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FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. - The U.S. Army changed the name of its system-of-systems-integration, research and development program, Oct. 1.
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance On-the-Move, or C4ISR OTM, is now C4ISR & Network Modernization.
The name change reflects the program's alignment with the Army's Network Modernization strategy, said Lt. Col. William T. Utroska, director, C4ISR & Network Modernization.
"This was long coming. We are all in agreement that the network is the most complex piece of modernization. For several years, this program has provided critical and key insights on how the network will perform in the future and will continue to do so," Utroska said.
C4ISR & Network Modernization will continue exploring leap-ahead capabilities that can augment and enhance the foundation of network modernization while identifying technology acceleration opportunities into the current force, Utroska said.
"This is tremendously important to our Army. We're trying to figure out what the future looks like over the horizon and how to bridge it with the current - it's a continuum of modernization efforts," said Brig. Gen. Harold Greene, deputy commanding general, RDECOM.
"I think this kind of effort is absolutely essential. We need to have facilities and events like this that allow us to understand the art of the possible so we can be agile and adapt on the fly," Greene said.
C4ISR & Network Modernization is a research and development program within the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command's communications-electronics center, or CERDEC, that evaluates the technical applications and maturity for emerging networking, sensors and C4ISR-enabling platforms on a year-round basis.
This is done to demonstrate the impact of integrating these capabilities in a system-of-systems environment. The venue also provides science, technology and engineering support to mitigate risk for Army Technology Objectives and supports milestone decisions for programs of record.
"Network modernization is the most complex part of the modernization strategy. This program is a critical component to RDECOM's systems integration domain and technology focus team construct," said CERDEC Director Gary W. Blohm.
"The venue brings the R&D, test, acquisition, industry and user communities together to leverage their capabilities and intellectual capital. No more stovepipe testing, no more isolated testing - we want to bring everything together in a system-of-systems to focus on the complete problem set. If it doesn't work in a system-of-systems, it doesn't work. We owe it to the Army to make it all work together," Blohm said.
This year's integrated activities event, E10, was designed based on high-level objectives including the ongoing 2013-2014 capability set study directed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, or ASA (AL&T).
These included examining how cellular technologies could be integrated into the tactical network, exploring enhanced capabilities for Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) and Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS), and performing a 36-node assessment of the Soldier Radio Waveform.
"It's easy to say 'this is what's going to be in those capability sets.' The real rub is making it all work together the best way possible and finding out where the strength and weaknesses are. This venue provides us a tremendous opportunity to figure those things out," said Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, commanding general, RDECOM.
While E10 concluded on Sept. 2, C4ISR & Network Modernization is still performing capability assessments and preparing for E11, which is scheduled to begin April 18 at Fort Dix, N.J.
C4ISR & Network Modernization will be taking proposal packages as they prepare for a mid-planning conference, Jan. 18-20, and the final planning conference, March 29-31.
To learn more about C4ISR & Network Modernization, visit http://go.usa.gov/alg or contact CERDEC Public Affairs, (732) 427-1594.


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Thank you, Cynthia. Good morning. Thank you for joining our call. Today's presenters are indeed John Strangfeld, CEO; Rich Carbone, Chief Financial Officer, Mark Grier, Vice Chairman. Then joining John, Rich and Mark for our Q&A will be Charlie Lowrey, Head of our U.S. businesses; Ed Baird, Head of our international businesses; and Peter Sayre, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer.
Now this commercial. In order to help you to understand Prudential Financial, we will make some forward-looking statements in the following presentation. It is possible that actual results may differ materially from the predictions we make today. Additional information regarding factors that could cause such a difference appears in the section titled Forward-Looking Statements and Non-GAAP Measures of our earnings press release for the first quarter of 2011, which can be found on our website at www.investor.prudential.com.
In addition, in managing our businesses, we use a non-GAAP measure we call adjusted operating income to measure the performance of our Financial Services businesses. Adjusted operating income excludes net investment gains and losses as adjusted, and related charges and adjustments, as well as results from divested businesses. Adjusted operating income also excludes recorded changes in asset values that are expected to ultimately accrue to contract holders, and recorded changes in contract holder liabilities, resulting from changes in related asset values. Our earnings press release contains information about our definition of adjusted operating income. The comparable GAAP presentation and the reconciliation between the two for the quarter are set out in our earnings press release on our website. Additional historical information relating to the company's financial performance is also located on our website. John?
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Thank you, Eric. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We had a strong and eventful first quarter. Our earnings per share for the quarter increased 17% from last year's first quarter based on after-tax adjusted operating income of the Financial Services business. We produced an annualized ROE of 11.4% for the quarter on the same basis. GAAP book value per share reached $63.50, up 16% from a year ago. In a few moments, Rich and Mark will review the quarter with you in detail.
In brief, our financial results are solid and broadly based, and our sales and flows demonstrate excellent and continuing commercial momentum. In our Annuities business, our competitive position and expanding distribution have driven strong sales and flows, leading to substantial growth of business with attractive returns. In Asset Management, we are benefiting from higher fees driven by growth in Assets Under Management, as well as the absence of significant credit-related charges, which affected results a year ago.
In our U.S. Protection businesses, results were down modestly from last year, reflecting less favorable group disability claims experienced in the current quarter. Our international businesses are producing sustained organic growth, including an increasing contribution from Life Insurance Protection business sold through the bank channel at Gibraltar Life.
Current quarter results also include the first month of operations at the Star and Edison businesses we acquired in February. The addition of these companies will significantly strengthen our franchise in Japan, where we are already a market-leading farm life insurer. In spite of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, business integration is proceeding well, in line with expectations, and with no material surprises. We applaud our dedicated staff in Japan, as well as our associates in the U.S., who have kept us on track through this difficult period. Largely because of recent increases in Japanese and U.S. interest rates, our estimation of the earnings contribution over time of Star and Edison is modestly higher than our earlier expectations.
In April, we reached agreement to sell our Global Commodities business in a transaction that is expected to close later this year. When completed, this transaction will free for redeployment approximately $400 million in capital. Broadly, on the subject of capital, we are at a very strong position, with both capacity and flexibility in capital deployment. We are highly focused on capital management, and we recognize the importance of capital deployment in the achievement of our 2013 ROE aspiration of 13% to 14%. We look forward to a fulsome discussion of capital and capital management at our Investor Day next month.
And with that, I will turn it over to Rich.
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Thanks, John and good morning, everyone. As you've just heard from John's remarks, and as you've seen from yesterday's release, this was a good quarter. Common stock earnings per share was $1.69 based on adjusted operating income, a 17% increase over the $1.45 from the prior year. The list of significant discrete items affecting current quarter results is fairly short and easy to digest.
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Niles stuffs bus with foodPublished 6:49pm Sunday, February 26, 2012
Niles Community Schools teamed up with the Volunteer Center of Southwest Michigan to collect dozens of boxes of food for the Helping Hands Ministry Friday.
Students in all district schools began donating nonperishable food items Feb. 1 for the ministry, located in the former Mount Calvary Baptist Church parsonage on Ferry Street.
"One of our main functions is to head out to the middle schools and high schools and give opportunities for service," said Callie Campbell, youth volunteer coordinator.
About six students boarded a school bus Friday morning and traveled to the schools to load boxes. They filled the bus then headed to Helping Hands, where church members helped students lift the heavy boxes off the bus and down the stairs.
Organizers said they aren't sure exactly how much food was collected for the drive.
"We did exactly what we set out to do — stuff a bus," Supt. Richard Weigel said.
