Bubba's wife

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/national-interest/item/71061

Just the thought of being Bubba's wife makes them sing like canaries.

Proportion?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-death-israel_n_5636357.html

96% of those killed are from Gaza. Most of them are civilians.

More than 23 Gaza Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed.

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/04/337657171/is-there-any-empathy-left-in-the-gaza-conflict

Summer sizzle

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/crumbling-marriage-and-crush-part-virginias-sizzling-summer

Nothing like a menage a trois between two crooks and a cheerleader to add sizzle to the summer! 

Jon Stewart and steaming piles of BS in the Middle East

Leave it to Jon Stewart to tell it like it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rpdvuC2t8

Shalom

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/17/5902177/9-questions-about-the-israel-palestine-conflict-you-were-too

Deja vu

http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf/2010/10/the_obama_ohio_fundraising_tri.html

the best damn government that $$$ can buy

a steaming pile of...

Christians???

https://www.facebook.com/101990813189245/photos/a.374831692571821.92710.101990813189245/564950133559975/?type=1&theater

The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”
Matthew 9:11-13

https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org/photos/a.180479986274.135777.177486166274/10152298480156275/?type=1&theater

Nuclear Iran

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0FN27020140718

a steaming pile

some things never change

the world is in turmoil.
why?

http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/what-are-the-seven-deadly-sins-and-their-meanings/

some things never change.

That the Catholic Church would teach with such clarity and conviction ("conviction" meaning "walking the walk" as well as "talking the talk").

"There are six things the LORD hates,
yes, seven are an abomination to him;
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
A heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to run to evil,
The false witness who utters lies,
and the one who sows discord among kindred."
Proverbs 6:16-19

The Blame Game

http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Obama-ties-to-shift-border-crisis-political-debate-5611057.php

Business as usual.
Small wonder that nothing gets done in Washington.

a steaming pile of BS

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7/12/14

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/11/vice-president-joe-biden-calls-on-governors-to-lead-nation/20929747

steaming pile.

Are on-line customer reviews reliable?

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3052466448585769837&postID=4402949646143873349

Hoax?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=639965276038462&set=a.591039950930995.1073741826.100000749852424&type=1&theater

This may be a hoax.
I'll be watching.
I hope that you'll be watching too.

now EPA

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/09/epa-claims-it-has-power-to-garnish-wages-without-court-approval/

NSA, ACA, IRS, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Benghazi, Afghanistan, EPA... 
this is democracy? this is government of the People, by the People and for the People?

steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy.

Sex-Abuse Victims to Pope: Stop Begging for Forgiveness and Just Stop the Abuse

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/07/sex-abuse-victims-to-pope-stop-begging-for-forgiveness-and-just-stop-the-abuse.html

If I had written this article, then I'd have changed one word in the headline. I would have changed "pope" to "Catholic Church".

Pope Francis has a tough job. Frankly, I believe that he's as outraged with the church's failure to "walk the walk" as the victims and me and many others in the Catholic Church are.

There's no better example of the steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy that we live in than bishops who cover up child abuse by deviant priests. CLEARLY these bishops don't get it.

BTW, it's not only bishops who don't get it:
https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org/photos/a.180479986274.135777.177486166274/10152298480156275/?type=1&theater

Good luck, Pope Francis. You've got your work cut out for you. But, bishops, who "talk the talk", but who don't "walk the walk", should have been relieved from their positions of authority and turned over to criminal prosecutors a LONG time ago. ... As for laity who don't get it... Good luck, Pope Francis!

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7/8/14

more of the Catholic Church's contribution to the world's steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy:
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cardinal-george-pell-to-announce-major-changes-at-vatican-bank-20140708-zszux.html

Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, et al

a good lesson for the U.S. to learn.

Particularly when it comes to countries mired in longstanding religious conflicts, with corrupt governments, that can't defend themselves--all of which are NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

Anyone who threatens us with a bomb or any other weapon is another matter. 
We can defend ourselves; we'll be coming after you like there's no tomorrow. 

God bless our men and women in the military. 

Police brutality

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/05/la-police-assault-woman/12241601/

Anyone who believes that this isn't police brutality, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you.

