Sarah Palin - Dumb As A Stick - CPAC

Former Governor of Alaska (on left).


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Charles C W Cooke – NRO Blogger - Harry Reid’s Two Minute Hate on the Philanthropist Koch Brothers

British Atheist – (Christopher Hitchens wannabe?) – Charles C.W. Cooke continues to comment on Tory Conservative American politics.

I never really thought about how hate of the Charity of the Koch Bothers is what is making the Democrats jealous enough to cripple the democratic process in the Congress.

An atheist defending the Koch’s Charity is a bit much on the ass kissing even for a Brit Twit Oxford elitist mis-educated Royalist Charlie Cooke.

The answer was there all along. Good closeted Christians like the Kochs are being persecuted for their charity and faith by the evil atheists of the Democratic Party. Who would of thought it except maybe the son of a peer from Britain.

Oh us dumbed down stupid colonials. Give us back a rational government. Give us a Queen (not in drag of course)? lol

Charles C.W. Cooke Defending the Koch Brothers From Democrats and Their Unjust Hardcore Political Hate…

“But the Kochs are not as simple as the hysteria would have them be. Indeed, even the lightest of research reveals them to be in favor of gay marriage, of drug legalization, of reforming and expanding the immigration system, of withdrawing troops from the Middle East, of cutting defense spending, of curbing the NSA’s overreach, and of helping to balance the budget by raising (some) taxes…” NRO March 6, 2014

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372803/harry-reids-two-minutes-hate-charles-c-w-cooke#comment-1276408402 

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Religious Freedom Sign Post

This here establishment reserves the right to refuse service to all Bigots and similar creatures of little or no soul. 

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Consensus Avenue - Global Town Square

Main Street America - circa 1918

Old time religion was about a cohesive social unit. It was not particularly political. The rural past of America and going back to the middle ages centered around the local church building. Families were neighbors and also members of the community church.

The local town square, if the town was big enough for such a thing, was on the secular end of the same avenue facing the local church. Sacred or secular decisions for the community got discussed, a consensus found and decided on Main Street USA.

It is the main street in the Disney theme parks that harkens back to the idealized late nineteenth century era and up until WWI American world. Here, the separation of church and state, more or less worked as a blueprint for the stabilization of the community and the nation. We all have a fixed idea in memory of an ideal setting from youth. Walt obviously had his too.

What does the global town square (G.T.S.) look and feel like? It is as varied and diverse as the Internet is right now. What it stabilizes into, is recognized as, gels into universal perception as, will slowly happen in the next decade or two or three. It will depend on the flow of culture and history in that as yet unpainted future.

The global culture idea is at this moment, and in my opinion, about bogus “global village” concepts, decades old, that put ideas out on the airwaves and onto the Internet. That old time touch me, look me in the eyes, and trade me your horse, town square sense of cohesion is missing or has gaps in it.

Before we in America get to the future, we should more fully understand who we are, consider where we have been and where we are going. We need consensus. We also in many ways need compromise. If we do not know or try to understand our neighbors locally or globally, then we fail as Christians and we fail our community as well.

“We” is the important part of the preceding statement. Nationality may disappear in the next decades in some corners of the globe but geography and local-ness will not.

We either as a group become more local and or more universal. Whatever factor dominates our future thinking needs a balanced approach to dealing with reality. If the local culture is important, then the universal global culture has to be recognized and respected but not necessarily served blindly.

The globalists have to recognize and respect local customs – period! Culture in the global age has to be a two way street.

I may sound more secular than cultural with my Christianity here but look at the world of Jesus. You had the Romans and Herod and the Temple Priests and their politico crony parties. You had the dispossessed in the new Romanization of the Holy Land. It was a global situation and after the time of Jesus, it failed. It failed miserably.

Jesus coped with and inspired a local flock that included all levels of that local and global community. The words, teachings and message of Jesus are now as important as ever. I believe that he among the many facets of his unique character and mission – I believe that he truly was one of the first to act locally and think globally. Turn your cheek, go the extra distance, love you neighbor (even if he is a Roman).

Communication and consensus in local matters and looking over your shoulder at that global thing coming at us is something I as a cultural Christian give consideration to everyday. I hope we all, of many belief systems, are doing the same.

