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Help! Help! I'm being repressed! | NOMTaunts.com

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Anti-Gay "Truth Academy" curriculum released

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Stealth evangelists may be coming to your child's school

Americans United has compiled a list of “stealth” evangelical organizations who target middle and high schools with former pro athletes, rock bands, and more . . . to get kids’ interest, then sell them on Jesus. Oh, and they charge schools for the privilege of hosting their revivals.

The July/August 2010 cover of AU’s Church & State warns of “Stealth Evangelism in the Public Schools“. The cover story tells of David Jenkins, a Methodist minister in Kansas, who fought the efforts of an evangelical group coming to the local high school.(http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2010/07/stealth-evangelism-and-the.html)

A number of evangelical organizations are touring high schools across the nation. One, “Sports World”, sells administrators on discussions of character from former professional athletes. Others talk about drug and alcohol abuse, suicide prevention, and other issues of concern for teens. Trouble is, the sessions turns into revival meetings by their end . . . and some school districts are caught unawares.

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Another group, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, is fronted by rock band Junkyard Prophet, who performs in public schools and then shares a message of “new life in Christ”. The organization is a favorite of Minnesota’s infamous extremist Republican representative Michelle Bachmann, who has lent her name twice to help the group raise money. If guilt by association isn’t adequate, lead singer Bradlee Dean’s comments on a radio ministry show might paint a more clear picture of their message:

“Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America,” Dean said on a ministry radio show May 15. “This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.”
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Unbelievably, some of these groups even convince school districts to pay them to attend — either defraying expenses, or a flat fee. Taxpayer funds are being used to hire groups to indoctrinate children at mandatory-attendance assemblies.

Americans United has also provided a listing and information about eight of these organizations, describing their modus operandi, budget, and mission. Have a look at the listing HERE. (http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2010/07/stealth-evangelism.html)Americans United has compiled a list of “stealth” evangelical... more

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Two of AZ Gov. Brewer's Advisers Have Ties to Private Prison Industry | Video Cafe

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Congress Extends Unemployment Handouts

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ASU student says gays have 'identity confusion' | The Augusta Chronicle

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Facebook Martial Law Freak Out Group from Google's Webcache

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Gunman Unemployed, Mad At Left-Wing Politicians - News Story - KTVU San Francisco

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How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spiritual Warfare' in Northern Iraq | Investigations | AlterNet

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Facing extinction: The "responsible Republican" - Joe Conason - Salon.com

Warnings about right-wing extremism from Michael Gerson and ousted Bob Inglis are too little -- and much too late

What defines a "responsible" Republican in the era of Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle and Rand Paul? Ask Bob Inglis, soon to depart from Congress after six terms as a Republican representative from South Carolina. Having suffered a landslide defeat in a primary this year -- largely because he challenged the extremism of the far right and refused to pander to the "birthers" in his district -- Inglis is now speaking out about the direction of his party.

In what amounts to an exit interview with the Associated Press(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMVWMPMusNiWy1BWNNaU9V16LrDwD9GRHQH03), Inglis warned that the GOP's eager embrace of a motley crew of media frothers, ideological fanatics and bizarre conspiracists is inflicting grave damage on the party's integrity.

According to the AP, he denounced the "death panel" myth popularized by Palin as an example of "the lowest form of political leadership. It's not leadership. It's demagoguery." He is also appalled by the undue influence of figures such as Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News gang, especially Glenn Beck, whom he described as a "divisive fear-monger" at a town hall meeting earlier this year.

"I think we have a lot of leaders that are following those (television and talk radio) personalities and not leading," he said. "What it takes to lead is to say, 'You know, that's just not right.'" The obvious result is that the country becomes too polarized and too distracted by phony issues to address real problems.

As a white Southerner, Inglis said he is also sadly convinced that racism is among the motives of the most fanatical Obama opponents. He recalled being "shocked" as he watched Tea Party protesters heckling Rep. John Lewis in the Capitol last spring. Although he was too far away to hear the alleged racial slurs hurled at Lewis, a veteran of the civil rights movement in the South, he saw that the behavior of the mob was "threatening and abusive." At the time he said to Lewis -- who was beaten by racists in 1961 in Inglis' home state as he tried to register black voters -- "John, I guess you've been here before."

