You knew this would happen: a PC Bible

Controversial “politically correct” version of the Bible published in Germany
"Berlin, Germany, Nov 9, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- A group of 52 biblical “specialists” have released a new version of the Bible in which inclusive language and “political correctness” have replaced some “divisive” teachings of Christianity in order to present a “more just language” for groups such as feminists and homosexuals.

"According to the AFP news agency, the new version of the Sacred Scriptures was presented at a book fair in Frankfurt.  Entitled, “The Bible in a More Just Language,” the translation has Jesus no longer referring to God as “Father,” but as “our Mother and Father who are in heaven.”

"Likewise, Jesus is no longer referred to as the “Son” but rather as the “child” of God.  The title “Lord” is replaced with “God” or “the Eternal One.”  The devil, however, is still referred to with masculine pronouns.

"Last December, Matin Dreyer, pastor and founder of the sect “Jesus Freaks,” published the “Volksbibel” (The People’s Bible), in a supposed attempt to make the message of Christianity more “accessible.”  Jesus “returns” instead of resurrects, and multiplies “hamburgers” instead of the fish and loaves.  In the parable of the prodigal son, the younger son squanders his inheritance at dance clubs and ends up “cleaning bathrooms at McDonald’s.' ”

How politically correct should Christians be?

The wek in review at College Insurrection

Cross posted at Legal Insurrection…

With all the problems facing higher education right now, why are pronouns such a hot issue?

Washington State Students Told Not to Use Terms ‘Illegal Alien, Male and Female’

Washington State Disavows Syllabus Which Bans Certain Words

North Carolina State Women’s Studies Class Doesn’t Allow the Word ‘Mankind’

Statues are apparently also a big problem.

• Jefferson Davis Statue Removed From the University of Texas
• Stanford’s “Angel of Grief” Statue Vandalized as Arm is Cut Off

There is some push back.

• Students Boo Mandatory Diversity Class at University of Oklahoma
• Higher Education is No Place for Group Think

This week’s lesson from Prager University seems especially appropriate.

• Prager University – Does Free Speech Offend You?

Entrance test for Middle Eastern refugees

Entrance Exam: What To Do When the Migrant Mobs Come Pounding on Your Country's Door

Hat tip to John Robert; Cathedral City, CA

. . . "In that incident, one of the migrants tore up a Koran and threw the pages into a toilet. When this was discovered, all hell broke loose.  A group of migrants chased the perpetrator, and he would likely have been killed if it were not for the security forces that shielded him.  When they could not get at him, the irate migrants armed themselves with steel bars and began showering guards and policemen with rocks.  They kept at it for several more hours, smashing car windows, ransacking buildings, and tearing apart walls inside the shelter.  The perpetrator is not identified, and for good reason.  If his name were known, he might eventually be tracked down and killed.

"Of all of these migrants, the only one that any sane country should allow into its borders is the one who tore up the Koran.  Was this man Christian?  Or perhaps an apostate, a Muslim who now believes that Islam is dangerous and the Koran a manual of hatred and intolerance?" . . .

Divisiveness is Obama's strength; his political power is based on dividing Americans

"It’s not just about nukes. It’s about purging the party."

The Iran Deal is Everything Bad About Obama in One Package
. . . "Obama’s foreign policy is just his domestic policy with enemies treated like oppressed minorities. The Taliban were just the illegal aliens flowing across the border. Iran and Cuba are the thugs rioting in Ferguson. American national security is as meaningless as the property rights of Baltimore store owners.

"Enemies are aided and allies are undermined in the name of social justice. And the aftermath is ashes and war.

"Obama’s foreign policy has been one long string of miserable disasters, but we’re expected not to acknowledge that or allow it to influence our views as he promotes his latest foreign policy disaster. Forget giving Iran the benefit of the doubt, why after a track record of horrible disasters in the region, is Obama entitled to any benefit of the doubt on Iran?

"There’s nothing new about this latest disaster. Only the stakes are bigger because they’re nuclear.
The Iran deal is where his foreign policy and his domestic endless campaign finally fully meet. After a failed war in Libya, the Arab Spring disaster, thousands of Americans dead and wounded in Afghanistan, Russian and Chinese expansionism, a failed peace deal in Israel bought with the freedom of terrorists; this is the first time his foreign policy is running into serious and determined opposition at home."

Middle Eastern refugee trash and #occupy trash.

TRASH EVERYWHERE - THEY WERE ALL 'BORN IN A BARN?
"Trash left along the road in the EU by the Syrian (Muslim) refugees (top) and trash left by the liberal during their "Occupy Washington fiascoes."

Hat tip to Al Thompson at Guardian Eagles

This is not a Muslim refugee; this is one of the American "#occupiers"

Why should Germany expect Muslim immigrants to assimilate?

Will Muslim migrants flowing to Germany assimilate or radicalize?

Recent events in Germany make the outlook dim.
"As the migrant crisis spirals out of control in Europe and though Saudi Arabia refuses to take in any Syrian refugees, they have offered to build 200 new mosques in Germany.

"The Times of India reports: Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE also keeping their doors firmly shut to asylum-seekers.

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which quoted a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al Diyar, Saudi Arabia would build one mosque for every 100 refugees who entered Germany in extraordinary numbers last weekend.

. . .  
"While Merkel suggests that refugee children will learn German in kindergarten, Vijeta Uniyal (who also writes for Legal Insurrection) warns at the Gatestone Institute website that several German states are instituting Islamic studies in public schools and that this could undermine any hope of assimilation.  Uniyal writes:" . . .More at the link.

