And let's not forget the whole hangs-with-hookers and way-too-friendly-with-the-taxmen aspects.

Is this the (Son of) Man you want as your President? Talk about your tax-and-spend liberals!

Plus he preaches class warefare!

if Jesus ran, I'm sure they'd make up a bunch of bullshit to smear Him....

Picture of Jesus Jesus wants you to think he's a well-reasoned, compassionate politician. But he doesn't want you to know about the real Jesus.

Or --

[voiceover] They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps.

[picture of Jesus with women of dubious character] Did you know Jesus is frequently seen in the company of whores?

[voiceover] They say you can judge a man by his actions.

[picture of revelers at wedding at Cana] Apparently Jesus has to have alcoholic beverages on hand at all times -- even going to far as to change pure, healthy water into wine.

[voiceover] And there are some things that, frankly, make us downright uneasy.

[picture of Jesus washing apostles' feet] What's with the foot fetish, Jesus?

[voiceover on black screen] Do we really want a kinky, alcoholic whore-lover in office?

What's with the foot fetish, Jesus?

BWAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Anyone handy around? Ed? Gud?

My toilet has started running (quick, catch it!) I've screwed the ball cock ( t SPP grins ) to make it stop, but the next time it just happens again. Sometimes it stops eventually. Sometimes it does not and I end up with a puddle on my bathroom floor. They're working on the plumbing in my building -- could this be a change in water pressure thing?

Grrr.

And can we trust a man who tells us to turn the other cheek to protect us in the War on Terra?

I would feel a little uneasy about the prospect of the 43rd President being the son of the 41st and then the 44th President being the wife of the 42nd.

This. If something like that happened in some small developing country, we'd for sure put air quotes around "democracy" when we talked about it.

I swear, in 20 years it's going to be Chelsea vs. one of the third generation Bushes. And I don't care if they're all the most brilliant political minds of their generation--I don't wanna live in a pseudo-monarchy tugged back and forth between feuding dynasties.

To be fair, the left would probably have a field day if He were running as a Republican.

We thought Bush's record on crime and punishment was bad. But that was nothing compared to This Man's public stance!

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."

Eye plucking? Hand cutting? Is this the sort of country our Founding Fathers wanted?

[Then the segue into the dangers of the Religious Right and contact info for the ACLU]

Trudy, is the problem happening when you flush it? Or all by itself?

If it's the former then probably it's the float sticking (although it could be the valve needs to be replaced - especially if the problem occurs all by itself). I think once a long time ago I solved this problem with a drop or two of oil on the float/valve mechanism.

You can shut off the water to the toilet and then flush it to drain the tank so you can inspect things....

It just occurred to me that the whole plucking out/cutting off of bad body parts is a non-trivial part of cancer management. Huh.

Thank you, Tom! That makes so much sense!

Oh, and here is a little something to make us all smile:

Bloomburg News is now reporting that Karl Rove, senior adviser to the President and deputy chief of staff, and Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, are being investigated for having lied to a federal grand jury about how they learned the identity of a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame.

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