The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Virginia Tech

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Friday April 02, 2010 · 9:25 AM PDT

2010/04/02 · 09:25

AS most of you know, the Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group masquerading as a church. They are widely known for their provocative slogan "God hates fags" and for their protests at soldiers funerals. Without getting into too much detail on their insane ideologies, they blame almost every disaster, both natural and man made, on sin, specifically homosexuality and fornication.

You are probably equally aware of the April 16, 2007 shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. A psychologically ill student grabbed a gun and killed 32 students and teachers and then turned the gun on himself. indiemcemopants wrote a great diary the other day about it.

On April 9th the Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Blacksburg to protest about the April 16th shootings.

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Saturday January 17, 2009 · 4:47 PM PST

2009/01/17 · 16:47

As most of you probably already know, the Obama transition team has set up a tool on change.gov called the Citizen's Briefing Book that allows citizens to post their ideas and vote on other people's. I think that it is our responsibility to make sure that the tone on the site is suitibly progressive. No single idea posted is likely to have an impact, but if all the ideas and votes tilt in one direction Obama's team will ahve to pay attention.

Below the fold I've copied a submission (typos and all) I made on a topic important to many people here. So far it is doing mediocre at best in terms of votes. Tell me what you think and how I can make the message more accessible to non-progressive America, not just for that site but for any conversation I have..

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Saturday December 13, 2008 · 8:22 PM PST

2008/12/13 · 20:22

I don't know about the rest of you, but every time the holidays come around I fear to go into any public place. It's not the materialism or the pseudoreligious meaning, it's the carols.

Holiday carols were probably once nice, enjoyable, spirit lifting melodies, but played over a loudspeaker 24/7 on repeat they get a little stale.

I've developed a method that helps me survive the holidays without beating my brains out. I mentally replace the lyrics of the songs with ones of my own. It makes every song fresh and sometimes even funny. Below the fold are some of my favorite replacements.

Sorry about the lack of any non-Christmas songs, I simply don't hear them often enough to make decent parodies.

Poll

10 votes Show Results

Which is your favorite replacement?

10 votes Vote Now!

Which is your favorite replacement?

Blago the Corrupt Governor

1 vote

You Betcha

0 votes

Let it Snow

1 vote

I'm Dreaming of a Blue Senate

3 votes

Joy to the World

0 votes

One from the comments

0 votes

They're all awful, don't quit your day job

5 votes

Other

0 votes

Calling all Kossacks, make your voices heard

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 4:11 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 16:11

Not just by each other, but by those who need to hear it most.

As we all know Prop 8 has passed (probably) in California mainly because of massive donations from the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints.

We have a way to tell them what we feel about their decisions.

Poll

63 votes Show Results

What do you think about talking directly to mormons about how we feel?

63 votes Vote Now!

What do you think about talking directly to mormons about how we feel?

Great idea

19 votes

It's pointless

17 votes

It's just mean

4 votes

I'm too angry to talk to them

13 votes

Pointless but fun

10 votes

Don't Blink

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 6:07 PM PDT

2008/10/12 · 18:07

This is my first diary, not because I haven't had any ideas to write about, but rather because Dkos is just too fast for me, you all always beat me to it. In fact this idea has probably been discussed but it's vague enough and important enough to warrant repeating.

I'm as happy as the rest of you about our substantial lead in the polls (8% according to CNN's poll of polls). I want to look forward to 4 years without rebublican control, 4 years with actual solutions, and 4 years with a far reaching progressive agenda as much as anyone. All I'm saying is that it hasn't happened yet.

Calm down, take a deep breath. We still have almost a month to go and only an 8% lead. One major gaffe, one succesful attack add, one national security crisis, or even the legendary Bradeley effect could erase all of that.

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The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Virginia Tech

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Calling all Kossacks, make your voices heard

Don't Blink