 --><style type='text/css'>#bbpBox_114671656529707009 a { text-decoration:none; color:#CC3366; }#bbpBox_114671656529707009 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }</style><div id='bbpBox_114671656529707009' class='bbpBox' style='padding:20px; margin:5px 0; background-color:#DBE9ED; background-image:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/193784092/Joke_wall.jpg);'><div style='background:#fff; padding:10px; margin:0; min-height:48px; color:#333333; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px;'><span style='width:100%; font-size:18px; line-height:22px;'>Rev. Pat Robertson stated Alzheimer's Syndrome is good grounds for divorce.  In fact, it rates right up there with "watches Pat Robertson."</span><div class='bbp-actions' style='font-size:12px; width:100%; padding:5px 0; margin:0 0 10px 0; border-bottom:1px solid #e6e6e6;'><img align='middle' src='http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/wp-content/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie//images/bird.png' /><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Ruth_A_Buzzi/status/114671656529707009" title='tweeted on September 16, 2011 8:07 am'  target='_blank'>September 16, 2011 8:07 am</a> via web<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=114671656529707009"  class='bbp-action bbp-reply-action' title='Reply'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Reply</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=114671656529707009"  class='bbp-action bbp-retweet-action' title='Retweet'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Retweet</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=114671656529707009"  class='bbp-action bbp-favorite-action' title='Favorite'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Favorite</strong></span></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Ruth_A_Buzzi" ><img style='width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:7px; border:none; background:none; margin:0' src='http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1313951891/11b_RUTHIE_BY_JEFFREY_ROBERTS_normal.jpg' /></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Ruth_A_Buzzi" style='font-weight:bold' >@Ruth_A_Buzzi</a><div style='margin:0; padding-top:2px'>Ruth Buzzi</div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div></div><!-- end of tweet -->
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an absurd world, these are the real absurdities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>In an absurd world, these are the real absurdities.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="size-full wp-image-194 alignnone" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/SallyKernUglyHS.jpg" ><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-946" title="SallyKernUglyHS" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/SallyKernUglyHS.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="199" /></a>In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty years, we’ve had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which one’s the biggest threat? And you know, every day our young people, adults too, but especially our young people, are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines, they’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean. It’s more dangerous, and yes I think that it’s also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- Oklahoma state GOP <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks" >Rep. Sally Kern</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>Jesus tells us in Luke 21 that before all the signs of His return ultimately are completed that they will take us before kings and rulers and persecute us in His name. And that is, just scripture, that’s prophesy, and I think we’re seeing that persecution now of Christians, particularly of Christians in uniform, Christians that are prominent Christians, Christians that are in the public eye. That persecution is going to increase as we come closer to the time of Jesus’ return.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">-Retired <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-persecution-christian-soldiers-sign-end-times" >Gen. Jerry Boykin</a>, speaking on Christian radio</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">A picture &#8230;</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/hatch-hostage.jpg" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-968" title="hatch-hostage" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/hatch-hostage.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="347" /></a></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Tweet it like you mean it</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"><!-- tweet id : 112528121240104960 --><style type='text/css'>#bbpBox_112528121240104960 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_112528121240104960 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }</style><div id='bbpBox_112528121240104960' class='bbpBox' style='padding:20px; margin:5px 0; background-color:#C0DEED; background-image:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png); background-repeat:no-repeat'><div style='background:#fff; padding:10px; margin:0; min-height:48px; color:#333333; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px;'><span style='width:100%; font-size:18px; line-height:22px;'>"Banned Book Week" coming up. THE ONLY BOOK THAT'S BEEN BANNED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS  IS THE BIBLE. How about it, ACLU? <a target="_blank" href="http://ow.ly/6qFR4"  rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/6qFR4</a></span><div class='bbp-actions' style='font-size:12px; width:100%; padding:5px 0; margin:0 0 10px 0; border-bottom:1px solid #e6e6e6;'><img align='middle' src='http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/wp-content/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie//images/bird.png' /><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/BryanJFischer/status/112528121240104960" title='tweeted on September 10, 2011 10:09 am'  target='_blank'>September 10, 2011 10:09 am</a> via <a href="http://www.hootsuite.com"  rel="nofollow" target="blank">HootSuite</a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=112528121240104960"  class='bbp-action bbp-reply-action' title='Reply'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Reply</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=112528121240104960"  class='bbp-action bbp-retweet-action' title='Retweet'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Retweet</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=112528121240104960"  class='bbp-action bbp-favorite-action' title='Favorite'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Favorite</strong></span></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=BryanJFischer" ><img style='width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:7px; border:none; background:none; margin:0' src='http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/267055454/Headshots_003_normal.jpg' /></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=BryanJFischer" style='font-weight:bold' >@BryanJFischer</a><div style='margin:0; padding-top:2px'>Bryan Fischer</div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div></div><!-- end of tweet --></p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely absurd!]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Absolutely absurd.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Makes only too much sense</h2>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/Schlafly-Bachmann-CMF-Chicago-2010u.jpg" ><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-904 alignright" title="Schlafly-Bachmann-CMF-Chicago-2010u" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/Schlafly-Bachmann-CMF-Chicago-2010u-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Michele Bachmann, whose hopes of being president are fading beneath the heels of Rick Perry&#8217;s boots, has proclaimed Phyllis Schlafly &#8220;the most important woman in the United States in the last 100 years,&#8221; this despite Schlafly&#8217;s inability to accomplish anything other than being an utter embarrassment to women and especially to her gay son John. What else can you say about a woman who championed the cause of keeping women in the home and out of the workforce while she got a law degree and ignored her own family. But hey. And I&#8217;m sure that women like Margaret Sanger, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marian Wright Edelman, Helen Caldicott, Madeleine Albright, Marie Curie  and Betty Ford, to name a few, probably would rather not be picked by the likes of Bachmann as &#8220;the&#8221; most important.</p>