About 60 people utilize Helping Hands per month. Pastor Bryant Bacon said the ministry, which also offers clothing to people in need, is open to everyone.


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This is the Peace loan group from Dar es Salaam. Their group leader is Bilali A. (pictured in the center of the front row wearing a gray and black shirt between the woman in the blue dress and the woman in the green dress).
Bilali is a 42-year-old father of three. He is married and his children are 13, 11, and 7 years old. Bilali runs a "genge"-which is Swahili for a table-top fruit and vegetable stand. He has been in the business for three years, operating from 7 a.m. til 6:30 p.m. every day. He manages to make about 700,000 Tanzanian shillings per month in profit (~$525 USD). This will be Bilali's third loan from Tujijenge Tanzania, Ltd. He repaid his previous two loans on time and is excited to have his third loan.
Bilali will use this loan to increase the stock and range of his fruits and vegetables. He and the members of the Peace group thank you for your kind support!
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About Tujijenge TanzaniaThis loan is administered by Tujijenge Tanzania, which was founded in 2006. It has operations in Dar es Salaam, the coastal region, and the Lake Victoria region. The organization aims to reach out to micro entrepreneurs and provide them with financial and social intermediation services because capital is one of the major barriers to development and success for micro-enterprise initiatives in Tanzania.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
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What's with this pink jersey? What happened to his national jersey?
What's with this pink jersey? What happened to his national jersey?
i may have overreacted
maybe he doesnt have a skin suit in his national colors?
He is the road race champion not the time trial champion. You only get your special jersey for your discipline.
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the kazak kit is ugly anyway
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Does he have to wear that national kit?? I agree, it's pretty damn ugly.
Did you see the behind-the-scenes feature during today's stage? It showed the guy who's job is to make the yellow, etc jerseys for the riders. He just pulls out a jersey from a bag, and hot-presses the team logo onto it! Neat, especially that it happens in the back of a minivan!
Vino was riding today for a contract next season - that looked like extra motivation.
He should have worn a jersey today with $$$ all over it, as a free-agent-to-be.
. . . because he was told to.
Because he secretly reads bikeforums on his downtime and wanted to throw us all off after reading the many threads asking why he was wearing the teal jersey instead of pink.
Someone told him that his national champs jersey was kind of girly looking!


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Schadenfreude Alert: "A Spiritual 9/11"
Jim Burroway
June 26th, 2015
America Family Association's Tim Wildmon calls it a "Spiritual 9/11"
"We're not surprised but extremely disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision. I fear for our country, quite frankly, because this is a spiritual 9/11, I believe. We have said to God Almighty, We don't care what you say about marriage and your definition of what's natural and normal.
"If you look in the scripture, often times when God's people rebelled against Him, He turned them over to destruction. Christians need to pray for mercy and we need to pray for a revival in the land.
"I think the next line of defense is religious freedom. We must take a stand for religious freedom in this country and fight back in the courts and in the state legislatures, if not the federal legislature, to uphold religious freedom."
The Family "Research" Council's Tony Perkins's reaction was a veritable word salad of anti-equality talking points:
"Five justices on the Supreme Court have overturned the votes of 50 million Americans and demanded that the American people walk away from millennia of history and the reality of human nature.
"In reaching a decision so lacking in foundation in the text of the Constitution, in our history, and in our traditions, the Court has done serious damage to its own legitimacy.
"No court can overturn natural law. Nature and Nature's God, hailed by the signers of our Declaration of Independence as the very source of law, cannot be usurped by the edict of a court, even the United States Supreme Court.
"Marriage is rooted not only in human history, but also in the biological and social reality that children are created by, and do best when raised by, a mother and a father. No court ruling can alter this truth.
"It is folly for the Court to think that it has resolved a controversial issue of public policy. By disenfranchising 50 million Americans, the Court has instead supercharged this issue.
"Just as with Roe v. Wade in 1973, the courts will not have the final say on this profound social matter. The American people will stand up for their right to have a voice and a vote, especially as they experience the ways in which redefining marriage fundamentally impairs their freedom to live and work in accordance with their beliefs.
"With this ruling, the Supreme Court has set our government on a collision course with America's cherished religious freedoms, explicitly guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
"Americans will not stop standing for transcendent truth, nor accept the legitimacy of this decision. Truth is not decided by polls or the passage of time, but by the One who created time and everything that exists therein.
Perkins may have been long-winded, but not nearly as much as National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown. I won't post the full thing — it's way to long — but one way to sum it up is to imagine him stamping his foot and screaming, "We're not irrelevant, damn it!":
Though expected, today's decision is completely illegitimate. We reject it and so will the American people. It represents nothing but judicial activism, legislating from the bench, with a bare majority of the Justices on the Supreme Court exercising raw political power to impose their own preferences on marriage when they have no constitutional authority to do so. It is a lawless ruling that contravenes the decisions of over 50 million voters and their elected representatives. It is a decision that is reminiscent of other illegitimate Court rulings such as Dred Scott and Roe v Wade and will further plunge the Supreme Court into public disrepute.
Make no mistake about it: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and countless millions of Americans do not accept this ruling. Instead, we will work at every turn to reverse it.
The US Supreme Court does not have the authority to redefine something it did not create. Marriage was created long before the United States and our constitution came into existence. Our constitution says nothing about marriage. The majority who issued today's ruling have simply made it up out of thin air with no constitutional authority.
Mission America's Linda Harvey says your children are in danger:
"Parents, it's time to make some hard decisions. Your children will now be told in public schools that there is only one view of sexuality and it is that anything goes. Thirteen year olds can 'date' people of the same sex and go full speed into the homosexual life, and any efforts to prevent them from doing so will be subject to restraint by the full force of law. And so, God help us," she said.
"The majority on this court has defied the testimony of nature, anatomy, history and Almighty God. Jesus declared marriage to be one man and one woman in Matthew 19," Harvey stated. "Because of this arrogant and unsustainable decision, America now stands in defiance of God, and we can only pray now for His mercy on our nation."
Austin Ruse gets his dystopian imagination worked up over "what's next":
What's next? It is hard to tell.
Proponents of abortion thought Roe v. Wade effectively ended that debate, but recent history has shown that to be abundantly false.
But the road ahead is decidedly uphill for those who support traditional marriage. Some have already called for a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Others have called for an incremental battle that would include federal and state protections for those who oppose same-sex marriage. This would include protection for county clerks who may resist issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
The fear now is that the federal government, under urging from the gay community, will work to stamp out any vestige of opposition or even dissent, including eliminating accreditation and tax exempt status for religious schools that do not recognize same-sex marriages.
Rose's imagination isn't nearly as colorful as Scott Lively's though. Lively is positively apocalyptic:'
In response to the ruling, Mr. Obama called it an example of "justice that arrives like a thunderbolt." That phrase turns logic and morality on its head as it relates to official government endorsement of sexual perversion. But I suspect it will eventually, perhaps very soon, be recognized in retrospect as an unwitting prophecy about God's punishment on America for what she has just done.
12:30pm I just received an email from my ex-'gay' friend Greg Quinlan informing me that today's "gay marriage" ruling happens to fall on the anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah in 586BC to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzer: the ninth day of the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar.
"Coincidentally," in our daily chapter by chapter Bible study at Holy Grounds Coffee House that we began in Genesis more than two years ago, we arrived today at Jeremiah 39, which reads in verse 2: 2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.
Now consider all of this in light of Revelation 16: 17Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done." 18And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. 19The great city [Jerusalem] was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great [America] was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath. 20And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.
