Some stories are just too good to make up. Such is the story of Ohio State Representative Matt Barrett. He was giving a Powerpoint presentation to a group of high schoolers when something unexpected showed up on the screen: porn. Yes, a whole directory of the naughty stuff was on the same thumb drive from which Barrett was showing the presentation. Somehow it was displayed on screen as he spoke to the students. Barrett initially claimed the stick was given to him as a gift and had no idea where the stuff came from. As of today, however, he is blaming his son for the transgression.
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Is Barrett a Bible-believing, God-promoting advocate of “family values”? That’d be nice…
Cool blog, by the way, just checked it out today…
If highschoolers haven’t seen p@orn yet then they are seriously stunted in their learning curve.
OFF TOPIC…but I thought I’d pass this along…
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071006/NATION/110060001/1002
http://www.wwrl1600.com/
Wow, phreedm promoting an atheist radio program
phreedm…is it snowing in hell?
I hope it was gay porn, only because a politician might be more embarrassed in that case.
I Googled Matt Barrett and the first page of hits was about some guy who lives here in Chapel Hill, NC. Is the whole world moving here to our quaint little university town???
I found the Matt Barrett in question and it turns out that he is a Democrat so I doubt that there will be much of a scandal.
Comment from: alexatheist
Agreed…and this speaks volumes about the main stream media…interesting how Dave left that fact out of his post…
Comment from: Apple_Christmas
Sure…why not…
pohreedum,
My point is that Democrats aren’t the party of so called “family values” so getting busted for having porn show up on a presentation just isn’t a big deal becasue there is no hypocrisy. All men look at porn at some point in their lives, those who say they don’t are liars.
ATHEISTS must be treated like tuberculosis bacilli. !
they must be isolated in remote
camps where they could not infect healthy society.
Why should one spare the beasts who wanted to bring us Bolshevism?
Nations that did not fight off the ATHEISTS went to rack and ruin.?
I smell an atheist dressed in xian clothing…
More proof religion doesn’t improve people at all. In fact, it makes huge assholes outta them.
Alex atheists,
yeah, or its a Christen in atheist clothing, in Christen clothing.
Drive by. Pay no attention to the clown behind the curtain.
TrueChristian,
Bolshevism and Atheism = Apples and Oranges.
There’s either substantial ignorance in your worldview or you are just trolling for a reaction.
Off topic but I just had to share this. Bernarda and the others in here who are awake will appreciate it.
Just when I thought that I couldn’t possibly love Richard Dawkins more than I do he made the following observation:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2007/10/dawkins-on-the-.html
What can we do to get a LOLJewishConspiracy caption contest?
Lololololololbaaaarf.
Next?
Uh Oh…and here so many of you claim the Dems are more sympathetic to the myth…
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/07/obama-gop-doesnt-own-faith-and-values/
So now the Dems prove who they really are…it appears that atheists will be used by the Dems in much the same way the black vote has been…in much the same way the gay vote has been…
I’ll give Hillary 2 weeks before she appears at a black church and trys to one up Obama…
And yet so many of you have put them in power…talk about choosing to be blind…
And an update to an earlier thread…
Soldier Who Sued Army Facing Threats
09/24/2007
I told you this story didn’t smell right…
And now…
Once again your fears and anger have been used against you…
I resolve to never read a Phreeky n’ Dumb post again. The dufus has time and time again proved that he has reading comprehension problems. Please join me in just doing the ol’ scroll by.
Besides Imforgotten and Everdunce are better respresentatives of their goofy religion.
The reason Maj. Paul Welborne couldn’t be found, is because it is spelled MAJ Freddy J. Welborn. Different first name, and no ‘e’ at the end of his surname. He has been found and he is a fundy from the word go. He will be dealt with.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTPjkhPtGfRjsMUS9Q_F95TRAdcQ
The fight against syphilisATHEISTS demands a fight against
prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous
conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of
certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to
combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the
coming generation. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to
retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and
remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-
suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself
as the ‘image’ of God.
Phreedom –Here’s your update: http://abcnews.go.com/US/CSM/story?id=3694726&page=1
here’s Major Freddy Welborn’s myspace page: myspace.com/freddywelborn
About two weeks ago the law suit was amended to read the correct name.
Here’s the “card” Major Freddy left at MWR. That’s how Spc Hall was able to track Major Freddy down… (Amazing the good xtian major didn’t put 2+2 together to figure out he was the xtian major being sought?)
TRUECRISTIAN,
Are you high, or drunk? Is this dribble the best prose you are capable of bringing forth? It’s barely legible, and worthy merely of disposal into the garbage.
Dolly Dagger,
I can only assume you are a huge Hendrix fan. Count me in!
I always wanted to have a son that I could nickname gun and teach him to drink coffee. That way, I could say, “Hey Gun, Where you goin’ with that Joe in your hand”.
Ba dum chhhhh!
I think TRUECRISTIAN is fighting syphilis, for sure.
Haha Ren! You are clever!
Love Hendrix the most, closely followed by Led Zep. I have a friend who named her daughter Maureen Josephine — they call her MoJo, quess who was a Morrison fan?
