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The bill is SB 1028 in the Senate and HB 1353 in the House.

Can anyone say 'Unconstitutional'?

Proposed law is 'nonsense,' critic says
Tennessee bill would jail Shariah followers

A proposed Tennessee law would make following the Islamic code known as Shariah law a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail.

State Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and state Rep. Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, introduced the same bill in the Senate and House last week. It calls Shariah law a danger to homeland security and gives the attorney general authority to investigate complaints and decide who's practicing it.

It exempts peaceful practice of Islam but labels any adherence to Shariah law — which includes religious practices such as feet washing and prayers — as treasonous. It claims Shariah adherents want to replace the Constitution with their religious law.

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Missionaries of Hate

Tell it Tillman!

Seems Christian tensions are wide spectrum about now, gay marrige, the mosque and the Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family, and:

Pat Tillman's Murder Deserves Justice as linked above

Posted by InfoWarrior on Tue, Aug 10, 2010, at 12:43 AM:


From Abby's way

The word Thanks implies one side giving and one side taking

I have gave and am giving this thanksgiving day, and so will I take later in the day and give thanks for what I receive. First I share Thanksgiving for me a struggle just knowing, knowing what part of my ancestry have given to all of you without that small gesture, thanks. One outcast, and one adoption later their children met and married and became us. With conscious torn, we gather later, this is what we will talk about these stories. Dear land, still today.








Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation with Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie



About That Doing Unto Others Thing... by Abby Zimet

Oh my Allah. Now right-wingers are up in vociferously-defended arms because Best Buy's vast and stuff-packed Thanksgiving flyer included a little-bitty ad wishing Muslims "Happy Eid al-Adha," a holiday that 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide mark by giving to charity. Dear hate-and-fear-filled, so-called Christian folks: It's the season of understanding, even among those of us who are not you. Try, please.

"It makes perfect business sense to acknowledge and celebrate a holiday that one out of four people celebrate." - Ahmed Rehab, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

What have we done?

What can we do?

On the other side of Pakistan

When there is time, time to ask, time to search we may find another reason to the unreasonable.

Burma: It Can't Wait - Thich Nhat Hanh - Day 14 - watch more funny videos

• Buddhists: Vietnamese police try to oust famed monk's followers from second temple
• Buddhists: Vietnamese police, mob force monks from monastery
• Buddhists: Mob, police force last followers of famed monk to leave Vietnam monastery
• Tensions rise at Vietnamese pagoda as police question followers of world-famous monk
• Army says 11 killed, more than 20 wounded in 2 days of violence in restive southern Thailand
• Vietnamese official says evicting Buddhist monks just the law, not religious repression
• Buddhist channel Deep Questioning: The Kalama Sutta Comes Alive
  

Wonder endorsing, well no, examining well yes. Why?, just because. We get it.

Real staging, Fake News

by way of mediamatters.org





thanks Megan Tady

Back on the Trail

I have few words, yet, just amazing as to what people will say.

"Pat Robertson's University" Bill Moyers Journal

Airdate: Friday, May 11, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers.)

Bill Moyers Journal takes a look at Regent University, Pat Robertson's Christian leadership institution, which is working to ensure that Biblical principles are reflected in the law of the land.

The recent controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors found Regent University graduate Monica Goodling - special counsel to Alberto Gonzalez and one of some 150 Regent students who have worked in the Bush administration since 2001 - at the center of a political firestorm. Bill Moyers Journal takes viewers to commencement at Robertson's university for a closer look at its mission to ensure Biblical principles are reflected in the law of the land.

Also on the program: Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of the libertarian monthly Reason magazine, discusses the war, the media and the impact of the religious right in Washington today; and historian Marilyn B. Young, co-editor of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past, talks about history's lessons for the war in Iraq.

Windows into their own frustrations

Tennessee passed a bullying law, that is progress, but hidden away into the halls and corridors of school class structure born to the self righteous and continued in false family structures . . . . the hum of hate.

Read and learn, The Queer Thing About School Shootings and just maybe parents, teachers, students, people of all races, all religions, all people will see how harmful words can really be, deadly.

Misleaders and pompous frauds one and all!

The Apostles of Deception by Charles Sullivan

"It appears to me that the majority of the American people are followers who willingly bow down to that which they perceive as authority. The people want to be lead. They have a deep seated desire to be directed, to be told not only what to do, but how to live. Millions of them are waiting for a messiah to appear who will lead them to the Promised Land—a messiah that requires nothing from them before the judgment day. They only have to profess their faith and to follow—to do as they are told by the religious hierarchy, and wait.