<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<p>Speaking of Schlafly, or rather the organization she founded:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/PennyNanceHS.jpg" ><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-905" title="PennyNanceHS" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/PennyNanceHS.jpg" alt="" width="142" height="169" /></a>Violence is nothing new for unions. Members of the Communication Workers of America attacked a female FreedomWorks activist in February, union protestors threatened to break the neck of a Fox News reporter during a broadcast earlier this year in Wisconsin, and in September of last year, AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka praised Nancy Pelosi for taking Obamacare and driving &#8216;it down the Republicans’ throats and out their backsides.&#8217; The professional Left knows the day of reckoning is coming, when the American people will call them to account for what they have done to our economy and our country. Their response will be to blame you, blame your family, blame your neighbors, and blame anybody but themselves. And this is just the beginning.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- Concerned Women for America CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/276396/end-civility-penny-nance" >Penny Nance</a>, complaining about the incivility of the left, and not Michele Bachmann, although I&#8217;m beginning to understand about the eyes, or at least where they come from</p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not reality, absurdity! Quote-unquote Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Not reality, absurdity!</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/vadum.jpg" ><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-891" title="vadum" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/vadum.jpg" alt="" width="154" height="176" /></a>Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country &#8212; which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn&#8217;t about helping the poor. It&#8217;s about helping the poor to help themselves to others&#8217; money. It&#8217;s about raw so-called social justice. It&#8217;s about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- <a target="_blank" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/registering_the_poor_to_vote_is_un-american.html" >Matthew Vadum</a>, writing for American Thinker</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/SamPeeYalley.jpg" ><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-893" title="SamPeeYalley" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/SamPeeYalley.jpg" alt="" width="147" height="200" /></a>Genocide results in the extermination of the human race and if you expand the meaning of homosexuality to mean that a man cannot have a child with another man, then it means that that practice would lead to the extermination of mankind. Therefore, if I am to charge anybody apart from having unnatural carnal knowledge, I would also charge him with genocide and see how he can get out of that situation. If you are a man and you are having carnal knowledge with a man how are you going to have a child? I agree totally with the clergy in condemning it.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- Former Ghana Deputy Minister <a target="_blank" href="http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.287144.1.543730" >Sam Pee Yalley</a></p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My god, that's absurd!]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>My god, that&#8217;s absurd!</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="size-full wp-image-194 alignnone" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Tweet it like you mean it</h2>
<!-- tweet id : 109379495311572992 --><style type='text/css'>#bbpBox_109379495311572992 a { text-decoration:none; color:#2FC2EF; }#bbpBox_109379495311572992 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }</style><div id='bbpBox_109379495311572992' class='bbpBox' style='padding:20px; margin:5px 0; background-color:#1A1B1F; background-image:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/194574351/wetcat10.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat'><div style='background:#fff; padding:10px; margin:0; min-height:48px; color:#666666; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px;'><span style='width:100%; font-size:18px; line-height:22px;'>Including creationism in science curriculum is like including study of the tooth fairy in dental school. -@<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=a_naturalist"  class="twitter-action">a_naturalist</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23p2"  title="#p2">#p2</a></span><div class='bbp-actions' style='font-size:12px; width:100%; padding:5px 0; margin:0 0 10px 0; border-bottom:1px solid #e6e6e6;'><img align='middle' src='http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/wp-content/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie//images/bird.png' /><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shoq/status/109379495311572992" title='tweeted on September 1, 2011 5:37 pm'  target='_blank'>September 1, 2011 5:37 pm</a> via <a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com"  rel="nofollow" target="blank">TweetDeck</a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=109379495311572992"  class='bbp-action bbp-reply-action' title='Reply'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Reply</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=109379495311572992"  class='bbp-action bbp-retweet-action' title='Retweet'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Retweet</strong></span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=109379495311572992"  class='bbp-action bbp-favorite-action' title='Favorite'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Favorite</strong></span></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Shoq" ><img style='width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:7px; border:none; background:none; margin:0' src='http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1307793385/shoq240_normal.jpg' /></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Shoq" style='font-weight:bold' >@Shoq</a><div style='margin:0; padding-top:2px'>Shoq Value</div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div></div><!-- end of tweet -->
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		<title>Freak show</title>
		<link>http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/2011/freak-show-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now with fortified absurdity!
