So Romney really didn’t pay taxes for 15 years after all. Guess who helped him cover his tracks?

If you guessed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, dingdingdingdingding, you’re right!

The truth about Mitt Romney's "charitable" donations →

Here, via Forbes, is a breakdown of where the Tyler Charitable Foundation has given the more than $7 million it doled out since 2000:

1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: $4,781,000
2. Brigham Young University: $525,000
3. The United Way: $177,000
4. Right to Play: $111,500
5. The George W. Bush Library: $100,000
6. Operation Kids: $85,000
7. Center For Treatment of Pediatric MS: $75,000
8. Harvard Business School: $70,000
9. City Year: $65,000
10. Deseret International: $50,000
Weber State University: $50,000

As you can see, the majority of the funding goes to the Mormon church. The second-biggest recipient is the Mormon university that Romney attended. Other recipients include Romney’s former business school, and the library of the former president he has an incentive to curry favor with. In all, it is clear that Romney’s donations are about taking care of his own and advancing his personal interests. Relative to his vast wealth, he has given relatively little to programs that assist those truly in need.

Donations to religious organizations are considered “charitable contributions” for tax purposes. So are private schools. But that doesn’t mean that giving your church money for a new stained glass window or helping your alma mater build a new swimming pool is charity in the colloquial sense.

The Business Insider breakdown of Romney’s personal donations in 2009 and 2010 is worth quoting at length, because it exposes just how miserly he actually is.

In 2010, Mitt Romney took $3 million in charitable deductions on his tax return, against adjusted gross income of $22 million.

• $1.5 million was a direct cash donation to the LDS Church

• $1.5 million was a stock donation to the Romney’s private foundation, which is called the Tyler Foundation. The Tyler Foundation, in turn, gave away $647,500 in 2010, of which $145,000 went to the church. (The Tyler Foundation is controlled by the Romneys, so any money the Tyler Foundation gives away is effectively money the Romneys are giving away)

In 2010, therefore, Romney gave third parties (other than his foundation) a total of $2.1 million, with a total of $1.7 million going to the church. 78 percent of Romney’s donations in 2010, therefore, went to the church.
In 2009, meanwhile, Romney’s private foundation gave away a total of $631,000. This was made up of four gifts:

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($600,000)

• My Sister’s Keeper ($5,000)

• The Becket Fund ($25,000)

• Mass General Hospital Cancer Center ($1,000)

In 2009, therefore, 95 percent of the money Romney’s foundation gave away went to the church.

The other recipients of Romney’s money are often right-wing anti-gay groups. As Raw Story reported: “The Tyler Charitable Foundation, set up and funded by the Romneys, donated $10,000 in 2006 to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which promotes the ex-gay therapy. The charity also donated $25,000 to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which opposes same sex marriage and has compared LGBT activists to the terrorist group al Qaeda.”

Romney Suggests Obama Has Plans To Remove God From Currency →

Mitt Romney put God at center stage of his stump speech during a campaign stop in Virginia Beach Saturday. Alongside televangelist Pat Robertson, Romney made it clear, in case you were wondering, that he has no intention of taking the word “God” out of his party’s platform or off the country’s currency, reports Politico. It was a not-so-thinly-veiled attack against Obama and the Democrats, who took heat from conservatives for not mentioning God in their platform. They later reinserted it.

After leading a reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in the middle of his remarks, Romney began talking about God. “That pledge says ‘under God.’ I will not take God out of our platform. I will not take God off our coins. And I will not take God out of my heart,” Romney said to roaring applause from the audience. Romney also pledged to “rebuild America’s military might” to an audience that was heavy on military families, reports CNN.

Bad mother, Bristol Palin, has a three-year-old who says "faggot" when he's angry. →

I guess she learned how to be a piece of shit mother from her own piece of shit mother.

Liberals and the Holy Bible.

joshua-garcia:

Liberals are always mocking Christians

Hyperbolic straw-man, I already take nothing you say seriously.

and calling us fake Christians

Non-sequitur: use of the word “us” has no reference point.

because we allegedly don’t care about the poor.

Combination non-sequitur (still don’t know who the “we” is) and straw-man (because we don’t know who the allegation is being made by.)

Liberals believes a true Christian should believe in socialism 

Setting up a straw-man.

because in their eyes Jesus was a socialist.

Begging the question.

Now, what I find funny is: Liberals appeal to Christians principles

poor grammar

like giving to the poor when they want to push their liberal agenda,

poisoning the well

but they become enraged when Christians try to push other Christian principles like pro-life and traditional marriage laws.

“…principals like pro-life.” Son, can you read? Do you know the difference between an adjective and a noun? Because if you can’t clearly articulate your point, why should I think you clearly thought it through?

Furthermore, Christian principals like hetero-normative marriage only applies to Christians.

They say, “helping the poor is a public matter, abortion and marriage are private matters”.

So many grammatical errors!

What liberals fail to realize is:

:?

Christianity is about surrendering your entire life to Jesus, public and private matters included.

Yeah, well, you know it isn’t the government’s fucking job to push Christianity on people, right? Our laws are founded on principals of reason and enlightenment, not on some backward bronze-aged childish superstition about magic ghosts who live in the clouds.

The way you talk, behave and think.

This is not a sentence. Why should I take you seriously?

Liberals claim that Christians pick and choose, but liberals don’t realize they do it themselves.

Pick and choose what? Morality? First off, this is just another in a never-ending stream of straw-man arguments you’ve made. Second, there’s nothing wrong with picking and choosing your morality. Somethings are obviously morally objective, but other things aren’t.

Before you point the finger, make sure your hands are clean. 

This is not a saying and it doesn’t make sense.

This reminds me of the time when Obama was at the prayer breakfast and used holy scriptures to support his ideals.

Right, how opportunistic of a president to do that. Only Obama has ever done that, right? And how inappropriate of the president to talk about his view of the Bible at a prayer breakfast, right?

Liberals loved the Bible then and didn’t complain. However if Bush used scripture to support his ideals, Liberals would be crying in the streets that Bush was forcing religion down their throats. 

Uh, good thing Bush never did that? Dumbass.

I love poking fun at liberal hypocrisy. 

Well, you’re really shitty at it, maybe you need some practice. Here’s some advice for you.

Openly gay Romney aide quits after backlash →

Hey, what a surprise, Republican bigots bullied a competent political adviser out of a job because he’s a homosexual. Imagine my surprise.