BILL MINOR: Drug testing of poor smacks GOP politics | Daily Journal

Article re-Posted From The Tupelo, MS Daily Journal Sun Jan 26, 2014 by ABratt:

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BILL MINOR: Drug testing of poor smacks GOP politics | Daily Journal

America's Entitlement Society - Populated by Corporate Executives | Leo W. Gerard

John Boehner needs a bottle of water stuck up his ARSE along with several others of the Conservative Right...!--ABratt

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America's Entitlement Society - Populated by Corporate Executives | Leo W. Gerard

Wendy Davis Campaign Hits Back At 'Desperate' Greg Abbott, Rush Limbaugh

As an American male from Mississippi, I am convinced Wendy Davis will be the next governor of her state!--ABratt 1-25-14.

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Wendy Davis Campaign Hits Back At 'Desperate' Greg Abbott, Rush Limbaugh

Republican Congressional Candidate: Obama 'The Bane Of Freedom-Loving Americans'

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Republican Congressional Candidate: Obama 'The Bane Of Freedom-Loving Americans'

Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women 'They Cannot Control Their Libido' Without The Government

WASHINGTON -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is so fed up with the anti-Republican "War on Women" narrative that he went on a rant Thursday, accusing Democrats of trying to convince women they need the government to help them ["control their libidos."]

Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women 'They Cannot Control Their Libido' Without The Government

Open Letter To Joe Rutherford Editor Tupelo MS Daily Journal

Open Letter To Joe Rutherford, 1- 21-14

Dear Joe:

I would like to share the article linked below with you and the Tupelo, MS Daily Journal Community:
ABratt
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"41 Years of Fighting Over Roe"
by Martha Burk

"...And abortion and the doctors who provide them aren't the only targets in the opposition's gun sights. Birth control, which surely reduces the number of abortions, is also under attack from ongoing lawsuits against insurance coverage for it in Obamacare."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-burk/forty-one-years-of-fighti_b_4632823.html

Russian President Putin Links Gays To Pedophiles

Putin has been influenced by propaganda from members of the American Christian Right Fundamentalists Homophobes aka "The Great American Scourge"! And now you know where the problem originated.--ABratt

Russian President Putin Links Gays To Pedophiles

North Carolina Abortion Ultrasound Law Illegal, Judge Rules

Is a coat hanger abortion preferable to a safer legal abortion? The Coat Hanger seems to be the choice of the anti-abortion right-wing politicians and their friends among the religious extremist anti-abortion fanatics of the church. Abortion is an established, historical fact of human existence. Deal with it rationally!--ABratt

North Carolina Abortion Ultrasound Law Illegal, Judge Rules

ABratts Liberal Blog: "Nun Gives Birth To Baby Boy In Italy"

ABratts Liberal Tupelo MS Blog:

"A Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy this week after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital, Italian media reported on Friday."

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Nun Gives Birth To Baby Boy In Italy

Certain activists from the so-called American Christian-Right proudly take credit for the latest Russian anti-gay laws. Scott Lively, formerly associated with the Tupelo MS based American Family Association is one activist proudly hailing his presence in Russia promoting anti-gay hate legislation. Others of his ilk have announced publicly their support of Putin's Law. All in the name of Christianity! Homophobia has been defeated in America. American Homophobes merely moved some of  their bigoted operations to Russia. And Africa! 

Homopobes have always used the  "Children Are Abused By Homosexual Pedophiles " mantra in their phony anti-gay activism. -ABratt ,1-18-14.

Putin: Gays Must 'Leave Children In Peace'

Fischer Scientifically Proves That Transgender People Can Cure Themselves Through Prayer | Right Wing Watch

[Spotlighting Dr. Bryan Fischer From The "Dark Side Of Tupelo MS" An Otherwise All American City]--ABratt

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Fischer Scientifically Proves That Transgender People Can Cure Themselves Through Prayer | Right Wing Watch

Philip Slater: The Great Fundamentalist Hoax

"Thoughtful Americans have long wondered how it is that fundamentalist Christians--followers of someone who preached pacifism and tolerance--became the poster boy for hate speech, touting 'moral values' indistinguishable from those of the Taliban."

