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I used sentences like these a lot but lately I realize that everywhere is an adverb. What about those grammar rules that say "using adjective with linking verb" ?
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I used sentences like these a lot but lately I realize that everywhere is an adverb. What about those grammar rules that say "using adjective with linking verb" ?
Some "adverbials" can act as adjectives. Locatives in particular—expressions which designate a location in time or space—can modify a nominal as well as an "action", and thus may be properly employed as the complement of a linking verb:
Traditional grammarians sometimes try to get around this awkward fact by claiming that these "adverbials" modify the linking verb; but this is clearly wrong, since a) this leaves the verb without a complement, and b) the same constituents can be employed in contexts where they clearly modify nominals:
An adverb modifies a verb or an adjective.
You are correct that in sentences with a linking verb, the predicate modifier is usually an adjective. That is because the modifier is refering to the subject, which is a noun or pronoun.
However, in a few senteces using verb that may be considered linking, the predicate modifier is actually modifying the verb. In the exaples you give, everywhere modifies is and are.
The rule "After to be follows an adjective" is simply formulated wrong.
If you read texts carefully you will see that the rule "After to be follows an adjectve" is simply wrong.
You have to reformulate your rule: one of the sentence types with to be is to be + adjective. But there are also sentence types such as to be + noun or + adverbials/adverbs.
When you ask when was it the answers can be - That was after the war/ in1963/ on last Monday/recently/yesterday. Here you have when-indications after to be, and no adjectives.
If you clarify the question, it'll be better. What you want to know? If you firmly believe that an adverb should not be used after a linking verb, I'm afraid, this is incorrect.
I'm not aware of the rule that denies a linking verb not taking an adverb after it. The simplest example is...
Yes, we have rules for adverbial positioning and I think it'll be helpful.
The adverbs of manner (how), place (where -this is your case), and time (when) generally go in end position.
Another thing, Swan's book describes that in such cases, here and there begins the sentences. So again,
It rocks! When we generally go by rules, we have to accept some exceptions to them. Using adverbial complements for linking verbs is yet another example for this exception. Normally it goes by written rules. But, when we ask question like 'where?', we have no other option than giving an adverb as answer.
For example, if anyone asks, 'Where is she?', you cannot answer, 'She is pretty' or 'She is a student'. Here, you have to tell where she is. To express her location, you have to use an adverb or adverbials (as we all know, adverbs only can be the answer for such questions). Hence, the answer could be 'She is in New Delhi' or 'She is on the upstairs' or ' She is in the next room' and so on.
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Skip to comments.Vanity: Dad's conversations with Muslim shop owner about London bombing (chilling wake up call)
Posted on 07/08/2005 7:13:25 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
My father owns a business in the CBD area here in Auckland. We have a shop selling Persian rugs next to us and the owner is Iranian himself. He is a moderate Muslim (yep, the MSM definition of it no less) and seems to be very nice to us and other nearby shops' owners. Dad had this conversation with the owner yesterday regarding the London bombing:
Dad: Did you read the papers this morning?
Owner: Yes, a big news event.
Dad: It's sad, isn't it?
Owner: Well, the British got it upon themselves. You know that Americans and British have killed many of us Muslims!
Dad: Do you really mean it? All the people died there are innocent deaths!
Owner: But they have killed many Muslims as a nation!
Owner: So, what do you think about it.
Dad: It's a complicated matter.
(And then he switched to another topic)
And he was fuming over dinner last night. He is a conservative like me, but because he doesn't want to get into argument due to traditional Chinese sense of politeness in conversation, he did not refute the shop owner's words in his face.
It serves as a wake up call for me. I have always imagined the moderate Muslims know the stakes, but now I have to reevaluate whether I could trust even many of the moderate Muslims in light of this conversation.
Sounds pretty typical. Victimhood is ingrained in the Muslim psyche.
Straight from the mouth of a "moderate Muslim".
Sounds like the Persian rug shop owner has done a mind-meld with Dick Durbin.
Before this is over it may very well get up close and personal.
Liberals' steadfast refusal to make even the most rudimentary moral distinctions never ceases to amaze me...
Well, what can I say. It's not as if we haven't been shouting from the rooftops for years about how there is no such thing as moderate Islam, only degrees of apostacy. Osama and his like are the true Muslims. Most of the others simply don't want to get involved in any of the dirty work, but they'll never take on the bad guys in their midst. They may not want to join al Qaeda, but they won't risk their necks to stop them and probably agree with a lot of what they do.
A "moderate" muzzie is simply one who's run out of ammunition.
The moderate Muslims are Bin Laden, Zarqawi, Hook, et al.
The extremists are anyone that disagrees with them.
And let me tell you. There is a tiny minority of Muslim extremists.
Yep. An elderly (and wealthy) Peruvian told me the same thing as I was sitting in a bar on 9/11. Luckily, his daughter told him to keep quiet and keep moving.
Precisely. I'm starting to think that most of these people are objectively on the terrorists' side even if they won't make any bombs themselves.
Count on a Persian to tell any Chinese a story that will upset him.
It's quite traditional, and intentional.
Wow. So if his rug shop has a fire he will say it was a hate crime?
