The oldest known selfie - 1836

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"We spend so much time learning about the past – all of the great people, thinkers, and moments – that it’s only natural to romanticize it.
"But some recently discovered historical photos suggest that perhaps the past was stranger than you think."

The Demonization of Christianity

Townhall



"When a white supremacist murdered black parishioners in Charleston, SC, there was national outrage leading to the banning of the Confederate Flag and a fresh discussion of race relations in America. But when Christians are targeted and murdered on a campus in Oregon, much of the nation yawns.

"According to eyewitness reports, the Oregon shooter asked students what their religion was, and if they said “Christian” he shot them in the head. Yet the secular media, for the most part, is focusing more on gun laws than on the shooter’s alleged anti-Christian motivation. Why?

"Can you imagine what would have happened if the shooter went into a creative arts class, asked the students to declare their sexual orientation, and if they said “gay” shot them in the head?" . .  .  Full article here.

Images such as this do not help:

  

More examples of Obama's failures in foreign policy

Putin’s Air Strikes in Syria Are Merely the Latest Example of the Obama Doctrine’s Failure

"If the humiliation of the Obama administration continues at this rate, by this time next week you should expect to see Secretary of State John Kerry on all fours at the United Nations, getting paddled by the Russian foreign minister and shouting, “Thank you, comrade! May I have another?” 

"On Monday, President Obama and Vladimir Putin had a meeting at the United Nations. All Putin wanted from it was a photo of the two men huddling together. The Russian president needed to show his people that he’s still a major player on the world stage, a big man driving events. Obama, who spent much of the last year trying to isolate the butcher of Ukraine, gave Putin exactly what he wanted. In wall-to-wall coverage, Russian media celebrated the big man’s diplomatic triumph and his geo-strategic genius.

"What was Obama’s price for granting Putin this PR windfall? The leader of the free world made the Russian autocrat listen to another tedious lecture about how Putin doesn’t understand his country’s interests as well as Obama does. No doubt Putin would have preferred to avoid yet another seminar on how the world should work. But if Paris was worth a mass for Henry IV, no doubt Syria (and not just Syria) was worth yet another sonorous tutorial about the moral arc of the universe doing jobs our president won’t." . . .

 Joint Tsk-Tsk Issued to Russia as White House Official Argues Putin Is Bombing Out of Position of Weakness
. . . "The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman said “the only way you can interpret this” is as “testimony to the lack of concern that Russia has about America’s reaction to their actions.' ” . . .

Clackamas: when a massacre was stopped by a gun.

Clackamas -- the Oregon Massacre a Gun Stopped
. . . "Overlooked in the news coverage of the Umpqua shootings was the Oregon massacre that wasn’t at Clackamas Town Center Mall in December of 2012. As Investor’s Business Daily noted, fortune placed a good guy with a gun at the same place a bad guy with a gun planned a massacre:

Before the tragedy in Connecticut, a shooter at an Oregon shopping mall was stopped by an armed citizen with a concealed carry permit who refused to be a victim, preventing another mass tragedy.
In the target-rich environment of the Clackamas Town Center two weeks before Christmas, the shooter managed to kill only two people before killing himself. A far worse tragedy was prevented when he was confronted by a hero named Nick Meli.
As the shooter was having difficulty with his weapon, Meli pulled his and took aim, reluctant to fire lest an innocent bystander be hit. But he didn't have to pull the trigger: The shooter fled when confronted, ending his own life before it could be done for him.
We will never know how many lives were saved by an armed citizen that day.

. . . "So enough of the exploitive rhetoric, President Obama. Ever since Cain slew Abel, there has been evil in the world and a desire among some to kill others. Disarming the law-abiding to prevent such killings is like trying to fight drunk driving by making it harder for sober drivers to get driver’s licenses. We don’t need more gun-free zones populated with unarmed targets. We do need more people able to defend themselves.

"There was no such person in Roseburg, Oregon, but there was one at Clackamas, Oregon."

