tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41778530927639314302024-02-22T04:19:18.188-07:00Red Town BluesWhere progressives come to talk, vent, learn, laugh, and exchange ideas.The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-2982627513425027832012-08-18T21:34:00.000-06:002012-08-18T21:34:15.299-06:00Why are Democrats currently losing the Medicare debate!?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Why in the bloody hell are Democrats playing defense on Medicare? What the fuck is wrong with us? This is our baby, this is our pride and joy, this is our home turf, and we're the ones playing defense on Medicare? Holy shit the Obama campaign and the democratic party have played this medicare debate horribly so far! Talk about being caught flat footed! Obama cuts 716 billion on the providers side of medicare, not from beneficiaries, and yet Romney is winning the debate thus far and making it seem like Obama is cutting benefits when he's not. This is all because Obama is not fighting back, instead he's giving dumb ass interviews to Access Hollywood and People Magazine, This sums up my feelings on this shitty week........</div>
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Seriously though, if the Obama campaign and the DNC can't win a debate on freaking MEDICARE, what the hell is the point man? If the conversation on medicare is centered around Obama cutting medicare and Romney saving medicare, which is the current narrative, we lose and lose big time. This is the Affordable Care Act debate all over again. The republicans throw around complete lies and falsehoods and the democratic response is, "well that's just not being very nice."</div>
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Always leave it to democrats to lose debates that they should easily win. We assume that the general public is paying close attention and researching policy and that's just not true. PEOPLE ARE STUPID! Why can't democrats get that and when will we learn?</div>
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This is my biggest frustration with the Obama first term. He's put in great policies but none of them have really gone into effect yet and none of them have really been explained yet. We're still in Afghanistan for reasons unknown but finally start leaving late next month after nearly four years in office, health care reform doesn't really go into effect until 2014, the Bush Tax cuts don't end until early next year, we won't really get any of the financial reforms put in place until next year and that's only if Obama is re-elected.</div>
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In 2008 Obama's slogan was "Change We Can Believe In." Not ," Change We Can Eventually Believe In After 5 Years in Office If I Get Re-Elected." </div>
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Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-31431408254818522322012-08-11T15:09:00.001-06:002012-08-11T15:09:52.242-06:00Paul Ryan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>In choosing Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate Mitt Romney has done many things. He has unified his conservative base, unified the liberal base, and will completely alienate the vast majority of voters who don't listen to talk radio and watch Fox News every day.</b><br />
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<b>Let me be clear, Paul Ryan is a good and decent person, he is personable, likeable, has a great personal story, a great family, and is definitely a man of conviction, much more than Romney. He will not be the next Sarah Palin, he will not provide SNL a goldmine of spoofs, he is not in any sense a weak candidate, he won't be a national joke like Palin was four years ago. </b><br />
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<b>This pick has done the following;</b><br />
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<li><b>Romney has conceded that this election is in fact a choice between two candidates and two very different visions for America. Up until now he tried to make this election a referendum on Obama and the economy, no more.</b></li>
<li><b>Romney has conceded the African American, Latino, and woman vote.</b></li>
<li><b>Romney has conceded the foreign policy debate to Obama.</b></li>
<li><b>Romney is admitting that he needs to appease the right wing of his base at all times, why oh why would a candidate for President of the United States select a running mate that would undo the social fabric that has made America great since the time of FDR is beyond comprehension.</b></li>
<li><b>This pick will fire up the liberal base more than anything Obama could have said in a speech.</b></li>
<li><b>He risk's losing many votes from the senior citizen population, I will watch with amusement how Romney and Ryan will campaign on turning medicare into a voucher program in Florida.</b></li>
<li><b>The democrats chances of retaking the House of Representatives is greatly improved. Maybe even adding seats to the senate.</b></li>
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<b>That's just naming a few, my point is, the Republican party simply cannot realize that people like Paul Ryan may be extremely popular in their own circles, but to the broader population far right wing ideas just don't appeal to people. I simply can't believe that voters will buy the notion that the rich need more tax cuts and the middle class and working poor will be the ones who pay for it. </b><br />
