Hot Air has a post up that is titled "Shock: Bill Maher says something disgusting about Cheney".  Here is a link to the video.  Here is the transcript.

Maher: But I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow. (applause)

Scarborough: If someone on this panel said that they wished that Dick Cheney had been blown up, and you didn’t say…

Frank: I think he did.

Scarborough: Okay. Did you say…

Maher: No, no. I quoted that.

Frank: You don’t believe that?

Maher: I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.

Ace 'O Spades covers the topic with the following headline "Bill Maher: Also Sorry Cheney Wasn't Assassinated".

Small Dead Animals points out that:

POPE IS WARNED OF A GREEN ANTICHRIST

An arch-conservative cardinal chosen by the Pope to deliver this year’s Lenten meditations to the Vatican hierarchy has caused consternation by giving warning of an Antichrist who is “a pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist”.

Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 78, who retired as Archbishop of Bologna three years ago, quoted Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), the Russian philosopher and mystic, as predicting that the Antichrist “will convoke an ecumenical council and seek the consensus of all the Christian confessions”.

The “masses” would follow the Antichrist, “with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants” who would fight to prevent the watering down and ultimate destruction of the faith, he said.

Cardinal Biffi said that Christianity stood for “absolute values, such as goodness, truth, beauty”. If “relative values” such as “solidarity, love of peace and respect for nature” became absolute, they would encourage “idolatry” and “put obstacles in the way of salvation”.

You know she senses free-fall when she drags the cigar-meister along with her to Selma, Alabama.  She's lost much of the stalwart Hollywood crowd, who are turning toward Obama rather than sticking with the heiress.  And among black voters, her lead over Obama has suddenly been cut in half.  She's in free-fall, Obama's gaining steam, and Algore is building a nationwide machine that ostensibly promotes his mockumentary but is in reality little more than the means by which he hopes to catapult himself above and beyond the reach of Mrs. Clinton and Obama.  Things are looking bleak in the Clinton camp.  And so Hillary, who has seldom mentioned her cigar-meister husband, is now dragging him along.  Clearly, this indicates that she's incapable of running on her own merits (if any).  And if this indicator is picked up, it may well hamstring her campaign.  And then it gets worse:

As noted previously, one of the reasons why Dean became so unhinged over Coulter's remark is because the term "faggot" has in recent years become virtually exclusively associated with reference to homosexual men - when in fact, usage of the term dating back to the middle ages was quite different; it referred to a bundle of wood to be bound up for ease in carrying.  Homosexuals have proven quite consistent and insistent upon appropriating commonly used words as badges of honor, and have been assisted down this path by the mainstream media and other allies.  Let's examine a couple of other misappropriated terms:

Gay:

Ann Coulter has a slutty mouth and is an embarassment to the conservative cause.  Mary Katherine Ham says "Just don't".  Hugh Hewitt courageously says in a lot of words: ENOUGH!  Hotair.com says this is Christmas for liberals… and Kevin McCullough blogs about how Ann Coulter is raising $100,000 for John Edwards.

Personally, I think Michelle Malkin can take over with ease over that piece of white trash Democrat-in-drag as the official national spokeswoman of American conservatism.

Back in High School, in Western Civilization class (back before Western Civ was a BAD thing), when learning about the conditions that led to the Protestant Reformation (yes kids, Martin Luther was a person, not just an informal name for Martin Luther King).

One of the things that Luther was upset about was the selling of Indulgences. 

Now, from a striclty Capitalist viewpoint, I can see Indulgences as a stroke of genius.  One of the basic things that makes Capitalism work, is a flow of goods.  People with an abundance of one thing sell or trade it to people who don't have enough of that thing, but have too much of something else.  IN this case, it was SIN.

Sinners could purchase and indulgence from the church, who theoretically had no sin, and a surplus of good acts available to sell.  Sinners got absolution, and the church gained money, property, goods, whatever.