As Fox Mulder says: "Trust no muslim".
When they realize that they are as much of a target as anyone else, they start singing a different tune.
Thank you for posting this story. It is very sad and also very scairy, but realistic. It is no accident that the "moderate" Muslims are so quiet. They really aren't on our side. And quietly and secretly they are rooting for the terrorists.
We need to be just way more scrupulous about our Mosques and Moderate Muslims. I am tired of hearing Liberals and the Dims "explaining and making excuses" for the silence of the Moderate Muslims.
I once boarded a plane in Christchurch without going through security and changed planes in Auckland without going through security, then flew right into LAX. I could have had an M-16 with me, and nobody would have ever known. I hope that's changed.
But it's ok for them to kill thousands of innocent people over the past decade.
There's no such thing as a moderate Muslim BUMP!
Saddam kills hundreds of thousands of Muslims, and thats OK, with the Muslim population outside Iraq.
Or not quite enough of them depending upon one's view.
Pitchforks and lanters...with a smiley face!
We now have security checks for all transfer passengers and departing passengers on both international and trunk domestic flights.
Still, security is a bit lax than when compared with many other airports overseas: I travelled on AKL-PPT (papeete/Tahiti) - LAX-DFW-DTW two years ago. My shoe sole was a bit damaged due to wear over the years and it didn't activate the metal detector in Auckland but did at Papeete and LAX. This tells you how laxed security here really is, and the security screenings are done by a government department in NZ as well (Aviation Security Service).
I like that.
I don't think there's any such thing as a "moderate Muslim".
Arabic tribalism and Islam is apparently a volatile mix. If we need to remove all Arab Muslims in order to remove the few terrorists from our midst, so be it.
Is this cure worse than the illness? I don't think so. Any objection is abstract; the threat of murder is reaL. Sometimes you have to remove the whole organ that contians a few cancer cells in order to save the entire body. And to carry thge analogy further, the Arab Muslim community is not exactly a vital organ for us.
It's time for Europe and the US to kick out all Arab Muslims back to the sands of Allah's armpit, and keep them out. Arab Muslims don't have to be here; the West doesn't have to welcome them in so that some can easily target our own children and women. If Arab Muslims can't activley police their own communities, and often in fact give their radical elements at least tacit support, then it's time for Arab Muslims to go back and live off the fat of their own medieval economies.
I'm glad you've heard and answered your wake-up call. It's a mistake to think that any purportedly moderate Muslim is really going to be reasonable. After some horrific terrorist attack the Muslims I live near and work with shake their heads and say, "Oh, that's so sad," and then invariably add, ". . .but. . ." The "but" always places the blame for an atrocity squarely on the victim who in some way failed to free Palestine, become Muslim, etc.
Islam is an evil cult. There are doubtless some kind people who are Muslims--naive women mostly, I suspect--but it teaches the opposite of what Christianity does: it teaches hatred, death, lack of compassion, eradication of western values, of freedom, of initiative, of thought. It is fascism on the march. It is terrible.
When the goal is universal acceptance of sheria, what is "moderation"?
Me, too! The Patriot Act should be strengthened. If you come to America to live you should be willing to be open to scrutiny. If you have nothing to hide, then what's to fear?! I would like to see all Muslims in this country go home (and I personally know some "nice" Muslims) and no more allowed in the U.S. You know what they say, "Never trust a smiling dog."
The Silence of the Muslim world is DEAFENING!!!
I am so OVER Muslims.
Go home to your pre historic culture! And take your Burkas and Allah with you!
I confess that I haven't had a conversation with a Muslim for years. Decades, I imagine. And, where I live, there are none to be seen.
Still, I have made the presumption that the vast majority of American Muslims, at least, are appalled by events like 9/11 and 7/7. As I think about it, though, I am not aware of any news stories reporting Muslim leaders denouncing the actions of terrorist and terrorist acts such as these.
It could be that the MSM chooses not to broadcast these denunciations. Or it could be, I suppose, that they have not been forthcoming.
In any event, experiences such as your father's cause me to wonder...
Amen and Amen!!! Not politically correct to say so, but go home! I live in California (not from here, from Indiana). In Oregon they have bumper stickers that say, "To Californians: Welcome to Oregon! Now go Home!!"
We could have bumper stickers to say the same: To Muslims: Welcome to America!! Now go Home!!
Cut them to the quick and all Muslims are just "moderate" as your friend. Simple tribalism, I think.
But don't forget The rantings of the Wahabbi mullahs are more doctrinally orthodox than the "moderates".
In one sentence: muzzies are raised to believe that infidels - that would be all non-muslims - are not quite human.
So...however they treat us, lie to us until they are strong enough to take over etc. is seen by muzzies (even the moderates) as virtuous. (I read today that there are suicide bomber baseball type cards circulating in Palestine)
You put their brain-washing madrassas schools on top of that base and the wonder is that you don't have even more raving lunatics, eager to die for islam.
As it is within their so called ummah, they consider it halal..
I heard some Arabs are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.
I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Arabs.
I am sorry that Arabs have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships. I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.
I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools.
