“Today, and it breaks my heart to say it, finding a homeless person who has died of cold, is not news. Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.”
via Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’.
Never fear, I’m sure the Marine holding the umbrella is just as important… Or whatever Kim K is wearing or…
Found this on FB…
I would have much more respect for you if you just admitted why this umbrella and this president made you so mad…
“Nothing dissolves the bonds between the people and their government like the arrogance of power here in Washington, and that’s what the American people are seeing today from the Obama administration — remarkable arrogance,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said.
So, because we are seeing, in his words, arrogance, the bonds are now dissolved? The last time such language was used was 1861. You know, when the “Union is dissolved.”
This is the same Speaker who said yesterday he didn’t care about anything else, just figuring out who was going to go to jail.
The emails and Benghazi are coming undone — they are a GOP talking point that doesn’t have a basis in reality. The IRS “scandal” doesn’t reach to the President, but took place under a Bush-era appointee. The same president who lied to the world and took us into a war.
Do we really want to see the answers to the questions before us? No. The GOP wants to see the President hanging from a noose. They have their mind made up, now they have to find the facts to support their death sentence.
Lovely…
You can find it here. Unfortunately, this is not that big of a scandal — not really a scandal.
Here are some other facts. Of the 300 targeted groups, 75 were Tea Party. Not, Party, as in Political Party. Others were Democrats. If you look at the process, I have to agree with Scott Hodge of the non-partisan Tax Foundation when he said, speaking yesterday on Morning Briefing, that there is no crime, but at the most, some boundaries may have been stretched. Further, there is no connection established to the White House, unlike the last President. The problem is, is that we do profile expected problems. Duh.
Now, the Justice Department will investigate… unlike last President.
If you actually believe this is a scnadal, I pity you. The real scandal is how much you are ready to see this President fall.
Good luck, America.
The IRS inspector general will release an audit sometime this week, but congressional aides gave several media outlets a draft of the audit. According to the document, IRS employees in the Cincinnati office used several troublesome phrases to single out 501(c)4 applicants for review — including, at various points between 2010 and May 2012, groups that “criticize how the country is being run,” aim to educate Americans “on the Constitution and Bill of Rights,” and lobby to “make America a better place to live.”
In order to avoid paying taxes under section 501(c)4 of the tax code, groups are supposed to have “social welfare” as their primary goal. And while advocating for issues and legislation can be a secondary goal, outright politicking is forbidden, especially for individual candidates. After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January 2010 allowed 501(c)4 groups to raise unlimited amounts of money, the IRS was flooded with applications.
via How big is the IRS scandal? – The Week.
This article (above) is about the most non-partisan, least fear-mongering one I can find.
Here’s the deal — a lot of hands are in this one. Bush appointees, Obama appointees. Congress. Decade-old reorganization. Stuff like that. But, more. SCOTUS with their citizen’s united decision. What happened? Read the article.
So, you have groups with the sole purpose to not pay taxes, to violate laws regarding the first amendment, and you expect the Government not to keep an eye on them?
Why now?
We want the Government to watch out for every dark-skinned person (dark, and I mean just this side of Chickasaw County, Mississippi) person, but the very people telling you they want to “take their country back” and they respect no laws expect the Constitution (not that they have clue as to what that means)… these people you want to go free?
Not to mention, the IRS under the previous administration investigate liberal groups.
No — ideology should not be the driving factor in investigation…but read the article.
Now, we are four days into this. Don’t make up your minds. Because if you do, it is likely no amount of facts will sway you.
Good luck, America.
I love you, Will:
You all have to watch this. Absolutely watch this:
Christianity is being frozen out of the American public square. It is time for a THAW! This is a call to teens across America to “join us” at Reach America to bring Christ back to America!
Anyone else find it completely ironic the comments are disabled for the video?
This is about privilege. Note the one minority in the film, but beyond that, check out the parts where people are upset for getting picked on.
Also, the stuff at the beginning, yeah, pants on fire lies. The pledge issue – yeah… My kids will no say the pledge and the pledge wasn’t said until a Socialist wrote it anyway.
And yes, the Church used to be the center of the community — well, smaller, hegemonic communities. maybe they still are in some parts. This wasn’t law, this wasn’t rule, this was due to social situations.
Watch the language, but this post deconstructs the out and out lies of this video.
There are SO MANY LIES IN THIS VIDEO IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH WITHOUT NEEDING TO TAKE A SHOWER.
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Megyn Kelly admitted Fox had been taking commercial breaks only when Dems were talking in Benghazi hearing. Now cut out during GOP comments
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) May 8, 2013
I don’t need to make a habit of reporting every time Fox News plainly tells you it makes a habit of hiding real news from you.
But, it does make for some fun, and quick posts.
Mr. Rivera did so on the conservative morning show “Fox & Friends” on Nov. 2, the Friday before Election Day. As the three hosts criticized the administration for failing to save the ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans who died in Benghazi, Mr. Rivera protested. He accused the co-host Eric Bolling of lying, calling him “a politician trying to make a political point.”
“After the argument continued for several minutes, Ailes called the control room and told the producers to cut Rivera’s mic,” Mr. Alter writes.
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Mr. Alter suggests in the book that the episode is atypical; Fox programming, he writes, generally reflected Mr. Ailes’s views without his explicit instructions.
via Book Looks Behind the Scenes at Fox – NYTimes.com.
Fox News went to court to allow that it can control the news… and yet, people still listen to this propaganda machine. Do yourself a favor, turn it off and go scour for several sources.
The recent spate of lies/gossip/right-wing propaganda coming out of Fox News has produced a solid string of posts on Facebook where people are upset enough to post images and petitions.
Hence this conversation that started up with an urgent plea to pray to end the persecution in the U.S. Military. My response was “That’s not true at all.” It continued until the person claimed I had attacked them. We are entering a phase where people simply do not want to be questions, nor have their “facts” discussed. It would seem to me, if you have the truth, then it is rather easy to defend, especially since these things are done out in the open:
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