Of course, followers require leaders, and that makes them vulnerable to charlatans and frauds. The trouble with leaders and followers is that leaders often mislead and followers obediently trail them to the very gates of hell. During the course of the journey, superstition and ignorance gradually replace rationality and knowledge. Truth gets lost in the shuffle or is cast into the flames of desire. Thus we find ourselves standing at the brink of an old and familiar abyss, the onslaught of a new age of darkness and fear. Lies supplant truth, darkness replaces light. War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. The lessons of history remain unlearned and endlessly repeat themselves in rhythmic cycles of human comedy and tragedy."

to read more and I highly recommend it

Seeds for the Birds

Feed the rest beans.

A few AlterNet articles, for the curious cats while the birds dine.

Rethinking Terrorism: A Jewish American Crosses into Hezbollah Territory

By Nathaniel Hoffman, AlterNet. Posted December 5, 2006.

One journalist spends 10 days in Lebanon, sipping coffee and talking politics with
members of Hezbollah, the Islamic militant group Americans have branded as
terrorists.



Why So Many Black Women Are Behind Bars

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. Posted December 5, 2006.

Black female inmates outnumber white female inmates three to one, and their punishments don't always fit their crimes.

A Roanoke Times article 'bout you know, what it's all about ....

Atheists are the new outcast minority

Robert F. Boyd

Boyd, of Daleville, was a professor and science writer at Marquette University before his retirement.


History reveals that, in whatever society we are talking about, minorities are frequently the scapegoats for whatever are the prevailing ills of the day.

Depending upon the society, the minority blame-game may be related to skin color, religious affiliation, ethnicity, sexual preferences, etc. Take your pick: Chinese, Irish, Germans, Hungarians, Asians, Catholics, Jews or Africans. All of them at one time or another were regarded as second-class citizens.

African-Americans continued to bear the brunt of the minority label until segregation gasped its last breaths in the 1960s.

Another minority, homosexuals, were for years regarded as the scum of
the Earth, as witnessed by the brutal ways in which they were routinely
harassed. Today, many homosexuals have come "out of the closet" even though they
have not yet been allowed to enter the rest of the house to enjoy their
so-called guaranteed civil liberties.

The most recent bogeyman is the atheist. You know who he is -- the secularist who wants a wall of separation between church and state, the elitist scientist who believes in evolution and not creationism, and the pagan who not only promotes pornography and abortion but also has created a social climate reprehensible to all Christian values.

And if you're a born-again atheist all those labels may apply to you.

Christians in this country believe that unless God is at the center of
national life we will be forever exposed to crime, poverty, warfare and disease.
Although science cannot prove the existence or absence of God, it has been able
to provide some interesting statistics that make one think twice about the
existence and importance of God in a society.

Countries regarded as secular or whose populations have by choice abandoned religion have been compared with those who are considered religious. Studies have demonstrated that when one measures life expectancy, literacy, income and education, nations whose populations are religious do poorly as compared to the more nonreligious ones. In addition, studies of non-African countries reveal that nations with the highest rate of homicide are religious.

If you read the newspapers and other communication outlets, evangelicals and fundamentalists are the hot topic, especially with regard to their welcoming of Armageddon. They are coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches and their pied-pipers are numerous.

This was to be expected since their pied-piper figurehead is President Bush.

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting one of them. Thanks to Bush,
with help from the religious right and its ilk, the United States for the past
six years has been ruled by a faith-based government.

Seizing upon their power in government, the Christian right is attempting to rewrite history as it relates to our Founding Fathers. They claim that America was founded as a Christian nation and that Thomas Jefferson was a decent Christian who really
didn't mean what he said about the separation of church and state. Of course
this attempt at revisionism is totally false.

Jefferson stated in 1802 in front of the Danbury Baptist Association: "The legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and state."

As regards Jefferson's Christianity, he clearly respected Christ as a
philosopher and moral leader but described Christianity as "our particular
superstition." Perhaps Tom DeLay, the evangelical hammer in his day,
inadvertently spoke the truth when Congress rebuffed one of his proposals. He
said, "They treat Christianity like a second-rate superstition."

Perhaps someday the atheist may be able to come out of the closet. Maybe, but if he is a male who is an atheist and a homosexual, don't hold your breath. And if she's a
woman, forget it.

And,

December 07, 2006

Mary Cheney pregnant

Mary Cheney, the gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant, according to a published report. Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are ''ecstatic'' about the baby, due in late spring, The Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions, quoting an unnamed source close to the couple.

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