The “pro-life” issue is not just about abortion, but more fundamentally about power given to one establishment of religion to legally define and to license what is permitted with respect to sex, and to your right to own and use your own body. Likewise the marriage definition by law means the church is given the arbitrary power to issue sex licenses to its own standards, without which license and ceremony you are a fornicator, adulterer, or a pervert, a criminal without the rights given to a citizen of good standing. Their abortion exception for rape or incest is clear indication their agenda is not about the life of the innocent incestuous-rape-baby, but is about the posture they would take regarding the moral circumstances of its conception, and their authority to grant thereby which pregnancies should be called justifiable homicide and not the murder they would accuse others of committing. It is a knowing and deliberate Dominionist coup de etat, an attempt by a religious sect to take command of the legislatures and the machine of State, exactly what the First Amendment was written to prevent.
FUNDAMENTAL BLASPHEMY
Thursday, September 29, 2011
"We Only Hate Their Sins."
“Christians love saying they do not hate the sinner, only the sin, but it is the sinner whom they burn at the stake (to save his soul, the ultimate “tough love”). We progressives do not hate the Republican Crusaders, we only hate their hard-hearted pride, their greed, bigotry, homophobia, xenophobic racism, arrogant jingoism, blatantly flaunted hypocrisy, and their anti-science, anti-history, anti-medicine, anti-education, anti-intellectual, and anti-social attitude. Politically, we believe these characteristics are not beneficial in holders of high office in this diverse nation of open-minded, well-educated, and socially conscious people, no matter how sincerely they believe in their moral superiority, or the authority they believe that entitles them to take.”
James Nathan Post
James Nathan Post
Thursday, September 22, 2011
What About This $2 Billion Cut?
It is the policy of our government to pay every person who holds or has ever held the office of President or Congressmember for any length of time at all, their full salary for life. To my knowledge, there is no other company or institution which offers such a pension to every former employee. For the vast majority of Americans, if you no longer work for a company, you are no longer paid at all.
The current salary paid to incumbent and retired Presidents and members of Congress averages about $180,000 each, forever after. If the number of them is 535 plus the two in the White House at any given time, and the number on the list of retired former members still alive and receiving that pension was found on a wikipedia entry to be just over ten thousand of them, then the total which would be paid to them annually is just over $1,896,660,000.00. The round-off figure is $2Billion. Dollars. Billion. Annual. That is being paid, presumably from now on, earmarked as a lifetime entitlement, to everybody who has ever been in Congress.
Many in Congress these days are calling for budget cuts, for trimming off the suet, the wasteful, and the undeserving. How about they start this “shared sacrifice” business by putting that up? After all, you have to be a millionaire to begin with just to get that job, don’t you? Many of those in and out of office now receiving that aforementioned $2Billion bucks are people who would let the air out of their own Granny’s wheelchair tires to score a cut that big in the other guy’s budget, or who already have. No? Well, they would sure as hell let the air out of YOUR Granny’s tires, wouldn’t they.
Now to be fair, I know they are only talking about cutting off that fat border-jumping bean-bandit Mammy-granny in her Medibux electric wheelchair going to the Food Stamp office with her five grubby little half-brother booger-biter anchor-babies to get her monthly lobster-fest and whine up some more Oba-Meds to give her worthless dog-pack of deadbeat dads to knock her up again. They are only out to get greedy greasy grannies like her, not YOUR Granny. And they’re doing it to save you taxes, don’t you get it?
The current salary paid to incumbent and retired Presidents and members of Congress averages about $180,000 each, forever after. If the number of them is 535 plus the two in the White House at any given time, and the number on the list of retired former members still alive and receiving that pension was found on a wikipedia entry to be just over ten thousand of them, then the total which would be paid to them annually is just over $1,896,660,000.00. The round-off figure is $2Billion. Dollars. Billion. Annual. That is being paid, presumably from now on, earmarked as a lifetime entitlement, to everybody who has ever been in Congress.
Many in Congress these days are calling for budget cuts, for trimming off the suet, the wasteful, and the undeserving. How about they start this “shared sacrifice” business by putting that up? After all, you have to be a millionaire to begin with just to get that job, don’t you? Many of those in and out of office now receiving that aforementioned $2Billion bucks are people who would let the air out of their own Granny’s wheelchair tires to score a cut that big in the other guy’s budget, or who already have. No? Well, they would sure as hell let the air out of YOUR Granny’s tires, wouldn’t they.
Now to be fair, I know they are only talking about cutting off that fat border-jumping bean-bandit Mammy-granny in her Medibux electric wheelchair going to the Food Stamp office with her five grubby little half-brother booger-biter anchor-babies to get her monthly lobster-fest and whine up some more Oba-Meds to give her worthless dog-pack of deadbeat dads to knock her up again. They are only out to get greedy greasy grannies like her, not YOUR Granny. And they’re doing it to save you taxes, don’t you get it?
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