Infamous worldwide for Christian religious bigotry and Know - Nothingism; Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist family church has a law suit filed by a dead Marine's dad after a recent protest by the Topeka, Ks based group at a recent Arlington military funeral.
Nationally syndicated news network CBS is covering the church's latest outrage.
Try not to gag and read the article at: http://tinyurl.com/jlyx4
Republican primary elections, before the GOP dissolves.
Tuesday, primary election day for the Republicans in Kansas which will become a watershed moment in state history. The turnout from within the Republican party is also a bellweather to the national GOP leadership. It's outcome could send a signal joining the national tide of revulsion for the phony budget busting "War on Terror" and their disasterous cabal in the White House.
The New Isolationists are coming.
A return to the conservatives' legacy?
We have been clipping and counting the large numbers of conservatives abandoning the religious fundamentalists in the government buildings. It is not difficult to lend support to the libertarians, the old "America First" crowd who favored isolationism to cruel imperialism going back to before World War I.
It is not too hard to remember.
Or is it, Kansas Republicans?
When large standing armies were considered poisonous to the nation's financial health and a tax on every free citizen. How forgetful you Republicans have become.
When church, business or politics were a matter of private choice and not a matter of public evangelical religious hysteria.
Where the bedroom and the church pew were considered protected zones of privacy, and kept that way from the noxious glare of a klieglight or a camera flash for another political campaign.
It's not too difficult to sympathize and support the new Isolationists demanding immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and vast defunding of the "military industrial complex."
The military adventures for Big Energy combined with the annual budget to the Pentagon will approach nearly a trillion dollars, a large fraction of the total economic output of the country. This coupled with an invested wealth of over another trillion dollars by Saudis royals and other dictatorships abroad, funds that are "in" our economy, and who would want to save this mess?
Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent it matters not one bit, the national elected political leaders (and not a few state legislators) have gone Holy Bonkers with your tax money!
WILL THE REAL KANSAS CONSERVATIVES STAND UP?
Are the Christian fundamentalists running the Kansas Republican party "conservative" in anything other than their prejudice for the Christian religion?
It is widely known that gangs of illegal immigrant workers are flooding construction projects all across Topeka, the state's capital and in Johnson county, once reported the nation's third wealthiest county. How many "conservative" Kansas building contractors and sub contractors are running their companies on the cheap with illegal immigrants?
Where is the outrage among the state legislators literally sitting on top of a huge construction project underneath their feet in the statehouse?
It seems the legislators turn a blind eye to their own racist laws, so long as their buddies are making money hand over fist with cheap illegal immigrant labor.
How many illegal immigrants are working in the vast KDOT highway industry?
Why is the only "good" labor in Kansas considered the cheapest?
Why do Kansas Republicans & Democrats take any campaign contributions they can launder from companies like Westar Energy, or any number of other lobbyists for large corporations?
Why aren't there investigations into that kind of business conduct, rather than endless meetings debating science language in a biology textbook?
The idiots in the state legislature would probably have us finance both and not tell us about the results since new Homeland Security laws would prevent disclosure.
The "War on Terror" is a fraud and a huge financial boondoggle for the corporations.
And, Kansas Republicans, you know it to be true.
Instead real Kansans must also know, the once proud populist state is plagued by hypocritical self - styled "pro - life Christian" legislators, anti - abortion protesters and terrorists, the bombmaking vets home of OKC, assorted wacko Christian gun militias - the state's recent history is a disgrace to the whole state's educated and poor; we have seen and endured it all.
Free thinkers and rational minds are swallowed up in the Christian fundamentalist Republican flood of Know - Nothing nutters. Is there anything to be learned from this coming primary election?
It is time to throw the nutters out!
A once proud state that was the breadbasket of the country has lost all collective memory forgotten our proud pre - Civil War "Free State" past, the state's pre - WWI legacy of home to the largest socialist newspaper in the country the "Appeal to Reason" and the 50s landmark anti - segregationist law in public education, the Brown vs. Topeka School Board court case.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand the relation between the U. S. made bombs in Lebanon and the U. S. war crimes and atrocities in Iraq. Our nation's leaders have unleashed a high tech holocaust on a billion muslims, making more terrorists with every missile and bomb manufactured from this country. Every Kansas Republican has forgotten Abilene's President Ike's warning against "the military industrial complex", they are brain dead, lost in Bible verses and hysterical attacks on "liberals" and "leftists" while a corporate war machine robs their grandchildren of opportunity and education.
The energy crisis ahead will overwhelm every American man, woman and child in less than five years according to scientists, geologists and a rare few national leaders. The nation is more than "addicted" to oil, it is economically hollowed out, overwhelming in debt and lead by liars holding Bibles over the heads of a population of clutterfreak amnesiacs.
While the nation goes broke and sits on the edge of an economic abyss of vast worldwide energy shortages from one energy price spike to yet another - Kansans are told to fight cultural religious wars over evolution in cockroach ridden school rooms.
Yet the worst is about to come and the present foretells the future:
When a flash flood swept through southern Jefferson county last October our state's national leaders sent their secretaries and aides and promised more loans for the debt ridden victims of the flood, many were basic farmers. "Were" because they are broke and unable to grow or ranch the land.
The only "Inconvenient Truth" in Kansas is most are obsessed with their neighbors sex organs. Al Gore wasn't heard by a single Bible thumping Rapture ready psychopath.
60% of the entire country is in a state of extreme drought during one of the warmest years on record and Kansas Republicans are told to worry more about their daughters getting an abortion for an unplanned pregnancy.
The nation's military expenditures outstrip those of most countries combined and the Kansas Republicans tell us to be thankful for Ft. Riley's base expansion and housing boom. How much mental health counseling are returning PTSD vets getting before roaming our gravel roads?
The largest manufacturer of aircraft in Kansas, Boeing Int'l, in Wichita is being phased out because it doesn't manufacture military aircraft.
Kansas Republican leaders tell us to embrace more war industries, and send our sons and daughters to fight, kill and be killed, or go mad trying to stay alive - because President Bush and Cheney tell us to do "it" in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon or Palestine.
Just do it and shutup!
What gross examples of mass criminality and psychopathic behavior we have in the Kansas Republican leadership. Whatever the madhouses in DC tell us to do we must obey.
The state's Republican primaries lay ahead - will you pull the lever on the same old, same old candidate? Or, will you be able to "find" the "moderate."
It's the last stand for the Old Republicans and a possible signal to the New Isolationists.
Kansans, we are getting just what we deserve for our collective amnesia.
And the world is suffering for it!
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