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Philip Slater: The Great Fundamentalist Hoax

With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

ABratt's favorite reader comment from this article:

"No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Since they want this and so many other restrictions so bad and because they always claim that a fetus is a person then why has not one personhood anti choice politician ever proposed a bill that will allow a woman to claim a fetus as a dependent on their income taxes? If "life" begins at conception (as they all claim) then a woman should be able to have that deduction. Just ask that question next time. Whenever I ask it I hear because the child has not been born. Kinda kills their argument.16 JAN 6:22 AM

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 With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

Why it snows so much in the frozen north

Dec. 20, 2013 — When it doesn't show signs of stopping, most of us just mumble a few choice words and get out the snow shovel. Scientists, however, wonder where all that snow is coming from, particularly in pristine places like the Arctic. Raymond Shaw and his colleagues may have found an answer.

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Why it snows so much in the frozen north

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

Maybe the Kentucks should be busy trying to get Jesus back down from heaven to take over Mitch's senate seat. But, I frankly don't think Jesus would pee on Mitch if he needed a wet down for some reason, And, I also doubt Jesus would allow Mitch to sit on his right side since He is really a staunch Jewish Liberal.--ABratt, Jan. 15, 2014.

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

Pope Francis Calls Abortion 'Horrific' In 'State Of The World' Address

Pedophilia and Hunger are horrific too and they are not legal like abortion.--ABratt

Pope Francis Calls Abortion 'Horrific' In 'State Of The World' Address

Dark Money Swirls Around The Toughest Senate Races This Year

"Money Is The Root of All Evil," Especially As Republican Politics Goes!--ABratt

"New and re-proposed 'dark money' groups are jumping into key Senate races this year. In five states -- Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and South Carolina -- the difficult reelection bids of incumbent senators have already been directly targeted or indirectly influenced."

Read the article here: Dark Money Swirls Around The Toughest Senate Races This Year

Congresswomen Pen Stinging Memo To House GOP

Congresswomen Pen Stinging Memo To House GOP

 "It is time once and for all to settle the matter of federal funding for abortion, and move on to a real women’s agenda."--Amen Ladies. House Republicans are the Scourge of America. Let's all vote them OUT this next election cycle!--ABratt Tupelo Mississippi Liberal!

Federal Government Will Recognize Utah Same-Sex Marriages, Eric Holder Announces

Federal Government Will Recognize Utah Same-Sex Marriages, Eric Holder Announces

ABratt's Favorite Comment from this article:

For a lame duck administration Obama is taking the advantage of not having to run again, to drag the nation kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

He is free of the constraints placed on him by having to cater for the majority and now is reinforcing the rights of minorities that have for far too long been ostracized, marginalized, vilified and treated as lesser beings let alone lesser Americans.Equal rights is freedom from the tyranny of the majority and for millions of people, they can join in and say, free at last, free at last.

The entire opposition to equal rights for the LGBT has been a selfish, magical thinking somehow if they get the same rights as me, I lose something and yes they do, they lose the ability to control other grown adults personal lives.

If marriage is such a moral institution then why can’t those same morals justify same sex marriage, there is love in both and there are broken families by the score that are formerly married heterosexuals, yet those divorce statistics aren’t judged by the same criteria that sort to deprive same sex couples of the same basic rights to marry.

Utah has set a non stoppable force in motion because the government based their entire premise to deprive people of fulfillment and a normal life on anti constitutional nullification of the 14 th amendment that guarantees equal rights under the law throughout the nation and those rights are not subject to interpretation under the 10th amendment of states’ rights, just like interracial marriage, the rights of access for disabled and the rights to an education that is equal as was proven by brown V Board of Education that guaranteed the integration of schools, why the entire civil rights act was premised and passed on the 14th amendment and the same people fighting against the rights to equality for the LGBT community are the same or decedents of the people who fought against the civil rights act .

