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Comment by doone on April 17, 2012 at 4:31pm

Yes, I know.   I just wanted to post the description from the Pulitzer prize descrption of the photo.

Comment by doone on April 17, 2012 at 3:03pm

Massoud Hossaini click to enlarge

Tarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011. 'When I could stand up, I saw that everybody was around me on the ground, really bloody. I was really, really scared,' said the Tarana, whose name means 'melody' in English. Out of 17 women and children from her family who went to a riverside shrine in Kabul that day to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashura, seven died including her seven-year-old brother Shoaib. More than 70 people lost their lives in all, and at least nine other members of Tarana's family were wounded. The blasts has prompted fears that Afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched Shiite against Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan. The attack was the deadliest strike on the capital in three years. President Hamid Karzai said this was the first time insurgents had struck on such an important religious day. The Taliban condemned the attack, which some official viewed as sectarian. On the same day, a second bomber attacked in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Karzai said on December 11 that a total of 80 people were killed in both attacks. Published December 7, 2011

Comment by doone on April 17, 2012 at 2:00pm

Teavangelical For Congress

That's what he calls himself.

Labels: North Carolina, religion, Tea Party, teabaggers

Comment by Michel on April 17, 2012 at 1:28pm

@Keely - The picture wouldn't want to display, I fixed it. I'll also upload it as a Photo.

It is a terrible, terrible event... these things must stop! People must stop dying in the name of a superstition.

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 8:06pm

The Man:

Most of the times when you saw that sign, it was held by the same guy. And he was a little, uh, unbalanced. OK, maybe more than a little.

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That is not the beard of a reasonable man.

In 1977, Rollen Stewart was eager to achieve celebrity status but hadn't landed on a particular skill to get him there. He hadn't come up with the "John 3:16" sign concept yet, but in what we assume was a burst of inspiration, he realized, "Well, I'm pretty good at wearing this rainbow wig. Maybe there's something there."

So, he started wearing the wig to every televised sporting event he could attend

If showing up at all of those events sounds like a full-time job, you don't know the half of it. Throughout the '80s, Stewart was driving more than 50,000 miles to appear at more than 100 games a year.

If you're wondering why you haven't seen Rollen Stewart in stadiums lately, that's because he's busy serving three consecutive life sentences in prison.

Yeah, his absurd but benign pilgrimages across the country took a turn for the menacing in 1992 when he took a maid hostage in a hotel and outlined his plan to kill George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Retroland
Bet you didn't call that.

It was a pretty big jump from dancing in crowds to taking hostages. It proved that perhaps he didn't have the direct line to God he had previously endorsed. Yet despite his incarceration and verified insanity, fans have still taken up the mission of carrying the signs to stadiums, which you probably know if you've ever been stuck behind one for an entire game.

The Bible Demystified
"GOD WANTS ME TO BLOCK YOUR VIEW OF THIS PLAY."

Read more: 5 Sports Fans Who Ruined Sports | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19529_5-sports-fans-who-ruined-sport...

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 6:32pm

Face Of The Day

A Hindu devotee dressed as Lord Hanuman smokes a bidi during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata on April 12, 2012. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology. By Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images.

--Z.P.        

Comment by doone on April 14, 2012 at 10:34am

God failed big time in the ongoing USA election cycle,  

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Every Candidate Endorsed by God Has Now Lost to Mitt Romney

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The God Squad: Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann.

The end — sorry, um, suspension — of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign is a major milestone in the primary race, clearing the way, as it does, for Mitt Romney to cruise here on out to the nomination essentially unchallenged. But Santorum's withdrawal is also a major milestone for God, the beloved all-powerful deity whose personal endorsement somehow failed to secure the nomination for any of the numerous Republicans — Santorum, Herman Cain,Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry — whom he reportedly encouraged to run for president. It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election.

Comment by Bill on April 13, 2012 at 9:04pm

Cool heads survive! 

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 13, 2012 at 3:04pm

That's great.

Comment by Adriana on April 13, 2012 at 2:58pm

ANECDOTE OF THE WEEK: I heard this on the radio (NPR) this morning: Christine Quinn is a city council in NYC, from Irish origin, her grandmother was in the titanic and managed to survive. She was 16 years old at the time. When her granddaughter asked her how she managed to survive and get a spot on a life raft, she replied: "when all the other girls where kneeling down to pray, I made a run for it!" See? Reasoning and self-preservation can save your life. Praying, not so much. 

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