Bryan Fischer "Fired" While Republican Party Leaders Travel To Israel on Hate Group's Tab
Jim Burroway
January 29th, 2015
While news outlets in America are discussing Speaker John Boehner's irresponsible invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress as part of Netanyahu's re-election campaign back home, the Israeli daily Haaretz is filling its Israeli readers in on a trip being made by some sixty members of the Republican National Committee, with all expenses paid by the American Family Association. In the process Haaretz is giving its readers a good glimpse of what the AFA's Bryan Fischer has said on behalf of the organization footing the bill for the Republican junket:
Bryan Fischer, the AFA's director of issue analysis, has said that black people "rut like rabbits." Moreover, in a September essay, he wrote: "We are a Christian nation and not a Jewish or Muslim one." On a video segment on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" last Friday, Fischer was seen blasting gay activists as "jack-booted homo-fascist thugs," and depicting Islam as "an Ebola virus that is lethal and deadly."
…For his part, AFA's Fischer, in a 2010 essay slamming the end of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay soldiers, blamed homosexuals for the Holocaust: "Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews."
The AFA has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group. GOP Chairman Reince Priebus sent out the invitation for the trip to all 168 RNC members in November. About sixty accepted and are going on the trip, including Priebus. Altogether 98 people are going on the nine-day trip that begins on Saturday. David Lane, who heads the American Renewal Project, is organizing the trip. The American Renewal Project is funded by the AFA, and is housed at AFA headquarters in Tupelo, Mississippi. Haaretz also gave its readers a small dose of some of Lane's past statements as well:
His American Renewal Project is working to persuade 1,000 evangelical pastors to run for public office in 2016. "The Lord gave me this model of mobilizing pastors to try and engage the culture. Somebody's values are going to rein supreme," Lane told Haaretz, adding, "America was founded by Christians for the glory of God and the Christian faith."
…We were established as a Christian nation in the name of God and for the advancement of the Christian faith. It's my position that we've lost that," Lane explained, in an appearance on conservative political commentator Glenn Beck's television show "The Blaze." "Restoring America to our Judeo-Christian heritage and re-establishing a Christian culture is the only way that we get out of where we are."
No one from the RNC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, or the Anti-Defamation League would respond to a week's worth of telephone messages from Haaretz for comment.
So far, this has been little noted in the American press, although it's gotten to be a really big deal in Israel. Debra Nussbaum Cohen, the Haaretz reporter, appeared on Rachel Maddow last night to talk about the story. Maddow also reported that the AFA has responded by announcing that Fischer has been "fired" as a spokesperson and Director of Issues Analysis for the AFA. Tim Wildmon, the AFA's president, told MSNBC that Fischer was now "just a radio host," and that he was "fired" because of "the soundbite quotes, you know, the Hitler and the homosexuality one…" Maddow noted that even though Fischer has a long history of consistently making these same remarks over and over, Wildmon said simply, "we reject that." For now, at least, while the Israeli public's eyes are on them.
I'm still putting Fischer's "firing" in quotes, because he apparently still has his radio program, carried throughout the AFA's radio network of more than 200 stations. He may no longer have the title, but he still has the same national platform that he always had, courtesy of the AFA:
Don't believe everything you hear! I'll be on air same time tomorrow as always 1-3pm CT, on http://t.co/sI2xhN0XQd. Tune in!
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) January 29, 2015
Meanwhile, more than a third of the entire Republican National Committee and its chairman will depart Saturday in the company of several Christian Reconstructionists on the AFA's $400,000 tab. So for now, nothing's really changed.
AFA is "being trampled" in Mississippi
Timothy Kincaid
April 28th, 2014
The American Family Association is no longer able to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience. They are being persecuted terribly and it's ever so sad.
You see, some people in the state are selling goods and services to gay people. Knowingly. And not even giving them a dirty look.
Oh the misery.
It all started when the state legislature passed a bill (much like the Arizona bill that was vetoed) which says that "Government should not substantially burden religious exercise without compelling justification". And while those words are probably not something I'd disagree with, the unspoken intention of the bill was to block any local ordinances that prohibit discrimination against gay people.
And as there are no such provisions anywhere is Mississippi, it was just the Mississippi Legislature reconfirming to the world that it's comprised of a bunch of back-woods, redneck, gay-hating yahoos.
Well, this seemed a bit mean to some businesses, so they decided to come up with a way of telling gay customers that they were welcome in their stores. A couple of gay business owners and a "straight, white, Southern, Christian conservative male" Republican up the street designed a sticker that a shopkeeper could put in their window.
Which is all sorts of bullying and silencing of the rights of those who don't want gay people to be able to buy goods and services. Or something. (AFA's OneNewsNow)
Buddy Smith, executive vice president of Tupelo-based American Family Association, offers his take on the sticker campaign.
"It's not really a buying campaign, but it's a bully campaign," he says, "and it's being carried out by radical homosexual activists who intend to trample the freedom of Christians to live according to the dictates of scripture.
"They don't want to hear that homosexuality is sinful behavior – and they wish to silence Christians and the church who dare to believe this truth."
And what is one to do about those who break the Scriptural dictates prohibiting selling stuff to gay people?
Smith offers a word of caution for those who do business with facilities posting the decal supporting homosexual activism. "If you do that, you are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience," he tells OneNewsNow.
Kidding aside, this is hysterical in pretty much every meaning of the word. Please please, AFA, keep saying stuff like this.
Bryan Fischer Celebrates
Jim Burroway
December 20th, 2013
Uganda stands with Phil. Makes homosexuality contrary to public policy. It can be done. http://t.co/QeEvVkfBGa
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013
GOP Slams Brakes On Rebranding Effort
Jim Burroway
April 11th, 2013
The Republican National Committee is meeting in Los Angeles over the next three days beginning today, and one of the first items on the agenda for consideration is a resolution that states:
WHEREAS, the institution of marriage is the solid foundation upon which our society is built and in which children thrive; it is based in the conjugal relationship that only a man and a woman can form; and
WHEREAS, support for marriage has been repeatedly affirmed nationally in the 2012 Republican National Platform, through the enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton), and passed by the voters of 41 States including California via Proposition 8; and
WHEREAS, no Act of human government can change the reality that marriage is a natural and most desirable union; especially when procreation is a goal; and
WHEREAS, the future of our country is children; it has been proven repeatedly that the most secure and nurturing environment in which to raise healthy well adjusted children is in a home where both mother and father are bound together in a loving marriage; and
WHEREAS, economically, marriage is America's greatest weapon against child poverty no matter what ethnic background individuals are; and, based on the facts of stunning recent articles, marriage is the best way for society to get out of poverty and raise emotionally healthy children; and
WHEREAS, The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of laws adopted to protect marriage from the unfounded accusation that support for marriage is based only on irrational prejudice against homosexuals; therefore be it
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee affirms its support for marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and as the optimum environment in which to raise healthy children for the future of American; and be it further
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee implores the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the sanctity of marriage in its rulings on California's Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The GOP platform last summer was probably the most anti-gay platform in the party's history. After Barack Obama won re-election in a campaign which included support for marriage equality, there were some suggestions that the Republican Party should soften its anti-gay positions. But after RNC Chairman Reince Priebus issued the official "autopsy" of the 2012 presidential elections which called on the party to become more "inclusive and welcoming," a coalition of social conservatives responded with a letter to GOP leadership warning that "an abandonment of its principles will necessarily result in the abandonment of our constituents to their support." The letter writers also protest that their anti-gay stance does not mean the party can't can't attract gay voters:
Many homosexuals are active in the GOP because they agree with Republicans on economic issues. The fact that the Party is strongly committed to traditional marriage has not prevented their involvement through GOProud or Log Cabin Republicans. We deeply resent the insinuation that we have treated homosexuals unkindly personally.