I am sorry that Yassir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and hijacked the Palestinian "cause."
I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA.
I am sorry that our own left wing elite and our media can't understand any of this.
I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death.
I am sorry that those same bombers are seeking 72 virgins. I can't seem to find one here on Earth.
I am sorry that the homicide bombers think babies are a legitimate target.
I am sorry that our troops died to free more Arabs.
I am sorry they show so much restraint when their brothers in arms are killed. I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.
I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen "Daisy Cutters" on Fallujah. (Note: a "Daisy Cutter" is a 10,000 lb bomb, used to clear helicopter landing zones)
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site".
I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.
I am sorry the French are french?
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for all the world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujans.
If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long wait. You have a better chance of finding those 72 virgins.
If you are "sorry" also, use this link...
Dad: Do you really mean it? All the people died there are innocent deaths!
Owner: But they have killed many Muslims as a nation!
It's amazing, isn't it? For all the hollow words from some/many in the Muslim community, when it comes down to it, they are like broken records. Those innocent Londoners had it coming because the west has killed Muslims. Disgusting. And a definite wake up call to us all, thanks for sharing.
It never ceases to amaze me that the libs here in the US (perhaps elsewhere, too?) sympathize with the terrorists, spout verbatim the kind of line this shopkeeper and so many others use, that we somehow had it coming, yet fail to realize that they, too, are targets and all their misplaced sympathies won't save them or get them special treatment.
The day after the 9/11 attacks, our newspaper printed a quote from a 14 year old American born Palestinian boy from north Jersey : "Now they know how we feel."
Now I know how they think. I look at even the most Westernized Muslims with suspicion. Fellow Muslims are their first loyalty.
During the cold war,we would not let in peaceful, moderate Communists who just wanted to make the world Communist in a peaceful moderate way.
How many of us are going to have to die before we stop letting them in?
Mrs VS
I hope law enforcement -- of Britain, I suppose -- examines the above picture, identifies the individuals, convicts them of treason, and then imprisons or deports them.
And, I hope their extended families go immediately on a no-immigrate, no-visit list asap.
It's worth noting, however, that the original post was about a conversation with a Persian, and the Persians are of course not Arabs.
Many faithful Muslims live in a mental space in which life and the world are strongly divided between two extremes - the Muslim community and infidels.
Now then, there may be Muslims who are doing something wrong - but, they are on the Muslim side of the divide, they are not infidels. To a faithful Muslim, they can and should be dealt with by Muslims but all infidels are beneath any Muslim and cannot presume to render "justice" on a Muslim. Any infidel who does must be rejected by a true Muslim, no matter what error the "offending" Muslim committed.
In this way, whatever evil Sadaam and the terrorists committed is irrelevant, the US and the Brits cannot be allowed to kill Muslims. They are infidels and they are beneath ANY Muslim, according to God's prophet.
You see, you are fighting a dominant mindset of the majority of people in an entire religion. In the long run, it matters little if they are in Al Queda or quietly selling rugs in the shop next door. They will be at war with you in some way.
Mabye we should send this "moderate" back to Iran so he can be reminded why he is in the United Kingdom.
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Appellate Judge James A. Stewart never expected to find himself analyzing the dreams of a dead clown.
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Our reviews of Cirque Du Soleil: Anniversary Collection (published February 8th, 2006), Cirque Du Soleil: Fire Within (published January 18th, 2005), Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (Blu-ray) (published June 18th, 2011), Cirque Du Soleil: La Nouba (published January 18th, 2005), Cirque Du Soleil: Midnight Sun (published March 21st, 2006), Cirque du Soleil: Solstrom: The Complete Series (published September 21st, 2005), and Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo (Blu-Ray) (published September 23rd, 2008) are also available.
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"Cirque du Soleil began with a very simple dream. A group of young entertainers got together to amuse audiences, see the world, and have fun doing it."—Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil founder and CEO, on its Web site
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In the 1980s, you had to be walking down the right Montreal streets to see the Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), a group of young street artists, in action. Today you can catch a touring show, see permanent performances in Las Vegas or Orlando, or just pop a DVD into the player.
The latest, Cirque du Soleil: Corteo, delves into the life and dreams of a dead clown. You might think he's just sleeping, but they point out in the featurettes that, yes, he's dead. We see him lying in a bed at the center of the stage. He's in the middle of a dream, one that involves clowns (of course!), aerialists, dancers, and a ringmaster. In the chandeliers high above his head, trapeze artists representing the women of his life spin like memories.
On a circular stage painted with a maze pattern, perhaps reflecting the puzzles in the clown's mind, we see trampoline artists bouncing on beds like children, a parade procession with a funny surprise twist at the end, a comedy bit about golf with a ball that doesn't want to get hit, and other circus performances delivered with a touch of the surreal.
This DVD moves faster than life, with breaks in the action edited out seamlessly. The cutting between shots that take in the whole arena, medium shots of the action, and close-ups that capture the expressions of the performers and audience members are deft. Watching a tightrope walker high above the stage, you get a view you wouldn't have had if watching the Cirque du Soleil in person, since you can't get up there to see the expression on her face (and wouldn't want to anyway). One scene with a performer ascending a wobbly ladder features some classic audience reactions.
