Here is a list of funding opportunities for Head Start that include 'faith based organizations.' That's your tax dollars going to organizations that are allowed by law to discriminate against hiring women, gays, blacks or anybody else that the invisible monster that lives in the sky told them not to hire. Any other organization receiving federal funds has to at least pretend to hire by skill and not by discrimination. But say that an invisible monster that lives in the sky insists that only straight white men are fit for the job and laugh all the way to the bank, with somebody else's money. Yours. Mine.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."