And we would like to point out that in the four blue states where voters narrowly voted for same sex marriage in 2012, Mitt Romney, who refused to discuss the issue, lost by an average of five points more than the state initiatives to preserve marriage.
Republicans would do well to persuade young voters why marriage between a man and a woman is so important rather than abandon thousands of years of wisdom to please them.
…Real and respectful communication is needed with our organizations. Alleged gaffes by candidates in 2012 on social issues could have been avoided if Party leadership had consulted us, the experts on how to articulate those positions.
Those so-called "experts" who signed the letter were:
- Gary Bauer, President, American Values
- Paul Caprio, Director, Family-Pac Federal
- Marjorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony List
- Dr. James Dobson, President and Founder, Family Talk Action
- Andrea Lafferty, President, Traditional Values Coalition
- Tom Minnery, Executive Director, CitizenLink
- William J. Murray, Chairman, Religious Freedom Coalition
- Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
- Sandy Rios, VP of Government Affairs, Family-Pac Federal
- Austin Ruse, President, Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
- Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum
- Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Founder, Traditional Values Coalition
- Tim Wildmon, President, American Family Association
According to Politico, the anti-gay resolution is expected to pass overwhelmingly tomorrow when it goes before the full committee, although it's not clear whether the resolution's final form will be the same as the version that has circulated today.
Pat Robertson is a heretic, a blasphemer, perhaps the Anti-Christ
Timothy Kincaid
December 10th, 2012
From our dear dear friends at the American Family Association:
On a broadcast of The 700 Club late last month, Pat Robertson disputed the belief that the earth is about 6,000 years old, suggesting billions instead.
"I know people will probably try to lynch me when I say this," he stated, "but Bishop Ussher — God bless him — wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't …. There was a time that [dinosaurs] were on the earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So don't try to cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That's not the Bible."
Well! I declare!
Can't he read the simple English in which the Bible was written? It's right there in black and white, to be taken literally and exactly!
My oh my!
But not to worry:
Moreover, the AIG researcher notes that Robertson's claim that dinosaurs existed before biblical times is illogical, because there is no pre-biblical time; the Bible starts with the creation of the world.
Nuff said.
Because EVERYTHING is ALWAYS all about TEH GHEYYYYYYY!!!!
Timothy Kincaid
October 3rd, 2012
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a program called Mix It Up At Lunch Day. The premise is simple:
In our surveys, students have identified the cafeteria as the place where divisions are most clearly drawn. So on one day – October 30 this school year – we ask students to move out of their comfort zones and connect with someone new over lunch. It's a simple act with profound implications. Studies have shown that interactions across group lines can help reduce prejudice. When students interact with those who are different from them, biases and misperceptions can fall away.
They have a whole website of strategy, planning, tips, advice, and encouragement for the change that can come when – for just one day – kids sit with and talk to someone who is "not like them". It seems mostly driven to erase racial or ethnic presumptions, but also seems to be attempting to be cross-clique as well.
But, to the homosexually-obsessed, this is about Teh Ghey!!! Because, you know, the Southern Poverty Law Center, in addition to the other thousand hate-groups they track, also list 26 anti-gay hate groups.
Here's how the American Family Association described the event on Monday:
On, Tuesday, October 30, over two thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Mix It Up" (MIT) day. MIT is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. A strong focus is directed specifically to elementary and junior high grades.
MIT is a project of the fanatical pro-homosexual group, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This is the same organization that launched hateful and malicious rhetoric toward the Family Research Council just prior to the August shooting of a security guard by a SPLC sympathizer.
AFA is joining other family-oriented groups in urging parents to keep their children at home that day if their local school is sponsoring the "Mix It Up" project.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is using this project to bully-push its gay agenda, and at the same time, intimidate and silence students who have a Biblical view of homosexuality.
Today, they toss the last shred of honesty out the window with their description of SPLC:
The homosexual activist group, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), has been called to task by public school administrators across the nation for falsely listing schools as participants in "Mix It Up" day without authorization or permission.
"Mix It Up" day is an entry-level "diversity" program designed specifically by SPCL to establish the acceptance of homosexuality into public schools, including elementary and junior high schools.
Many school administrators were offended to learn that their school was listed as a "participating" school on the SPLC website and ordered it removed immediately. In some cases, students or teachers independently signed the school up without approval, leaving principals and superintendents unprepared for phone calls from concerned parents.
Does Mix It Up Day seek to establish the acceptance of homosexuality? No. Not that this would be a bad goal, but it appears no where on the event's website. Not even close.
In fact, the only tangential reference to anything remotely gay that I could find is:
During the past decade we have learned that schools experience deeper impacts from Mix It Up when they plan at least two follow-up activities during the year to sustain the message.
Two other national campaigns are natural allies for this work and can help with timing the follow-up activities: No Name-Calling Week for elementary grades and Day of Silence for middle and high schools.
Also, consider a Day of Service where you carry out a community project (cleaning up a park, helping a local nonprofit, etc.). Working together for a greater good, while crossing those social boundaries, is another way to diminish prejudice and reduce biases. (It's also another chance for positive media coverage involving young people!)
Or, you can simply Mix It Up at Lunch again, on other days through the year. (Some schools now Mix It Up at Lunch on a monthly or even weekly basis!)
That's it. A reference to Day of Silence as one of several possible follow up ideas.
As the SPLC noted:
Describing Mix this way is an out-and-out lie. As educators know, Mix It Up is a simple effort to get students to break through social boundaries and make new friends. Each school sets its own agenda, makes its own plans and chooses its own theme. Last year, over 3,000 schools participated in the program without incident. (You can check out some of the great Mix success stories here.)
None of that seems to matter to the AFA, a group that specializes in demonizing the LGBT community and stirring up hate. Incredibly, the AFA has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust, saying, "Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews." It has also made racist claims such as welfare causes black people to "rut like rabbits."
But when all you can think about, when what you obsess about, when your whole world is focused on homosexuality, everything is always all about teh ghey!!!! (And besides, there's no money to be made on people getting along)
AFA lauds vandalism
Timothy Kincaid
August 24th, 2012
The American Family Association is boycotting Home Depot because that company supports its gay employees and their community. Of course no one is actually paying any attention to the boycott, but the AFA always claims success.
Such as here:
AFA was recently contacted by a Home Depot employee who says the boycott of Home Depot is being effective. "We have customers who come into our store and confront our store managers over the HD's support of Gay pride. The AFA is having an effect on HD."
She also shared that many employees disagree with the company's pro-gay-marriage stand. In June, a "Gay Pride Month" poster (photo right) was put up in her breakroom. "HD is as committed as ever to the changing of laws in favor of same sex marriage.They had absolutely no empathy for those employees who voiced offense with the display. This was mandated by corporate directive. Therefore the display was torn down at least 2 times."
Sure, cuz vandalism is a good ol' American family value.
Which "Good People" Did the Boy Scout's Double Super-Secret Panel Talk To?
Jim Burroway
July 18th, 2012
Well, for one, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, an SPLC-certified hate group. Jeremy Hooper has this clip of Fischer bragging about getting a call from "Boy Scouts headquarters":
So many of you called that I got a call from the Boy Scout Headquarters. "Call off the dogs! We're not going to do it! We're not going to change our standards. And now we find out today that what we were told… You know that the head of the boy scouts called me, and called me after the program from Boy Scout headquarters and… it's a testament to your listening audience how many of them have called in, we're not doing a poll and we're not thinking about changing the policy. And today we get official confirmation, unanimously, this panel decides that the Boy Scouts are going to maintain their ban. We are fighting a winnable war.
