Pravda is now claiming that the Ukrainians are distorting history regarding Stalin’s policy of starving the Ukraine in the 1930s.
Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko in which he harshly criticized his approach to famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Medvedev also refused to participate in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Holodomor. The Ukrainian administration believes that the Soviet Union deliberately provoked famine in the country to exterminate the Ukrainian nation.
This is maybe about 1/2 notch higher on the morality scale than denying the Holocaust. I’m sure Russia is going to be really helpful in assisting President-elect Obama to achieve the transformation of US foreign policy.
And now, in only a skirmish of the broader battle to force everyone to treat gay marriage exactly as hetero marriage, regardless of religious beliefs or ideological orientation, the site eHarmony has yielded to lawsuit and will provide services for gays and lesbians, simply out of fear of what the court will decide if they continue to fight the lawsuit.
Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable “right” to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh?
Continue reading “Just lovely”
Many perspicacious UN watchers, who thought John Bolton was the ideal UN Ambassador from the USA, have been very disappointed in the ways Bush has handled the UN in the last three years or so. Another improper use of the filibuster by Democrats kept Bolton from being the permanent UN Ambassador under Bush, and Bush seemed to just lose heart for fighting the UN battle after that, when Bolton’s “recess appointment” expired. To get a real flavor for the diseased cesspool that is the UN, read Bolton’s book, and ponder how it can possibly be in America’s interest to be “thought well of” by such a body, or how it can be evidence of our strength, resolve, and commitment to human rights around the world that the UN’s petty dictators are allowed to arrogate to themselves equality with a democratic, republican government, on the UN Human Rights Commission, no less. And wonder exactly what it means that the U.N. seems completely thrilled with the ascension of Obama to the throne.
Here is Anne Bayefsky, who characterizes Bush’s first term as “Bush II” (his father was Bush I), and Bush’s second term as (Bush III), looking back critically at Bush III, and ahead ominously at Obama I, in the U.N.American Agenda at National Review Online
Nobody is happier about the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States than the folks at the United Nations. It is as if they finally discovered kryptonite, and Superman will soon be disabled.
Continue reading “New World Odor”
Rob Kall: The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for Change, Not Recycling
It’s been a long time since Democrats have worked in the White House or have had cabinet positions. Maybe it makes some sense that to start things off, Obama would consider bringing in some democrats with White House experience. That, almost by necessity, means Clinton people, or pretty old Carter people.
Read it all, and try not to laugh out loud. The Left helped elect a machine politician, steeped in the Chicago method, of buying support from opponents with favors, and otherwise rewarding sycophants when possible. Obama has ALWAYS been a company man, living in a company town. And now they expect him to start throwing bombs, bringing in unknowns to staff key positions? Heh.
It’s called “promoting from within the organization”.
Have you noticed the enormous number of articles in the major media, engaging in hand wringing over the amount of money Obama spent on his campaign? Lamenting how we need to “get the money out of politics”? Crying over the tens (or hundreds) of millions of unaccountable donations he collected?
Me either. Suddenly, money in politics isn’t a bad thing, it’s just evidence of how loved Obama is by everyone.
Also, look for virtually all reporting on the homeless problem to cease within six months of the Incarnation… er, excuse me, I meant, the Inauguration.
This is not news, though it is papered over by the major media and academic administrators who care less about the long term outlook for minorities than they care about the short term appearance of politically correct admissions policies.
Continue reading “Diversity quotas and lower standards for blacks in Law School Admissions actually reduce the number of black attorneys”
Once again the radical Left tramples on the civil rights of others, stooping to invading a church’s worship service.
Worshippers at a Bible-teaching church in Lansing, Mich., were stunned Sunday when members of a pro-homosexual, pro-anarchy organization named Bash Back interrupted their service to fling propaganda and condoms around the sanctuary, drape a profane banner from the balcony and feature two lesbians making out at the pulpit.
Continue reading “What lovely people”
If you have been getting emails asking for small donations to support our troops at Christmas time, maybe this will help bring it into focus. After you read it, go here, or here, or here.
