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avis piscivorus's avatar

I am glad to hear that Pennsylvania has solved homelessness, unemployment, understaffed and underfunded schools, overflowing prisons, that all roads and bridges are well maintained, and that lawmakers can now waste their time on futilities.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

On Infrastructure alone, they're ranked 43rd. I've seen no pictures of Jesus in a hardhat.

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avis piscivorus's avatar

"Jesus in a hardhat"

His name is spelled Jézus and he will soon be deported by ICE.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

My favorite of my hairdressers boyfriends is named Jesus, and he moonlights as a naked pool-boy. He has washboard abs and would be quite delicious in a hardhat!

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Lynn Veit's avatar

So if they've already done their jobs so well and so splendidly, let's tell them to pack up and go home for the rest of the year and save all that tax money. I don't know what the legislative cost per day is in PA, but in Florida, it was just south of $50,000 per day, IIRC, and that was back in the 90's.

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Joe King's avatar

𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 65% "𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠" 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 "𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠' 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒."

Well, this may be technically true. You could probably find words like "we", "establish", and "people" in the bible. But in that way 100% of all the founding documents come from the Oxford English Dictionary. Instead of a "Day of the Bible", perhaps a "Day of the Dictionary".

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I like the sound of: "Day of the Constitution." Whatcha think? 😁

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E.A. Blair's avatar

There already is a Constitution Day, but it's not acommonly observed holiday. 17 September is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, but since that latter part is for honoring naturalized citizens, Trump will probably get rid of it. Come to think of it, he probably wants to get rid of the Constitution Day part as well.

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Holytape's avatar

Well, some of the words and idea were from the Bible. Like initially, when the USA prohibited women from voting and holding office, that was a very biblical idea.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

With a significant percentage coming from the Larousse or the Robert.

Avec un pourcentage significatif provenant du Larousse ou du petit Robert.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Quai

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Apparently we are playing you at footie on July 5. You people are "mercurial" according to our rugby writers. I wondered if they'd been listening to your various "cactus" statements. 😇

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ericc's avatar

Well if that's the logic, then Hebrew Torah and Koine Greek NT, not so much.

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Ian D's avatar

When you consider these religious advocates being content with such things as, inequality, the working poor, insurance companies running health care at the expense of the sick, society being awash with guns, not to mention also their approval of overt violence inflicted on others throughout the world and the US not adhering to international laws around human rights and human dignity. One must look further into the pathology of US society and thinking than simply focusing on 'religion.'

Talk about the need for collective and extensive clinical therapy. 🤔

But just like planet of the apes, "You may no like what you find."

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Another xtian violating the commandment about not lying. The Cult of the Cross is incapable of truth telling. But then again, isn't their whole religion (along with its book) based on falsehood after falsehood?

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Joe King's avatar

She may not be actively lying about the Aitken bible. She may just be willfully ignorant. She bought into Barton's lies because they fit the narrative her indoctination claims. Then she refuses to even listen to anyone who contradicts her because Jesus.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Willful ignorance and willful omission are not the paths to truth. :)

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Joe King's avatar

She does not want the truth. Truth is hard, truth would force her to give up her favorite hate.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Truth is hard, Joe, but listening to the constant deluge of prevarication coming out of the xtian nationalists is even harder.

Religion based on 10 Commandments that should, by their own order, never be broken. Yet, their virulent spew goes on and on and on as they break each and every “commandment” with impunity. Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Anyone who contradicts her is Satan's minion.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Imagine being so insecure about your faith that you have to prop it up with lies turned into bad legislation?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

The insecurity that comes when you live in a fantasy.

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Linda Bower's avatar

Most of them are actually shitty atheists who decided if there’s no afterlife that life isn’t worth living. They want to take all the rest of us down with them. Zombies

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James's avatar

I don't claim them. If they say they're Christians, that's good enough for me.

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Linda Bower's avatar

🤣

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Same, James, it's not like the bar isn't very low from historical behavior.

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Carrie Deitzel's avatar

If they say they’re Christians but ignore the teachings of Christ and go out of their way to judge others, why would their false claims be good enough for anyone?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

A not even nice kind of fantasy, I mean, at least go for a good one!

