Church and State

(Opinion) Rick Santorm promotes fundamental extremist views that are dangerous to individual Freedom, a insult to Liberty and Unconstitutional.

During a town hall meeting in Iowa, Rick Santorum said Americans should suffer more, “Suffering, if you’re a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it’s not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life … There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there’s another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there’s all sorts of ways that people suffer and it’s not just tangible, it’s also intangible and we have to consider both.” Check it.

Christianity is based on compassion, which is “suffering with”, to have empathy and help others to alleviate suffering. To seek and endorse suffering is just insane. These are not conservative views, these are extremist views of a fanatic and they should not be labeled as Social Conservative.

The Constitution forbids State Religion.

The First Amendment of the United States Consitution Reads:

“Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution found in Article VI, states that:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

A Secular Nation.

Thomas Paine was a deist. As was Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson made his own version of the Bible, cutting and pasting from English, French, Latin and Greek, his favored translations, and removing the supernatural events of the New Testament.

In 1802 Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”

Thomas Paine said on religion, “I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. But, lest it should be supposed that I believe in many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

The Constitution forbids State Religion recognizing the danger of fanatic zealots yearning to impose their perverted views by rule of law.

Rebelling from the Theocracy of the Divine Right of Kings, the United States was built on a foundation Separating Church and State.

Check it. Santorum Defends ‘Phony Theology’ Remarks, Doubles Down On Religious Critique Of Obama.
“Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks”

Check it. 9 controversial Rick Santorum quotes.

Check it. Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists.

B'Ham Drunk Crash Injures Family

A family of four are in the hospital after a car crash in Bingham, caused by a man allegedly under the influence of spirits.

The suspect, Travis Wallington Smythe, 54, from Stoughtonshere, was transported to West Shore Memorial Hospital with injuries. He has been detained and summonsed to Court for Felony Inebriation, Gross Profanity, Operating Machinery to Endanger, Forced Bodily Injury, Assault in the 1st Degree and Aggravated Mayhem, according to D2PD.

The condition and status of the injured family remains private.

Today In History

(History) Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to end Fucking Prohibition in the United States.

Prohibition, was mandated by The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, with the ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, with the Volstead Act, which smacked down rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining what types of alcoholic beverages were prohibited.

The Volstead Act, was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment. The Anti-Saloon League‘s Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew John Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation.

Check it. Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment on February 20, 1933.

'Water' Drug ring smashed

The D2PD has smashed a narcotics ring in Kingstown that peddled alcohol packaged in plastic water bottles, authorities announced yesterday.

The drugs, a hooch machine, as well as four loaded handguns and $7,000 in cash, were recovered during an early-morning raid Friday inside a Redcloud Avenue building in the Brownsville section, according to Vice Police Special Narcotics Prosecutor Devdas Coxwell.

The weapons, drug manufacturing equipment and gallons of the drugs were hidden behind a false wall, officials said.

Sixteen people were rounded up, according to the VP.

Acceptance is Love

(Opinion)

Christianity is a religion founded on love and peace. The selfless acts of Christianity and the message of Love are not being heard over the voices of the Zealots and the Fanatics who are taking center stage leading inquisitions of faith.

The elevation of the cross, metaphorically took the “pagan” symbol of the cross as a mandala, with its four quadrants representing the four seasons, with the center focal point if a human figure was transposed upon it being the reproductive organs, symbolizing that the message can be transferred only by birthright.

To the elevation of Christ on the Cross, which puts the focus higher on the figure of a human being now at the height of the throat and of the ears. This elevation of the focal point to now one of a message that can be transferred via communication, in speaking and hearing and in seeing.

The message of Love and Peace can be spoken and heard and accepted by all who open their hearts. And indeed in a message of Love and Tolerance, there is a place in the world for people who choose to believe differently. Acceptance is Love.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Check it.

Sanctum Santorum

Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum Questions Obama’s Christianity. Check it. Rick Santorum is fueling and feeding religious fanaticism that spreads intolerance, fear and ignorance.

Rick Santorum thinks that rape that results in pregnancy is “a gift in a very broken way” and rape victims who become pregnant should “make the best out of a bad situation”. Check it.

Grand Inquisitor Santorum questions the faith of the President who does not share his fanatical views:

Check it. Rick Santorum questions Obama’s Christian values.
Santorum preaching the pulpit in Ohio said Obama’s agenda is based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”

Check it. Santorum rakes Obama on religion.
Ranting that Obama’s agenda is, “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phoney ideal, some phoney theology.”

Santorum has no tolerance for those that do not share his extreme fundamentalist views.

Rick Santorum does not believe in evolution or the science of global warming. Check it.

The belief in God and science are not mutually exclusive. It is no longer the 1830’s and the Earth is no longer flat.

Rick Santorum blames Catholic priests raping and sodomizing children on liberal society and compares homosexuality to bestiality. Check it.

These are not the comments of a Social Conservative, these are the comments of a zealot fanatic who would wish to impose a version of Sharia law in the name of Conservative Christianity.

There is no place in American Politics for such intolerance and fanaticism.

The founding Fathers specifically wrote of a Separation of Church and State to prevent Fanatics from imposing cruel interpretation of stone age laws upon the masses.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” and Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Check it. 31 Rick Santorum Quotes That Prove He Would Be A Destructive President.

Check it. The Bill of Rights.

