Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in politics on 20 September 2008 - 21 אלול 5768
NE OF THE First acts of the newly created Federal Gov’t, at the end of the 18th Century, was to decide to pay off debt to businesses and wealthy land-holders incurred during the war against the British King. This they did by raising taxes on all other Americans - some of whom could ill [...]
Posted in other geekery, politics on 15 September 2008 - 16 אלול 5768
HE NASDAQ closed today up 737% compared to the crash of 87. Up 115% from the Correction in ‘02. The DOW is up 63% from ‘02 and 534% since ‘87.
What’s the problem? Most people keep wanting more money. More and more. And, in fact, they don’t invest, they gamble: they want [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics, rightwingers on 11 September 2008 - 12 אלול 5768
F YOU THOUGHT The police regimes around the Democratic and Republican Conventions were bad, take a look at life in Helena, AK:
For much of the latter part of summer, police officers in Helena, Ark., shouldered military-style M-16 rifles equipped with laser sights and patrolled the streets of this little community of 15,000. White signs [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 11 September 2008 - 12 אלול 5768
NE OF THE Saints said that the difference between humans and God is so vast that, when standing in the presence of God, to point out a difference between two humans is rude. (Don’t ask me for a source, it could have been Wesley, Chrysostom or Barth, maybe even Buber.) A story is [...]
Posted in leftwingers, politics, rightwingers on 8 September 2008 - 9 אלול 5768
EE HOW THEY Love one another?
OK. Follow this:
1) Tax Law prohibits a pulpit from being used to espouse partisan politics.
2) Last election cycle a group of liberal churches filed suit against a group of conservative churches for violation of this law. The suit failed.
3) This election cycle a group of conservative churches filed [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 3 September 2008 - 4 אלול 5768
NCE AGAIN We’ve reached that curious juncture in American Poltics where Christians on the Left and Christians on the Right are trying to make the other side into Canon Fodder, pardon the pun.
Palin is a pious, Christian who was baptised Roman Catholic and apostatised as a child. Now she speaks in tongues, thinks [...]
Posted in politics on 27 August 2008 - 27 אב 5768
NYONE Else fascinated by the idea that Obama has ties to 60s-era radicals? Admittedly: these are ties that are meaningless to his politics. The man is as centrist as John McCain (as far as Washington goes). Of course, Ayers is only as radical as most 60 year old hippies.
For the last [...]
Posted in politics on 26 August 2008 - 26 אב 5768
N CASE You’ve missed the political points that are being driven home this week: Russia : Georgia :: USA : (Iraq*Kosovo). Oh, and we’re hypocritical snots.
Mind you: I support the rights of small peoples to demand independence - especially when it’s a case of Genocide in the Name of Jesus.
But I think [...]
Posted in politics on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
ITH ALL Props to the Blingdom of God for digging up this Biden quote from 2005:
“If I’m the nominee, Republicans will be sorry,” he said. “The next Republican that tells me I’m not religious I’m going to shove my rosary beads down their throat.
“I am so sick and tired of this pontificating about us [...]
Posted in politics, rightwingers on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
ANKEE POLITICIANS can be just as stupid as anyone else. And, btw, his fear of what the Mexicans might be taught is 100% right. Southern California, Arizona, Texas… all belong justly to Mexico. He wants another civil war, and he wants an all-white USA.
Ah. Joy. This man, Jack Davis, is running [...]
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