Asshats on Parade - God Edition - Rep.Stephen Fincher of Tennessee

I am religious. The moment a US politician mentions God, s/he loses a measure of electability for me. I am not far from making the rule that I will not vote for a God mentioner. At the moment that is impractical as a hard and fast rule. If atheists keep up the good work, that day may come.

I despise theists like Stephen Fincher who use scripture to deny people food while taking millions in farm subsidies. Stephen Fincher is a Welfare Queen. Did Fincher have to take a drug test to get his check? If quoting scripture while you starve folks is not blasphemy, I do not know what is. 

Jewish law had provisions for feeding the poor and helpless, just like we do today. Jesus said that not one bit of the law would pass away. I wonder what Jesus would say to Stephen Fincher?

“When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands." - Deuteronomy 24:19

You can tell Stephen Fincher what you think at his facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/RepFincherTN08 and his Twitter: https://twitter.com/RepFincherTN08

Rep. Stephen Fincher 

"A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles--for then he is off his guard. This will often afford a good opportunity of observing the boundless egoism of man's nature, and his total lack of consideration for others; and if these defects show themselves in small things, or merely in his general demeanor, you will find that they also underlie his action in matters of importance, although he may disguise the fact. . . . Do not trust him beyond your door. He who is not afraid to break the laws of his own private circle, will break those of the State when he can do so with impunity." - Schopenhauer

I stole the poster above from Juanita Jean's - The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Parlor, a really funny source for Texas gossip, news and politics. 

Sign of the Month - January 2014

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High as A Bird - UPDATE # 3

Update # 3: 
Trey Radel is returning from drug and alcohol rehab to his job in Congress. Trey has not yet discussed his vote for drug testing poor people for food stamps. I cannot wait to hear what he has to say. I bet Trey never misses a meal. 

Want to bet drug testing for employment will go away if this petition goes viral? Congresspeople do not want to be drug tested either.

Please sign the NEW PETITION to randomly and regularly drug test Congress.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/congresspersons-both-senate-and-house-must-be-randomly-and-regularly-drug-tested/mGP6Nj5h

Update # 2: 
What would happen to you if you did cocaine and got caught? Would you get a paid leave of absence from your job? Would you even have gotten your job without passing a drug test?

So here goes another petition to randomly and regularly drug test Congress. One day so many people will sign it, we might actually get a sane and sober Congress. That would be new.
Please sign the petition and pass the link on: http://wh.gov/lKDCi 

Update: 
I did not get enough signatures on the first petition. So I have started another. See it and sign: http://wh.gov/lTPOk

I just started a petition on the White House petitions site, We the People. Will you sign it? How crazy does it have to get before we clean up the House and Senate? These folks supposedly work for us. They do not come to work much. When they do come to work, they act like they are nuts. If you did that, how long would you keep your job?

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Arrange for Congress, both House and Senate, to be regularly and randomly drug tested.

What is sauce for the working poor must be sauce for our legislators who work (or do not work these days) for the American public.

Created: Aug 28, 2013

Issues: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement, Government Reform, Homeland Security and Disaster Relief

Some Serious Crazy Here - Update

UPDATE: Cruiser Cruz just got promoted from Christian warrior to incarnate God in Iowa. Still waiting for word about Cruz's Canadian citizenship. Hmmmm.

Poster of Cruiser Cruz stolen from JuanitaJean and the Beauty Parlor

DES MOINES, Iowa — As an audience of 600 Republicans awaited the arrival of Sen. Ted Cruz Friday night at the Iowa Events Center, conservative Christian activist Steve Scheffler came to the podium to give thanks to God for the Tea Party savior — and plead for more principled conservative leaders like him willing to “be crucified for their belief system.” 

Cruz and his Dad scare me bigtime. Does this video of Cruz Senior's speech seem kool to you, Cher Reader?

We do not have kings and do not want kings in America. And who gets to decide who the "evil" are? And whose wealth are they "transferring?"

These dominionist authoritarian "Christians" are bad news. This is the kind of fascist ideology and tone my Nonno, Angelo Pietro de Angelis, emigrated from Italy to avoid. If you think I am overreacting, read this quote. It is the same deal. Adolf Hitler said:

I say: my Christian feeling tells me that my lord and savior is a warrior. It calls my attention to the man who, lonely and surrounded by only a few supporters, recognized what they [the Jews] were, and called for a battle against them, and who, by God, was not the greatest sufferer, but the greatest warrior. . .

As a human being it is my duty to see to it that humanity will not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did that old civilization two thousand years ago, a civilization which was driven to its ruin by the Jews. . . I am convinced that I am really a devil and not a Christian if I do not feel compassion and do not wage war, as Christ did two thousand years ago, against those who are steeling and exploiting these poverty-stricken people.

Two thousand years ago a man was similarly denounced by this particular race which today denounces and blasphememes all over the place. . . That man was dragged before a court and they said: he is arousing the people! So he, too, was an agitator!
Speech delivered on April 12, 1922; from Charles Bracelen Flood (1989). Hitler: The Path to Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 261-262.