- mm 17/06/08

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2008/06/consensus-avenue-global-town-square.html

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Pope Francis – Talk Softly and Carry a Big… (Moxie)

Francis has finally taken a stand on Civil Unions and Gays, verbally at least and in an interview, parts of which his media gatekeepers have backed down on or polished down without directly challenging his supposed papal supreme authority.

The tone that civil union is acceptable for Gay Catholics and that dogma would not at present permit the idea or the letter of man-made Church Law from extending the Sacramental of Marriage to non-heterosexuals, is appropriate at this time in terms of talking about the idea of marriage or the union of two people and or two souls. Better late than never. A start perhaps?

This guy Francis is preaching from the lifeboat long after the European POV regarding the Roman and or Western – ship of state – church has crashed, burned and gone to live with the little fishies at the bottom of the ocean. 

This man has some real moxie, like him or not.

That his un-polishing of dogmatic belief a bit and or temporal papal power is a communication all along that these turds in mitres should have been selling in similar fashion. Apparently Francis did this and as the news article I read, briefly mentioned this without exact detail of “other” bishops making this same stand in the past and probably around the same time as Francis as Archbishop of Buenos Aries.

The Far Right has gotten into this far too comfortable (with power) for little people, literal dogmatic “Marriage is between a man and a woman.” definition thing and it is their way or the highway bullshit. No gray area and need for discussion or accommodation of the gray areas that Catholic theologians should have been talking about in the recent past, before King Wojtyla shut them down, fired them and introduced Polish as the only official language of the common most acceptable definition of God thing.

Some softened – talk softly but carry the big stick of authority – rhetoric is long overdue on the religious definitions of marriage and contraception in the real world integrating with a very dense complex modern worldview of this new emerging evolving global culture. 

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Obsolete - A Decent Human Being - A Valueless Global Commodity

Obsolete - A Decent Human Being - A Valueless Global Commodity


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Ken Ham - The Creationist Flim Flam Man and Noah's Raft

I did not watch the so-called debate between science guy Bill Nye and Creationist Ken Ham in their debate in February.

The headlines say that Ken Ham, an Aussie btw (any outstanding warrents in Oz?), is getting funds to build a replica of Noah’s Ark and using those made up numbers in the bible “history” book as a guide for building.

Well the overall estimated cost of Ham’s dinosaur theme park in Kentucky of all places is 150 million.

I for one do not care if he has the resources in timber and wood that could probably fund the wood in a thousand houses for the poor to prove a so called point from the bible history book.

I can only see a half-finished boat rotting away in a half-finished theme park that few except a few home schooled chillins would visit as a tourist bust stop. 

American highways are littered with the rotting wood of tourist attractions that never quite made the mark or black on a bottom line.

Speaking of road side trash. These bible creationist types used to have tales of people who saw the ark in person on Mount Ararat in Turkey and that it was only a matter of time before their secret discoveries would be revealed to the faithful. 

Or that somebody saw the ark in the glacier on Mount Ararat and the snows came back in winter to hide the resting place of proof of the bible and a book with a reference to a big boat on top of a mountain. Mountain Dew to you too. And I am talking 150 proof mountain dew and not the green sodie stuff. lol

Problem with these stories I have heard all my life. The glacier on Mount Ararat has melted away in the mythical global warming thingy that all fundamentalists deny anyway. Where is the original Ark on top of the mountain?

And considering Kentucky, will the lake or body of water that this new half-finished ark will float on be a lake full of coal ash toxic discharge, par for the course in that state, that will probably sink this vessel in the end anyway from the dangerous chemicals in the "water".

Guess I am a pessimist or someone who gets mighty tired of hearing the same old tired stories about Noah's Ark and Ark fund raising scams ad infinitum.

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Manhattan Viewing South Across Bay to North Shore Staten Island

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Vladimir Putin, Bastard Grandson of Stalin, Dinosaur of the Cold War, Seizes the Crimea – The True Face of Russia

True Face of Russia

The Ukrainians want to be part of the modern flow of a United Europe.

The Soviets Russians want to keep Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin, KGB General, Russian President or Prime Minister or whatever his flavor of the month title is currently, cannot win in Ukraine.

Perhaps Crimea, a much fought over piece of turf in history’s past is
the opportunity cost for Ukraine to finally gain its independence from the Russian Bear?

