It's the Joe and Michelle Show!

If 'Joe the Plumber' has no other function, his is to be able to teach us what it means to be an utter and total idiot! But, wait don't we also have Michelle Bachman fulfilling that role? Maybe, they should consider a revival of the old fashioned comedy team and take their act on the road?" ----- T. H. Bonham

Community Organizers vs Governors

"Wasn't Jesus a Community Organizer and Pilate a Governor?"--e-mail response on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show" to Palin's acceptance speech at the RNC in which she praised governors and mocked community organizers.
1st Century Community Organizer
First Century Governor

The Return of Tricky Dicky?

Nixon Leaves the White House

First the Republican try to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan, as if that was a compliment. Then they begin to compare each other to Richard Nixon. What gives? Can't any of these guys run on their own legacy?


Romney: McCain used Nixon-like tactics

Will the House GOP Agenda Create a Meaner Oklahoma?

Who Would Jesus Exclude?

The Oklahoma Republican Party has announced its agenda for the coming legislative session. Their goals include the abolition of the Human Rights Commission, the "protection" of religious speech [Note: How can you 'protect' speech that is not threatened?], and a furthering of the restrictions in last session's HB 1804.

It seems as if the self-styled "Party of God" sees its mission as one of enforcing its own Purity Code on the citizens of our state. Their message is simple: "If you measure up to our standards, you are 'IN'. If not, you are 'OUT'." Why do we need to be known as the mean state, the angry state, the state that excludes rather than the state that includes?

The good people of this state must see their agenda for what it truly is: the old Divide and Conquer. As long as they can keep our eyes focused on "the enemy", and it this case the enemy truly is us, they can keep on keeping on with the same old economics, same old entrenched power structure, same old "we have ours" attitude.

Wake up Oklahoma, or our next license plate motto will be: Oklahoma--We Probably Don't Want You Here.

Woe Unto You Hypocrites!

Pres. Bush at the tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Matthew 23: 29-32
The words of Jesus:

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!"

The words of Jesus still ring true. While prophets are alive, and King was a prophet for our time, they are reviled, ridiculed, and rejected. After their death, they are honored. Conservatives try to misuse King's statement, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." They try to use it to deny economic justice measure like affirmative action.

What they forget (or ignore) is that the day King was assassinated in Memphis, he had come to support a sanitation workers strike. King believed in economic justice, and it became the thrust of his work and ministry (along with opposition to the Vietnam War).