Bravo.

--Socialist With A Gold Card

That was probably a typo in the KNS. Surely they meant to print "Jesus called him homo".

(Apologies in advance to any homosexuals who are offended at the idea of having something in common with the currently frying lying bastard.)

CAFKIA

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
  - William G. McAdoo

I do expect the newspaper to at least recognize that Falwell was not some uncontroversial and beneficent man who advanced the values of America and Christianity. Run a non-controversial headline and then give us a sycophantic editorial in a separate link if you must. But don't link to the AP article on his death with such a biased headline. It's insulting.

Insulting indeed.

Large questions loom. Are we faced with a national existential crisis?

One LiveJournal author puts it thus:

Who's going to help America find its moral center now that there's no longer a lying, crooked, blackmailing, anti-intellectual, censorious, fake-doctorate-holding, libelous, gay-bashing, tax-cheating, fraudulent, debt-ridden, doomsaying, anti-Semitic, self-aggrandizing, racist, theocratic son of a bootlegger to do it for us?

The question is not insignificant, and I suspect that the queue forms behind the GOP presidential bandwagon.

Hopefully, the KNS will provide us with the guidance we so desperately need in these troubled times; in this, the dawn of our despairing hours.

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Georgia's in Florida, dumbass!

His memory is a shame. His life was a tribute only to paranoia and hate. He's an icon to that. Nothing else.

I noticed the Maryville Daily Times headline appropriately summed up Falwell's last ten years, focused mostly on stewardship of Liberty University. Much better than "Served Faith and Country."

Falwell's blackened little heart has rendered him dead...There...I said something good.

Besides all of the political, social, intellectual, and other errors he made pronouncements on, I find this one perhaps the most reassuring.

Jerry Falwell had said many times that he never expected to die. Well, not in so many words. But he did say that he fully expected god to rapture his ass outta here. Guess he got that wrong, too.

I wonder how long he had to realise that he wasn't going to go directly to heaven--do not pass Go--and that his ever-loving aspirations on that count were about to be disappointed.

In times of trial such as these I often seek refuge in cartoons. Here are a few samples from newspapers around the country bidding a fond Falwell Farewell.

Note: These pages can be exasperatingly slow to load.

The Hill Online

As much as you may hate to admit it Mr. Falwell was right about a lot of things. It seems that you can't say anything or anyone is right or wrong anymore without someone calling you a bigot or homophobe or racist or whatever other terms the Marxist left uses to defame people with whom they disagree.
The fact that many of you "progressive" folks just don't want to hear is that YES the homosexual agenda, feminism, the devaluing of life through legal infanticide and the secularization of the public forum by perverted organizations like the ACLU have helped to degenerate American society and culture to the point where other cultures look upon us with shock and disgust. Partly because of this you have events like 911, Virginia Tech, Columbine, the Amish school shooting and any number of other obvious signs that we have seriously deteriorated as a people.
When you take away the moral base of a culture what do you think is going to happen. When no one wants to hear about right and wrong anymore, when there is no black and white only gray, when everything and anything is ok there is no way to go but down. It's ancient Rome.
The narcissism and moral relativism that is rampant in America will be our undoing. Literally our death as a society. You can defame and insult those who try to fight it or at least point it out or make it better like Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, even media folks like Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. It doesn't make the truth go away.
So say what you want about Jerry Falwell. You're only making yourself look like a bunch of deluded wannabe socialists.

Pretty bird. Pretty bird. Pretty bird.

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Deliver this message to the one I love the most:
"I've lost all my money to a 300 pound ghost."
Squeaky was a sad child; the product of neglect.
Got stoned by a jellyfish demanding her respect...

I certainly hope someone kept the receipt.

Go ahead and dismiss the message when you don't like it. The truth is still there even when you refuse to look. Somrday you'll not be able to look away and then it'll be too late.

I look at the bulwarks of Christian Nationalism such as Falwell, James Dobson, and D. James Kennedy as I do any other zealots and hatemongers - a danger to the integrity of this consitutional democracy and human rights and liberty for all. Their insistence that I am, as a lesbian feminist and civil libertarian, an enemy of the state only points out their myopic and self-righteous viewpoint that they have spent the last several decades trying to cram down the throats of anyone who will pause and listen. I listen, but with the critical ear of one raised in the Christian Nationalist/mega-church milieu. They are the dangers to our society, not the progressive community. I know. Having spent years in both camps, I have planted my feet firmly in the positive, human-affirmative freedom of the progressive community. I thank the Goddesses for them.

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Yes, I too long for the days of 1952. Of course, I am a white male :)