Psalm 109:8 Update

This was the Psalm reference that the clever little teabaggers were displayin’

and this is what the verse actually says.

May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

Psalm 109:8

This and the subsequent verses make the intent of this nasty piece of political correctness quite clear.

Seen as my post on this topic is currently getting more hits than any other on this blog I figured that an update was in order.

first, a couple of interesting aside, for SEO geeks at any rate. I titled the post Psalm 108:9 which, of course, is wrong. It should read Psalm 109:8 which means that I was getting all the traffic from people who also got it wrong when entering it in the Google, Yahoo or AOL search box. Question: would I have got more hits with a correct spelling- Probably not.



I suspect that a huge chunk if not the majority of these visitors were not nice people as a very common addition to the the psalm number was the phrase “bumper stickers” so it is fair to assume that these people were in shopping mode. Maybe looking to spread some Christmas cheer of the burning cross variety.

The original post centered around online stores that printed customers designs on things allowing the customer to make a few pennies on the dollar on any sales. Specifically the article mentioned Zazzle, who withdrew the offending merchandise and focused on Cafepress who withdrew it then reinstated it along with a sort of belligerent manifesto type stance.

Apparently cafepress have again revised it’s decision and as of this moment the offending goods are not on it’s website.

This from Cafe Press via the above Think Progress Article:

Last night we posted a poll on our blog, read through the emails we’ve received and weighed the nature of the calls we’ve received on the topic. In the process we also learned that many of the original designers of the Psalm 109:8 designs had already decided to remove them on their own.

General consensus has proven that the design does point to a broader interpretation of the Psalm and thus has been deemed inappropriate for sale at CafePress.

Ahh the smell of bullshit in the morning. Cafe Press would have been better off admitting their mistake and dealing rather than attempting a smoke and mirrors ‘opinions differ and misunderstandings and different interpretations were to be expected’ type defense. It was a business decision pure and simple.

I never did much business with Cafe Press, as I think the business model sucks, but one thing is for sure and that is I will not be doing any with them in the future. Any company that takes more than two seconds to decide that this sort of stuff is wrong is desperately in need of a moral compass.

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