Some good news from the Jim Henson Company, which announced late last week that they are severing their business partnership with the notoriously anti-gay, fast food company Chick-Fil-A.

Chick-Fil-A had been offering Jim Henson “Creature Shop” toys in its “Kids Meals.” Nice to know the Muppets will no longer be pushing an anti-gay agenda…or cheap, terrible food that makes kids obese.

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Daniel Pearl

Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who combs through the church’s archives, said that records indicate Pearl, who was Jewish, was baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011 at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho.

“It’s a lack of respect for Danny and a lack of respect for his parents,” Pearl’s widow Mariane told the Globe. “Danny would laugh…because it’s silly. It’s a bit surreal…But there is a more serious concern behind it, of respecting people’s identity and integrity.”

Mariane Pearl also called on Mitt Romney to use his sway with the Mormon church to publicly condemn the posthumous baptisms of Jews without the consent of their estates.

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“We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage — tried in San Francisco — turned out this way,”  senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund Brian Raum told the LA Times. “But we are confident that the expressed will of the American people in favor of marriage will be upheld at the Supreme Court.”

Love it. Aside from the fact that the notion of Hollywood money affecting a court decision is ridiculous, what exactly does Prop 8 have to do with the “expressed will of the American people?” Yes, the 9th Circuit is a U.S. court, but Prop 8 is a California issue. Love how Raum suggests the will of the two biggest population centers in the state of California should have no legitimate bearing on the affairs of California.

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Harold Camping

What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what He wanted to happen. That was to warn the whole world that on May 21 God’s salvation program would be finished on that day. For the next five months, except for the elect (the true believers), the whole world is under God’s final judgment. To accomplish this goal God withheld from the true believers the way in which two phrases were to be understood. Had He not done so, the world would never have been shaken in fear as it was.

Riiiiight.

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Twitter made Krvaric ditch his fake accounts, and erased his personal feed. Krvaric was unapologetic about his actions.

From the San Diego Union-Tribune:

“Basically, they are pissed off that they didn’t register them first,” Krvaric said. “For them not to register their own … It just shows how far behind they are …

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San Diego Republicans are livid over a recent tweet by San Diego CityBeat’s political columnist John Lamb–calling the remark above, against San Diego Republican apparatchik Tony Kravic, a Twitter “death wish.”

The conservative blog San Diego Rostra was the first to pick up on the tweet:

While [Lamb] will no doubt say that he was joking, and may at some point feign an apology, this provides an illuminating insight as to the mindset of San Diego CityBeat.

CityBeat is nothing short of a Democratic and labor union press release machine intent on pushing a liberal agenda and slamming conservatives. The effort to remain objective has long ago been abandoned and goes well beyond simply leaning left. Lamb’s latest public comment with a death wish to the chair of the Republican Party is just a string of attacks and biased reporting that Republican candidates and officials have had to endure.

CityBeat editor Dave Rolland told SD Rostra, “[D]on’t confuse alt-weekly writers with politicians. We don’t apologize every time panties are twisted.”

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The Christian Post learned that Harold Camping spent around $100 million to advertise his May 21 end times prediction, according to Matt Tuter, Family Radio’s international projects manager.

Tuter told the Post that most of the money did not come from donations, but from the sale of property – more specifically, KFTL television and an FM station.

“My understanding is that they were soliciting money to help people understand the word of God,” commented Miniutti. “They spent it on what they intended to spend it on.”

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The AP reports on this hot mess:

Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, it dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a “spiritual” Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ’s judgment, he said.

The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God’s judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there’s no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21.

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“It has been a really tough weekend,” he told the reporter.

Yeah, really tough we’re sure. His Family Radio network was worth $22 million in 2002. It was worth $117 mil in 2008. God knows how much Camping cashed in for in the days leading up to the fake rapture. Camping has been the source of a lot of mockery in the press for his poor apocalyptic prediction skills. Reporters seem to be missing the point. Camping has been laughing all the way to the bank for the better part of two decades, since his first doomsday prediction back in 1994.

We think this rage comic puts it better than most of the writing we’ve seen on the topic.

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Family Radio attention whore Harold Camping must be pretty happy right now. His prediction that the world will end tomorrow is the most trending topic in the universe right now. And he’s using all that attention to…blame gay people for the end of the world. The growing global gay civil rights movement, you see, is actually a sign of the apocalypse.

Naturally then, when Sunday rolls around and God isn’t in the midst of destroying the universe and torturing the sinners, that’s His way of telling us gay people are alright after all. Right, Harold Camping?

Can’t wait to tune in to Family Radio to find out.

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As we’ve told you about before on this site, the end of days is coming. This Saturday to be precise. At least according to Family Radio media media mogul/cult guru Harold Camping. Jesus will come to take the true-believers to heaven, while the rest of us will be left to die a horrible, fiery death on Earth.

So, for all you Jews, Muslims, atheists, Hindus, Buddhists animists, Scientologists…and general sinners out there, how about some post-rapture looting? You won’t be alone. According to the “Post rapture looting” Facebook page that sprang up a couple of days ago, it looks like nearly 400,000 folks plan to hit up their local grocery and high-end stereo stores with their shotguns in tow.

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Pack your bags everyone. Because in 10 days Jesus is coming to take you on a trip. To hell.

So says Harold Camping, anyway, the 89-year-old leader of the Oakland-based cult/media empire Family Radio, which operates on 66 stations across the country–36 in California alone. Camping says he’s used numbers in the bible to figure out the end of the world will begin on May 21st of this year. And, apparently, according to the above video, people across the country believe him.

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Cryer appeared on Conan last night to respond to the insults.

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Aside from their radio enterprise and taking out billboards, a group of 10 Family Radio cultists is currently traveling around the country, spreading the “good news” in person. Their caravan will be coming to Los Angeles this coming Monday to tell us about the giant earthquake that’s going to kill the righteous and send them to heaven, while the rest will be stuck on Earth in the bloody aftermath for 153 days of ‘death and horror.’

Can’t wait!

We’re sure the news of the horrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan will only fuel their fire.

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Writes Rose:

Young girls are going into Planned Parenthood clinics every day, too many the victims of abuse. According to the Department of Justice, an estimated 300 to 400 thousand children are trafficked for sex every year.

Some are taken to Planned Parenthood clinics for secret abortions. Instead of reporting the abusers of minors and young women, Planned Parenthood is enabling pimps and predators with their refusal to report abuse and willingness to assist the pimp’s underage prostitution business.

Yuh, huh…

Well, that’s the biggest bullshit we’ve seen in quite some time. If what Rose says is true, then, as a journalist, the natural thing to do would be to find several of these trafficked girls and tell their stories. Then you send reporters out undercover to corroborate the girls’ stories. Instead of, you know, making the whole thing up.

This new video could not be edited in a more patchwork fashion. It reminds us of one of those Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboard phony phone calls.

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