Salt City Sinner

This is a step in the right direction. Calling this a " stunner " is pretty questionable, even given the Church*'s recent meddling in California. The Church has always been a few years behind the curve, but they always seem to sense where the wind is blowing one way or another. From the Salt Lake Tribune : Hours after the LDS Church announced its support Tuesday night of proposed Salt Lake City ordinances aimed at protecting gay and transgender residents from discrimination in housing and employment, the City Council unanimously approved the measures. "The church supports these ordinances," spokesman Michael Otterson told the council, "because they are fair and reasonable and do not do violence to the institution of marriage." They also are consistent with Mormon teachings, he said. "I believe in a church that believes in human dignity, in treating people with respect even when we disagree -- in fact, especially when we disagree." Of course...

Michelle Malkin, one of the leading voices behind the so-called Tax Day Tea Party movement, has posted a map that displays where said tea parties are taking place. When I looked at it, I felt like I had seen something similar before, and at first couldn't identify where that might have been. Once the realization struck me, I thought "Well...that's AWFUL damn odd." In a previous entry , I posted a map indicating the unemployment rate by county in America right now. Compare the regions of intense unemployment to regions where "tea parties" are taking place: Do I have a clue what this means? No. And by no means is it a 1:1 fit. Maybe it has to do with population density or some other "X factor" I don't know about. But it does seem that the areas of the US hardest hit by this economic crisis are the same areas where pissed-off wingnuts are protesting the administration's efforts to fix things - to put it simply, conservatives in the areas with...