The 12 Tribes of Voters

Beliefnet has a cool article here breaking down religous voters into twelve distinct groups, what they call the 12 distinct religous voting blocs in the United States. My only gripe with it is that they have one and only one niche for all Catholics - "Convertible Catholics" - apparently Novus Ordo, Trads of every stripe, Uniates, Copts and the Orthodox must cram themselves into this teensy category. Crowded and contentious? Yeppers.

But in an age in which popular secular thought marginalizes believer's reason and sanity, it is refreshing to see religous impacts being discussed.

QUOTE The Twelve Tribes were introduced in 2004 as a collaboration between Beliefnet and John Green of the Bliss Institute at University of Akron, based on the National Surveys of Religion and Politics. The premise: most political reporting acted as if there were two groups – the Religious Right and Everyone Else. So we crafted a new set of groupings, inspired by the twelve tribes of Biblical Israel, but formed around similarities in religious beliefs and practice. UNQUOTE
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The Real Reason For this Bailout

This blew my mind. Watch it and see what you think. Check out http://supportedthebailout.org and http://FedupUSA.org.

"Wall Street.No, its about Shanghai, London, Berlin and Sydney. And no, I'm not kidding.The cover was blown this evening on Kudlow. If you don't get this video into the hands of the entire American Population within the next 24 hours, you are going to be paying taxes to cover the bad debt on a failed office building - or a hundred of them - in China."

The Nuts Are Right!?

Isn't it fascinating that the so-called "nuts" both right and left wing - marginalized, castigated and snickered at by the mainstream - are RIGHT?

From The Raw Story

QUOTE Democratic House leaders were rightfully rebuked in their attempt to pass an "immoral" bailout plan that would have put Wall Street's interests above those of average Americans, said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who commended Republicans for helping torpedo the $700 billion package earlier this week UNQUOTE

CNN-Ron Paul Speaks on the Bailout

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The Powers Of Governance

For those who are concerned about a possible coup taking over our government - CSPAN from a little over a year ago. Watch carefully.

Directives NSPD51 and HSPD20, giving him full-dictatorial powers in the event of a loosely defined "catastrophic emergency."
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The directives define "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function."

It also states, "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." In other words, the president gave himself the sole power and duty to interpret the constitution anyway he chooses, and neither Congress nor the public shall be allowed to debate or disagree on such matters.

DeFazio For The People Of the United States

My homeboy Congressman Peter DeFazio of Eugene, OR (my home town, where my brother still lives with his lovely family)hits it out of the park.

From 9/29 "Don't rush into this..."