“A couple of hours later, an insurgency fighter closed on the overwatch position and threw a fragment grenade into the overwatch position which hit Monsoor in the chest before falling in front of him. Monsoor yelled, “Grenade!” and dropped on top of the grenade prior to it exploding. Monsoor’s body shielded the others from the brunt of the fragmentation blast and two other SEALs were only wounded by the remaining blast.”
Continue reading “Our heroes at Christmas time”
I keep expecting Moses to step out of a bush or something.
So, unhatched frogs can learn to recognize predators while still in the egg. It would be fascinating for more research to be done, and widely reported, on what humans learn in the womb, would it not? Anyway, here’s a little research into the mental abilities of unhatched frogs:
Continue reading “Precocious Frogs”
Ken Blackwell points out the obvious, that the election of president-elect Obama signals a Post–Racial Preference America.
Two things are evident from the 2008 election. The first is that the American people voted for change, embodied in President-Elect Barack Obama. The second is that this is still a center-right country, shown by the success of traditional values ballot initiatives. This center-right orientation will compel our new president-elect to make difficult choices next year, especially regarding racial preferences.
Read the article linked above.
At Pepperdine, students aren’t allowed to post signs announcing meetings that might be critical of Obama. And they have a “Director of Intercultural Affairs” to enforce the rule on 18 yr old freshman Republicans, too. After describing the de facto censorship of the the College Republicans at Pepperdine, Mike Adams delivers this assessment of one of the players:
Continue reading “The Left At Christian Universities, Part 6: You can’t post that HERE!”
Just in case you had any doubt.
There seem to be a lot of people hoping that they have not been complicit in the death of more babies by voting for Obama.
Continue to pray for a change of heart in Obama, and the people who voted for him knowing his position on abortion and FOCA.
The Freedom of Choice act has been a topic here before. Here is a website where you can add your voice with a petition to fight it. Read the following, from that site, then click the link for more information.
The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would eliminate every restriction on abortion nationwide.
* FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement, on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections.
* FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions.
* FOCA will force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions.
Barack Obama believes this legislation will “end the abortion wars.” To him, “ending the abortion wars” means eradicating every state and federal law on abortion — laws that the majority of Americans support.
Americans United for Life (AUL) , a pro-life law and policy organization, has prepared an analysis of the “Freedom of Choice Act.” Please click here to read AUL Vice President & Legal Director Denise Burke’s analysis of this horrendous legislation.
The time to Fight FOCA is now. With Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of Congress, we can expect a fight over FOCA to begin as soon as the next Congress begins.
Please add your name to the Fight FOCA petition and let your friends know about President-Elect Barack Obama’s promise to expand abortion throughout the country.
And also, please consider making donations to Saxby Chambliss and Norm Coleman, both of whom need financial resources to properly police a recount or get out the vote for a runoff election. Even if you are normally Democrat in your voting, but are a pro-life Christian or Jew, or even if you’re generally pro-choice but think the state laws that exist are just fine, I hope you will pray about whether God actually wants America to pass FOCA, and then act accordingly. These senators are the remaining “required bricks” in the firewall of Senate filibuster, that may be the only chance to stop FOCA.
Jihad Watch: Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam’s Doctrines of Deception”
To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable human act is categorized as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible, recommended, or obligatory. “Common sense” or “universal opinion” have little to do with Islam’s notions of right and wrong. All that matters is what do Allah (via the Koran) and his prophet Muhammad (through the Hadith) have to say about any given thing; and how Islam’s greatest theologians and jurists—collectively known as the ulema, literally, the “ones who know”—have articulated it.
Consider the concept of lying. According to sharia, deception in general—based on the Koran’s terminology, also known as “taqiyya”—is not only permitted in certain situations but sometimes “obligatory.” For instance, and quite contrary to Christian tradition, not only are Muslims who must choose between either recanting Islam or being put to death permitted to lie by pretending to have apostatized; but some jurists have decreed that, according to Koran 4:29, Muslims are obligated to lie.
Much, much more at the link, and all worth reading.
UPDATE: It seems the link above is broken. I’ll investigate to see if the post was taken down.
UPDATE: The link is still broken. Here is another link by the same author that makes many of the same points.
