September 14, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Lookie here.
You can see the full sized one by clicking here.
It’s a real place with a webpage and everything.
At least donations are not tax-deductible and they are not associated with any bishops. But, that the fine print on the website, not in their materials.
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Printing something on dead trees don’t make it so.
1Probably a money grab for some trumpite scum.
2This is one of the reasons why it is so hard for me to return to the Church. It might not be directly from the Catholic Church per se, but the pews are filled with people who are one-issue voters and think that re-electing this awful, awful man is worth that. I cannot countenance that.
3I received the same garbage. Instead of a donation I sent them back a prayer card that contains the beatitudes. Hi
4My husband gets these for some reason (hasn’t been in a church in, well, decades). I love to fill them out, redlining, correcting, adding facts- just never got over the love of grading bad papers. Then I send them back.
5Could this be some Opus Dopey venture by pRick Santorum? Financially he has never had any visible means of support, except grifting. Time for a document search of this group.
6I couldn’t help but notice that the document in the photo has been treated rather shabbily. I have to admit, I admire the restraint displayed by not showing it AFTER the dietary remnants of the past couple of days had been removed from somebody’s ass.
7PJ and lazrgl:
Thank you for your service.
It is not widely known that the bishops created Joe McCarthy. Now they have got most of what they were after. Ecrasez l’infame!
8Lazrgrl @5 I’m glad I’m not the only one that gives in to that impulse from time to time. One of the last fundraisers I got from the NRA was right after a story that Russia had sent cash to the NRA (and then seemingly demanded it go to Trump’s 2016 campaign, doubled), and it offered me a free NRA commemorative hunting knife. I wrote on the survey to ask whether Putin chose the knife. But we have to be realistic: the snarks and corrections and fecal matter we send them back all get enjoyed by some minimum wage mailroom worker, who never gets asked about the negative feedback, because why would they care? At best they celebrate that they “owned” us that day.
9Research shows that campaigning Democrats tend to write long, data intense letters while Rs use glossy envelopes, i.e., envelopes with images and sharp, cutting slogans that get noticed, not “letters” that are usually unread. So, in effect, the occupants of the house like this where the *Catholic Vote* mail was delivered would really only “see” the GOP message
https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1304080358628102144
P.S., Note: pay attention D direct marketing campaigns.
10The Catholic Church that I grew up in many decades ago promoted social justice. Since that time, the Church has been slowly replacing retiring liberal sisters and priests with those who admire authoritarian regimes. All of these changes are being orchestrated by wealthy Catholics who have conspired with high ranking clergy to make the Church a bastion for far right wing politics.
National Catholic Radio/TV (EWTN) readily provides propaganda for Trump who is essentially a pagan without any christian virtues. The Church is just wasting what little moral authority it has left by promoting such an instinctively cruel person.
11Flying mostly under the radar, Christian extremism is a powerful, influential and real dangerous threat to our Democracy and social society.
And I’ve got many personal stories! My friendly neighbor, who wears her Christianity on her sleeve, started showing her extremism when we were chatting about the Covid pandemic. She said Covid is not that dangerous and all the hype is a Liberal plot to destroy Trump. I told her Covid is very real and have close friends in the ER in NYC and Denver that can prove it. She didn’t budge and then dropped the “And you know America IS a Christian nation” bomb. Lol insinuating that God told her it’s a Liberal plot.
Plus I found out the President & General Manager of my local Hearst Broadcasting News station, in a Liberal town in a Liberal state, is a christian extremist which now explains why the political news is depressingly overwhelmingly Conservative.
Notice how many Trump advisors and loyalists are wearing shinny crosses around their necks. They use religion to justify their white supremacy and vise versa.
Fighting Christianity extremism with good ol Christianity video…
“‘Wake up!’ John Kasich explains to Meghan McCain why GOP voters should back Biden”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/wake-up-john-kasich-explains-to-meghan-mccain-why-gop-voters-should-back-biden/
“Here’s how right-wing Christian propaganda trained Republican voters to accept Trump’s Covid denialism”
12https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/heres-how-right-wing-christian-propaganda-trained-republican-voters-to-accept-trumps-denialism/
There’s a Facebook group and website called The Christian Left that I frequent. It’ll restore your faith in Christianity as a force for good in the world. It’s probably majority refugees from evangelical churches, but lots of faiths (and athiests and agnostics) seem comfortable there.