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oraxx's avatar

Actually, no one needs congressional approval to print a Bible. There isn't much Congress can ban when it comes to publishing. David Barton may as well be calling himself an astronaut rather than a historian. I know of nothing in the Constitution that was taken directly from the Bible. That foundational document never mentions the words Bible, Christianity, and Jesus. It does, however, specifically ban religious tests for holding public office in the United States, and if that isn't church-state separation, then I don't know what is. Nowhere does the Constitution give religion a role to play in governance.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

The need for a locally published bible was seen because the Crown had a monopoly on copyrights for all books published in the colonies. There had been a bible published in Boston in 1752, but it was marked with a London copyright to avoid the royal copyright restrictions.

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ericc's avatar

As someone else pointed out, this was pre-Constitution. Who knows how that congress handled patent, copyright, and publishing sort of rules.

Plus you can't eliminate someone doing it just for the advertising value. A book publisher may not *need* congress to approve it, but if they can get that unnecessary Congressional approval, that's a big selling point.

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Old Man Shadow's avatar

Maybe we ought to have White Evangelicals read the whole Bible in front of witnesses and pass a test demonstrating understanding before they can introduce these types of laws and resolutions.

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Joe King's avatar

Ooh! I can think of some passages that I would like them to answer questions about!

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Claudia's avatar

Exactly. Something like Jesus’ command about healing the sick and being hospitable to strangers? Or feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless?

Does anyone know what her legislative/voting record is in those areas?

(On the other hand, don’t waste your time, I can guess.)

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

"her lovers emissions were like horses"?

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Joe King's avatar

Ezekiel 23:20, yes.

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avis piscivorus's avatar

They already proved they are incapable to understand a much shorter text: "The Constitution"

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Len's avatar

They think that’s one of the books of the bible.

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avis piscivorus's avatar

It is part of the DJT bible.

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cdbunch's avatar

Which tells you he hasn't even opened the one that bears his name. It's the original he wants to use to wipe the "royal" ass.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

More territory-marking. More virtue-signaling. More promotion of a book which has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS NATION. But Stephanie Borowicz wants to do it anyway to show EVERYONE what a Good Little Christian™ she is. REALLY she is!

Hell of it is, if she wanted to show that, she could co-sponsor and work for a bill that insures funding for SNAP or protections for LGBTQ+ youth. Oh, but she COULDN'T do that. It's so unbiblical! 😱

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Joe King's avatar

*cough*Matthew 25:31-46*cough*

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Nope, uh-uh, sorry, she don't read that.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Come on... that is that woke Jeebus - the one Rethuglican Jeebus is getting rid of.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

More like that part wasn’t read to her during services. You really think she cracks that book open to read?!

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E.A. Blair's avatar

If you buy a bible and put it on your shelf for show, you're probably a Catholic.

If you buy a bible and only read the parts you like, you're probably an American evangelical Christian.

If you buy a bible and read it cover to cover with an analytical mind, you're probably an atheist.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

More like that part wasn’t read to her during services. You really think she cracks that book open to read?!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I skipped endoctrinement classes. What does it say ?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

It's the bit about believers meeting Jesus after they die and being seperated into 2 groups: Those believers who fed, clothed and housed the poor as well as visiting the sick and imprisoned and those believers who did not.

Those who did got eternal life in heaven. Those who did not got the express elevator to eternal torment.

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Claudia's avatar

Thankyou.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Glad to do it. Recognized that scripture in a 💓beat.

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Claudia's avatar

They don’t call you Nogodzpedia for nothing …

Hope you’re doing well?

:-)

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Linda Bower's avatar

😮

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cdbunch's avatar

It's a stairway to heaven (talk about stacking the deck, he could have given me working knees) and a highway to hell (I can't drive 55).

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Bill Wilson's avatar

The elevator Muzak alone is worth the trip.

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larry parker's avatar

Are you a sheep or a goat?

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larry parker's avatar

What kind of tree? I'm a river birch.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Can I be an alpaca?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Just drink the right potions to change and then change back.

