The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3 continued

THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM PART III: IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES (Essay 1: The Cultural War Against Gays By SweetPea (Daniel) SECTION 3
Who Suffers? We Do.
The Inevitable Results of Threats and Hate Speech
The verbal attacks continue. Gays and lesbians are compared to everything from rats to Devil worshipers, which makes [...]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3 continued

Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo and the extreme right use them. This post was authored by SweetPea, a member of the Coalition for a Republican-Free America
 
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Part III, Identification of Scapegoats
(Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays)
by SweetPea
SECTION 2
As [...]

good on her

 
j.k. rowling announces that albus dumbledore is gay
 
“Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.”
 
tags: harry potter, real life, GLBT

Detachment

Buddhists are onto something very important : a concept called equnimity , dispassion in the face of stuff that bombards our senses daily. We americans are conditioned to be passionate , jingoistic, nationalistic , to vote, to take action lots and lots of action. We are doers, oh yeah ! go get em tiger..blah blah [...]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3

ESSAY II:
RACIAL PROFILING: CODE WORD FOR RACISM
By PraetorOne and Biblebelted
In the 1960s Lyndon B Johnson incurred the wrath of Conservative Southern Democrats by supporting the civil rights movement; specifically the Voting Rights Act. Admittedly, Johnson was a piece of self-centered work, a flawed, even power hungry individual (though a rank amateur when compared to [...]

mitt cares about you

Oh, well, not you, you sick person whose only solution is medical marijuana. If you had any illusions that there was anything to this man beyond slick political bullshit, the video here will convince you otherwise. What a heartless bastard. It goes along with strapping the dog to the roof of the car for 12 [...]

CHEAP GRACE

This morning we have a group of guest writers. The cast and crew from Republican-Free America and the Coalition for a Democratic America. This post originally appeared here.
CHEAP GRACE:
THE HYPOCRITICAL AND DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF THE PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN RIGHT
By Trevor, Jeffrey, Brandon, Daniel, Kyle and Brian
“We don’t lie, cheat, or steal on Sunday, but [...]

God said what?

In keeping with the Sunday theme, here is another wonderful musing from the Angry Black Bitch.
My oh my, a bitch read this shit and…well, it gave me pause.
A certain Richard Roberts, son of Oral Roberts and President of Oral Roberts University (didn’t Kathy Lee go there?), is hip deep in a misuse of funds-based scandal.
Mmhmmm…and [...]

a little something for the weekend

i haven’t been doing as much posting these days as reading. it’s probably just as well because what i have been reading hasn’t been pretty. many folks are leaving their blogs in what is probably best described as a state of ptsd- and that isn’t to make light of the problem. there is one thing [...]

blog for burma

What is it about the underdog that appeals to the american sense of justice? Since our revolution, and when it suited us, we have always supported the underdog in foreign relations. Not that it’s a bad thing, necessarily, but i think sometimes we miss the bigger picture. When most folks think about [...]