https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1078667823289905152?s=17
But… but… demographics is destiny!
Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) Tweeted:
Do not underestimate the impact of evangelicalism on Latino voting patterns in the future.
Interesting little history lesson, parts of which are still relevant today.
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20072
Time to re-up this classic.
#iwilleatyou
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«Julie Rea was convicted of killing her son largely on the testimony of bloodstain-pattern analysts. She was later acquitted and exonerated, joining a growing community of Americans wrongly convicted with bad science.»
Very nice, David Drake. 🙂
“Vesey started to get up. Daniel said, “Sit right where you are, Captain Vesey! Start plotting us a course for Hester 27514CH.””
Start reading this book for free: http://a.co/4lm9qQ9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html
Backfire effect says people (of all races) who were scammed will now say “Others may have been scammed, but *I* voted for the candidate I thought was best suited” or “… but *I* honestly believe no candidate would be good, so I didn’t vote.”
Of 81 Facebook pages created by the Internet Research Agency in the Senate’s data, 30 targeted African-American audiences, amassing 1.2 million followers, the report finds. By comparison, 25 pages targeted the political right and drew 1.4 million followers. Just seven pages focused on the political left, drawing 689,045 followers.
While the right-wing pages promoted Mr. Trump’s candidacy, the left-wing pages scorned Mrs. Clinton while promoting Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. The voter suppression effort was focused particularly on Sanders supporters and African-Americans, urging them to shun Mrs. Clinton in the general election and either vote for Ms. Stein or stay home.
Whether such efforts had a significant effect is difficult to judge. Black voter turnout declined in 2016 for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, but it is impossible to determine whether that was the result of the Russian campaign.
https://twitter.com/meganromer/status/1074492766955204609?s=17
Excerpts:
Megan Romer (@meganromer) Tweeted:
Also with the protective and comforting qualities of motherhood (Mother bear in Hosea 13:8, mother bird in Deut 32:11, Ruth 2:12, Luke 13:34, human mother in Isaiah 66:13, Psalm 131:2) and personified in the feminine quality of wisdom (vs. brute strength) that Proverbs etc. uses.
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Different translators and interpreters have come up with different numbers, but there are at least a few dozen instances throughout both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospels in which God is referred to in the feminine, either metaphorically or directly.
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Imagine having such an anemic idea of God (or masculinity, for that matter) that you can only envision God as a man. Then imagine the possibility of a God who is much, much bigger than that box you’ve created. Which one feels better, really?
https://religionnews.com/2018/12/13/nadia-bolz-weber-wants-to-kiss-1990s-era-purity-rings-goodbye/
«When it comes to human sexuality, Klein encourages churches to confess sins of commission and omission.
“Confess commission: teaching sexual shame, though I think many didn’t intend to,” she said. “And some need to confess the sin of omission, the fact that they haven’t been talking about sex and sexuality; that we have left so many people to be taught by society and society doesn’t have very healthy sexual teachings, either.”
Tacklind, who has three adolescent children (including two daughters), doesn’t see many traces of the purity movement among church youth today.
But he wonders about its lingering negative effects on his ’90s-era youth group — one teenage girl in particular.
The girl, who today would be well into her 30s, had signed an abstinence commitment, Tacklind explained. Her father gave her a silver promise ring, which she proudly never took off. And then one day she came to her youth pastor to confide that she had been raped.
“She held up her hand and said, ‘Look at what a hypocrite I am!’ It was heartbreaking. She was a complete victim. We’d set it up to be so confusing: What do you do? What happens if you take it off?” Tacklind recalled. “All the shame and the judgment — that’s what I think of when I think of purity rings.”»
«The brains behind the operation are John McDonnell, Milne and Murray. And “they absolutely believe that if Brexit brings chaos the voters will turn to the radical left”. To put it in Marxist language, a crisis in capitalism will allow the left intelligentsia to lead the proletariat to victory. Corbyn and McDonnell hardly dare talk about their hopes for fear of alienating pro-European supporters. But it’s clear that they want a Brexit that allows them to deliver socialism in one country, free from EU rules: a utopia they cling to even after leftwing economists have exposed it as an empty fantasy.
Lenin established the doctrine of revolutionary defeatism during the First World War. He had no time for “banal” socialists who were campaigning for peace. The true communist welcomed war and yearned for the defeat of his country. For a defeat, in Lenin’s case of Russia by Germany, would incite “hatred of one’s own government and one’s own bourgeoisie” and bring the revolution closer.»
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1073956860045213696?s=17
Truth. With a razor blade.
Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) Tweeted:
right now some Deplorable with a persistent cough is driving a crappy car on crumbling roads past abandoned storefronts to a low-paying job and pumping his fist and going “hell yeah!” as he hears on the radio about how Obamacare is being gutted
Here, Read This 