Did religion fuel the housing bubble?

Did prosperity thinking play a role in the real estate bubble? Sue argues that it did.

Prosperity theology is an unsustainable belief system. At a personal level, I am setting myself up for profound disappointment if I believe that prayer changes God, that the tangible world can be controlled by personal manipulation of the [...]

Goldman Sachs CEO to take $100 million bonus, gives finger to America and Obama

Goldman Sachs to America

This deliberately arrogant, contemptuous move shows that Goldman cares nothing about the country or anything else except their own greed.

Back to you Mr. President. Who runs the country, Washington DC or investment banks? Lloyd Blankfein just spat in your face. What will you do about it?

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Edge Of Darkness without Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson has an uncanny knack of finding things, otherwise obscure, which I really care about and mangling them. His Jesus is an actor in a sadistic play and his indigenous are rescued by the Catholic Church and the Spanish (who killed millions of indigenous people)!

I suspect he has done it again.

In [...]

Join the call for a Constitutional amendment to protect our democracy

We cannot build a movement to secure fundamental reform with the constant fear that an activist Supreme Court will strike that reform down. Instead, we must establish clearly and without question the power in Congress to preserve its own institutional independence.

And we can only do that by effecting a change to our founding [...]

Just saying

Via Start a Third Party Now

Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

East Anglia broke law by refusing to make climate [...]

War is Peace. Obama-style

From Lefti on the News

See if you can read this sentence without bursting out laughing (or crying):

“The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons [...]

iDontGetIt? Maybe not…

At first the iPad seems like an answer in search of a solution. Like, what do I do with it besides watching videos and noodling around?

Well, you’ll be able to run Windows 7 on the iPad via Citrix. Then, with a plug-in keyboard, you can do faster typing. Of course all this pumps [...]

Lose your wallet, cease to exist

Imagine losing your wallet, along with all your identification. Replacing it has always been a pain.

Now, thanks to Real-ID, replacing your driver’s license or state ID card can be literally impossible. That’s because, under the new requirements, you can’t get a replacement state-issued ID card without proof of your social security number— and [...]

Rahn Emmanuel. Paper tiger

Andrew Sullivan

What’s also notable is that Emmanuel’s rep is as an attack dog, someone who can really twist elbows and enforce discipline. He has proven to be none of the above – just another useless Democrat excusing failure and losing nerve and incapable of getting his own party to deliver on clear, [...]