NOM's breakfast dump heaps up
Timothy Kincaid
July 17th, 2012
It's been a week since I brought you the exciting news of how the National Organization for Marriage's big Dump General Mills project just keeps going on and on. And in that time the number of those dedicated souls who vow that they will "look for substitutes" has grown by a colossal 18%, all the way to 23,054.
Much of the growth can be attributed to support by the American Family Association, whose followers number at least ten thousand. And one thing you can say about the AFA supporters, when it comes to the cause of protecting the family from the militant homosexual lobby, they are committed. Or, at least, if they are not yet committed, they certainly should be.
NOM's General Mills protest is now a giant "dump"
Timothy Kincaid
July 10th, 2012
OneNewsNow, the American Family Association's project to bring us the news that the mainstream press ignores (including all sorts or facts, numbers, studies, reports, quotes, and all sorts of information that you can't find anywhere else) has finally taken notice of the National Organization for Marriage's boycott of General Mills. And today they are sharing with America's families that "General Mills earns spot on boycott list".
And as a result, the listing of those who pledge to "look for substitutes" to General Mills brands has soared to new heights. Currently at 19,555 signatories on the DumpGeneralMills.com page – a full 398 more than it was on the 5th – it seems almost certain that this dump will pass 20,000 and become truly a giant dump, and as I'm sure we all know, it's hard to ignore a giant dump.
Sin, sin, everywhere. What's a Mom to do?
Timothy Kincaid
June 5th, 2012
For years folks like the American Family Association would get their undies in a bunch if some business would dare be somewhat civil to some gay person somewhere. And then they would protest and send postcards and threaten boycott and raise a stink. And then if the business backed down, they would declare victory and gloat. Even if the business ignored them and happened to be a smidgen less supportive in the next year, they would declare victory and gloat.
And in response, gay groups and gay people would inquire, "why do you hate us now?" And on it would go.
But it seems like Corporate America has come up with a solution, a strategy to break the chain of angry protest. Now when the American Family Association or some other nutcase whines, the CEO grabs a rainbow flag and the whole company dances a conga line singing, "We love the gays!"
Or something like that.
Take JCPenney. Anti-gays had a valid point that JCPenney kinda falls more into heterosexual middle-America red-state shopping than it really does for the gay folk. But they overplayed their cards.
When the American Family Association's project, One Million Moms (which number far closer to 'One' than they do to 'Million'), decided that America's Big Ol' Lesbian Sweetheart, Ellen Degeneres, was not wholesome enough for JCPenney, they insisted JCP fire her because she was "an open homosexual". Forced to pick between the 2-3 million shoppers who tune in to Ellen every day or the half-dozen or so angry harpies who would actually boycott the store, execs yelled, "Dammit, Betty, get in here with my rainbow tutu and feather boa! It's time for a Pride Parade around the office."
Well, whether my imagined parade happened or not, JCP decided that they didn't much want to hear from the Moms – so they blocked email coming from the American Family Association. And when Mothers' Day came around, JCPenney decided it was time for not only lesbians, but lesbians who are moms (not a million, just two) to be featured. Just in case the OMMs missed the snub.
But the Moms evidently aren't that bright. They just ratcheted up their noise-making. So finally Penney's said, "Fine. Find us some gay men. Who are a family. With kids. And get a photographer – it's almost Fathers' Day. If they don't get the point this time then they're dumber than Rick Santorum!"
"But, but, but…" sputtered the Moms in response. "They're promoting sin!" And then the nation, all 360 million (other than the Moms) collectively rolled their eyes and turned back to the booze commercial with the young ladies in bikinis.
And, of course, JCP isn't alone. Macy's is pissing off the Moms and has been doing so for a while. The Moms would picket but they've never been to a Macy's and besides it sounds Jewish (and all them Jews are librullls anyway).
But on some level I can pity the Moms. Now it feels like Corporate America is just piling on. Like some bully that wakes up in an alternate universe and finds that the band geeks and math club now run the social scene, they must be hurt and confused. Especially after this ad.
One Hundred Percent. Sigh, it's a sad sad day for the Moms.
GOP Pollster: Time To Evolve
Jim Burroway
May 12th, 2012
Jan van Lohuizen is a Republican pollster who worked on President George W. Bush's 2004 campaign. He is also the GOP's Daniel reading the writing on the wall when he sent memo out yesterday to Republican operatives with an overview of poll numbers on marriage equality and suggestions on how the GOP should address same-sex marriage if it wants to stay relevant. You can read the entire memo here.
Van Lohuizan notes that through 2009, the uptick in support for same-sex marriage was at a rate of about 1% per year. Beginning in 2010, there was a noticeable elbow in the curve, with support for marriage equality increasing by approximately 5% per year on average. And while that support is greater among Democrats and Independents than Republicans, support is growing in GOP ranks as well, with a majority of registered Republicans supporting a growing list of protections for gays and lesbians.
Van Lohuizan has a come up with a list of talking points which he thinks that Republican candidates ought to adopt if they want to stay relevant, beginning with:
"People who believe in equality under the law as a fundamental principle, as I do, will agree that this principle extends to gay and lesbian couples; gay and lesbian couples should not face discrimination and their relationship should be protected under the law. People who disagree on the fundamental nature of marriage can agree, at the same time, that gays and lesbians should receive essential rights and protections such as hospital visitation, adoption rights, and health and death benefits."
This is somewhat similar to Gov. Mitt Romney's talking points following President Barack Obama's announcement that he supports full marriage equality. The main difference is that Romney reiterates his opposition both to marriage equality and to civil unions which would approximate marriage equality. Van Loguizan's suggested talking points addresses neither. But he does explain to the GOP under the guise of another talking point why the party is going to have to change it's approach to gay people sooner rather than later:
"As more people have become aware of friends and family members who are gay, attitudes have begun to shift at an accelerated pace. This is not about a generational shift in attitudes, this is about people changing their thinking as they recognize their friends and family members who are gay or lesbian."
Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Santorum has some very different advice for Romney. Santorum told an Arknsas television station that Romney needed to "tep up and take advantage of a president who is very much out of touch with the values of America.":
"Hopefully Governor Romney will continue to stand tall for his position on this issue and understand how detrimental it would be for society for it to have this changed," Santorum also told the Arkansas station.
"Governor Romney has to talk about his values," he added. "That's the most important thing."
AFA's Bryan Fischer expands on that advice here.
Did Grenell Jump or Was He Pushed?
This post has been updated with more information from the New York Times and Talking Points Memo
Jim Burroway
May 3rd, 2012
Or did he just simply let go?
On April 19 when Gov. Mitt Romney named Richard Grenell, a longtime GOP communications strategist as his national security and foreign policy spokesman, conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan hailed the announcement as "a real outreach to gay Republicans" while Karen Ocamb said is marks "the day Romney pivots to appeal to mainstream voters for the general election."
But if that was a pivot, it ended Tuesday when Grenell resigned from the campaign. His very brief announcement hinted at why he left such a high-profile post in a national presidential campaign: "My ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign."
