What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread, with a few from me to start things off.
1. Carrying water.
From TruthRevolt “Anyone watching Sunday’s broadcast of Face the Nation on CBS did not hear critical comments about President Obama from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Those were edited out and sequestered to CBS’s website, leaving only the positive comments aired.
What Americans heard as they sat in front of their televisions Sunday morning was Netanyahu’s positive comments about his relationship with Obama over images of the two leaders smiling in one another’s presence. In describing his relationship with the president, Netanyahu said:
Actually, it’s quite good. We had a conversation, I don’t want to say like an old married couple, but the president said that he’s had more meetings with me than with any other foreign leader. I think you get to a point of mutual respect, you cut to the chase very quickly. You talk about the real things, openly, as is befitting of real allies. I think we have a relationship of mutual respect, and mutual appreciation.”
“But on CBSNews.com, the clip that did not air showed sharp criticisms from both leaders. “
Only positive comments about our glorious leader will be aired. 🙄
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2. Here’s another story about what I commented on yesterday. While they concentrate on imaginary enemies on the right, the fox rampages thru the hen house. And we fund it all. Plus more scamming of the H-1B visa program.
From Cincinnati.com “The charter school also employs seven foreign teachers, mostly from Turkey, brought to the U.S. on H-1B visas for jobs it says Ohio teachers are unqualified to fill.
Concept Schools, founded by followers of a Turkish Islamic cleric secluded in the Poconos, already is under federal and state scrutiny for possible irregularities in teacher licensing, testing and technology contracts.
An Enquirer investigation has found that Chicago-based Concept Schools, which runs Horizon and 17 other charter schools in Ohio, annually imports dozens of foreign teachers in numbers that far surpass any other school system in the state.
At least 474 foreign teachers, again mostly from Turkey, have arrived at Concept’s Ohio schools between 2005 and 2013. The schools are collecting about $45 million in state funds annually to educate 6,600 children in kindergarten through high school.
Critics say H-1B visas were designed to help companies temporarily employ highly skilled foreign workers in biotechnology, chemistry, engineering and other specialized fields – not K-12 teachers.”
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3. Thoughts?
My first was what took so long?
From CNSNews “Christians must do everything within their powers to protect their lives from being snuffed off by Satanist-driven Islamic organizations,” Bishop Joseph Bagobiri, the Roman Catholic head of Nigeria’s Kafanchan Diocese, said Sunday, according to Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper.
Bishop Bagobiri also noted, according to the Vanguard, that Christians have a “grave duty” to use “moderate and proportionate force” to defend their families against Islamic groups such as Boko Haram, which is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians since 2009.
Boko Haram became internationally known after it staged a mass kidnapping of more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls in April. Only one has reportedly escaped in nearly five months.
Not fighting back is a “gross act of irresponsibility,” the bishop said at a Sunday reception, pointing out that “Christian communities that observe absolute pacifism have all ceased to exist.””
“Bishop Bagobiri invoked church teaching on “legitimate defense” in his remarks, noting that the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes it as an act of love towards oneself; and carried out out in defense of God’s gift to life, [of] which we are merely custodians. The theological authorities of the Church are emphatic: Love towards oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality.”
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Wandering Views 
Russia acts again to protect its children from US perversion:
The saddest part of the story was that the student met the “couple” in a Michigan “church”.
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Concerning item 3, I agree with the Bishop. My ancestors aggressively fought the Comanche who killed, kidnapped and raped early settlers in Texas. The Searchers by John Ford paints an accurate picture.
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#3. We need to be careful though.
It is entirely appropriate to defend your family and destroy Boko Haram, not because they are Muslim, but because they are evil and area threat to our community.
We don’t do it for theological reasons.
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From Newsmax, an interview with NASA climatologist John L. Casey.
“I focus on the science showing an immediate, overwhelming need to prepare for the cold era that has already begun to arrive. For 11 years, the oceans of the planet have been cooling rapidly.
Charts show that the atmosphere has been cooling since at least 2007. We’ve had 18 years without any effective growth in global warming whatsoever.”
Doesn’t he know the science is settled?
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Not out here in California. 90 for the fifth straight day and no fog, clouds or rain in sight. Please pray God’s undeserved mercy for us.
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I agree with Anonymous above. It is hot here in Crescent City, CA; it is reaching 75, yea unto 80 at our house. The fog covered the city but didn’t reach the 5 miles from the ocean to our house yesterday afternoon.
This is a main reason why we moved up here after retiring. Heat and traffic. I think we have 8 traffic lights in Crescent City. And 3 miles of Freeway.
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Chas, “global warming” is so yesterday. Now it’s “climate change,” meaning that every day the weather is different – for the first time ever in the history of the world.
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We have no highways and no traffic lights in Stewartstown. 🙂
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#3: The government should definitely be protecting its citizens – that is the job of the government. However, the Church is not a military organization. Bishops can call on the government to uphold the country’s laws of freedom of religion and the laws against murder, kidnapping and rape; but they should not be encouraging their members to take up arms independently. Christianity is not defended by the sword – Christ said it (John 18:36, Matthew 26:52) , the apostles repeated it (Romans 6:35-36), the early church practiced it – I have been reading the letters of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch. written as he traveled from Antioch to Rome under condemnation of death by the emperor to die by wild beasts in the arena. As Jesus said, the time will come that those who kill us will do it thinking they are serving God; we are meant to suffer persecution in this life (John 15:20, 16:2). We need to pray for our fellow believers, that they will stand firm for Christ; but it would be a greater tragedy were there to be a war of religions in Nigeria.
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On catching Ebola:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1
” … Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.
“Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
” ‘We just don’t have the data to exclude it,’ said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston. …”
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Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government’s massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. … “I see the reasons to dampen down public fears,” Russell said. “But scientifically, we’re in the middle of the first experiment of multiple, serial passages of Ebola virus in man…. God knows what this virus is going to look like. I don’t.”
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In other words, the jury’s still “out” to some degree in terms of the future of this virus — it could still mutate to become less of a threat or more of a threat to humans.
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2. An other reason against charter schools….
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