Brownwood National Day of Prayer

Grand ol' bigots need to rethink

Monday, June 22, 2009

By Leonard Pitts

The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson’s pen.
If that is an exaggeration, it is not much of one. When Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he made a prediction: In committing the unpardonable sin of guaranteeing the ballot to all citizens regardless of race, he said, he would cause his party to lose the South “for a generation.”
And indeed Southern Democrats, who for a century had bombed schools, lynched innocents, perverted justice and terrorized millions in the name of intolerance, responded by leaving their ancestral party in droves. They formed the base of a new GOP, a reality acknowledged by Ronald Reagan when he opened his 1980 campaign at a segregationist fair in a town where three civil rights workers were infamously martyred, by declaring,“I believe in state’s rights.”
In embracing its new Southern base, the Republican Party became the Repugnant Party on matters of race, a distinction it has done little to shed. So some of us were disappointed but not surprised last week when Sherri Goforth, an aide to Tennessee State Sen. Diane Black, came under fire for an e-mail she sent out. It depicted the 44 U.S. presidents, showing the first 43 in dignified, statesmanlike poses. By contrast, the 44th, the first African-American, is seen as a pair of cartoon spook eyes against a black backdrop. Goforth’s explanation: the e-mail, which went to GOP staffers, was sent “to the wrong list of people.”

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/jun/22/...

btrp wrote:

Why are/is individuals having faith a problem? Do you believe that right it should be restricted?

Palin Pastors, C Street House Owner Promote Infiltration Plan
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/16/7...

btrp, Do the GOD Talkers of Brownwood's CONservative KXYL 96.9FM ever discuss C Street ? Maybe it's taboo/politically incorrect in this part of BuSh/Palin/GOP Family Values-land !

Another C Street Vet Falls To An Extramarital Affair
By Rachel Slajda - July 16, 2009, 5:05PM
Former Congressman and C Street resident Chip Pickering's estranged wife has filed a lawsuit against Pickering's alleged mistress. Leisha Pickering is suing Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd for alienation of affection.

Rep. Pickering, a Republican from Mississippi, allegedly continued seeing his college sweetheart while they were both married. According to the suit, some of the "wrongful conduct" occurred at the C Street facility for Christian congressmen -- the same one where Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) have lived, and where Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) has recently sought counseling.

What's with this place?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...

I wonder if the C Street residents get home diapering and powdering service from Senator Vitter's old contacts.

Steve wrote:

* BROWNWOOD,TX - THE MOST CORRUPT LITTLE CITY IN TEXAS
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownwood-tx/ ...
Brownwood home to nearly 100 Churches !
As it relates:
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/may/04/l ...

What Church would Zell attend if he were to visit Brownwood ?

Zell Miller: Rahm should use ‘Gorilla Glue’ to keep Obama in his chair.
In 2004, then-Democratic Sen. Zell Miller (GA) threw his support behind President Bush with an angry speech attacking Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) at the Republican National Convention. Apparently, the passage of time hasn’t softened Miller’s anger. Yesterday, he continued his assault on the left while speaking to more than 1,000 mostly-Republican lawmakers from around the country. Miller punctuated his speech with a not-too-subtle racial barb at President Obama, saying he needs to stop meeting with foreign heads of state and that Rahm Emanuel ought to get some “Gorilla Glue” to keep Obama tied to his chair in the Oval Office:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/17/zell-mill...

Steve wrote:

Today's Front Page of the Brownwood Bulletin:
Friday May 4, 2007
News
A time to pray
The Rev. Tim Skaggs of Coggin Avenue Baptist Church speaks to about 30 people who gathered Thursday at Brownwood City Hall for the National Day of Prayer.
Photo by Steve Nash
source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/200...
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Note, Skaggs was on KXYL Thursday morning. After hearing his interview regarding The National Day of Prayer, it's obvious that he's a big fan of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity as well as Mike and J.R..

Rush Limbaugh tells environmental reporter to kill himself

By John Byrne
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Andrew Revkin, The New York Times' lead environmental reporter, is taking heat. And this time, it's not global warming.

Controversial conservative talked Rush Limbaugh, a longtime critic of the global warming concept, told the reporter to kill himself during his show Tuesday.

Limbaugh dubbed the reporter an "environmentalist wacko."

"This guy from The New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of life on Earth -- Andrew Revkin," Limbaugh quipped. "Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?"

Of environmentalists in general, the conservative heavyweight declared they're really just would-be suicide bombers.

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-tel...

btrp wrote:

Why are/is individuals having faith a problem? Do you believe that right it should be restricted?

Are Right Wing Extremists Trying to Recruit Our Troops?