(Yzma's potions all look the same)

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Linda Allewalt's avatar

Someone ought to ask these clowns which bible they plan on promoting.

There are over 450 known versions of the Bible in English alone. Here are some of the most recognized versions:

King James Version (KJV)

New International Version (NIV)

English Standard Version (ESV)

New Living Translation (NLT)

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Message (MSG)

American Standard Version (ASV)

Good News Translation (GNT)

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Amplified Bible (AMP)

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

New Century Version (NCV)

New English Translation (NET)

New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)

New Life Version (NLV)

New World

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

The fight over which version is the best has spilt enough blood to float a navy.

She did specifically stated the Aitkin Bible. Whichever translation that is.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I've never heard of it, either, must be a fundy book.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

The Aitkin is a KJV.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

New World was also the name of the cult Nicki Reed joined back in the day on The Young and the Restless. The one who exposed the investigative journalist and almost got her killed.

Damn, the weird things I remember sometimes.

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vibing.'s avatar

The children will simply learn Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.

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cdbunch's avatar

Other than the KJV, the rest are Satan trying to corrupt the Word of God. God personally guided the hands of the scribes. I think the bible was written in English and then translated into Hebrew and Latin.

(Other than the last sentence, I actually heard that said when I was growing up)

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Psittacus Ebrius's avatar

She's confused enough already. Why overload her pea brain.

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dammit barry's avatar

Each version is a perversion of the real one. NO idea which is the real one.

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dammit barry's avatar

Each version is a perversion of the real one. NO idea which is the real one.

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wreck's avatar

If I saw that face of hers walking on the sidewalk toward me, I would immediately cross the street. She radiates evil and stupid.

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Vanity Unfair's avatar

I hate to think what you would do if you saw me.

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

How would she feel if the government establishes "The Day of the Jews" or "The Day of the Muslim" or "The Day of the Dali Lama?"

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NOGODZ20's avatar

The Day of Baphomet. The Day of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Or just maybe ... The Day of REASON.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Here's how Christians see Reason:

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."

-- Martin Luther

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Living in fantasy does strange things to the human brain. Reason is what separates us from the MAGATS.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

No, it never did come to the aid of spiritual things, because spiritual things DO NOT EXIST!

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Lynn Veit's avatar

At first I thought you were quoting a televangelist or a megachurch preacher. My how things have (not) changed.

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Len Koz's avatar

Reason treats bullshit with contempt. Hm. Sounds like the appropriate response.

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Claudia's avatar

I was suggesting a day to honour pastafarians but you were ahead of me there …

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Just seeing this. GMTA 👍

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Claudia's avatar

Thankyou, kind sir.

:-)

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larry parker's avatar

We had a Day of the Dali Lama once. Streets were shut down, you couldn't get anywhere. The way people treated it, you'd think he was the pope or something. ; )

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Sinanju06's avatar

How about Dia De La Muertra instead?

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Day of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Watch SBC heads explode.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Pennsyltucky is ranked 41st Overall as Best State To Live In. What good has the bible ever done them?

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Claudia's avatar

Apols, I can’t link at the moment, otherwise I’d post a Monty Python clip: What have the Romans done for us

:-)

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NOGODZ20's avatar

😀This one?

youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ

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Carrie Deitzel's avatar

Thank-you for that! I forgot how funny Monty Pythons was!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Can’t go wrong with Python.

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Claudia's avatar

Yes, that one. Thankyou for posting it.

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XJC's avatar
Jun 23Edited

Signs as you entered PA back in the 1990s read "Welcome to Pennsylvania: America Starts Here." A presumptuous slap in the face to NJ, DE, NY, and even OH and lowly WV. Pennsyltucky is indeed murica.

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Len Koz's avatar

My BIL is from Pennsyltucky. He's a Nazi asshole. 'Nuff said.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

And they always ruin Christmas and Thanksgiving because they can't keep their filthy mouths shut, even when they're outnumbered. Or just stick to sports and the weather like everybody else does.

Condolences to your sister.

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Whitney's avatar

Dear Miss Manners;

Under what circumstances is it socially acceptable to give someone a ball gag for Christmas/birthday/other occasion?