8/11/14

http://ktla.com/2014/08/10/he-tried-to-kill-me-marlene-pinnock-opens-up-about-chp-officer-beating-caught-on-video/

You're not the only one who wants him fired, Ms. Pinnock. There are lots of us who want him fired too. And, charged with assault. And, serve time. We want the world to understand that America is NOT a police state. The actions of this rogue cop are simply unacceptable.

In February 2012 a rogue cop shot and killed a senior woman in Culpeper VA. on a town street, on a weekday, in broad daylight. She was unarmed. He was sentenced and is now in prison. America is NOT a police state.

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7/23/14

another one:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/23/police-eric-garner-chokehold-nyc/13032275/

Really?!? Talk about your misplaced anger. 

Reflections for Independence Day - Central American Child Refugees and Our American Conscience

"These children are not immigrants, legal or otherwise. They are refugees. And when we see this exodus of child refugees, our country has a choice -- do we try to save lives, or do we callously reject their pleas for help, and send them back to the hell they are attempting to flee? America has done this before to tragic consequences. In 1939, families trying to spare their children from the oncoming Nazi onslaught sent their kids via boat to the Americas in the hopes of saving their lives. America rejected them. Supposed defenders of freedom stuck to thinly veiled xenophobic and anti-Semitic arguments to overpower a weak and cowardly political class, who rather than lead our nation, chose to be bystanders of this tragedy and sent this boatload of children back to Europe, where hundreds died at the hands of the Third Reich.

America did this. America, the country that is the light of the world and the protector of freedom globally. Now America has an international crisis equal to that, not from some far off country across the ocean, but right at its doorstep. We have a choice -- do we show the world that we indeed stand for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," or do those words ring hollow for children from places America has no vested interest in? Shall we knowingly send hundreds of children to their deaths, kids who pose no threat to us or our nation, who are simply asking for a chance at life? Or shall we repeat the horrendous decision we made in 1939, and add another stain on the American conscious?

When I see what happened at Murrieta, and how conservative media target these innocent children with their vitriol, hate, and their thinly veiled xenophobia and racism, I wonder if they truly understand what it is to be an American, what it means to know and understand the freedoms we take for granted. I also wonder if they are capable of empathy, the quality that makes a grand society. When I see our political class of both parties be weak and cowardly, and chose to be bystanders while a crisis looms, I can see no other parallel than to those tragic days of 1939.

I turn back to my daughters, proud to be in their stars and stripes and delighted to be celebrating the 4th of July weekend -- safe and secure. Little do they understand that they are simply lucky to have been born on the right side of a manmade border. I thank God I may never have to make a decision similar to the one the parents of these child refugees have had to make, simply to save their innocent lives. And while I wonder where the conscience of this great country has gone, I am reminded of the words written below our Statue of Liberty, a symbol we hold dear during this day celebration:

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The world is watching to see if America still remembers these words, and to see if we as a nation, still have a conscience."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miguel-guadalupe/reflection-for-independence_b_5556785.html

Steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy

More and more I realize that we daily live in a steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy.

• In government,
• In political parties,
• In business,
• In news media,
• In Church, 
• etc.

I’m going to use this space to talk about some of these contradictions and hypocrisy. Like,

• Refugee children from Central America showing up on our border, and our fellow citizens telling them to go back to where they came from.
• The CHP official saying at a press conference that the CHP will “fully investigate” the brutal beating of a woman by one of its officers, that was recorded on video.
• Federal, state and local government
• Politicians (Republicans and Democrats)
• protecting and defending the homeland from terrorists, external and internal
• protecting children in schools, and other citizens too, from maniacs with guns
• Pulte Homes (I have separate blogs for Pulte Homes, http://citizensrevoltagainstpulte.blogspot.com/ and http://peretired.blogspot.com/ )
• T-Mobile
• VHS Management
• The Silver Spring Transit Center where government and news media seem to be collaborating to misinform the public. (I have separate blogs for the SSTC, http://silverspringtransitcenter.blogspot.com/ and http://bscubed.blogspot.com/ .)
• church
• "political correctness"

This will be my space to vent and to rant about the steaming pile of contradictions and hypocrisy that we all live in (even though there may be some overlap with my other blogs, including: http://peretiredwhistleblower.blogspot.com/ and http://customertalk.blogspot.com/ ).