13And always remember John Pavlovitz.
14The domain is registered to https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/fidelis-center-for-law-and-policy,202787890/
They’re anti-Gay, anti-Muslim, anti-everything but religious fascism and guns.
15Where there is a possibility for grift, there will be grifters. That’s the law as I understand it.
16Yellowstone @ 11. That wasn’t the Catholic Church I was raised in, although there were marked regional differences. I could spell Mindzenty before I could spell Eisenhower.
In N.C. in 1963 the Catholic schools were integrated (the only ones in the state that were), but up in the Ohio Valley the church was still teaching the perfidy of the Jews.
But everywhere the church hierarchy was pushing McCarthyism. Still is.
17Harry Eager, thanks for the info. We always wondered why at least a few of the nuns in our school claimed that slave masters were actually good to the slaves so slavery couldn’t have been bad. Ya know, kids can read, see, hear, feel and smell the truth where grown ups just don’t seem to have any of those talents. We also had a priest one time who asked us if the choice for us was between death or slavery, wouldn’t slavery be the better pick? No. Both are deadly. No need to pick nits.
18Reminded me of Charles Coughlin, “the father of hate radio.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/primary-source/father-coughlin-new-deal-roosevelt
Would this be happening if they weren’t desperate to slander Biden to his fellow Catholics? And unlike JFK (I don’t know enough about Al Smith), he actually seems to take the faith seriously.
19Harry Edgar #16. I must have been lucky growing up in a small town in Montana. The priests and nuns that taught me were generally from Ireland and they had strong opinions about politics. The day that Kennedy was assassinated they held a school assembly and broke the news to us. There was not a dry eye in the auditorium. I think everyone was a liberal democrat
I remember, one priest telling me with some pride that his family had been supporters of the IRA and that his uncle had been killed in a British ambush. Obviously, he took his politics seriously.
20Yellowstone, your Irish teachers hardly came from a stock of liberal democrats. Do you know about the Magadalene laundries?
There were tears on Nov.22, 1963, at my high school, too, but we were also read the complete works of Dr Tom Dooley and were hell-bent for war in Vietnam.
It’s a big church and has some odd corners. The hierarchy suppressed Father Coughlin. But overall its effect has been baneful.
Nowhere was its oddness more evident than in the deep south, where the church had to find its minions where it could.
As a result, I had a religion teacher who was a Maronite priest who was allowed to marry back in Lebanon (although the patriarch made priests serving in the US pledge celibacy, lest the Baptists be scandalized). Father Haddad was formidably knowledegable (spoke 7 languages) but the lessons he left with me were strange. He often spoke about “the poor pipple who worship thee snekes.” I thought it was a figure of speech until, 40 years later, I discovered that there were people where he came from who do worship thee snekes.
21In my little Central Texas hometown we didn’t have any Catholics when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s. We had plenty of right wing hard shell Baptists, Church of Christers, Pentecostals, Methodists, and similar others. One guy got mad that the biggest Baptist church in town wouldn’t let him lead the music (they had good reasons) that he left it and started his own church.
So, we didn’t read any Catholic publications and really had no idea what they stood for. We did read the works of W. Cleon Skousen, though, so that must count for something…
22The South was not under the Holy Office but the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, same as central Africa. I met many people for whom I was the first live Catholic they had ever seen.
My mother was pre-engaged to a boy from such a family in west Tennessee. When she visited the family she innocently asked if there was a Catholic church where she could go to mass. The boyfriend had not told them he had met an infidel when he went away to school in the big city (Chattanooga).
Mom says that everyone fell silent and the cook nearly dropped the serving dish.
Needless to add, she had to find somebody else to become my father.
There is no one with a lower opinion of Christians than me.
23Harry, if you got a good father out of the bargain, count your blessings!
24I did. Mom told me that story last year. Saved it for 75 years.
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