Displaying 571 To 600 Of 7,446 Comments So am I » Posted By SueInCa On July 12, 2014 @ 8:10 pm Another good post from Spandan at The People’s View News came yesterday that John Boehner, in keeping with his disastrous record of being a failed Speaker of the House, plans to sue the President over the Affordable Care Act – specifically over the president’s decision to delay the enforcement of the employer mandate to give mid-and-large businesses to comply. Small businesses are already exempt. http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2014/7/11/conservatives-hate-boeners-lawsuit » Posted By SueInCa On July 12, 2014 @ 7:19 am http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/10/3458726/creative-hobby-lobby-protests/?elq=~~eloqua..type–emailfield..syntax–recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type–campaign..campaignid–0..fieldname–id~~ In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision that closely held corporations like Hobby Lobby can refuse to offer coverage for certain types of contraception based on their owners’ religious beliefs, thousands of people have made it clear they’re unhappy with the ruling. Over the past two weeks, people have rallied at Hobby Lobby locations across the country and called for widespread boycotts of its products. » Posted By SueInCa On July 11, 2014 @ 10:59 am Thanks KT, I always worry about that when new people are going to see one of my posts. I think you will like this one. » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 5:23 pm Get ready, I have a new post coming today or tomorrow on this same subject\ » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 3:21 pm Here is a synopsis, the link to Amazon is below: Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, challenges the Christian Right’s religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society. Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement’s call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement’s yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America. American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement’s origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are — the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant. » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 3:20 pm Chris Hedges It is actually American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461 » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 3:17 pm Monica » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 3:05 pm We don’t call them teabirchers for nothing. For years, a whole lot of us have been saying that even though Charles and David Koch don’t have membership cards to the John Birch Society, they’re peddling the same message in a different format. Now we have evidence of that. Democracy Now! and Progressive Magazine have unearthed documents showing that Charles Koch was a documented, card-carrying, activist member of the John Birch Society during the Civil Rights Era. » Posted By SueInCa On July 10, 2014 @ 1:08 pm Mine, as well, Monica » Posted By SueInCa On July 9, 2014 @ 12:48 pm The SCOTUS is a joke now. But when you put judges on the court who are religious fanatics, this is what you get. Their brief on how they decided this ruling was so preposterous as to be just gobbly goop they made up. I am wondering if, at some point in the near future, we are going to have some kind of shake up in the court? I would not be surprised in the least. » Posted By SueInCa On July 9, 2014 @ 12:47 pm I love this. I am not a night owl anymore but a few years ago, this would have been nice to encounter on those sleepless nights. It goes to show that this site, while a great place to discuss points of view is also a great place to make lasting friends. Thanks Monica, for sharing this. » Posted By SueInCa On July 9, 2014 @ 11:37 am Well well well, it seems that the roosters are starting to come home to roost. Just as they were warned, the Hobby Lobby decision has opened Pandora’s box and she is swirling all over the place. This is not the first and it won’t be the last, but this one has extra sweet slice of you are now getting exactly what you asked for because we all know you meant Religious Freedom for everyone, right? I am trying hard not to laugh………It did not work: Hobby Lobby Backfires on Republicans As Ruling Being Used By al-Qaida Facilitator In GITMO http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/08/payback-precedent-hobby-lobby-decision-gitmo-detainees.html » Posted By SueInCa On July 9, 2014 @ 11:35 am It actually gave a good explanation of how libertarians are really not about women’s rights that is for sure. Thanks » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 8:27 pm BTW thanks for the link, I will go read it now, my other response is below. » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 7:47 pm I am getting ready to write a new post on Dominionists. I am reading a really good novel right now called Christian Nation and it is about them winning the white house and the aftermath. They guy who wrote it has some better insights than even I do with all my research so I am going to somehow translate it into a post that is meaningful and provides one more warning……sigh » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 7:45 pm KT Neither Republicans or Democrats wanted another world war, that is clear, but to ignore what was going on forced us into it. We ignored the Japanese going in to China as well and I think it was a huge mistake. There really was no clear world dominator at the time and by ignoring what Hitler and Japan were doing, only gave them the idea they could take on the world. And they did. I am reading a book right now that is about my favorite subject, dominionists. It is a scenario where they do gain power and the aftermath. The comment that struck me the most in any chapter is “They