Religion does not poison everything - everything poisons religion

"A review of ‘Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence’, by Karen Armstrong. The former nun makes a convincing case that religions are corrupted by success."

UK Spectator
"The first suicide bomber was probably Samson, who died while pulling down the temple of the Philistines."

 

"It slips so easily off the tongue. In fact, it’s a modern mantra. ‘Religion causes all the wars.’ Karen Armstrong claims to have heard it tossed off by American psychiatrists, London taxi-drivers and pretty much everyone else. Yet it’s an odd thing to say. For a start, which wars are we talking about? Among the many causes advanced for the Great War, ranging from the train timetables on the continent to the Kaiser’s withered left arm, I have never heard religion mentioned. Same with the second world war. The worst genocides of the last century — Hitler’s murder of the Jews and Atatürk’s massacre of the Armenians (not to mention his expulsion and massacre of the Greeks in Asia Minor too) — were perpetrated by secular nationalists who hated the religion they were born into. The long British wars of the 18th and 19th centuries — the Napoleonic wars and the Seven Years’ War — were cheerfully fought by what Wellington called ‘the scum of the earth’ for land and empire, not for the faiths to which they only nominally belonged.

 

"We have to go back to the 17th century and the Wars of Religion to find a plausible candidate." ... More...

Rush Limbaugh’s Call Screener: ‘What Liberalism Has Done To Black Communities Is Horrific’

Daily Caller
 

 

 

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"James Golden considers his 26 years working with Rush Limbaugh to be the greatest professional blessing he could ever imagine. Originally from Queens, New York, James met Rush while working for a major media network and hasn’t looked back since.

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"For the first half of the interview, Golden waxed passionate about race in America, and how America’s first black president has only harmed race relations in this country.

"Recalling when strong, two parent families were the norm for blacks, when hard work and merit allowed blacks to rise in society, and when homicide wasn’t the major cause of the death for young black males, Golden said with genuine regret, “Isn’t it a shame that for most of black people, the good old days were the days when things were segregated legally in this country?”

"He concludes, “What liberalism has done to black communities is horrific.' ”...

Also here: Limbaugh’s Snerdly: 'For Most of Black People,' 'Good Ol' Days' Were Under Segregation

Henry Kissinger interview: ‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’

The former US Secretary of State, now 91, on statesmanship from Richelieu to Obama

The Spectator

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favour of them, but within a defined period the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.’

... "Kissinger is clearly nostalgic for more direct US action in defence of its interests. ‘In 1904 a resident of New Jersey called Ion Perdicaris was kidnapped by Moroccan brigands led by someone called Mulai Raisuli,’ he tells me. ‘The State Department sent a message demanding “This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”’ "

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"In his book he describes America as ‘an ambivalent superpower’, so I asked him when this ambivalence began. ‘Vietnam,’ he replied. ‘That was when the moral basis for American foreign policy was challenged for the first time in our history.’ "

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"Yet today, he considers, the situation is worse than during Vietnam. ‘I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. There are fewer shared global concepts and experiences among the groups making high policy.’ There’s also isolationism; is he worried by the libertarian Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who is likely to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016? ‘Paul is an intelligent man, who might learn on the job. But it is not a risk we should take.’ "

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Andrew Roberts concludes his column on Henry Kissinger with these words:  " ... the President can substantially do what he wants, provided he knows what that is!’ If President Obama needs to remind himself what he wants in foreign policy, all he needs to do is read World Order."

The New York Times book review excerpts this paragraph on the recent drifting of America's goals in the world over the past few administrations:

How do America’s current leaders shape up? Here the book is both irritatingly coy and implicitly devastating. There is no direct criticism of the Obama administration and even a slightly comic paragraph expressing Kissinger’s deep personal admiration for George W. Bush — in the midst of a section on the cluelessness of his foreign policy. But under the equivocation and the courtiership, the message is clear, even angry: The world is drifting, unattended, and America, an indispensable part of any new order, has yet to answer even basic questions, like “What do we seek to prevent?” and “What do we seek to achieve?” Its politicians and people are unprepared for the century ahead. Reading this book would be a useful first step forward.

 
 The Wall Street Journal review opens with this bit of perspective of Bush vs. Obama:
... "Since the terrorist attacks of 2001 upended our sense of the world, the United States has been governed by a conservative idealist who tried to impose American values on the Middle East, and failed calamitously, and a liberal idealist who invited America's adversaries to re-engage with us on the basis of a new humility and mutual respect, and found his hopes dashed.