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<li><b>Who here wants their parents to have to pay more for medical care when they're in their later days so that the CEO of the company they work for can enjoy a bigger tax cut? The Ryan plan calls for that.</b></li>
<li><b>Who here wants Student loan programs for their kids to become less available and cover less so the bank they bank with can enjoy less government regulation? The Ryan plan calls for that.</b></li>
<li><b>Who here wants no social safety net from medicaid and food stamps in case they fall on hard times so the Corporation that layed them off in the first place can enjoy bigger tax credits and less regulation from the government? The Ryan plan calls for that.</b></li>
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<b>These are just a few of the questions that Americans at last will have to answer. No more silly campaign fodder, no more Palin like candidates that make our political process into a joke. This election will be about the serious issues that our country really faces. And I couldn't be any more pleased. Let the debates begin!</b><b><br /></b>
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<br />Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-28614750087050040592012-04-06T21:15:00.000-06:002012-04-06T21:15:42.861-06:00Have fun for god sakes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/Sv6dMFF_yts/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sv6dMFF_yts&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sv6dMFF_yts&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><i style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: large;">My posts as of late have been angry. The whole supreme court debate over the health care law really had me to a boiling point. I'm still livid at the thought of the "tea party court" striking down a law for purely political reasons. But that's not the point of this brief post. I wish you all a FUN weekend. Let loose, smile, laugh, and do something stupid. Life is too short to take seriously all the time, advice I myself need to remember.</span></i>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-39401653833806482452012-04-06T12:08:00.000-06:002012-04-06T12:08:30.874-06:00What The Friday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBU6TD5dW-7vDoxtdZfJHGhPbobrAllDOvpT4l2AIlyrzmc5T1FxsislJkkQnLjf_8AnrW72Tb9_R29OqHg3RhpUBVHDTVhSb0hSsRLn21zeJKjL3Liu6OCW-zaO2poLIkzDtbtxufWqY/s1600/WTF1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBU6TD5dW-7vDoxtdZfJHGhPbobrAllDOvpT4l2AIlyrzmc5T1FxsislJkkQnLjf_8AnrW72Tb9_R29OqHg3RhpUBVHDTVhSb0hSsRLn21zeJKjL3Liu6OCW-zaO2poLIkzDtbtxufWqY/s320/WTF1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I have seen this bumper sticker in a couple of places and it completely pisses me off! I don't care if you like him, I don't care if you agree with him, I don't care if you think he is an ass, he is still our PRESIDENT and as such he deserves our RESPECT!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-28549845830653842092012-04-01T10:43:00.002-06:002012-04-01T11:22:11.167-06:00How the mainstreem media is failing the country.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>And every fucking media outlet I've seen today starts with the same notion, "does the federal government have the right to force you to buy health insurance?" The question is designed to piss off the viewers. Obviously the viewer is going to say, "NO!" Out of every way this law could be framed and the MSM chooses the most right winged propaganda term imaginable. They may as well ask," does the evil government have the right to force you to watch reruns of the Lawrence Welk show everyday for the rest of your pathetic miserable little lives?"</b></i></div><br />
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</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>Why else but money? They got theirs. And they don't want an educated and informed public to start demanding real reforms within our government and political process to benefit the rest of us. In other words, they want to keep their millions upon millions of dollars while the rest of us shmucks continue to fight each other for what little money is left for the rest of us. Why would they want what is a pretty mild reform such as the Affordable Care Act to succeed. To them it is a threat to their own prosperity.</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b><br />
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It is unbelievable to me that the sitting president and elected officials in congress spend nearly two years on crafting legislation that will greatly benefit the American public. Crafting a law that at every single turn a radical minority fights its passage. Crafting a law that many in the liberal community decries as "not liberal enough", crafting a law that is ABSOLUTELY constitutional! And finally passes it, and pays a huge price in the ballot box , but non the less, the right thing was done and those who spent two years of blood sweat and tears were able to go home with their heads held high knowing that they accomplished something that in the long run would greatly benefit America and it's citizens.<br />
