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Let Corporations Vote?

February 25, 2013March 5, 2013 B. John 356 Views 0 Comments Montana, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Gun Control, Creationism, Atlas Shrugged, Vote, Corporations, voting

Apparently, some Republicans didn’t get the memo from Gov. Bobby Jindal about not being the “stupid party.” Because if you live in Montana, you can thank state Rep. Steve Lavin (R) for taking the Supreme Court’s misguided notion that “corporations are people” to new heights of stoopid. Lavin introduced a bill to allow corporations to vote in local elections. Under Lavin’s bill, under the proposal, “if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the entity is eligible to vote.”

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Weekly Twitter Digest

February 23, 2013September 29, 2018 B. John 320 Views 0 Comments twitter, Digest

This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-02-16 to 2013-02-22

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More Gun Nut Craziness-A Patron Saint?

February 22, 2013 B. John 522 Views 0 Comments Handguns, Patron Saint, Gabriel Possenti, Gun Rights Nuts

There was, in the 19th century, an Italian Monk named Gabriel Possenti. According to a legend, Saint Possenti saved a village from a marauding gang of soldiers by scaring them off with his hand gun prowess. So that was enough for a group of handgun enthusiasts to form the St. Gabriel Possenti Society to lobby to get the Pope to designate St. Possenti as the Patron Saint of handgun enthusiasts.

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Janet Mefferd Wants Right to Not Even Have to See Gay People

February 18, 2013March 5, 2013 B. John 1103 Views 1 Comment

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Hate Groups

You read it right. Radio host Janet Mefferd says that it’s a civil rights violation (the right to freedom of religion) to not even have to “see” gay people. This is how over the top and vitriolic the krazy kristian kooks of the conservative right have become. Last week, a teacher at a school in Indiana decided that if gay and lesbian students were going to get to come to the prom, then there should be a separate prom for the “christian” children (that “c” is intentionally not capitalized). So Mefferd decided she had to weigh in on the topic.

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Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment

February 18, 2013February 18, 2013 B. John 403 Views 0 Comments Slavery, 13th Amendment, Mississippi, Ratification, Constitution, Kentucky

As a proud southerner, I know things move slower in the south, but sometimes it’s just a bit too slow. According to the Washington Times, Mississippi is only now getting around to ratifying the 13th Amendment banning slavery in the U.S. As a friend of mine said, “Best not to rush to judgement on these things. Let cooler heads prevail and all that.” According to state Sen. Hillma Frazier, the Democrat who introduced the ratification resolution in 1995, “We’re very deliberate in our state.”

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A landlord should be able to discriminate

February 16, 2013February 15, 2013 B. John 1224 Views 0 Comments discrimination, Dishonest, liar, AFA, David E. Smith, hate group, Marriage Rights, Equality, Illinois Family Institute, stupid, Onenewsnow

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Hate Groups

According to David E. Smith of the Illinois Family Institute, an anti-gay group claiming to be concerned with protecting heterosexual-only marriage, “A landlord should be able to discriminate and say, Look, I don’t want to rent my apartment out or my condo out to anyone who doesn’t share my values.”

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The Crazies of Guns

February 15, 2013August 4, 2019 B. John 1335 Views 0 Comments idiocy, death, Gun Control, Shooting, Lunacy, Ammunition, Sandyhook School, Guns, Newtown, Mike Huckabee, Wayne LaPierre, NRA, David Barton

This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series Guns

Some time has lapsed from the horror that was the Newtown shooting, and now there have been even more gun deaths, and five people were shot accidentally on “Gun Appreciation Day,” hastily thrown together by the gun nuts. Now I grew up hunting with my Grandfather and other friends. I know my away around guns, and believe they are something that responsible should have for sporting purposes, but extremists have gone entirely too far with the rhetoric, and their arguments that every person should have totally unfettered access to any kind of gun. So I want to put my own spin in the discussion and dissemble the arguments that I keep hearing circulated.

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Family Research Council Apparently Calls for a Draft

February 15, 2013September 29, 2018 B. John 352 Views 0 Comments Tony Perkins, FRC, hate group, Military Draft, Racist

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Hate Groups

We’re going to start keeping a close eye on Tony Perkins, head of the SPLC Designated hate group, Family Research Council (FRC), and friend of White Supremacist, David Duke. Perkins is becoming more and more unhinged as gay rights continue the long arc of history towards full equality, and a black man continues as President. It seems to me Tony’s concerned that we will be drafting women into military service. Since we Don’t currently have a military draft in this country, one can only assume that our good friend Tony here is in favor of re-instituting a military draft.