Brandeis rescinded its offer of an honorary degree to Ayan Hirsi Ali because of protests that her criticism of Islam was extreme. Listen to what the mothers in Nigeria have to say.[...]
Archive for May, 2014
May 5th, 2014 - 6:23 am § in Misc.
A Progresive Supports Putin
The Radical Left is as Real as the Radical Right, Carol Davidek Waller writes to a Yahoo progressive listserv What is obvious is that the US and it’s EU clients and NOT Russia are the aggressors. While the Russian Federation has removed it’s heavy armaments from its borders, the US/NAT[...]
May 4th, 2014 - 4:30 pm § in Misc.
Before The Big Bang
Scientists tell us they don’t know what existed before the Big Bang, and we may never know; in other words, the Big Bang is an impenetrable barrier blocking our view of what existed before the Big Bang. But I want to argue we can see to the other side, by using logic to deduce what [&helli[...]
Sunday Revelations: ISLAM from Oxford Pt. 2.
Outrage Against Islam[...]
May 4th, 2014 - 3:09 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: A Priest Writes of the Pain of His Excommunication
Somebody Needs to Show this to Pope Francis Don’t Catholics profess that men and women are created of equal worth and dignity? Don’t the Holy Scriptures state clearly that “There is neither male nor female. In Christ you are one” (Galatians 3:28)? Don’t priests profess that the call to be [...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 1:45 pm § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Scene.
‘World’s largest Warhol’ to bloom in Tacoma This photo rendition shows the Tacoma Dome roof with Andy Warhol’s giant flower design from 1981. Tacoma plans to try out the flower design for six months before committing to a permanent painting. The comparison of Tacoma with[...]
UKRAINE: Jewish Mayor of Town Near Russian Border Shot
The mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, is recovering in a hospital in Haifa, has regained consciousness after a series of surgeries to save his life. He was shot in the back April 28 in an assassination attempt . Ukraine police are investigating the circumstances around the assassination atte[...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 12:35 pm § in Hypocrisy
CUBA: American Hypocrisy
Statement from Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations • MINREX forcefully rejects the manipulation of an issue as sensitive as international terrorism, in order to advance a policy against Cuba, and demands that our country be definitively deleted from this spurious, unilateral, arbitrary list, which[...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 11:34 am § in Misc.
Rutgers’ Commencement Speaker, Condi Rice, Shamed by Protests, Backs Out
Condoleezza Rice backs out of Rutgers commencementNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War. Rice said in a stat[...]
Nigeria and CNN
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF CNN Last night my wife Barbara wanted to watch Obama’s comedy routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The schedule said the president was to speak about 9 PM. So we tuned in around 8:30. Of course all of this was Pacific Coast time, so somewhere in the m[...]