The Vallejo City Unified School District severed its contract with Boomer Bennett after learning his anti-bullying events masked a secret religious agenda
So, explicitly stating he plans to lie for Jesus. He probably sees it as part of his persecution complex. He has to sneak in because the evil atheistic schools prohibit Christians from being there. Nevermind that a significant percentage of the kids are already Christian. Nevermind that an even higher percentage are fully aware of the Christian message. Nope, gotta sneak in like a spy in enemy territory because the evil atheists want to prohibit Jesus.
About as pathetic as his trying to sneak it in, then ADMITTING that he was trying to sneak it in. It's crap like this that makes me wonder why people haven't gotten wise to the whole Christian proselytism thing.
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral."
There was Christopher Eric Hitchens ... and then there was everyone else. The man was positively astonishing for his hunger for knowledge and his utter intolerance for bullshit. I am a better atheist for knowing who he was and what he was about.
Also a giant asshole who believed just as you do, that there was him and there was everyone else. Brilliant mind, but the absolute scorn for the people he opposed was disgusting, IMO.
I wish he was around today to use that scorn on these "Crusaders" like Hegseth.
I'm confused. You are disgusted by Hitchens' scorn for the people he opposed but you wish he was still here to scorn people you oppose? So you're disgusted but not really...?
he also trashed the school district for spending tens of thousands of dollars per student “but their reading comprehension skills are dismal [and their] relationship skills are dismal.”
I'm sure "Jesus" would fix that issue, judging from the barely literate goobers that comprise his 'flock."
You mean like NOW, Boomer? You mean like, you can't be upfront and admit that you want to proselytize kids, so you have to put up a facade to disguise that fact. What this tells me, more than anything else, is that Christian proselytizers are at least beginning to recognize that THEIR NOISE IS BECOMING LESS WELCOME to the general public. Still, they feel obliged to continue to push, so they hide their light under a bushel of subterfuge. Except that this time, when he actually came out and SAID it.
Oh, and while we're at it:
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
Ummm ... Boomer? Have you checked your local churches lately?
People who see Jesus as the solution to all the world's problems should spend less time reading the Bible, and more time reading history, because history does not support their claim.
Problem is, if they actually READ history, they'd discover that their bible doesn't fit into it, whereupon they would lose their shit, because bible, and because they want their belief to override reality ... which it WON'T.
"There are tons of scientists who are also Christians and manage quite well."
Until the science has one ontology, and the theology has another, and the former has lots of evidential backing and has passed critical testing, whereas the latter has none.
Christians who walk around with the bible attached to their hands always struck me as the worst Christians I've ever met.
But they don't want the truth, because the truth would require change and these people are afraid of change. They're stuck in some fantasy version of the 50's as some post-war paradise, when for some groups, it was hell.
Funny that you say that. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I watched a performance of Tartuffe this past Sunday, and when the title character made his entrance, one guess what was in his right hand! [chuckle!]
I should mention that Tom Ford ALSO had the southern preacher twang down to a science!
I live in a town of 3000, about 5000 in the whole county. We have 18 churches here. Lots of people carry bibles around here, but then again a secret group of religious fanatics just murdered 2 women in Oklahoma a year ago over child custody.
The group called themselves "God's Misfits". It was a pretty famous murder (I knew both women, as they live here in my town).
Cloak and dagger sounds like cold war rhetoric. These proselytizing fools sure do love their jingoistic "us vs them" metaphors.
If we could actually get them to sit down and talk with us they might understand that we are not their enemy. We don't want to do to them what they have done to us for centuries. We have compassion. But they won't listen.
And we'd still wind up being their enemy, because they want to have free reign in the public square, yet they're not allowed to. This is made worse because there are those in authority who aren't into the whole State / Church separation thing and have allowed a break in that wall here and there.
And it is that inconsistency that has really cost us.
Everyone laughs at his casinos going broke, but if you read the stories from back then, the construction on the Taj Mahal wasn't finished and the company was $900 million in debt. Does that sound like a good business decision to you? :D
"That off-campus activity is where we give them Christ and Christ crucified."
