Friday, May 18, 2012

Headlines - Thursday May 17

 
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This is par for the course with the Catholic church. Why choose Option A when you can choose Option B and hurt someone vulnerable at the same time.

It's the way the Catholic church has mishandled the pedophilia scandal (putting children last), it's the way they're handling compliance with non-discrimination laws in
DC, Illinois and Massachusetts (rather than simply not discriminate, the Catholics have chosen to stop helping parentless kids all together), and it's the way the church is handling this latest controversy (even though most Catholics agree with Obama and not the church - who does the church leadership actually represent in America, anyone?).

When in doubt, hurt the innocent. That's the golden rule if you're the Catholic church.

Oh yeah, and the second golden rule is do whatever you can in an election year to get a Republican elected. It won't be long now until we heard of Catholic parishes refuses to given communion to Democrats. Every four years it starts like clockwork.Read the rest of this post...
 
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The number of racial and ethnic minorities born in the U.S. will surpass white births for the first time, according to 2011 census estimates. Although the new data points to big changes in the country's racial makeup, it also reveals the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is resulting in fewer Hispanic entering the U.S after decades of high immigration levels.
 
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It is time for another Arizona politics bedtime story! Undercover FBI agents running a fake real estate company bought former Tempe City Councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo a few thousand dollars' worth of tickets to baseball and football games. He loved this gesture so very much that in return, "Arredondo brokered meetings between the undercover agents and other public officials, divulged information regarding the city of Tempe's bidding process, and attempted to persuade other city officials to approve the purported development project," allegedly, according to the indictment. If it's this cheap to buy off corrupt Arizona politicians, shouldn't the local underfunded public school science clubs hold a few dozen bake sales and take the proceeds over to the nearest elected official and get, say, a particle collider to put behind the gymnasium? READ MORE »
 
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The GOP-sponsored House version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization has finally gotten the endorsement of the constituency it needed to bring out the richness of its full nut flavor: paranoid men's rights activists. The National Coalition for Men, whose website features the delightful Microsoft Office-based editorial artwork pictured above, wrote a letter in support of the House GOP's efforts to restrain Supremist Feminist demon monsters in their mad quest for world annihilation, by weakening protections for victims of domestic violence. The Democrat-backed Senate version, you see, is much too busy "empowering false accusers at the expense of true victims," men. READ MORE »
 
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