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May 12, 2015

PEW says Christians are declining in America

The Christian share of the U.S. population is declining, while the number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any organized religion is growing,


http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/


I dont know until I read it all if people who realize god is a fairy tale, if that number is growing or not.

I call it a fairy tale and as soon as I do many believers will consider me being rude.

Oh well...i have been called worse.

I have said that evolution will eventually eliminate beliefs like this as well as guns, but not in our lifetimes of course.
May 11, 2015

Selma - The movie

Make sure everybody you know sees it, especially the white folks who are so sure racism is dead and gone.

Then make them watch








Telling white people they have to stop being you know what, doesnt work, even the liberal ones react you know how.

Maybe one day they will get it.

Maybe these movies will help.

May 7, 2015

It is not OK to shoot anyone ever other than self defense or defense of others, absolutely.

Even if 200 men dressed up in white hoods and sheets, walked up to a black 4 yr old child, surrounded him with all 200, and yelled the N word at him repeatedly, yelling and yelling.


No shooting, at all.

Public shaming of the 200 assholes would be completely OK and actually necessary., but nobody is to get shot.

Right?

If the nazi group KKK or other nazi group brought photos of the dead from Auschwitz and threw them in the face of Jewish people and laughed and yelled "fuck you Jew bastards" or whatever words they would use

NO SHOOTING at all, none.

But yes, they would need be to shamed.

Just like if someone went out of their way to CREATE violence by having pictures of a religious leader, NO SHOOTING AT ALL

but yes to shaming of the person who created the environment where shooting could or did happen.

Simple, really.

May 7, 2015

Reparations, finally.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-police-torture-vote-victims-thousands-reparations/



CHICAGO -- Jon Burge is an old man now, but he was once one of the most feared cops in Chicago, the master of a detective unit that allegedly tortured criminal suspects for decades.

Operating out of the notorious Area 2 headquarters, Burge and his men were accused of choking, shocking, burning and beating people -- most of them African-Americans -- until they confessed.

Chicago's city council voted Wednesday to pay $5.5 million to victims of police torture that date back from the 1970s into the '90s. The city has already spent more than $100 million after losing some lawsuits and settling others.


Now if we could just get them started over slavery and internment camps.
May 6, 2015

Do you men treat the women in your life with respect and equality?

I think many of us don't and aren't even aware of it.

The men in my immediate family treat/treated women like shit, but very typical actually.

I myself have been known to demean my wife's intellect when discussing something or dealing with something, and I doubt I would do that to a man, even if I was more informed on the topic.

I don't do it knowingly or intentionally and anymore i rarely do it, but it is built into me by our society.

Wait., I do know better and if I ever do it then I am just wrong.

I want every man reading this to pledge along with me to stop this shit and to make sure we arent teaching anyone else to do it.

May 6, 2015

Does Bernie ever say the idiotic dreaded "And God Bless America" line that all the rest

always say?

Anybody ever recall him saying that?

May 6, 2015

Cinco De Mayo reminded me/if you are in Los Angeles area, go here to eat

http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/guelaguetza-first-traditional-mexican-restaurant-u-s-win-james-beard-classics-award/


Guelaguetza Is the First Traditional Mexican Restaurant to Win a James Beard Classics Award


The mole is unbelievable, everything is.


http://ilovemole.com/


May 5, 2015

Democrats Defeat GOP Plan To Block Predatory Lending Protections For Soldiers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/30/payday-lending-soldiers_n_7182510.html




WASHINGTON -- House Democrats successfully knocked down a GOP plan early Thursday morning that would have blocked predatory lending protections for American soldiers.

Republicans had slipped the deregulation measure into the National Defense Authorization Act -- a major bill that sets the military's funding levels. The bill would have imposed a one-year delay on new Department of Defense rules designed to shield military families from abusive terms on payday loans and other forms of expensive short-term credit. Politicians frequently seek to delay measures in order to buy time to marshall the votes needed to fully repeal them.




They dont support the troops, never have. They support war profits for the rich.

Bastards

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