It's a stage performance, so you get the occasional glare of the stage or audience lights, some scenes bathed in blue or orange light, or the occasional scene that's too dark. The featurette about the filming pointed out that the stage lights were normal while the cameras were rolling, although the audience lights are brighter than usual. Care has been taken throughout in this DVD mastered in high-definition to avoid bleeding and other camera problems.
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If you've seen the Cirque du Soleil on stage or on TV, you know what to expect. Corteo delivers their blend of circus acts, Felliniesque scenery, and mystical storyline that's fascinating and unusual, yet comforting enough to brighten a gloomy day.
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Skip to comments.A Different God? Mitt Romney, the Religious Right, and the Mormon Question
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As can be expected from a book published by Greg Kofford, Craig L. Fosters A Different God? is well researched and engaging. This book begins by examining the rise of the religious right and the power it exerts on the current political landscape. Foster presents a good deal of information that most Latter-day Saints will not be well acquainted with, such as the difference between evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, the emergence of the charismatic movement, the rise and fall of the Moral Majority, and the subsequent establishment of the Christian Coalition. This background is particularly pertinent to the majority of Mormons in the western United States who align themselves with the Republican Party.
Foster also gives a concise but surprisingly comprehensive summary of the political history of the Latter-day Saints. Because official Church curriculum does not address in detail the period from about 1850 until World War II or even later, most Mormons are rather uneducated regarding their political past, particularly the theocratic era that prevailed until the EdmundsTucker Act precipitated several changes, including the Manifesto in 1890 and the disbanding of the Peoples Party in 1891. The fact that most Mormons at the time gravitated toward the Democratic Party might surprise some of their modern descendents.
While Foster, an ardent Romney supporter, is admirably objective about the many weaknesses that undermined Mitt Romneys run for the Republican presidential nomination, his thesis in this book is that these flaws could have been overcome if not for a larger issue that eventually doomed the Romney campaign: the Mormon Question. This book apparently went to press after John McCain had secured his partys nomination but before he had selected his running mate, but it still has validity far beyond the 2008 presidential primaries. His thorough examination of the strong anti-Mormon sentiment that still seethes in America, especially among the religious right, will be relevant if Romney runs again in 2012 or if any other Latter-day Saint takes aim at the presidency in a future election.
Even though Foster doesnt quite arrive at this particular destination, the sobering conclusion that his presentation inevitably yields is that if a Mormon is to be elected United States president in the foreseeable future, he or she may have to run as a moderate Republican or, perhaps even more realistically, as a moderate Democrat.
Well, Romney was doomed by BOTH the "Mormon Question" and his RINO flip-flopping!
His problem is not that he's a Mormon....it is that he's Mitt Romney.
The Mormon gods are distinct from the one true, Ultimate God.
Here is a key god of the Mormons:
God and man are of the same race, differing only in their degrees of advancement (Lds apostle John A. Widtsoe, Rational Theology, 1915, p. 61)
According to revelation, however, he is a personal Being, a holy and exalted Man, a glorified, resurrected Personage having a tangible body of flesh and bones, an anthropomorphic Entity, the personal Father of the spirits of all men. (Bruce R. Mconkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p. 250)
The doctrine that God was once a man and has progressed to become a God is unique to this Church. (Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, 1997, p. 34)
We offend again in our doctrine that men are of the same race with the divine personages we call Gods. Great stress is laid upon the idea that we believe that 'as man is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become.' The world usually shouts 'blasphemy' and 'sacrilege' at one when he talks of such a possibility (B.H. Roberts, 1992, Defense of The Faith and The Saints 2:570)
(Roberts, Btw, was a Democrat elected by Utah voters as one of its first Congressman...Congress sent him packing and never allowed him to be seated because Roberts took simulaneous wife #3 in 1893 or 1894 AFTER the supposed announcement that the Mormon church would address polygamy).
The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that we may do the same. (Lds apostle Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p. 64)
When you can thus feel, then you may begin to think that you can find out something about God, and begin to learn who he is. He is our Fatherthe Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted Being. (Brigham Young, Oct. 8, 1859, JoD, 7:333)
It appears ridiculous to the world, under their darkened and erroneous traditions, that God has been once a finite being; and yet we are not in such close communion with him as many have supposed, (Brigham Young, Oct. 8, 1859, JoD, 7:333)
The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. (Brigham Young, Feb. 23, 1862, JoD, 9:286)
What, is it possible that the Father of Heights, the Father of our spirits, could reduce himself and come forth like a man? Yes, he was once a man like you and I are and was once on an earth like this...He had his father and his mother and he has been exalted through his faithfulness, and he is beomce Lord of all. (The Essential Brigham Young, p. 138)
Knowing what we know concerning God our Father-- that he is a personal being; that he has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as our own; that he is an exalted and glorified being; that he was once a man and dwelt on an earth and knowing that this knowledge was had by many of the ancients, should we be surprised to find legends and myths throughout the cultures of the earth concerning gods who have divine power but human attributes and passions? (BYU professor Robert L. Millet, The Eternal Gospel, Ensign, July 1996, p. 53)
Joseph Smith did in fact teach that God is a Man of Holiness, an exalted and glorified man. (BYU professor Robert L., Millet, The Mormon Faith: Understanding Restored Christianity, p. 169)
Joseph Smith's purpose is to show that the Bible teaches that our Father in Heaven was once mortal, as we are. (BYU professor Emeritus Joseph Fielding McConkie and Craig Ostler, Revelations of the Restoration, p. 1087)
Imagine "President Romney" praying to such a god for help in a crisis!