Antisocial extremists are losing battle after battle and what was seen as extreme in years past is now seen as normal, They lost to the suffragette movement, they lost the civil war and they are losing this fight too.

If you love you love and laws should never interfere nor block love between adults.1 America, 1 set of laws, 1 equality and a common road to acceptance.

Thomas Jefferson's Top Ten Quotes On Religious Freedom -

Thomas Jefferson's Top Ten Quotes On Religious Freedom -

The Christian Right's attempts to revise/re-write the historical words and actions of Thomas Jefferson is a travesty of immense proportions. Further proof that they have forefited  any chance of ever lasting life in Heaven Above.--ABratt

Open Letter To Editor Joe Rutherford Tupelo Mississippi Daily Journal: Tupelo's Dark Side

Open Letter To Editor Joe Rutherford Tupelo Misissippi Daily Journal: Tupelo's "Dark Side"

Dear Joe Rutherford:

As a citizen of Tupelo and and a Human Rights Advocate I would like to share the following article with you and the Daily Journal Readers Community: Tupelo Mississippi, an otherwise All American City, has a very distinct "Dark Side" known nationwide as the American Family Association, a SPLC Designated Hate Group. Xeneophobia (an irrational, intense dislike or unfounded fear of people from other countries-Webster Online) is among the various phobias fueling AFA's bigoted Pseudo-christian/political agenda. --ABratt, Jan. 9, 2014.

Right Wing Watch:
Recently,“AFA’S [Tupelo, MS based] Tim Wildmon warned that offering undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship would lead to ‘the end of the Republican Party as we know it,’ while…”

In the same post, “AFA’s Sandy Rios called such a move ‘Republican suicide’ and urged GOP leaders to get out of Washington more and live in places like Mississippi. ‘I think of that phrase in the Old Testament about a ‘strong delusion,’ she said. ‘I would say that the Republican leadership is under a strong delusion. I don’t understand it, I can’t explain it except that they just don’t get out enough, they need to go live in Mississippi, they need to go live in Nebraska, wherever, because the sanity seems to leave them.’” [A 'strong delusion', Amen!] 

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 Rios: ‘Natural Born Americans’ Becoming ‘The Minority’ In Washington D.C. | Right Wing Watch. -

Christian hate group threatens to sue US military for hate group label

Christian hate group threatens to sue US military for hate group label

Bryan Fischer Wants To Set The Record Straight | Right Wing Watch

It is easy to see that Bryan Fischer is obsessed with Hitler, Gays, Muslims and Liberals, etc.. His activities are broadcast from the "Dark Side" of Tupelo, MS, an otherwise All American City.

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Bryan Fischer Wants To Set The Record Straight | Right Wing Watch

TIM WILDMON: Realizing there's a blueprint in the universe | Daily Journal

Tim Wildmon's Fundamentalist Hooey!:

Read his Tupelo Daily Journal article below:

TIM WILDMON: Realizing there's a blueprint in the universe | Daily Journal

Dynamics of U.S. Senate race take shape in Mississippi

by Bobby Harrison

JACKSON

"In recent years, Republicans’ efforts to take over the United States Senate have been thwarted at least in part by the ultra-conservative wing of the party – i.e., the Tea Party.

In Nevada, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Alaska, to name a few, the Republicans have lost what at one time were considered likely victories by nominating candidates the general election voters viewed as too conservative, out of the mainstream.

PPP, a national polling firm that is viewed as having allegiances to the Democratic Party, recently polled the 2014 Senate race here in Mississippi.

The poll revealed that in Mississippi – viewed as a safe Republican seat in national and most state elections – at this point in time a Democratic candidate would be competitive with state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, who is the only candidate yet to announce he is seeking the seat in 2014.

