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Archive for November, 2015
November 29th, 2015 - 10:23 pm § in Misc.
A Miracle .. First time Rocketship Has Landed on Earth!
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November 29th, 2015 - 9:22 pm § in Politics
Cruz blames shooting rampage on ‘transgendered leftist activist’
“Cruz took issue with the ‘vicious rhetoric on the left blaming those who are pro-life.’” Huffpo reports, “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) downplayed the role anti-abortion rhetoric may have played in the fatal shooting of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and su[...]
November 29th, 2015 - 7:46 pm § in Politics
The GOP’s politics of tribalism
“GOP’s Southern strategy has won elections for 50 years. It’s also fragmented America and destroyed our politics” By Heather Cox Richardson, Salon “Republican candidates for the presidential nomination claim that Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell th[...]
November 29th, 2015 - 5:35 pm § in Misc.
Slain Colorado Springs civilians are people of color
Both civilians killed in Friday’s rampage in Colorado Springs are minorities: Ke’arre Stewart, who is black, and Jennifer Markovsky, a Native Hawaiian. “CBS Denver reports that one of the civilian victims killed has been identified as Ke’arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq War veteran [...]
November 29th, 2015 - 1:25 pm § in Religion
Mormon Women Have Bodies
In July of 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women. Anderson, who has a degree in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University, spoke to me recently about the project. Readmore.[...]
November 29th, 2015 - 12:32 pm § in Christianity, Misc.
Fact Check: You’re far more likely to be killed by an American Christian terrorist than a Syrian refugee
“So are there any refugees who have become terrorists since finding a home in the U.S.? Yes — three. That’s out of the 784,000 refugees who have been resettled in the U.S. since 9/11. Kathleen Newland, also of the MPI, pointed this out earlier in the fall, adding that it was ‘worth n[...]
Conservative blogger says Planned Parenthood’s president is worse than Colorado shooter
So how are conservatives reacting to the murderous assault against a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado on Friday? Very badly, it seems. On the conservative blog Red State, under the headline “Five Reasons No One Believes Colorado Springs Was Terrorism” (someone tell that to[...]
November 29th, 2015 - 12:00 pm § in Misc.
Hate speak is nothing new in the Republican party!
Fred Koch, the patriarch of the Koch family, co founded the Birch Society. As a founding board member of the John Birch Society, Fred helped engineer a hysterical wave of attacks on labor, intellectuals, public education, liberal clergy members, and other pillars of society he viewed as a threat. [...]
November 29th, 2015 - 11:33 am § in Misc.
Hood’s Island: Three months with an outhouse
Michael Hood My dearest Facebook friends: Things could get sketchy postingwise for a few days (or months). After a delightful Thanksgiving with my beloved family (we had turkey!) I’m flying off to Haiti to, I hope, finish a novel. I’m going to a small island called Ill a Vache; to a pl[...]