Jun 022012
 

If one obviously Republican supporting newspaper in central Louisiana can be believed [NOT!], there is a heinous conspiracy afoot.  The perpetrators are, of course, the evil anti-American, Muslim, communist, nazi, socialist, Kenyan, Barack HUSSEIN Obama and the Democrat Party.  The plot is to shoot Catholics and Christians.

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The Daily Advertiser [RWNJ delinked], a Gannett-owned paper serving central Louisiana, is standing by its decision to run an advertisement today in which a far-right extremist group suggests that President Obama and Democrats are conspiring to murder Catholics and Christians.

The ad shows a photograph of a Catholic priest who was shot and killed in Mexico in the 1920s, and suggests that President Obama and Democrats would do the same. It was posted by a user on Reddit this morning.

The ad copy is no better:

AMERICA is under siege by the same evil (obama and democrats) as history shows over and over…We must learn from it or we are doomed to repeat it. We must be triumphant over terror.”

As with most newspapers, The Daily Advertiser says it does screen advertisements to ensure that blatantly false, overly offensive or otherwise inappropriate content is kept out of the paper. But the paper’s president and publisher Karen J. Lincoln told ThinkProgress that the newspaper stood by its decision to run the ad… [emphasis original]

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If that is screened to ensure that blatantly false, overly offensive or otherwise inappropriate content is kept out of the paper, then I’m a beauty queen.

They forgot the 11th Commandment:

Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!

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May 292012
 

To be clear, Supply-side Jesus is not the real Jesus.  The real Jesus taught love, inclusiveness, and care for the poor.  Supply-side Jesus is the invention of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians to justify their false gospel of hate, bigotry, and care for the rich (greed).  Here’s an example of what I mean from Republican stalwart, Brian Fischer.

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Over the last few weeks, Bryan Fischer has been growing increasingly vocal about his views that President Obama hates both the Constitution and the United States of America because he thinks it is "one big, giant Ku Klux Klan meeting" and is therefore intentionally trying to destroy the country.

And he made the case again on his radio program yesterday, this time adding in Attorney General Eric Holder, claiming that Holder will never "prosecute someone if the victim is white"…

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Now those are some pretty extreme charges against Fischer, but don’t believe me.  Believe your own eyes and ears.

Needless to say, there is absolutely nothing true from one end of Fischer’s blasphemy to the other.  I call it blasphemy, because it is Antichristian.

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May 192012
 

As I write the temperature outside is 40°, and it’s 65° at my desk.  What a contrast from earlier this week!  I’m completely comfortable.  The COPD and bursitis are still acting up, but not enough to sideline me.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have errands to run.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:45 (average 4:32). To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: What Kind Of Men Do Women Really Want?

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In other words, not men from the Republican base.

From MSNBC: A billionaire explains who job creators are.

 

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Republicans are right that we need to protect the job creators. They are just lying about who the job creators are. You and I are the job creators, not the 1%.

From Chicago Tribune: China allowed a blind legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, to leave a hospital in Beijing on Saturday and board a plane bound for the United States, a move that could signal the end of a diplomatic standoff between the two countries.

Chen’s escape from house arrest in northeastern China last month and subsequent stay in the U.S. embassy caused huge embarrassment for China and led to a diplomatic rift while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was visiting Beijing for talks to improve ties between the world’s two biggest economies.

This is the activist that Republicans claimed had been abandoned to the Chinese by Obama. I wonder why they are silent now

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Mar 232012
 

Yesterday I left for the prison shortly after getting the blog up.  It was the first of two annual “banquets” that the group of men, for whom I volunteer, hold for family members, volunteers, and themselves.  The group has become so large that the prison visiting room is not large enough to accommodate all at once, so there are two banquets for half the men each.  The second will be next month for the other half of the guys.  They pay for the food themselves out of the $1 – $3 per day they receive for their prison jobs.  I particularly enjoy an opportunity to talk to family members about how hard their husbands, sons and brothers are working to learn the skills they need to be pro-social, law abiding citizens.  The down side is that I returned home sore and exhausted.  My COPD limited my sleep, so I am too tired and foggy for a normal day of research and writing.  This is today’s only article.  I am not current with replies, but will be tomorrow.  Tomorrow is a catch-up day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:28 (average 4:50).  To do it, click here.  How did you so?