-Stressed and frustrated in Pennsyltucky.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Love it!!

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Two-bit Morticia knock-off says what?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Morticia has class. Something this meddlesome biddy doesn’t.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

And she is a knitter 😁

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

When I get back to France, we will have to meet up and knit together.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

C'est quand tu veux.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

Be careful speaking French around Addams family aficionados.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

¿ No es Español ?

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Meddlesome biddy. True, but you are too kind.

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larry parker's avatar

Half a bit, maybe.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Driverless taxis. What could possibly go wrong?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

First thing I thought of when I read the title. I Iooked for a Johnny Cab vid. Lots of them, but not one isolating the end result.

(Technically, ‘Johnny’ drives the cab) :)

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RegularJoe's avatar

No Harry taking tips and getting stoned.

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larry parker's avatar

If they are anything like the rockets, they will blow up before leaving the parking lot.

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Boreal's avatar

All of these xtian loons have dead eyes

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"Lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes."

-- Quint, from "Jaws"

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Jonah and the Great White. No happy ending for him after 3 days.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I am for it. Actually, I am for a day of the bible every day, but only with the original meaning of the word bible, which is Greek for book. Let start with May 6th, ASOIAF day and May 11th "On quiet nights" by Till Lindemann.

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Vanity Unfair's avatar

16th. June: Bloomsday: already established in Dublin.

13th. June: Dalloway Day: not yet established.

Any more?

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vibing.'s avatar

April 2, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Day?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

November 23rd. The Day of the Doctor.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

April Fool's day, The art of the deal and drumpster's endorsed babble.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Jan.1 (usually): The Feast of Fools Day from the Middle Ages. I mean, hell, we've already got our Lord of Misrule, and everything is already upside down and backwards. Let the feasting commence! (Unless you're SNAP, then, oh well too bad.)

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Carrie Deitzel's avatar

ASOIAF?

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

A song of ice and fire, George Martin. One of my mother's favorite.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

"Day of the Bible?" Well, that's only one more day than the Bible is worth. So close, Borowicz. So close.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I just got the weirdest junk mail. Apparently this person has either photos or videos I'm not quite sure of me jerking off to "unusual or controversial porn" and if I don't – sorry I don't know what exactly they demanded because I was too busy laughing and just deleted it – do whatever it is They wanted me to do they would send them to all my friends. I wonder if this could be the result of all those passwords that apparently got Published?

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Matri's avatar

Nah, I got those too. Pretty damned impressive of them to hack into my webcam and take videos of me.

Especially since I don’t have a webcam.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I don't have one either. One of the reasons why wasn't worried.

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dammit barry's avatar

nor do I.

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Die Anyway's avatar

Yeah, I got one of those some 15 years ago. Surprised that it's still going around. Since I use my phone for interwebs access, I quickly figured out that if they turned on the camera facing me, they would just get a close up shot of my face and if they turned on the back facing camera they would have a shot of the furniture across the room. Nothing would indicate what I was watching/reading nor would it show anything but my face. But I bet they got money from some worried dudes.

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dammit barry's avatar

I have gotten them, threatening to exp0ose me from my camera. My monitor does not have a camera. Ignore it.

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cdbunch's avatar

They wanted you to pay bitcoin, usually USD 1200 equivalent, is the most common I get.

They cum in spurts of usually 2-5 and then a week or two without any.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Yes it's a bit weird because I'd been through a phase of getting no junk mail at all. After a spate of Chinese and Russian women who apparently wanted to marry me. And now all of a sudden I'm getting messages from women who simply want to have sex rather than marry me and blackmail from idiots.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

My most recent junk is fake Paypal bills for services I don't subscribe to, threats to cut off my Gmail account unless I pay for more storage, threats to delete all the photos and files I don't store in the cloud or notices that I have had thousands of dollars deposited in my nonexistent online gambling accounts. The marriage offers are mostly from Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the usual offers for an exchange of bodily fluids from women who "super liked" with names like Sherifat, Arlanda and Nikitha (but the photos are all the same).

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larry parker's avatar

Definitely "junk" mail.

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