Re: Huck Going To Sarah’s Turf, Howard Fineman, fineman@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
WASHINGTON — Move over Sarah Palin, the mythic land of Alaska is getting some attention from another would-be Republican contender…
…He’s starring in a weeklong “Christian-based” cruise along the Alaskan coast this summer…
Mike Huckabee
…”It took more time than I thought to work out all the details,” gospel-music promoter Frank Arnold wrote in announcing the trip, “but it definitely worth the wait.” “Not only is there an incredible lineup of Christian artists,” he said, “but our guest host for the entire cruise” is Huckabee.
Explaining the rationale for his “Paradise Tours and Travel” company, Arnold wrote:
“It’s no secret that The Church is getting attacked on a daily basis by the Secular Progressive Movement. And as Christians, we know that it has to happen for prophesy to be fulfilled. At Paradise Tours and Travel, our passion is to educate and empower God’s army against the onslaught of the Enemy.”
Huckabee announced the trip late Thursday night in a tweet to his Twitter followers. Calls and emails to Huckabee’s office and to his aides in Little Rock were not immediately returned.
So, the reason for Huck’s trip is to straighten out all us secular progressives who attack the church on a daily basis. I really don’t think it is the church that gets attacked on a daily basis, but people like Huck and this zealous crazy organizer. Since when is stuff like this trip responsible for the prophesies to come true? This kind of garbage vomited out of the mouth of a dumb-ass nobody, and then gets treated like a viable notion by the press, is what makes me want to pull out what little hair I have left.
Why can’t this nice cruise be about something positive, like brotherhood for instance, instead of being anti-left like the promoter advertised? Why is there always someone to blame? This bogey-man mentality is just another reason why I cannot fathom the existence of a god(s).
To this guy Arnold there can never be enough demons out there (in this case secular progressives) to sufficiently scare the christians into tithing more. Stay on your knees, folks! And by the way, keep the donations coming!
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The Result of Tea Party Thinking?
How can anyone refuse to pay a paltry $75.00 per year when the stakes are so high?
Re: No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn – U.S. news – Life – msnbc.com
Everyone knows the story by now. The Tennessee man, Cranick, who didn’t pay the firefighting dues and then landed high and dry when his house caught fire. But, the burning question here is this: can there be a political story somewhere in all this? Is it really silly to ask the question, did Cranick refuse to pay the tax out of ideology or some hateful anti-tax spite?
Morally, I think we can all agree that the fire department and the city of South Fulton were WRONG (!) to let the house burn because of principle. There are other ways to enforce a tax law than letting a family suffer with such a devastating loss. It is sad that some folks out there have to see this occurrence to open their eyes to the necessity of taxes. The anti-tax protestors don’t seem to get it about how their streets aren’t paved with “smaller government”, but with the tax burden that all citizens of all stripes share.
It is a harsh lesson indeed – too harsh in my opinion, but this speaks straight to the heart of the tax issue.