I realize that the following is an snarky cartoon, but the logic is compelling.
When an outsider (which includes former insiders) hear the "logic" of Christianity, these are major parts of the story. If people were not socially cajoled to say that these things are true, would anyone say that they make sense?
I just saw these stats in a new post by LEAP:
Just over one week before voters in three states will decide on ballot measures to legalize and regulate marijuana, the FBI has released a new report today showing that police in the U.S. arrest someone for marijuana every 42 seconds and that 87% of those arrests are for possession alone. A group of police, judges and other law enforcement officials advocating for the legalization and regulation of marijuana and other drugs pointed to the figures showing more than 750,000 marijuana arrests in 2011 -- more than 40 years after the start of the "war on drugs" -- as evidence that this is a war that can never be won.To be clear, I'm not advocating the use of drugs. I'm criticizing the criminalization of the use of drugs. Characterizing the use of drugs to be a law enforcement issue has been a massive failure.
Oliver Stone's new book, “The Untold History of the United States” rips Obama's presidency. For those conservatives who might get excited about this criticism, they should note that most of the ways in which Obama has failed have been in continuing Republican policies, notably those of George W. Bush.
Robert Scheer at Truthdig discusses the eternal war envisioned by Mitt Romney:
Poor President Obama, as Colin Powell pointed out in endorsing him Thursday, clearly holds what should be a winning hand in the war-on-terror game, and yet Mitt Romney and his neocon speechwriters won’t cut him any slack. Suddenly it’s not Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida that matter, but rather the military threat from Red China that is killing us with slick iPhones and cheap solar panels. Throw in some good old Russia baiting, and if Romney has his way, the military-industrial complex will get its beloved Cold War back despite the fact that the communist threat is now one of conquering space on the shelves at Wal-Mart. Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about maximizing profit.
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.