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Pastor claims Mark Twain was demonically possessed

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Pop quiz. Was Mark Twain

1. an atheist,
2. an agnostic, or
3. a deist?

Well, the author's name is on Wikipedia's list of agnostics. Also, on its list of deists. Hmm. Now go looking for a list of famous atheists, and yup.

So what did Twain believe? Depends on whom you ask. In other words, it's complicated - but not to Colorado pastor Kevin Swanson. Swanson has gotten it into his head that Twain was one of the wickedest men who ever lived, on account of the fact that America's greatest humorist frequently made fun of religious phonies with observations like this one:
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

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Surfboard pierces Honolulu driver's windshield

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© AP Photo/Courtesy of Donard SonodaIn this image provided by Donard Sonoda, an unidentified man stops to assist driver Jerrin Ching (not seen) after a surfboard smashed through the front windshield of his car on a freeway in Honolulu, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Witnesses said they saw the surfboard fall from an overpass and hit Ching's car as he was driving in the far left lane. Ching suffered only minor scratches in the incident.
A man was driving along a Honolulu freeway over the weekend when a surfboard crashed through the windshield just inches from his face, leaving him with only scratches on his face and arms.

Jerrin Ching was driving on the H-1 freeway Sunday morning when the red surfboard came out of nowhere and pierced through the glass, he told KHON- TV.

"I'm just thankful to be here," he said. "After it hit, I was like what just happened?"

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Child shoots SWAT officer with his own gun at California 'Literacy Fair'

A child who was thought to be no older than 8-years-old shot a SWAT officer with his service weapon at a literacy fair in California last week while he was showing off tactical equipment to kids.


Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms told KMAX that the incident took place at the "2013 Literacy Fair: Little Buckaroos Reading Roundup" on Aug. 24.

Helms said that SWAT Officer Robert Rench was in a SWAT vehicle demonstrating equipment to children when a boy, between 6 and 8 years old, walked up behind him and fired his holstered Glock .40 caliber service weapon into his leg.

"According to the witnesses, [the child] was able to walk up to the officer, and was able to manipulate his handgun while it was in the holster, causing it discharge," Lodi Police Lt. Sierra Brucia explained to KXTV. "And then the round actually fired down the officer's leg and into the pavement."

Brucia said that an internal investigation was focusing on Rench's thigh holster, which may have made it easier for the child to access the weapon.

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Psychopathic former Navy chaplain wants 'worthy of death' printed on all LGBT couples' wedding photos

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A disgraced former Navy chaplain is calling on all photographers to print Bible scripture that says homosexuals are "worthy of death" on the back of photos taken at weddings of gay and lesbian couples.

On his Monday Pray in Jesus Name Internet show, Chaplain Gordon James "Chaps" Klingenschmitt expressed outrage that the New Mexico Supreme Court had unanimously ruled against a Christian photographer for discriminating against a same sex couple.

"Well, this is not the first place and it may not be, sadly, the last place that Christians are punished by law for exercising their religious conscience objections," he warned.

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Rapist collapses in terror when told by police that his victim was HIV-positive

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A 27-year-old man named Richard Thomas collapsed in terror when police informed him that the woman he admitted to raping was HIV-positive. According to a BBC report, Thomas is currently waiting for his own test results to return.

Thomas had by his own admission taken alcohol, Ecstasy and cocaine on the night when he broke into the Greater Manchester, U.K. home of his victim. The woman had taken a sleeping pill and only woke up when Thomas had already penetrated her from behind.

Prosecutor Harry Pepper told the BBC, "She froze and no words were exchanged. He pulled up his shorts and left."

Judge Mark Brown called the attack "dreadful" and sentenced Thomas to five years and four months for the crime.

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For your safety: N.Y.P.D. strips hijabs from Muslim children in Bronx park

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Three Muslim teens and one would-be documentarian in New York City were arrested by NYPD officers last Thursday night. Two of the teen girls, Lamis Chapman, 12, and Khalia Wilson, 14, were playing handball in their neighborhood at 9:30 p.m. when police asked them for identification.

"They said they asked for ID," Wilson told the Daily News. "But I didn't hear them."

When the teens didn't respond, one of the officers put Wilson in a chokehold, while his female partner threw Chapman to the ground. Once the pair were restrained, police allegedly removed their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves.

Wilson told the Daily News that she implored the officers to stop: "I kept saying, 'I'm 14! What are you doing? We're not bad kids.'"

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Drive-thru rampage video: Toledo, Ohio woman goes berzerk after learning McDonald's McNuggets were not on the menu

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Toledo woman, Melodi Dushane, loves McNuggets. According to a Toledo police report, she loves them so much that when she found out a local McDonald's was not serving them at 10:30 AM (that's breakfast menu time, sister), she became outraged and punched the drive-thru attendant and her manager. After they struggled with the woman and managed to get the window closed, she smashed it!


Comment: Let's see, we have a global 'cultural' zombie craze, McNuggets and other fast food that is rumored to contain human flesh, and people eating other people...

McZombies, anyone?!


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Lawsuit reveals never-before-seen pictures of dead animals from 'Luck' and 'The Hobbit': HBO and American Humane Association in hot seat

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© PETAA horse appears malnourished on the set of HBO’s horse racing drama Luck.
HBO and the American Humane Association (AHA) wanted to keep animal injuries and deaths on the set of the show Luck and other productions quiet, but one former AHA staffer is blowing their cover - and saying that animal injuries and deaths on sets happen too frequently. And allegedly, she has the grisly photos to prove it.

Barbara Casey is a former AHA employee who worked on the set of HBO's now-canceled horseracing drama, Luck. According to the wrongful termination lawsuit that she has filed, Casey was terminated after she balked at her employer's instructions to ignore animal safety standards in order to save time and money.

Casey is suing the AHA, HBO, and the show's production company, Stewart Productions, alleging that they all willfully allowed horses to be abused and attempted to cover it up. HBO tried to get itself released from the lawsuit, but it was about as lucky as the horses on set. Casey's lawsuit states that the companies' negligence led to the deaths of four horses - one more than previously reported.

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Florida mother fatally shoots 1-year-old daughter and then herself

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Police in Florida are investigating a Sunday shooting that left a 35-year-old woman and her 1-year-old daughter dead.

The Herald-Tribune reported that Sarasota police responded to a 911 call at around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday morning and discovered that 35-year-old Sarah Harnish had died of a gunshot wound. The woman's 17-month-old daughter, Josephine Boice, later died at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg.

Police said that the child's father had gone for a ride on his scooter and returned to the sound of gunfire. Detectives concluded that the mother shot the child and then herself.

Green Light

Father who beat daughter's rapist, Jesus Flores, to death won't face charges

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The 23-year-old man who beat his daughter's rapist to death near the rural town of Shriner, Texas, will not be prosecuted for the incident. A grand jury in Lavaca County decided against pressing charges on the father, who killed Jesus Mora Flores, 47, when he caught him molesting the 5-year-old in a secluded shack on the family farm in June.

Said District Attorney Heather McMinn shortly after the incident, "Under the law in the state of Texas, deadly force is authorized and justified in order to stop an aggravated sexual assault or sexual assault."

Before the attack, the girl and her brother went out to the feed the chickens. When Flores, a farmhand, picked up the girl and carried her to an out-of-the-way area, her brother ran back to tell his father what was happening. Once the man heard the news, he rushed toward the shack, reportedly guided by his daughter's screams.