More reviews of World Order

Obama Must Start "Leading From Behind" His Generals

Well, he DOES refer to it as "my military".

IBD

 

"War On Terror: Top brass — both now serving and retired — say that President Obama's strategy is likely to fail against the Islamic State. Clearly he has put his presidential legacy before our national security.

"Two weeks after his inauguration in 2009, the president visited second graders at Washington's Capital City Public Charter School and told the kids, "You're excellent listeners!"
Mr. Obama, sadly, is not an excellent listener. But he does appreciate excellent listeners, like those second-graders — and the "sycophants" who work in his White House "cocoon," as columnist Charles Krauthammer recently put it in a Hugh Hewitt radio interview.

"There's now a growing rift between a commander-in-chief wedded to his peacenik political base and those he commands, because he won't listen to military experts." ... Read more...

The mayor of Las Vegas sized this president up years ago: 

Alan Caruba: Prepare for a Deluge of Climate Change Hype

Mr. Caruba is a scholar of this subject and cares very much about the topic. (He has even dropped one "l" from his name in order to leave a smaller carbon footprint)

Warning Signs

 

"In utter contempt for the intelligence of people here in the United States and around the world, a Climate Change Summit will be held on Tuesday, September 23^rd, by the United Nations, the source of decades of lies about “global warming” and—since theEarth has not warmed in the past 19 years—the new name “climate change.”

"To advance this greatest of lies, the lead-up to the event will be a massive march in New York on Sunday, Sept. 21^st. The purpose, as David Rothbard of the think tank, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) says, is an avalanche of “Scary doomsday ‘science’ and the need for ‘urgent international action’ backed by a ‘People’s March’ of thousands of radical Green activists in the streets.

"CFACT has released “Climate Hype Exposed”, a report that exposes the global warming campaign’s junk science, wasteful policies, and the threat to freedom and prosperity it represents. You can download it." .... Full article...

Emphasis in the original. 

Reprise from Sept 2013; Internet search challenge for you:

Originally posted here one year ago; the irony will not be lost on you to see it still applies one year later with new "blames".

Tunnel Wall   Open the Google search page and type in "Obama blames" to see what comes up.
Then go to Bing and type those same words.

http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/ 

Terror threat? Government watching for 'Americans with guns'. 'Just listen to the language Holder uses'

WND

 

... "Adding to the narrative, the group New America had labeled instances of domestic terrorism “deadly right wing attacks” and claiming they were more prevalent than jihadist-inspired terror in the years since 9/11.
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"Holder believed, said Chumley, “America’s biggest threat is Americans with guns – not ISIS terrorists with a stated goal of spreading the caliphate throughout the world.”

“"And that’s why ISIS continues to spread, and will continue to spread,” she said.
WND reported last week a case against an alleged Muslim terrorist who reportedly described his brutal killing of New Jersey teen Brendan Tevlin “for being American” as a “just kill.” ..

Brendan Tevlin's murder evidence that 'domestic terrorism is already here,' says radio host  "It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people,” he said. '

In short, we Americans have more reason to fear this administration while ISIS is only being, well, here:  General McInerney: Obama only 'irritating' ISIS  “ 'I had to fly missions into Hanoi during the Vietnam War that had that same kind of oversight by Lyndon Johnson,” he said. “It is doomed to failure. The president ought to give clear guidance of what he wants to do, not how to do it.”

Even MTV Star Chet Cannon Thinks Nancy Pelosi Is “A Special Breed Of Idiot”!

Downtrend

 

"Case in point. Remember the other day when Nancy Pelosi alleged that “Democrats never treated President Bush the way that Republicans treat President Obama”? Well, according to the Daily Caller, former MTV “The Real World: Brooklyn” star Chet Cannon responded to the silly allegation with the following spot-on tweet:

 

Chet Cannon        ✔ @Chet_Cannon Follow

Pelosi says Dems never treated Bush the way GOP treats Obama. It takes a special breed of idiot to make a statement like that.

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"Regardless, let us briefly take a quick look at just why her allegation happens to be extraordinarily false and misleading.

"#1. President George W. Bush was booed at President Obama’s inauguration:"
 

 

#2. Both Democrats and their pals in the mainstream media repeatedly slammed Bush for being a “pathological president liar” and “total failure.”  Video

 

#3. And last but not least is a huge collection of quotes from Democrats, courtesy Boycott Liberalism:

• “I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a ‘deserter.’ What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate.” ~ Michael Moore
• “This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague.” ~ Rosie O’donnell
• “While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” ~ Al Gore
• “George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.” ~ USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux
• “I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everything they stand for . . . To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership . . . There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it’s unconstitutional, it’s immoral and basically illegal . . . It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.” ~ Jessica Lange
• “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” ~ Natalie Maines- Dixie Chicks

You can read even more quotes here.

