Comments on: Immigrants Become The Bush Administration’s Favorite Whipping Boys

By: slouching

slouching — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:12:45 +0000

I agree. I wonder if the prison system is completely privatized along the US/Mexico border. Then they get to help out their corporate friends by shifting even more of our taxes to corporate prisons and please the racists. Damn. How can any president fix this country?

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:53:19 +0000

New Jane a couple of flights up

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:39:31 +0000

That’s sort of what I mean. There is corruption and in-boyishnes etc. in one area, but good works are done in another neighborhood. I am not catholic or part of any organized religion, so the whole false prophet” thing is a little like preaching to the choir. What I do object to is having pedophile whispered everytime Catholic is mentioned. It wreaks of antiCatholicism, in the way people will criticize the Chinese government, but then the argument can degenerate into a sinophobic discussion of Chinese people and culture. I can’t think of some specific examples, but sometimes it sounds like what boils down to “Chinese food is dirty,or Chinese people are dirty” or something like that, or sometimes people will say somehing as if the vast Chinese diaspora, including taiwanese, hongkong, malaysian and american chinese, are some sort of third column ready to infiltrate America with some sort of yellow perilishness. Maybe I am oversensitive, but it really seems that people don’t draw a line sometimes. I think we progressives need to avoid this at all costs.
I also think there’s a homophobic/sexual fear type of element in all the publicity over “catholic pedophilia.” Yes there are real pedophiles out there. But I think persons have a hard time wondering why a man should choose to be celibate. That kind of suspicion cast on all celibates is unfair.

By: Synoia

Synoia — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:36:23 +0000

Zimbabwe/South Africa, the Limpopo border migh just be gettind there.

Which tells you how bad Zim is.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:26:01 +0000

Thanks thats good know.
Isn’t this Opus Dei a little fringe though? I can see right-wing church members hooking up with right-wing fundamentalists but not for long. Fundamentalists don’t look to kindly on other denominations and faiths. I would love to see Scalia caught for something like tax evasion. And well Scalito, he looks like a pervert.

By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:16:59 +0000

mui1, I hear you. One of the most profound experiences of my life was visiting the Vatican a decade ago. The contrast between the wealth therein and the poverty in the world can be both physical and spiritual.

I recognize the good works, but there is also too much of the closed society, protect our own whatever their sins mindset. Cardinal Law. A diocese right here in North Dakota that shipped a priest back to the Philippines under the cloud of a sex scandal. Another diocese that said civilian authorities could not prosecute a priest for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from its economically marginal parishioners.

By contrast, right in our neighborhood, a Catholic church maintains strong personal ties with a Peruvian mission to impoverished native peoples there.

The imprecaution “beware of false prophets” is a strong reminder, whatever one’s faith walk…Catholic, Jew, evangelical…church basement jello-salad Lutheran….

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:11:32 +0000

South America has freed itself from the ProAmerican right wing military governments America encouraged back in the 70’s. The current Pope is suppose to be conservative but he is not doing much of anything unlike the old pope so I don’t know who is winning today.
I suppose if the Pope is staying out of Politics then the Left which helps the poor is wining.
Unless you count Supreme Court Justice Scalia he’s Opes Dei a right wing Catholic Group they whip themselves like Shia Muslims do? They are weird Self Flagellation ended in the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages until Opes Dei a new Catholic Group brought it back.
Scalia not the Pope (if this Pope even is on the power mad side I can’t tell) is the biggest power mad Catholic in power today.
I use the term power mad rather than conservative because the Church is older and because they would see America humble beneath their feet. But Bush only begs before the feet of Saudi Kings for more oil, they seem to like telling him No.
If Bush believes in the “Divine Right of Kings” then Scalia’s branch of the Church believes the Pope is above all Kings, which is something GW would never go for.

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:09:06 +0000

ot, npr just had mccain saying we will win in iraq, we will win in iraq and the troops will come home with honor.

no “win”, no honor? slimebucket!

By: David Neiwert

David Neiwert — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:08:20 +0000

A fresh post from Cliff is now on top. It takes you to the Campaign Silo.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:06:11 +0000

Trust me, I know. Don’t forget arms to India. I was a Ned Lamont supporter. I am from CT and have been gnashing my teeth since the Alito nomination. I just want Lieberman explain it out loud, why he thinks immigrants should be inhumanely detained. Then we can make chop suey instead of his logic.