A while back, I correctly predicted that Mitt Romney was not really a viable candidate for President of the United States, and suggested that no one should get their panties in a bunch over the possibility of him getting elected.

Yeah, yeah, I know, the election isn’t even CLOSE to being over, but recent important caucuses in which Romney has trailed are a pretty telling sign. We aren’t counting that Wyoming one, because, well, PLEASE, it was Wyoming. I love that state, I do, but it’s WYOMING. I have been there, and I’m telling you, the eight people that live there aren’t going to make a difference in his campaign.

I’ve noticed that cowboys and Southern Baptists don’t seem to mix. Maybe it’s just me, but the cowboy way of life doesn’t jibe with the “in-your-face-loudly” tactics of evangelism. I can’t see any of them taking to Mike Huckabee, and I can understand how they would relate to a “good old boy” like Romney. That said, the places where Mitt is the most popular are NOT the most populated. He ain’t gonna win, and thus, my crystal ball prediction proved true.

In all reality, I believe he was a viable candidate who was done in by his religious beliefs. I won’t predict that there will NEVER be a Mormon president, but I DO believe he was the closest they will get for many, many years.

Now, when he gets elected, I will have to EAT my crystal ball. Can I have a side order of glass with that?

Yesterday morning. Winter is winning.

I like this picture, since it’s about all we’ve been seeing for the past few weeks…. A little like being inside my head, huh? Can you feel that weight in your right hand? That is the ax I carry around to grind….

Yesterday, Spam Karma deleted over 70,000 spam comments from Trapped by the Mormons. That’s a whole lotta spam folks, which, I would hope, would make you understand why I have to have such a strong spam filter. Unfortunately, sometimes REAL comments get caught in that net, and once SK identifies a comment as spam, they go back and remove ALL comments from the poster. This has happened to our friend Shining, whose comments have all disappeared.

If you find this happens to you, please email me privately, and I will attempt to recover your comments. If I don’t see the email within a day, the comments are gone for good, and there is little I can do. Another thing you can do is post using a different email address, and see if that works.

Unless you are crazy cuckoo and are threatening acts of violence, we really want to hear your viewpoint.

Really.

There’s no place like Islamorada, there’s no place like Islamorada……

I’m just catching wind of this story now, but it happened in early December. (Thanks to Dej, for the heads up.)

A seventh grade girl wrote an essay about her miracle Christmas, and her teacher liked it. She submitted it to a contest in the Deseret News, and it–allegedly–was not chosen. But then the mother received a phone call from an editor at the Desperate News, who liked the essay and wanted to print it. There was a CATCH, though. She asked the girl’s mother, “Are you Mormon?” The answer was no. On both ends. Since the girl was not Mormon, the News would not use the story.

According to a story by Paul Rolly in The Salt Lake Tribune:

Michelle Bliss was thrilled Monday when she received a call telling her that her daughter’s essay about a true Christmas story had been selected to run in a supplement to the Deseret Morning News.
Her elation was short-lived, however. The woman asked whether she was Mormon. When she replied that she was not, the woman apologized and said they were only running essays on Mormon families.
Her daughter, seventh-grader Georgia Clyde, was one of several students whose class essays were sent to the paper by Olympus Junior High School English teacher Jennifer Allred for consideration in its “Christmas I Remember Best” contest.
The essay was not selected, but promotions manager Sharon Johnson sent it to LDS Church News editor Gerry Avant to possibly run in the Church News.
Avant liked the essay and was the one who called Bliss with first the good, then the bad news.
Avant says the LDS Church News is written by and for members of the LDS Church. She said some non-Mormons might be offended to have their work show up in the weekly insert into the Deseret Morning News, which is why she felt she needed to ask the question. But Bliss said she would not have been offended had her daughter’s essay appeared in the publication.

Avant is full of shit. The reason she ASKED if the girl was Mormon, was because she was ONLY INTERESTED in running a story written by a special, Godly, MORMON child. Now in all honesty, the editor WAS looking for essays to print in the LDS Church News, and the LDS Church News GENERALLY does not run stories about Christians, atheists, Muslims, etc., because they ARE the LDS Church News.

Would a non-Mormon want their story published in the LDS Church news? Unless they are a vocal critic of the LDS Church, why wouldn’t they? And the girl even mentioned GOD in her story. Is this a case of saying that the girl’s God was not as good as the Mormon God? How else can you take it? Oh yeah, I remember…. They didn’t want to OFFEND the girl by running her story in the LDS CHURCH NEWS. Hee hee hee. Funny stuff.

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No, Mitt, we do NOT want to see your underwear…..

The Washington Post has declared JESUS JAMMIES OUT! Somebody better tell Mitt Romney. It will be interesting to see how he FLIP FLOPS on this one. Will the next picture of him be in a thong, or worse, WITHOUT underwear? Let’s hope he doesn’t try to take a page from the Paris Hilton/Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan book.

Incidentally, I’m from the generation that called our “flip flops” thongs. My girls die of embarrassment when I accidentally utter that one. I’m trying folks….

And then there is a link to a funny story wherein the reporter tries to find out just exactly WHAT the Jesus Jammies are all about. It’s dated 2002, so I’m guessing it was when the Olympics came to town….

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A moment of silence, please…

Ever heard of Postum? Can I just say, YUCK? Well, my mom drank and loved it. I don’t think she’s had it around for many years, but it served as a coffee substitute for the Mormon faithful. Well, Postum is no more, according to a story in The Salt Lake Tribune, written by Kathy Stephenson (a high school friend of mine):

“Basically the overall demand for the product, both on a national and regional level, declined to the point that we decided to discontinue the product,” said Rene Zahery, a spokeswoman for Kraft, which purchased the Post-brand products several years ago.

“Whatever remains in the marketplace is all there is of Postum,” she said.

This is terrible news! Next thing you know, they will stop making Coca Cola, and someone is going to have to scrape all the Mormons off the ceiling. Or spray them with cold water to wake them up. Wouldn’t want THAT job. (Apologies to my mother, who does NOT drink the evil Coca Cola, in any form, although she loves her some hot cocoa).

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People across America are currently asking themselves this question: Can Mitt Romney govern this country without his faith intervening? They might want to read this very interesting, and very alarming, story. Former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, now serving as HHS secretary, used to have early morning “Seminary” meetings.

Former Utah governor and current Cabinet secretary Mike Leavitt sought to infuse the lessons of his religion into his inaugural address and into state policy, conducting a series of “Early Morning Seminary” classes in which he and top advisers discussed how to incorporate “just and holy” Mormon principles into his governance, archival records show.

This alone signifies the COLD HARD TRUTH. There IS no separation of church and state in Utah. This, people, is called PROOF. It’s not surprising. But still… PROOF.

Over several mornings in late 1996, the group delved into the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, exploring the lessons from Mormon scripture and how they apply to modern government.

Can Mitt be any different? It will be interesting to see what the American people think about that. Currently, the answer is 50-50. Sorta. If one can compare the Iowa caucus, where Huckabee beat Romney, to the Wyoming caucus, where Huckabee was less than a gnat buzzing in Romney’s ear.

And that, folks, is your BZC roundup.