Well…I am a little bemused today with the unintended fallout of the Hobby Lobby decision that gave corporations religious rights to refuse to cover contraceptives in their health plans…on the heels of that wrongheaded mess, the announcement today of the satanist church asserting that this decision gives them the right to ignore any state or federal law that restricts a woman’s right to abortion since their church has as one of its tenets that science and not religion should be the basis for all health decisions made me smile. The church asserts these ‘closely held beliefs” should be treated the same as those of the christians that own Hobby Lobby and to be treated differently would be unconstitutional and a violation of the 14th amendment. Which it is. These idiots on the supreme court thought that their ruling would only apply to christians but they can’t have it both ways…if one group is given special rights, then the rest of them get those same rights…I applaud the satanists for pushing back against this nonsense and their fight against the religiosity that is ruining this country…religion belongs in church, not in government…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
There are still good people in the southwest…
Well…after reading the stories of all of the hate directed at the refugees that have been coming across the southwest border of the US from some supposed “christians”, it was heartening to read an article a few minutes ago about the coalition of churches in Texas that have banded together to provide relief for these unfortunate people. That is what I grew up with in the UCC…although I’m an atheist now, I still appreciate the ideals that come from some of the teachings and it makes me feel good that there are still some good people in this country that don’t hate…that see the suffering of fellow human beings and feel compelled to do something about it….so I applaud these folks for living their religious principles….not many do anymore….
People are just stupid…
Well…I have been subjected to many of the inane political ads that are being aired while working out and one thing really strikes me…people must really be stupid to believe any of those from the right….the latest one I saw was against Mark Schauer who is running for governor…which had the woman holding a squirming baby going on and on about how Schauer raised taxes 10 million times as a legislator and blah, blah, blah….here, in a state with crumbling roads, failing schools, and cities in deficit they’re talking about that? In a state that ranked 37th in job creation they’re talking about that? When most of the fiscal problems in the state are caused by the failed policies of tax cuts for the rich and business, they want more tax cuts? I’d gladly pay more taxes if it would go to fixing the roads or taking care of people instead of straight into the pockets of CEOs whose companies got huge tax cuts…that is patriotism, to fund the society as those before me have done…but, not in republican minds…geez…
Another difference between them and us….
Well…with the refugee crisis that is occurring on our southern border where thousands of children fleeing almost certain death have crossed into the US, we can see another huge difference between the right and us….the right replied to the crisis by protesting and howling that these kids should be sent back to where they came from not caring that most of them will die if that happens and mistakenly picketing YMCA buses trying to prevent them from getting the care they need…all the while snarling that it’s not our responsibility to do anything for them…so, what was the response of us on the left to these children? Outpouring of aid and comfort and howling at the government for the appalling conditions these kids are being held in…a young Democrat group putting together a way through facebook to donate clothing and other necessities….once the word got out on Kos that we could help…Kos started it out with donating over 300 dollars and then the community kicked in with thousands more….and that continues now with hundreds of us doing our part to help these scared kids….so, we have the “christians” on the right ready to send them back to be killed while the atheists on the left see the problem as a humanitarian one and organize a way to help….that is just another difference between them and us…they profess to be caring christians but they’re not and they tar us as being godless socialists and we’re the ones that are looking for solutions that will save the lives of these kids….what kind of a person would allow kids to die for ideology? Geez….
This explains a lot…
Well…read an interesting study yesterday that compared how children raised in religious homes fared against those raised in secular homes in the necessary skill of discerning fantasy from reality….and the results explained a lot to me when they found that those raised in the strictest homes that teach their children that the bible is the word of god had a huge problem telling what is real and what isn’t since they are taught that that myth is truth….and, that explains why the religious adults on the right so happily believe the conspiracy theories and the lies that are spewed at them every day from the right wing media. I think this is the worst kind of child abuse that is covered by religion..who in their right mind would doom their child to a life without this critical thinking skill? Oh, that’s right, they don’t care about that…faith is all it takes for them in politics and economics…even when that faith is proven wrong on so many fronts…geez…
Everyone should read this one….