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Then two years later a group of five old men wearing black robes tell the American people that, "ya, we voted that corporations are people, we voted to allow George W. Bush to steal the 2000 election, but we won't allow you American citizens to get quality, affordable health care on the basis of a rigid constitutional argument that requiring citizens to get health care is unconstitutional, so ya, fuck you America!"<br />
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By every account I have heard, the five conservative justices were extremely assertive in their questioning this week of the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, and then yesterday the five justices were even going as a far as saying that the whole law should be struck down. Pretty much saying that they will go ahead and legislate from the bench.<br />
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If this law is struck down kiss any form of health care reform goodbye for years to come. Nobody will touch this again, mark my words. If Obama and a super majority of democrats couldn't pass it, no one will. This stupid talk I'm hearing from liberals of,"well, this will unify the base and we'll elect a super-duper majority this election and enact single payer health care reform" is UTTERLY, UTTERLY, UTTERLY, UTTERLY STUPID, RIDICULOUS, MORONIC, NAIVE, GULLIBLE, AND ASININE!<br />
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Welcome America! To an age where the legislative branch no longer functions, the executive branch no longer matters, and the judicial branch is ruler of the land. I hope we're all happy.Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-7899905222648841922012-03-26T17:18:00.022-06:002012-03-26T17:29:42.118-06:00Five scenarios in which Willard Romney wins the general election.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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1. <a href="http://youtu.be/ghb6eDopW8I">A great song and music video from Of Monsters and Men</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://youtu.be/A33u4XMIdW4">Another music video, this one from Jonathan Coulton. It's about a giant squid!</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MCMKV6">The Kindle link for Greta Christina's new book, "Why Are You Atheists So Angry?" I'm not too far in, but it's wonderful so far.</a><br />
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4. <a href="http://www.viruscomix.com/">Subnormality, a wonderful and thoughtful web comic that focuses on interesting thoughts.</a><br />
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1. <a href="http://youtu.be/2POembdArVo">The Road We've Traveled, part of a documentary on the Obama administration.</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://youtu.be/bxch-yi14BE">Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand up? An Eminem based parody.</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://youtu.be/1pwwvBygoFA">If Atheists Acted Religious. A fun parody of religion.</a>The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-18264177575874699622012-03-20T22:41:00.000-06:002012-03-20T22:41:24.961-06:00Glad to be back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHzeu3Ig2Zlt3PefKe5vZ6LEOzy61O-QHkrbuB0T2ibl3IomEZye2LGyrW5dXCGQivhU1vDAKylmd_RG_EK_QWqwML_JypFZwB3wXFShyceFXBQ9SAqSMyFWZjcfGs1ZdE-2osRiVKMwiH/s1600/057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHzeu3Ig2Zlt3PefKe5vZ6LEOzy61O-QHkrbuB0T2ibl3IomEZye2LGyrW5dXCGQivhU1vDAKylmd_RG_EK_QWqwML_JypFZwB3wXFShyceFXBQ9SAqSMyFWZjcfGs1ZdE-2osRiVKMwiH/s1600/057.jpg" /></a></div><i style="color: #0c343d;"><b>I am incredibly thrilled to be back at it again with my comrad Rev man. I have all this bottled up liberal energy inside and I'm glad to once again have an outlet. This is going to be lots of fun! Thanks all.</b></i>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-60058708838661198012012-03-20T19:24:00.000-06:002012-03-21T22:09:53.842-06:00Can It Be? It Is!Hello everyone! You may have noticed a lack of activity over on our other blogs, <a href="http://nomastersscrow.blogspot.com/">No Gods No Masters</a> and <a href="http://blueswayedshow.blogspot.com/">The Adventures Of Justin</a> (check out Justin's latest <a href="http://blueswayedshow.blogspot.com/2012/03/coreless-man.html">post!</a>). That's because Red Town Blues is back! After some discussion we have decided to recombine our forces and give it another go. We have found that we are able to motivate each other to write on a much more frequent basis (certainly not a schedule, we are busy people and this is a hobby for us). There has also been so much political chaos lately that we just need to write about it! I am also personally excited for the goldmine of material that is forming as the presidential race starts to take off.<br />
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I am sad to announce the end of Red Town Blues. With Virgil's departure I have been thinking quite a bit about the future of this blog. While I have enjoyed writing for this project and working with Virgil, I have decided the blog would be lonely and stiff as a solo project. I thought about reworking and reformatting, but I have decided that it would be more work than just starting a new project.<br />
