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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Via JMG: Four Times Married Drug Addict Rush Limbaugh Defends Sanctity Of Marriage
"Now
Christianity has to be banned, and that’s where this is all headed. All
this stuff at Chick-fil-A, the target is Christianity, not Chick-fil-A.
The target is freedom of religion. [With] Obama and Obamacare, the
target is always freedom. When we’re talking about liberals, the target
is always freedom. Dan Cathy, the head honcho of Chick-fil-A, he’s not
making a political statement when he talks about the values the company
believes in. It gets interpreted that way because the left has
politicized gay marriage." - Rush Limbaugh.RELATED: We're still waiting for Limbaugh to fulfill his 2010 promise to move to Costa Rica should the Affordable Healthcare Act pass. Not incidentally, Costa Rica provides universal health care. While Costa is ranked 50th in per capita health care expenditures, its medical system rates higher than the United States, which spends the most per person.
Labels: asshattery, drug addicts, drugs, fast food, hypocrisy, religion, Rush Limbaugh, sanctity of marriage
Via JMG: Gay And Proud In Uganda
It boggles the mind, but a small gay pride event was held in Uganda this weekend. Alexis Okeowo reports at New Yorker:
“Can you imagine that the worst place in the world to be gay is having Gay Pride?” Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera asked a crowd of cheering gay men, lesbians, transgendered men and women, and queers somewhere in between. It was Saturday afternoon, and we were on the shores of the giant, cloudy Lake Victoria in the Ugandan city of Entebbe, where L.G.B.T. activists had decided to stage the country’s first Pride Parade. Nabagesera, a lesbian activist covered, for the occasion, in glitter and neon spray paint, with homemade angel wings, was being half-sarcastic. A barrage of media coverage has painted the country as a hell for gays—a place where they are suffering and being attacked constantly—and, despite the need to combat such threats, L.G.B.T. Ugandans were tired of hearing a story that ignored their nuanced experiences of both joy and hardship.Hit the link for a slideshow and the rest of Okeowo's fascinating article. (Tipped by JMG reader Joe)
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
GOP silent on Dem gay marriage platform
Fascinating.
NJ.com:
When Democrats announced that their 2012 platform would include a
historic first -- gay marriage written in as a plank -- the reaction
from mainstream Republicans was near silence.
There were no statements blasted out from Mitt Romney's campaign. The
same was true for the Republican National Committee. Romney has yet to
address the fact.Most Republican Party leaders seem...
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 7, 2012
Facing Difficulties
Do
not become annoyed when faced with difficulties. To do so merely adds
difficulty to difficulty and further disturbs your mind. By maintaining a
mind of peace and nonopposition, difficulties will naturally fall away.
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- Master Sheng-yen, "Nonopposition"
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Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 7, 2012
Facing Difficulties
Do
not become annoyed when faced with difficulties. To do so merely adds
difficulty to difficulty and further disturbs your mind. By maintaining a
mind of peace and nonopposition, difficulties will naturally fall away.
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- Master Sheng-yen, "Nonopposition"
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Via BeliefNet:
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Tricycle Daily Dharma August 6, 2012
All-encompassing Mindfulness
If
‘mindfulness’ is to create genuine change in our society, it must
involve being mindful of more than just our own need for comfort, good
health, or serenity. It must entail being mindful of the social and
economic forces that allow some to prosper while others struggle, forces
that promote and perpetuate certain behaviors and thought patterns
while discouraging or suppressing others.
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- Richard Eskow, “Buying Wisdom"
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 5, 2012
The Refuge of Silence
Silence
arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of
noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees,
as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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- Barbara Hurd, "On Silence"
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Via JMG: Clinton Praises Ugandan Activists
During her stop in Uganda yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the brave LGBT activists who risk murder and rape merely by being open about who they are. "It is critical for all Ugandans - the government and citizens alike - to speak out against discrimination, harassment, and intimidation of anyone. That's true no matter where they come from, what they believe, or whom they love," Clinton said. Clinton said she raised the issue in talks on Friday with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose government has been accused of allowing political and religious leaders to drum up anti-gay feeling in the deeply conservative East African nation. "You are a model for others and an inspiration for the world," Clinton said to representatives of the group, formed in 2009 to combat draft legislation which proposed the death penalty for anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality".
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 4, 2012
Swimming in the Infinite
There is no point in being Buddhist! One does it for the sheer joy of swimming in the infinite!
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- Robert Thurman, "Swimming in the Infinite"
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Friday, August 3, 2012
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