Kleptocracy rhymes with Oligarchy, Plutocracy? How about Tyranny!



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Hipster – Honkey – It’s All Rock And Roll To Me

I have seen many comments made because rich “Ghetto Blaster” Director and Writer Spike Lee is not happy to see so many white people living in his old Fort Greene Brooklyn neighborhood.

As for gentrification, I for one don’t see how to stop it short of restoring a lot of old so-called obsolete Capital Gains Taxes and apply them to real estate.

In a way, a lot of the beauty of nineteenth brownstones restored is expensive and now upper class. In a way it is unfair that value is now given to a place that was devalued over time simply because African-Americans ended up there and inhabited the cast-offs of a bygone era. Spike in giving value to his own memories is entitled to his 140 character opinions without all the new rich white trash in Fort Greene getting into a tizzy and spreading it like Brie cheese and or dog shit all over the media. 

Who you calling rich white trash, boy? Who you calling boy, boy? Kind of like the giraffe calling the zebra "Zoo" as I see it. 

I can remember thirty-five years ago when some of the cheapest rents in New York City were advertised in the Village Voice in Fort Greene. And I also heard the horror stories of people seeking decent affordable housing in a decaying part of the city and not being able to live there in Fort Greene because of constant burglaries while at work in Manhattan.

I am sorry that Spike cannot open his eyes without getting a rosy glass filtered image of the place he grew up which was in fact a living hellhole by most middle class standards when America was allowed the luxury of middle class standards, of and by their own origins, and not standards now imposed on us from above by corporations.

I for one am jealous when I see photos of Spike courtside at a Knicks game and have to wonder how much money that kind of shit costs. But as J.P.Morgan once said to riff-raff and middle class trash (like me) – “If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.” lol

Spike’s bitter pill of words is sometimes reflected I think in the environment of his youth that is perhaps too candy coated in memory to touch reality compared to the new global culture.

I have also taken a lot of Spike Lee’s bravado over the years with a big grain of salt. I remember an interview of years ago about why there is no great slavery movie(s) and he responded that American Blacks were not ready for it. In other words not interested in digging up the nasty past. And or a middle class black POV? Valid point then or now?

I see that a front runner for the Oscars this weekend is “Twelve Years A Slave”. I have to wonder if Spike has in any way invested in such an old Brownstone of an idea as a producer in such a film. 

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Corporations Start Wars and Screw the Veterans That Fight in Those Wars Via Their Tea Party Republican Stooges

Corporations Start Wars and Screw the Veterans That Fight in Those Wars Via Their Tea Party Republican Stooges.


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Have you used your Credit Card Five Times Today? Do you Love your Corporation Gods or Not?

Have you used your Baal Card today?

Oh great Corporation Gods, whose bounty we live off of, whose incredible vision and power bring food from the earth and transport it to supermarkets and CoffeeBucks, we are not worthy. 

Forgive us and help up to keep up our credit ratings or we are not worthy of the life you give us.

Remember to use your credit card everywhere you go. Use it for a newspaper, a cup of coffee, the subway etc.

Unless you use your credit card at least five times a day, it will be considered inactive and points will be deducted from the all-important monthly and overall total average New Corporate Credit Scores.

Life without credit is life without the blessings of the Credit Card Gods!

Stop using or abusing your credit or - Become Homeless! - Drop off the grid and die apostates of the new religion of the New Gods, the New Corporations.

Ho-men.

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Flame and Light of Religion

Most these days in religion, I have to say, seem attracted by the flame and not the light of the gospels.


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Religion in America - A Beast - A Monster - Ready to Destroy Us

If anything the recent SB1062 in Arizona aimed at Gays would have been used on Jews, Muslims, Mexicans etc.

Religion is big business in America, a tax-free pest ready to consume us all unless tamed or roped in with changes in the tax codes.

Religious scruples belong in your home, in your neighborhood and your community. I do not know where any so-called "Sacred Scripture" where hating your neighborhood is a virtue but such is life in confusing Global Culture America where corporations are our new gods and the God of our youth is a distant memory to most of us old geezers.

Arizona Businesses Gearing Up for “Homosexual Labeling Law” AKA “Arizona Religious Freedom Revival” Act

State Designated Minorities Must Eat on Picnic Tables in Parking Lot
next to the Crippled Area for those using Wheelchairs Etc.???
So as to not offend our Christian Customers...

As Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is rattling around her two brain cells in her pretty little head as to whether to sign the Arizona Religious Freedom Bill, Real Business are gearing up for what is turning out to be “Proper Homo Labeling” in order to keep cash flow going into the future.

Welcome to Arizona!

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Senate Bill To Name May 12 a Federal Holiday – “Arizona Religious Freedom” Day

Arizona Ghosts Die Hard

Rumors have it that Senator Mike Lee of Utah is about to sponsor a Bill in the Senate to name the late Arizona Governor Evan Mecham’s birthday May 12 as a national Holiday – “Arizona Religious Freedom Day”. 

Senate co-sponsorship automatically with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and House Sponsorship of Bill said to be with Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.

Yah-Hoo. Whoever said this ain’t a Christian nation?

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President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda Will Spent His Last Days In Prison For Crimes Against Humanity

The Nazis were judged for their Nuremberg Laws. So too will be the President and Top Legislators in Uganda and the Monied American Evangelicals pushing an agenda of hate in that country.

“Ugandan 'homosexuals' named in Red Pepper paperBBC News               
A Ugandan tabloid has named the country's "200 top homosexuals", a day after President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill toughening penalties for gay people.”

As was expected this “Homosexual” football is not a religious matter but rather the beginnings of a political purge or political witch hunt of all who oppose the government in many cases. 

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Dewey Arch New York City 1899 - 24th Street and Fifth Avenue - Cross Street Broadway - Madison Square

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Dysfunctional Baldwin Family of Long Island Being Mouthed I think through Alec Baldwin’s Latest Rant and Tantrum

Of course Rachel Maddow is full of herself and phony. She has survived as one of the longest people on MSNBC. Baldwin wants to shoot the breeze on a Saturday night talk show with his drinking buddies and he yells “Faggot” again at some ambitious paparazzi taking pictures of him or his new wife and kid and they cancel the show. It was not the first time so called limousine liberal Alec has used the offensive term. He forgot. He sorry. Did not work this time.

And there is this feud with this kid, shitty rich from all the Transformer movies, that Alec cannot stand Shia LaBeouf, yeah that’s his real name. Well over a year ago, the kid who is no actor got tossed from a Broadway show associated with Baldwin before it opened and well Alec only wants professionals in his ranks on stage. Or whatever. This Kid LaBeouf is a slightly older version of Justin Beaverhead, and is in the news recently fighting his way through pubs in Britain and bars in New York to prove his testosterone level if not his acting ability and to prove he is no LaBoof if you know what I mean.

A rivalry perhaps born of jealously by Baldwin of a younger more successful version of himself? Or is it some sort of abstract sibling rivalry with one of his brothers getting abused, verbally and with fists from Pops who did a real fucked up number on all the Baldwin brothers in terms of Alcohol and Drugs etc. later in life. Alec only seems like the one normal Baldwin brother most times or does he have the most cash to hire the best publicists to make ugly rumors go away in the media?

And Alec’s recorded emotional outbursts to his then teenaged daughter on the telephone leaked to the press and no doubt at the behest and angst of the his wife Kim Basinger who probably knows Alec best being married not only to him but his whole brood and band of brothers. They used to have a nest of them down in Tucson once upon a time where they hung out in cheap digs in between acting gigs and in relative anonymity which you can do in a climate sometimes so hot you forget your own name. And it was a great place to smoke the local delicacies right next to the border. (wink, nod)

And his daughter Ireland, walking so without confidence in public with her new stepmom and half-sibling, looks so miserable. It that born of self-doubts common to her young age or just not wanting to be there?

His bothers have their problems in life and Alec seems as the oldest the caring nurturing one of the brood. I remember his perfect quick wedding of recent years. A ceremony in the Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Little Italy/Chinatown and then a reception at nearby NYU in some functional conference Gym like space. All so very chic and New York. I have to imagine that for so many in the RC faith it is part of belonging to family tradition that keeps that branch of Christianity functioning from the gelt from the guilt from the hatch them, hitch them and bury them cash only services. And let’s not forget the rush annulment of his marriage to Kim. Those things coming Fed-Ex from the Vatican cost a pretty penny.

