I know some of you may not like Hillary or Bernie but we have to unite and Vote Blue! We cannot allow Republican's to control all legislative branches of government and pick the Supreme Court nominees. Differences aside no matter what the outcome of the primary we must VOTE BLUE!!!! Greed will destroy this country of we allow it!
Does anyone have a problem with the fact that an American President vistied an American Mosque?
If so I have a message for you...
It is well past time for time honest Americans to start calling a spade a spade, and stop being so tolerant of of the propagandists of the 21st c. Jim Crow. The alleged "radical" ties you speak of are tenious to the extreme, and your harping on it is nothing but grasping at straws to disguise your bigotry, but I'm sorry, there's just not enough straw for you to thatch a roof over your heads. This is shameful, dog-whistle stuff that you choose to fall back on because you are just all too cowardly to admit that you believe some Americans deserve less rights and less protections under the law than you enjoy. Back in the 1930s, your kind would've fed the Jewish refugees straight into the mouth of Hitler. In the 1940s, your kind would've supported throwing the Japanese into prison camps. In the 1950s, you would've sided with the segregationists. Well, America has moved past your kind now, so you might as well get used to it.
You are a deeply sick souls, spewing nothing but hate and willful ignorance at a nation of your moral and intellectual betters. Your bigotry and resentment-based-politcs seem to me to be nothing more than the bravado of a an emotionally disturbed homeless man screaming at the passing trucks while the rain penatrates the holes in his shoes.
The homeless man needs shelter and medication, and if treated with that decency may manage to earn some of his lost life back. Is there anything that can cure you?
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Franklin Graham Freaks Out, Claims Secular Government is New to U.S.
Graham's big lie: “You talk about us being a secular government, a secular society — that’s only taken place in the last few years."
It’s only been around since 1789, when the United States’ literally god-less Constitution was ratified, that the United States has had a secular government. But that lesser son of a greater sire, Franklin Graham, is claiming that secular government is new to this country.
Graham told CNN’s New Day host Chris Cuomo:
“You talk about us being a secular government, a secular society — that’s only taken place in the last few years,” Graham opined. “Our nation was founded on biblical principles. Our founding fathers recognized God. All you have to do is go to Washington and look at all of our monuments with the inscriptions and references to almighty God.”
You could not be more catastrophically wrong if you tried. The truth is, Graham is one of those who likes to talk about the Constitution without ever having read it.
Take a gander of your own:
Just to give you an idea of how dangerous this man’s thinking is, think about the First Amendment’s establishment clause, forbidding the legislation of religion, and then think about Graham’s tweet last night in response to Obama’s first ever mosque visit.
In response to Obama’s inclusive words that “we have to understand an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths. And when any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up,” Graham retorted,
“Jesus Christ is alive today. Muhammad is dead. I worship a risen Lord! Islam can’t compete with that.”
Oh dear. He doesn’t get how this works at all, does he? We could debate that point about who is dead, but it’s really irrelevant – because United State Constitution.
Graham showed he had to really reach to make his point when he talked to Cuomo about going to Washington and looking at references to “almighty God” everywhere – but fails to show even once instance of “almighty God” occurring in the Constitution itself.
And that’s because it’s not there. Anywhere.
We get tired of repeating the fact – and it is a fact – that there is no mention of “God,” no mention of the “Bible,” no mention of “Jesus” or the “Ten Commandments” in the United States Constitution. That’s because the Constitution is based on English common law, which goes back to Pagan Roman law, rather than on the Bible.
Simple facts. Endlessly denied.
Graham explained that because of all this fake stuff he believes,
“I’m going from state to state, holding prayer rallies on the capitol steps of the state, asking people to join me to pray for this nation, and to pray for our leaders. Our country is in trouble and I can tell you right now, I have zero hope in the Democratic Party and I have zero hope in the Republican Party. The only hope for this nation is God.”
“We have no individual that can turn this thing around. Only God can do it.”
The problem is that God doesn’t get a vote. God doesn’t get to decide anything in this country. Political power derives from the people, not from the Bible, not from God, not from God’s self-appointment representatives on this earth. The Old World showed just how disastrous that idea was from the fall of Rome to the Enlightenment.
Cuomo pointed out the obvious:
“We know that the Christian faith is not the rule for all. Under the Constitution, you don’t see God mentioned until the signature page.”
To which Graham could only respond with a bald-faced lie:
“I respect the law of the land that has been approved by the Constitution. And I don’t think the judges in Washington can just make law. That’s not what they do, but that’s what they’ve done as it relates to same-sex marriage.”