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I want to apologize to all of our readers (we don't have many, but I have appreciated all of you) and I would like to invite you to my new solo project, <a href="http://nomastersscrow.blogspot.com/">No Gods, No Masters</a>. This new project will continue to have my political commentary, but with the added bonus of bringing a lot more of my personality into it. I will be talking about personal stories, my hobbies, politics, social issues, being an atheist in Utah, and just all around anything I deem entertaining. I will also continue to podcast.<br />
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Again, I apologize for the inconvenience and the suddenness of this announcement. I am just as much, if not more so, bummed about shutting down Red Town Blues. Thank you all for reading!The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-92027804378313592842011-07-27T21:11:00.000-06:002011-07-27T21:11:26.202-06:00The Reverend's Rants: The Oslo Terror Attack<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My sympathy goes to all the victims of this attack, it truly is heart breaking. Please feel free to email me with questions, comments, or concerns at askthereverend@yahoo.com.<br />
/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-91692463715225102842011-07-24T21:30:00.000-06:002011-07-24T21:30:03.715-06:00Amy Winehouse is dead and it's all Obama's fault!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><ul><li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Amy Winehouse died because Obama wanted to tax her so badly that she killed herself to avoid socialisms.</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>I had bad diarria last night you know why?????? Obama!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Don't raise the debt ceiling! I'm fed up with the federal guverment spending all of my money! They should just abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Student Loans, Foreign assistance, and any other guverment spending and let the corporate powers have complete and utter rule over us all! Then and only then, will we truly be free?</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>This Norway guy was such a jerk! I'm sure it's some how because of Obama that he done did do it!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>It took forever to get to work today! It's because the Guverment can't keep it's guverment hands of my freeway system!!!!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>KILL WHITEY!!!!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>What's on E network tonight?</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>The Obama recession started the second Obama walked into the oval office and declared himself sharia law or somethin</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Glenn Beck for pres!!!!! He's a real 'merican!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>No football, no basketball? Those damn unions ruin everything! it's all Obama's fault!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>BACON!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Vote 'em all out of office! Except for the Republicans! </b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Cut spending! Except on the rich! They really need a few thousand more dollars!</b></li>
<li style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Obamacare is a job killer! Letting the U.S. default on it's debts is a job creater!</b></li>
<li><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you see Gossip Girl last night? OMG, she is such a little whore!</span></b></li>
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</div>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-78372713290054063492011-07-22T12:00:00.001-06:002011-07-22T12:00:05.148-06:00BATMAN!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRzvhBd6eBfoiGkeudcYf5SmbpdQrrY2fN8twXrmOLVQzQydv09B0DvhJnIZ_xN1nDivzxWnJUqqq9BSbqR5I8MOYRXj13OCVJoSQbDZzximYVfilTVUx48IdXPtaEetv5vweVSFqO8A2/s1600/dark+knight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRzvhBd6eBfoiGkeudcYf5SmbpdQrrY2fN8twXrmOLVQzQydv09B0DvhJnIZ_xN1nDivzxWnJUqqq9BSbqR5I8MOYRXj13OCVJoSQbDZzximYVfilTVUx48IdXPtaEetv5vweVSFqO8A2/s320/dark+knight.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER BATMAN HAS BEEN A STAPLE OF MY LIFE. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD WATCHING THE OLD ADAM WEST SHOW ON CABLE WITH MY BROTHER AND SISTER, WE ALL LOVED IT. THE PENGUIN, CATWOMAN, RIDDLER, BOOKWORM, EGGPLANT, AND OF COURSE, THE JOKER WERE ALL SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH FOR US KIDS. THE WAY THAT OLD 1960'S SERIES PLAYED WAS VERY KID FRIENDLY, WATCHING IT NOW MAKES ME REALIZE HOW RIDICULOUS IT WAS BUT AT THE TIME, THERE WAS NOTHING BETTER!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>2005 MARKED THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF BATMAN BEING A RESPECTABLE HOUSEHOLD NAME ONCE AGAIN. I LOVE BATMAN BEGINS, IT IS MY SECOND FAVORITE BATMAN MOVIE EVER(RIGHT NOW). IT HAS MY FAVORITE QUOTE FROM ANY MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN TO DATE....</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>THEN CAME THE MOST LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE EVER! 2008 "THE DARK KNIGHT" TOPPED BATMAN BEGINS AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT! IT HAD EVERYTHING IT'S PREDECESSOR HAD PLUS THE GREATEST MOVIE VILLAIN OF ALL TIME. MARK MY WORDS, NOBODY WILL EVER TOP HEATH LEDGERS AWE INSPIRING PERFORMANCE AS JOKER, PERIOD!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></span>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615952402921593167noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-56902057804705785792011-07-21T21:07:00.000-06:002011-07-21T21:07:28.558-06:00The Reverend's Rants: Heavy Rain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR7HX7m-cDoqQyKQaEUe0N_WDlaIcWyZG2kbYABJRL-QUyCrG0ehGHctCsIWkHdXfF7ehgaHsNfqhEl919NLmrYGu5c6CjEm7_Mklz9zk9OHb_E9K5m_sHni4n8ewNr9YEhc_IOGshyV4/s1600/Murder+Bird.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR7HX7m-cDoqQyKQaEUe0N_WDlaIcWyZG2kbYABJRL-QUyCrG0ehGHctCsIWkHdXfF7ehgaHsNfqhEl919NLmrYGu5c6CjEm7_Mklz9zk9OHb_E9K5m_sHni4n8ewNr9YEhc_IOGshyV4/s1600/Murder+Bird.png" /></a></div><br />