All in all Alec Baldwin wants to leave New York and move to California. I wish him luck and I hope he can salvage the archive of his life’s work in movies. (Aside – He has not made that many really good movies for a so-called star in New York Hollywood.) So far his choice of acting gigs might be blamed on this agent Daffy Duck. But then again he likes to blame everybody else…

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Rocco’s Little Chicago Tucson Arizona – A Great to Eat if you are not an Asshole Arizona Politician

In Arizona’s boom and bust economy it is surprising that I run into a piece of an old acquaintance from Tucson, Rocco of Rocco’s Little Chicago Pizzeria along the main east west drag East Broadway on Internet News.

I can remember when Rocco’s was searching around for the right spot to put his version of Chicago and its style of pizza and Italian food on the local Menu and under the Stripes and Stars Chicago City Flag inside the restaurant.

His wife was a fellow co-worker at a local HMO before it was sold out to the Corporate Global Spreadsheet, before you had to dial a 1-800 number to help you with your primary care doctor or your meds and reach perhaps in those days Minnesota which is probably Mumbai these days.

The corporate culture of that local HMO was such that everybody was a member of a team and almost like family. So it was not hard to keep up with the progress of Rocco starting a business with limited capital and in the boom and bust economy of an old cow town, university town of Tucson.

I was pleasingly surprised to see that Rocco had posted a sign restricting service to the morons in the state legislature over this recent religious right to discriminate law. The sign above.

I wished him and his wife and baby luck at the grand opening of Rocco’s in the late nineties before traveling back east to a more stable long term work environment. I even gave him a collage of old newspaper stuffed into the seat of a shaker chair I bought there in a thrift store. Rocco said he was going to hang it in the bathroom.

Doubt is something as brilliant and as valuable (sarcasm) as one of my works of art has survived the tourists.

Rocco Bathroom Art Reminiscent of College Days spent in Saint Petersburg Russia Comrade

Was back in 2007 visiting my son in college but missed getting to say hello to Rocco. Hello Rocco. Good Man! Even Better Pizza!

Real Tucsonans Stay In Summer
And are not Stupid enough to
Turn away Business LOL

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Street Scene New York City 1900 - Intersection of Broadway and Park Row - Across from the Old Federal Court House and Post Office

Street Scene New York City 1900 - Intersection of Broadway and Park Row - Across from the Old Federal Court House and Post Office

Rolling Out The New Banner of The New Evangelization of The New American Christianity - in Arizona, Kansas, Utah.....

Rolling Out The New Banner of the New Evangelization of The New American Christianity - in Arizona, Kansas, Utah.....




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Ted Cruz Family Photo with Mom and Dad

Ted Cruz Family Photo with Mom and Dad.

How warm and touching. So full of many family values.


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Feel Good Hate the Gays Bill in Arizona Awaiting Jan Brewer’s Signature

Arizona governor Jan Brewer has yet to decide to sign the Hate Gays Religious Exemption bill out of that state’s Mormon dominated Legislature.

The Valley of the Sun in the State of Deseret and in the American state of Arizona has a feel good to hate Gays anti-cupcake bill ready for Jan Brewer to sign.

The thought, the outrage that cookie and cupcake makers would have to make a Gay Wedding Cake is too much for some in their Mormon Long Johns to accept.

A religious exemption, a permit to hate wherever and whenever the spirit moves you to do it will be protected by this piece of horseshit Arizona bill.

I know that they don’t pay the legislators much in Phoenix but this is a total waste of taxpayer chump change generally wasted on these white inbred clowns, out too long and brain dead in the Arizona sun. 

If the prophet Joe Smith could not have a gay wedding to add many husbands to his many wives and not have a Gay Wedding Cake, then nobody else is deserving of such. 

LOL

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Muslims Value Human Life More than Christians or Corporations?

Muslims clerics are putting a cabash (fatwa) on sending human beings one way to Mars in a so called “suicide” mission where humans cannot expect a ride back to earth. Costs too much. Hurts the corporate bottom line. 

Apparently Christianity and Christianity drenched with Corporate Greed Thinking has not thought to comment on the discounting of humanity in outer space same as on Earth on the Corporate Global Spreadsheet regarding future Martian profit motivated missions to that red planet.

Apparently Wall Street and Wall Street’s Pentagon’s armies have not yet won the global war on Islam for dominance in the new Global Culture thingy.

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