There's nothing Holy about your Bible.

A beautiful portrait

Just remember this - during the American Revolution, it was the conservatives who sided with England and King George. Today's conservatives would do to the nation what King George did to it back in the 1700's.

How ironic that the conservatives chose the name "Tea Party" for their organization when conservatives of about 250 years ago wanted nothing to do with a tea party revolt. But then, our under-educated conservative friends don't have a whole lot of knowledge about things like history.

More facts on the fundamentals of the United States

Republicans and conservatives will probably have a lot of trouble swallowing the facts in this post. It's easier to make up a pretend history, sprinkle in a few of your delusions, add a few stories that never happened and call it a day than to really study the history of America.

Know your Bible

The word of God my ass. Here's a little history of the Bible on which Christians base their faith. And this shit is true - Google it of you don't believe it.

Oh, Good Grief Charlie Brown

Sometimes it seems so difficult to understand why Republicans believe the shit that they profess, but then something comes along that reminds you just how stupid some of our fellow citizens are...

July 2, 2010 by Marist Poll

There’s good news for American education. About three-quarters of residents — 74% — know the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. The bad news for the academic system — 26% do not. This 26% includes one-fifth who are unsure and 6% who thought the U.S. separated from another nation. That begs the question, “From where do the latter think the U.S. achieved its independence?” Among the countries mentioned are France, China, Japan, Mexico, and Spain.

Source

The Founding Fathers

Rewriting History The Bush Way

From Acerbic Politics

Marijuana - A History In America

Marijuana is a fairly mild drug that was once legal in the US and became illegal for mostly economic reasons. Today possession of the drug is a crime and causes the incarceration of tens-of-thousands of our fellow citizens. A gross waste of our taxpayer money, IMNSHO.

National Debt - A Little Recent History

Did You Know - Gay Unions

Discriminating against others, so it seems to me, has only one purpose and that is to elevate your own sense of self-worth by lowering that of others. It appears to be true whether we are talking about black people, brown people, gay people, people of other faiths, people of other political parties, or people of other nations. I guess I am guilty of it as well. I think the vast majority of right-wing conservative political views are absolutely nuts.

But - and I hope this is where a difference lies - I would never relegate them to some sub-standard sort of existence wherein they were denied the basic rights of our civilization. As much as I despise the current political leaders and their followers in this country, I wouldn't, as a class, deny them the right to speak their mind, or to worship their God, or deny them the right to marry. (There are, however, in my mind, some that should be in jail.)

But the story I quote from below, shows that discrimination has not always been the history of mankind. There have always been some "enlightened" people in our history - and it makes me feel good.

Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe, a historian now says.

Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of years ago, said Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.

If accurate, the results indicate socially sanctioned same-sex unions are nothing new, nor were they taboo in the past.

From Yahoo News

North Korea - A Summary

An excellent article reviewing recent events in North Korea and how we got where we are. From Foreign Policy In Focus - read more here...

Five years ago, when George W. Bush took office, North Korea didn't claim membership in the nuclear club. Its plutonium reprocessing facilities were frozen. It was even willing to negotiate away its missile program. Instead of pursuing the diplomatic route, the Bush administration tried to ignore Pyongyang. Then came the schoolyard taunts such as lumping North Korea together with Iraq and Iran in an “axis of evil.” When indifference and insult failed to move the isolated East Asian country, the administration accused North Korea of enriching uranium, which led to the unraveling of the 1994 Agreed Framework and the reigniting of a major crisis. To top it off, Washington began to squeeze Pyongyang economically with sanctions.

Pyongyang has refused to cry “uncle.” Instead, it has replied in kind. With its missile launches in July and its recently announced nuclear test, Pyongyang has demonstrated that it can be as stubborn and as enamored of military playthings as the Bush administration.

With such a miserable track record in inducing behavior change, why has the United States continued to speak loudly and wield a big stick against a hornet's nest like North Korea? It might be, like North Korea's recent test, a fundamental miscalculation. The Bush administration, after all, has shown a pathological inability to learn from its mistakes. Or there might be a deeper, more malign intent at work.