Tina Dupuy

TO THE SECULAR WORLD:

Okay, all you non-Christian, ‘people of no faith’, unchanged, atheists, scientists, Democrats, agnostics and secular humanists. I’ve had enough!

You people don’t hold a monopoly on virtue deficiencies. This is just propaganda. No longer will anyone believe that only the godless can be morally objectionable.

No, times are changing. And as people of faith have gained political power and celebrity status – they have captured the public attention. Soon it will be very clear: religious people are just as human as regular humans.

For too long has the collective unconscious ASSUMED that evil is only obtainable by forsaking religious doctrine. It’s a lie. I know you think to yourself,”This person is devout, they must be good – good at everything – especially judging.” This bias against religious people has to stop!

I know we all hold this secret prejudice, it’s understandable. But let’s examine this for a moment:

Pedophilia: It’s finally known that you don’t have to be an atheist to be a child rapist. Men of God can do that too!

Seemingly random violence: It’s not just for loner, heavy metal fans anymore. You can now praise God (or Allah) when you blow things up.

Political corruption: You think only Quakers can accomplish that? No! Now you can go to a REAL church on Sunday AND break the law on Monday.

All people are equal in the eyes of God! Meaning, if you don’t believe in God – it doesn’t give you special permission to do all the reprehensible things people of faith enjoy.

Note this: We are equals!

God Bless America!

I am going to admit something to you, dear readers. I look down upon people that watch reality shows. I make fun of them. I insult them to their faces. I insult them behind their backs. I generally think they are gullible. It’s a cheap form of entertainment; making rich kids do manual labor, making pretty people eat bugs and getting semi-famous people to be bitchy on camera. The reality genre is the polyester of entertainment – if there is a wrinkle – it’s because it was designed that way.

But then, I woke up this morning and felt a little excitement in my heart that I had Tivo-ed CSPAN. I thought about the Mier’s nomination, Plame-Gate and Bush’s sinking approval ratings with the joy I imagine children have for Christmas.

Then it hit me: I am a reality show junkie. Oh, I pretend that I’m better than the people that watch Survivor – but now I see that we are kindred spirits. Politics IS my reality show.

And while most simple ‘reality’ television dramas have an hour to watch each week. Political junkies have entire libraries and whole cable channels completely devoted to our fix. Think of Civics Class as a ‘gateway drug’ to an entire world of depravity. You can turn back to history, you can project about the future – the Universe is circular and that’s why in politics – WE SPIN AND SPIN.

I can’t imagine politics being anymore entertaining than they are right now. I really can’t.

The list goes on and on!!!

What entertains me more than anything right now is the Religious Right (I’m a comic, I laugh at premises instead of punchlines). It’s such an easy set-up. Like the cinematic main stay, if you have a gun in the first act – someone HAS to die in the third. If you claim moral superiority, you are GOING to be found to be just as morally inferior as the REST OF US. It’s just a matter of time. Publicity coupled with self-righteousness, a heavy dose of finger wagging and new political power? You’re just BEGGING for it! That up coming debacle is akin to SWEEPS WEEK for this ongoing saga!

The Religious Right really is funny. America has the worst obesity epidemic in the world. What’s their Sin Du Jour? Gluttony? No. It’s gays being legally bound to each other and birth control. About 12% of this country is impoverished. Who do they reach out to? The poor and disenfranchised? No. They reach out to the rich and the political elite. To help the poor? No.

The Religious Right reaches out to the political elite to keep the poor – single, if they’re gay and abortion free, if they’re straight.

Jesus should copyright his name and likeness as to not have his stock go down by shoddy imitators. – Oh but that’s another post for another time.

Anyway, the point is: I’m enthralled. This is BETTER than an election year!

Bush Names Harriet Miers to Supreme Court
White House Counsel Would Replace Retiring Sandra Day O’Connor

Harriet Miers met George W. back in 1980, around the same time Karl Rove met Bob Novak.

Cue Friends theme song.

” But … I’ll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour
I’ll be there for you
Like I’ve been there before
I’ll be there for you
’cause you’re there for me too.”

Miss Miers has never worked as a judge. Ah, have judged not? Now ye be judged!

Will she do a ‘heck of a job’?

Seriously, will Harriet Miers be a good judge?

According to an article in Salon Magazine, October 3, 2005, Miers has called President Bush “the most brilliant man I have ever met.” link

UH…so far NO!

But I am going to have an open mind. I am. What’s the worse that could happen?

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once — shame on — shame on you. You fool me, you can’t get fooled again.” George W. Bush, Sep. 17, 2002

Buying of News by Bush’s Aides Is Ruled Illegal
NYTimes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 – Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

And

The auditors declared: “We see no use for such information except for partisan political purposes. Engaging in a purely political activity such as this is not a proper use of appropriated funds.”

‘Illegal’, has such a negative sound to it. This is just another example of the courts and the LAWS out to get such wonderfully moral people in the Bush Administration. This is a witch hunt. A travesty of justice.

If the law is BROKE – it’s time to change it!

Speaking of broke…the funny-funny, here on my blog and what I bring on stage BARELY pays for the electricity to run my TiVo. I AM TOTALLY OKAY WITH BEING A WELL PAID SHILL.

Hint. Hint. Hint.