When I see a story like this, my first response is. “okay, where in Texas did this happen?”

That’s why I want to say, “Thank you Georgia.”

This is exactly why the Gideon’s put Bibles in southern hotel rooms.

Two residents of Cartersville may have not directly broken one of the Ten Commandments, but they did break the law when their fight over the sacred covenant turned violent.

According to police reports, Carolyn Unfricht and Daniel Camarda were inside a Cartersville hotel arguing about the Bible and specifically the Ten Commandments

Unfricht told police things got heated when she hit him across the face with her Bible. Camarda retaliated by throwing her across the room.

Both are now facing battery charges and not surprisingly, the police report states they were “highly intoxicated” at the time of the arrest.

Hummm … they must have read Rick Perry’s Christmas card.

I have long said that the rightwing uses Jesus as their own personal savior weapon so I would truly like to thank Carolyn and Daniel for giving us the literal graphics.

Thanks to Monty for the heads up.

As most of you know, Congressman Steve Stockman’s campaign headquarters is in a dumpster.

And it appears he found something to giggle about in there —

Liberal tears are the best gun lubricant around?

I imagine his guns are slicker than snot on a doorknob.

Thanks to Brian and Kyle for the heads up.

I often talk about my friends over at GOPUSA, which sorta seems to be Paranoia Central.

I’m on their email list and it’s generally my giggle of the day.  Today brought this —

I dunno, but I suspect it’s fabuuulous!

I have no stinkin’ idea why we didn’t see this coming.  I should’ve seen this.  It had to happen.  I’m sorry I have to blindside you with it.

The religious right is rewriting the Bible.

Andrew Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly’s (a name that causes cold shivers in any woman who was there in the 60’s) son has decided that the Holy Bible, The Good Book, is far too damn liberal.

No, no, no, no … I am not kidding you.

Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of Wikipedia for the religious right. The King James Bible, not to mention more recent translations like the New International Version (NIV), are veritable primers of progressive agitprop.

So, he’s getting together folks to help him re-translate it.

We have examples:

Take that story where the mob surrounds a woman accused of adultery and gets ready to stone her, but Jesus intervenes and says, “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone” (John 7:53-8:11). It might have been a later addition that wasn’t in the original Gospels, according to some right-thinking, or rather right-leaning scholars. So the editors have excised this bleeding-heart favorite from the Good Book, and they’ve also removed Jesus’ words on the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

“The simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing,” Schlafly points out, proving that, “Jesus might never had said it at all.”

You mean they knew what they are doing – kinda like you, Mr. Heretic?

Yeah, and because Jesus was all about nurturing grudges.

… our mentors at Conservapedia recommend that we scratch the word “rich” and replace it with either “fully fed and entertained” or, if you prefer, “idle miser,” which have none of the Occupy Wall Street-ish sour grapes of the better-known translation.

Because Jesus really didn’t throw the moneychangers out of the temple.

My question is this:  where are you going to put the part about stocking up on ammo, Mr. Schlafly?  And the part about Kool-aid being good for you?

Thanks to Elizabeth Moon, great finagler of the Captcha, for the heads up.

So, Ted Cruz is distancing himself from the whacked out batcrap crazy stuff in the Officially Licensed Ted Cruz Coloring Book.

He admitted that he doesn’t think that Obamacare is “worse than any war,” which is oddly reassuring from a man who never fought in a war.

But listen to the man who is doing a fellowship in Political Stuntery.

“This is a city where it’s all politics all the time, and I’m trying to do my best to not pay attention to the politics, to focus on fixing the problem,” Mr. Cruz said. “I know that’s hard to believe because no one in this town does that. This is a time for people to step up and do the right thing and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

Holy crap in combat boots – the man has Political Whore tattooed on his butt.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

The Republican National Committee knows how to rile up its racist base, that’s for sure.

Boy Howdy – you could have heard them dragging crosses and gathering fire.  Poor victimized white people.

From Art Robinson comes “This is America, not Africa, either you are American or not, if not, leave the USA!”

Someone should tell Artie that Christmas isn’t an American holiday either. But Santa and Jesus are white, so THERE.

Terry Crowder is super upset because fake war on Christmas and ‘MERIKUH and “You can’t celebrate Christmas even using the “C” word is wrong and offencive [sic] to other cultures but you can promote Kwanzaa? America is truly going down the tubes when when not everyone is treated equally. Where is the “DIVERSITY” when you omit Christmas”

I seriously doubt that even one African American is going to scamper over and vote Republican because the RNC recognized Kwanzaa, but I’ll bet a whole bunch of them see how welcome the gesture was.

Yeah, I’m helping spread the word.