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 [...]

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 [...]

From the “we can’t make this shit up” Dept…

Listen to George Harrison’s version of My Sweet Lord below:
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From Reuters:Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York
By Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be displayed in New York starting in late October, seven months after an outcry by Roman Catholics forced a [...]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism Part 3, Essay 1

Part 3 of our continuing series, the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how they apply to the Rethugs and BushCo in particular.
Part III: Identifying Scapegoats
Essay 1 (Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays )
By Daniel (SweetPea)
SECTION 1
During the 1920s and 1930s the world learned that when sociopathic leaders, such as Adolf Hitler,were [...]

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 [...]

midnight musings

i have been trying to wrap my mind around many things lately- why some football teams are way better than others; why cats are so ridiculously needy and stalkish sometimes, and how people can think so regressively. it struck me as i read about pakistan the other day- and the one line in the [...]

Bring on the Fu Dogs

A funny thing happened on the way to writing this blog.
 
I went to an auction.
 
I have a friend, a fairly new but solid friend, who has leukemia. This is heartbreaking. What an incredible person she is–a theologian who turned me on to Jesus of the Week, a woman who can glimpse the wink in the [...]

Christophrenia: Diseases of the Radical Christian Right

Today we welcome a male to Sirens as a guest author of our Daily Feature. Praeterone writes with passion and intelligence on several blogs, The Coalition for a Republican-free America and the Coalition for a Democratic America. Both are group blogs that include his father and step-mother, as well as his wife and extended family [...]

Why i won’t vote for hillary clinton- and why you shouldn’t either

i am rabidly anti-religion of any stripe. I have pissed off any number of folks with my stance because what i generally feel for folks who buy into religion is- contempt. There is no place for religion anywhere- period. You can make a case for spirituality for sure and just because i [...]