Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Sunday Oct 26, 2008 7:00amConsortiumblog: Bush asks his Attorney General to support the Republican attempt to disenfranchise thousands of Ohio voters
Politics in the Zeros: Is the Mormon Church's financial involment in the 'Yes' on Proposition 8 campaign a violation of tax-exempt statutes?
BuzzFlash: Sarah Palin refuses to acknowledge that anti-abortion murderers are 'domestic terrorists.'
his vorpal sword: The GOP will try and blame McCain for their meltdown, but in reality, it is their entire ideology, and especially their emphasis on exclusion, that is the cause.
Brad DeLong: The recession gathers speed...
Faithful Progressive: Famous Socialist presidents: Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Woodrow Wilson - if you use McCain's wacky definition
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Anchorage Daily news endorses . . . OBAMA!
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/...
" . . . few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range."
". . . Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain."
I live in Utah (one of the three non-Mormons) and I have my own disagreements about the LDS Church.I am also against prop 8.
Truth be told, the Mormon Church did encourage people to vote for 8. However, they didn't participate in raising money. The people raising money are mostly private entities separate from the church.
Now it might be the case that some local Mormon chruch leaders in California might have encouraged or participated in fund raising for prop 8, but their activities are not sanctioned by the central leadership of the church.
I expect they've already got the mechanism in place to gather support and donations in such a way that allows them to say it's outside the church but the organizing factor is the church.
I believe all religion is full of shit and that it stifles the ability to think for yourself.
that being said:
No matter who is behind promoting prop 8 - church or civilian - it just shows them to be a bigot, they have no real argument so they lie: "gay marrage is going to be taught in schools" etc. - I don't support bigots or their propositions - so if it's the Mormon church or some independant anti-American movement it really doesn't matter. but if the church is putting anything behind this prop then they should have to pay their fair share to play the game.
I'm fed up with churches getting tax exempt status to spread their lies and to screw up our government. I would love to have leaders who put themselves above the nonsense of religion, or at the very least they could keep their religion to themselves, but as most religious people, they just can't help trying to force their Bullshit on everyone else.
Long Long Ago.
Matter of fact, that was the point in time when McCaint lost all respect from most of us, When he went down to kiss the big fat hateful ass of Falwell first and then that other pig-person full of hatred Hagee.
TAX THE CHURCH .... End Government sponsored brainwashing and the spread of Delusional thinking.
Um........I know.......I must be a concern troll, but Bob...um....let me ask you and all something. The same morons that fully backed Bushie the Braindead 2, back Obama over McCain. Why? If Obama is everything progressives and the left truly believe he is, then why the support from Wingnutopia? Even feverish Shrub supporter David Frum supports Obama over McCain. Is it that McCain is REALLY that bad, or is it he doesn't lean in their direction as closely as Obama does? Partisan politics aside, are people not the least bit concerned about this trend of support? Lifelong wingnuts are finally seeing the light, or do they actually know something else?
I truly think it's because the stakes are too high. McCain is not the right man for the job. If the U.S. is to survive, we need to rehabilitate our world reputation. McCain simply cannot do that. He is an angry, out of touch, warmonger. I think that people might not be "seeing the light" so much as putting partisan politics aside for the good of the whole. We simply would not survive 4 years of McCain in a worldwide economy.
That may be true, but that does not explain the wingnut support. I understand the partisan support, and the anger at Republicans in general. What I don't understand is the Republicans supporting Obama. It smells. Republicans are more loyal to their party than the Dems have ever been. It smells bad.
I disagree. I think that they may be more loyal, but they are also not stupid. I'm not talking about the rabid base that you see in these gross videos with their race baiting comments; I'm talking about intelligent, thoughtful Republicans like the aforementioned David Frum. They aren't stupid. They can read the writing on the wall and they realize it can't say McCain.
I think any group that selected Shrub TWICE, in no way would ever vote for the opposite party unless they knew their interests were going to be looked after.
Precisely the point. Their interests will be looked after. We will survive as a nation. We will rehabilitate our reputation and gain back some of the ground we lost in the last 8 years. Things that simply cannot be accomplished with a McCain administration. As an outsider to the US, I am sure that you share that perspective. That if McCain wins, we are a laughing stock and the rest of the world (this very small world we all now share) will wash it's hands of us. Rightfully so.
The churches rake in millions and do nothing but cause problems.
They should either start paying their fair share or sell those 'six flags over jebus' fun houses.
I look forward to a day when we are forever free from the ignorance called 'religion'.
"Religion is a good thing I say, taken in moderation." - Trading Places
with congregations consisting of many, many decent and hard-working people. And, there are churches that should be looked at closely for violating tax and federal laws.
