[Kanuk Free Press] I guess the president still thinks we Christians are up on our high horse, because he couldn't pass up another opportunity to turn a "prayer breakfast" into a shot. And I'd argue this one was even worse because he didn't even try to explain what he meant.
He just took the shot, let it hang out there for a second and moved on. Sort of like ringing someone's doorbell and running, this is the intellectual depth of our fearless leader's disdain toward people of the faith he implausibly claims to embrace as his own. In the finest traditions of his friend and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The key moment comes at just about 10:00, although his disingenuous setup starts closer to 9:00. You can see that he's trying to set up Jesus as a guy who was just fine with everyone doing whatever they wanted to do, and you can just as clearly see that he thinks every Christian who refuses to accept someone else's immoral behavior is "less than loving": No mention of the horrific Christian genocide ongoing in the ME.
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"Did you know that the Crusaders took the Shire horse breed with them? Its true, yeah. Except back then it was a full 8 hands taller than today. The Crusaders unleashed these horses onto the fertile fields of the innocent muslims and the horses ate the foliage down to the dust, thus starting the desert conditions which appear throughout dar islam, and beginning global warming?
And let me be clear: The Shire in Tolkien's book lore is named for the Crusader Horse and Tolkien takes a reflection of Christendom's sins? Such as the Battle of Helm's Deep being an allegory for the Great Siege of Malta, where 5000 Crusaders butchered some 30,000 innocent muslim tourists?
Everyone should tolerate other peoples' beliefs, even if they don't agree. Except you Tea Party types and Private Marketeers, you are neo-Crusaders who should be publically shamed in the stocks and re-educated.
Now, down on your knees and bow your head in shame, as far down as you can bend, and let us pray for my forgiveness."
[DAWN] As Cicero said that "a nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
"For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Watching Mian Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's calm unruffled demeanour of late indicates that he has made up his mind on the Saudi/Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... crisis. He can see the dangers churning in the whirlpool into which Pakistain is being sucked, by invitation. He must have calculated the predictable sectarian backlash between the Shias and the Sunnis within the country and on its border with Iran.
But he is bowed by the burden of the debt his country owes to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and his family to the House of Saud. He knows thon the lamsse is a rain-check, issued by affluent desert tribals who wish to encash it with the Saudi equivalent of interest
The Saudis expect their kindnesses to be repaid in military kind. Being a politician, Nawaz Sharif will appear to manoeuvre, prevaricate, stall, but to understand his true mind, one should remember that he began politics under Gen Zia, and once aspired to be ameerul momineen.
If our parliament is bereft of classicists, so are the United States and Saudi Arabia. Had they opened their Cicero, they would have read his warning of the six mistakes that mankind has made century after century. The last mistake in Cicero's list reads: "Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."
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Martinus Maximus, c. 2015 - Some drownings are more propitious than others. Some call for a holiday...
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Looks to me like Cicero was foretelling modern-day leftist progressives.
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By the way, here are all six of Cicero's mistakes - “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
1. Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
2. Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
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#2 smacks a little too much of "inshallah" for my taste
Besides Cicero ended up with a sword in his neck - maybe he should have done a little worrying, then a little scurrying....
[DAWN] HERE are some questions not being asked about our potential participation in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's military campaign in Yemen. What exactly is the objective of the Saudi intervention there? Is it simply to pave the way for the return of Hadi's government? If so, how long can that government last on its own? Will the Saudis, after paving the way for the return of Hadi, commit themselves to a long-term state-building enterprise in Yemen? If so, how long will the occupation last?
Secondly, if we assume for a moment that Pakistain is indeed to commit troops for a ground operation, what will be their rules of engagement? What will be their instructions on how to tell friend from foe? What legal cover will they be given, in the event they are drawn into a firefight that results in the deaths of large numbers of non-combatants? What will be their chain of command? Who will direct them on where to go and who to fight? If the chain of command is to remain entirely within the Pakistain Army, then how will it be coordinated with the other forces involved in the air campaign?
Simply put, it looks like the Saudis have launched an ill-conceived campaign that has plenty of precedents from the recent past. Air campaigns against militia forces on the ground have not yielded results to brag about. The Americans tried it in Libya and look at what they created. They tried it in Kosovo, but ultimately had to settle for an agreement the terms of which were practically identical to the terms offered by Milosevic before the start of the campaign. The Saudis don't have the military wherewithal to sustain this type of a campaign for very long, and no clear exit strategy either. It would be folly of tremendous proportions to join in.
Collapsing state power, of which Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... is only the latest example, is presenting us with unique challenges to which nobody appears to have found any credible solution. Supporting one militia against another risks making one a party to the atavistic hatreds that typically fuel such conflicts. Going in with overwhelming force, and committing to a large state-making function has been tried by the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hasn't worked. The Soddies have invested a lot of money in Pakistain and now the Paks don't want to pay the piper. It's gonna cost them down the road and it doesn't seem like they realize it yet.
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why is Saudi Arabia treated like an ally instead of what it is: an enemy.
Saudi money has spread Islamofascism around the world and this is a deep and existential threat even in our own Western homes.
I have just witnessed my own country deal out a $500 fine to a man who, dedicated to Sharia as spread by Saudi Arabia, presided over the pedophile "wedding" of a 12-year-old girl to an adult man. In Australia.
Why was this man not charged with sedition or treason for following Sharia over Australia's secular laws?
Because our governments are busy committing social and political suicide so as not to tread on the Islamofascist toes.
Why? Why aren't we letting Saudi Arabia just collapse. then seal off the borders until they can civilise themselves? surely we have enough oil and gas now with fracking to do this.
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