Well…I normally don’t link to other sites or articles but I read one by Laurence Lewis over at Kos today that everyone should read…it’s about how corrupt the supreme court has become with the advent of the conservative majority…I have railed about this same topic on numerous occasions but Laurence is in great form…go take a look…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/20/1312504/-Born-of-corruption-why-would-anyone-expect-this-SCOTUS-majority-to-be-anything-but-corrupt
Looks like you’ll have to cut and paste…the links aren’t working for my site…
A progressive split…
Well…you’re probably not aware that there is a huge progressive shindig going on in Detroit this week where activists meet up to plan how to strategize to get progressive candidates elected…and to fight back against the billions of dollars that the owners of the rights politicians will spend to make sure that business and the rich continue to gut the middle class and poison everyone. This year, it was a pretty good meet up but there was one little bomb that was dropped near the end that has all of us on the left a little bewildered….the choosing of Arizona as the 2015 site for Net roots nation…as the meet up is called. This choice has split the progressive movement…well…maybe not split from the comments that I have read…but pissed us off..starting with the originator of the meetups, Kos, (or Markos Moulitsos) whose site, the Daily Kos, is the largest and most active of the progressive ones out there…with Kos going so far as saying they can go there without him or any support from his site or network. I agree with him…with all of the nasty, racist, anti gay crap that has been going on there over the past few years, to reward them by bringing millions of dollars into the state would just be wrong…we on the left have to live our principles and ensure that we don’t help the right wing asses continue to do what they do…hate and fear monger and get elected…it will be interesting to see if the decision sticks…with the outcry, I’ll bet that there will be another state chosen…one where the people are trying to restore the true American values of inclusiveness and cooperation to make this a better country for all…not just for the rich….geez…
The border crisis…
Well…I have been watching the right go frickin crazy over the influx of children fleeing the violence in central America and all I can do is shake my head at the actions of these supposed christians who have been trying to find the busloads of the kids so they can terrorize them. This is just what it is, too, terrorism…when they mistake a busload of kids that were going to a YMCA camp for immigrants and start shouting at them and trying to stop the bus…what do you think those kids felt? This is what the right has devolved into….blind rage and hatred for anyone who is not like them…and this whole thing started with a black guy getting elected and the right just knowing that it couldn’t have been legal, after all, they and no one they knew voted for him so the election must have been rigged. Now, they are trying to add the administrations humanitarian aid for these refugee kids to the long list of fake reasons they think Obama should be impeached….for not following the law, or in this instance for following a law signed by ole GW that is preventing Obama from immediately deporting them…my head spins just reading about this nonsense…geez…
Of course they blocked it…
Well…was just reading about the repubs and their blocking of the new senate bill that would take away the exemption that the Hobby Lobby decision gave to for-profit corporations to refuse to cover contraception for women and the first thought that came into my head was “of course they blocked it”…of course these asses don’t give a damn about women’s health needs…of course they are going to give in to the christian taliban and allow them to force their beliefs on anyone that works for them…and last, of course, just of course…religion just needs to go away and as soon as possible…it is nothing but a tool that is used to be an ass to women and to control them…it’s probably why it came into being in the first place…to keep the wimmen in their place…why this isn’t a 14th amendment issue I just don’t understand…everyone should have equal protection under the law…geez…
Need to start thinking about catching up…
Well…it’s only halfway through the month and I’m already thinking about being behind so I thought I’d do one more right now and then the world cup one later….I am still stewing about the Hobby Lobby decision that gives employers the right to control their workers when not on the job…and it is so against the first amendment that I think the 5 catholics on the court that made the decision should be impeached….but, not only for this case, there is also the citizens united case that gave corporations free speech rights to spend as much they want to buy elections, and that overturned a hundred years of precedents…and, these are not aberrations, they are the ideology that these guys are pushing…that the rich and corporations are just a little more equal than the rest of us…just like the pigs in “Animal Farm”…..a cautionary tale that everyone should have read in high school…and that specifically had the point that inequality destroys societies…but these guys just don’t care, they have a vision of the rich running and ruining everyone’s lives and they are doing their best to make sure that happens…geez…