McDaniel, who can be seen statewide in television commercials being paid for by national Tea Party-related political action committees, leads by slight margins two big-name Democrats – former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers of Booneville. He trails by a slight margin current Attorney General Jim Hood – Mississippi’s only statewide elected Democrat.

In all three instances, the races are statistically dead heats, meaning the results are within the poll’s margin of error.

It would be interesting to see how Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley would have fared in the poll.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a possible candidate for the Senate seat, polls better than McDaniel against the three Democrats – though there is only a one-point difference in a head-to-head with Hood.

PPP polled 502 Mississippi voters, “including an over sample of 422 Republican voters,” making the strong showing of the Democrats mentioned in the poll even more surprising.

Of course, the question is whether six-term incumbent Thad Cochran will run again. The veteran Republican has said he will announce a decision this month.

The poll indicates that Cochran is vulnerable. He leads McDaniel by only 6 percentage points and 55 percent say they would prefer a candidate more conservative.

At this point, the smart money might be on Cochran not running. Normally, if a politician plans to seek re-election, that person does not give any potential challenger an opening by wavering.

If Cochran does run, none of the aforementioned Democrats will enter the race, though, surprisingly, according to the poll, Hood would be competitive against the incumbent.

But still, regardless of the poll, it is difficult for daily observers of the Mississippi political scene to imagine a scenario where a Democrat could defeat Cochran in the general election.

If Cochran does not run, though, look for big-name Republicans and at least one Democrat to enter the race.

The PPP poll shows McDaniel, who has received a great deal of statewide attention since his announcement, with a slight lead in a crowded Republican field, which might include U.S. Reps. Greg Harper and Steven Palazzo, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Auditor Stacey Pickering and Hosemann.

Interestingly, Reeves polls at the bottom of the Republican field with only 3 percent support.

But the interesting proposition for state Democrats, who have been beaten up and are at a low ebb, is whether a candidate could emerge from the Republican primary that even by Mississippi standards might be viewed as too conservative.

That has happened in other states, costing Republicans a chance to garner a Republican Senate majority.

Many might argue that the general electorate is much more conservative in Mississippi, meaning that a candidate who is too conservative, say in Indiana, would not be in Mississippi.

Is that correct?

We might see next November."

Bobby Harrison is the Daily Journal’s Capitol Bureau chief. Contact him at (601) 353-3119 or bobby.harrison@journalinc.com.

http://djournal.com/opinion/bobby-harrison-dynamics-u-s-senate-race-take-shape-mississippi/

Comments: Read more including an excerpt  from  the New York Times on Mississippi Senator Chris Mc Daniel's campaign to unseat incumbent Senator Thad Cochran here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/us/fiscal-crisis-sounds-the-charge-in-gops-civil-war.html?_r=0

What Religious Liberty Is... and Isn't | Rev. Susan Russell

People Are Asking: What Is Religious Liberty That Has Some Folks, Tupeloans Included, All Upset?

The best answer I've come across to the question of Religious Liberty is offered up, rather well I think, by Rev. Susan Russell in her latest article link below:

What Religious Liberty Is... and Isn't | Rev. Susan Russell

Spotlighting The AFA "Dark Side" Of Tupelo MS An Otherwise All American City

Spotlighting A Revised Edition of The 'Dark Side' Of Tupelo, MS.....--Al Bratton, Tupelo, 11-28-13

Open letter to Tupelo Daily Journal Editor, Joe Rutherford:

Citizens of Tupelo and North Mississippi should be made aware of activities of  their Tupelo-based, Tim Wildmon managed, American Family Association.--Al Bratton

"The AFA is a notorious anti-gay hate group.": A link to SPLC outlining AFA's "Hate Group" designation.

