July 2011
“Don’t Tread On Me… and Don’t Blame Me Either” →
“if you’re going to sit there with your “Don’t Tread On Me” T-shirt, holding a Bible in one hand and the American flag in the other, and you talk about a “War” on Christians and the “encroaching invasion” of Islam and illegal immigrants, and the “threat” of multiculturalism, and the need for “revolution” and “Second Amendment remedies”, you don’t get to then claim innocence and ignorance...
Cultural Marxists Now Treating All Met Police as →
vruz: I’m pleased though, that there’s no false pretense of tolerance anymore.
—via livingispolitical:
Cultural Marxism (or KVLT MARX) is a political philosophy which considers Christianity and the nuclear family undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes satanism, or polymorphous perversity. Any information relating to Cultural Marxists should be reported to...
Skud: An update on my Google Plus suspension →
—via aredridel:
More on Skud’s suspension from Google+.
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Turning The Gestapo Into A Game →
via Andrew Sullivan, The Dish / The Daily Beast
Blogger “hld6” shares a childhood story in line with the “Christian Persecution Complex” recently addressed by Michelle Cottle and Jon Stewart:
One of the things I think people sometimes miss here is the extent to which the belief that Christians are victims is taught and affirmed by the Christian community, the way it...
“There is a fight going on in Washington over whether we should have a democracy...”
– Stop Calling This A “Debt Crisis” — It Isn’t (via azspot)
More violent right wing comments from Fox News... →
thefactoryworker:
vruz:
vruz: because as everybody knows in the decalogue god gave to moses it read: “Thou shalt not kill, unless it’s atheists we’re talking about”.
These people aren’t Christians. Clearly. They miss one of the most important messages of Christianity… love.
vruz: honestly, I don’t give a damn what they are. I just want them to keep their duckies in a line and not...
Congress fights on edge of a cliff →
FT.com The Financial Times
With the deadline of August 2 all but upon it, the US Congress has yet to present a fiscal plan for President Barack Obama’s signature. In deploring this lamentable state of affairs, one wonders where to begin. The distance in the debt-ceiling talks between the Republicans and the Democrats narrowed this week to almost nothing, yet still Congress edges to the...
Boehner's selfishness, or maybe not →
The Economist
I HATE the twisted spaghetti chaos of 11-dimensional cross-analyses of different modal strategic considerations by different personalities that this debt ceiling insanity has plunged us into.
The cause of the mess is actually a pretty simple case of ideological fanaticism, and it’s only the frenzied efforts to get us out of the mess created by those people’s...
Lexington: The Republicans alone are to blame for... →
The Economist
vruz: right now, I think you have to be really stupid to claim the dems are the problem, or absolutely lazy and misinformed.
PERRY V. UNITED STATES, 294 U. S. 330 (1935) →
Page 294 U.S. 354
11. Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment, declaring that “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, … shall not be questioned,” is confirmatory of a fundamental principle, applying as well to bonds issued after, as to those issued before, the adoption of the Amendment, and the expression “validity of the public debt...
FED UP: Just Do The 14th Amendment Thing Already,... →
TPM
“I’m talking about that there’s precedents for presidents to do things where the Constitution doesn’t give the president explicit authority but it doesn’t prohibit the president from doing it, and I believe there’s a basis in the 14th amendment as decided in Perry v. United States,” Sen Tom Harkin (D-IA) said on the Senate floor. “I think...
More violent right wing comments from Fox News... →
vruz: because as everybody knows in the decalogue god gave to moses it read: “Thou shalt not kill, unless it’s atheists we’re talking about”.
World Reacts To Debt Ceiling Debacle:... →
ThinkProgress
—via moorewr:joshuastarlight:
Conservative German Die Welt: “[T]here are few signs of self-doubt or self-awareness in the U.S. … [The Tea Party movement] sees the other side as their enemy. Negotiations with the Democrats, whether it’s about appointing a judge or the insolvency of the United States, are only successful if the enemy is defeated. Compromise, they feel, is...
Tea Party in the US House →
@davewiner sez: I was curious to see which states had elected the most Tea Party Reps
Texas 11
Florida 7
Louisiana 5
South Carolina 4
Georgia 4
California 4
Tennessee 3
Missouri 3
Minnesota 2
Kansas 2
Indiana 2
Colorado 2
West Virginia 1
Utah 1
North Carolina 1
New Mexico ...