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged on Friday with 17 counts of murder and various other charges, including attempted murder, in connection with the March 11 attack on Afghan civilians, a senior United States official said on Thursday.

Because the acts, however horrific, seem so out of character for this man, I hope this trial focuses more on the war.

From MoveOn: The Most Eye-Opening Fact About Inequality That We’ve Seen All Week

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That certainly paints a true picture.

From MSNBC: Authentic Christianity

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This is what happens when authentic Christians act on their belief.  It is the polar opposite of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.

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Feb 172012
 

In their campaign to keep women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, Republicans are backing themselves into another no-win situation, as the nation lines up against their position.  However, instead of having the wisdom to back down, Republicans are doubling down, generating even more widespread opposition.

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In this video essay, Bill Moyers addresses the question of how to honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose on others moral beliefs they don’t share. The recent debate over contraception coverage in Catholic hospitals and other faith-based institutions brought this question to the forefront, but then something surprising happened — a reasonable, practical, and equitable solution from President Obama…

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Moyers is right.  Religious liberty does not include the ability to impose on others moral beliefs they do not share, as Republicans are working to accomplish.

Darryl Issa (R-CA) made matters worse by forcefully excluding women from his sham hearing.

17HearingAs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee began a hearing Thursday morning on the Obama administration’s rule mandating free contraceptive care for employees at religiously-affiliated institutions, New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney had a question for the panel: "Where are the women?" she asked.

"I look at this panel, and I don’t one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning," Maloney said. "Where are the women?"

The hearing, entitled "Lines crossed: Separation of church and state. Has the Obama administration trampled on freedom of religion and freedom of conscience?" aimed to address the White House’s ruling on contraception, and whether or not that rule infringes on religious liberty…

…In his opening remarks, Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel’s top Democrat, argued committee chair Darrell Issa had "stacked" the panel with people who reflected only the Republican perspective, and accused the committee of perpetrating a "massive injustice" by failing to include women in the discussion.

Democrats on the committee charged that Issa "personally rejected" testimony from Sandra Fluke, a woman who had hoped to tell the story of her friend, who she says lost an ovary due to a lack of contraceptive coverage.

"Your staff told us you personally rejected Ms. Fluke’s testimony, saying that, quote, ‘the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception,’" Maloney said to Issa in her opening remarks during the hearing.

"Of course this hearing is about rights — contraception and birth control," she said. "It’s about the fact that women want to have access to basic health services family planning through their health insurance plan."… [emphasis added]

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Ed Schultz provides excellent coverage of this story and interviews both Sandra Fluke and Professor Caroline Heldman.

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I fully support the notion of freedom of religion, enshrined as it is in our Constitution, but when Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians attempt to impose their religious dogma on you and me, they are interfering with our freedom of religion.

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Feb 172012
 

Let me be clear that I am not attacking Christians here.  Supply-side Jesus is completely opposite to the Jesus that authentic Christians worship.  Supply-side Jesus was invented to justify the Republican false gospel of hate, greed and racism for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.  Many practitioners of this obscenity prey on their congregants and promise miracles, but when Supply-side Jesus can’t cut it, and there is no miracle, guess whose fault it is.

17pat_robertson_devil_signOne of the most sad and telling claims of so-called ‘faith healers’ from Benny Hinn to Todd Bentley is that the reason people are not healed at their healing conferences or through their television ministries is not because the faith healer wasn’t able to cure the ailment or sickness but because of the lack of faith of the person (and often the inadequate size of their financial gifts) who sought the healing. If only the person had genuine faith, so it goes, then the healing would’ve worked, so don’t blame the healer!

