Tag: PEW
Don’t Go Back To Your Pew!
Guest Post by Freed Radical
There was a good article at The Federalist recently, “Dear Christians: Get Off Your Couch And Back In The Pews,” by Georgi Boorman. The content of the article is right down the line on target, canonically correct and theologically accurate, but it still left me screaming NO! What could be wrong? What’s wrong with getting Christians back in church, back in their normal, usual places? What’s wrong with restoring what the covidian cult stole from us?
Heresy alert! The problem is that the pew is religion-run prison. Huh? Yes, religion captures people with philosophy, excitement, belonging, slick music and lights and fog and video, and sometimes even the truth, then screws them down to the floor in a literal and figurative pew, inside some building which is isolated from the world we should be changing. Now that pew does not look like a prison, and the hard wooden benches we called pews in ages past have been replaced by steel framed powder coated foam padded warmly upholstered individual serving size chairs. How could that be a prison?
Anything that prevents you from doing God’s mission for your life is a prison. Even if you like it.
Surprise: Gun ownership rises to 44% of all homes
Guest Post by Paul Bedard
After a steady decline in gun ownership in recent years, more homes are reporting having a weapon inside, according to a new survey.
Pew Research Center, in a poll on guns released Friday, showed that 44 percent of the country has a gun in the house. Some 51 percent don’t.
The survey firm didn’t break those numbers out for special attention in reviewing American attitudes about background checks, an assault weapon ban or other gun issues, but it shows a jump in ownership from the mid-30 percent found in other recent polls.
CBS, for example, had gun ownership to a low of 36 percent. Gun sales have been on a tear over the past year, giving support for growing household ownership.
Interesting, those with guns and those without don’t have major differences on some of the issues Pew surveyed, such as allowing gun ownership by those on no-fly lists.
More Americans Living With Parents Than With a Romantic Partner For First Time Since 1880
Guest Post by
The impact of America’s putrid and corrupt oligarchy continues to make its destructive presence felt across the land. As we learned earlier this month in the post, Pew Research Study – The American Middle Class Declined in 90% of Metro Areas From 2000-2014:
The Pew Research Center recently released a fascinating study which showed what many of us already suspected, that the U.S. middle class has declined in 90% of metropolitan areas from 2000-2014, or in 203 of 229 areas studied.
It’s what I like to call the Hunger Games economy. You’re thrown into the woods with a diminishing capacity to work hard and earn a middle income, and if you fail to enter the upper echelons you’ll be reduced to poverty. The result is insecurity, stress and ultimately resentment, which before too long bubbles to the surface in all sorts of unwelcome ways. A strong and vibrant middle class has always provided a buffer to truly nasty civil unrest and revolution in these United States. As it goes extinct, the probability of those things rises exponentially.
Yesterday, the Pew Research Center returned to the headlines, with a detailed analysis of another disturbing trend. You know something big is happening when you start breaking records going back to the 19th century.
Pew reports:
WHEN ONLY THE COPS HAVE GUNS, IT’S CALLED A POLICE STATE
Some Americans seem to be coming to their senses. Despite massive levels of liberal media propaganda and Obama efforts to ban guns, the percentage of people in favor of guns rights is at record highs, while gun control nutjobs have seen their advocacy plummet to 20 year lows.
Of course a gun in your house makes you safer. Do you think the criminals are going to wait for the 2nd responders to show up before robbing, raping or killing you or your loved ones?
What PEW and Gallup fail to acknowledge is that Americans are arming themselves against the government. Any critical thinking person can see the surveillance state considers us all potential enemies. They are prepping to treat us as combatants. We are buying guns in record numbers because we don’t trust Obama, Clinton or any of the captured politicians in Washington DC. The mood of the people is darkening. We know what is coming and we’re preparing.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” – George Washington
PROPAGANDA & FEAR MONGERING WORKS
When I see the results of polls like the one below, I realize there is no chance the majority will do anything to reverse the course of our nation in terminal decline. It will take a complete collapse and bloody reset before we have a chance at putting this country back on a sustainable rational course.
How the fuck can Americans actually think terrorism should be Obama and Congress’ top priority? Are Americans really that stupid? WTF do they want Obama and Congress to do? Double the DHS budget? Increase electronic surveillance on our communications? Give local police more military hardware? Ban guns? Repeal the 4th Amendment?
Do the ignorant masses know their actual chances of being killed by a terrorist? To say the chances are astronomically miniscule is an understatement. See for yourself:
- You are 35,079 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
- You are 33,842 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
- You are 23,528 times more likely to die from obesity than from a terrorist attack
- You are 5,882 times more likely to die from medical error than terrorism.
- You are 4,706 times more likely to drink yourself to death than die from terrorism.
- You are 1,904 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack.
- You are 2,059 times more likely to kill yourself than die at the hand of a terrorist.
- You are 452 times more likely to die from risky sexual behavior than terrorism.
- You are 353 times more likely to fall to your death doing something idiotic than die in a terrorist attack.
- You are 271 times more likely to die from a workplace accident than terrorism.
- You are more than 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than by a terrorist.
- You are 110 times more likely to die from contaminated food than terrorism.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818
The fact Americans think terrorism is our top priority proves that Edward Bernays was an evil genius. The combination of mass media and propaganda can convince the willfully ignorant and dumbed down populace of anything. Facts are unnecessary when fear and feelings are far more powerful. We are truly doomed.
YOU WON’T SEE THESE SURVEY RESULTS IN THE MSM
More Say Guns Do More to Protect Than Put People at Risk
Pew Research Center:
Two Years After Newtown, A Shift in Favor of Gun RightsFor the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership.
Support for gun rights has edged up from earlier this year, and marks a substantial shift in attitudes since shortly after the Newtown school shootings, which occurred two years ago this Sunday.
The balance of opinion favored gun control in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown tragedy in December 2012, and again a month later. Since January 2013, support for gun rights has increased seven percentage points – from 45% to 52% — while the share prioritizing gun control has fallen five points (from 51% to 46%).
While the partisan divide on the question remains as wide as ever, the increasing support for gun rights spans across a wide swath of demographics. Compared with last January, support for gun rights increased by 6 points among Republicans and Democrats, 7 points among independents, 8 points among whites and 10 points among African Americans.
TBP TRAITOR POLL #NSA
There seems to be a war of polls out there. PEW tells us the majority of Americans think Edward Snowden is a traitor. Gallup tells us the majority of Americans think he is a patriot. E! News tells us the majority of Americans have never heard of Edward Snowden and just want to know the sex of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s bastard mulatto child.
I have a three part TBP Poll.
PART 2
Is Edward Snowden an American traitor or an American Patriot?
A. Traitor
B. Patriot
C. Who is Edward Snowden?
D. Black Boy
PART 1
Is James Clapper a criminal and traitor?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Who is James Clapper?
D. That is classified
E. White girl
Part 3
Have the President, Congress and the Judicial branches of the Federal Government committed treason against the American citizens with their blatant disregard for the 1st and 4th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution?
A. Yes
B. No
C. What time is Duck Dynasty on?
D. I need to consult the MSM for the answer
E. The U.S. Constitution is a living document that can be interpreted any way those in power choose to interpret it because they have the wealth, power and guns.
F. Mulatto Bruce Jenner look alike