On his daily radio and television shows last week, Fox News personality Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that “social justice,” the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a “code word” for communism and Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to leave their churches if leaders would not reconsider their emphasis on social justice.

“I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!”

He later concluded by comparing churches that preach social justice to (you guessed it) Nazis. Not that that should be surprising to anyone.

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What an excellent, cogent comment on this post, sir or madam. I had no idea that abortion had such uplifting opinions.

Installment 2. Previously…

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I cannot wait for him to unveil his evidence.

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Meanwhile– and you would never hear this repeated in American news– Ayatollah Khamene’i once again proclaims that nuclear weapons are contrary to Islam.

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Our press is stupid, stupid, stupid when it comes to reporting on Iran

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Jon Ralston reports the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the U.S. Senate race.

Assuming the Tea Party candidate would draw votes away from the Republican candidates, it may be just the thing Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) needs to win in a race where he’s run behind in polls for months.

Now I’m not sure that this dramatically changes Harry Reid’s dismal chances of re-election in his home state of Nevada (and of course the tea partiers don’t have a chance in this race), but what’s awesome here is that this seems like a clear sign that these idiots will help to fracture the Republican party, which is always a good thing, especially in an election year. Of course, the caveat is that the tea party folks have shown to be quite fracturous themselves, with no central national leadership or national organization, so this could just be a Nevada thing. But at least this shows that them entering the calculation as 3rd party candidates is possible.

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The biggest case for a [2 for 1 stock] split, though, comes from the perspective of recruiting and employee retention. Code monkeys are brilliant in their niche, but they don’t necessarily know their Ps from their Es. They might see a share price in the hundreds and just assume it’s pricey. What they fail to realize is the importance of the number of shares that the stock price is being divided into, to arrive at a company’s market cap. And they might not understand the simple balance-sheet math that reveals a company’s enterprise value.

Consider this: Even though Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) started the trading day at $1.38 a share, it’s not a penny stock. It’s a $4 billion company. Meanwhile, pork and transportation specialist Seaboard (AMEX: SEB) has a $1,600 stock, but its market cap is just half of what the satellite-radio provider can claim.

Why does any of this matter? Well, have you seen Google lately? Executives have been leaving in droves in recent months. Stock options are a major part of most tech-company compensation packages, so creating the psychological effect of offering employees a “cheaper” stock could help with retention efforts. Unsophisticated investors may prefer a stock meandering at $50 than one at $500, under the flawed assumption that it has a better chance to move higher.

Ha ha ha, yes those stupid, “unsophisticated” “code-monkeys.” Let’s take advantage of their dumbness. Great attitude, Rick.

For the record, I happen to think Google is a great company (or about as great as a corporation can get) and it is to their credit that they don’t follow the advice of hacks like Mr Munarriz here.

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Major hat tip to Oliver Willis.

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Pathetic.

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The AP just called the special election in Massachusetts about a minute ago and Coakley (D) has just conceded. Well, that was pathetic, no matter what the final tally turns out to be. Unbelievably pathetic. A Republican won Ted Kennedy’s seat in the bluest state in the country by campaigning against the president. See the Jon Stewart video I posted earlier tonight on the patheticness of this loss.

There are some reports that Coakley was an awful candidate. Whatever. Time to move on. Health care reform will pass with or without a Senator Brown being seated. The only question is now, will the House pass the Senate bill verbatim thus eschewing the need for another Senate vote, or will the two chambers conference (either regularly or ping pong), merge their bills and move through the Senate through reconciliation. Another option would be if the two chambers could pass something really quick before Brown is seated. Yet another option would be to kill the filibuster altogether through a change of Senate rules

Of course, no matter what happens, the Republicans are going to cry foul and say that the Democrats did this or that to shove health care reform down America’s throat. But they were going to say that even if Coakley had won, so this shouldn’t make anyone nervous or surprised. The truth is, it’s been Senate Republicans who have abused the system, turning what should have been an simple majority-rules vote into a drawn-out drama requiring a super-majority. Democrats need to start campaigning for the midterms starting today on a platform that outs these obstructionists as what they are– enemies of democracy who love nothing more than to preserve the status quo and bind us in a tyranny of the minority.

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