Churches and Candidates

Through no effort of my own, I receive email bulletins from the Christian Coalition, an unabashedly theocratic (and more covertly white-centric) political action committee, yet somehow still tax free (503-(c)4). The latest email tells people to bring voters their guides to church. Their splash page practically forces you to download it. I am of the opinion that churches that want representation like this should be amenable to taxation. Naturally they argue that just because every member shills for their platform, the churches should not be held accountable. Can this be remedied? Discussion?

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Ten Principles of Romneyism

Robert Reich has distilled ten principles of Romneyism. I think he's compiled and articulated these accurately. Whether they SHOULD be guiding principles for the United States is an entirely separate question. Here are the ten:

1. Corporations are the basic units of society. 2. Workers are a means to the goal of maximizing corporate profits. 3. All factors of production -- capital, physical plant and equipment, workers -- are fungible and should be treated the same. 4. Pollution, unsafe products, unsafe working conditions, financial fraud, and other negative side effects of the pursuit of profits are the price society pays for profit-driven growth. 5. Individual worth depends on net worth -- how much money one has made, and the value of the assets that money has been invested in. 6. People who fail in the economy should not be coddled. 7. Taxes are inherently bad because they constrain profit-making. 8. Politics is a game whose only purpose is to win. 9. Democracy is dangerous because it is forever vulnerable to the votes of a majority intent on capturing the wealth of the successful minority, on whom the economy depends. 10. The three most important aspects of life are family, religion, and money.

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The bank’s police at work

Here's what happened to a group of people protesting a foreclosure. Note the extreme militarization of the police. They looked nervous, and they should have been, because they were surrounded by ordinary people fighting a fucked-up system by uttering truths to the police-soldiers. Amazing that it's coming to this.

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Retired NSA analyst: The GOP is stealing elections

The GOP is stealing votes, and the "red shift" is thus real, according to a retired NSA analyst:

A retired NSA analyst has spent several sleepless nights applying a simple formula to past election results across Arizona. His results showed across-the-board systemic election fraud on a coordinated and massive scale. But the analysis indicated that this only happens in larger precincts because anomalies in small precincts can be more easily detected.

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