That sounds kind of ... gruesome. And not very much fun. You need to step up your marketing game, Boomshakalaka. Have you thought about some arts and crafts, or maybe bingo or bowling night?
The unrelenting effort of some Christian sects to force their way into the public schools to get to the captive audience inside, speaks directly to just how weak their message ultimately is. Why is it ever acceptable to present things as facts to children that an educated adult would most likely reject if hearing it for the first time?
Also... It's probably bullshit anyway. "Two weeks" is Cheetolini's go-to lie for when he needs to pull a plausible-sounding timeline for something out of his face-ass.
So, to recap: this guy and his organization perpetrated a deliberate deception on an arm of the local government (the school board), in order to gain access to children, for a purpose which is explicitly forbidden by law.
Grooming is baked into Christianity. Just believe the fairytales I tell you little sinners or you will burn in hell for all eternity!!!! 🔥☠️ Oh and Jesus loves you! 🙏🕊️🤪
I worked for a group in the 90s that had been pulling a scam like this already for 20 years. GWB shut down all assembly programs in Texas for one year, as governor. Then opened up the funding but only to evangelical-aligned companies. As president, faith-based initiatives legalized all of it. I have proof if you're interested. Pepsi was a big sponsor. All a straight fraud - worth mentioning that the only thing evangelicals love more then Jesus and fried food is money.
OT: I got a smart watch a couple years ago to help me monitor some heath issues and keep track of my workouts. I liked it, but it had started having some problems (BSOD type thing and difficulty charging if it was completely drained, which I tried to avoid). I looked around for a replacement and had it narrowed down to two choices, but didn't want to get one unless I was able to physically try them on for comfort. As luck would have it, I found each on sale as open box returns at Best Buy, which unfortunately is about an hour away, but the difference in price more than made up for it. I got down there and the person helping me couldn't find either, but he grabbed another box, said "something doesn't look right, let me go check this". What he pulled out was one that was one generation older, but had been marked both open box and clearance. He checked it in the computer and it rang up as $30. It was not my first color choice, didn't have all the bells and whistles I probably wouldn't use anyway, and doesn't have as good of a battery life, but I wasn't going to pass up saving a couple hundred bucks.
Some time back, I was cooking a couple different things in the kitchen. I had to constantly stir 3 different pots and I was chopping some vegetables. After a little while, I noticed my watch flashing something, I looked and it told me "you have been walking for 10 minutes, would you like to record this workout?" It's supposed to have automatic workout detection, but I don't think I had ever paid any attention to it before and I wasn't sure if it detected what kind of workout or just assumed walking. Later, I thought about it a bit more and realized I was essentially standing still for that time, but moving my arms constantly. What...else would it automatically count as a workout? I also realized it didn't start recording for 10 minutes, so I probably didn't have to worry about that.
If I had one, it would tell me I'm in a coma for that reason. (I'm disabled. I sit a LOT.)
I tried a smart watch free for a month, but they're all too big and heavy for my wrist. I don't mind the face covering my whole wrist, but I'm going to have to wait several generations more for the electronics to get smaller.
I have a stopwatch on my G shock, but to be honest I've been running my runs for so long that I pretty much know how long they take, and I don't really mind if I'm a bit over or a bit under. If I'm on the elliptical, I just put it on # 14 and time it by how long it takes one of those British quiz shows to do its thing. Anything else I don't really care.
Bennett has praised Trump? Does he not know how the racist pig feels about non-whites?
Bennett is not only a liar, he's stupid.
Some of Trump's best friends are black.
And a lot of them are stupid.
*All*
Nothing says love like being an apostle of Donald Trump.
Especially now with Trump declaring the xtian god to be on his side in the Iran debacle.
Like the nazis.
Gott mit uns
Another Black for Trump! That makes 14.
A grifter has got to grift!
He's a Christian. Of course he's drawn to genocidal bullying sociopaths.
