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‘Wifer’ Controversy, Biden Being Awesome, & Our lack of Choice

May 28, 2012 by Tripp Fuller 1 Comment

here’s a political round up of what’s been popping in my RSS feed! enjoy…

Joe Biden Goes “Off Message” And Shows Real Emotion And Humanity.  This is the single best moment of the week!

Mitt Romney ‘Wifer’ Controversy  was kicked off by Bill Maher.  I laughed very hard and still can’t figure out how Romney gets away with hanging out with Birthers like Donald Trump.

Blacks, Gays And The Church Apparently the Black church is the most tolerant and homophic part of the African American community.  In the audio piece it is suggested that Obama’s support of gay marriage won’t effect turn out negatively as the Right hopes but that the negative personal attacks on Obama will.

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists  is needed, meaning equal respect for freedom of conscience.  Good Idea!

A choice of capitalisms OR why Obama is not actually a real Leftist. Ugh.

Government Subservience to Business Economist Richard Wolff says what I have been thinking… it is hard to trust a democracy when the one pulling the levers of legislation are no longer the people.

 Conservatives used to care about community. What happened?

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I grew up being taught (in typical pre-millenialist style) that we were on a giant slippery slope, and that the governments would form a world government that would protect blasphemers and false teachers while persecuting the religious, until Satan took over the world, and God had to nuke creation from orbit, since it's the only way to be safe.

 

Perfect love casts out all fear, but at some point, it seems like we prefer to be afraid, since it enables our hatred.

 

And yet our model, Christ, considered himself less than equal...

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