As Obama has become a symbol for all that is good, it has become important to differentiate between the denominations that constitute the Church of Obama...
Golda Meir once said that the Middle East would have peace when Israel’s enemies learned to love their children more than they loved death. Masab plainly tells the Israelis that not only has that time not yet come, but that the death-worship has gained steam. The same warning applies to all forms of radical Islam. There simply is no room to negotiate with people in love with death.
A lawsuit against Scientology that names Tom Cruise as a defendant? Yes Please!
Tom Cruise is named in a $250 million federal lawsuit that is using the RICO statute against the Church of Scientology. Ex-Scientologist Peter Letterese, a longtime critic of the church, filed suit in Southern District Court in Florida on July 15 alleging, among other things, that members of the church harassed him after he left.
In court papers provided to The News by investigator Paul Barresi, Letterese claims a member of the church phoned his lawyer at home, and when the lawyer's wife answered, said he was her husband's homosexual lover.
Barresi, who has done investigative work on behalf of Cruise, tells us: "[Letterese] is just including a celebrity name to get attention."
Letterese calls the church a "crime syndicate" and wants it broken up under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, just as the feds have broken up Mafia families.
He singles out Cruise, who's made no secret of his religion, saying that Scientology head David Miscavage is "aided and abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, his right-hand man for foreign and domestic promotion, as well as for foreign and domestic lobbying. He has assisted the syndicate in acquiring funds and [made] his own donations of money believed to be in the multiple tens of millions of dollars."
President George W. Bush made a pit stop on his way back to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Tuesday evening.
After leaving a fundraiser in Gates Mills, his motorcade passed a home with a sign asking the president to stop by -- so he did.
I've been of the opinion for some time that history's verdict on George W. Bush will be much different than the current political verdict. I believe that he'll be seen as a disaster (by conservatives, anyway) on the domestic end of the ledger, but as a visionary on foreign policy. It appears that as relates to foreign policy, I'm not alone:
For Bush to be recognised as a great president in the Truman mould, the Iraq war too must become half forgotten. The swift removal of the murderous Saddam Hussein was followed by years of expensive violence instead of the instant democracy that had been promised. To confuse the imam-ridden Iraqis with Danes or Norwegians under German occupation, ready to return to democracy as soon as they were liberated, was not a forgivable error: before invading a country, a US president is supposed to know if it is in the middle east or Scandinavia.
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean war was a sideshow to global cold war containment. For the Bush response to 9/11 was precisely that—a global attack against the ideology of Islamic militancy. While anti-terrorist operations have been successful here and there in a patchy way, and the fate of Afghanistan remains in doubt, the far more important ideological war has ended with a spectacular global victory for President Bush.
Of course, the analogy with Truman is far from perfect: the Soviet Union was a state, not a state of mind. But even so, once Bush's victory is recognised, the errors of Iraq will be forgiven, just as nobody now blames Truman for having sent mixed signals on whether Korea would be defended. Of course, the Bush victory has not yet been recognised, which is very odd indeed because it has all happened in full view.
"I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen," said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. "They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn't they heed me before it was too late?"
Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity's hubristic folly.
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions," he said.
Socialism, abortion on demand without question or twinge of conscience, dismantling the traditional family and social structure - yup, all of the best traditions of America!
This about sums it up:Slublog, over at Ace's place
Yea, we have long waited for an inexperienced legislator with no significant accomplishments and former community organizer to lead us out of the wilderness.
VERO POSSUMUS!
Simple assignment for the press corps: ask the senator to name three specific traditions to which America will return upon his election and why his election will prompt their return. No teleprompters allowed.
Obama constantly touts his judgement as one of the prime qualities that he would bring to the office of President. But on the most important issue of the time, at the time that it was most important to make a good judgement, he made a terribly, terribly bad judgement:
“To reach such a solution, we must communicate clearly and effectively to the factions in Iraq that the days of asking, urging, and waiting for them to take control of their own country are coming to an end.” This is the most absurd point of all. The Iraqis didn’t have enough trained and seasoned security forces to bring stability. Retreat would not have forced them to work together — it would have forced the factions to arm themselves and go to war to protect themselves. The central government needed more time to develop the means to “take control of their own country”, and in 2008 we have seen the results.
McCain and Bush made the right call in supporting the Surge. The irony of the situation now is that the gains that we have made through the Surge have made Obama's withdrawal plans feasible, instead of crazy - as they were when he started advocating them - in other words, the rightness of McCain and Bush ultimately allow Obama to seem more reasonable, and thus, electable. That's a shame.
Republican Senator and governmental ATM machine Ted Stevens of Alaska has been indicted on corruption charges. Perhaps now Alaskans can get down to the business of electing someone who knows the meaning of the word "restraint."
The publisher of the Michigan Chronicle addresses the decline of Detroit:
I can already hear the chorus of some Detroiters bemoaning the prospect of a major influx of White residents into the city who might again seize political control. It will be convenient for them to make a villain out of any attempt to gentrify the political process. Some critics, of course, fear a future in which their exclusive advocacy for the chronic poor is rendered irrelevant by what might become a rising tide of more educated, committed residents contributing to uplifting economic growth.
But think for a moment: Why would any intelligent outside force want to take over a city with a racially divided people, decaying infrastructure, dwindling services, a disappearing tax base, a shrinking population and a budget immersed in permanent red ink?
There is no debate that much of the self-sustaining, enterprising spirit that launched Detroit’s growth 50 years ago is gone. Most suburbanites think of Detroit as a financial and moral wasteland rife with accelerating crime, genocidal violence and disturbing family malfunction.
Yet the only way this city will survive is if there is a re-population with a new class of virtuous, ethical people. Only when we transition to a more politically appropriate realignment and expand our demographic bases of power can we dream of a new status quo. Without a major dose of gentrification, we simply do not have much of a future.
Detroit - and its suburbs - need to get past the issue of race. Until that happens, Detroit will continue to die.
Ernie Harwell was doing his morning exercises around 6:30 a.m. when Lulu Harwell came into the room and said she was having chest pains, the Hall of Fame sportscaster told the Free Press today. They contacted their community's emergency personnel, who responded and called an ambulance.
Lulu Harwell celebrated her 89th birthday earlier this month.
The two met in 1940, according to a Free Press article earlier this year. Lulu Harwell was, at the time, Lulu Tankersley. They were married in 1941 and are due to celebrate their 67th anniversary in August.
"I'm still a newlywed," Ernie Harwell said, laughing, for a Free Press article earlier this year. "It's been wonderful for me - she's such a wonderful person. We are more in love now than we ever have been. It's because of her, I think, it's been a great success."
God willing, she'll be home soon with Ernie. In the meantime, thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to the Harwells...