"The problem with the claim [from the American Family Association] is that it just isn't true. Charisma News just took the AFA as a legitimate source, which it isn't. Religious fundamentalists believe AFA legitima[cy] simply because it tells them what they want to hear. Truth and accuracy has nothing to do with it."
 "The Religious Right assumes certain things true. Anything substantiating these beliefs is assumed accurate and reported as such -- no matter how flimsy or implausible."...--James Peron

Read the complete link below:
Anatomy of a Smear: The Religious Right vs. the American Psychiatric Association | James Peron

California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source

My comment on Huffington Post that was moderated out:

"Any other American would do time for this scheme. When are the Krotch Brothers going to do their time in the slammer? When is the real justice going to start? It will be left up to the American People. I'm ready to do my part to see these crooks put where they belong like any other crook!"--ABratt

Read the HP article from the link below :             

California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

*America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.”

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/democrats-take-back-house_n_4133836.html

ni·hil·ism

 noun \ˈnī-(h)ə-ˌli-zəm, ˈnē-\

: the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed

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“If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats would have the house now and the destructive economic vandalism that came from the tea caucus wouldn’t have happened.Democrats in the house vote in 2012 received around 1.5 million more votes yet Republicans lost a few seats but kept the house.Republicans had no honest mandate and the irony is that all the seats they lost in 2012 were held by Tea Party dormice, while in what should have been close races the Tea people spiraled out of contention by being so far over the top and so ignorant of facts that they flamed out and crashed to earth. 


Yet the Tea nihilists(1) who had even less of a mandate caused more economic and political destruction than imaginable. They are nothing but scorched earth destructionists that nearly threw America of a steep, undermined and crumbling cliff over the past month and their only regret is that they didn’t succeed and in the midst of pure unfettered nihilism the old guard Republicans only managed to prove how spineless and ineffectual they are. Republicanism unless it finally tries to enter the post civil rights era is an essay in diminishing returns. 


They’ve lost all of the ethnic voters and it was only 70 years ago that blacks voted in the majority for Republicans but  beat down after beat down, they fled the party of Lincoln as it morphed into first the party of the rebel south and more recently the party of the John Birch conspiracy central, non science believing fundamentalist, literalist bible party. Hispanic are gone after being vilified and the faux post outreach program devised and rolled out soon after the 2012 election proved to be nothing but smoke and mirrors, the mirrors were shattering as Reince Priebus was laying out their new direction. 


Forget about young voters, who are far less complacent about politics than previous generations and are pushing for change that is the antithesis of all things Republican, they [young voters and old voters] want a more diverse, more cultured, more inclusive, far fairer and more egalitarian America, none of which Republicans have to offer. The Generation X and Millennial voters are much further left than their parents and further left than the Democratic Party and I wouldn’t surprise me if the 2 party system morphs into the Democratic Party middle and a workers, social democratic Party on the left but right wing extremism will fade with the end of the me first, last and only generation that is the core of the Republican base.  *America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.”

Read the complete article:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/democrats-take-back-house_n_4133836.html

Dedicated To AFA Dark Side Tupelo MS: Rick Scarborough, TParty Leader, Suggests Class Action Lawsuit Against Homosexuality

My favorite quote from the Web I dedicate to the American Family Association's "Dark Side" Of Tupelo, MS.:--ABratt

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Speak all you want Sir and use whatever tactics you feel are necessary, however, you will never stop the progress of freedom for all in this country. Slowly, little by little we are achieving that grand goal set forth by the Founding Fathers. Bit by bit we are becoming a nation of equality and equal opportunity for all Americans.  

Read the complete story from the link below:

Rick Scarborough, Tea Party Leader, Suggests Class Action Lawsuit Against Homosexuality

No, America is not a Christian nation - Salon.com

Because Of The Christian Right Fundamentalists America Will Never Be Totally At Peace.--ABratt

No, America is not a Christian nation - Salon.com

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'

Don & Tim Wildmon's American Family Association (and their Darling, Sandy Rios) Maintain A Very "Dark Side" In Tupelo, MS, An Otherwise Decent, All American City.