Today's episode is about the video game and interactive drama, Heavy Rain. I thought we could use a more lighthearted (I'm not sure that's an appropriate descriptor, Heavy Rain is quite the sad game.) rant today.<br />
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I wanted to also share some pics of the characters in the game.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ethan Mars. He lost one son to a car accident, and his other son has been taken by the Origami Killer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott Shelby. Private detective hired by the Origami Killer's previous victim's families to track the killer down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Norman Jayden. FBI agent with addiction problems brought in to help solve the case of the Origami Killer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison Paige. Journalist and insomniac, she is trying to put her fears to rest and track down the killer.</td></tr>
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Thanks for listening. Please feel free to email me with questions, comments, or concerns at askthereverendrtb@yahoo.com.<br />
/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-28671478477000092102011-07-19T12:18:00.000-06:002011-07-19T12:18:28.008-06:00The Reverend's Rants: A Religious Education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaMfPIZXdZ2S8Mv3pL3ag-mZV0naNj8tGIyQFoW7s2wSmUgYCULOw5RD_1c3OxoN-TaNzsfODmUnIw9xPduE2l32FzYhRgoTMfA49n0zuqOSpnfdJmYUfjXsT-NGV90pzBeY22hr9PRP6/s1600/coexist.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaMfPIZXdZ2S8Mv3pL3ag-mZV0naNj8tGIyQFoW7s2wSmUgYCULOw5RD_1c3OxoN-TaNzsfODmUnIw9xPduE2l32FzYhRgoTMfA49n0zuqOSpnfdJmYUfjXsT-NGV90pzBeY22hr9PRP6/s1600/coexist.gif" /></a></div><br />
In today's rant I talk about giving our students an education in religion.<br />
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/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-25258204214442744622011-07-13T20:06:00.000-06:002011-07-13T20:06:08.113-06:00Between Barack and a tard place!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR79Gett_AruQ2EKEHnOk8Nc9nLiDwhJbjtcr6FsZPnDtNJcQUPvtBEerwohO9hCDSN3uEOZwZcpu_j3UrnJIOZab6n0ha7JlnlG-UQfVuimyhywtLSXR_7BAhqUpGhnyfK42VNd5wxxqI/s1600/john+and+barack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR79Gett_AruQ2EKEHnOk8Nc9nLiDwhJbjtcr6FsZPnDtNJcQUPvtBEerwohO9hCDSN3uEOZwZcpu_j3UrnJIOZab6n0ha7JlnlG-UQfVuimyhywtLSXR_7BAhqUpGhnyfK42VNd5wxxqI/s200/john+and+barack.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-wUKfLXNUC_gruQkdJRyiwmAOvli3AH-5xCqTPsXIpArL2Ad9M5CLy0K0QFE_2Uvmt2_reIT0S9gg-70lxGlWdhxmjNrrIomzHGS7lOBUB-Ynrb3UhLZbUKyqvzcgWmO4Bejlc3i4HvcA/s1600/tea+party.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-wUKfLXNUC_gruQkdJRyiwmAOvli3AH-5xCqTPsXIpArL2Ad9M5CLy0K0QFE_2Uvmt2_reIT0S9gg-70lxGlWdhxmjNrrIomzHGS7lOBUB-Ynrb3UhLZbUKyqvzcgWmO4Bejlc3i4HvcA/s200/tea+party.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>You gotta feel for John Boehner at least a little bit. Here is a staunch conservative, a true blue<span style="color: red;">(or red I should say)</span> Republican. Who has worked his whole life to get to where he is now. Do I agree with his policies or politics? No! Do I respect him, honestly, I do! I believe he is a good man who is doing what he believes is right. And he is being held hostage by his fanatical base in the republican party.</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>In soooooo many ways he deserves this. If you campaign during an election season on outright lies, fear, hate, and deception. If you let your party succumb to the whims of talk radio and cable news, this is what you get! Here you have your political opponent reaching out to you in good faith, more than wanting to work together with you to govern this country in a bipartisan way. But the very people who swept you into office are demanding you to stop it or else!</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>The GOP is once again proving that they are amazing at political campaigns but are horrible at actual governance! The republican party is constantly shouting at the country how shitty and terrible the government is and then prove it once they get involved with it!</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>The debt ceiling "negotiations" Have taken a turn for the worse for Boehner! He had Obama pissing off his liberal base by saying he was willing to take on the Democratic sacred cows</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><br />
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<div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>And all Obama asked in return was for the Republicans to take on their sacred cow(s)</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><br />