ONE OTHER very key different as to why Mormons have a "different god": They believe that the ONLY ones who get to live forever with this god are...
...Married to worthy, faithful temple Mormons...[singles not allowed...or women married to unworthy Mormons not allowed]
This means that if you are not a temple Mormon, the Mormon church says your chances of living with this god forever are nil.
So many things in this world are upside down. I wish we could go back to a time when blacks were republican and mormons were democrats.
You don't have to hang out around FR very long to realize that for many of the posters, it IS his being Mormon.
No doubt many of them would not vote for Romney were he a Baptist. But I also suspect a good many would not have voted for Reagan had he been Mormon.
Yup. Many Mormons were Democrats up until the early 1890s when Mormon leadership told many of the sheep to switch parties. They wanted to come across to national political leadership as more balanced so that statehood would not be denied them.
Imagine that. Mormons switching parties 'cause their leaders told them to!
Want a source?
During most of the 19th century, Utah was polarized along local rather than national party lines. Two local parties dominated the political scene: the Mormon Peoples Party and the Gentile Liberal Party. When Mormons did think in terms of national politics, they were almost universally Democrat, as the Republicans opposed Utah statehood. Brigham Young was a life-long Democrat.
In order to gain the senates approval for statehood, Utah was required to normalize its political allegiances. The Church disbanded the Mormon Peoples Party but feared that a mass Mormon migration to the Democratic Party would displease Republican senators. Church leaders sent Apostle John Henry Smith to visit LDS congregations. It was possible to be a faithful Mormon and a Republican, he explained to the amazement of many LDS faithful. In 1893, the Church even asked some specific families to become Republicans, a move that would be unimaginable today.
Largely because of this Church effort, Republicans and Democrats were both well-represented around the turn of the century. The Democrats had some impressive victories; in the first presidential election after Utah statehood in 1896, Democrats earned eighty percent of the presidential vote for William Jennings Bryan and elected many of their own to state, local, and national offices. Democrats also had great successes in the 1910s, in the 1930s with the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in 1964 with the Lyndon B. Johnson landslide
Source of above: Mormons and politics
Other historical background info of Utah State and Utah Territory:
State politics was reorganized after the 1890 Manifesto discontinuing polygamy was announced, and both the Republican and Democratic party emerged in the state. Many assumed that the traditional ties of many LDS Church leaders to the Democratic party philosophy would make Utah a strong Democratic state. In 1894, however, Republican Frank J. Cannon was elected Utah's delegate in Congress and the Republicans elected 60 members to the Constitutional Convention, a 13-vote majority over the Democratic. [Source for this & below quotes: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/d/DEMOCRATIC.html ]
Now keep in mind, this Republican surge was initiated pre-statehood admission. When we look at the actual first post-statehood election in 1896, what do we find?
In the first presidential contest held after achieving statehood in 1896, however, Utah Democrats did well, drawing more than eighty percent of the presidential vote for William Jennings Bryan and electing a variety of Democrats to state and local office as well. That same year, William H. King was elected to Congress and the Democratic legislature selected Joseph L. Rawlins to serve as U. S. Senator. Two years later, the Democrats elected B. H. Roberts to Congress although he was denied his seat because of his practice of plural marriage. Roberts was eventually replaced by William H. King in a special election held in April 1900.
We know that in the Utah state Legislature assuming office that 39 in the Utah House of Reps in 1897 were Democrats, only 3 were Republicans & 3 were Populists. In the state Senate, it was a 17-0 shutout for the Democrats (plus one populist).
By 1900, the parties became balanced, and then the Democrats dropped off for a while in Utah as Republicans Teddy Roosevelts ways carried the national day:
But the Democrats rebounded with the help of the Progressive Party in 1914: In 1914, Utah Democrats allied with the Progressive party to take control of both houses of the Utah legislature as well as many county offices. Two years later, the Democrats scored a major victory garnering the state's electoral votes for Wilson, and electing Simon Bamberger as Governor, William H. King to the U.S. Senate and both representatives in Congress. The state legislature was overwhelmingly Democratic as well.
Reagan could not be Reagan had he been Mormon.
I'd prefer a modern mormon president over a muslim president any day.
My point was that many freepers REALLY despise Mormonism and Mormons.
If you don't believe this, I suggest you try reading some of the Mormon-bashing threads. A remarkable number of people seem to believe a theological disagreement in and of itself is sufficient reason to vote against a candidate.
I'm not Mormon or particularly fond of the faith, but I can recognize that those posting such extreme dislike for Mormonism are pretty unlikely to vote for a Mormon president, regardless of his positions and record on other issues.
