Do folks know about the whole Patriot Pastor movement? It's especially powerfull in Ohio, but will be spreading to other states.

Networks of "Patriot Pastors" organized at the state level by powerful evangelical pastors through so-called "Restoration Projects" are aiming to transform America by applying the significant resources of their churches to political campaigns. Candidates for public office are judged either godly or tools of Satan depending on their adherence to the pastors' unforgiving agendas - not only on traditional Religious Right "social" issues such as criminalizing abortion and stripping gay Americans of legal rights, but also on a wide range of economic policies that would limit the government's ability to pursue the common good. Patriot Pastor leaders embrace tax cuts, elimination of the minimum wage, and even doing away with environmental and worker safety regulations on industry. This model of a pulpit-based political machine pushing hard-right politics and candidates has the potential to transform politics across the nation.

In Ohio, where this new wave of church-based organizing in pursuit of such political agendas is most advanced, the "Patriot Pastors" machine is a force to be reckoned with, and has put Ken Blackwell one election away from the governor's mansion. At the same time, activists in Texas, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere are working hard to build similar movements in their states inspired by this new Ohio political machine. Ohio-based pastor and televangelist Rod Parsley explained in a visit to the Texas Restoration Project, "I can snap my fingers and 200,000 Ohioans send an e-mail to our Ohio legislators."

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Last week, the People For the American Way Foundation, the NAACP, and the African American Ministers Leadership Council released a report, The Patriot Pastors' Electoral War Against the `Hordes of Hell'

“The typical wolf pack,” Dr. Mech wrote in The Canadian Journal of Zoology in 1999, “is a family, with the adult parents guiding the activities of a group in a division-of-labor system.” In a natural wolf pack, “dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all,” he writes.

I remember reading, decades ago, that wild dog packs are the perfect society because everyone knows their job and there is no reason for struggle because resources are divided appropriately.

The 'alpha dog' technique works with my pooch because it gets his attention (folks who have seen us work together call it my 'big voice') but I was disabused of the popular 'pack of two' notion by our first trainer who said that there is no such thing. Nope, he said, you two are a couple.

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That just sounds scary. I wonder what eliminating the minimum wage has to do with Jesus.

Before Jesus got into the whole Savior thing, He ran a small flower shop. Business was OK until Caeser instituted a minimum wage. That was when Jesus really started getting into 'free market' theory.

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Well, "blessed are the poor," you know. Be downright unChristian to keep them from being as blessed as possible. Except for that whole, "What you did to the least of these, you did to Me," thing. But that's just a Commie insertion into otherwise infallable text.

I'm looking for tips from Buffista dads or those who know Buffista dads. My wife is trying to get me to get more sleep. Okay, perfectly reasonable and only out of concern. But where to get the time?

I get up at 6:30am so I can exercise. The rest of the family gets up at 8:00am or so and by the time I get the kids breakfest and everything it is at least 8:30 or 9:00 if I need to do something extra like go the grocery store or take care of little household tasks.

The moment I get in the door after work, I'm taking care of the kids, getting dinner, doing the bedtime stuff. By the time that's all done, it's at least 8:30pm. Most nights there is a bit of cleaning to take care of so that's another half hour. To get into bed ready for sleep at 10:30pm I need about a half hour of lead time. Bedtime routine, often a little pre-bed task like taking out garbage, putting clothes in the dryer, that sort of thing. So that's one hour of time for anything else, only there are some nights I need to go get groceries in which case zero time is left. We like to watch the Daily Show together, so on those nights, I've got a half hour for couple time or doing something I want to do.

Now we're talking about trying to put together a home business which doesn't frankly seem possible with this sort of schedule.

How do other Dads do it? Are there some time management tips they have? It's hard for me to see where the time is going to come from if not sleep.

I wonder what eliminating the minimum wage has to do with Jesus.

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto Caesar's slaves... well, nothing. They're slaves. Duh.

But that's just a Commie insertion into otherwise infallable text.

Silly. The entire thing is exactly literally true except for the inconvenient parts. Those don't exist at all.

How do other Dads do it?

It helps if you just donate sperm to your sister's lesbian lover....

It helps if you just donate sperm to your sister's lesbian lover....

Well, yeah, but I don't have a sister.

Well, yeah, but I don't have a sister.

And, really, that horse has already left the barn, hasn't it?

{{Gud}} I don't have any advice since I'm, you know, single and don't have kids. All I can give are my sympathies.