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<div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>But instead of asking the super rich to chip in on the sacrifice so the Middle class and working poor don't have to shoulder all the burden of deficit reduction, the Republicant's instead have said they'd rather just give Obama absolute power in raising the debt ceiling. All they want in return is the ability to vote no and score political points from Obama's willingness to make tough decisions.</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>Either way Obama has reminded the country why he was elected in the first place. The guy picks his battles cautiously. But when he fights them, he is like a masterful chess artist! I know a lot of liberals wished he fought every battle guns a blazen' but that's just not his governing style. He isn't Michael Jackson. He doesn't swoop around making impressive crowd pleasing moves. He doesn't grab his crotch and shout"ouw!" He's more like </b></i></div><i style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Hans Zimmer, making brilliant, well thought out music but you have to be patient in order to enjoy it and the more patient you are, the more you love it......</b></i><br />
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<div style="color: #0c343d;"><i><b>In contrast this is a very good example of the GOP governing style, a few nut jobs like it. But to most of us it's just a funny side show.......</b></i></div><br />
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Liberals. We all know the stereotypes. To the Right Wingers, and even Moderates, we are seen as pansies, wusses, politically correct hippies, and other such things. They seem to have a point. There are plenty of us who worry about offending people. Who worry about being overly 'politically correct'. So why would anyone be a Liberal? Who wants to be 'weak'?<br />
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That's easy. I'm a Liberal, and I'm a Liberal because I have empathy. Empathy is not a weakness. Being able to see how people in other situations feel is a strength. Being able to relate to your fellow human beings who aren't like you is a strength. Wanting the same rights for all human beings, regardless of race, creed, orientation, gender, ability, class, etc., is not weak. There is nothing wrong with asking people to stop saying hate words. Racial slurs don't help keep us united. Racial slurs keep us divided into cliques. They make it 'us' and 'them'. Asking others to be tolerant does not make us pansies. It makes us the bigger people. How is asking people to not say those things, or to treat everyone as humans and equals, weakness?<br />
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The Right Wing calls us weak and wusses so they can try to justify their bigotry. They say we are all too worried about being politically correct so they can keep saying what they want. By declaring Liberals weak, they make it so they can denigrate anyone who isn't like them. It's the tactic of bullies. Make your opposition look weak, and anything they say seem like it's sissy, and the public will think you are strong. You can then get away with saying any horrible thing you want. Hell, we have the Tea Party going on about how they are racists, and proud! How can they get away with it? Because they make us out to be weak. We say all people deserve respect, they say that only wimps think that, and this is 'Merica! (They use a double whammy of bullying and patriotism.) It's sickening.<br />
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Liberals need to show we are not the weaklings they think we are. We aren't weak, and we never were. We have to show them that caring for everyone, even those not just like us, is the right thing to do. We need to spread the message that equal rights is just that, equal rights, and all people deserve them. We bleeding hearts need to show that empathy is not our weakness, it's what makes us strong.The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-66822164201397924962011-07-11T18:21:00.000-06:002011-07-11T18:21:53.681-06:00Michele Bachmann Is A Nutjob<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMDwZz_lT6Vl3NfPVQNxu-OoUyxfiSoOMeszjHAa2JlXw0tDGVFNUfgZCjh8D5mLClze7jbitta8oR8LxOwFOea0jiMSlyu6g5rnk-NLM4MIcyGRVXS2Oo7g1tSsgfc5dUsaZSmGpdlyG/s1600/CrazyBitch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMDwZz_lT6Vl3NfPVQNxu-OoUyxfiSoOMeszjHAa2JlXw0tDGVFNUfgZCjh8D5mLClze7jbitta8oR8LxOwFOea0jiMSlyu6g5rnk-NLM4MIcyGRVXS2Oo7g1tSsgfc5dUsaZSmGpdlyG/s320/CrazyBitch.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br />
This is Michele Bachmann, and she is a nutjob. She recently signed a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Family-Leader-Presidential-Pledge.pdf">pledge from THE FAMiLY LEADER</a>, and let me tell you, it's pretty messed up.<br />
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The pledge states that,<br />
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<ul><li>1 million children in the U.S. suffer from their parents getting divorced. (Because the parents need to live in misery, apparently, to protect the delicate child. More on that in a moment.)</li>
<li>The taxpayer is out over 112 billion dollars because of divorce.</li>
<li>Social protections for women and children are evaporating.</li>
<li>And for this one, I'm going to quote the document directly. </li>
