Time Magazine: “Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess”

But Walton suggests that a decade’s worth of ever easier credit acted like a drug in Prosperity’s bloodstream. “The economic boom ’90s and financial overextensions of the new millennium contributed to the success of the Prosperity message,” he wrote recently on his personal blog as well as on the website Religion Dispatches. And not positively. “Narratives of how ‘God blessed me with my first house despite my credit’ were common. Sermons declaring ‘It’s your season to overflow’ supplanted messages of economic sobriety,” and “little attention was paid to … the dangers of using one’s home equity as an ATM to subsidize cars, clothes and vacations.”

Road to November: Lamoille, Nev:

“Everyone here is against Obama,” said Lisa Lafferty, a bartender, as some of her customers, one topped in a white cowboy hat, nodded in agreement. “Most people here say he won’t even say pledge of allegiance. And then there is that weird thing with his religion.” When it was pointed out to Ms. Lafferty, 26, that Mr. Obama is Christian, she looked truly amazed. “I never heard that. Have you?”

Her fellow bartender, Crystal Porter, chimed in. “I know his wife runs a liberalist camp for teenagers, and when he gets elected, he wants to make it mandatory for all teenagers to go there. I also heard as a hobby he makes flags, like home made flags, one for each race. He has one for black people and one for white people and one for Indians.”

LOL WTF?! How do you even respond to such nonsense? It’s amazing what people will believe.

Rolling Stone: “Make-Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty”

Off duty on his Mediterranean tours, McCain frequented the casinos of Monte Carlo, cultivating his taste for what he calls the “addictive” game of craps. McCain’s thrill-seeking carried over into his day job. Flying over the south of Spain one day, he decided to deviate from his flight plan. Rocketing along mere feet above the ground, his plane sliced through a power line. His self-described “daredevil clowning” plunged much of the area into a blackout.

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