Read more here.

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Is Mayor DeBlasio a Socialist? Look what happens under his government

Shall We Call Bill de Blasio a Socialist?  (2013)

"Let us consider the reasons, pro and con. In favor:

1) He is one.

2) He called himself one.

3) There is no evidence of an ideological shift.

4) He supports the Sandinistas who are socialist and admit it.

5) He supports ACORN, Occupy, the New Party, and the Working Families Party, which are socialist and don’t admit it.

6) Honesty is the best policy.

7) American democracy works best when people know what they’re voting for.

Against:

1) Calling him socialist may cost him the election: bad for Democrats.

2) Calling him socialist may not cost him the election: even worse for Democrats." . . .

You elect a socialist, you get this:

Even Art Work Has Racial Quotas Now

. . . "This bigotry is even affecting what paintings are being hung on the walls. It would be insensitive to hang a white person’s painting if there wasn’t a minority’s also, they now say.
This is happening in all levels of the government nationally. Segregation is wrong, everyone knows it’s wrong, but even so, they are segregating whites. Future decisions won’t be made on the quality of work but on the race of the creator or employee."

. . .
. . . "Most people aren’t looking at race when they look for a doctor or an economist or a teacher, they’re looking for quality. They want the best, not the best Eritrean.

"We now make educational, housing, and other legal decisions based on “disparate impact” and call it fair. Disparate impact states that a policy is considered discriminatory if it has a disproportionate “adverse impact” against any group based on race, national origin, color, religion, sex, familial status, or disability when there is no legitimate, non-discriminatory reason.

"So, if the end result is not in favor of a protected class, even if there is no evidence of discrimination, it’s discrimination. Whites are not a protected class but everyone else is.

"In 2009, the White House established another monstrous big government agency, the Office of Urban Affairs, to do exactly this sort of thing." . . .

All mass shootings since the 1950s have one thing in common

Unfortunately, many liberals already know the facts but continue to rely on their fickle emotions to further endanger innocent civilians. It’s time for the gun-runner-in-chief chastise them for clinging to their beliefs and our guns.

Mad World News

. . . "By studying mass shootings in the U.S. over the last 60 years, Dietz found that all but two took place in gun-free zones, that is, designated areas where it is illegal for anyone to carry a firearm.
Not only did Dietz find that these zones were hotbeds for gun violence, but public schools in which all staff are unarmed, as was UCC, were prominent targets.

"Dietz concluded that arming a minimum of 10 percent of faculty in schools, along with a resource officer, would decrease school shootings by roughly 70 percent. If the U.S. would have adopted this policy, nearly three-quarters of students and staff murdered by shooters could still be alive today.

"Dietz’s extensive research takes into account four main scenarios involving an active shooter:

• Scenario 1: No access to control or security.
• Scenario 2: Resource officer
• Scenario 3: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry
• Scenario 4: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry and a resource officer

"However, the research didn’t just pertain to gun-free zones. Dietz disproved the liberal complaint that more firearms equals more violence, citing that the firearm ownership increased by 61 percent between 2004-2012, yet there was a reduction in violent crime by 12.9 percent since 2008." . .  .

All pictures added by TD

Pat Condell on the Religion of Peace

This should put Pat Condell on somebody's list

So who is Pat Condell?
Patrick "Pat" Condell (born 1949 or 1950)^[2] is a writer, comedian and YouTube personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk"."

See also: Park51

"Condell has been resolute and outspoken in his opposition to the development of Park51, near the site of 11 September 2001 World Trade Center attack, in lower Manhattan. On 4 June 2010, he released a video titled "No Mosque at Ground Zero", in which he said that it was representative of Islamic triumphalism and that the United States would soon be on the verge of Islamization and have its freedoms trimmed, as Europe has.^[57] The video has attracted 6 million views since it was uploaded. Speaking on why he believes the Mosque is offensive, Pat Condell stated:

"To describe it as they have as a tribute to the victims is beyond bad taste, and shows a profound contempt for those who died. It would be hard to find a more provocative gesture short of standing on their graves and burning the American flag. Yet how typical of Islam, with its own hair trigger sensitivity to the slightest imagined insult, to

do something so arrogant and insensitive."

