I'm uncertain as to how I feel about this, and I'm curious to get more information and opinions ( Read more... )

Dear Utah Highway Patrol,

I have just reviewed an officer's own dash-cam footage of Utah man being tasered, after refusing to sign a speeding ticket. I am exceedingly disturbed after watching this... even to the point that I can't be happy at my family's Thanksgiving dinner until I have had my say. Some salient points, as the situation seems to me ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, one of the older gentlemen in my ward spoke up about what he sees as a threat to our freedom. There is a movement, he thinks, to remove "In God We Trust" from our coinage. I didn't have the heart to tell him that Madalyn Murray O'Hair has been dead for more than ten years. At any rate, it got me thinking. If people who are ( Read more... )

The Salt Lake City Weekly published this very interesting article this week:

http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/thetencommandments

Hey, I'm Joe.

I'm new in this particular community and thought I'd say hi. I try to keep myself informed on politics and whatnot and I have a real softspot for political satire.

Knowing that, I'd like to get some feedback on a little satire I recently put together.

Tell me what you think- Leave a comment  2 

I've been quiet for too long. Howbout a nice rant?

FIRST OF ALL, IT'S POLYGYNY! Can we say, dictionary?

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I have been hearing a lot of rumblings lately about this issue, which I have not been closely following. So I went to dig up the relevant facts and inform myself. In the interest of allowing others to do the same, rather than be informed by rumor, I reproduce what I can here.

Taking things in order, here is Todd Hendricks' Letter to the Editor of ( Read more... )

How many of you are excited about nuclear waste? (Whoopee!) You would have to be living in a hole in the ground, to not know about the recent controversey. Basically, if you don't get any of the energy it generates while it's being used, and don't get any of the money for it being stored here, what possible reason would you have for allowing them ( Read more... )

Someone wrote in the salt lake tribune saying church said avoid extremism either left or right. That was during the cold war. Ezra Taft Benson never joined the John Birch Society but family did. he was adamantly against communist ( Read more... )

I keep getting e-mails from the Human Rights Campaign. They're all about gay, bisexual and transgender (sex-change) "equal rights". (I call some of them "extra rights")

( Quick segue on gay issues )