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| Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency |
When future historians write about the biggest weapons of mass destruction in the American arsenal, they will name these two as the all-time worst:
Little Boy and Fat Man
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| "We'll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are back in charge." |
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| The naked truth is plain to see. |
And because they know all about you, they could tailor your Social Security check as they please - or withhold it for "undersirable" behavior. Does your retired Aunt Sadie, so upset about the price of eggs, know about this? What about disabled, gun-loving Cousin Clem in his red cap? Whenever the news finally trickles down to them and their pocketbooks, I hope they choke on it.
Senator Adam Schiff tells it plainly: "this is a corrupt scheme to turn this country into one-man rule, and enrich Donald Trump and his wealthy friends like Elon Musk."
And now, not content with scooping up Canada, Greenland, and Panama - a costly invasion is not necessary; economic terror is enough to bring them all into submission - the Very Stable Genius wants to take over Gaza and rebuild it as "the Riviera of the Middle East" - after expelling the 2 million people who live there:
And here's a headline from Canada, which just got played like a hockey puck over tariffs, where all those nice, polite, friendly folks are trying to figure out the game plan:
Now you can watch the video if you like; suave Andy Chang has some very good charts and facts to show the big picture, but he misses the really big picture. So your Head Trucker is going to cut to the chase here.
iT'S NOT ABOUT DRUGS. IT'S NOT ABOUT TRADE BALANCES. IT'S ALL ABOUT TOTAL DOMINATION BY GLORIOUS LEADER: EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS.
Why am I the only one who sees this?
Canada, stop trying to find a logical reason for the tariffs; there is none. If it's not one issue, the Orange One will make up another. Any hammer will do to beat you into submission while he takes all your valuables.
People, it's all right out of Hitler's playbook: Border problems. Fake outrage about neighboring countries. Scare tactics. A police state. Removal of civil servants and political opponents. Demonizing one section or another of the citizenry. A constant barrage of lies from state mouthpieces. Scrubbing away facts from books and schools. Keeping other states in perpetual fear of what might happen next. Lebensraum - i. e., fake justification for seizing foreign territory. Redrawing the map, renaming things. Deportations. Concentration camps. And there is more yet to come! It's only just begun . . .
And fellas, cut the crap about "Oh my, we still have 1400+ days to go before his term ends." HIS TERM WILL NEVER FUCKING END. If good ol' Joe Biden had to be prised out of the Oval Office with a crowbar, do you really think Tyrant Trump will just quietly walk away from the power and glory?
Seriously, people?? HE'LL NEVER LEAVE. HE WANTS TO BE KING OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
There now, I've said it. You have been warned. What to do about it, I don't know. You'll have to figure that out for yourself.
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It is not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex. . . . [Blessing such unions] would constitute a certain imitation or analogue of the nuptial blessing invoked on the man and woman united in the sacrament of Matrimony, while in fact “there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family”.
[This teaching] declares illicit any form of blessing that tends to acknowledge their unions as such. In this case, in fact, the blessing would manifest not the intention to entrust such individual persons to the protection and help of God, in the sense mentioned above, but to approve and encourage a choice and a way of life that cannot be recognized as objectively ordered to the revealed plans of God.
What pompous bullshit. Since I'm an Episcopalian (lapsed), not a Catholic, this slanderous ruling has no direct relevance to me - but of course it reflects and encourages the same thinking in all other churches that hold to this antediluvian view of life and love. When it comes to the gays, that is. When it's about the straight boys and their spermatic proclivities, oh well, there's all kinds of loopholes, winks, and nudges, aren't there?
The truth is, there is nothing glorious, notorious, or ridiculous about homosexuality, which has occurred naturally and spontaneously throughout human and animal populations since the dawn of recorded history. I have no desire to change anybody's church; I just want to be left alone, neither glorified nor vilified nor ridiculed. And I insist upon the right to the equal protection of the laws, with the same human rights and dignity as anyone else.
This is not too much to ask; nor will it cause the world or the universe to collapse, despite hysterical religious claims to the contrary. You straight people have already done more than enough, collectively, down through the centuries to merit the wrath of God, if it comes to that, so quit trying to shift your guilt onto the gay scapegoats.
[A lot of boring pontification omitted here.]
As for Pope Francis, I still respect him as a kindly, magnanimous leader who is doing what good he can for the world in other ways - but I now unsay my remark in that earlier post about considering him a gay ally.
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| The Supreme Court of the United States ruling on marriage equality, June 26, 2015 |
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| God bless America! |
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| By Matt Wuerker from Politico - click to enlarge. |
Can the Tea Partiers’ beliefs be falsified? I don’t think they can be. I mean, is there any evidence that could convince them that the fault here lies with themselves, in the way they conceive politics, and in the way they behaved? It sure doesn’t look like it. In that sense, they think of politics as a kind of religion. It’s not for nothing that the hardcore House members stood together and sang “Amazing Grace” as the impossibility of their position became ever clearer. They really do bring a religious zealotry to politics.
Let me hasten to say that I’m not endorsing the “Christianist” meme, which I find far too reductive, among other things. Besides, many of the Tea Partiers and fellow travelers are not motivated by religious faith, but by a religious-like zeal for their political ideology. It was like this on the Right before the advent of the Tea Party. There has long been a sense on the Right that the movement must be vigilant against the backsliders and compromisers, who will Betray True Conservatism if you give them the chance. Again, the religious mindset: politics as a purity test. In this worldview, a politician who compromises sells out the True Faith — and faith, by definition, does not depend on empirical observation to justify itself.
"I deem it to be honest and fair, and I do so direct and require, now that it is legal, that only married couples may live together, either in rectories or elsewhere as a clergy couple living in the midst of our faith community," wrote the bishop, who had earlier welcomed the new law's passage.Other Episcopal bishops in New York are still weighing the matter in discussions with clergy and laity, and have not set such a firm rule. Presbyterians, Lutherans, and other denominations in states where same-sex marriages are permitted are also reconsidering their positions on church weddings or blessings of same-sex couples, clergy as well as laypeople.
Provenzano told Episcopal News Service in a telephone interview July 11 that after he consulted with the leadership of the diocese "it was clear that the consensus of thinking was that there ought to be some time frame" on fulfilling his requirement. "If we left it completely open-ended, it might not be acted on" and that inaction would create a "disparity," he said, noting that he would not allow a heterosexual clergy couple to live together outside of marriage.
The bishop said he has not received any criticism from the gay and lesbian clergy of the diocese. "At least as it applies to the Diocese of Long Island, I don't think it's going to feel to anyone that I am being unpastoral or punitive in any way or creating a hardship for them by saying nine months," he said. "I suspect that most of our partnered gay and lesbian clergy have been living in committed relationships for a fairly long period of time and that the concept of being married is exactly what they've been waiting for to happen, so the church moving in this direction with them is welcomed."
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| "Stop the Race Mixing March of the Antichrist" - segrationists demonstrate in Little Rock, 1957 |
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| Pat Oliphant/Slate |
Do you like green protest plans?
I do not like them, Sam Imam.
Do you like them in the square?
I do not like them anywhere . . . .