What "hyper-partisan" discussions was he referring to? At first, some speculated that it may have been related to the initial criticisms from pundits and bloggers over provocative Twitter posts that he made about Rachel Maddow's appearance, Newt Gingrich's wife Calista's appearance, Hillary Clinton's appearance, Michele Obama's accent, and other snarky tweets. But it quickly seemed unlikely that those criticisms led to Grenell's sudden departure. Most of them came from left-of-center and beyond, which Republicans tend to wear as a badge of honor (as many Democrats do with criticism from the right). And besides, by April 22 when Grenell deleted some 800 tweets and took his personal web site offline, those criticisms were already loosing traction. The world quickly moved on to the next outrage.
Well, most of the world anyway. One key component of the restive GOP base didn't. SPLC-certified hate-artist Bryan Fischer of American Family Association called Grenell's appointment "a deliberate poke in the eye" to Christian conservatives, and mounted a campaign for Grenell's removal with a six-point list of demands for Gov. Romney. Family "Research" Council warned that Grenell's support for same-sex marriage would have him lobbying "for foreign policy more in line with the current administration than the last Republican one." National Review's Matthew Franck wrote that Grenell supported marriage equality "with a kind of unhinged devotion that suggests a man with questionable judgment." He even suggested that Grenell's gayness would cause him to turn traitor to the Republican cause and switch teams if Obama were to come out for same-sex marriage.
Those criticisms apparently spooked and paralyzed the Romney campaign. Andrew Sullivan did some "actual reporting from yours truly" and got to the bottom of Grenell's resignation:
It seems clear from sources close to Grenell and reporters on the foreign policy beat that his turning point came last week. He'd been part of organizing a conference call to respond to Vice President Biden's foreign policy speech, now known best for the "big stick" remark. So some reporters were puzzled as to why Grenell, a week into his job as Romney's national security spokesman, was not introduced by name as part of the Romney team at the beginning of the call, and his voice completely absent from the conversation. Some even called and questioned him afterwards as to why he was absent. He wasn't absent. He was simply muzzled. For a job where you are supposed to maintain good relations with reporters, being silenced on a key conference call on your area of expertise is pretty damaging. Especially when you helped set it up.
Sources close to Grenell say that he was specifically told by those high up in the Romney campaign to stay silent on the call, even while he was on it. And this was not the only time he had been instructed to shut up. Their response to the far right fooferaw was simply to go silent, to keep Grenell off-stage and mute, and to wait till the storm passed. But the storm was not likely to pass if no one in the Romney camp was prepared to back Grenell up. Hence his dilemma. The obvious solution was simply to get Grenell out there doling out the neocon red meat — which would have immediately changed the subject and helped dispel base skepticism. Instead the terrified Romneyites shut him up without any actual plan for when he might subsequently be able to do his job. To my mind, it's a mark of his integrity that he decided to quit rather than be put in this absurd situation. And it's a mark of Romney's fundamental weakness within his own party that he could not back his spokesman against the Bryan Fischers and Matthew Francks.
This confirms what the Washington Post learned shortly after Grenell's resignation, when Jennifer Rubin wrote: "The ongoing pressure from social conservatives over his appointment and the reluctance of the Romney campaign to send Grenell out as a spokesman while controversy swirled left Grenell essentially with no job." She later reported that many members of the campaign privately reached out to Grenell over the weekend to try to persuade him from resigning, but they were unsuccessful. She then reiterated the root of the problem: "Despite the controversy in new media and in conservative circles, there was no public statement of support for Grenell by the campaign and no supportive social conservatives were enlisted to calm the waters."
[Update: The New York Times this morning has more. During that foreign policy conference call:
It turned out he was at home in Los Angeles, listening in, but stone silent and seething. A few minutes earlier, a senior Romney aide had delivered an unexpected directive, according to several people involved in the call.
"Ric," said Alex Wong, a policy aide, "the campaign has requested that you not speak on this call." Mr. Wong added, "It's best to lay low for now."
For Mr. Grenell, the message was clear: he had become radioactive.
After interviewing more than a dozen aids and advisers, The Times describes the episode as "halting attempts by the campaign to manage its relationship with the most conservative quarter of the Republican Party."
"It's not that the campaign cared whether Ric Grenell was gay," one Republican adviser said. "They believed this was a nonissue. But they didn't want to confront the religious right."]
This leaves many wondering if there is any room for gay Republicans in visible positions. GOPRoud's Jimmy LaSilva said, "This was an opportunity to send an important message that Mitt Romney wants everybody to get behind him and to support his campaign. They let that opportunity pass." [Update: Go Proud's Christopher Barron added, "It doesn't bode well for the Romney campaign going forward if they couldn't stand up to the most outrageous attacks about him being gay." Fred Karger, who ran against Romney as an openly gay candidate told TPM,
"It's going to be difficult for Romney to take other steps like this. And that's what's really frightening to me. It's just too tough to stand up to these groups because they have a lot of money and power. You've got to be able to do that, that's leadership."]
Sullivan was more direct:
So if all gay Republicans who support marriage equality are banned even from speaking on other topics entirely (like Iran or Afghanistan, where Grenell is a fire-breather), who's left? The answer, I'm afraid, is no one. Grenell was prepared to stay silent on gay issues entirely and do his job. But that wasn't enough. Romney's anti-gay agenda is therefore deeper and more extreme than Bush's.
Meanwhile, AFA's Bryan Fischer is declaring Grenell's resignation a huge win. With continued silence from the Romney camp, this leaves likes of Fischer to operate as the de-facto gatekeepers of acceptable members of the Romney campaign — and perhaps even of a Romney administration.
Bad Christian B*tches? OneMillionMoms vs. GCB
Jason Cianciotto
March 16th, 2012
Please note that the opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of all contributors to Box Turtle Bulletin.
Update: OnMillionMoms has posted a new alert claiming that "most of last week's sponsors…did not sponsor this week's episode." While the reasoning behind any change in advertising is unclear, GCB's ratings did drop from 7 million to 6.33 million viewers and to a share of 5 in the 18-49 demographic. By comparison, the highest rated show last Sunday evening was "Once Upon a Time," which attracted 8.6 million viewers and an 8 share of the coveted 18-49 demographic. Given the content of "Once Upon A Time," which includes witchcraft, murder and adultery, I'm surprised OMM hasn't targeted it as well. However, since the show does not poke fun at the hypocrisy of the religious right, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised…
One million moms are on the march again. Well, not literally.
The conservative group OneMillionMoms (OMM) has abandoned its unsuccessful attempt to oust Ellen Degeneres as the spokesperson for JC Penny, targeting the advertisers for ABC's new hit show, "GCB."
According to the group, "OMM is disgusted with the new program…which is blasphemy at its worst! It is based on the book "Good Christian B*tches"…[and]…blasphemes God…"
Blasphemy is the act of speaking sacrilegiously. If the definition fit, OMM would have good reason to target GCB. Freedom of religion is a human right that should be protected from defamation, whether Christian- or any other faith-bashing.
However, the devil is in the details for the fundamentalists at OMM, who are missing a critical difference: GCB does not mock Christians. It mocks those who blaspheme Christianity, abusing it as a justification for hypocrisy.
This may be hitting too close to home for OMM, a subgroup of the American Family Association (AFA), an organization on the "frontlines [sic] of America's culture wars."
Labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the "sins" perpetrated by AFA's spokespeople include calling Islam "the spirit of Satan," claiming that "homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler," and stating in a recent Twitter post that efforts to mandate insurance coverage for contraception are "totalitarianism on hormones."
Like the wealthy characters in GCB, the AFA ignores the commandment to "love thy neighbor" in exchange for a religion that not only justifies defamation, but also is very profitable. AFA reported over $19 million in revenue in 2010.