By Robert L. Hanafin Special to Salem-News.com
"We are in a battle for the hearts and minds of our own troops" - Direct quote from Oath Keepers

(CINCINNATI, Ohio)- A few months ago there was a controversy that got just as much a radical reception from the right-wing as the tea parties and Fox news coverage of the never ending Health Care debate.

The controversy I'm really talking about is when the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano was forced by pressure from right-wing talk radio commentators and other conservative mouth pieces like the American Legion to apologize to America's Veterans and Troops for something that actually is a real threat. The potential threat of right-wing extremists or domestic terrorists attempting to recruit our troops is real as this story will affirm.

The American Legion meant well but takes it for granted our troops are too patriotic to be recruited by right or left wing extremists. WRONG! It is just that patriotism that patriotic extremists play on and manipulate.[See Right-wing extremism memo controversy in comments section. VT. Ed]

We will leave it to the Department of Homeland Security (unless they have been too intimidated by the right wing), Department of Defense, and our readers to decide if what Oath Keepers is doing to attract our troops to take an Oath to potentially disobey orders from their Chain of Command is legitimate or if the Department of Defense and Homeland Security needs to closely monitor such recruitment.

Taking oaths to disobey orders of any Chain of Command is not only illegal under the UCMJ, but it is also illegal under the Hatch Act which most of our troops, including Junior Officers don't know the meaning of.

Keep in mind, Oath Keepers at this time is only asking our troops to Take an Oath in addition to the one they already took to the U.S. Constitution the only difference is they are asking OUR TROOPS to endorse their unofficial version of the Constitution.

It is an Oath selectively designed to be attractive to Gun Nuts and the Second Amendment over all other amendments in the Constitution. The threat is twofold:(1) how many troops can they reach, and (2) will their oath someday go beyond debating the Constitution to recruiting our troops to keep their weapons at the ready when they come home in order to defend the Constitution as Oath Keepers defines it against our duly elected government.

We at Veterans Today have been asked to consider posting a story by such a conservative right-wing group that approaches being extremists when it actively recruits our active duty troops. In all fairness Oath Keepers has their selective and narrow view of what the U.S. Constitution means and the document is all about the Second Amendment and nothing else worth mentioning. However, this group is actively trying to recruit our troops into their organization with an emphasis on the Second Amendment and of course First Amendment rights as they apply to the Second Amendment. Don't they realize that there's a rational and logic reason why the Second Amendment for Gun Nuts is just that - second and not First Amendment?

This emphasis on the second amendment we can almost live with out of respect for THE FIRST, but recruiting active duty troops for any domestic challenge to the Constitution brings into question too many issues more in the jurisdiction of Homeland Security and DoD. It was just this concept that eventually led to the West Point class of 1861 spitting up to head North, South, East and West to kill one another. It is this concept that gave rise to the Southern militias that would be the backbone of the glorious Confederate Army.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october032...

Steve wrote:

Today's Front Page of the Brownwood Bulletin:
Friday May 4, 2007
News
A time to pray
The Rev. Tim Skaggs of Coggin Avenue Baptist Church speaks to about 30 people who gathered Thursday at Brownwood City Hall for the National Day of Prayer.
Photo by Steve Nash
source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/200...
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Note, Skaggs was on KXYL Thursday morning. After hearing his interview regarding The National Day of Prayer, it's obvious that he's a big fan of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity as well as Mike and J.R..

Limbaugh falsely implies Bush visited Dover to honor soldiers
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/limbaugh-falsely-...

Steve wrote:

<quoted text>
" Often abuse against women by men who claim to be Christians is more violent than for non-Christians, as these men mistakenly think God gave them the authority to mistreat their wives. These situations should be treated as highly dangerous. "
http://gospelthemes.com/abuse.htm
I'd wager it's these same Brownshirting men who mistakenly think God gave them the authority to mistreat their wives that also mistreat their neighbors !
October 15, 2004
Where Did These Conservatives Come From ?
The Brownshirting of America
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
" Show hosts, who advertise themselves as truth-tellers in a no-spin zone, quickly figured out that success depends upon constantly confronting listeners with bogymen to be exposed and denounced: war protesters and America-bashers, the French, marrying homosexuals, the liberal media, turncoats, Democrats, and the ACLU.
Talk radio's "news stories" do not need to be true. Their importance lies in inflaming resentments and confirming that America's implacable enemies are working resolutely to destroy us."
source: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10152004.h...

Made possible by Brownwood area BuSh supporting GOD Talking "truth-tellers" ?

In the Iraq war, Christians pushed to the brink
Iraq’s Christians have been targeted for kidnapping and forced to flee their homes. One advocate says that in a generation, Christians could be gone from the land they’ve lived in for 2,000 years.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1110/p12s01-wog...