"Additionally, Condell cast some doubt over the funding of the community centre, and claimed that Islam would have been banned in the civilised world if it wasn't for the fact it was a religion. He compared the system of Sharia and the Muslims who endorse it to Nazi Germany." . . .

Condell also counsels us on the problems that have been known to come from hiring a Muslim

Hillary greeted her protectors with a curse

Downtrend

"One fine morning in Washington D.C., a secret service agent walked in to the room Hillary Clinton was in.
“'Good morning, ma’am, “ the agent said, cheerfully.
“' Fuck off,” she replied.
"How delightful.

"Agents have described Hillary as a “nightmare” and “nasty” in the book by Ronald Kessler.
In “The First Family Detail,” Kessler takes a captivating look at the people who protect America’s President and First Family.

“ 'When in public, Hillary smiles and acts graciously,” Kessler explains. “As soon as the cameras are gone, her angry personality, nastiness, and imperiousness become evident.”
Some other details from Kessler’s book:

•  “Hillary was very rude to agents, and she didn’t appear to like law enforcement or the military,” former Secret Service agent Lloyd Bulman recalls. “She wouldn’t go over and meet military people or police officers, as most protectees do. She was just really rude to almost everybody. She’d act like she didn’t want you around, like you were beneath her.”
• “Hillary didn’t like the military aides wearing their uniforms around the White House,” one former agent remembers. “She asked if they would wear business suits instead. The uniform’s a sign of pride, and they’re proud to wear their uniform. I know that the military was actually really offended by it.”
• Former agent Jeff Crane says, “Hillary would cuss at Secret Service drivers for going over bumps.”
• Another former member of her detail recollects, “Hillary never talked to us . . . Most all members of first families would talk to us and smile. She never did that.”
• “We spent years with her,” yet another Secret Service agent notes. “She never said thank you.”

"What a delightful woman."

Secret Service agents view Hillary as 'worst duty assignment' and 'consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment'

And she didn't like the uniformed Secret Service either.

'She asked if they would wear business suits instead. 

' 'The uniform's a sign of pride, and they're proud to wear their uniform. 

' 'I know that the military was actually really offended by it.' 

 '' 'Another Secret Service agent shared with Kessler that Mrs Clinton was never polite to the agents.

' 'We spent years with her,' the Secret Service agent said to the author. 'She never said th" ank you.'

    'In another instance, a separate former Secret Service agent told Kessler that, 'if Hillary was walking down a hall, you were supposed to hide behind drapes used as partitions.'

" 'She asked if they would wear business suits instead. 

'" The uniform's a sign of pride, and they're proud to wear their uniform. 

" 'I know that the military was actually really offended by it.' 

Another Secret Service agent shared with Kessler that Mrs Clinton was never polite to the agents.

" 'We spent years with her,' the Secret Service agent said to the auther. 'She never said thank you.'

"In another instance, a separate former Secret Service agent told Kessler that, 'if Hillary was walking down a hall, you were supposed to hide behind drapes used as partitions.' . . .

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Look who is applying for the job as Secretary of Education

Obama's kind of guy.

Weasel Zippers

BOOM: There’s an EXPLOSIVE new candidate for Education Secretary. Really. This guy’s the BOMB

Politics endorsed by Obama's pastor, Rev. Wright.

Obama and his Gun Control priorities

County Sheriff & Residents Speak Out About Gun Control After UCC Massacre

"The rhetoric from the left, after one of our communities suffers a tragedy at the hands of a madman with a gun, has become so predictable that it’s sickening. We hear the same worn out calls for “common sense” gun laws every time there is a mass shooting, even though their demands are anything but sensible. The Douglas County Sheriff, as well as several residents of Roseburg, are boldly speaking out about gun control and the role it played in the Umpqua Community College massacre on Thursday.

