Comments on: Praise the Lord and Pass the Collection Plate http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:08:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jackd http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-124173 jackd Tue, 30 May 2006 18:13:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-124173 <p>A further correction: I believe the $92,000 figure is for the cost of the charter. There was another email quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that indicated Abramoff and his staff estimated the Scotland outing as running something like $4000-6000 per head. So Ralphie’s reimbursement would be somewhere in that range, I would think. There’s no need to distort or mislead in showing Reed’s despicable and weaselly behavior.</p> A further correction: I believe the $92,000 figure is for the cost of the charter. There was another email quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that indicated Abramoff and his staff estimated the Scotland outing as running something like $4000-6000 per head. So Ralphie’s reimbursement would be somewhere in that range, I would think. There’s no need to distort or mislead in showing Reed’s despicable and weaselly behavior.

]]> By: roundup http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123870 roundup Tue, 30 May 2006 12:24:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123870 <p>Is it my imagination or did TIME purposefully photograph Reed to look like Hitler? Check the shadow under his nose; very similar to the Charlie Chaplin/Hitler moustache. Couple that with the dominant red/black theme of the magazin’e’s cover and the preferrred colors of Nazism and it looks as if it may be an intentional depiction?</p> Is it my imagination or did TIME purposefully photograph Reed to look like Hitler? Check the shadow under his nose; very similar to the Charlie Chaplin/Hitler moustache. Couple that with the dominant red/black theme of the magazin’e’s cover and the preferrred colors of Nazism and it looks as if it may be an intentional depiction?

]]> By: professor rat http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123855 professor rat Tue, 30 May 2006 10:06:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123855 <p>Some look to the flight’s to Scotland of DeLay and Reed and ask ‘why’?<br /> I look to Rudolph Hess and ask, ‘why not.’</p> Some look to the flight’s to Scotland of DeLay and Reed and ask ‘why’?
I look to Rudolph Hess and ask, ‘why not.’

]]> By: TF-MA http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123431 TF-MA Tue, 30 May 2006 02:23:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123431 <p>EDP - 76:</p> <p>That’s exactly the underlying Christofascist attitude. Count how many times Commander Codpiece uses his favorite code word, “He’s a GOOD man”; “They’re GOOD people.”</p> <p>That whole crowd speaks that way. Their meaning is clear. Anyone “agin” them is BAD and therefore their genie in the lamp, Gawd, will smite on command, so they hope.</p> EDP – 76:

That’s exactly the underlying Christofascist attitude. Count how many times Commander Codpiece uses his favorite code word, “He’s a GOOD man”; “They’re GOOD people.”

That whole crowd speaks that way. Their meaning is clear. Anyone “agin” them is BAD and therefore their genie in the lamp, Gawd, will smite on command, so they hope.

]]> By: Living E.N.D. http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123364 Living E.N.D. Tue, 30 May 2006 01:43:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123364 <p>Just a minor correction to your piece on Ralph Reed: There wasn’t an email from Reed to Riley. Reed’s firm sent a mailer to conservative Christians in Alabama asking them to contact Riley and urge him to vote against legislation making the Marianas subject to U.S. labor laws. It doesn’t change the point of your piece at all, but just wanted to point it out.</p> Just a minor correction to your piece on Ralph Reed: There wasn’t an email from Reed to Riley. Reed’s firm sent a mailer to conservative Christians in Alabama asking them to contact Riley and urge him to vote against legislation making the Marianas subject to U.S. labor laws. It doesn’t change the point of your piece at all, but just wanted to point it out.

]]> By: Evil Dr. Puma http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123267 Evil Dr. Puma Tue, 30 May 2006 00:35:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123267 <blockquote><p><b>Wendy 74:</b><br /> <i>My thinking is that their thinking is: Since God punishes the bad and rewards the good, we are rich because God knows we are better. So any riches we get (however we get them) are a gift from God for being the good guys. QED. Sick.</i></p></blockquote> <p>That’s pretty much the capsule version of Calvinist economic thought, yes…</p>

Wendy 74:
My thinking is that their thinking is: Since God punishes the bad and rewards the good, we are rich because God knows we are better. So any riches we get (however we get them) are a gift from God for being the good guys. QED. Sick.

That’s pretty much the capsule version of Calvinist economic thought, yes…

]]> By: Evil Dr. Puma http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123264 Evil Dr. Puma Tue, 30 May 2006 00:32:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123264 <blockquote><p>,<b>Christy 2:</b><br /> <i>Thought you’d enjoy it, cbl. This one almost wrote itself.</i></p></blockquote> <p>For those keeping notes, posting an item that wrote itself is <i>not</i> plagiarism. :-P</p>

,Christy 2:
Thought you’d enjoy it, cbl. This one almost wrote itself.

For those keeping notes, posting an item that wrote itself is not plagiarism. :-P

]]> By: Wendy http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123261 Wendy Tue, 30 May 2006 00:30:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123261 <p>My thinking is that their thinking is: Since God punishes the bad and rewards the good, we are rich because God knows we are better. So any riches we get (however we get them) are a gift from God for being the good guys. QED. Sick.</p> My thinking is that their thinking is: Since God punishes the bad and rewards the good, we are rich because God knows we are better. So any riches we get (however we get them) are a gift from God for being the good guys. QED. Sick.

]]> By: Sharon http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123257 Sharon Tue, 30 May 2006 00:27:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123257 <p>The latest issue of Ms. Magazine has a fantastic article on the terrible exploitation of female workers in the Marianas Islands–it lists the clothing companies that are selling us clothes made there but listed as “Made in America.” (This includes my favorite: J. Jill’s “Compassion” t-shirt–for every shirt, they make a $1 donation to their “Compassion Fund”–but I doubt their fund helps the young women being exploited and forced into both pregnancy and abortion because of trade policies supported by Ralph Reed.) Anybody who wants a detailed account of what’s being done in the Marianas should read this article.</p> <p>Thanks, Christy, for helping to expose Ralph Reed.</p> The latest issue of Ms. Magazine has a fantastic article on the terrible exploitation of female workers in the Marianas Islands–it lists the clothing companies that are selling us clothes made there but listed as “Made in America.” (This includes my favorite: J. Jill’s “Compassion” t-shirt–for every shirt, they make a $1 donation to their “Compassion Fund”–but I doubt their fund helps the young women being exploited and forced into both pregnancy and abortion because of trade policies supported by Ralph Reed.) Anybody who wants a detailed account of what’s being done in the Marianas should read this article.

Thanks, Christy, for helping to expose Ralph Reed.

]]> By: Mary Alice http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123237 Mary Alice Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/29/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-collection-plate/#comment-123237 <p>At last!<br /> Somebody is shining the spotlight on Ralph Reed. As someone said of an unsavory political character in the 19th century<br /> “He shines and stinks like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight”.<br /> “““““““““““““““““““““</p> At last!
Somebody is shining the spotlight on Ralph Reed. As someone said of an unsavory political character in the 19th century
“He shines and stinks like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight”.
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