ABC is clearly luring its "Desperate Housewives" audience with a neighborhood populated by wealthier, Texas socialites. These 'Christians' are still angry about how they were treated in high school by Amanda, the protagonist, who returns home to live with her mother after her Ponzi-scheming, adulterous husband dies.
This "come to Jesus" experience converts Amanda to a life that honors real moral values like supporting her children through hard, honest work—even if it's in a Hooters-like restaurant called "Boobylicious."
Despite Amanda's genuine efforts to make amends, her neighbors respond with anything but forgiveness. Altered by plastic surgery and dressed in the finest stereotype of gold-plated, gun-wielding, Texas couture, these characters use Bible verses like bullets to rhetorically inflict vengeful wounds that, while not mortal, are always aimed at the heart.
The Lord saith "vengeance is mine," but these Texans have selectively forgotten that verse, which is precisely the point.
Trading gun for Bible verse slinging, the ladies attempt to "out-Christian" each other, leading to outrageous displays of hypocrisy. For example, After Amanda revealed during 'prayer' before the congregation that Boobylicious is actually owned by Carlene, GCB's villainess, Carlene is too bedridden with embarrassment to attend church the following Sunday.
Holding his Bible, her husband offers spiritual support. "There is nothing in this book that says you can't own a boobie bar." Paraphrasing Proverbs 31, he continues, "You are a virtuous woman, priceless beyond rubies."
After a friend offers to sing this week's choir solo in her place, Carlene is far more motivated to go to church, jumping out of bed and yelling for her maid, "Carmelita get in here! The show must go on! Where are my rubies?"
While OMM is blind to its hypocrisy, the abuse of religion that occurs at the intersection of faith, money, and politics is obvious to many Americans and to GCB's heroine. "God, she's such a Pharisee," laments Amanda, comparing Carlene to the legalistic religious leaders chastised by Jesus.
"Well, someone's been reading her new testament," replies her mother.
"No, I just googled 'hypocrisy,'" quips Amanda.
As the series progresses, I think Amanda will continue to struggle with what it means to be a real Christian, while Carlene demeans salvation into an excuse for behavior that is anything but loving.
In the mean time, OMM continues to target the show's advertisers. In a recent update, the group claimed "victory," including a purported direct quote from Kraft foods. "Philadelphia [cream cheese] has decided to pull its advertising from GCB … We have received complaints from consumers and their opinions about our advertising are important to us."
However, Kraft's response to a GCB supporter was entirely different. "The brand has decided to redirect advertising to other programs with an established audience…. [T]his decision was not linked in any way to the content of this particular show."
So much for the commandment to not bear false witness.
GCB puts religious hypocrisy on display before over 7 million viewers, according to the show's latest ratings. Perhaps that's the real reason OneMillionMoms is so upset. GCB lifts the proverbial choir robe worn by these modern-day Pharisees, and what's underneath ain't pretty.


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The staff changes at Allure are slowly but surely starting to take effect and we're beginning to see subtle differences with the release of each issue. Last month, we happily welcomed a fresh-faced Amy Adams as the magazine's cover star. Continuing to eschew the usual subjects, FKA twigs stars on the magazine's May 2016 edition. The current face of Calvin Klein Jeans poses confidently before the lens of Alasdair McLellan and uses her hands to serve up some dynamic poses.
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I took a spill on pavement for the first time today. The way my head impacted with the concrete, had I not been wearing a helmet, I would have been knocked unconscious or possibly worse. Sure glad I'm a pro helmet guy. Just food for thought.
I took a spill on pavement for the first time today. The way my head impacted with the concrete, had I not been wearing a helmet, I would have been knocked unconscious or possibly worse. Sure glad I'm a pro helmet guy. Just food for thought.
Yes, people who crash and land on their heads should wear helmets.
Your inability to spell "wear" indicates that you probably suffered a concussion even though you had a helmet on.
Thor29, don't read too much into the spelling mistake, the "E" and the "R" keys are right next to one another on a QWERTY keyboard. Might've just been typing too fast ?
John, most bike helmets are designed for a one and done crash, might want to replace the one you used ?
Wear, Wear, WEAR ! Got It !
I took a hard spill about 3 or 4 weeks ago too. It had just stopped raining, and I crossed a metal bridge support, at about 20 mph.. Wham, I hit the ground, but still moving at the same speed. Wham, my head, nothing else hit the curb, and that stopped my movement. I hit the curb with such force, that it make a loud noise, and it stopped my movement. It was a cheap Wally Mart helmet too. However, it did its job. Wasn't for the helmet, I don't think I would have got up.
Even when I am home, and just going for a ride to the corner and back, I don a helmet. In addition, I try to tell peeps that are not wearing a helmet, in the nicest way I can, wear a dam helmet...
Great post, I hope peep adhere too...
You all are silly. OP- good on you for surviving your fall.
Two Wheels One Love
Where a helmet?
I owe-therefore I am.
Oh Christ, another helmet thread. Were anybody to bother reading the numerous other helmet threads, they would already know that:
1. Where good figures exist (mainly from Australia and New Zealand) they indicate that increased helmet use has NOT correlated with fewer head injuries to cyclists;
2. The incidence of head injury to unhelmeted cyclists is very low - roughly the same per mile travelled as for pedestrians - so why don't we keep warning pedestrians to wear helmets?
...and many other facts that call into question whether helmets, for just riding around, are remotely necessary. As for the endless "I'd have been killed but for my helmet" stories, I'm sure they're sincere but the fact is you have no idea what would or would not have happened without the helmet. I have had the experience of crashing into a motor vehicle, and hitting it forehead-first, at about 15-20 mph. I wasn't wearing a helmet and I was unscathed. Had I been wearing a helmet, I can well imagine that I'd be attributing my survival to that helmet. But I wasn't. Was I lucky? Maybe. But skulls work pretty well, most of the time - and for much more of the time, they don't have to. Cycling is a very safe activity.
what kind of "helmet' r u typin about?? pics will b helpful
I always wear one and so does my wife.
I don't care if other people wear one or not.
I don't care about statistics supporting or failing to support their use.
This thread comes up almost daily.
This thread has about a 90% of turning into a shouting match among a lot of idiots in the next few posts.
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Is it helmet story time again? The old dueling anecdote game? Check it:
There's this guy I used to work with, good hearted kid but not the brightest, I'll call him George (not his real name). We used to ski together from time to time (well, he snowboarded; like I said, not the brightest), and this kid really liked to get tricky. It was always fun to watch George ride, but kind of nerve-racking at the same time. I was hands down a better skier than George was a boarder, and still he would go two to three times bigger than me. But I'm getting old and cautious and would like to keep skiing until I qualify for senior rated lift tickets, it seems that I go smaller and smaller every year. George, on the other hand, is still in his early 20's. Like the kids say, Go Big or Go Home.
He was interested in parkour (used to practice on the bike rack out front of the restaurant where we worked), loved to skate, and brought all kinds of manic energy to everything that he did. The one time we rode bikes together, 10 miles along a sedate MUP out to play some disc golf, I asked him why he was wearing a full face DH helmet. He told me that it was the only bike helmet he owned. Knowing George as I did, I thought: better too much helmet than none at all.
The day of George's accident he was out biking with another co-worker of ours, Fred (not his real name), equally young and equally dumb. Fred described the incident to me the day after it all went down, his voice cracking and his eyes blinking back tears. George had told Fred what he was going to do, and had asked Fred if he thought whether or not George could land it. I doubt that Fred gave it much more thought than George did before he, undoubtably enthusiastically, told George to go for it. I think Fred still feels guilty about that. I, and many others, have told Fred that George would've done it whether or not he was there; and if Fred hadn't been with George, there wouldn't have been anyone to call the paramedics or to give George CPR until they got on scene to resuscitate him. Fred saved George's life, as much of it as could be saved.
