Rocky Twyman, a community organizer from Rockville, formed a semicircle with seven others, held hands and sang, pleading for divine intervention to lower fuel prices.

You betta pray, bitch!
Source: Washington Post:
The price of regular at a Shell gas station in Petworth was $3.91 a gallon. Rocky Twyman and company had a plan to bring [...]

June 14, 2008 was, evidently, a protest day across the world for Anonymous against Scientology. (We have pics of an Orlando protest ~ of Epic Fail Guy, of course!) This video - apparently of London’s Scientology presence getting rick rolled - is one of the best things I have ever seen here on the internets. [...]

USA Today: 4 Questions That Need Answers:
Three weeks after Texas authorities removed more than 400 children from a polygamist compound, the facts remain distressingly murky.
1. Did Texas have any option short of taking the children from their families for weeks?
2. Did the state infringe on the group’s right to practice its religion?
3. Did anyone inside [...]

Florida lawmakers debate offering a Christian license plate

Florida drivers can order more than 100 specialty license plates celebrating everything from manatees to the Miami Heat, but one now under consideration would be the first in the nation to explicitly promote a specific religion. The Florida Legislature is considering a specialty plate with a design that [...]

The Cumberland County Courthouse lawn in Crossville, Tennessee now features an enormous statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The statue is the work of Ariel Safdie and her brother David.
Statement at FSM Installation Ceremony
We are lucky enough to live in a country that allows us, its citizens, the freedom of speech. I have chosen to put [...]

It’s amazing how the media love for Barack Obama turned so quickly into media hate.

Of course, there’s the Wright issue which doesn’t help him:

With each passing day, it looks like Obama and Hillary are being destroyed as viable presidential candidates. You could debate on whether they’re damaging each other, or the media is doing [...]

allheadlinenews reports:
Singapore (CNS) - A cosmetics line called “Looking Good For Jesus” has been pulled from a leading department store in Singapore after Catholic residents protested the marketing gimmick as blasphemous. Reports said the retailing giant Top Shop in the Lion City, which is home to about 4.4 million Christians, had no choice but to [...]

Source: BBC

(image from cox and forkum)
Religious police in Saudi Arabia are banning the sale of Valentine’s Day gifts including red roses, a local newspaper has reported. The Saudi Gazette quoted shop workers as saying that officials had warned them to remove all red items including flowers and wrapping paper. Saudi authorities consider Valentine’s Day, along [...]

Iranian Porn on a billboard? Yes.

Video also at JewTube (in case YouTube pulls it)
“The regime in Iran is still perplexed over how pornographic images were able to be broadcast from the downtown Karaj billboard. This didn’t tie-in too well with their modesty campaign.”
One man says: “Oh, my God!… Oh, my God!”
Another: “Don’t bother me, [...]

“I’m hangin’ out with Marilyn Manson, gettin’ a tan”
…or you’re not, if you’re in Iraq. You’re more likely to be getting shot over a bang trim.
From MSNBC via AP:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Umm Doha cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making women look pretty can get a person killed in [...]