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guillaumeb's JournalConsidering the cake case: Is religious freedom bent beyond repair in this country?
From the article:
Is this the point weve reached? Is it time for Americans to elect politicians and shape a judiciary with a much more limited conception of religious freedom?
No
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/11/29/considering-the-cake-case-is-religious-freedom-bent-beyond-repair-in-this-country/
Instant preplay of the Amazon bidding war
From the article:
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2017/11/30/instant-preplay-of-the-amazon-bidding-war
Belt tightening and wage stagnation for the bottom 90% while the billionaire class receives corporate welfare. A recipe for a third world nation.
Bernie Sanders Warns That Republicans Are Coming To Kill Social Security And Medicare After The Tax
Bernie Sanders Warns That Republicans Are Coming To Kill Social Security And Medicare After The Tax Bill
From the article:
To read more:
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/29/bernie-sanders-warns-republicans-coming-kill-social-security-medicare-tax-bill.html
And Florida Senator Marco Rubio has already hinted of cuts being necessary. The GOP creates an economic disaster with huge tax cuts for the rich, and the bottom 99% pay for the cleanup.
Simply as speculation, if Al Franken resigned, imagine that Governor Mark Dayton appointed
Representative Keith Ellison to fill the spot, thus replacing one strong progressive voice with another progressive voice.
This exercise in speculation does not mean that I feel Al Franken should resign. At this point, the timing of the charges against Franken are far too convenient for the Trump Administration.
But if this scenario were to happen, Ellison would be a strong voice for progressive Democrats, and an excellent ally and co-worker for Bernie Sanders and other progressive Senators in the fight for social and economic justice.
Thoughts?
Edited to correct my error. Ellison is still a Representative from Minnesota.
Where the abusers make the rules
from the article:
Confidentiality agreements that prevent women from speaking in public, a process that bars women from getting co-workers to corroborate evidence, secret settlements paid out of the federal treasury--all are part of a process where sexual assault claims never see the light of day, remaining confined to a rigged in-house system, with rules that Congress made up for itself.
To read more:
http://socialistworker.org/2017/11/29/where-the-abusers-make-the-rules
Good news: Resisting Trump, churches give sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation
From the article:
This congregation of 300 members has become the first church in Raleigh to convert part of its space into a bedroom.
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/11/28/resisting-trump-churches-give-sanctuary-to-immigrants-facing-deportation/
What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus
From well into the article:
I heard much the same from Byron McCane, an archaeologist and history professor at Florida Atlantic University. I can think of no other example who fits into their time and place so well but people say doesnt exist, he said.
And also:
To read more of this fascinating article:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/12/jesus-tomb-archaeology/
"And God said, let there be light. And there was light."
If one accepts that existence was literally created, it also implies and assumes that one believes that there is/was a Creator to initiate the creation process.
One hypothesis:
And also:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8847
What I see in the phrase "let there be light", is a metaphoric rendering of the Big Bang, set in language that a Bronze Age people could understand.
Georges Lemaitre, of course, worded it a bit differently, but that was in the 20th century, with the advantage of 5800 years of scientific advancement and knowledge.
The Abrahamic religions all agree that existence was created by the Creator. Some believers also believe that evolution is a part of creation. I am one of that group that believes that the Creator provided the initial spark, so to speak, and allowed what evolved to evolve from that spark. Thus the "let there be light" moment.
Others, the so-called Biblical literalists, believe that every word in the Bible is literally true.
Sanders Intros $146 Billion 'Transformation Blueprint' for Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
From the article:
Sanders and the Democratic co-sponsors of the new bill argue it is necessary to treat the recovery as the emergency it is, but that rebuilding the islands' battered infrastructure should not mean simply returning to things as they were.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/28/sanders-intros-146-billion-transformation-blueprint-puerto-rico-and-virgin-islands?
The hateful history of the Ku Klux Klan
From the article:
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2017/11/28/the-hateful-history-of-the-ku-klux-klan
Considering the messaging of the Trump campaign, and considering how racist hate groups feel secure enough to march once again, it is good to remember that racial hate is one of the foundational pillars of US capitalism and US society.
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