Obama is Irish

Earrings for Pastafarians Coming Soon

Due to the number of requests received, Ring of Fire recently added Christmas tree ornaments (or hanging ornaments for your car's rearview mirror) in the image of our noodly master, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his sidekick the Pirate fish. ROF, Inc. also created a license plate frame made for FSM devotees, who want to declare to the world that they are Pastafarians.

Now we have earrings in production which are due at the end of this month.

The FSM earrings dangle and the part that goes through your ear are made of surgical steel to prevent allergic reactions in sensitive people.


The Pirate fish earrings are on posts - also with surgical steel backing.

Continue to send us your wish lists - we keep track of all requests and we create new products based on the greatest number of requests.

RAmen.

Drunk Rednecks

Someone posted this over at Jesus' General - watch and laugh or weep or both.

Video of Racist Billboard Opposing Barack Obama

A news report about a racist billboard in West Plains, Missouri, identifying the person who placed the sign there.

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The Ugly Face of Racism

UPDATE: Ronnie Ford was seen by his neighbors putting this sign up.

This billboard has appeared south of Mustion Creek on the west side of U.S. 63, according to the West Plains Quill [south central Missouri in the Ozark region]. The paper said it was unable to determine who is responsible for the sign.

I grew up in Shannon County, Missouri, which is a very low-income area. I attended school with people who lived in one-room shacks with earthen floors and I recall that when an African-American man hitchhiked into Shannon County, the sheriff picked him up and drove him to the county line "for his own protection".

I have relatives there who are voting for Barack Obama and they wish they could show their support by putting an Obama-Biden sign in their yard, but they're afraid someone would retaliate against them.

To whomever created that sign - shame on you.

Here's a link to Letters to the Editor for the West Plains Quill newspaper. Please feel free to express your opinions.

Update: Last night I emailed Patriot Boy and he posted the picture on his blog. Don't miss his comments section for funny comments.

The Springfield News-Leader picked up the story and now it's getting wider coverage. It was picked up by Salon.com.

I sent an email to Keith Olbermann in the hope that he'll cover this story on Countdown.

An I-Report on CNN's website has a mention.

Desdinova-Super Villain of the Ozarks has some hillbilly suspects.

The Exaggerator has an especially interesting post comparing the image on this billboard to those images from our racist past.

UDPATE II: A news report in video can be viewed at OzarksFirst.com. The news story is preceded by a short advertisement. Neighbors report that they saw Ronnie Ford putting the sign there. The West Plains Quill talked to Mr. Ford earlier and he claims he doesn't know who put the sign there even though it's on his property. If I can find a phone number for Ronnie Ford, I'll post it here.

America Has Gone Bananas

I don't always agree with Christopher Hitchens, but now that he's describing how we've slipped from "first world" status to "third world", he has my attention:

Another feature of a banana republic is the tendency for tribal and cultish elements to flourish at the expense of reason and good order. Did it not seem quite bizarre, as the first vote on the rescue of private greed by public money was being taken, that Congress should adjourn for a religious holiday—Rosh Hashanah—in a country where the majority of Jews are secular? What does this say, incidentally, about the separation of religion and government? And am I the only one who finds it distinctly weird to reflect that the last head of the Federal Reserve and the current head of the Treasury, Alan Greenspan and Hank “The Hammer” Paulson, should be respectively the votaries of the cults of Ayn Rand and Mary Baker Eddy, two of the battiest females ever to have infested the American scene? That Paulson should have gone down on one knee to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as if prayer and beseechment might get the job done, strikes me as further evidence that sheer superstition and incantation have played their part in all this. Remember the scene at the end of Peter Pan, where the children are told that, if they don’t shout out aloud that they all believe in fairies, then Tinker Bell’s gonna fucking die? That’s what the fall of 2008 was like, and quite a fall it was, at that.

I've been comparing the US to a Banana Republic for as long as we've had a preznit and his vice who are bananas themselves. When the US was a "first world" country, we had ethics and legal rights like habeas corpus, a right to privacy and we didn't torture prisoners. Banana Republics did those things and they have notoriously corrupt governments and look at what we've got- a retarded cowboy who was appointed preznit by a court the first time around and then stole the election the second time around.

You can read the Hitchens' entire article at Vanity Fair.