Thursday, December 14, 2017

Links for 12/14/17

https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/distinctly-catholic/links-121417
MGB:_The ability to pick up seats has to do with better national funding (no uncontested races, all funded by the DSCC, DCCC), better get out the vote/coalition building and especially the continuing deterioration of the Trump presidency and the GOP push to run Alt-Right Trump candidates. Hopefully it also includes straight talk on how much abortion is not an active policy issue rather than a symbolic one. I’ll take a fight agaisnt real racism v. imaginary abortion solutions every day of the week.

Bannon never goes where he is not wanted. Neither does Trump, although their audiences are smaller than photographed. Still, scratching that itch may feel good, but it draws blood on election day.

Fully funded pensions would be nice. It would be nicer to revoke all the defined contribution arrangements organized because of refusals to fully fund pensions and the insistence that all assets be present now for future obligations rather than a pay-as-you-go structure, which is all that is necessary but which draws less fees for people in the defined contribution business. For government pensions, Social Security should be a mandatory component, but in the end the answer is employee ownership, which gets rid of both financial capitalism and the capitalists running the company. Some kind of insurance fund is necessary to guarntee the pension assets, but it need not be govermentally based.

Silk’s questions are priceless. My answers:
1. only the body of Christ, as this is a family website
2. Jesus said that God was the God of Jacob, history’s most famous polygamist.
3. The tax exemption should stand, indeed, if I am preaching about abortion, I should be required to state the candidate I or my bishop is shilling for.
4. If the Church becomes a 501(c)(4), we should be eligible for dark money contributions from George Soros
5. I should provide a cake with no topper and should also arrange for flowers, as long as they are lillies, and if for my ex-wife calla-lillies (she hates the smell)
6. Refused to answer because of the ethnic joke implications
7. Ditto six
8. Only if I am serving at the Air Force Academy. It is an assigned duty.
9. Only if Trump wants to ban their faith.
10. You must sign, but you have to include devil horns in the signature
EC. See number 10 on devil horns

Or the Norse and pagan religions. Happy Yule!

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