1. Pastor Stephen Broden, the GOP candidate facing off against incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson for the 30th Congressional District, gave an interview to WFAA’s Brad Watson and, well, I’m pretty sure county GOP head Jonathan Neerman wishes he hadn’t. I’m pretty sure that while I was watching the interview yesterday, I heard this continual thud that could only be described as someone headdesking somewhere in the city.
2. Tommy Lasorda said that Cliff Lee should be compared to Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson. I can’t argue with that at all. Can we keep him?
3. So a bunch of doctors over in Grapevine were busted for allegedly using IUDs they bought from a Canadian online pharmacy, because they’re cheaper – about $500 cheaper. But there’s a couple of slight problems with that, apparently: For one, some of them aren’t even FDA approved, and at least one patient says her insurance was charged full price. But one of the accused doctors said they had many patients who couldn’t afford the American prices.
4. Tom Hicks wants out of sports. And hiring A-Rod may have been a mistake. I like pie.
5. It’s Friday. Tonight the Rangers play the Yankees for the shhh. Maybe Vlad Guerrero will quit swinging at every freaking pitch. Maybe Colby Lewis will finish off the Yankees. Maybe the game will go so well that I won’t wish fervently for bourbon. Maybe I won’t be reduced to rocking back and forth on the couch and sucking my thumb. Or maybe we go to game 7.
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It’s really not that hard to find all kinds of rather strident comments and writings by Pastor Broden. He is definitely NOT mainstream. I wondered when I saw that DMN chose him if they had done ANY research whatsoever about his beliefs.
I didn’t see the interview – did Brad Watson ask him about the womb lynchings? That’s my favorite.
Bethany, isn’t it, “I like turtles”?
Not since one of them swatted Nelson Cruz’s glove out of the way to snatch Robinson Cano’s fake home run ball.
And apparently they didn’t even get to Broden thinks that gay people should be fired from their jobs, being against hate crimes laws, employment non-discrimination, his arrest at the White House for entering a restricted area and refusing to leave after being asked three times to do so because Obama didn’t invite the press to cover the National Day of Prayer from the White House.
The guy is an absolute loon.
1. Broden has been misquoted and misinterpreted as usual. It might help to brush up on your US history before watching or reading about the interview.
2. I really want the Rangers to win tonight and move on to the World Series. That being said, the pitching rotation so far has worked out perfect for Washington and Lee. Lee has pitched three playoff gems – all on the road and it can stay that way if the Rangers clinch tonight. If not, we have to remember that over his career, Lee’s ERA in Arlington Stadium is over 7.0 which of course does not include playoff games.
5. Vlad has spent his entire career swinging at anything and everything offered to him. The amazing thing is how great of a hitter he is but don’t look for him to change now.
Tea Party…best thing to happen to the Democratic party since George W. Bush.
Broden hasn’t been misquoted or misinterpreted. But he has been mis-endorsed (I figure if Sarah Palin can mangle the English language I can as well).
How horrible, Broden doesn’t want to be a slave to government, doesn’t he know this is the age of Obama?
I’m not entirely sure Broden can claim in this particular story he was misquoted. If you go to WFAA.com, you can see the video for yourself. Watson shows a clip, and asks, “Did you say this? Do you really think this?” And in all but one of the instances Watson shows, he says, “No, I don’t think that,” but agrees that he did indeed say what he said.
Just go online and read Broden’s actual writings. Then you can see that he isn’t being “misquoted” about anything.
The Tea Party folks who don’t even know what’s in the Constitution are the ones who need to brush up on their history and knowledge.
I’m still waiting for any actual examples of anything Obama has done that Bush didn’t do, but all these Tea Party people never said a word about. I guess it’s different when “one of them” does it, huh?
I’ll clarify: go online and read Pastor Broden’s own blogs and other writing he has posted himself. That way, you can get a clear, unfiltered view of exactly what he believes in.
And I’m a bit unclear on his and Sharon Angle’s “let’s overthrow the government” logic: So, if they don’t win the election, then they and their supporters – who are in the minority, or they wouldn’t have lost an election – have the right to violently overthrow the duly elected government (elected by the majority of the American public) and set up something in its place?
U.S.C. Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115, Section 2385 – Advocating overthrow of Government:
“Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.”
Let’s say there is a military coup in the good old USA and the powers that be begin rounding up some disfavored group, like homosexuals, and disposing of them, in a humane way of course. Maybe by lethal injection. Stranger things have happened. Would violent revolution be acceptable then? I bet a lot of the people here bitching about Candidate Broden would say that it is. I’ll go further and say that a lot of them would say the Cuban revolution against Batista was acceptable. At some point, tyranny requires revolution. Candidate Broden is not a nut; he just stated the obvious. I am in his district and I will vote for him.
I am sitting on the edge of my seat to find out what tyranny is being committed by Obama and friends that requires violent overthrow and revolution.