Tag Archives: prayer

Democrats make significant gains, as voters indicate an abandonment of Trumpism

By Mark | November 7, 2017

Had former Enron lobbyist Ed Gillespie won Virginia’s gubernatorial race today, you can be certain that prospective Republican candidates everywhere would have taken notice and done their best to follow the same script… recreating themselves, as Gillespie did, in the image of Trump, talking nonsensically about hispanic gangs, confederate monuments, kneeling football players and sanctuary […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Parnell, Christ Hurst, Danica Roem, Donald Trump, Ed Gillespie, ENRON, fear mongering, Georgia, Greg Gianforte, gun control, Jon Ossoff, Kim Guadagno, lobbying, Montana, New Jersey, Phil Murphy, Ralph Northam, Rob Quist, South Carolina, tax reform, transgender, Virginia | 62 Comments

Keep right on pretending to pray, but not even God himself can save you now, Donald Trump

By Mark | July 12, 2017

Remember how, not too long ago, I was telling you to keep an eye on Donald Trump’s religiosity? My thinking at the time was that the more ‘in peril’ our President believes himself to be, the more he’ll feign an interest in all things Christian. Well, judging by what we’re seeing in the press today, […]

Posted in Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Face in the Crowd, collusion, con man, Donald Trump, energy, evangelical, fracking, fundamentalist religion, Hillary Clinton, impeachment, Lonesome Rhodes, morons, oil, Pat Robertson, praying, religion, renewable energy, Robert Mueller, Russia, Vladimir Putin, windmills | 36 Comments

Michigan’s License to Discriminate invoked as pediatrician turns away the newborn child of a gay couple

By Mark | February 21, 2015

During the Michigan legislature’s lame duck session last December, as you might recall, our elected representatives in the House passed something called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which, if signed into law, would give Michiganders of faith (whatever that means) the freedom to discriminate against those they feel to be unworthy in the eyes of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bay Contreras, compassion, denial of service, discrimination, Eastlake Pediatrics, gay rights, HB 5958, Hippocratic Oath, homophobia, Jami Contreras, Jase Bolger, Jesus, Jim Crow, Krista Contreras, lesbians, pediatricians, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Roseville, Vesna Roi | 124 Comments

Remember to move your money to a credit union on Saturday

By Mark | November 3, 2011

I hesitate to give people financial advice, as I don’t want to come across like Glenn Beck when he asks his followers to consult with God and then invest everything they own in over-priced gold coins, but, as this Saturday is Move Your Money to a Credit Union Day, I thought that I should at […]

Posted in Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bank of America, banks, blood funnel, CDFI, Community Development Financial Institutions, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, credit union, Glenn Beck, gold, Goldline, Greg Gurka, Gregory J Gurka, move your money to a credit union, personal finances, Washtenaw Federal Credit Union, Ypsilanti Federal Credit Union | 18 Comments

France and the perceived failure of multiculturalism

By Mark | September 18, 2011

The French government announced on Friday that, from now on, public prayer would be illegal. The move, which comes on the heels of legislation prohibiting French students from wearing headscarves and French women from wearing the face-covering niqab in public, is said to be in response to the fact that French Muslims, unable to find […]