My 18yo daughter is a good, moral girl who gave up imaginary friends about 12 years ago. She’s an aspiring pro-snowboarder and pretty cute. When she was training in NZ this summer, a kiwi-xtian (very wealthy) pro skier came on to her really hard, still e-mails her — Jossie Wells. I don’t know if he thought he’d convert her or what, but she got sick of him fast. She kept telling him the bible verse about the camel having more chance of going through the eye of a needle than a rich man going to heaven, but those xtians pick and choose their bible verses ya’ know.
Where did Dawkins ever mention a “jewish conspiracy”? He just made a statement of fact and you reacted with the knee jerk predictability which effectivley shuts down any and all intelligent discussion of the subject. Bravo! your conditioning is working perfectly.
Have you read the “Isreal Lobby and US Foreign Policy”? It’s a great new book by Harvard and University of Chicago political scientists that can show how it really is:
http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724
TRUECRISTIAN
If you don’t get help here, please, get help somewhere.
Dolly Dagger,
Too Funny! My wife and I both have the Swan Song logo tattooed on our backs. Hers is just the black fallen angel, while mine has the colorful background.
Your little girl sounds like she has quite the head on her shoulders. Good for her, for standing up for herself and not rolling over just because ol’ boy had a name and a fat roll.
Next time she’s on the tube, you’ll have to let us know who to look for. I have never snowboarded, though I have had numerous chances to try it. I enjoy skiing too much and everyone who I ever saw snowboard, never skied again. Besides, I like my knees.
But yeah, I’d watch snowboarding on the X-Games or such. Give us a heads up. I’m sure Dave won’t mind the plug, since you’re not selling anything.
I’m going to have to send your post to my wife. She will get a kick out of Maureen Josephine. Just the name alone is cool, without the nickname.
sorry I messed up the blockquotes, but you get the message…
This is not a cabaret forum but a forum for serious discussion. If you think you must use this kind of childish language go to another forum. Such posts, with such a language in such manner you showed above are not appreciated here be it pro or contra something.
TrueCristian
If you think this is a serious forum, then why did you publish your original gibberish?
And if your latest remark was aimed at FairyDogMother, I for one, did appreciate her post.
True cretin,
Seek professional help! Your current medications aren’t working.
TC looks like a bot to me.
true christian
if you are a true christian deny the trinity for no true christian believes in the trinity.ARIUS proved the trinity is a fraud.
alex:
The implication that Jews have some power over American policy is a staple of anti semitism, conspiracy theory & holocaust denial websites everywhere.
Don’t you think that if the Jewish LobbyTM was so powerful, Egypt wouldn’t receive any federal aid?
I realize that Dawkins probably starting some anti semitic nonsense, but your support of his statements just plays into your holocaust denial, joooos control everything complex.
So forgive me if I misinterpret your support of statements b/c of their apparent anti semitic language.
Shiite, that should read
TRUECRISTIAN,
I am afraid, I am very afraid! Untrue christians are scary. But, I didn’t know there was a true christian. Does that mean you have killed more people than the rest or do you just scare them until they obey you? Did your christian god-idea tell you that you were the TRUECHRISTIAN or did you make it up yourself? Can you get a message to your God-idea for me?
Hey! I saw God today! It came up to me and licked my hand. I don’t understand God-idea, could someone tell me, what did God mean?
SHREWCHRISTIAN
Suck it Jeezuz.
TRUCRISTIAN, Check out http://www.thesmokinggun.com
A Baptist minister who died in an autoerotic asphyxiation mishap, was hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits when his body was discovered by Alabama cops. And that wasn’t even the freakiest detail disclosed in the late Rev. Gary Aldridge’s autopsy report
know for a fact that if atheism-Bolshevism got the upper hand in america,?
, ?I should either be hanging from the nearest lamppost or locked up in
some cellar or other. So the question for me is not whether or not I want to
undertake this or that, but whether or not we succeed in preventing a atheism -Bolshevik
take-over. I myself have the blind faith that our CRISTIAN movement will win
through. We began2000 years ago with 12 men,?Today
I can say with confidence that our cause will prevail.?
believed that the AMERICAN people needed ?a monarch-like idol? ? but not
some mild-mannered king, so much as a ?full-blooded and ruthless ruler,? a
dictator who would rule with an iron hand, like Oliver Cromwell.It is something
like training a dog: first it is given to a tough handler, and then, when
it has been put through the hoops, it is turned over to a friendly owner
whom it will serve with all the greater loyalty and devotion.?
I always used to regard antiATHEISM as inhumane, but now my own experiences
have converted me into the most fanatical enemy of ATHEISM:
ATHEISTS as born destroyers, not rulers at all; they had neither culture, nor art,nor architecture of their own, ?the surest expression of a people?s culture.?
They are just
calculators. That explains why only ATHEITS could have founded Marxism, which
negates and destroys the very basis of all culture. With their Marxism, the
ATHEITS hoped to create a broad mindless mass of plebs without any real intelligence,
a gormless instrument in their hands.?
Wow! Talk about a train wreck.
Hey bartender, I WON’T have what he’s having.
Wow. Even over the internet it’s easy to diagnose SHREWXIAN’s disorder. He/she is definitely psychotic – note the “flight of ideas” and tangential thought processes. He/she’s probably a schizophrenic whose symptoms are barely managed or he/she is a methamphetamine abuser. Maybe a crystalmeth-odist?
TRUECHRISTIAN
Are you upset that nobody will convert?
OK