If you have to disguise your true intentions, maybe you need to ask yourself whether you're doing the right thing.
Oh, they absolutely believe they're doing the right thing, and it's okay to hide their intentions if they get the outcome they're hoping for.
Yeah, you know ... the whole ends and means thing ... AGAIN!
"Lying for the Lord" has always been considered OK for the past 2K years.
They've added "lying for the LARD" the past 10-12 years.
Didn't Jesus say "Lie if you have to, I want more followers!!"
Oh wait, that was Trump.
If he hides his intentions, then he is creating or serving a cult with intellectually vulnerable people. His aim: to brainwash, not to enlighten.
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?
So, explicitly stating he plans to lie for Jesus. He probably sees it as part of his persecution complex. He has to sneak in because the evil atheistic schools prohibit Christians from being there. Nevermind that a significant percentage of the kids are already Christian. Nevermind that an even higher percentage are fully aware of the Christian message. Nope, gotta sneak in like a spy in enemy territory because the evil atheists want to prohibit Jesus.
How pathetic is this persecution delusion.
About as pathetic as his trying to sneak it in, then ADMITTING that he was trying to sneak it in. It's crap like this that makes me wonder why people haven't gotten wise to the whole Christian proselytism thing.
Lying for Jesus is just another of saying 'fraud.'
Bennett gets Hitchslapped from the grave:
"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral."
-- Christopher Hitchens
There was Christopher Eric Hitchens ... and then there was everyone else. The man was positively astonishing for his hunger for knowledge and his utter intolerance for bullshit. I am a better atheist for knowing who he was and what he was about.
Also a giant asshole who believed just as you do, that there was him and there was everyone else. Brilliant mind, but the absolute scorn for the people he opposed was disgusting, IMO.
I wish he was around today to use that scorn on these "Crusaders" like Hegseth.
I'm confused. You are disgusted by Hitchens' scorn for the people he opposed but you wish he was still here to scorn people you oppose? So you're disgusted but not really...?
Again and again, xtians prove that they are the true groomers of children.
he also trashed the school district for spending tens of thousands of dollars per student “but their reading comprehension skills are dismal [and their] relationship skills are dismal.”
I'm sure "Jesus" would fix that issue, judging from the barely literate goobers that comprise his 'flock."
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?
You mean like NOW, Boomer? You mean like, you can't be upfront and admit that you want to proselytize kids, so you have to put up a facade to disguise that fact. What this tells me, more than anything else, is that Christian proselytizers are at least beginning to recognize that THEIR NOISE IS BECOMING LESS WELCOME to the general public. Still, they feel obliged to continue to push, so they hide their light under a bushel of subterfuge. Except that this time, when he actually came out and SAID it.
Oh, and while we're at it:
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
Ummm ... Boomer? Have you checked your local churches lately?
Seems like Boomer's plan went BOOM.
People who see Jesus as the solution to all the world's problems should spend less time reading the Bible, and more time reading history, because history does not support their claim.
Problem is, if they actually READ history, they'd discover that their bible doesn't fit into it, whereupon they would lose their shit, because bible, and because they want their belief to override reality ... which it WON'T.
Just like science. If science contradicts the magic book, they reject the science.
Which floors me because they are SO DEPENDENT on the science they deny, from the car they ride in to the phone in their pocket.
Few things are more ironic than a young earth creationist using a smart phone.
Especially when it has GPS! Google Maps, anyone? 😁
My brother has a Masters in Chemistry and a Masters in Theology.
There are tons of scientists who are also Christians and manage quite well.
"There are tons of scientists who are also Christians and manage quite well."
Until the science has one ontology, and the theology has another, and the former has lots of evidential backing and has passed critical testing, whereas the latter has none.
Yes. Some of us don't have the beliefs for that kind of cognitive dissonance.
Christians who walk around with the bible attached to their hands always struck me as the worst Christians I've ever met.
But they don't want the truth, because the truth would require change and these people are afraid of change. They're stuck in some fantasy version of the 50's as some post-war paradise, when for some groups, it was hell.
