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mcgiffert
1:25 pm
…but critics say Obama has taken more than 160K from the oil & gas lobby.
But he’s going to do something about it, he says. Mr. Obama proposes putting a tax on the windfall profits of oil companies, and he says he’ll end American dependence on foreign petroleum. He can take aggressive steps against Exxon Mobil, he points out, because he hasn’t accepted donations from oil companies or lobbyists. |
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mcgiffert
1:20 pm
Big Oil Companies are NOT passive participants in the global market letting demand fix price. That is bullsh*t.
As drivers struggle at the pumps, Lee Raymond, former ExxonMobil chief executive, was just inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame after leaving the firm with a huge exit package. According to consumer advocate Ralph Nader, “A company that spends $400 million on its outgoing CEO clearly has no idea what to do with its money.” |
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mcgiffert
11:22 pm
Green zone being shelled, al Sadr proves his power & influence.
Fighting has also broken out in Baghdad, again. There is more more evidence that the Iraqi army which we’ve been pouring millions of millions of dollars into is disintegrating before our eyes. Iraqi soldiers are taking off their uniforms and blending into the crowd. Our soldiers who have been supporting the Iraqi Police force and now having to take more and more of the fighting responsibility. |
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mcgiffert
8:53 pm
and what compassionate logic they find to justify suicide over being gay…sickos!
“I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no recovery.” –The Final Indoctrination from John Smid, Director, Love In Action (LIA), San Rafael’s “ex-gay” clan.
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mcgiffert
8:43 pm
It’s better than Nazi bunting at the communion rail…MUCH better!
| Is Pastor Wright to be ridiculed and condemned for refusing to play the court prophet, blessing land and sovereign while pledging allegiance to our preoccupation with wealth and our fascination with weapons? In the United Church of Christ we honor diversity. For nearly four centuries we have respected dissent and have struggled to maintain the freedom of the pulpit. Not every pastor in the United Church of Christ will want to share Pastor Wright’s rhetoric or his politics. Not every member will rise to shout “Amen!” But I trust we will all struggle in our own way to resist the lure of respectable religion that seeks to displace evangelical faith. For what this nation needs is not so much polite piety as the rough and radical word of the prophet calling us to repentance. |
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mcgiffert
8:39 pm
Speaking of glass houses…
| One is tempted to ask whether these commentators ever listen to the overcharged rhetoric of their own opinion shows. Even more to the point is to wonder whether they have a working knowledge of the history of preaching in the United States from the unrelentingly grim language of New England election day sermons to the fiery rhetoric of the Black church prophetic tradition. |
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mcgiffert
11:55 pm
After saying gays were “more of a threat” to America “than terrorists or Islam”, Kern got a visit from some protestors.
Not exactly a genius, is she?
| “They’re sending out letters and making calls in my district. And they really want me to come down and talk to them?” Kern said. “ It would be like throwing myself to the lions. That’s a metaphor.
“When I am wrong, and it is brought to my attention, I will apologize. |
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mcgiffert
12:41 am
Inclusive Language Meets Personal Experience. Meditations from Holy Week, 2008.
The liar, however, can become a truly subversive and scandalous figure, whose nefarious influence may extend far more widely than her own individual actions.
— John Forrester, Truth Games |
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mcgiffert
12:17 am
Holy Week, 2008
Weaver goes on to explore the non-violent approach of Jesus as he proclaimed and lived out the Kingdom of God.
“Jesus was ready to die and he was willing to die. It was not a death, however, that was required as compensatory retribution for the sins of his enemies and his friends. It was a death that resulted from fulfilment of his mission of his mission about the reign of God.”
Weaver challenges a narrow understanding of atonement based on retributive justice. Here, he says, we see Jesus talking about and modeling an understanding of salvation that is about being free from the evil forces represented by the imperial structures, the holiness code, the mob and the compromising actions and attitudes of his own disciples. |
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