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Thought for Today

While reading this article (When did the GOP lose touch with reality?) I had the following thought:

Today's Republithugs make Gerge W. Bush look like a liberal.

Be afraid - Be very afraid

All Hat No Cattle

Not Running

Thank God!

News from the Iowa State Education Association

And so it begins in Iowa.... Watch it happen all over.

February 22, 2011

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HSB 117 limits the scope of bargaining House Study Bill 117 (HSB 117) was introduced late Friday. Among other things, it prohibits bargaining on Reduction in Force (RIFs) and health insurance. The ISEA will bring you more detailed information after the subcommittee meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. today. Show your support Sign the petition on NEA Education Votes Web site to support colleagues in Wisconsin and protect workers' rights. More information will be coming tomorrow on what you can do in Iowa.

New Wedge Issue

NPR has this story up today about Christians not wanting a Mosque in Tennessee.

I read this quote in a story yesterday

I am a liberal, progressive, secularized American Muslim. But when I see that bigotry against my faith — my very identity — has become so commonplace in America that it is shaping into a wedge issue for the midterm elections, I can barely control my anger.

I can't imagine how the next generation of American Muslim youth will react to such provocations. I pray that we never find out.

Reza Aslan is a contributing editor at The Daily Beast. He is the author of No God But God and Beyond Fundamentalism.

Read here.

I have been thinking that perhaps the Republican (Tea) party has decided that so many people no longer care about whether or not gays get married and they need a new wedge issue. They have focused their hatred on Islamic people..

This is indeed a sad thing. Most Muslims just want to peacefully co-exist with all of us, just as most Christians aren't represented by these people. Fundamentalists of any religion really do scare me.

Because they can't love they have to have something to hate.

Addendum.

Dianne over at Forks Off the Moment has this take on the issue...We Need More Practice.

John just sent me this from Frank Rich who asks:

How do you win Muslim hearts and minds in Kandahar when you are calling Muslims every filthy name in the book in New York?

In November we face a choice between the Confederate Party and modernity.

Click to read The Color of Change

We have a choice in November between moving forward or moving back to 1852. And while that is not as far back as the Middle Ages it was and is a Dark Age as far as justice in America is concerned.

h/t BarkBark WoofWoof

And just in case you aren't convinced go read Tea Party Jesus. Thanks to MP for this one.

Motivation

Speaks for itself. Once again Jon Stewart hits the nail on the head. The Fearmonger in Chief driving up the Price of gold, Profit.....

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Charles Grassley

He is at it again. Go here to send him a message.

Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America's small businesses.The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.

And they say it is the Democrats who want to tax all the time. I don't think so!