I never said YOU are among this group, necessarily, only that there are a good many of them out there. IOW, the author referenced in the article is correct. His Mormonism IS a problem for Romney. I don't this it's his major problem. But it is still a problem.
But...but...voting for Romney just because he is mormon and so is the voter...that's perfectly OK, right?
Reagan has nothing to do with Romney OR mormonism.
mega dittoes
His Mormonism is definitely a problem, especially when he speaks of it and seems to "gloss over" many of it's anti-mainstream Christian beliefs. When you are part of a religious group that many think is a cult and you aren't even straight forward with those that you want to vote for you (mainly conservative Christians and Jews), yeah there's going to be a problem and it's of Romney's own making.
Not sure where you get that idea.
There aren't enough Mormons to swing an electoral vote in any states except Utah and possibly Idaho.
There are, however, more Mormons than Jews, and the media is always obsessing about the Jewish vote. Though there seems to be considerable disagreement out there about how to count who is a Mormon and who is a Jew.
Don't disagree.
I can't count how many hundreds of times I've posted comments on Romney's...
...abortion stances & comments/stances on embryos...
...ENDA & homosexual support...
...Same-sex marriage being passed on his watch in MA...
...Bay State Romneycare...
...Romney as board member for Marriott & Marriott as a member of the porn industry -- to the degree that even the DesNews took him to task in '07 on this issue...
...Yet here is ALSO a consistent point I've been making: I've make numerous posts that link Romney's wishy-washy stances on many issues (abortion, embryos/stem cells, ENDA, healthcare, etc.) to the reality that Mormon church leadership is also wishy-washy:
Issue examples are...
...Illegal aliens...
...Homosexual rights in Salt Lake City (2009)...
...Abortion exceptions within their church body...
...Blacks as priests (1978)...
...Polygamy (1831 change to override polygamy described as an "abomination" in Book of Mormon; 1890 change, etc.)
Harry Reid told his BYU audience in 2007 when he was speaking to them "I am a Democrat BECAUSE I am a Mormon, not in spite of it."
Source: Reid Gets Warm Reception at BYU
Well, I have a similar point: Mitt Romney's wishy-washy, waffling behavior is in part, BECAUSE he is a Mormon leader who operates in the same "convenient" tradition he has seen so many other Mormon leaders operate in...
All you have to do is to read the Reed Smoot hearings in the early 1900s and you'll see how convenient it was for even the top Lds "prophet" to lie under oath to cover up even his own personal polygamous relationships!
Too many FREEPERS, unknowledgeable about historical and more recent flip-flopping behaviors by Mormon leaders are too quick to de-link Romney's behavior to Mormonism.
It's time some of you FREEPERS get an education in historical Mormonism.
Since you made the claim please give one example of hate towards mormons by Colofornian.
If Romney was a real mormon he wouldn't be supportive of gay marriage. He wouldn't be pro-abortion. Even Harry Reid is more pro-life than this guy.
PS: You did get that this particular post is from an lds publication, IE: BYU, right.
Harry Reid told his BYU audience in 2007 when he was speaking to them "I am a Democrat BECAUSE I am a Mormon, not in spite of it."
Hillary could say the same thing about being a Methodist. Jimmy Carter could say the same thing about being a Southern Baptist. Kennedy and Pelosi could say the same thing about being Catholic. Jerry Nadler could say the same thing about being Jewish. If you want to be a liberal then you will find a way to justify it even if it doesn't make sense.
You're hilarious, Bean Counter.
I only repeated the very headline. Guess where the headline came from, Bean Counter? You think I made it up?
Sorry, this is from BYU Studies...put out by Mormon Brigham Young University. Are you going to get on their case for producing such a headline?
Or hypocritically no?
Go back to counting that which you're better at...
Romney is a temple worthy mormon, which means he has been deemed by the lds authorities as a mormon in good standing. (Reid also is temple worthy.)
Well dangit.
Stole my thundering line.
Dude is looking for his Epstein excuse.
Except would the most prestigious Methodist university provide a big platform to make that claim?
Jimmy Carter could say the same thing about being a Southern Baptist.
Carter was Baptist; I'm not sure he was "Southern" Baptist. Even so: What A#1 Baptist university would have given him such a platform to make such a claim?
Kennedy and Pelosi could say the same thing about being Catholic.
Did Notre Dame invite them to make similar claims?
Romney has already made the move to abandon the conservative Republicans. He is not running the Iowa straw poll and one other early conservative poll. Romney has made statements affirming Romneycare and more recently, global warming. Romney is running as a Massachusetts Republican.
I think that the Republican Party in WA State is setting up to endorse Romney. There are lots of signs, including the fact that he was the key note speaker at our convention last year. Romney said all the right things last year and even cried like Glenn Beck, but this year, he's already backing off his conservatism.
"...voting records show 92% of mormons vote for mormons regardless of their political governance. IE Romney and Reid are only two examples.
What % of LDS voted for Harry Reid or any other LDS dem against a non-LDS republican? 92%?
I was wrong about the 92% for Romney it was 94%. I had read that 92% of lds voted for Reid but cannot find that reference, all I am finding today is that a majority of lds voted for Reid.
