Category Archives: Politics & Religion

Political and religious news and satire.

Guy builds an exact replica of Noah’s Ark

A fully functional Noah’s ark, using the dimensions in The Bible, has just opened to the public in The Netherlands. It was constructed by Dutch creationist and millionaire building contractor Johan Huibers, after he dreamt that Holland would be flooded once again. Read more and see the impressive pictures here.

Guy builds an exact replica of Noah's Ark

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Caught checking out the crown princess of Denmark

The man is the husband of the president of finland, and the woman is the crown princess of Denmark. Busted.

Caught checking out the crown princess of Denmark

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Egypt’s women only TV channel Maria

Egypt's women only TV channel Maria

The channel named “Maria” after one of the Prophet Mohammed’s wives is run by women and will only feature niqab-clad presenters.

Egypt's women only TV channel Maria

I don’t get this channel. DIRECTV is probably in a contract dispute with them…

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Won’t win the black vote

Where did this guy come from and where did he go? But more importantly, where did he come from, Cotton-eyed Moe? Black votes = 0%

moe cotton for senator
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When cats go to heaven

When cats go to heaven
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Political debating like a boss

A heated television debate between a Jordanian member of parliament and a local activist this week led to the parliamentarian pulling a gun on the activist in front of the cameras.
Jordanian MP pulls gun on critic during live TV debate. Full story. Watch video:

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Greek politician goes all Chris Brown on female opponent on live TV

Pelosi and Boehner photo worth a thousand words

This photo sums up the feeling Democrats and Republicans might be feeling after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday on Obama Care. #SCOTUS (via)

Pelosi and Boehner photo

Source: AP

This guy was told by his Homeowners Association that he couldn’t fly the American flag in his yard….

Happy Flag Day everyone. Like, Tweet, share, and buy an American Flag if you love the U.S.A.

This guy was told by his Homeowners Association that he couldn’t fly the American flag in his yard….

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Greek politician goes all Chris Brown on female opponent on live TV

Greek Ilias Kasidiaris slaps woman on TV

Greece’s election campaign turned ugly Thursday on live TV: The spokesman of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, after trading insults of “commie” and “fascist,” lunged at two female left-wing politicians on a mainstream morning talk show, throwing water at one and going all “Chris Brown” on the other woman three times across the face.

Kasidiaris, his temper wearing thin, shot an insult of “you old Commie” at 58-year-old prominent Communist Party member Liana Kanelli, in return for her branding him a “fascist.” Kasidiaris, 31, who served in the military’s special forces, also took offense at a reference by Dourou to a court case pending against him. (Full Story)

And you thought American television was bad.

Serpent-handling pastor tests God and fails

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Pastor Randy “Mack” Wolford handles a rattlesnake during a service at the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, W.Va. Each Labor Day weekend, the church has hosted a well-documented “homecoming” for snake handlers who believe that the Bible mandates that true Christians “take up serpents and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.” Wolford says: “Anybody can do it that believes it.” PHOTO: Lauren Pond / FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

The line between “testing your faith” and being stupid just got thinner.

Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine , hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a “homecoming like the old days,” full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a “great time.” But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw.

Instead, Wolford, who turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he owned for years. He died late Sunday.

The ridiculously preventable full story can be read here.

If you want to know what the Bible says about testing God, click here.

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A highly venomous timber rattlesnake rests in a box in the Jolo church. About 80 to 100 deaths have been attributed to snake handling since its origins, and nearly every snake handler has been bitten, says the Rev. Bill Leonard, the religion professor from Wake Forest University. There’s a lot of pain when you’re bitten, says Wolford, whose father died at age 39 of a rattlesnake bite. “For the first couple of weeks, you swell up and break out in hives.”
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