You’ll Believe God is a Woman

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

While fundamentalist evangelical Christians are outraged over the notion that their God might be a woman (because, God forbid, complementarianism, y’all), they are focusing more on “God is a woman” than on a woman communicating her desires to her partner and promising to fulfill the partner’s desires in return. They are focusing on the outrage that their deity may be portrayed as a woman, someone who is commanded in the Pauline epistles to submit to the husband’s authority and to remain silent in church. They aren’t focusing on Ariana Grande’s encouragement of women to communicate with their partners as equals.

From my perspective, if some Evangelical teenagers listen to this song, I hope that the message of equality gets through to them.

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I Could Have Told Them This Experiment Wouldn’t Work

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From PZ Myers:

When I was in high school, and also part of college, I spent my summers working in a wholesale nursery as a menial laborer. It was all stoop labor — “there’s 10 acres of pots of kinnikinnick, go weed them all” — and of course once you finished it all, you’d start over again because a new crop of weeds was sprouting. So I spent long days in the sun, bent over, scraping popweeds out of containers. It’s not a job I’d wish on anyone, but it’s partly how I paid for college.

Now I’m reading that, in 1965, the US government had a brilliant idea for replacing those darned Mexicans who were doing all that farm labor: pay high school students to do it for minimum wage. Thousands of students took the offer.

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Trump Forced to Back Down on His Disrespect for McCain

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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

I did not always agree with the political stances taken by Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), but I respected him. He was honest, and I believe he tried to always do what he thought was best for the country — and he served heroically in our military. He deserved full honors on his passing. And I think most Americans of all political persuasions agree with that.

Unfortunately, the present occupant of our White House is a small-minded man who cannot put aside his personal grudges to honor a man who served his country. He thought he could continue to show his disrespect for Senator McCain after his death.

It was bad enough that instead of giving a tribute to the senator from his own party (as other politicians of both parties did), he did a two-sentence tweet of condolences to McCain’s family, then repeated that in an Instagram sporting his own picture (instead of McCain’s). His staff had written a tribute of McCain for Trump, but he refused to give it.

But perhaps the most disrespectful was Trump premature raising of the White House flag.

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Because The Hewitt Cyborg Cannot Process Basic Human Emotions…

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From driftglass:

From Raw Story:

Hugh Hewitt claims Trump just forgot to fly flag at half staff for McCain: ‘It’s an egregious oversight’

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt opined that the White House had not flown its U.S. flag half staff on Monday because of a simple “oversight.”

The White House on Monday broke protocol by fully raising its flag less than 48 hours after the death of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

During a panel discussion on MSNBC, host Craig Melvin wondered why President Donald Trump had not issued a proclamation to keep the flag lowered….

Craig Melvin wonders why President Stupid had not issued a proclamation.

Do you know what I wonder? I wonder why MSNBC is still putting Hugh Hewitt in front of a camera and asking his opinion about anything.

Actually, that’s not true. I don’t wonder at all.

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WH, in Moving Statement, Honors Woman Who Called Obama An Arab

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From The Onion:

WASHINGTON—In a timely tribute to a woman they are calling a fearless American hero, the White House released a statement Monday recognizing and honoring the woman who called then-presidential candidate Barack Obama an Arab during a town hall event in 2008. “It is with great reverence that we celebrate the courage, life, and work of the woman who told John McCain at a 2008 campaign rally that she couldn’t trust Barack Obama because he was an Arab,” the statement read in part.

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What Will It Take?

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From Iron Knee at Political Irony:

I’m not really upset at Donald Trump. I mean, he is who he is and he doesn’t even hide the fact that he is a racist who only cares about himself. What bothers me are the one-third of Americans who continue to support him no matter what happens.

If his supporters were around 15% or less, I wouldn’t care. Traditionally almost anyone can find that many Americans to support them, no matter how crazy they are.

My question is, what will it take for ardent Trump supporters to stop supporting him?

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Resignation Syndrome

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From The Moderate Voice:

I had never heard of the term Resignation Syndrome until very recently. But when I came face to face with a child suffering from Resignation Syndrome, I recognized it immediately from something I encountered many times in the past. Currently it is impacting mainly refugee children. It was first recognized as a medical condition in Sweden, impacting children of refugees whose families were turned down for asylum.

What commonly happens is when the family and child hear this news, the child starts to shut down psychologically thinking Life is hopeless since they will be forced to return to the terrible conditions they just left. In the face of this trauma, the child takes to bed abandoning food and drink and entering a catatonic state where even painful stimuli do not arouse them. This is obviously a very serious medical condition as the child needs feeding tubes and saline drips to stay alive.

What brought this medical condition to the forefront of my mind was the ex-Honduran family that has worked at our home since 1994. As I have mentioned in the past, some members of this family are Green Card holders, some U.S. citizens, some illegal and one 9 year girl who is a “dreamer”. This is pretty typical of extended immigrant families as it takes years to work through all the ins and outs of our immigration system. She has been in the U.S since she was 2 years old.

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