"Douglas County, Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin has a history of fighting against stricter gun control measures in his community, and according to Breitbart News, he said that the UCC massacre has not changed his mind.
. . .
"It seems that Sheriff Hanlin isn’t the only resident of Douglas County who feels that way. Several others have spoken out as well with their opinions that, had students on the UCC campus been allowed to carry their firearms, the situation may have played out very differently. Some people believe that with a known presence of personal weapons, the college wouldn’t have been chosen as the venue for the massacre to begin with." . . .

Obama's Politicized Indignation   "America is still waiting for President Obama to share his insights on Kate Steinle. Kate is the woman murdered by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal felon who, after being deported seven times, managed to find his way back to San Francisco where he shot the 32-year-old in the back with a stolen gun.
To date: “No comment.”

"Conversely, much as he does whenever there is a mass shooting, Obama nearly tripped over his wingtips sprinting to the podium to blame Second Amendment advocates and the Republican-controlled Congress for the mass shooting on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon.

"Yet every day, 4,000 babies expire in abortion clinics and dozens of people die at the hands of inner city thugs and illegal immigrant criminals, none of which the president responds to with grief or concern." . . .Jeannie DeAngelis

Can anti-Christian bigotry be embedded in our culture now?

Consider the movies and dramas that make Christians the bad guys. Even after 9-11, a Law and Order episode made a Christian group a terrorist training school for kids: Angelgrove .
. . . "But the probe leads the detectives to the victim's troubled son and his ties to a fanatic religious group. " Having seen this drama, I recall Jack McCoy's final words were approximately, "They have their fanatics and we have ours". The line posited a moral equivalence of Muslims and Christians

Quotes from this drama:

Pastor Hensley (Shaun Astin): What do we say to blasphemers who pollute the Kingdom of God?

Children: THIS MEANS WAR!

Jack McCoy: My God, it's a school for fanatics.

Michael Cutter: And one that isn't in the Middle East.

"Repent! Repent and be saved!" – Billy Boone

Will Roseburg Prompt a ‘National Conversation’ on Anti-Christian Bigotry?

"The reports are multiplying — the gunman who killed ten people in Roseburg, Ore., yesterday did, in fact, target Christians during his shooting spree. The brother of victim Autumn Vicari told NBC News that the shooter told his victims to stand and asked them whether they were Christians. If they said “yes,” he shot them in the head. “If they said ‘other’ or didn’t answer, they were shot elsewhere in the body, usually the leg.” A similar report came from student Kortney Moore, who was on the scene.

" With Christians explicitly targeted for mass murder, are we now going to launch a round of anguished soul-searching about anti-Christian rhetoric? Will we cleanse political discourse of anti-Christian expression? Will militant, angry atheists be universally shamed into silence?" . . .

"But if the gunman had asked Muslims to stand before shooting them, what would the conversation look like today? After all, we’re still talking about the brief detention of a young Muslim student who made a clock look like a bomb. Will we talk about anti-Christian bigotry after Roseburg as much as we discussed “Islamophobia” after Ahmed? I doubt it." . . .

Weasel of the Week. (Nominees posted before the UCC shooting)

Nice Deb  "It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…"

. . . "My nominee for Weasel of the Week are the boneheads in the production department at WGN-TV, Chicago who chose for last week’s news story on Yom Kippur that horrible image of the yellow Star of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

"According to the first news report I saw, once an editor pointed the offense of using the illustration, WGN-TV immediate issued an apology on social media. However, according to the Telegraph.co.uk, WGN, stated that “the image came from its image bank, and they ‘failed to recognise that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol.’”

" 'The next day, WGN issued an on-air apology, “Last night we ran a story to recognize Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. Regrettably, we failed to recognize that the artwork we chose to accompany the story contained an offensive symbol. This was an unfortunate mistake. Ignorance is not an excuse.' ” . . .