Kevin,  thanks for posting this.

We were there yesterday and they had sound issues in the beginning.  So while you could see Rev. Robinson on the big screens, you couldn’t hear him.

Not surprisingly, as soon as HBO started filming, the sound was perfect :-)

Had the strain of Christianity in which I was raised been capable of such sentiments, I might have never become a militant atheist, LOL. Way to go, Bishop. Let’s see how Warrens does tomorrow.

Let’s see how Warrens does tomorrow.

I’m thinking he might not have something like this in his:

Bless this nation with anger – anger at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

But I imagine he’ll keep it pretty low key and unobjectionable.

Best. Invocation. Ever.

Can we postpone the PUMA moratorium until Friday? This week is going to be too good to miss, with all the heads exploding and threats of castration.

Someone, somewhere, will find something offensive or controversial in that prayer.

And someone, somewhere else, is already deconstructing the recording of the invocation—phoneme by phoneme, backwards and with the audio sync’ed to footage from the Zapruder Tape—in search of subliminal instructions from Cthulu, calls for “Helter-Skelter,” map coordinates to the Nazca Lines, references to specific events in the “Left Behind” series or the missing document number from Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth.

Me, I think it’s a graceful, soaring thing that is precisely what the moment requires…with all the clues to what it “really” means right there in plain view.

If he’s smart, Rick Warren’s entire reading will consist of the words, “What Bishop Robinson said.”

...in search of subliminal instructions from Cthulu…

Laugh all you want, but they were TOTALLY there, man…and when the octopus-headed fish monkeys from space rise up out of the sunken city of R’lyeh and eat your face, genitals and brains (not necessarily in that order), don’t come cryin’ to me, buddy.

Betty Cracker and I sit in the same pew (or peeyewww). I’ve always said that if all religious people were like Father Mulcahey on M.A.S.H. that I might be able to stomach religion. Bishop Robinson comes as close as I’ve seen. 

The choice of Rick Warren burst my bubble of enthusiasm for Obama; this egregious snub may push me into the negative column.

Americablog reported that HBO claims the PIC was behind the censorship of Rev. Robinson’s invocation. Does anyone know for sure? Thank you very much for posting these words.

AWWWWWWW,those christians are so cuddly when they act all rational and grown up and stuff.

My mom would never let me keep one because if you don’t keep feeding them money they will turn on you.  I always wanted a white one with red eyes,  though they tend to be inbred.

Well all that inspiration makes me hungry, so I need to go fry up a grilled jesus sandwich and watch the Wal-Mart Foundation on CSPAN.

Hey God? Fuck you. Fuck you and your ignorant followers who claim your presence. Fuck you and anyone who claims to speak in your un-kowable name.

We did this God, you didn’t have a fucking thing to do with it. So please God, fuck off already, you’re no godammned help at all.

Happy Monday everyone!

@HumboldtBlue, You sound like a great person at a party?  You’re worse than the fundies.  You should realize that there are those who equate the word “God” with the spirit of love.  A shared phenonema of power from within all things.  Some feel God exists, just not in the form of a guy sitting in a throne. 

Meanwhile… if anybody wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial Celebration, HBO has it online.  You can see it here:

You’re worse than the fundies.

Yeah uh-huh. In that simple statement I opposed a woman’s right to control her own body; opposed the reality-denying ignorance of those who would cast their eyes to the unseeable to better ignore what they can actually see.

Yup, right there in that paragraph I argued against rational, reasonable inquiry—scientific, philosophical and social. Indeed, I relied upon mythology, fear and ignorance to sway my fellow commenters to take the path of blind fealty, relativism and willful ignorance.

In those simple sentences I stirred the hate of the “other” because that’s what we fundies do, and do so well.

The God that man invoked is no more real than the unicorns that are going to come flying out of your ass during the inauguration tomorrow.

Are you kidding me?

OMG!! They RAPED OBAMA!!!!!

Check out the photos from the 2001 concert.  Not even close compared to last night’s concert. 

Are you kidding me?

For what it’s worth, virtually every commenter there had the exact same reaction!

Are you kidding me?

I read this sentence from Tara Wall’s article:

She, like I, have a different vantage point than what has been routinely portrayed.

and had the same thought I always have when I read Katherine Jean Lopez’s posts at NRO’s Corner:

This woman calls herself an editor?

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tara Wall.

Well, that part’s right.

OMG!! They RAPED OBAMA!!!!!

We must, somehow, get this link posted at PUMAPac.  Do you think their reaction might be, ummm, different than it was to the Hillary cardboard cutout molestation?

This “memorial” just seems wrong. 

I didn’t get past this:

Editor’s note: Tara Wall is deputy editor for The Washington Times. Before joining the newspaper, she was a senior adviser for the Republican National Committee and was named a public affairs director in the Department of Health and Human Services by President Bush.

Hey, thanks Bush for showing us why the Repuglicans can never be allowed to get into power again.

Orly has filed another action.  I guess she is representing failure of a human being Alan Keyes.  Here’s a bit of it:

“45. Plaintiff Keyes has additionally suffered substantial harm due to the following circumstances:
a. In 2006 Plaintiff Keys was a runner-up in a US senate race from the state of Illinois to Defendant Obama.
b. If indeed the Obama is not a citizen of the United States, then he is not a legal naturalized citizen either and cannot be a United States senator either.
c. In this case Plaintiff Keyes would be sworn as a United States senator as a runner up in the prior election. This logically means that Plaintiff Keyes will suffer immediate specific damage without this question being resolved.”

HumboldtBlue - Nice way to celebrate Martin Luther King day.
Pure class.