I'll keep looking. What was stated in what I just read was that they voted for Reid because he was a mormon.
Bump for later reading. I'm to tired to get into anything this deep tonight.
There's a DIFFERENCE?
Yeah, I found the Romney thing(that's bad enough), but holy cow, 92% for Reid would be even worse. I guess its possible but LDS REALLY go for the 'pubs normally, to my understanding, and 92% is a HUGE number.
Romney needs to know the true Jesus. Because if he truely gets to know Him, he'll repent for supporting teenage girls to be taken out of state without their parents knowldege or permission to get abortions when he was governor of Massachussettes.
That's asking alot, I know. But clearly, the Mormon god isn't doing it for him.
They are pretty ignorant about their THEOLOGICAL past as well.
And HISTORICAL past, too!
The ELECTED ones ARE!!!
Isn't SUSPICION wonderful!!
You can say all KINDS of things under it's protective mantra.
And I really don't know why this is; for MORMONs are always so loving and kind to others...
Joseph Smith continues: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (, p.270).Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (, p. 119).Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" ( 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" ( 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" ( 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (, vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" ( 10:230).Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (, p. 255).Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (, 18:172).President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (, vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (, 10:127).James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (, p.182).President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (, vol. 3, p.282).More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (, p.316).President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (, vol. 2, p.196).
But you manage to show up a lot and try to defend them from their own history that gets posted.
Oh, there's many of us here who will defend them against the crap that gets tossed around here. At least one of us will always show up on these threads just so no one will think we all remained silent.
Nice qualifier you've slipped in here.
If, by some means they can get him to be THE Republican (I didn't say CONSERVATIVE on purpose) candidate, then the sheer volume of dislike for OBAMA would put him in the WH.
Thanks, but no thanks. We'll be sure he gets the same results in THIS primary as he did in the LAST one: he's a LOSER.
Would you explain what "crap"? Which statements that are made here against mormonISM are in fact crap? You made the claim, state what you are talking about.
When you say crap are you talking about the mormon jesus that is created and not eternal?
When you say crap are you saying the god that was once a man just like us and not the eternal God?
When you say crap are you talking about the celestial marriage?
When you say crap are you talking about becoming gods of your own planet?
When you say crap what are you talking about?
A Different God?
Different godsssssssssssss
Sorry. You gave a false parallel. (Obama's never claimed to be Catholic; nor did he use ND as a platform to make such a claim...try again)
Temple Worthy MORMONS must answer THIS question (found in the TEMPLE RECOMMEND quiz) in the affirmative every year to REMAIN 'worthy:
11 Do your keep the Word of Wisdom?
Now the Word of Wisdom (WoW) is a bunch of do's and don't regarding what GOD has told MORMONs to eat, drink and bathe.
Here it is:
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 89Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1833. HC 1: 327329. As a consequence of the early brethren using tobacco in their meetings, the Prophet was led to ponder upon the matter; consequently he inquired of the Lord concerning it. This revelation, known as the Word of Wisdom, was the result. The first three verses were originally written as an inspired introduction and description by the Prophet.19, Use of wine, strong drinks, tobacco, and hot drinks proscribed; 1017, Herbs, fruits, flesh, and grain are ordained for the use of man and of animals; 1821, Obedience to gospel law, including the Word of Wisdom, brings temporal and spiritual blessings.1 A aWord OF Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of aevils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of bconspiring men in the last days, I have cwarned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, apure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.7 And, again, astrong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.8 And again, tobacco is not for the abody, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome aherbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with aprudence and bthanksgiving.14 All agrain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;15 And athese hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the adestroying angel shall bpass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.
The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Didja read the part where MORMONs are NOT supposed to eat MEAT except during cold weather of famine?
Do you wanna know how many FR MORMONs will answer the question whether THEY are following WOW?
Do you think MITT would?
If it wasn't for the Mormons, Prop 8 wouldn't have passed in California. They were the ones that pushed the issue. They were the ones who the gays protested and ridiculed.
But in a courtroom setting, most DEFENSE attournies would actually have some kind of EVIDENCE for the jury to mull over.
Accusing the witnesses of LYING all the time gets mighty old when nothing is produced to back up the claim.
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More Cash, Less Anxiety
These advisers trimmed stock exposure earlier this year as prices fell
To prevent large swings in client portfolios, financial adviser Michael Leonetti of Buffalo Grove, Ill., and his investment team are constantly assessing when to raise cash.
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Read the complete Quarterly Investing in Funds report .
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To make these calls, Mr. Leonetti engages in "momentum investing"—a strategy that involves selling stocks that have been in decline for a while, based on the logic that what goes down often will keep falling. In reverse, he may buy stocks that have been hot for a certain period of time, in the belief that trend will continue.
In March, as stocks were falling, Mr. Leonetti trimmed stock exposure and raised some cash.
The firm doesn't use momentum investing "because we think it's giving long-term better returns," says Mr. Leonetti. Rather, by increasing cash gradually when the market slides, the firm can provide smoother returns for clients and manage their anxieties, he says.
The buy-and-hold strategy, which asks investors to hold onto stocks even when they are falling, may work in theory but is hard for people to tolerate in reality, says Mr. Leonetti. "You have to do something that can control the emotions of clients."
