My state has a second senator at last -- Senator Al Franken

[Don Corleone]

Hmmm. So if Obama nationalized the banks & the auto industry without a supermajority, and he was already on track to nationalize health care & put coal & oil companies out of business... What's he going to do for an encore?

I can just see Rahm Emmanuel drooling, rubbing his hands together grinning wickedly, saying "And now, we can really put the spurs to 'em".

God help us all.

[Louis VI the Fat]

God help us all.

And let's not forget about us helping God too!

Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on “God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry.” And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to “celebrate our rights as Americans!” as a promotional flier for the “open carry celebration” puts it.

Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky. “God and guns were part of the foundation of this country,” Mr. Pagano, 49, said Wednesday in the small brick Assembly of God church, where a large wooden cross hung over the altar and two American flags jutted from side walls. “I don’t see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist.”

The bring-your-gun-to-church day, which will include a $1 raffle of a handgun, firearms safety lessons and a picnic, is another sign that the gun culture in the United States is thriving despite, or perhaps because of, President Obama’s election in November.


“When someone from within the church tells me that being a Christian and having firearms are contradictions, that they’re incompatible with the Gospel — baloney,” he said. “As soon as you start saying that it’s not something that Christians do, well, guns are just the foil. The issue now is the Gospel. So in a sense, it does become a crusade. Now the Gospel is at stake.”