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'


A few of my favorite comments from the aricle:

"This woman calling herself a Christian is a fraud."


"I'm kind of glad that they openly say these sort of things at their conferences. By openly discussing their hatred and bigotry there is no mistaking by the rest of us what they are and what they represent. Anyone who attends this type of conference is tarred by the same brush."

"These speakers at this value summit are Frauds, these good loving Christians are showing what they really are HATERS"

6 absurd right-wing lies about food stamps - Salon.com

"Yet Republicans are picking on the poorest citizens, lying and smearing them as lazy druggies and blaming them for the high unemployment by saying that $133 a month is keeping them from bothering to look for a job. Why do we put up with this?"

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6 absurd right-wing lies about food stamps - Salon.com

House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

... the House Republicans have every right to try to get their preferred policies enacted into law through the democratic process. They have tried to do this politically, electorally and judicially. They have failed at every turn. The have lost every time they have tried to repeal Obamacare through the legislative process. They have lost in the Supreme Court when they challenged the constitutionality of the law. They have failed politically with the electorate when they were soundly defeated in the 2012 election. Indeed, the only reason House Republicans can play this cruel and criminal game at all is because they gerrymandered congressional districts to enable them to control the House even though they were defeated by the Democrats in the national popular vote for Congress.--Geoffrey R. Stone 

Read the complete article below:

House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

A Straight, Southern, Christian Redneck on Homophobia | Neal Wooten

A Straight, Southern, Christian Redneck On Homophobia

by Neal Wooten

I wish to dedicate the link below to the Anti-gay American Family Association Comprising The "Dark Side" of Tupelo MS, An Otherwise All American City.--ABratt

Read the complete article below:
A Straight, Southern, Christian Redneck on Homophobia | Neal Wooten

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-wooten/a-straight-southern-christian-redneck-on-homophobia_b_4019871.html

Globalizing Homophobia, Part 1: How The American Right Came to Embrace Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown | Right Wing Watch

ABratts Liberal Tupelo MS Blog:

AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer declared that Russian gay "propaganda ban"was exactly the public policy we (the American Family Association Family Values Association) had been advocating"...--aka against the constitutional/human rights of the GLBT American Community. And the Wildmon-Fischer operated AFA decries the fact that SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has placed them on their list of American hate organizations.-- Right Where They Belong --ABratt

Read the complete post here...  










http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown

Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism' | Right Wing Watch

Furthermore, the AFA has succeeded in obliterating the once outstanding reputation of a once- upon- a-time All American City: Tupelo, MS, my hometown. The organization was finally listed as a Hate Group by the SPLC, and still holds that title today.--ABratt

Read more here...
Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism'




















Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism'

The Only Way To Show Leadership In A Debt Ceiling Crisis Is To Refuse To Negotiate On The Debt Ceiling

This is my favorite article on the Debt Ceiling issue:


The Only Way To Show Leadership In A Debt Ceiling Crisis Is To Refuse To Negotiate On The Debt Ceiling

GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Original Salon Post 8-15-12, Recent Blog Post 9-26-13

The author of this article appears to  equate the words "religious right" and "Tea Party" as synonymous or very nearly so, which, in fact, they are: The "Tupelo MS Tea Party" and the "American Family Association" are very close kin, so much so that I, a resident of Tupelo myself, have decided to include the two together as  being  a part of Tupelo MS's "Dark Side."--ABratt  

The Tea Party, which initially described itself as wholly concerned with debt, deficit, and federal overreach, gradually unmasked itself as being almost as theocratic as the activists from the religious right that Armey had denounced only a few years before. If anything, they were even slightly more disposed than the rest of the Republican Party to inject religious issues into the political realm. According to an academic study of the Tea Party, “[T]hey seek ‘deeply religious’ elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates.” The Tea Party faithful are not so much libertarian as authoritarian, the furthest thing from a “live free or die”Constitutionalist.

