Run Jesus Run: aka the 10 second gospel
Made in 4 days for the Experimental Gameplay Project - theme "10 seconds"
Instructions: click on the Flash object to start.
You have 10 seconds to redeem the humanity.
Arrow keys: Run. Space: Do Jesus Things.PC executable | Mac executable
The game is licensed on a Creative Commons License
Molleindustria March 2010
Is this in questionable taste during Holy Week? Have I done worse? Yes.
Insurers agree that if they provide insurance for a child, they must cover pre-existing conditions. But, they say, the law does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not guarantee the “availability of coverage” for all until 2014.
There's also no language that says the insurance companies have to actually pay, they just that they sell you coverage (after 2014, of course). Anybody believe they're going to actually change their behavior?
The money quote:
JACKSON: Well, I guess they're afraid of the power of our passion and our numbers and, you know, you might not say Communist, but I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist, but it's the same goal as government control of everything and it's very obvious that Obama is trying to do that. And I don't want to brag, but I sort of called it before he was elected and when I was on O'Reilly and I said he was a Communist and I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was a prescient which means "a prophet."
A new book, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America by John Avlon describes the large numbers of Americans who hold extreme views of President Obama. This Harris Poll seeks to measure how many people are involved. It finds that 40% of adults believe he is a socialist. More than 30% think he wants to take away Americans' right to own guns and that he is a Muslim. More than 25% believe he wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a world government, has done many things that are unconstitutional, that he resents America's heritage, and that he does what Wall Street tells him to do.
More than 20% believe he was not born in the United States, that he is "the domestic enemy the U.S. Constitution speaks of," that he is racist and anti-American, and that he "wants to use an economic collapse or terrorist attack as an excuse to take dictatorial powers." Fully 20% think he is "doing many of the things that Hitler did," while 14% believe "he may be the anti-Christ" and 13% think "he wants the terrorists to win."
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,320 adults surveyed online between March 1 and 8, 2010 by Harris Interactive.
The actual percentages of adults who believe these things are true are as follows:
- He is a socialist (40%)
- He wants to take away Americans' right to own guns (38%)
- He is a Muslim (32%)
- He wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government (29%)
- He has done many things that are unconstitutional (29%)
- He resents America's heritage (27%)
- He does what Wall Street and the bankers tell him to do (27%)
- He was not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president (25%)
- He is a domestic enemy that the U.S. Constitutions speaks of (25%)
- He is a racist (23%)
- He is anti-American (23%)
- He wants to use an economic collapse or terrorist attack as an excuse to take dictatorial powers (23%)
- He is doing many of the things that Hitler did (20%)
- He may be the Anti-Christ (14%)
- He wants the terrorists to win (13%)
It gets even crazier when you look at the folks who self-identify as Republicans. 67% say he's a socialist. 61% say he wants to take away the right to own a gun. Fifty-seven percent say he's a Muslim. And fully 1/4 of Americans think he was born outside the US and isn't eligible to be President.
The numbers get truly terrifying when you start looking a educational differences, not just in how high they are when correlated with low education, but how high they are when correlated with greater educational level.
We are well and truly fucked.
I've harshly criticized President Obama over what I perceive to be timidity in his agenda for the change he promised. His coddling of Bush-era war crimes makes him a participant in those crimes. Let no one mistake how much it hurts me to my soul to say that, and this picture explains why. The hope he promised is in that little boy's face and all the little girls and boys to whom he'll recount the story.
I hope going forward he has the true courage to appeal to our better nature and not merely to appease its darkest elements in the name of consensus. For the sake of that little boy and those he will pass his time with on this little rock circling the sun
L'il Porgy's in Champaign, IL
“One day I turned off American Idol,” Ropte told TWI, “and I turned on Fox News. Before this year I’d never voted in my life.”
Do me a favor. Go back to 'American Idol.' It's about all you can handle.