Some pal around with the needy and some pal around with Republican bigwigs.
Overgeneralization and laws that indiscriminately eliminate postive social efforts in their broad sweeps smacks of tyranny.
with congregations consisting of many, many decent and hard-working people. And, there are churches that should be looked at closely for violating tax and federal laws.
what makes you think they aren't ALL violating the prohibitions for their unethical support of particular candidates?
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose either." -- Clarence Darrow
"A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle" -- attributed to Gloria Steinem
Mostly isnt good enough in law, any evidence of sanctioned political action by the church will result in tax status change.
Theres enough people (and lawyers) out there that dont like organized religion to push this into and through the courts.
This also applies to any church out there, large or small in every town and city in the US.
Dabble in politics to your hearts content, but dont be surprised when the IRS comes a'knocking demanding taxes, past present and future.
According to the releases, is attempting to suppress the votes in a case heard by the Supreme Court. The court's non-decision essentially was one that said that the Republican Party, as a private party, could not challenge Ohio's actions relating to the federal law's that were Republican leaning and in the aftermath of the last election.
That was the green light to Bush and Mukasey, who now has a law he feels important enough to allow this leak.
If this action takes place, it will be in contravention of laws that prohibit investigations so close to an election. It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media will play it or not.
Which brings up an important point.
The DOJ fiasco is not over if Obama wins this election. As Clinton did, the Obama Executive Branch will probably fire ALL 93 US Attorneys (this is not uncommon). But the DOJ has been corrupted over the last 8 years to a point where there IS NO Justice. These are branches in EVERY State that have not only failed the office, but have routinely compromised their oaths of office.
Of all the corrupt, illegal, and incompetent actions taken by the current administration, the consequences of the politicization of the DOJ is one that has been given too little consideration compared to the long-term consequences.
There is much to do.
Bill Moyer with James K. Galbraith Economist and author of 'The Predator State'. He calls what we have been dealt a 'Corporate Republic'. Exactly what I have been saying for some time:
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations… and their buddies.
Part 1
Part 2
Excerpt describing his book here.
Time to take a sledge hammer to corporate fascism, and hang their leaders upside down and shake out all the public money they stole!
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist.
"Asian Journalist: 'Mr. President, what place do you think you will have in history?'"
"George W. Bush: 'History? In history we'll all be dead!'"
From Oliver Stone's "W"
The time is coming when we will have a leader who feels the only way to make headway is to cut off heads.
The question remains:
Will the heads belong to the Fascists or to the Socialists.
toast toast toast
When you look at the NRCC RNC WcCain accounts at one of the FEC databases,
its blindingly obvious that they and their supporters are cooking the books, money in money out, illegal and suspicious numbers all over the place.
IOKIYAR
Republicanism the party of fraud.
Reich wing blog forum puts the boot in on Palin
neo-con or neo-nazi judging by their blog friends list!!!
Seems to be some truth to the rumours of a serious rent between WcCain and Stalin. nice.
http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/10/24/rnc...
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=M....
Hey, I'm mentioned prominently on that Source Watch page, why don't you you quote that part? ;)
addendum
My comment was in response to CC.
Thanks so much for the link, Mike. Everything is a slippery slope to the fundies, but taking away someone's rights based on their books of fiction couldn't possibly spiral into a Taliban-esque society, right?
Between Xtian money sources, grants to bio scientists and biological research into human gene mapping and ethnic diversity.
There was a mainstream story on a couple of DNA mappers a while ago, it caught my eye, so I did some digging and connected dots to where their money was coming from, not a pretty story.
Why would rich hardcore fundies be interested in the diversity of human DNA !!!?
racial targeted bio weapons maybe.
There always was a slight suspicion about why certain nasty viruses sprang up in southern Africa, were they connected to the South African white apartheid regime's fear of being overrun from the north by the hordes.
One of the reasons that bio scientist who got the DoJ and MSM blame way back in 2002 and came under suspicion was the fact that he studied/worked in Rhodesia and South Africa and had trained people for Eugene Terreblanche.
There are some sick Xtian F*ckers out there who would not hesitate to unleash biowarfare against people(s) they hate, Palin and the other media friendly types are the moderate face of them.
but I have a pretty strong hunch that you made all that up just now. Call it intuition.
Cesca's post makes the point that needs to be made more often, in fiction, in reality, in the news...
In an effort to continue Tax Exempt Status for the rich Bush sends out a tax funded arm of the government to rig the election while the Mormons risk their tax exempt status to take away the rights of people who will probably never seek an abortion which would entice Sarah Palin to support the demise of those who performed them while preparing to blame McCain for losing the election (just in case) rather than a snowballing recession because that would be "Socialist."
Does that about cover it?
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