Funny that you say that. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I watched a performance of Tartuffe this past Sunday, and when the title character made his entrance, one guess what was in his right hand! [chuckle!]
I should mention that Tom Ford ALSO had the southern preacher twang down to a science!
I live in a town of 3000, about 5000 in the whole county. We have 18 churches here. Lots of people carry bibles around here, but then again a secret group of religious fanatics just murdered 2 women in Oklahoma a year ago over child custody.
The group called themselves "God's Misfits". It was a pretty famous murder (I knew both women, as they live here in my town).
Cloak and dagger sounds like cold war rhetoric. These proselytizing fools sure do love their jingoistic "us vs them" metaphors.
If we could actually get them to sit down and talk with us they might understand that we are not their enemy. We don't want to do to them what they have done to us for centuries. We have compassion. But they won't listen.
And we'd still wind up being their enemy, because they want to have free reign in the public square, yet they're not allowed to. This is made worse because there are those in authority who aren't into the whole State / Church separation thing and have allowed a break in that wall here and there.
And it is that inconsistency that has really cost us.
It's from the Holy Book of Spy vs Spy.
Loved it in Mad magazine!
MAD was my bible as a kid.
Mine as well. Never missed an issue.
My older brother had a subscription. We read it together often. Good times.
OF COURSE IT IS. Mad Magazine was the best.
MAD Magazine, a major influence on Weird Al (who proudly declares that MAD helped shape him), had him as a guest editor for an issue.
I see Cloak and Dagger and I automatically think of the Marvel superhero duo.
OT:
IL Trump Merch Store Closes
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/il-trump-merch-store-closes-owner-blames-iran-war/
Ha Ha! And fuck your feelings, MAGAT loser!
It’s nonsense, excuse making. No store closes after a month.he was already in trouble, and looking for something, anything, to explain it.
They opened the store in 2025 and sold Trump 2024 merch, along with a lot of other worthless shit. IN CHICAGO.
These people are as sharp as Trump when it comes to failing businesses!
So, like Drumpf, everything was out of date before it opened. Surprised it lasted this long.
Everyone laughs at his casinos going broke, but if you read the stories from back then, the construction on the Taj Mahal wasn't finished and the company was $900 million in debt. Does that sound like a good business decision to you? :D
I hope the owner is stuck with all that useless junk.
Like Lindell is stuck with all those unsold pillows.
Trump Truth Store. Talk about false advertising and deceptive business practices.
IOW, Trump through and through.
I thought it would have been Biden's fault.
Ew, more depictions of that creep as a muscular superhero rather than the fat weakling coward he actually is. The mentality here is so fucked.
I hope she lost everything she has. The photo indicates she's already lost her hairbrush and comb.
I mean, IDGAF about my appearance, but I comb my hair in the morning even when I'm spending all day alone, because I still have self-respect.
"𝑊𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦."
As they should. Now they need to step up their vetting game to screen out the Trojan proselytizers better.
"That off-campus activity is where we give them Christ and Christ crucified."
That sounds kind of ... gruesome. And not very much fun. You need to step up your marketing game, Boomshakalaka. Have you thought about some arts and crafts, or maybe bingo or bowling night?
The unrelenting effort of some Christian sects to force their way into the public schools to get to the captive audience inside, speaks directly to just how weak their message ultimately is. Why is it ever acceptable to present things as facts to children that an educated adult would most likely reject if hearing it for the first time?
Trump just TACOed. 2 week ceasefire.
He rejected Iran’s ceasefire demand and here he is doing that ceasefire.
It is TACO Tuesday.
And 2 weeks hence will be another Tuesday.
Also... It's probably bullshit anyway. "Two weeks" is Cheetolini's go-to lie for when he needs to pull a plausible-sounding timeline for something out of his face-ass.
Until the next tantrum...
Or the next batch of Epstein revelations.
Todd Blanche has to keep the Trump-Epstein files out of the news if he wants the AG job.
"Trump just TACOed."
