Bill Maher: Political satire or just plain old offensive? Warning: F- bomb

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Warning!!!   Maher drops the F bomb.  This video is not child friendly.  Please use earphones or turn sound down.
 
I think Maher is often  offensive and I rarely use him on Moonhowlings because he takes things over the top.  He particularly offends me on religion.  I have a house rule that involves not making fun of other people’s religion, even if you think it is ridiculous.  You can challenge practices but you can’t make fun.  It’s often been a difficult rule for me to keep.  That would include snake handers, peyote smokers  and polygamists , as long as they are consenting adults.
 
Maher crosses over, however, when he talks about science.  You can believe what you want but I have a real problem with anyone graduating from a university who hasn’t had a science course that involves the scientific process.  So who knows?  How are topics like the Grand Canyon and major geology handled at colleges like Liberty?  How are origins of the universe handled?  Can we just say God did it and that covers the science?  Has anyone taken a course at Liberty, Oral Roberts, Regent?   How do dinosaurs fit in to the big picture?
 
 
Help me understand. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

William Peter Blatty needs a good smack down

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The Exorcist Stairs in Georgetown

Washington Post:
The author who turned Georgetown University into a horror scene in “The Exorcist” plans to sue the school in church court, charging that his alma mater has strayed so far from church doctrine that it should no longer call itself Catholic.

William Peter Blatty, who graduated from Georgetown in 1950, says the “last straw” was the university’s speaking invitation to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Sebelius, who addressed graduating public policy students on Friday (May 18), has been criticized by conservative Catholics for approving a mandate that requires many religious institutions to cover employees’ birth control costs. The Archdiocese of Washington called the Sebelius invitation “shocking.”

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Taps turns 150 years old

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Washington Post:

Marking the 150th anniversary of the composition of taps, about 200 buglers and trumpeters gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to play the “lights out” bugle call. In a touching moment, they fanned out so that the haunting notes came from all quarters of the vast cemetery.

There is nothing so haunting as those 24 notes–Taps.
Taps now turns 150.
It will speak for itself.

TAPS