</ul><blockquote>"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."</blockquote>After it states these thing, it gets to the vows. The signer vows...<br />
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<ul><li>Fidelity to their spouse.</li>
<li>Respect for others marriages (As long as they are straight marriages).</li>
<li>Fidelity to the Constitution.</li>
<li>"Vigorous Opposition" to changing the definition of marriage from "one man and one woman".</li>
<li>Support marriage law reform to remove "quickie divorces".</li>
<li>Support legal defenses for the Defense Of Marriage Act.</li>
<li>"Steadfast Embrace" to add an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as "one man and one woman".</li>
<li>Protecting women and children by removing prostitution, human trafficking, abortion, pornography, and promiscuity.</li>
<li>Making it so women the military are not allowed into any kind of combat role, to protect them, of course.</li>
<li>"Rejection of Sharia Islam and all other anti-woman, anti-human rights forms of totalitarian control".</li>
<li>Recognizing that women need to make lots of babies for the good of the U.S.A.</li>
<li>Fierce defense of the First Amendment, as long as no one is using it to offend the faithful.</li>
</ul>I read all of this document, and holy shit, it's crazy. I'm going to break down the biggest problems I see with the entire thing.<br />
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First is the fact that they make a big deal that people get divorced. They pull out the old favorite, "Think of the children!" Because when parents get divorced, children might be subject to the real world. I'm sure that there is damage done when there is a divorce, but there is always more damage when people stay together "for the children". If parents aren't happy together, there is no reason to stay together. Period. A pursuit of happiness is part of our Declaration of Independence.<br />
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Second, yes national protections for women and children are evaporating. They are evaporating because of groups like this one!<br />
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Next is the the whole slavery thing. What the fuck? Are they seriously suggesting that an African-American child was better off in slavery? Are they really forgetting how slavery broke apart families? Are they trying to say that Obama is somehow responsible for any of it? For fuck's sake!<br />
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The vows are equally stupid.<br />
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Vowing to respect other people's marriage, so long as they are straight marriages? Did she not before? Why can't we respect gay marriages? This is ridiculous.<br />
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Opposition to changing the definition of marriage? Why would that be a good thing? Homosexuals are people too, and they are citizens (A fact that I rank lower than being a person). They deserve equal rights and protections under the law. Their marriage will not disrupt yours. If you don't like gay marriage, don't have one!<br />
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Removing the ability for people to have "quickie divorces" would make so many problems. Some people get married on a whim, or without much thought, or too young. These people may find that they aren't compatible, or that they weren't ready. Why should we force them to be anchored to each other? This would only help to promote unhappiness and misery.<br />
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She also vows to remove anything that may taint the innocence of children. Up to, and including; abortion, pornography, and promiscuity. First, pornography is not a social evil. I've said as much <a href="http://redtownblues.blogspot.com/2011/06/reverends-rants-porn-p0rn-pr0n.html">before</a>. Second, promiscuity is not a social evil. If people like to have sex, let them! As long as it's consenting adults, then the number of partners they have is no ones business, and it won't effect anyone else. Third, abortion. They claim that women's rights are evaporating, and to help renew them we need to remove more. Reproductive rights are essential to equal rights for women. If we start forcing to women to have children we become monsters.<br />
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Making it so women in the military can't be in any kind of combat position, for "protection", does not help to grant them equal rights. These women joined the military, went through all the training, and have earned their positions. How dare you vow to take that away from them?<br />
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This next part is, personally, the most hilarious/disgusting. They say they want to make sure Sharia law is never in place, so women's rights and other human rights won't be violated. So, Christian Dominionism is all about equal rights for all? They have already shown to be completely unwilling to grant equal rights, how utterly ironic to say that they don't want someone else to come take your rights away. What they are really saying is that they don't want Islam to do it when Christianity is completely capable.<br />