Today on the 700 Club [Theocons delinked], we saw an example of that when a viewer called in wondering why it is that when he prayed with Pat Robertson during his show for a healing of his knee pain the pain came back the next day. Robertson responded that people can “give up” his healings because “you don’t believe that it’s real” and never claimed the healing, “this is mine.”… [emphasis added]

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Here’s the video.

It does not take rocket science to figure out how connected Robertson is with God.  A few years back Disney World announced that they had discontinued their policy to discriminate against LGBT employees.  Robertson quickly prophesied that God had told him Orlando would be smitten with a hurricane in retribution for Disney World’s satanic policy.  The next hurricane to hit the US made landfall at Virginia Beach and damaged Robertson’s headquarters.  God must have a wonderful sense of humor.

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Feb 152012
 

Yesterday I felt so tired when I returned home from the prison that I wrote this, set it to be published right after midnight, and went to bed.  The meeting was excellent.  Three new men joined our CoDA group there.  We did some insightful digging and made excellent progress.  I cannot say more without violating confidence, except that I could not be more proud of my guys.  I am not current with replies.  Today is a day for catch-up and recovery.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

It was not out yet.  I’ll put up two tomorrow.

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: What If Everyone Saw This Message From Robert Redford?

 

Keep saying NO to Big Oil!

From Business Week: The New Jersey Senate passed a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, in the face of Republican Governor Chris Christie’s promise to veto it.

The Senate voted 24-16 in favor of the measure, sending it to the Assembly, which plans to consider it Feb. 16. Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, have made gay marriage a priority for 2012, two years after they failed to pass a similar bill supported by then-Governor Jon Corzine.

When Christie vetoes it, pass it again!

From Truth Dig: The prolonged Republican primary campaign appears to be taking a toll on independent voters’ faith in Mitt Romney. According to the latest Pew poll, only a minority of independents now describe Romney as “honest and trustworthy” and slightly more than half of independent voters now favor Barack Obama in a race against Romney, who led the president in that category only a month ago.

As is pointed out every four years or so, so-called independent voters typically decide presidential elections.

It’s still way too early to depend on polls, but this is positive news, especially since Obama does even better compared to the Frothmeister.

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Jan 172012
 

Rick “Google Me” Santorum thought he had the unified endorsement of the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican Party.  However the endorsement is not so clear as it seemed when Tony Perkins lied to America, announcing a consensus  of support for Santorum.  This is the first time I have ever used the Washington Times, an extreme Republican paper, as a source.  I am doing so now to avoid claims of bias.

17santorumA civil war is breaking out among evangelical leaders over allegations of a rigged election and ballot stuffing at a Saturday gathering of religious and social conservatives.

At the meeting about 150 religious conservative activists at the Benham, Texas, ranch of Nancy and Paul Pressler, Rick Santorum supporters claimed the former Pennsylvania senator was chosen on the third ballot as the consensus candidate to try to stop Mitt Romney’s march to the Republican presidential nomination.

The meeting was called to avoid a continued division within social conservatives’ ranks.

But in back-and-forth emails, Protestant fundamentalist leaders who attended – most of them backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to be the anti-Romney candidate — are accusing Catholic participants of conniving to rig the vote.

They said they were conned into leaving after the second ballot on Saturday. They said pro-Santorum participants held a third ballot which Mr. Santorum won with more than 70 percent of the vote — far higher than the nine-vote margin he won on the first ballot.

“My view is that the vote was manipulated,” said a prominent social conservative who asked not to be named.

Now, a prominent evangelical political organizer is saying to others confidentially he has evidence that in a least one instance a participant was seen writing Mr. Santorum’s name on four separate ballots and putting them in the ballot box… [emphasis added]

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Neither claims of voter fraud and nor rigged elections represent anything new to the Republican party, but this has to hurt.  Not only is it embarrassing for them to be seen as too contentious to function honorably, but also, it defeats their purpose, leaving support even more divided between Newter and the Frothmeister, thus helping Multiple Mitt.

Rachel Maddow fills in the details.

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I bet vulture capitalists are partying down over this, especially the most multiple one.

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