Beer logo and school logo
-Sending the right message-
Lewisville, TX resident Jim Ross's daughter has detected a little problem with her school's mascot. Ross says she noticed a sixer of Killian's Irish Red in her parents fridge seemed somewhat familiar. "She looked at it and said, 'Hey, that's the logo of our school,'." Ross said. "They've got a beer logo as their school mascot. It's unbelievable."
While not exactly identical, the two logos are definitely similar. Normally, no one would make a big deal about it, but the school in question is Killian Middle School. Both the school district and Coors, which bottles Killian's, say it's all coincidence. "We are not affiliated with the school and never would be," a Coors spokesperson said.
I'll drink to that. (Dallas Morning News)
-Presidents have to know stuff-
GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is getting bent out of shape because everyone's always asking about his creationist beliefs. "That's an irrelevant question to ask me -- I'm happy to answer what I believe, but what I believe is not what's going to be taught in 50 different states," Huckabee said. "Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are."
OK, I'll buy that he didn't know about the NIE on Iran, but am I really supposed to believe he's never heard of the Department of Education? (AP)
-I guess I'm not free-
I totally called it -- then again, I wasn't really going out on a limb. Mitt Romney gave his big "don't hate me because I'm Mormon" speech today and it was a triumph of religious right bullshit. MoJo Blog summed it up this way: "Romney to Atheists: Drop Dead."
Mitt's speech, which he calls his "'Faith in America' address," included this bewildering line: "Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom." So, as an atheist, am I to assume I'm not free? Why? And there are plenty of religious states which aren't free -- Iran, anyone? There's a reason the word "theocracy" exists -- religion does not require freedom. The history of mankind kinda proves that.
This was also fun:
The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.
We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders -- in ceremony and word. He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and during the holiday season, Nativity scenes and Menorahs should be welcome in our public places.
One tiny little problem -- the founders didn't put "In God We Trust" on our money and didn't write the Pledge of Allegiance. When you're going to lecture people on the role of religion in government, it's really helpful if you don't pull stuff out of your ass...
Mitt's speech gets a big, fat F. (MoJo Blog, MittRomney.com)
