The war on Christians continues………
The Air Force has relieved Sergeant Phillip Monk of his duties and is now criminally investigating him after his lesbian commander ordered him to say he supports gay marriage even though he doesn’t.
Do homosexual rights now trump the First Amendment?
If a Muslim officer said that homosexuals should be killed, I doubt there would be any repercussions.
At the Muslim Prayer Day in Washington, D.C. in 2009, a Muslim leader publicly stated that homosexuals should be put to death. End of story.
When Christians shared their gospel in Dearborn, they were arrested for “disorderly conduct” and not exonerated until a full year later……Janet Levy
BY KEN KLUKOWSKY
Updating our earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monk’s complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commander’s order to say he supports gay marriage.
AT PRESENT THESE ARE THE LARGE CARRIERS NAMED AFTER PRESIDENTS
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) was named in 2004 (Seawolf Submarine)
COMING SOON.
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is programmed to begin construction in 2012 and to be placed in commission in 2018. USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002 A Destroyer), began construction in April 2012 and to be placed in service in 2018.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) (planned for 2015)
There are no vessels named for Presidents Clinton or Nixon. Will there be a ship named for President Obama?
THE SS LEADING FROM BEHIND
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/outlook-for-workers-is-worst-in-decades-thanks-to-obama?f=puball President Obama used his weekly Saturday radio address to mark the 131st anniversary of Labor Day. He swore his “highest priority” is to “reverse forces that have conspired – for decades – against American workers.” Yakkity-yak. Don’t believe that demagoguery. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that workers – especially low-wage workers […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/censorship-by-fear Joseph Conrad, the writer, was astonished to learn early in the 20th century that Britain, his adopted country, had a “Censor of Plays.” In a 1907 essay* he wrote about the character of an individual who would assume the power and harbor the hubris as the supreme arbiter of what appeared on the British […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3958/eurocrisis-germany Saving the euro would cost Germany so much money that it would bankrupt itself. ” Germany cannot save the Eurozone. Those who believe that [it can] are denying reality.” — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble All of a sudden the Loch Ness Monster of German politics has raised its ugly head. The eurocrisis, which […]
Militants shot Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir of life under the Taliban was made into a Bollywood movie, after tying up her Afghan husband.
http://news.msn.com/world/indian-author-banerjee-killed-by-afghan-militants
KABUL, Afghanistan — Officials say militants in Afghanistan have killed an Indian woman whose memoir about marrying an Afghan and life under the Taliban was made into a Bollywood film.
The killing of Sushmita Banerjee is the latest in a string of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan, adding to fears women’s rights will recede even more in this nation after US-led foreign forces leave.
Provincial police chief Gen. Dawlat Khan Zadran says suspected Taliban militants arrived early Thursday morning at Banjerjee’s residence in Paktika province. They tied up her husband before taking her outside and shooting her. He and another top official identified her by her local name, Sahib Kamal, but also said her last name was Banerjee.
Banerjee wrote “Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife,” the basis for the 2003 film “Escape from Taliban.”
http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/ Even with a clear 70% of Americans polled saying they don’t want the US involved in the Syrian civil war – even to stifle alleged chemical weapons usage by the Assad Regime, President Obama and his entourage of faithful servants are pressing on anyway. One of the few truly staunch allies we have, […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2648/-Credibility-Not-Something-Americans-Should-Die-For.aspx I would like to pause for a moment as the United States weighs going to war to make the world safe for President Obama’s “credibility” to note that the Department of Defense announced the deaths of four American soldiers in separate incidents last week in Afghanistan. The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., reported: […]
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/09/05/further-thoughts-about-obamas-syrian-adventure/?print=1 Years ago (many years ago, alas), a business mogul gave a friend of mine who was thinking about quitting his job a piece of advice: “Don’t give up your wet towel until you have a dry one.” Don’t chuck the job you have until you have another lined up. A homely enough piece of […]
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/09/05/why-we-still-must-not-support-obamas-strike-on-syria-responding-to-ron-radosh/?print=1
Indeed, this is how a serious debate should be conducted. Invective-free.
I’ll take Ron’s latest arguments in order.
1. John Kerry has not changed. He remains the leftist “international test” advocate that he has always been. He publicly identified with Code Pink’s ideals when they disrupted his unconvincing, self-contradictory testimony in the Senate this week. His advocacy for striking Syria may be based on Islamist disinformation, about which I’ll have more to say shortly. Suffice it to say that he is carrying out the policy of his boss, whatever that policy is, in the job he has openly and lustfully sought for years and would never resign on any principle, and knows which buttons to push (“indispensable nation”) to make hawks pay attention to him. Lingo does not hide the fact that he is still the same man who smeared American troops then fighting in Vietnam and then built his career on that, and the same man who opposed the 1991 intervention in Iraq. The case for action then was much stronger than the case for action now. Should he not take a few minutes to explain his evolution in thought before asking us to just trust him? Is he wiser now, or merely older?
2. Failure to act decisively may be worse than not acting at all. The Iranians are watching, as are the North Koreans, etc. There’s a popular saying these days — “go big or go home.” That saying would get realized, in my judgement, if we strike Assad but do not kill him or remove him. After the symbolic, mostly meaningless strikes that Obama promises, Assad will emerge from the smoke as if he has been hardened in combat, stand on some rubble in a MacArthur pose, and announce that he “defeated” us. It will be absurd, but that’s how Middle East despots react when they’re bombed but not killed or face invasion. Obama’s “just muscular enough not to be mocked” strike invites mockery. Obama has already told Assad that he is not a target and that the strikes will be so limited as to be militarily meaningless. Iran will be watching that, too. Assad is probably already having soot smeared on his face and rehearsing his post-bombing lines. We know that Obama won’t go big. So in my view he should stay home — not strike.
3. The nature of the rebellion is not what John Kerry says it is. The pro-moderate source Ron cites, Elizabeth O’Bagy, is dubious and may be involved in a disinformation campaign to sell the “moderate” face of an Islamist insurgency. She appeared on Fox again today and played word games about her role with the Syrian Emergency Task Force — she is their political director, and they have Islamist ties. In my mind, this discredits everything she says about the “moderate” forces in Syria. The New York Times reported on the rebels’ brutality today. It also should matter that even when America does put hundreds of thousands of pairs of boots on the ground to kick out evil dictators like Assad (Saddam was pretty much his clone), the people don’t automatically love us and they don’t choose freedom. They tend to choose Islamism. They write sharia into their constitutions. They enforce anti-blasphemy laws. They elect the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Obama administration plays along. It may be that a strong dose of radicalism convinces people in the Middle East to swing back toward civilization, as has apparently happened in Egypt. Should the U.S. military be used in Syria to drive Assad out and start that Islamism-t0-civilization cycle? It’s risky, and Obama isn’t selling that. He’s playing Hamlet and promising to prick Assad so shallowly that he won’t even bleed.
