all-encompassingly

Someone asked me:
“[O]f the [12] disciples who are now Jesus’ disciples how many are not white? …and how many women?”
These are legitimate questions, though passive-aggresively phrased. The questioner’s real message is:

Since there are no women apostles and no minority apostles, isn’t the LDS Church racist or sexist or both?

The answer to each question [...]

It’s Jimmer’s world. We just live in it.

Two sentences from a recent New York Times article on Jared Loughner, the Arizona shooter, that you might find interesting:

[Mr. Loughner's] anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush — a standard reaction among left-wing extremist groups.

Mr. Loughner said that he had paid for his courses illegally because, “I did not [...]

One of the greatest political ads ever, hands down.

One NYT reporter writes, commenting on a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life:

Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, but they are also deeply ignorant about religion.
Researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life phoned more than 3,400 Americans and asked them 32 questions about [...]

I assume Mort’s rantings are representative of the entire Washington Republican establishment (a la McConnell and McCain), which appears to be collectively crapping its pants over the election of candidates who believe in the constitution.
I borrowed the title of this post from this old post of Doug’s.

CNN, 9-9-2010: “Obama says Quran burning is ‘recruitment bonanza’ for al Qaeda”
New York Times, 9-8-2010: “Imam Says Moving Center Could Spur Radicals”
I propose we run everything by a mob of people with gasoline, matches, and American flags in Ramallah so as to avoid such scenarios in the future.

“Associated Press: Pakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag [...]

In response to Gen David Petraeus’ denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones’ right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: “Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center [...]

Howard Fineman of Newsweek accused the entire state of Kentucky of bigotry [based on some recent comments by Mitch McConnell].
Kentucky, Fineman said, is “a state where the nativist appeal outside of Louisville really works big-time.” The Republicans, he said, are “going to use whatever fear message they can. It’s aimed at Kentucky, for sure.” [...]