In this column, we feature model portfolios from prominent financial advisers who invest clients' money in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Mr. Leonetti is a founding member and former president of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. He founded Leonetti & Associates LLC in 1982, and the firm currently manages $480 million in assets, primarily for individuals.
Mr. Leonetti has long followed a momentum-investing strategy. To gauge trends, he and his investment team look at stock-market data, such as the 30-day or 200-day moving average price for a broad market index or a specific stock or mutual fund. If the trend is downward, the team will look at macro-economic and other factors before deciding when to sell a particular investment.
"We're looking at large momentum shifts, versus just short-term volatility," says Mr. Leonetti.
Momentum investing gained popularity after the downturn of 2008 as investors grew disillusioned with traditional methods of stock picking and investing. However, many momentum investors suffered in 2009 when the markets gained value very quickly, because they weren't able to spot the trend early enough.
One of the risks of momentum investing is that "you're giving up return on the upside," says Mr. Leonetti. When stocks gained 15% in six weeks in early 2009, "we still hadn't fully gone back in the market," he says.
In general, experts advise caution for individual investors who might be tempted to try this strategy on their own.
They say it's tricky to pinpoint the right set of market data to watch and time-consuming to keep track of it. In addition, when some stocks or funds that have been moving higher reverse course, they can lose value sharply. And frequent switching in investments can increase transaction costs, though Mr. Leonetti says his firm is able to keep trading costs "so low [that] it doesn't have that big of an impact."
Here Mr. Leonetti shares a model portfolio for clients who want growth but with less volatility. The portfolio would be subject to changes based on what's happening in the markets.
For managing such portfolios, Leonetti & Associates charges clients an annual asset-management fee of 1.25% on the first $500,000 of assets. The fee is lower for assets above that amount. A typical client with $1 million in assets pays 1.1%, says Deborah Feldman, president of the firm and a member of the investment committee. Financial-planning advice costs extra. A typical client using the featured model portfolio gained 16.2% in one year and 0.8% annualized over three years ended March 31, before the adviser's fee, according to Ms. Feldman.
U.S. STOCKS: The model portfolio currently has 45% in U.S. stocks, with 11% in the Rydex S&P 500 Equal Weight RSP 0.10 % ETF. The advisers use that broadly diversified ETF "as a facilitator to move in and out of cash," says Ms. Feldman. For instance, they can reduce market exposure quickly by selling the ETF.
For large-company stocks, the advisers put 6% each in two funds that Ms. Feldman says they have used for several years— American Funds AMCAP and American Beacon Large Cap Value. Another 12% of the portfolio goes to funds that buy medium-size companies, with Columbia Acorn and Artisan Mid Cap Value getting 6% each.
There's a 10% allocation to small-company stocks, divided equally between Artisan Small Cap Value and Scout Small Cap.
Both Artisan funds are closed to new investors, but since the advisers have been using these for a long time, they are able to add new client money to them, says Ms. Feldman.
FOREIGN STOCKS: Ten percent of the portfolio is devoted to foreign-oriented funds, with an emphasis on developed countries. Ms. Feldman says the advisers increased their European investments in late 2010, betting these stocks would do better than some hot emerging-market stocks. In recent weeks, however, European stocks have suffered because of concerns over a potential default by Greece. For now, the advisers are holding onto their Europe position, made through a 7% allocation to American Funds EuroPacific Growth. The remaining 3% goes to Invesco Asia Pacific Growth, which buys fast-growing stocks of Asia, excluding Japan.
BONDS AND CASH: Eleven percent of the portfolio is in a money-market fund, since the advisers' market indicators signaled a need to raise cash some weeks ago. "We'll sit with it in a money-market [fund] for a while," until the team's indicators turn positive on stocks, says Ms. Feldman.
Another 26% of the portfolio is in bond funds, which are meant to be the "safety cushion," says Mr. Leonetti. Thirteen percent goes to Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade, which currently owns bonds with an average maturity of three years. Like many advisers, the team at Leonetti & Associates is holding mostly short-term bonds because they would lose less value than long-term bonds in the event interest rates rise, which many expect. The advisers have 7% of the portfolio in Pimco Total Return, focused on medium-term, high-quality bonds.
There is a 3% allocation to Pimco Real Return, which invests primarily in high-quality inflation-linked bonds, including Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS. One percent of the portfolio is in Fidelity Advisor Floating Rate High Income, which buys low-quality, short-term debt securities.
More than a year ago, Ms. Feldman and her team started buying high-yield, or "junk," bonds that were relatively cheap. They allocated 2% to the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond HYG 0.09 % ETF.
ALTERNATIVES: To provide clients further protection from inflation, the Leonetti team invests in commodities, with 4% of the portfolio in Pimco CommodityRealReturn Strategy. Another 2% is in the iShares Silver Trust SLV 0.73 % ETF, which the advisers bought earlier this year.
Finally, 2% of the portfolio is in the Cohen & Steers Realty Shares fund that buys real-estate investment trusts, or REITs.
Ms. Anand is a personal-finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal, based in New Delhi. She can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com.