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Now with fortified absurdity!</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>New Mexico&#8217;s finest</h2>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/cop_sex_pic1_1.jpg" ><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-872" title="cop_sex_pic1_1" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/09/cop_sex_pic1_1.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="120" /></a>Really, you can&#8217;t make this shit up, especially when there are pictures. A New Mexico State Trooper got his ass filmed (literally) having sex on the hood of his patrol car.</p>
<h2>Tweet it like you mean it</h2>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the absurd that's fit to print.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>All the absurd that&#8217;s fit to print.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/MichaelBrownHS.jpg" ><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-853" title="MichaelBrownHS" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/MichaelBrownHS.jpg" alt="" width="162" height="200" /></a>How many other community groups feature prominent performances by drag queens at their events? Can you imagine crowds at an Hispanic Pride event, or Black Pride event, or Asian Pride event &#8212; just to name a few &#8212; being entertained by men wearing dresses (or less), hot pink wigs, and matching knee-high boots? And this is part of the LGBT&#8217;s strategy &#8216;to promote acceptance&#8217;? How telling. And how telling that, unmentioned by the <em>Observer</em>, there was a large truck stationed next to the festival offering &#8216;Free HIV Testing.&#8217; Yes, just another typical community event. It is also a bit disconcerting to watch young men greet each other with exclamations of &#8216;Hey girl!&#8217; before exchanging pecks on the cheek. Does your average child find it confusing to hear men call each other &#8216;girls&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- Evangelist <a target="_blank" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1420836" >Michael Brown</a>, on this weekend&#8217;s Charlotte Pride, where hundreds of red-shirted Christians gathered to scream insults and hatred at attendees. Brown recently self-published a book <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Thing-Happened-America-Strange/dp/0615406092/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" >of anti-gay lies</a>, A Queer Thing Happened To America</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Wonder how he feels about Chaz Bono and Carson Kresley on Dancing With the Stars? Me, I&#8217;m more worried about Nancy Grace.</p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
		<link>http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/2011/freak-show-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your daily absurd.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Your daily absurd.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<p>For the bible tells me so</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t look now, but the next anti-science nutcases are already building their membership. It&#8217;s a Catholic group that argues Galileo was wrong about the planets revolving around the sun, and the Church&#8217;s original position was the correct one &#8212; everything revolves around white guys. I mean, the earth. Heliocentricism, the sun at the center thing, was just a conspiracy to mess with the Church&#8217;s superiority, says Robert Sungenis (an interesting last name for a geocentrist).</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/geocentric.png" ><img class="size-full wp-image-840 alignright" title="geocentric" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/geocentric.png" alt="" width="146" height="200" /></a>Heliocentrism becomes dangerous if it is being propped up as the true system when, in fact, it is a false system. False information leads to false ideas, and false ideas lead to illicit and immoral actions — thus the state of the world today.… Prior to Galileo, the church was in full command of the world, and governments and academia were subservient to her.&#8221; There is proof in Scripture that Earth is the center of the universe, Sungenis said. Among many verses, he cites Joshua 10:12-14 as definitive proof: &#8220;And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, while the nation took vengeance on its foe.… The sun halted in the middle of the sky; not for a whole day did it resume its swift course.</p></blockquote>
<p>At least, for now, even the Vatican thinks these guys are nuts.</p>
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		<title>Freak show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nunzia Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absurdities. We haz them.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Absurdities. We haz them.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-194" title="absurdity" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/07/absurdity.png" alt="" width="577" height="123" /></a></p>
<h2>A picture and some words</h2>
<p>Click the image to find out who really said it.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/24/303655/the-depravity-of-the-poor/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-825" title="tpjesus" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/tpjesus.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="386" /></a></p>
<p><em>H/T to <a href="http://teapartyjesus.tumblr.com/"  target="_blank">Tea Party Jesus</a>.</em></p>
<h2>Quote-unquote</h2>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/LindaHarveyUgly.jpg" ><img class="size-full wp-image-827 alignleft" title="LindaHarveyUgly" src="http://aworldofprogress.com/readingroom/files/2011/08/LindaHarveyUgly.jpg" alt="" width="132" height="200" /></a>There’s one big fact that’s not backed up. There is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen or human. One of the other things you’re gonna see as I mentioned is a big campaign GLSEN’s gonna roll out this year calling for &#8216;respect,&#8217; respect! Not just for people, but for homosexual lifestyle. The PR campaign to hold up gay as a good thing: the lifestyle, not the person, because there are no such humans.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">- <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-theres-no-proof-lgbt-people-exist" >Linda Harvey</a>, of Mission America.</p>
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