Why We Shouldn't Impeach Barack Obama

No, this is NOT the reason, but I'd say it is a valid consideration:

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/08/05/obama-impeachment-insurance/

 

Elise Cooper   ... "Benghazi, ObamaCare, Fast & Furious, the IRS scandal, the NSA, Solyndra, appointed czars, the James Rosen affair, and the illegal children’s exodus into the U.S. are just some the issues that show how Obama has become an imperial president.  The president has decided when to enforce immigration laws, advantageously delayed ObamaCare, and micromanaged the economy, as well as attack the Supreme Court, Congress, and the sovereign states.  He does this while proclaiming he is the voice of the people, yet he encroaches upon their rights.  American Thinker interviewed Shapiro about his book and its premises.

"In The People vs. Barack Obama, Ben Shapiro brings Obama into the people’s court and addresses each of his abuses of power.

"American Thinker: Why not go the impeachment route?" ...   Read more...

It's not enough we are threatened by ISIS; we have to put up with this as well

This is so sad and I feel so many African-Americans are burdened over these things. Nearly all I meet in town are gracious and polite, and I see no incidents such as these described below.  Hopefully among the non-violent people ones will arise leaders who will tell those in this article "enough!"

http://www.famousquotesabout.com/quote/We-were-protesting-black/85653

Seven Minutes in September    "It just does not stop: On Thursday(sp) afternoon, I received seven emails in seven minutes, detailing dozens of cases of recent black mob violence all around the country. Many on video.

"Let’s take a tour of seven minutes in September, starting in Cincinnati." ...
By Colin Flaherty

We need to remember there are many, many Ben Carson's in this nation and they must be highlighted by the media as a counterbalance to the above.

These days, Democrats aren’t talking much about Obama in congressional speeches

WaPo

 Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) (center) and other Democrats including Rep. George Miller

 D-CA  (at right with hands to his mouth) react as President Obama delivers his State of the

 Union address  to a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill on Jan. 27, 2010

 

... "One can reasonably assume that when the Democrats speak of the president publicly it’s in a favorable way and when Republicans do it’s, well, not quite as glowing. As positive public opinion of Obama began to dip after his first year, the spread between how often Republicans and the Democrats invoked Obama grew wider. Put simply, the Democrats weren’t mentioning Obama by name nearly as much as Republicans.
 
"The gap is particularly notable in the last year as seen in the chart above by the Sunlight Foundation, which measures how often any given word is spoken against all words in floor speeches and debates collected by the Congressional Record. Last fall, at the height of the government shutdown and the Obamacare rollout, Republicans were predictably discussing (bashing) Obama more." ...

 

Very disturbing to post about this Muslim call. They have us living under sharia by default

URGENT ALERT -- ISIS Calls On Muslims In America To Go To Homes Of U.S. Soldiers and “Slaughter Them”… Please Send This to Every Military Personnel You Know!  (by Jana Winter, FOX News)

-- A law enforcement bulletin obtained by FoxNews.com warned that Islamic State fighters have increased calls for "lone wolves" to attack U.S. soldiers in America in recent months, citing one tweet that called for jihadists to find service members' addresses online and then "show up and slaughter them."

In one example cited in the bulletin, a British jihadist encouraged radicals still living in the West to use Facebook and LinkedIn to find and target soldiers.

"You could literally search for soldiers, find their town, photos of them, look for address in Yellowbook or something," the tweet read. "Then show up and slaughter them.”

From  Richard E Libbey Jr at Guardian Eagles  "Scuttlebutt has it that ISIS is attempting infiltrate social media particularly Military and veterans group in an attempt to discover military personnel to target them, in their homes, as jihad. Until I know for sure our vetting new members policy will be more strict. DO NOT EVER GIVE INFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO FIND YOU AND YOUR HOME.

This next is from the anti-Sharia blog, Logan's Warning:

   Good Morning Logan ~ “I will personally kill you….”

 

"Now that you have met my new friend Ahmed, here is a little background information on him." 

 

From Pamela Geller; The Islamic State Calls for Devout Muslims in America to Go to Homes of US Soldiers, “Slaughter Them”

As the Ayatollah Khomeini said, there is no fun in Islam