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Breaking The Real "Last Taboo" - The Things No One Dares To Say

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That, everything conservatives have stood for with their support of a free market has come crashing down. Turns out Kemp, Reagan, Bush I and II were idiots.

That, religion is indeed for the stupid and/or those who prefer fantasy to the reality of confronting our genetic destiny and mortality like grown ups.

That evangelicals in particular and conservatives in general, completely missed the boat on our global environmental challenge, and have forever therefore discredited themselves in a mirror image of the way they missed the boat on race.

That religious arguments against gay people are really just an excuse for a gut reaction against the "other," and no more logical than the biblical command to stone children to death who are disrespectful of their parents, proof again that even fundamentalists like to pick and choose what parts of the Bible they apply. (Hint, it's always about punishing someone else.)

That, we brought 9/11 on ourselves by fifty years of mindless support for the State of Israel.

That, our support for Israel is really all about evangelical apocalyptic "End Time" eschatology, not what is good for America.

That your average upscale educated and creative gay couple make better parents than your average dimwitted working class born-again overweight slobs who's idea of "child care" is using the TV as a baby sitter.

That Sarah Palin and her whole weird family really are trailer park white trash.

That, your average born-again Christian is actually quite a stupid person, a real meat and potatoes jumped-up goof, a product of a second rate educational system and/or the sort of home "schooling" that is all about bad haircuts and worse "facts."

That, churches and TV ministries are rip-offs, more in tune with supporting the Wizard of OZ, than anything remotely spiritual and that it really is all about money and power over others.

That George. W Bush is a war criminal who has just murdered more than 4000 American troops by starting a needless war.

That if your own daughter was raped and made pregnant, you'd be off to the abortion clinic so fast it would make your dashboard bobble head Jesus spin.  

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That, Zimbabwe was far better off under white racist rule than it is now under Mugabe, and it would be a huge favor for the British to re-colonize it.

That, South Africa has betrayed it's moral standing by not doing anything about Mugabe, and that the ANC now has the same moral credibility as the old apartheid regime and National Party of yesteryear.

That, as long as the progressive movement (through the Democratic Party) is in hoc to the teacher's union, we'll have second rate and frankly none-too-bright public school teachers and a declining educational system that new buildings, higher pay and a computer-on-every-desk will never fix.

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