Unfair, he obviously won:
1. Iran's ballistic missiles eliminated!
2. Iran's nuclear material captured
3. Regime change achieved
Oh, wait...
Oh, well. At least he's got all those dead children.
Impeach his traitorous demented ass already. FFS!
So, to recap: this guy and his organization perpetrated a deliberate deception on an arm of the local government (the school board), in order to gain access to children, for a purpose which is explicitly forbidden by law.
He's not wearing steel bracelets... 𝘸𝘩𝘺, exactly?
Oh, right.
𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦.
but if a drag queen reads a book to kids............................
Grooming is baked into Christianity. Just believe the fairytales I tell you little sinners or you will burn in hell for all eternity!!!! 🔥☠️ Oh and Jesus loves you! 🙏🕊️🤪
I worked for a group in the 90s that had been pulling a scam like this already for 20 years. GWB shut down all assembly programs in Texas for one year, as governor. Then opened up the funding but only to evangelical-aligned companies. As president, faith-based initiatives legalized all of it. I have proof if you're interested. Pepsi was a big sponsor. All a straight fraud - worth mentioning that the only thing evangelicals love more then Jesus and fried food is money.
How do you stop a Baptist from drinking all your beer when you go fishing? Take 2 Baptists.
OT: I got a smart watch a couple years ago to help me monitor some heath issues and keep track of my workouts. I liked it, but it had started having some problems (BSOD type thing and difficulty charging if it was completely drained, which I tried to avoid). I looked around for a replacement and had it narrowed down to two choices, but didn't want to get one unless I was able to physically try them on for comfort. As luck would have it, I found each on sale as open box returns at Best Buy, which unfortunately is about an hour away, but the difference in price more than made up for it. I got down there and the person helping me couldn't find either, but he grabbed another box, said "something doesn't look right, let me go check this". What he pulled out was one that was one generation older, but had been marked both open box and clearance. He checked it in the computer and it rang up as $30. It was not my first color choice, didn't have all the bells and whistles I probably wouldn't use anyway, and doesn't have as good of a battery life, but I wasn't going to pass up saving a couple hundred bucks.
What's a 'watch'?
It's like a phone, but for your arm.
My arm never calls anyone.
You sure? Your left hand isn't supposed to know what your right hand is doing, or something like that.
how about your butt? I am sure that has dialed a few people before
Nope. My dumb ass can't remember the password.
It’s when you are on patrol making sure that marauders don’t overrun your castle.
Some time back, I was cooking a couple different things in the kitchen. I had to constantly stir 3 different pots and I was chopping some vegetables. After a little while, I noticed my watch flashing something, I looked and it told me "you have been walking for 10 minutes, would you like to record this workout?" It's supposed to have automatic workout detection, but I don't think I had ever paid any attention to it before and I wasn't sure if it detected what kind of workout or just assumed walking. Later, I thought about it a bit more and realized I was essentially standing still for that time, but moving my arms constantly. What...else would it automatically count as a workout? I also realized it didn't start recording for 10 minutes, so I probably didn't have to worry about that.
Watch: "Needs more salt! The heat on the rice is too high! No. stir counterclockwise! You're holding the knife wrong!"
Watch: TRUMP IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE!
Watch: VOTE BLUE!
Sounds familiar. My Samsung Galaxy watch does much the same thing if I'm constantly walking for an extended period of time.
Mine also tells me I'm taking a nap if I'm sitting for any length of time.
If I had one, it would tell me I'm in a coma for that reason. (I'm disabled. I sit a LOT.)
I tried a smart watch free for a month, but they're all too big and heavy for my wrist. I don't mind the face covering my whole wrist, but I'm going to have to wait several generations more for the electronics to get smaller.
I have a stopwatch on my G shock, but to be honest I've been running my runs for so long that I pretty much know how long they take, and I don't really mind if I'm a bit over or a bit under. If I'm on the elliptical, I just put it on # 14 and time it by how long it takes one of those British quiz shows to do its thing. Anything else I don't really care.
You have won capitalism this week.