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GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

Will O stand by his word is yet to be determined.

Making a point melodramatically on Sunday, President Obama said, "We will not negotiate over whether or not America should keep its word and meet its obligations."
In reality, Congress and administrations have for decades—under both Republican and Democratic presidents—negotiated over or included spending and budget reforms as a part of debt-ceiling increases.

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Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

Beck: Common Core Is Turning America Into A Police State | Right Wing Watch

I'm aware that the The Tupelo MS Daily Journal has been supportive of Common Core Educational Standards since its inception despite Glenn Beck's Dumb, Right-Wing Rant. But, of Course, the DJ is dedicated to improving education in public schools. Beck, from what I have seen, is totally lacking in the area of Public Education   --ABratt

Check the link below to read more:

Beck: Common Core Is Turning America Into A Police State | Right Wing Watch

Tupelo Mommies Don't Let Your Kiddies Grow Up To Be GOPTPers

Tupelo Mommies don't let your Kiddies grow up to be GOPTPers.

Spotlighting The Dark Side Of Tupelo MS An Otherwise All American City

"Mr. Mancno's comment seems to be right out the AFA's own playbook! It just sounds so like it, I'm inclined to believe the AFA wrote it themselves or had someone write it!"--ABratt

Read more....

AFA suspends boycott of The Home Depot

Klingenschmitt: Jesus Will 'Strike Down The Sodomites And Throw Them Into Hell' | Right Wing Watch

There is one thing the Religious Righters achieve almost daily: making a mockery of Jesus Christ, without remorse!--ABratt

Klingenschmitt: Jesus Will 'Strike Down The Sodomites And Throw Them Into Hell' | Right Wing Watch

Guinness: 'Cultures Where You Have A High View Of Homosexuality Have A Very Low View Of Women' | Right Wing Watch

Sounds more like this person (Guinness) is alluding to The GOPERS (God's Obnoxious People) who certainly do have a very "Low View Of Women!"--ABratt

Guinness: 'Cultures Where You Have A High View Of Homosexuality Have A Very Low View Of Women' | Right Wing Watch

Spotlight On The AFA "Dark Side" Otherwise All American City: A Window Into Bryan Fischer's Worldview

AFA's Bryan Fischer The Perfect Companion-In-Hate With "Ayatolla" Don Wildmon and his Son, Tim "Mullah" Wildmon Representing The "Dark Side" of Tupelo, MS, An Otherwise All American City!-ABratt

A Window Into Bryan Fischer's Worldview | Right Wing Watch

The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week

The "No Atheists In a Fox Hole" mentality is part of this huge problem. It's a problem of religious fanaticism that has invaded the military. It's a slogan the Holier-Than-Thou membership are fond of because it makes them think they are marines that stand taller than the non-religious trooper who may, in truth, be the superior soldier. Crank in the observation that the religious marine is more likely to commit suicide and you have a real dilemma on your hands. Also, remember that Christianity is, in and of itself, a Sea Of Confusion, Put it all together and you have created a pending catastrophe, aka Suicide.--ABratt

The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week

Spotlighting The Dark Side Of America: The Religious Right

Bachmann and friends all together in their anti-immigration roast together.Seems very appropriate. -ABratt

Bachmann: Immigration Reform 'Means You Don't Have A Future And A Hope' | Right Wing Watch

Botanical Society Panel Derides Creationism, Louisiana Science Education Act

Gov. Jindal's Creation Education law "has made Louisiana an International Laughing Stock"...[No doubt!]

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Botanical Society Panel Derides Creationism, Louisiana Science Education Act

Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

Eric, while you're at it, turn Gov. Perry feet up-head down, shake him real good, and check what falls out of his pockets. It might amaze the world what will come tumbling out!--ABratt