The ousted Inglis is not alone in worrying about the takeover of his party by angry, irrational and potentially dangerous extremists. Today Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson voiced the same concern.(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/08/AR2010070804274.html?hpid=opinionsbox1) The former Bush speechwriter is disturbed not only by Angle's rhetorical violence and Paul's libertarian excesses but by the Arizona GOP's pandering to anti-immigrant prejudice. A Republican victory in November is only likely to worsen these alarming tendencies:

The response of many responsible Republicans to these ideological trends is to stay quiet, make no sudden moves and hope they go away. But these are not merely excesses; they are arguments. Significant portions of the Republican coalition believe that it is a desirable strategy to talk of armed revolution, embrace libertarian purity and alienate Hispanic voters. With a major Republican victory in November, those who hold these views may well be elevated in profile and influence. And this could create durable, destructive perceptions of the Republican Party that would take decades to change. A party that is intimidated and silent in the face of its extremes is eventually defined by them.

Gerson is understandably affronted by these clowns, but it is difficult to understand why he describes the Republicans who acquiesce in extremism as "responsible." It would be more apt to call them "culpable" or "cowardly." If he's looking for responsible Republicans, they're the ones who are being ejected from office in primaries -- like Bob Inglis.Warnings about right-wing extremism from Michael Gerson and ousted Bob Inglis are too... more

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Justice Department - Black Panther organization accused of voter intimidation Obama blamed for cover up

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EPA blocked ships from cleaning Oil Spill

Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.

The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.

To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.

The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand. If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the oil company's expense. "If there's a country that's experienced with building dikes and managing water, it's the Netherlands," says Geert Visser, the Dutch consul general in Houston.

In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. By May 5, the U.S. had not come round. To the contrary, the U.S. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment --unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts.

Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico.

When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it. As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the official in charge of the clean-up operation, explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water--the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that." In other words, U.S. ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf, requiring them to make up to 10 times as many trips to storage facilities where they off-load their oil-water mixture, an approach Koops calls "crazy."

The Americans, overwhelmed by the catastrophic consequences of the BP spill, finally relented and took the Dutch up on their offer -- but only partly. Because the U.S. didn't want Dutch ships working the Gulf, the U.S. airlifted the Dutch equipment to the Gulf and then retrofitted it to U.S. vessels. And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labour unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained.

A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out. With oil increasingly reaching the Gulf coast, the emergency construction of sand berns to minimize the damage is imperative. Again, the U.S. government priority is on U.S. jobs, with the Dutch asked to train American workers rather than to build the berns. According to Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington, Dutch dredging ships could complete the berms in Louisiana twice as fast as the U.S. companies awarded the work. "Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands," he says, perplexed that the U.S. government could be so focussed on side issues with the entire Gulf Coast hanging in the balance.

Then again, perhaps he should not be all that perplexed at the American tolerance for turning an accident into a catastrophe. When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident occurred off the coast of Alaska in 1989, a Dutch team with clean-up equipment flew in to Anchorage airport to offer their help. To their amazement, they were rebuffed and told to go home with their equipment. The Exxon Valdez became the biggest oil spill disaster in U.S. history--until the BP Gulf spill.

- Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe and author of The Deniers.Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 Some are attuned... more

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Congressman Mocks Citizens at Town Hall

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Texas GOP Platform: Criminalize Gay Marriage and Ban Sodomy, Outlaw Strip Clubs and Pornography

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The Rise Of The New Right Wing by Chris Matthews

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New study finds that anti-drug beliefs reflect anti-sex attitudes

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Arizona school demands black latino students faces on mural be changed to white

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Desert Derangement Syndrome Hits Arizona

The fruitcakes are in control, and the even the Gila Monsters are being asked to show ID.

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Only Zombie Idiots Oppose Ending Gay Workplace Discrimination

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