No translation needed below:

Islam Versus Europe

Impeachment for the EPA head?

arkansasgopwing

Impeachment resolution filed for EPA head Gina McCarthy
"It may ultimately be unsuccessful, but nonetheless it is a good thing that Arizona Representative Paul Gosar has filed articles of impeachment for Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA. A press release from his office notes that this:

begins the impeachment process for Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after she committed perjury and made several false statements at multiple congressional hearings, and as a result, is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors:
“For far too long, Congress has allowed unelected bureaucrats and executive branch officials to slowly bend and break the laws of this country in order to further their own partisan political agendas. We have reached a breaking point where the American people have no faith in the fundamental checks and balances put in place by our founders to protect liberties and freedoms.

Read more:

 

How (Not) to be a politically correct feminist

"It doesn't matter what you have done for women; what matters is whether you are or are not pro-Obama and anti-Israel."


Prof. Phyllis Chesler, writing in Israel National News  "Invariably, almost without exception, when I speak about any subject, not necessarily about Israel, or Islam, or about Iran--always, always, my reputation precedes me. Once left-liberals "hear" the word Israel, even if only uttered once, they will focus on that, and that alone. As if I have committed a thought crime of horrendous proportions.

"My passion for the Jewish state or my analysis of Islamism. Jihad, or Islamic gender and religious apartheid, my non-support for President Obama's foreign policies which are, in my view, disastrous and dangerous, means that I am no longer who I am or have been, that I am a traitor and no matter what else I may be speaking about, it is always and only politically incorrect.

. . .

"This time, a very honorable group of women--all feminists, wanted to honor me. The owner of the local newspaper, The East Hampton Star, wrote it up in the strangest of ways. Here, is my letter which she published in her newspaper. Her name is fairly unknown, but she represents the ruling feminist, Democratic Party, and socialist point of view." . . .

CONTINUE READING

Tech company sees no indication that Hillary's server was wiped

HopeNChangeCartoons.com

WaPo   "The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.

"Clinton and her advisers have said for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that 31,000 e-mails were gone forever.

"There is a distinction between e-mails being deleted and a server being wiped. If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device and the e-mails can often be restored." . . .

Laugh in the Fast Lane

. . . "As far as spontaneity goes, we assume this means that the former Secretary of State will try to be slightly less obvious about robotically repeating the exactly memorized lines scripted to keep her out of the hoosegow. Where she once stammered, "I never sent...or received...any...material...by email... which was...marked...classified... at the time," she'll now spontaneously declare, "I'm pleading the 5th Amendment" and cue her traveling drummer to play a rimshot as she wiggles a straw hat in the air and tapdances out of view." . . .

Winner! Weasel of the Week

Nice Deb  "Yes, once again, 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 particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…


"DNC Head, Congresswoman And Dumb Blonde Poster Girl Debbie Wassermann Schultz!"

Schultz!

"The Noisy Room : I nominate Debbie Wasserman Schultz this week for backing the horrendous Iranian nuclear deal and weeping while she did it. Those that vote for the Iran deal are not only traitors to the American people, they are traitors to Israel. Shame on them. They will go down in history as enabling those who would slaughter other Jews. These liberal Jews vote for anything and everything that undermines America and for the literal destruction of Israel. How dare Wasserman Schultz call herself Jewish. She announced today that she would become the 16th Jewish Democrat to support Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal, which gives the Islamic terrorist nation every thing they could dream of and arms them to the teeth. She says she did this for national security. Whose, Debbie? Certainly not America’s and definitely not Israel’s. I think someone made her an offer she couldn’t refuse… one that was worth selling out her brothers and sisters. I hate to break it to her, but selling your soul damns you.". . .

JoshuaPundit writes: The 34 Democrat senators who decided pleasing Barack Obama by supporting his Iran appeasement is more important than America's national security are all despicable in their own way. Ironically, most of them, like Delaware's Chris Coons were on record as saying they would oppose a bad deal - and then announcing their support by saying that Obama and Kerry's Iran deal is flawed and imperfect, but they support it anyway...even though every condition they said would constitute a good deal has been tossed aside.

Such men and women are unworthy of being called Americans, let alone holding office. Their allegiance is to something else.

The other nominees of this week were...

American intelligence pros begin a revolt against this administration

Somewhat like NY cops did when they turned their backs on Mayor DeBlasio?

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.

"More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.

"The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.

“ 'The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.

Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim." . . .

Blackfive reports:  Shaded Intelligence? Shocked, Shocked I Am   "It is damning that fifty (or more) analysts are going on record.  A small group might have political reasons of their own to cause a problem (and that has happened before).  For such a large group to be willing to go public raises serious questions of competence and intent on those higher in the chain.  At this point, whether any "shading" that may or may not have been done was done to make things more palatable for the President, or more, needs a full and thorough investigation."

LSTs and The Return of LST 325

History of these strange ships  (1944)

The Return of USS LST 325    "A short documentary about the LTS class of ships in WW2 and the ship LST-325 in particular, following the history of the war ships from the war and after."

The Proud Voyage of USS LST- 325

"PREAMBLE: During World War II there were 1051 LST's (Landing Ship Tank) built to carry troops & supplies to American & Allied troops fighting in Europe and the Pacific theaters. When WW II ended most of the LST's were scrapped, modified, or given to Navies of other countries. Some remained in service and saw action in Korea, Viet Nam, and even the Cuban Blockade.

Now one proud 58 year old LST -- returns home to America from service with the Greek Navy - crewed by heroes with an average age of 72 years old. These men are giants! One giant has now fallen -- read below. (Capt. McD)

LST History & Background from The Cargo Letter

Hat tip to Mike Stricklin; Fort Worth, TX

A tour of LST 325

Here is a documentary of the LST 325: US Navy USS LST-325 Normandy Landings
You will enjoy the films at least unless you speak Spanish.

The History of LST 325

WW2 LST training film