An Italian priest who called for a “pageant” for nuns has axed the project after catching slack from his superiors. Father Antonio Rungi says that he never intended to put the holy sisters on a catwalk to strut their stuff in the “Miss Sister 2008 Pageant”, and that he was misunderstood.

Father Rungi asked nuns to enter the pageant through his blog by submitting their qualifications based on spirituality, social awareness, charity, and other qualities. Father Rungi stated,

We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits, but being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn’t hide it.

…*blank stare* I’m sorry, but this is hilarious! I don’t want to clown nuns, and all of God’s creatures are beautiful in their own way, but I went to Catholic school growing up and all the nuns I saw were old, smelly, and had permanent rulers attached to their hands, so perhaps a “pageant” wasn’t what they needed to change people’s perceptions of the sisterhood. On the other hand, this contest may have been the right way to get the other priests’ minds off inappropriate thoughts of little boys. (Forgive me for that, Lord!)

China Arnold, 28, was found guilty of aggravated murder after killing her month old baby by placing her in the microwave and burning her to death. Arnold now faces the death penalty after a judge declared her first trial a mistrial back in February. Apparently, this crazy lady had a fight with her boyfriend who believed the child was not really his. Instead of just telling her boyfriend that he was correct in his suspicions, Arnold put the baby in the microwave because she thought the boyfriend would leave her if he confirmed the child wasn’t his.

What has the world come to? People have officially lost their minds. This is a dag on shame.

The first thing I thought went I saw old man McCain’s VP pick was, “she looks like Tina Fey!” That seems appropriate though because this is all a joke.

What do you think?

Sarah who?

Sarah Palin is the 44 year old one term governor of Alaska and has been selected as Vice President by John McCain. The pick is surprising to the majority of pundits and early reaction is that it’s a somewhat, well, interesting choice. Here’s the Top 5 reasons it might not be a good idea.

5. She’s a she. Now this isn’t inherently a bad thing. But when your base is made up of gun-toting football-watching wealthy white guys and racist hillbillies, a woman really doesn’t really reassure them. The fact that she came in 2nd place in the Miss Alaska pageant in 1984 doesn’t help. Her talent was the flute if you were curious.

4. She lacks political experience. She’s been governor of our most forgotten, least dense state for less than 2 years. Though a very popular governor and by all accounts a nice person (won Miss Congeniality in the Miss Alaska pageant), she eliminates the lack of experience arguments against Obama, which was seemingly working to this point. She’s going to have to debate Joe Biden at some point and that won’t be pretty.

3. She reminds us that McCain is old. As John McCain hits 72 today, we’re all reminded that he could keel over at any moment. The visual of a white haired old guy standing next to a young woman is not only a little creepy, but it makes him look even older than he really is. With any VP he would pick literally a heartbeat away from the highest office in the land, it’s even more important that the Republican VP be ready to step in.

2. She looks like a golddigger. All the PUMAs who were so upset about Hillary not winning that they were ready to vote for McCain have just been given another reason to do so. I can’t help but thinking about Anna Nicole Smith marrying that old guy and waiting around for him to drop dead so she could inherit his fortune. Maybe they really were in love, but it just looked bad.

1. She’s tied into big oil. Her husband is an Eskimo (seriously) and works for BP at an oil field. She’s also a big proponent of drilling in ANWR (American National Wildlife Reserve). I’m all for getting more energy for our (once) growing economy, but destroying one of the planet’s few natural areas in the process and depleting America’s  is just short-sighted.

If you weren’t watching history in the making as Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency, I feel sorry for you. Obama’s speech tonight will go down in the history books, not only because it was extremely well written and presented, but because he has managed to do something that many people never thought would happen in their lifetimes–he became the first African-American to lead a major party ticket for President of the United States.

Many naysayers said that Obama wasn’t ready to lead and didn’t have the experience necessary to be Commander-in-Chief, but tonight he shut those comments down. Obama showed that he is in touch with the American people because he IS the American people. He knows the struggles that many people are going through today because his family went through them already. Obama realizes that this “economic slow down” (recession) is NOT just a figment of our imaginations as McCain claims. When it comes to our economic hardships Obama didn’t criticize McCain, he simply said

“It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care; it’s because John McCain doesn’t get it. I don’t believe that Senator McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans, I just think he doesn’t know.”

Clearly, old man McCain doesn’t get it because he’s rich. Every since he ditched his first wife and hooked up with Cindy McMoneybags he’s been on easy street, so of course the rest of America is just whining in his opinion. As far as foreign policy is concerned, McCain constantly states and has stated as early as last week that he would follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell if he had to, but Obama called him out on that statement tonight saying,

“John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell — but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.”

All the negativity that the Republicans try to spread about Obama’s experience and plans for change are not going to deter us from making the choice we know is best for this country come November. Those old school politics are over with and won’t work this time!

It is hard to believe that 45 years ago today Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his historic “I Have A Dream” speech, which identified King’s wish for people to be judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Well, today Dr. King would be proud because Obama is living proof that America has grown tremendously.

Dr. King dreamed that this would happen, but Robert F. Kennedy actually called it. In a speech given in 1968 Kennedy is quoted as saying that things are,

“moving so fast in race relations, a Negro could be president in 40 years. There’s no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother had. [W]e have tried to make progress and we are making progress… We are not going to accept the status quo.”

In case your math skills have been on vacay for a while I’ll do the math for you…2008-1968=40 years. WOW! YES WE CAN!