George wasn't going fast, and he wasn't going big. He hadn't been biking long, I think that he'd bought that bike (his first as an adult) during the previous summer. Like many of us, George rode bikes as a kid but stopped when he got a car. He was wearing that ridiculous full-face, and I've often wondered how his perception of the protection it provided affected the level of trickiness that he would attempt (George wore a helmet when boarding as well, and regularly rode outside of his ability level). George had planned to ride backwards up a concrete embankment, pop a little air and spin a 180, then ride away forwards. He'd timed the jump so he would leave the concrete at its edge and land in grass just beyond, in case he screwed the trick up. That part went according to plan. Unfortunately, George flipped over 180 degrees on the vertical, instead of spinning laterally, and he landed square on the top of his head. No cranial damage, but George shattered his C2 and C3 vertebrae. His heart stopped, and was later restarted by the medics. At 22 years old, George became a quadriplegic.
In the year since, I've thought about George's accident often. I think about it every time the subjects of reckless youth, risk mitigation, or helmet usage comes up. I've wondered if his helmet hurt, helped, or did nothing at all. The ground that George impacted was soft and grass-covered, and his skull would've easily absorbed/deflected the force from the landing (maybe). Did the helmet help provide the leverage to break his neck? Would he not have attempted a trick that he was unsure of landing without his safety helmet? Would it have mattered if he'd been bare-headed, or would he just have done it anyway and still ended up in the same way? Nobody can know. Outside of a controlled environment, speculation as to causes and effects is just that: speculation.
I've gone over cars and I've been hit by cars. I've wrecked due to mechanical failure, poor judgement, bad weather, and worse luck. I've hit pavement, gravel, wood, and dirt. Sometimes I was wearing a helmet, mostly I wasn't. When I was young and invincible, I regularly rode like George. When I was a little kid, we used to construct plywood jumps in the middle of the road, onto flat, gravel landings. None of us had ever seen a bicycle helmet, but I don't think any of us ever suffered head injury. As I've aged, my riding style has changed. Lessons have been learned, some hard and painful, some second-hand. I've survived all, with only minor scarring, bruising, breaking, and bleeding. I can't look back and say for sure why I've survived and thrived where others have failed or perished. I can only speculate. Maybe if you can reconstruct and repeat an accident, over and over again, you could demonstrate that your helmet/disc brakes/lucky rabbit's foot is what saved you. Without repeatable results, all you have is an anecdote. And anecdotes are plagued by the unknown and unknowable, and heavily tinged by perspective. As such, they needs be taken with a large grain of salt.
Like I said, I've aged and learned. My lessons have been, at times, hard won. As such, I'll be damned if I allow some nanny-state pro-helmet anti-choice safety brigade to tell me that I don't know what's best for me, rattling off suspect statistics and crying "but think of the children!". Other nations have told their citizens that they must wear helmets, so look to them to see if it has made cyclists safer. I don't think that it has, but there seems to be little scientific consensus on the matter. Perhaps there is a benefit, but is that a worthy exchange for living in a State where politicians and statisticians can legally supersede your decisions regarding your own well being? Mandatory bike helmets, mandatory walking helmets, outlawed red meat, mandatory maximum distances from the TV screen, etc...
I've learned that cycling is as dangerous as you make it. I've learned that if you're going to push your luck, luck might fail you. I know that you're going to be dumb, you better be tough, and no amount of padding will mitigate that. I know that awareness and experience do go a long way to prevent situations where a helmet might prevent injury. I know that sometimes all you do make yourself safe will come to naught, and the universe will smack you down regardless of all of your best intentions.
Mostly, I believe that I have the right to make my own decisions about how I live my life, as long as I do not adversely affect the lives of others. This includes the right to make decisions that others think are risky. If I decide incorrectly, then yes, the State must sometimes clean up the mess. This is the price the State must occasionally pay for allowing it citizenry to remain free in mind, body, and spirit.
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Well said.Mostly, I believe that I have the right to make my own decisions about how I live my life, as long as I do not adversely affect the lives of others. This includes the right to make decisions that others think are risky. If I decide incorrectly, then yes, the State must sometimes clean up the mess. This is the price the State must occasionally pay for allowing it citizenry to remain free in mind, body, and spirit.
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Jay DeMerit Story returns for encore at Point tonight
Post by Jesse Russell on 11/21/2011 2:00pm
After selling out an exclusive engagement earlier this month Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story is returning for an encore presentation tonight at Marcus Point Cinema. The film follows the life of Green bay born Jay DeMerit who was unable to kickstart a professional soccer career in the United States, so he packed up and headed to the U.K. Above the average draft age and with little mone in his pocket, DeMerit was able to rise up from playing in pub leagues all the way to the Premier League and finally starting in the World Cup for Team USA.
Much like DeMerit's battle to the top the film was funded mostly by community support. The producers were able to raise more than $200,000 through a kickstarter campaign. That money allowed the producers to pay for the licensing of footage they used in the film, so they could finally screen it in theaters around the world. An article in the U.K.'s Guardian detailed the journey from dream to screen.
"We hired a professional director from London and we had everything planned to go, but a week before we were supposed to come, he had an emergency with his wife's pregnancy and he pulled out. We were trying to find a new director, but it couldn't be put off – in the end we got to England a day before his last home game ever [for Watford], which was really special. We were going to let the experts do it, but when that didn't happen we had a moment in time to make it. We just had to do it without a director. We hired a young cameraman – just out of college, no experience – got on the plane and did the best we could.
"Nick and I, we had no idea what we were doing. You know what, we figured it out along the way. Film is so special because it opens its arms up to anyone who has the passion or the heart. And for me, even though we lacked experience, we had the heart for it."
Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story shows tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Marcus Point Cinema.
Jesse Russell
Jesse was born and raised in Connecticut, began blogging in 1997, and moved to Madison in 2003. In 2005, he co-founded dane101 along with Kristian Knutson and Shane Wealti. In addition to helping nearly a dozen contributors run this website he's helped launch various events in the city including What's Your Damage?!, the MadPubQuiz of Awesomeness, the Fire Ball Masquerade, Dane101's Freakin' Halloweekend, and more.


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Total Conversion for Oblivion: "Nehrim - At Fate's Edge" is a finished Total Conversion for the RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. That means it is a self-contained game that bases upon the Oblivion game engine, but has no relation to Oblivion's lore. It is a world in which neither Tamriel nor any other TES based name exists. The continent itself on which the game is situated is called Nehrim, it is completely independent from the base game. Nehrim was developed by the Sureai Team (www.sureai.de). We have already created two Total Conversions for Morrowind, named Arktwend and Myar Aranath, but unfortunately there never was an English version of them. This time, however, we will develop an English version of the project with translated texts and German voice acting.
Ok, frightened now.
The sword really looks good.
ITS THE MUMMY....only without the wrapping.
Looks more like a burned walking corpse to me...
The skeleton set him on fire. Just look at his smile... :P
IT'S THE DEVIL!! hmm did you unwrap a mummy and then set him on fire lol
lol looks like my friends mom
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Can anyone tell me the name of this flower? xD coz I have no clue
it is a flower that grows in heaven. That is why it has purple and golden petals and the leaves are just so awesome green
umm,... I don't recall the name off the top of my head but I do recognize it. Watch Alice in Wonderland (the old Disney movie) and I think it might tell the name there when she is tiny and in the garden Hope this helps
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