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The more I read this thing and the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Michele Bachmann has, by signing this Presidential Pledge, proven that she is a complete nutjob. She has shown that she hates; homosexuals, non-Christians, African-Americans, women, equality, and pretty much anyone who isn't just like her. She isn't fit to lead this country, and I find it sickening that she even has a chance to get into the Presidential race. She hates other people's freedoms. She will never look out for anyone who isn't a white fundamentalist Christian. Michele Bachmann will never be able to be the leader of this whole country, because she doesn't care about the whole country. She cares about Michele Bachmann, and those like her. We need a President that is able to empathize with other human beings. We don't need Michele eroding our freedoms, and preventing other citizens from getting theirs.The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-6622119304541909442011-07-08T20:26:00.002-06:002011-07-08T20:40:49.312-06:00Would you like jam with that toast??<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This is somewhat of a sequel to my <a href="http://redtownblues.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-toast-enjoy-him-while-you-can.html">Obama's toast, enjoy him while you can!</a> post. <br />
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<div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Today was the final nail in the coffin! To all Obama supporters, he's done, finished, gone! Accept it. The American people are too obsessed with tabloids and fluff to have the knowledge required to realize that this bad economy is not his fault. </span></b></i></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">No doubt the top CEO's of corporations and their hedge fund managers were all giving each other high fives when the unemployment numbers came out today. Only 18,000 jobs created(100,000 was expected) and the unemployment rate jumped up to 9.2 percent.</span></b></i></div><br />
<div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Obama will not be re-elected! His own liberal base hates him(many have said they will not support him), the republican voters will turn out in droves to defeat him regardless of who the republican nominee is, corporations will be able to influence the general public into voting for their republican puppets, unions have been weakened state to state, and the independent voter is too busy watching "American Idol" and "Gossip Girl" to know what the hell is going on!</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">So we need to realize that the REAL presidential election is going on right now. The republican primary, whoever wins will be the next president! One of these next three people will be the next President...</span></b></i></div>1. Mitt Romney <br />
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Thanks for listening! Please feel free to email me with questions, comments, or concerns at askthereverendrtb@yahoo.com.<br />
/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-16322982917323427132011-07-06T19:59:00.001-06:002011-07-06T22:22:09.376-06:00Virgil's July 4th celebration!<i style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It was recently reported that democrats don't enjoy July 4th celebrations as much a republicans do. That's nonsense! Watch how much fun I was having surrounded by my Tea Bagging Mormon neighbors in Utah at the Independence Day celebrations!!!!</span></b></i><br />
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Thanks for listening! Feel free to email me with questions, comments, or concerns at askthereverendrtb@yahoo.com.<br />
/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-8668458157501809402011-07-02T20:06:00.000-06:002011-07-02T20:06:15.213-06:00Changing Our Look!We here at Red Town Blues are dedicated to bringing you exciting posts. We are also dedicated to making it look good while we do it, and so we have begun a redesigning of the blog. We are hoping to make it more unique, more 'Red Town Blues' if you will. The changes are, for the most part, aesthetic. We have added a few new pages (About, Guest Authors) and we will be changing more things as we go, so look forward to a few more design changes in the near future. Hopefully this fixes the cluster we had going, makes things easier to navigate, and doesn't assault the optic nerves. Let us know if we have failed to make it look sleeker, and instead have made a mockery of design principles!The Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177853092763931430.post-63546823121922604402011-07-02T18:40:00.000-06:002011-07-02T18:40:55.756-06:00The Reverend's Rants: Mormon Cursing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxfTCRhwkQhMHSjEwJOQUVfqYWLqCUS6X3MSy9GDngoTKMhZEnCfmmGxPg2rT5NwpQf0aNu0W4bxrPMW53ihr2aDN1eT-SC-pS6ovd66fq94qAXU501HrgyyqnnTeeONV4B_eINGzNPgi/s1600/swearing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxfTCRhwkQhMHSjEwJOQUVfqYWLqCUS6X3MSy9GDngoTKMhZEnCfmmGxPg2rT5NwpQf0aNu0W4bxrPMW53ihr2aDN1eT-SC-pS6ovd66fq94qAXU501HrgyyqnnTeeONV4B_eINGzNPgi/s320/swearing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Here is the long awaited late episode! It's a short one, but it's something that truly irks the shit out of me.<br />
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Bonus episode coming sometime before Tuesday! Thanks for listening!<br />
/rantThe Reverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845183322947666476noreply@blogger.com9