“…[O]ne thing is looking more and more to me to be the sad, obvious outcome and...”
– Digby (via ryking)
Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training... →
vruz: holy wars, batman…
The Air Force, in response to an exclusive report published by Truthout earlier this week, has pulled a Christian-themed training session that used a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer and numerous passages from the New and Old Testament to teach missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons.
The Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare...
“Many pundits view taking a position in the middle of the political spectrum as a...”
– The Centrist Cop-Out - Paul Krugman (via irredenta)
vruz: no centrism or bipartisanship is possible when the other side believes slavery is okay and you should give up an arm and a leg so that they can be happy.
centrism is only possible for those who are not giving up an arm and a leg, or the...
Are They Aiming For Impeachment? →
by Andrew Sullivan, The Dish / The Daily Beast
—via moorewr
vruz: They’ve always been.
They did the last Democratic president; and they feel even more strongly that this one is illegitimate, depite his thumping majority in the last election. Here’s the scenario. The House GOP pushes for completely unserious Boehner plan (including a balanced budget amendment) that they know will...
re: Hitch vs. Hedges
Just thought I’d clarify I don’t always post stuff that I agree with.
I’m putting those posts out even when I agree with Hedges in that the war was/is a despicable private interests war, and I disagree with Hitchens for his support for the war for the same reason.
That being said, Hedges’ messianic tone undermines the cause he embraces, and the ideology he has constructed...
Christopher Hitchens vs. Chris Hedges →
vruz: for those not in the know, Hedges is personally hurt for this.
“The New Atheists embrace a belief system as intolerant, chauvinistic and bigoted...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
vruz: Dear Chris Hedges, call me again when “The New Atheists” — whoever these are as a group — provoke a couple of holy wars, and a few hundred thousand deaths.
I think Hedges is confounding self-righteous liberal modernism with atheism here,...
The Shitlist →
vruz: these are the fuckers who are toying around with the global economy.
Justin Amash (MI)
Michele Bachmann (MN)
Paul Broun (GA)
Jason Chaffetz (UT)
Chip Cravaack (MN)
Scott DesJarlais (TN)
Jeff Duncan (SC)
Trey Gowdy (SC)
Tom Graves (GA)
Tim Huelskamp (KS)
Tim Johnson (IL)
Jim Jordan (OH)
Steve King (IA)
Tom Latham (IA)
Connie Mack (FL)
Tom McClintock (CA)
Mick Mulvaney (SC)
...
“The [extreme right-wing] rebellion against Boehner’s plan is being driven by Tea...”
– The ‘Right-Wing Nutters’ Who Are Pushing the Country to the Brink (via ryking)
vruz: maybe we can finally stop pretending we’re all righteous centrists now?
Republicans’ Debt Ceiling Charade Is Downright... →
by Joe Klein, TIME (h/t Andrew Sullivan)
And so, here we are. Our nation’s economy and international reputation as the world’s presiding grownup has already been badly damaged. It is a self-inflicted wound of monumental stupidity. I am usually willing to acknowledge that Democrats can be as silly, and hidebound, as Republicans–but not this time. There is zero equivalence here. The...
“Sadly, the factually-challenged ideology that Pastor Warren echoes here is also...”
– Pastor Rick Warren: Ignorance in 140 Characters (or less)
Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame - James... →
—via blissandzen:
1) The debt-ceiling showdown represents hostage-taking, plain and simple.
2) The House GOP position fails the test of basic knowledge.
3) It fails the test of basic logic.
4) It displays a lack of tragic imagination.
5) It has turned into zealotry,
Good points, well made. There’s a lot more. Go read.
The costly errors of America's wars →
After ten years, $4tn and thousands of lives, the US needs an exit from the depressing impasse of its militarised foreign policy
by Michael Shank, The Guardian
[…] Second, we have blindly paid the incredible costs our wars have entailed, which a Brown University study released last month, estimates at $3.7tn for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Our military presence – to say nothing of...
Unpopular opinion
velha-infancia:
uhuh-she-said:
piratefaafy:
velha-infancia:
I disagree with Dan Savage on a lot of issues but I like the It Gets Better program. No one is saying that we shouldn’t work to improve things for GLBT teens NOW but I can’t see an issue with providing support, comfort and hope to them either. A lot of the people criticising it don’t seem to see how important these gestures of...
