Category Archives: Politics & Religion

Political and religious news and satire.

Women never forget. Ever.

Watch what happens when Bill Clinton tries to kiss Hillary. I call it the “kiss-diss.”

Watch what happens when Bill Clinton tries to kiss Hillary.

JSOC: The President’s Ace in the hole

The team of US Special Operations Forces who killed Osama bin Laden in a pre-dawn raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, were led by elite Navy SEALS from the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC, pronounced: JAY-sock). They basically serve as the president’s secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United States military. Somali pirates killing? Nabbing Saddam Hussein? Black Hawk Down? JSOC was involved in all of them.

The Command: Deep Inside the President’s Secret Army by Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady is a new book that goes deep inside JSOC and gives us a look at why our military is badass. It is now available at Amazon.
JSCO book

mental_floss has a great article here on 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the President’s Secret Army. Here’s a few:

  • JSOC can reconstruct documents that have been burned.
  • The aircraft used in the Bin Laden raid were from Area 51.
  • There is a JSOC base in a major European airport.
  • When you hear “Delta Force” or “SEAL Team Six,” they’re talking about JSOC.

Click over to there to read about them and see the rest.

Kidnapped for Christ

Kidnapped for Christ follows the stories of several American teenagers who were sent to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Evangelical Christian “reform school” in The Dominican Republic. Many of them are taken from their homes against their will and shipped off there to live and correct bad behavior.

GOP look-alikes

The republican presidential candidates have uncanny resemblances to some people in Hollywood.

GOP look-alikes
(via Weird Awesome Stuffs)

Vince Flynn’s Kill Shot chronicles the rise of a CIA Superagent

Buy Vince Flynn Kill Shot book

In Vince Flynn’s latest page-turner, the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been as Mitch Rapp embarks on the journey that will turn him into America’s most deadly asset. Flynn is known for delivering shockingly realistic situations in his political thriller / assassin books. Every detail and protocol appears to be extensively researched and accurate. Something us mystery/espionage fans appreciate.

His latest book is called Kill Shot. It is hitting stands today. The book is actually a prequel to his later books and follows the story of how Mitch Rapp became the CIA’s superagent.

Exerpt from Simon and Schuster: In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life.

Buy the book here.

Newt Gingrich is basically Dwight Schrute

Newt Gingrich and Dwight Schrute might be separated at birth. I will now call them Newt Schrute.

Newt Schrute.
Newt Schrute.
(via Chris Ballard)

Santorum captivating audiences

Mr. Santorum captivated audiences at the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach recently.It’s over dude. Hang it up.

Source: Stephen Crowley

Flying robot thingys

This video is awesome and a bit freaky if you think of the implications. They call them A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors. I call them flying robot thingys. Future historians may damn us for not stopping them while we had the chance…


(via One Cool Thing A Day)

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Worst Church Singer Ever

Singing is NOT one of this guys spiritual gifts. Find out for yourself starting at about the 1:00 mark. I am pretty sure the angels and Jesus wept, but God bless him anyway.

J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a fountain pen that emitted tear gas

Shirley Temple–Hollywood’s most famous child star–could not be protected from such real-life intrusions as kidnap and extortion attempts, death threats and an attempted seduction by a Hollywood producer when she was only 12 years old. The threats weren’t reported at the time, she said, for fear that they would stimulate more threats.

The FBI was called in numerous times to investigate these death and extortion threats against her. She and J Edgar Hoover became friends through it all. In 1949, J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a strange FBI souvenir– a fountain pen that emitted tear gas.

Shirley Temple’s autobiography.

J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a fountain pen that emitted tear gas