Saturday, November 15, 2008

Feel the Christian love ...

Here's another ditzy priest:
Church parishioner sez pastor singled her out for the Obama sign on her car
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Ditzy as in dippy, dizzy, dopey.

The joke's on us
... and the Mormon Church.
Today's QUOTES:












... since ignoring Bush is paramount in the American Corporate Journalism Way there was never a chance our yapping talking TV heads were going to state the plain truth of who Palin is, the parallels to who is sitting in the White House would have been far too plain and uncomfortable.
--It Wasn’t Loss of Nerve by paradox, The Left Coaster


So -- the Church directly instructed its membership on the roles they were to play in the campaign, allegedly contributed hundreds of thousands in unreported in-kind contributions, kept actual politicking off their lavish campuses, and directed as much as twenty million dollars in church members' contributions to the YES campaign.

But now they'd rather not have the bright spotlight of publicity on them, their members who contributed, and the businesses who contributed? ... You can speak your piece in the public square, but you may also be held accountable for your speech and your politicking by your fellow citizens.
--How the Mormons Overcame Voter Apathy on Prop 8 by Teddy Partridge, firedoglake.com


Can someone show me where in the Constitution or Bill Of Rights it says that "people of faith" are somehow exempt from facing protests? That their "democratic right to express their views in the public square" trumps everyone else's?
--First Amendment for We But Not for Thee by Eli, firedoglake.com





Wherein we learn whether or not Obama intends to manage his own brain
... or turn it over to pseudo analysts and pundits claiming to represent the 'center'
Today's QUOTES:

There is and always has been a Beltway cottage industry of trite, platitude-spouting establishment-defenders whose only "argument" consists of issuing grave warnings that Democrats will suffer if they don't ignore and scorn "the Left" (defined as any Democrat dissimilar to Joe Lieberman). ...
--Marty Peretz's assistant is the latest to be elected spokesperson for the Moderate Americans by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com







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