said they would do it, why are you surprised that they did it?” I am at that level of frustration with people who just ignore what dominionists are doing so I can only imagine what our Ambassador thought when he was ignored and when he was vindicated in the worst way possible? Same for the English “Ambassador” in Nanking. Of course it is easy for me to say in retrospect what should have been done but I sure do have a good handle on Dominionists and I am trying to warn people all the time. I kind of feel how those two did when they tried to warn others. Many people do think I am nuts. » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 6:48 pm Oh heck, even if you don’t ask, I am going to give them to you LOL It also has many really good links for you to read as well. https://planetpov.com/2013/05/28/38952/ https://planetpov.com/2013/05/29/the-koch-brothers-industries-and-businesses-owned/ https://planetpov.com/2013/05/30/koch-funded-or-founded-institutionspolicy-centers/ https://planetpov.com/2013/06/02/think-tanks-and-foundations-supported-or-funded-by-the-koch-family/ » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 4:58 pm Monica » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 4:54 pm This b*tch advised the people who were coming to her protest to bring dogs? Who else brought dogs to intimidate people? » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 2:15 pm Hey Nirek, Happy Anniversary. How about this for interesting? My husband and I were married on July 14, 1972. Have a wonderful day with your wife. » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 2:11 pm Well well well, no big surprise here however the whole story is just too bizarre for me. Who would have thought that any protestor in Murietta would have ties to Birchers? Yes, me, I would. » Posted By SueInCa On July 8, 2014 @ 1:08 pm It is just like that booklet they printed all those years ago, if you have to trick people to go along with you, what you are selling is a piece of crap. » Posted By SueInCa On July 7, 2014 @ 8:37 pm Absolutely it is Watson. I always laugh when I get into a discussion with a “claimed” libertarian because they usually do not even know the party platform. I had one the other day tell me to get ready for a civil war. I though Libertarians were against war? He ran away when I asked. » Posted By SueInCa On July 7, 2014 @ 8:21 pm Yeah like the Kirby guy who when you open the door, he throws dirt on your carpet then tells you for $500 dollars you can clean it up. If not, he walks away. My question is if they want the government out of their pockets, how does a central government pay for the services that all Americans enjoy, fire, police, decent roads to drive on, Paramedics, a court system, national parks the list goes on. Who pays for all that with no tax revenue? The only thing I agree with them on is foreign intervention, we should be done with wars by this point in our history. » Posted By SueInCa On July 7, 2014 @ 8:13 pm I don’t know if you all have seen this yet, but it is a libertarian “Bible” in how to fool people on the left. From the original article 35 years ago that appeared in Reason Magazine: This article may seem somewhat cynical and opportunistic—but if you read it closely you will see that it involves no falsity or deception. The point is that you can use tricks—and you’d better, if you really want libertarianism to have a fighting chance. https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/lying-to-liberals/ » Posted By SueInCa On July 7, 2014 @ 7:37 pm What surgery? I had no idea, you can fill me in if you want on the side, or not, up to you. » Posted By SueInCa On July 7, 2014 @ 6:16 pm I am antagonistic toward it as well, KT but because I know they are nuts. I am no so antagonistic against the mainstream churches but I still do not want to get sucked in lol. » Posted By SueInCa On June 28, 2014 @ 8:22 pm Their base is operating under a fundamentally bad brand of religion too. God is not hate, Jesus was not hate and it amazes me day in and day out these people with their twisted sense of hellfire and brimstone, so to speak. Anyone who has read the New Testament could never believe Jesus was “the terminator”. Their interpretation is sick and based on their own thoughts rather than what they call their “savior”. If Jesus were to walk the earth today, they would be persecuting him like they do all poor people. » Posted By SueInCa On June 28, 2014 @ 7:24 pm KT and that is what Hanauer is calling for, well regulated capitalism. He is aware that when those pitchforks come out, he will not be distinguishable from any other rich guy and he wants to save them all. Too bad the right is making fun of him. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/19/the-ignorance-of-nick-hanauers-ted-speech/ » Posted By SueInCa On June 28, 2014 @ 6:30 pmComments Posted By SueInCa
Have you read his book Christian Fascists? If not, I highly recommend it.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you points but in my mind much of what we did in WWII was wrong. Hitler was a bother at a time when we were trying to right our own country so politicians let him fester. In fact, Roosevelt sent over an Ambassador to Germany who was a professor and a historian thinking he would not mettle and/or socialize with the Germans. They were dead wrong, he did socialize with them, he did report on their plans and he was ridiculed for it.
I wrote a series on them not too long ago. If you are so inclined, I will give you the links
Exactly year and 7 days before you. The day we got married it was 114 in our little town. I don’t believe that temp has ever been beat. The lady who made our cake had to run down to the reception place and remove the layers because it started sliding in the heat. I found out why they put those risers on cakes from that experience.
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