As Denver, and the world, prepares for Obama’s acceptance speech tonight, the media is abuzz with speculation about what he’s going to say. Will he honor the Clintons’ leadership and influence within the Democratic party? Will he preach to America and reinforce the Messianic moniker that the GOP has flipped into a bad personality trait? Will he lecture America like the law professor he is? Will he say what he needs to say to working class and middle class citizens? Will he hold a stadium sized seance and simultaneously conjure up the ghosts of Dr. King, John Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy holding one last 1,700 mile freedom walk from Denver to Washington D.C. healing the sick and curing the blind along the way?

No. He’ll accept his party’s nomination, say what he needs to say, and get back on the campaign trail tomorrow. Will it be the greatest speech we’ve ever heard in our whole lives? Maybe, but the haters will still hate. Hate on haters…

Russian Dictator Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in an interview today, has come out saying he has evidence that the U.S. had a hand in orchestrating the Russia-Georgia conflict earlier this month. He went even further and asserted that the timing of event was orchestrated to benefit a presidential candidate (I’ll let you guess which one). His evidence is a passport of a Texas native which was found in an operating base of Georgian Special Forces. He says U. S. operatives are the ones who instructed Georgian troops to kill the Russian peacekeepers that were stationed in the area, which is what drew the retaliation from Russia.

“U.S. citizens were indeed in the area in conflict. They were acting in implementing those orders doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader.”

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino in her usual bubbly tone with the usual glossed over look on her face basically called Putin a liar.

“I think that those claims, um, first and foremost, are patently false. But it also sounds like his defense officials who said that they believe this to be true are giving him really bad advice.”

I often wonder if she believes the words that come out of her mouth. She always has that look on her face that she’s talking but not thinking about what she’s saying.

I, for one, am inclined to believe Putin. Not because I looked into his soul like Dubya did, but because he never pushed Russian troops to the oil pipelines in Central Georgia as most people originally estimated. And because Dana Perino looks untrustworthy. It’s one of those conspiracy theories that will never be held as a universal fact because the guy who said it doesn’t speak English (and he denied poisining Litvinenko which he clearly did). Even if the U.S. did have a hand in it, and the intention was to help McCain, it just plain didn’t work.

So after my earlier post about Hillary’s speech at the DNC, I can now show her some love. Just moments ago during the roll call vote Hillary Clinton moved to make Barack Obama the official Democratic nominee by acclimation. When Hillary’s state of New York was called to the mic for their votes Hillary stated

With eyes firmly fixed on our future and in the spirit of unity … let’s declare together in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi then asked the crowd if anyone would like to second Sen. Clinton’s motion and the crowd erupted with cheers. Although the nomination isn’t really official until the conclusion of Obama’s acceptance speech tomorrow, it’s pretty much a done deal now. BRING ON THE DEBATES WITH OLD MAN MCCAIN!!!!

Check the video of Hillary doing the right thing here

Sources are reporting that OJ Simpson’s oldest daughter, Arnelle, pushed him down in a fit of anger after a disagreement over OJ’s current girlfriend, Christie Prody on Sunday. Apparently, Arnelle had a problem with Prody because Prody has a drinking problem and when she had a few too many and got loose OJ told his daughter, “Don’t talk to her like that!” Well, that must have been the straw to break the camel’s back because Arnelle knocked her big headed daddy to the ground causing a crack in the sidewalk his head. Although sources say it wasn’t that big of a deal and OJ’s injury was very minor, the police were called to the scene but the fight ended when Arnelle agreed to leave OJ’s house in order to let things “calm down.”

Let’s just be real…Arnelle is mad because OJ played her mother and married Nicole Brown Simpson and is now spending all his money on new chicks while Arnelle’s mother is working hard for the money at Walmart. End of story. I’d be mad too, girlfriend. The thought of this is hilarious to me though because I’m sure Arnelle only busted a move because she knew OJ was too old and slow to chase her down and beat that a**!

HE SAID

Finally, Hillary says what she needed to say and throws her support behind Obama. She called on her hold out supporters (read: PUMAs) to rally behind their nominee and stop the foolishness.

“Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines… (We) haven’t worked so hard over the last 18 months, or endured the last eight years, to suffer through more failed leadership. No way. No how. No McCain.”

That means all you stubborn whiny babies talkin that foolishness about voting for McCain because you were sooo hurt your girl lost need to snap out of your self-induced delusion and get your minds right as well. Hillary didn’t spend a whole lot of time talking about Barack, but she definitely drove home the point that she is fully behind him. Good for her, she might still have a chance to get a job in the administration. Bill speaks tonight, and I’m slightly afraid of what he’s going to say.

SHE SAID

I hate to admit it, but I actually agreed with the commentators on Fox News (I’m so ashamed).  I felt like Hillary was doing too much, but not quite enough.  She came out on the stage looking to the high heavens like “All these people are here to see ME?!?!?” *Insert evil cackle here*  Her whole speech was mostly about her –her desire to be president, her accomplishments, her supporters– and she mentioned Barack Obama in a matter of fact, nonchalant type of way here and there like, “Oh yeah, vote for Obama.”  I just didn’t believe her and I guarantee her supporters didn’t either.

I think Hillary should have addressed all the jacked up things she said about Obama during the course of her campaign such as his inability to lead responsibility due to inexperience, his flip flops on the issues, his religion (remember her faking like she still thought he was Muslim? Yeah…Don’t forget), etc.  She just hated on him so hard for so long and then she comes back last night like it was all good between them with no retraction of any previous statements or convincing explanation of why she all of a sudden loves him.

I’m just hoping that tonight when Bill comes on stage to speak his piece he will make up for what Hillary lacked, but I doubt it.  He seemed even more upset last night in the crowd as Hillary spoke.  He had so much hope in his eyes; he secretly still thinks Hillary has a chance and he’s not ready to let this nomination go.  Maybe he’ll prove me wrong tonight.  Stay tuned.