tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241355832024-03-13T17:11:51.977-04:00kingston progressiveMike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.comBlogger1107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-36110799522038483822015-08-19T15:26:00.000-04:002015-08-19T15:26:32.395-04:00BROADWAY TREES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, thats right. We have a tree commission don't we? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Im guessing there's no money to do the work needed along our central and downtown business district. Do we need a grant writer? </span></div>
<br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-3401543596484879102015-01-20T22:51:00.000-05:002015-01-20T22:51:52.866-05:00LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER MOST<span style="font-size: large;">Local town boards and Supervisors, City Council, Council Prez and Mayor, County Legislators And County Exec as well as a few Judges are up for grabs this November...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will this be a sleeper or will we see some real challenges this year?</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-71534763959340691982014-12-10T23:37:00.001-05:002014-12-10T23:37:50.202-05:00end of the beginning<iframe width="460" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/o0W91FrTlYk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-17725185892774608852013-12-28T00:51:00.001-05:002013-12-28T00:52:31.683-05:00ROBBIE WILLIAMS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/o3OWZaIpEDk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes I have to post something that strikes me worth sharing. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-71039447398703753742013-12-12T10:27:00.001-05:002013-12-12T10:27:46.305-05:00HOW WE PAY FOR OBAMACARE<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CdcNLBfeTis?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br />
Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-35058295279004678712013-12-08T11:11:00.001-05:002013-12-08T11:17:49.260-05:00OLD AD STILL PERTINENT <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6yVMik5Mfwk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-73139141692694284142013-08-29T18:29:00.002-04:002013-08-29T18:30:39.281-04:00RETURN TO THE BLOG?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, It's been quite a while since I've written a Blog Post. Much has changed since my father's passing and my dismissal from City Hall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the pizzeria consuming most of my time these days, I find the need to shut down when I finally come home from work, so I have to weigh the worth of publishing my thoughts on local, state and national issues against the need for sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And no, I have no intentions of running for office any time soon. So that's not the reason for rediscovering my Blog. Lets just say, I'd like to test out the impact of Independent thought regarding the issues that face our city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See ya soon!</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-5715400187143650932013-01-25T13:14:00.000-05:002013-01-25T13:14:49.045-05:00GUN FAIL ACCIDENTS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dmtOEI7sAAs?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course these are the ones that didn't kill anyone and those with the rare video recordings of the incidents. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To date, there have been more than 1,400 additional gun deaths in the USA since Newtown. That number continues to rise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As noted on CNNMoney: <span style="color: #6aa84f;">President Obama on Thursday nominated Mary Jo White, a former
federal prosecutor in New York, to head the Securities and Exchange
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also in the article: <span style="color: #6aa84f;">White is best known for her nine years as the the chief federal
prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, a territory that
includes Wall Street. She built a reputation as a tough prosecutor,
taking on complicated financial fraud, terrorism and organized crime. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">All I know is from reading some of the resume' and testimony regarding her watchdog history, I think President Obama has chosen wisely. Ironically, the RWNJs are already up in arms about this nomination. This would be not only a well qualified director for the SEC, but also a woman appointee. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My guess is she is expected to be too good at her job and therefore a threat to some who support the crazy talk from the right. Including Mr "Bad Hair Day" Donald Trump who has some history with Ms White. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lets see if this confirmation is as smooth as John Kerry's. </span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-23221862358196285042013-01-23T02:33:00.001-05:002013-01-23T02:33:41.282-05:00CITIZENS UNITED <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E5IEEv4RVIc?rel=0" width="440"></iframe>
Like a breath of fresh air, the Congressman from Massachusetts, James McGovern has recently offered a constitutional amendment to snuff out that traitorous decision publicly known as "Citizen's United" during this extended first day of congress.
Where it goes, probably nowhere, considering the 112th and now the 113th GOP controlled House will continue to do whatever hurts Americans, so I'm not expecting the chance for an up or down vote. Still, the mere fact that this gets it's chance on the floor in daylight is still better than Virginia's redistricting vote they took in Legislative darkness last Monday.