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(Opinion)
Electrochemical. A thought is a Wave Particle.
The Earth rotating on it’s Axis spins at about 1,000 mph.
Towards the rising Sun we spin. Very fast.
Traveling around the Sun in our helix Spiral at 66,000 mph.
Now winter in the Northern sphere.
The Sun, spiraling around the center of
The Galaxy towards the Constellation of Lyra, at 43,000 mph, with us attached spiraling along with our Moon.
The Milky Way Galaxy itself an enormous pinwheel, Spiraling around with All of us Cosmic Bodies in it, at 483,000 miles per hour.
A spiral in a spiral in a spiral We fly through spaceTime.
It’s a beautiful ride.
Comprised mostly of Water we move fast through The Space.
Oxygen Hydrogen. Carbon.
Forward in Time.
Electrochemical reactions our
Thoughts our Energy A Wave, a Particle.
We Create.

Experience the inFinite
It is here

Write Your News.
Paint Your Picture.
Sing Your Song.
Choose Your Reality

A'wood couple killed in apt. fire

An Adelwood couple was killed in blaze that ripped through the flat the pair shared, according to D2 fire officials.

Reece Jefferson Callum, 47, and his wife Bella, 52, were found dead inside their u12 home in the Burberry Gardens Subtereanean Complex at about 2:15 a.m., fire officials said.

According to the D2FD, the fire was contained to the unit as per subterranean building standards.

A firefighter was taken to Royeson McDonnel Medical Center with minor injuries.

The cause is under investigation but it does not appear to be suspicious at this time.

Italian police seize SIX TRILLION DOLLARS! of fake U.S. Treasury Bonds

Italian cops said on Friday they seized $6 TRILLION! worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds N other shit in Switzerland, N arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud N other financial crimes.

Check it. Italy Confiscates $6 Trillion in Fake US Bonds.
Authorities in Italy have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit US bonds and arrested eight people for fraud and other crimes.

Check it. Italian police seize $6 trillion in fake U.S. Treasury bonds.
The high-value equivalent of $3 carnival bills, the seized documents allegedly were part of a scheme to defraud Swiss banks. Eight suspects are arrested.

Check it. Italian police seize $6 trillion in fake T-bonds.
Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland, and arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.

~~Basically~~ admitting the whole financial ~~game~~ market is a scam, U.S. bond traders joked about the news, “If there’s that much less supply now, Treasuries should be rallying,” chuckled a fixed-income strategist at Morgan Stanley. Reuters also reports a trader at Citigroup said he had swapped jokes with colleagues about the seizure, which would not move markets. “It’s kind of like fake inflation I guess, if you take it to the max…” Check it.

Keystone Passe

Promising ~~a Centillion of~~ jobs and light sweet crude from our neighbors up North, the House passes the pipeline bill. Check it. Pro Keystone heads say the pipeline increases energy security and reduces dependence on foreign oils.

Check it. “Opponents of Keystone pipeline are threatening US jobs.”
Sen. Dick Lugar preaches, “The pipeline would bring crude from the vast oil sands deposits in Canada to American refineries along the Gulf, creating thousands of private sector jobs.
It would help protect United States national security interests. It comes at no taxpayer expense. And it will strengthen our vital ties with our ally Canada.”

Check it. Keystone Pipeline Bill Passes House, Lacks Match in U.S. Senate.
“Legislation that would force U.S. approval of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline and open Atlantic waters to offshore drilling passed the House, a measure that the Senate doesn’t plan to consider.”

Check it. US House passes Keystone bill, Senate action uncertain.
“The US House of Representatives passed an energy bill on Thursday that would wrest control of a permit for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline away from President Barack Obama”

Opponents cite Environmental concerns, inflated job estimates and desire to move away from Oil dependency to clean and renewable re-sources.

Proponents argue the Oil will be extracted in Canada regardless whether or not the US is a buyer, the pipeline extension can provide up to 1.1 million barrels per day for the US oil needs and shipping via tanker, train and barge is less safe and more energy consuming than the pipeline.

Dissent counters and says it is time to look ahead and start moving away from oil.

Check it. An Oil Sand Marriage?
Christopher F. Jones in the Huffington Post breaks it down,
“Pipelines are like marriages: they are meant to last several decades. We have to ask ourselves not only whether we want such a pipeline now, we have to determine whether we want to spend the rest of our lives with it…
Most debates about the Keystone pipeline are focused on the present. If you listen to the advocates of the Keystone pipeline, you’ll hear claims mostly about the pipeline’s short-term benefits. They emphasize the creation of lucrative construction jobs and access to a source of oil that is controlled by a friendly government…
We must consider whether we would still be happy with our decision in twenty, forty, and even sixty years. From this long-term perspective, the Keystone pipeline looks worse and worse.”

How Many Jobs will Keystone Create?

CEO of TransCanada Russ Girling says “20,000 US jobs” and implores environmentalists to “check the facts”. Check it.

An independent study conducted by the Cornell ILR Global Labor Institute says, “Keystone XL would result in 2,500 to 4,650 temporary construction jobs”. Check it.

Washington Republican Doc Hastings claims, “This legislation would create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs for American workers.” Check it.

A 2010 study by The Perryman Group boasts Keystone will create, “hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the stable oil supplies it will make available” Check it.

Check it:
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce: The Keystone XL Pipeline.
“The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed $7 billion, nearly 1,700-mile, 36-inch crude oil pipeline that will stretch from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, bringing significant new oil supplies to refineries in the U.S.”

Check it.
EPA Emergency Response and Preparedness Keystone Pipeline Project.