“I CAN GUARANTEE THAT AFTER WE GET THROUGH WITH OLD CHARLIE, THERE AIN’T GONNA’ BE ANYTHING LEFT TO RESURRECT.”

Story at Miami Herald, via Democratic Underground.

“I HAD TO DUMP HOCKEY MOM SARAH, IN FAVOR OF MOTHER MARY, SINCE SHE’S THE ONE WHO CAN SEE JESUS ON HER BLOUSE.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Democratic Governors May be the Saviors of Free and Fair Elections, at BuzzFlash.

Feeling Blue in the Reddest State, at One Good Move.

Lisa Casey with a Palin Wish.

Dan Kurtzman with the Best of ’08: Top 100 Funny Pictures and Cartoons.

Madkane on An Obsessive’s Lament.

The “My Sweet Lord” display in New York City, canceled last week in response to “a choir of complaining Catholics,” was created from more than 200 pounds of milk chocolate, and thus, according to Falwell, falsely implied that Jesus was a black man.

Although many historians believe that Jesus may well have been black, evangelicals insisted that white chocolate should have been used, not only for Jesus, but for candy Easter Bunnies as well. As James Dobson, founder of Hocus-Pocus on the Family, put it: “Let the Jews use dark chocolate in their Hanukkah gelt, they’re all going to hell anyway.”

William Donohue, the omnipresent talking-head cable guy of the Catholic League, was also outraged: “How would the Muslims feel if the artist had done a ‘Falafel Mohammed’ during Ramadan?”

Pat Robertson also angrily condemned the display, claiming that the rather substantial size of the chocolate penis further fed the myth that Jesus was black.

Robertson further complained that the chocolate penis was circumcised, claiming that “the artist is also trying to falsely depict Jesus as a Jew.”

However, the Rev. Al Sharpton maintained that the work of art “wasn’t black enough, since everyone knows that white men can’t jump, let alone rise.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Norm Jenson, with Susan Haack,author of Defending Science – within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism.

BuzzFlash Editorial: And the Bushevik Band Played On.

Bush Sticks to Iraq Strategy, via Lisa Casey.

Iraq, the “party of surrender,” and the ghosts of Nixon and Kissinger, at Crooks & Liars.