100% American 0% Democrat
This will be a short one, and I'm sure we will see much more of this garbage as the election year continues. As I stopped at the hardware store today to pick up some energy saving light bulbs, I saw...
View ArticleHoly Crap
Swung by the news this morning and was shocked at the amount of religiosly inspired nonsense, so I thought I'd share some of it. To start ... Kansas pastor calls on U.S. government to kill LGBT people...
View ArticleJesus Loves the Little Children
As a child I was exposed to the standard religious education then in vogue throughout the South... among other places certainly. But in the South, Jesus held sway like nothing and no one else: Lord of...
View ArticleKidnapped her kid rather than allow lesbian ex court-ordered custody
Today's New York Times has a story of the continuing saga of a born-again self-proclaimed ex-lesbian who took her child to Central America when a judge threatened to revoke her custody because she...
View ArticleWhy We Stand Up Against Intolerance
Over the course of American history, a group of Americans has always stood up to intolerance. Whether it was against African Americans, women, immigrants, homosexuals, or others, we have stood up and...
View ArticleBald white man, dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants, with a 9/11...
CNN is now reporting 6 dead including the gunman who is described in the title. The attack occurred about 10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. ET), when temple members were reading scriptures and cooking food in...
View ArticleTemple Shootings, Mosque Burnings, Random Beatings
GOP's rhetoric and the recent rise in intolerance.
View ArticlePink Breechcloths, Political Correctness and Pretend Traditions (Like...
THEN: When I was just a wee, little, pigeon-toed lad at an elementary school called “Vina Chattin” within the great Blackfeet Nation, my male classmates and I were young gladiators, warriors, awaiting...
View ArticleThe Progressive Church, Part 3: A Biblical Basis for Progressivism - Hatred,...
I think it's an interesting phenomenon that as the Republican party grows increasingly fringe in its appeals, it loses its ability to cast a large umbrella under which to accommodate several,...
View ArticleMitt Romney Insults A Gay Veteran
Here's a video of an interchange between Mitt Romney and a veteran that I wish would happen every single day of this man's campaign. It is moments like this that we used to think would be seen in some...
View ArticleMitt Romney Supports Israeli film makers attack on religion.
Mitt Romney has finally showed his hand. He is willing to support the attack on Islam by the Israeli film maker. Would he support the rights of the makers of such a film it was about Mormonism ?...
View ArticleThe Birth of Intolerance
and the reason why an Anti-Islam filmmaker is in hiding. First off this horrific and very sad event is one of the reasons why I believe all Fundamentalists are wacky. Someone makes a film debunking...
View ArticleFundaloons bring anti-Islamic posters to NYC Subways
Apparently it was not stupid enough to incite a riot so Embassy staff are murdered by angry mobs of outraged Muslims. A similar group will bring their insults to the nice safe uncrowded environs of...
View ArticleObama depreciates Christianity [NOT]
I read Redstate so you don't have to. As a heads up, here comes the next right wing meme. I won't be providing links. Redstate Headline: President Obama Declares The Future Must Not Belong to...
View ArticleCardboard Obama told “Go back to Kenya” at Romney rally
Read the full story at KDVR-TV Denver. On Monday, ProgressNow Colorado sent a camera and a cardboard cutout of President Obama--with no other provocations--into the line at Mitt Romney's rally in...
View ArticleHave you experienced negative feedback from your activities on Daily Kos?
Oh how I love the delicious whiff of irony in the morning. I reproduce this image as a perfect example of that which psychologists call "projection". That is imbuing your opponents with the negative...
View ArticleTeaching Our Children (Or Not Teaching Them, Apparently): A Student Honors...
It's the first day of NaNoWriMo, I have a book coming out this month, Thanksgiving, surgery three days after--it's not like I really have time to write anything extra, but there's this thing I need to...
View ArticleJust for Once, Stop Talking, and Listen!
They tell me I can write. They tell me, in comment after comment that my Diaries are "beautiful, or powerful, or just damned good yarns.My problem is that I do write, and comment, quite a lot, and time...
View ArticleDavid Frum: Who's this mysterious moderate?
These days, when I tune into the news and see clips online, I have been seeing this person David Frum all over the place. I have been listening to him advocate for moderation, inclusiveness and he...
View ArticleA Crisis of Responsibility
This made the rounds on my morning Facebook roll. Putting aside whether or not this is 'real', in terms of objectively real, or the opinions of Starner Jones, M.D., the attitudes and sentiments...
View Article