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James Dobson goes crazy. Is this all the movement can offer?
January 13, 2013 8:08 pm
Any political institution that uses, in their name, the words "Family," "Patriot" or "Liberty" is more likely to be against those things than for them. Oh, ridiculous Orwellian present, how we miss the ridiculous slightly-less-Orwellian past!
Cult Murder Case Involving 'Ex-Gay' Leader Puts Spotlight on Radical Prayer Center
January 3, 2013 2:46 pm
Wayne Beson
..It would be unfair to portray this episode as representative of what occurs at IHOP. However, it cannot be denied that this church has become a magnet for extremists with a militant, "end times" view of the world. From my experience, it is an ideal incubator for young narcissists with Messiah complexes who fancy themselves prophets. In my work with Truth Wins Out, I have seen many bizarre activities on the fringe, but nothing has freaked me out as much as my evening at IHOP. The young people there were nothing short of zombies who looked disconnected from the world. Any ordinary person would walk away from the experience and instinctively know that what he or she had witnessed was abnormal, teetering on dangerous. ..
My conservative friend deleted her Facebook post. Yay!
July 3, 2012 7:44 pm
by Johntastic
I love my friends. Even some of the more conservative ones.
I usually try to keep politics relatively light on my Facebook wall, but for some reason, I just couldn't stay quite this time around.
One of my friends (love love love her to death) posted this Trump quote on her wall.
Austerity, Social Mood, and the Presidential Election
May 20, 2012 4:25 pm
Last year, House Speaker John Boehner made moves to push the United States into default on its obligations. This kicked off a stock decline that ended in October and brought the President's favorability rating to a low at the same time. See intrade chart here. Good dry run last year. Now time to do it again, talk about putting U.S. into default, drive down stocks, and drive down voter approval of the President. Clearly if you can drive down social mood by November, you have a good strategy to elect Romney.
Need a bounce this week or there is a possibility of repeating last year's stock decline into November and bringing in Romney to the White House. The irony is the austerity championed by Republicans is the trigger for this decline. Read Krugman's latest book, "End This Depression Now."
Everything You Need to Know About Mormonism
May 7, 2012 7:07 pm
Salon / By Alex Pareene
"The precipitous mountain pass that led the [Mormon] pioneers down into the Salt Lake Valley and still is the route of access from the east on Interstate 80, was first explored by my great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt," Mitt Romney cheerfully writes in "Turnaround," the airport bookstore leadership manual he wrote in 2004 while governor of Massachusetts.
"He had worked a road up along 'Big Canyon Creek' as an act of speculation when his crop failed in the summer of 1849. He charged tolls to prospectors making their way to California at the height of the Gold Rush and even had a Pony Express station commissioned along his pass."
Romney doesn't add - and why should he? - that Pratt was murdered in 1857, by the husband of a woman he took as one of his "plural wives." (His ninth.)........
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