Thank you Mr Congressman.Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-60691782974773745682013-01-23T02:02:00.003-05:002013-01-23T02:02:42.844-05:00GUN SAFETY PSA<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IouUsPsUg4Y?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-89455262361286723772013-01-22T14:48:00.001-05:002013-01-22T14:48:56.745-05:00CANNABIDIOL FIGHTS CANCER<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YBuWKiN3fMI?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A pair of scientists at California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound
derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive
cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease
forever...Desprez, a molecular biologist, spent decades studying ID-1,
the gene that causes cancer to spread. Meanwhile, fellow researcher Sean
McAllister was studying the effects of Cannabidiol, or CBD, a
non-toxic, non-psychoactive chemical compound found in the cannabis
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young
Turks.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-42525121087390673552013-01-22T01:40:00.000-05:002014-11-16T16:11:31.096-05:00NO LONGER TROUBLE TENANTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the year since I evicted CJ & Justina, they have made a dramatic 180 turnaround in their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had taken both of them into my home over this past summer. Justina was pregnant but with complications, so I offered them space here with the understanding that they would help here in my house and compensate me for the prior expenses accrued from the eviction. They did just that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I run a dry house, the opportunity to clean up the "party all day" lifestyle, was also possible. They are now both clean & sober I'm happy to say!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Living at another place now, they continue to contribute to that home, work and pay rent like everyone else. For their sake and the kids, we all hope their sober lifestyle continues. It seems my taking a chance by giving them another chance, may have worked out for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, the two unfunded wars by the last administration were actually a bargain compared to the stab in the back they gave Americans from the Tax Cuts. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why we refuse to put some of these people in jail is beyond me.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-14845331277474618072013-01-03T19:59:00.000-05:002013-01-03T19:59:12.396-05:00NY EDUCATION COMMISION REPORT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Funding and political opposition to any upgrade in test results have always been in the way of fixing our educational system in New York. So long as we underfund our public schools, we can assure that the resulting graduates, if they even graduate, will be ready to perpetuate the service industry limitations that big business conservatives advocate. How else do you explain away the constant denial of school funding across the country?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission has come out with a report that just may help. That is, unless political foes resume their tired old stance that we shouldnt fund our struggling school systems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not all of the ideas are necessarily perfect or desirable, but it's such a better starting point when addressing the very issue that keeps this country's education levels below most developed countries annually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Longer teaching days and a longer schooling year is something we can all agree on. Just keeping students occupied during the idle afternoon hours that parents are usually still at work will certainly change the mischief factor at home.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Teacher competency exams makes perfect sense as well. Even the teacher's union endorses this one. If you have no ability to convey standard concepts and encourage individual growth within your students, you have no business being a teacher.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In addition, I love the idea of School District consolidations. Administration costs at the top of every district adds a tremendous drain on the limited funding we have. Imagine cutting out most of the administration at the top and merging this group (large enough to occupy a small village) into one administration to handle a county wide school district? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Picture it: Ulster County Central School System</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X0zlwSegsFQ/UOYoZaV2-oI/AAAAAAAAFnQ/wgd7Vvv5JEo/s1600/andrew-cuomo-hofstra-getty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X0zlwSegsFQ/UOYoZaV2-oI/AAAAAAAAFnQ/wgd7Vvv5JEo/s200/andrew-cuomo-hofstra-getty.jpg" width="143" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The school buildings we are closing down today could be developed into senior housing. Actually whatever the private sector wishes to do with them so long as we sell off the property and get that property beck on the tax rolls. <br /><br />The Commission's Chairman, Richard Parsons, wrote to Cuomo in the introduction of the report that “The problem New York confronts,
we concluded, is how to replicate these examples of excellence in every
school district in New York; how do we create a statewide system of
public education that ensures that every child will have the opportunity
to get an education that will enable them to achieve their true
potential?”<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Although I'm not so sure limiting our teacher hirings to high end scholars would be the best idea. There are terrific teachers out there who are fairly educated in their field who more than match education skills through the pure passion of teaching. You may lose that if you restrict hirings to just the elite professors out there. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> In closing; Governor Cuomo is expected to elaborate where he wants our school system to address these issues in his State of the State. If there is enough political will and we find the funding through consolidation and property sales, we may actually see some movement on an issue that has plagued New York State for decades.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-76228107487397845942013-01-03T11:54:00.001-05:002013-01-03T11:54:25.453-05:00PASSING ON GOVERNMENT WORK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been asked to provide any indication that one of the awarded contractors in the program I used to manage at City Hall had given permission to re award a project to another contractor should I need to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is a text message enough?</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-88920158526293745712013-01-01T17:35:00.002-05:002013-01-01T17:35:26.101-05:00GOVERNMENT PROMO FOR HEMP<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jokV8xlJTNE?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The folks in DC actually deny making any effort to promote the production of hemp as a textile for any reason. I thought everyone would enjoy this classic.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-19910477896987434552012-11-09T11:10:00.003-05:002012-11-09T11:10:35.982-05:00FOUR MORE YEARS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-44318497340851315372012-11-05T08:58:00.001-05:002012-11-05T08:58:25.253-05:00KOLOB IN SPRING<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7q6brMrFw0E?