Category: America

Terror tactics

Catholicism has always been America’s foreign devil By Sam Haselby, Saturday 15 October 2011 09.00 EDT … At the Values Voter Summit in Washington DC last weekend, leading members of the American religious right rallied around the notion that the US is a Christian nation. One speaker, the leader of a Texas megachurch, cited the …

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Today in Little Rock

…wherein your intrepid bloggeur discovered a nefarious plot by the Turkish navy to infiltrate the American homeland (note the submarine with the sharia’s-coming flag and the state capitol in the background).  All in all, a beautiful day in America with she-who-must-be-obeyed!                        [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80

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Very Serious Experts

The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot By Glenn Greewald, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 6:18 AM 13:02:27 CDT … The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto …

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Challenged and changed

Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists By John Shelby Spong, 10/13/11 09:33 AM ET … The contrast between the way the Bible is understood in the academic world and the way it is viewed in our churches is striking. I know because in my life as a priest and a bishop I have …

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The mistake of thinking

The class warfare the rich don’t understand By Heather Digby Parton, 10 Oct 2011 09:43 … “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” – Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going …

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The future of capitalism

Capitalism’s heart occupied – where will it all lead? By Rupert Cromwell, Sunday, 9 October 2011 … Back in December a humble fruit vendor in Tunis, scorned and humiliated by those in power, set himself ablaze. With his deed he ignited an Arab revolution. Ten months later and 5,000 miles away, might something comparable just …

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They go into your soul

Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 8 October 2011 … So there was this chap, a bearded guy, spectacles, a settler, asking for a lift from Hebron to Kiryat Arba. And Kiryat Arba is quite a settlement, home to Baruch Goldstein who killed about 50 Palestinians before he himself …

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