It is difficult to respect the law of the land when you say you don’t. He doens’t even understand how the Constitution works, or the role of executive, legislative, and judicial. The Constitution, as he would see if he read it, explains that the Supreme Court decides what the Constitution says.
We may disagree with their rulings, but we don’t get to ignore them. We don’t get to claim God trumps them, because there is no mechanism in the Constitution for God or his self-appointed representatives getting a free pass.
It goes without saying, and therefore Graham won’t say it, that if God wants to “fix” things, he doesn’t need human help. If he does, we should be the ones helping God. In which case, he isn’t a God, but just a chump like the rest of us.
Finally just to put a punctuation on his visible lack of comprehension, Graham offered an idea:
“I think we need a nationwide referendum on this and let’s see what the people say.”
After awhile, you really do wish these people would just read the Constitution before they publicly humiliate themselves like this. But then, they can’t even be bothered to read the Bible they claim to champion either.
Afterward, tweeting, still burning up over Obama’s visit to a mosque, Graham reached for comedic gold by claiming,
“America’s foundation has nothing to do with Islam, but everything to do with the Church of Jesus Christ.”
It has nothing to do with either, and that’s a fact. It was a country full of Christians, mostly, who agreed we should have a secular government.
His words would be funny even if there were a Church of Jesus Christ, but there isn’t and has never been. There are and always have been churches beyond count. The Founding Fathers disdained the interference of all of them in the functioning of the government they had created, warning us tyranny would result.
The very gay- and Muslim-hating tyranny Graham wants – as unwelcome today as it was in 1789.
PLEASE!
Have we heard enough from Christian Zealots who cut FOOD STAMPS and other food programs?
Have we heard enough from Christian Zealots who ignore the HOMELESS? Ignore HOMELESS VETERANS?
Have we heard enough from Christian Zealots who vote to deny health care to AMERICANS?
PLEASE STOP TELLING US ABOUT YOUR RELIGION & YOUR GOD!
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Republican Ted Cruz just said this at his acceptance speech in Iowa. What would our Founding Fathers have to say about it?
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Bundy militants could be forced to repay
$3.4 million to taxpayers over illegal stunt
An Oregon Democrat introduced legislation that would require Ammon Bundy and other out-of-state militants to repay taxpayers for the cost of their armed takeover of a wildlife sanctuary.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced a bill that would require the militants — and the federal government — to pay back costs associated with the occupation, which the lawmaker estimates at $100,000 a day, reported KOIN-TV.
The bill would require the U.S. Department of Justice “to quickly reimburse state and local law enforcement agencies up front for costs associated with responding to the armed takeover.”
The U.S. Attorney General would then be allowed sue the militants to recover those costs.
“It would allow the federal government to go after the armed people who started it,” Blumenauer said. “But in the meantime, the people of Harney County shouldn’t have to suffer twice — had the disruption and then have to pay the bill.”
Blumenauer said the federal government should pay some of the costs to Oregon taxpayers, because he said authorities prolonged the standoff by waiting to arrest or confront the militants.
“The state and local government shouldn’t have to pick up the tab — it’s not their fault,” he said. “The feds need to reimburse and then go after the people who caused it.”
Harney County’s top administrative official previously estimated the occupation cost taxpayers $70,000 a day — and he also wanted the militants to reimburse local taxpayers.
Four militants remained Thursday at Malheur National Wildlife Sanctuary, which Bundy and his comrades took over in early January as part of a scheme to claim ownership of federally owned public land.
A federal grand jury has indicted 16 people in connection with the standoff, and 11 militants have been arrested.
One militant was shot and killed by officers who said he reached twice for a weapon after attempting to flee a traffic stop.
Blumenauer said forcing the militants to reimburse taxpayers would discourage others from attempting similar stunts.
“It must be made clear that armed takeover of government or private facilities, for grievances real or imagined, is absolutely unacceptable and won’t be tolerated,” he said. “It’s not just enough to enforce the law. We should recover damages from lawbreakers who tear up the landscape, degrade wildlife habitat and destroy property.”
Federal authorities have sent additional security personnel to wildlife refuges in southern Oregon, northern California and Nevada to ensure employee and visitor safety.
Officials said no specific threats have been made against the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge or Modoc National Wildlife Refuge.
But the occupation and ongoing protests in Burns, Oregon, have apparently concerned federal authorities that additional actions might be taken by the militants’ supporters.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/bundy-militants-could-be-forced-to-repay-3-4-million-to-taxpayers-over-illegal-stunt/
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