Some More Stuff

The butt-covering begins now:

"What I said yesterday, Ben, is something that I think everyone in this room understands. Arms control is extraordinarily complex, very technical, and the only way it gets done is if you can consult and build a strong understanding, both between countries and within countries. And, when you think about the New Start treaty that Dmitry and I were able to hammer out and ultimately get ratified, that was a painstaking two year process.

"I don't think it's any surprise that you can't start that a few months before presidential and congressional elections in the United States, and at a time when they just completed elections in Russia, and they're in the process of a presidential transition where a new president's going to be coming in a little less than two months."

Is that so?

The video:

The transcript:

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

 The reality: Obama scrapped the missile defense shield, thus turning the US' back on its eastern European allies. He defended the decision saying that Iran was not planning on attacking the US. Iran has not only launched missiles but is in the process of developing a nuclear weapon. Obama said he would meet Iran without pre-conditions in 2008. Russia- which backs regimes like Iran, Syria and North Korea- has benefitted from the new START treaty which calls for inspections of "declared facilities" (leaving undeclared ones free and clear) and a lop-sided arsenal.


What will Obama give Medvedev (read: Putin's Russia) if he is re-elected? There is no point in discussing any treaty or defense plan prior to an election that may remove him from the seat of power. Obama's hubris and deceit is what was witnessed. The American electorate should be worried.



An anti-Obamacare protest - allegedly larger than any "Occupy..." event - took place in San Francisco. It went unnoticed. Wouldn't want the masses to think there was dissent in the ranks:

The crowd of 1000 was about half men, half women, with significant numbers of Hispanic, Asian and African Americans.
Attendance in San Francisco was double that reported by Catholic San Francisco Online, the National Catholic Register or the San Jose Mercury News. High resolution photographs captured by Fund47 reveal at least a 30×30 grid of protesters, with an additional hundred around the periphery. Also, the crowd turned over at a decent clip during the 90–120 minute event, scheduled on a workday, meaning even higher numbers.
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The silence by San Francisco mainstream media on the Catholic protest is deafening. I could not find a report in the San Francisco Chronicle online, which recently gave full page coverage to a “bum rush” by 25 protestors (and 30 photographers) on the residence of Wells Fargo’s CEO by an OccupySF splinter group, revealed as utter farce by Fund47. Two weeks ago, a war protest with 15 professional protestors received frothy local TV news coverage.

I called it:

Pope Benedict and Cuban President Raul Castro met on Tuesday for talks on a papal trip that has sparked hopes for economic and political change, but one national leader said there would be no political reform on the communist island.

This is what I (and Saint Paul) have to say about this and that:

The book in question contains Koranic verses advocating, even demanding, wives to be mistreated, beaten and restrained.

From the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (5: 22-33):

"Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.  But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. 

This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband."

Wives and husbands love each as Christ loves the Church. Husbands love their wives as themselves "for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body".

Does that sound like a manual for abuse to you?

Suck it, Global!

I'm stealing this meme because it goes here:

Your insults, degrading remarks and home made statistic only shows your own lack of capacity to fathom the realities in the world. Islam and 1.7 billion Muslims are not going to disappear just because some illiterate westerns do not like it or do not understand it. Besides Muslim countries, you to have also deal with 1.2 billion Indians, 1.4 billion Chinees and many other challenges. So tighten your belt and get ready to go down the drain of history. 

Now let us juxtapose:

The idea of tens of thousands of former Muslims coming to Jesus Christ in North Africa within a few short years is mind-boggling. But entire mosques coming to faith? That news is even harder to wrap one’s mind around, but it is in fact what is happening according to reports from a former church planter among Muslims in West Africa.

In the new book Miraculous Movements, Jerry Trousdale, now director of International Ministries for CityTeam International, records amazing and inspiring stories of faith among Muslim communities in North Africa. The author opens up a new world to Western readers, taking them into the heart of the “miraculous movement” of God in Africa that is transforming the hearts of Muslims.
Trousdale writes that “unprecedented” events are happening among the Muslim populations that his ministry and its affiliates are working among, including:

• Multiple cases of entire mosques coming to faith
• Thousands of ordinary men and women being used by God to achieve seemingly impossible outcomes
• Tens of thousands of Muslim background Christians becoming dedicated intercessors who fast and pray for the gospel to penetrate the next community
• Muslim people groups that never had even one church among them now have more than fifty church planted, and in some cases more than one hundred churches – within two years of engagement
• Former sheikhs, imams and militant Islamists making up 20 percent or more of the new Christian leaders in Muslim regions

What was that about "the drain of history"?



(With great admiration, respect and gratitude)