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's a Mormon Cult Bishop running for President and most people don't know what his church actually dictates. What the cartoon doesn't address is what family members endure when they try to leave the Mormon community or anything about the odd rituals that occur in their windowless church in Utah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have known a few recovering Mormons in my time. As a landlord, I have had the pleasure of meeting many families. When the two issues meet, you can get an enlightening crash course in what painstaking measures these people have to prepare before making their escape. More so when there are younger children in the troop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Americans should know about any Presidential candidate before voting. We all know what a tough vetting process Obama and Clinton put us through during the primary four years ago. We still chose Obama over McCain in the General.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Obama has been a gentleman through the three and a half years he's served considering the crazy, hurtful and slanderous crap that's been hurled his way. That alone should indicate how right we were to elect him the first time. Who else could maintain their equanimity under such an endless assault?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I am in New York, the urgency to get out and vote for Obama is less intense, here we GOTV for the down ticket candidates trying to unseat the few Tea Party fruitcakes that made it in two years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy the informative cartoon and think about how nice it must be on planet Kolob this time of year. </span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-58406009545642410202012-11-03T20:39:00.003-04:002012-11-03T20:39:55.182-04:00MITT ON GLOBAL WARMING<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZENtH3psXl4?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-40778284483283881802012-11-03T16:33:00.001-04:002012-11-03T16:33:34.861-04:00TAKE YOUR MEDS<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zax-iuCXcWQ?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To finish out the last days in Ohio making shit up about the car companies that provide much of the employment and state pride within that very state, takes balls. Willard is delusional if he thinks this will help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you follow me on twitter you may remember when I suggested keeping a live mic around this guy at all times until the 6th. Now, I realize, the mic doesn't have to be stealthily placed to catch Romney saying stupid comments. He's actually offering these words in speeches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am astonished each and every day that there are people around us cheering this guy on as a Presidential candidate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even in New York where I tend to assume people are more educated, there are still the desperate Tea Party souls towing the Koch Brothers astroturf lines and waving "Don't Tread On Me" flags along Rt 9W in Ulster, N.Y.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May I suggest taking your prescribed dosage of Klonopin and call me in the morning.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-13982732323529201992012-11-03T11:30:00.000-04:002012-11-03T11:30:03.944-04:00MATTHEW MODINE'S SHORT FILM<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C-IHDfcQsIQ?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is well worth your time watching.</span>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-54388603932005199722012-11-03T11:13:00.001-04:002012-11-03T11:13:57.466-04:00QUESTION FOR EVANGELICALS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">FRANK SCHAEFFER, New York Times best-selling author, posed this question in the Huffington Post last week:</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to polls <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/25/nation/la-na-evangelicals-20121026">73 percent</a> of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If the polls are correct here's the question I'd like to ask evangelicals using <em>their own style </em>of language/concerns/theological thinking as applied to their choice:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><strong><em>What's the explanation for</em> </strong></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">the fact that WHITE American evangelicals made the allegedly philandering <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-anti-obama-film-muddy-facts-072153385--politics.html">lying</a> ignorant braggart lapsed Roman Catholic <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/dinesh-d-souza-resigns-presidency-of-the-king-s-college.html">Dinesh D'Souza</a>
their anti-Obama hero, embrace a pro-choice Mormon bishop who promoted
abortion and Planned Parenthood in MA, are working to elect a
job-destroying<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mitt-romney-s-tax-dodge-20121012"> tax-avoiding</a> lying flip-flopping-tell-anyone-anything-they-want-to-hear Swiss bank account collecting <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/2012-election/was-mitt-romney-vietnam-draft-dodger">draft dodger</a>
running with a disciple of the God-hating, Jesus-mocking
hater-of-the-poor Ayn Rand, for their presidential candidate and look
the other way as<a href="http://theageofblasphemy.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-corruption-of-us-politics-by-jewish-right-wing-extremist-sheldon-adelson/"> a crazed ultra-Zionist</a> many Israeli Jews fear <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/adelson-investigation-justice-department_n_1917141.html">billionaire casino owner</a> who is being investigated for allegedly making billions off the dirtiest <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/politics/sheldon-adelsons-dealings-in-china-are-under-investigation.html?pagewanted=all">Chinese gambling Communist Party-controlled</a>
outfit in the world funds the enterprise, at the very same time as
Franklin Graham sold his ailing father Billy's soul and denied core
evangelical theology by taking Mormonism off the Billy Graham
organization's <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57535071/billy-grahams-organization-removes-mormonism-from-its-list-of-cults/">list of cults</a><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Mormons.html">Trinity-denying</a>, casino-money-grubbing billionaire-coddling, earth-destroying global-warming denying Mormon bishop win respectability for his <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/15/mormons-still-baptizing-dead-jews-despite-agreements-to-end-practice.html">dead-Jews-baptizing</a>-polygamy-rooted-reality-denying-interplanetary <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2012/10/just-your-average-local-billy-grahamevangelicalmormon-worship-service/">Masonic lodge-embracing faith</a>
in an election against an exemplary modest faithful husband good father
compassionate smart BLACK evangelical Christian President who's major
accomplishments include saving the economy, ending a war, killing our
greatest enemy, giving health care to children and the poor and the
"least of these" and who has tried to <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/6501/barack_obama%2C_pro-life_hero_/">reduce the number of abortions by helping women escape poverty</a> in a reenactment of the lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Go figure.</span><br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed novelist of 4 novels including Portofino who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught
documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four
low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as "pretty terrible."
Frank's nonfiction includes "Keeping Faith-A Father-Son Story About
Love and the United States Marine Corps" and AWOL-The Unexcused Absence
of America's Upper Classes From Military Service and How It Hurts Our
Country."</span></i>Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24135583.post-8858411923105659512012-10-16T18:17:00.004-04:002012-10-16T18:17:41.800-04:00GEORGE TAKEI STATEMENT<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hH54umRbQzU?rel=0" width="440"></iframe><br />Mike Madsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527557594630435730noreply@blogger.com1