The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
Happy Halloween, sinners! So you’ve waited until the last minute to find a Halloween costume for your ward’s trunk-or-treat activity tonight – and you can’t wear your mom’s clothes like you did last year, because of the pesky new “no cross-dressing” commandment. Don’t worry – your least favorite Utah blog, Telestial State, is here to [...]
Utah’s own Tea Party Senator Michael Shumway Lee, an alleged fiscal conservative, wants his Political Action Committee (PAC) to be able to receive unlimited contributions. He currently has what’s called a Leadership PAC, which is a distinction given to those PACs led by members of Congress, named the Constitutional Conservatives Fund. Money from that PAC [...]
Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where Barack Obama didn’t win the 2008 Presidential election. You can imagine, if you’d like, that John McCain won; but if that makes you nauseous, it doesn’t really matter who you imagine as the new President. Now let’s say that over the past three years President GOP has [...]
Well this is just adorable. Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Florida*, was on The Colbert Report last night. You probably missed it because you had already gone to bed. Isn’t teaching early morning Seminary when you have a hangover just the worst? For those who missed the interview last night, here are the highlights: [...]
We just don’t know what to think about Mitt Romney. He’s so close to being right about a lot of issues, but then he says something that makes us say–as they do in today’s vernacular–WTF? A few weeks ago, Rick Perry’s pastor said something about Mormons being a cult and Perry didn’t back down from those accusations. [...]
Each state in the United States gets to send Representatives to Congress, which we elect every two years. The number of Representatives a state gets to send depends on that state’s population. Utah has had three Congressional Districts for quite some time, but after the 2010 U.S. Census it was decided Utah gets an additional [...]
Well fuck this. According to a new BYU study, the… now wait just a minute. I’ve been tricked before. In the past, I’ve read the words “BYU study,” only to discover that it wasn’t a fucking scientific study as much as it was a published paper of ‘scientific findings’ that unwaveringly supported specific religious dogma [...]
We all know politicians are bought and sold; this isn’t news. But ideally, federal representatives will be bought by dirty bribe money from the state they represent—not by some outside group. And even more ideally-er, regardless of where the contributions come from, a representative’s top (and only) priority should be to represent his State as he [...]
Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank announced he received orders from Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and the Zions Bank Board of Directors (1%) to use any means necessary, including the use of deadly force, to disperse the Occupy Salt Lake City protesters whom have taken over Pioneer Park. In a press release [...]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been gaining some momentum in the few weeks it’s been going on*. Originating in New York, the movement has since spread around the country—and the world—and Salt Lake had its own Occupy rally last week. The protests are admittedly a bit disjointed and amorphous, and seem to be more [...]