Displaying 6,421 To 6,450 Of 7,446 Comments Coalition of Church and State – Part 3 The Players and Organizations Thanks Choice Lady. I believe in this cause and will do all in my power to educate people. This is a serious threat to our democracy. I am aware of your point on the attacks on the National Council of Churches. In the book I read by Randall Balmer and Jim Willis they spoke to this at length. It is good we have people like you and if I can ever do something to further your cause, all you have to do is ask. » Posted By SueInCa On March 22, 2010 @ 11:11 am The Real Battle for Financial Regulatory Reform Begins Bito » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 11:36 am Patsy » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:57 am Volker was fired from the Fed because he was not a great deregulator, by Ronald Reagan, I guess my estimation of his worth, just went up a notch or two. This is what he had to say of banking and their lack of innovation Volcker has been known to defy the stereotype of a Wall Street insider. A profile in The Week magazine for February 5, 2010, claimed that Volcker » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:32 am Khirad » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:14 am I will look up the Volker rule, if it is significant then ok go for it, but I just don’t see any new agency working within the confines of no Glass Stegall. An agency does not fundamentally change behavior on it own. Regulation does that. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:12 am Yes, I must have gotten confused with repeal and reinstatement of glass stegall. I am editing the post…….thanks for pointing it out » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:08 am Oh and KQ, great post. This is going to be the next big NO from the party of NO. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 10:01 pm KQ I had a pleasant experience in banking, but it was because there were rules in place and if you followed the rules, you do not get into trouble. Now I would not be a banker for any money because I learned under the old way, be straight with your customers and your customers will stay with you. Follow the rules and you will get a great audit. Get a great audit, you will see the results in your paycheck. Knowing their are rules and compliance benefits everyone. Oh and shut down Goldman Sachs completely, they were the dirty dogs in this collapse. AIG helped them along, but Goldman to me is the worst of the lot. Isn’t it funny how they are just about the only game in town now? » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 9:54 pm Love it! » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 6:53 pm Adlib – Well text him back and let him know I am all for the God he portrays in his blogs » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 6:22 pm Wonderful Adlib. I love your God posts. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 4:41 pm I will call her office right away. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 1:03 pm A Coalition of Church and State – Part 2 Javaz Blah blah blah blah blah, I can’t hear you Pence Those damn ungodly Democrat Socialists Better to be a fascist Republican » Posted By SueInCa On March 18, 2010 @ 2:00 pm Javaz and Bito » Posted By SueInCa On March 18, 2010 @ 1:58 pm One thing I might point out, though, is he seems to have ties to Rick Warren of Saddleback and Warren’s mentor in Seminary was C Peter Wagnor, a definite 7 Mountains guy. Not sure I can trust Warren based on that connection. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 5:35 pm You could be right, but to have the debate on neutral ground would lessen the results of the audience to one side or another. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 5:02 pm As to the debate, he will make mincemeat out of Beck, yes it is fair. If you cannot debate a subject, you should not be spouting off on it like you know it all. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 4:44 pm Bito I tend to want to believe Wallis as he, although an evangelical, is deeply involved in social justice worldwide and believes we need to take our political conscience(sp?) in a new direction away from the narrow focus of the RR. It might also be telling that Dobson was forced our of FOF for the same reason. The CEO and President Jim Daly has said he wants a kinder more gentle view for FOF. Check out Wallis’s website, I believe he could be the right kind of leader for a new century in Christian circles as well as spiritual but not religious persons. He wants to join the two in a common cause for social justice and spiritual renewal, not necessarily “church” based but inclusive for all. Choice Lady might have some insight into him. We can ask when she is online. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 4:13 pm You could do that, another that is a bit of an easier read is Why The Christian Right is Wrong. You can just black out Why the and is wrong. They will pick it up and read it not knowing they are reading from that “lukewarm” side of the controversy. But Crazy for God would surely fool them. The one problem you have with that is as soon as they run across a paragraph they do not subscribe to, they would do like you said, “we are not going to discuss this” and throw the book away. That they grew up in dysfunction is directly related back to the authoritarian rule that Erich Fromm spoke of………people like that are drawn to fascism/social order. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 11:31 am Then we are the “party of at least two” and in good company if I say so myself. I can see where Choice Lady(she could be considered the third) might just be wringing her hands on a daily basis having to deal with these freaks and their “not based in reality” ideas. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:36 am Cher I could write a book 1000 pages long and not cover all of their dastardly deeds. The most recent I am looking at is vouchers paid for by state funds to direct kids to private christian schools. I am not sure where they are coming from it is all so hypocritical. “Government stay out of my life” unless of course I can benefit monetarily or for my cause, in that interference. » Posted By SueInCa On March 16, 2010 @ 10:06 am Khirad » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 9:04 pm KQ » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 8:56 pm You are right. And I am going to start using the term Religious Right instead of Christian because I think there are alot of Christians out there that do not fit this bill. I know the term Right kind of puts them into the republican side but even in that sense, I know there are republicans who do not subscribe to their theology. The next in the series is about their organizations with a heavy emphasis on the Family. It seems they are the group where everyone mixes. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 8:51 pm Thanks Kalima. That is all I want to do is to share the knowledge and it is better to put it into posts than to try to impart the information via comments. Good luck with the “body shop”. Earthquakes can be frightening. We live in a free zone in CA. Never had an earthquake here. We experienced the Joshua Tree one in 1992 or 3. We were in Carpenteria and left there in a hurry to get to San Diego. As we were driving we realized we were driving into the epicenter of the quake. It was a nervous week we spent in San Diego. You could be watching the news and they would report an aftershock and a few seconds later we would feel it. It was eerie. We had a brand new car and it was parked in the hotel’s underground garage…….. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 4:28 pm Not me CC because I never really believed it. We had to go to one church service a week when I was growing up. When I got old enough, 8th grade, my mom let us choose our own church. I went to a diff one than her and I would go for a bit then sneak out. Just so if she asked I could tell her something, then I would go to Case’s or Bunny’s in town and spend my offering money on candy or bubble gum. But some stories I could tell………… » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 4:23 pm Thanks CC. I think as you do, that all people are worthy of a God’s good will, not just the RR. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 2:13 pm I did, in Berkely up at a quiet little park. Just me and my Sidhartha book at lunchtime. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 2:10 pm Javaz, I think that is another scare tactic by religious groups to scare people. Although I do refer to it quite frequently, I really don’t think there is such a place as hell. I just cannot believe a God would be that cruel, I hope I am right because in the RR’s mind that is where I am going as well. » Posted By SueInCa On March 15, 2010 @ 2:09 pmComments Posted By SueInCa
I bought my second house in August 1978. When we signed the contract, interest was at maybe 8% maybe less. Construction took so long that we did not close until March 1979 and our final interest was 13%! We could not lock into a certain interest rate because they were only good for so many days……..each time it went up they locked us in, then took it away when the timeframe had expired.
I agree frontline has done a marvelous job of breaking it down. IMHO so has Matt Taibbe although in some circles he is being demonized for his reporting. The truth is sometimes hard to digest.
doesn’t even buy the conventional wisdom that “financial innovation” is necessary for a healthy economy. In fact, he likes to say, “the only useful banking innovation was the invention of the ATM.”
It was late I was sleepy, but I just corrected it. Thanks to both of you for pointing it out as repeal of Glass Stegall has already happened, I want reinstatement.
I was a banker for 19 years, mostly with WFB. I left in 1998 to work for Visa USA. I can tell you when I was at WFB and the fed did our audits, they were grueling and WFB was a very repsonsible lender. Two things happened, Norwest bought out WFB and the repeal of the Glass-Stegall act. To me it does not matter whether it is federal or private oversight, the thing that has to be done is to reinstate Glass-Stegall. What will happen with regulators, private or gov. is that there will still be little protection for the consumer because the agencies will still have their hands tied. I don’t buy it that the gov cannot regulate and oversee, they did it fine before Glass Stegall was overturned, I know I suffered through many audits. We were under the SF office of the Fed and we never knew when an audit would take place until just before it happened and it might not be the entire bank, but certain divisions, they did it on a round robin type of activity. Knowing that, tends to make bankers more aware of what they are doing and how they are doing it. But without reinstating Glass/Stegall the problems will persist. Derivitives are so hard to figure out, you will need math majors for those areas and they will still have problems. The problem in my opinion is not enough compliance regulation. I am all for the consumer being protected but it has to happen with the reinstatement too. When Banks don’t have investment houses to shore up their earnings, they learn to be lean. You had fees but they were regulated as well.
I will say what I said to Pence awhile ago on Dylan
But the Terry Schiavo thing was a holy thing, saving a life that had not been conscious for what 10 years? They used Schiavo to further their political agenda with the “holy man” DeLay leading the way. Shortly after he was under indictment(and still is) for campaign fraud……………….love those religious right evangelicals
Funny you should mention Jim Wallis. I am reading his book, A Great Awakening and I had not gotten 10 pages into it when I realized he would drive Beck up the wall. I also wonder if Wallis’s message about believers being involved in social justice causes might be causing some consternation for Beck and the RR. Basically he is saying they have hijacked the public discourse on social justice with their brand of narrow social issues mixed with politics.
On your comments, I could not add anymore, because you have said pretty much what I think. Invariably in writing posts, we will always leave something out, which is why comments sections are so valuable.
The Manichaean piece of it was so detailed in its history that I did not feel qualified to report on it, except where I could see it translated into modern day Christianity. I have read where some people say the RR is manichaean but I don’t feel the Manichaean should be bastardized like that. In truth some of their practices sound very “enlightening”, none of the RR’s practices sound enlightening to me.
If you want to see how bastardized their idea of social giving is, read up on the Office of Faith Based Iniatives. The Shrub gave them a license to steal our money to use for their religious based programs. They would like us to believe it was used for homeless, drug addiction and such but in all cases I read about, there was a heavy dose of “saving” or proselytizing going on and probably is because I don’t believe Obama has closed the Office. They want it both ways until it is a government program that is for all Americans, then it is bad, like HCR
I am sure that Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus are not included in their 144k
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