Just before winter break, my two sons, 8 and 13, started sitting down to pee. This happened out of nowhere, a sudden absurdity, and when I asked them why, their reply was that their school had told them that this was a matter of respect for themselves and their surroundings.
I assumed this was another one of those childhood misunderstandings, so at drop-off the next day I took a few minutes to speak to the teachers and straighten the whole thing out, forgetting for a minute that in this day and age reality is far stranger than fiction.
The principal told me that their new bathroom policy was a smashing success, and that the gains outweighed any initial confusion. ……….
In the past years the demography in this country has changed dramatically, and it has brought with it a society within the society, with its own rules and laws, enforced by young Muslim men who have taken it upon themselves to police the banlieues and control the women who live there. These women have raised their voices at great personal risk, asking for help from the liberal society and the feminists whose chants are usually so proud and so loud.
This is interesting if it takes.
The Israeli Air Force.
You wonder why Iran, Syria and the other nations haven’t already destroyed little Israel?
This may be one reason.
From an article on “Muslim Brotherhood bucks Obama” in the current Washington Times.
“Like Belgium and France, Britain is home to disruptive groups of Muslims. The government recently adopted a plan to combat extremism, and its options include closing mosques and deporting radical clerics.”
Muslims are disruptive wherever they appear. Islam does not tolerate other religions. It’s part of their faith.
And we cannot use the plan the British have.
I also see in The Washington Times how, while Obama wants to bring 10,000 (or more) Syrians into the US. one group is being delayed and ignored.
That group is the Afghanistan’s who helped Americans. When we leave, their lives and families will be gone.
Britain’s Daily Mail must be one of the world’s oddest news sources, but occasionally it does some good original reporting. That is the case with respect to its coverage of the epidemic of sexual assault that has erupted across Germany …
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It’s odd that he doesn’t seem to like us. (I mean, what’s not to like?)
But I definitely get that vibe from him. Can only imagine what he says in private about the burden of trying to lead such an ornery, independent bunch of people.
Here is a little something from the church we attended in Torino. They try to keep track of things around the world. The Philippines:
Nine Christians in the Philippines were cruelly killed as around 200 Islamic militants conducted at least eight raids in Christian villages in the Muslim-dominated southern island of Mindanao, on 24 December.
“They abducted farmers and then killed them,” said Colonel Ricky Bunayog of the local Philippines army unit. “When we attempted to recover their bodies, they fired on us.”According to the military, it was the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) guerrilla group that was behind the raids, a group that in 2014 declared its allegiance to Islamic State, which is persecuting Christians across the Middle East.The BIFF broke off from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the countryâs main Islamist guerrilla group, in 2008 after the MILF entered peace talks with the government. The BIFF has reiterated its refusal to enter into talks with the government and its intention to continue to fight for the creation of an Islamic state on Mindanao island.
The government of this largely Christian country is currently considering a bill that sets out the terms for the creation of a semi-independent Islamic sub-state on part of the large southern island of Mindanao and several smaller islands nearby. However, despite the fact that many people on Mindanao are Muslims and the various Moro rebel groups (Moro is a local word for Muslim) have fought a decades-long insurgency for an independent Islamic state, large numbers of people within the proposed Bangsamoro area are non-Muslims.
When Christians in Mindanao opposed a previous agreement in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in their favour. The MILF responded with violence, killing around 400 Christians and displacing some 750,000.
Since the 2015 Christmas Eve attacks took place, many Christian residents in Mindanao are afraid to sleep in their homes. “People on the outskirts are scared and at night, they move to the centre of the town,” said Colonel Bunayog. Military spokeswoman Captain Joan Pentinglay said that villagers in one area hid in a church after they heard about the attacks.
I’m not so sure Romney would not have been a “good” president — and he certainly would have been better than the incumbent, hands down. The polls were close but on election day the Democrats were able to execute their ground game they’d pulled together for ’08 and it was over before the night had even begun. I didn’t get the sense that people “stayed home” in huge numbers because they didn’t like Romney.
Adding yet another 4 years to the incumbent’s reign has been nothing short of disastrous. There’s no excuse for people to have sat home on their hands and not voted, sorry. A Romney win at least would have contained the damage somewhat.
Sometimes (OK, often?) we may personally not like the choices — and, I’ll be honest, it would be hard for me to vote for Trump, right now I don’t see how I could — but there’s always a choice and one will be worse than the other.
Trump v. Hillary — In my case, that could be one of the very few scenarios I could think of for voting 3rd party (assuming there’s a serious conservative also running).
I’d have to be convinced that Trump is not the one-dimensional character I seem to have of him. Not only is he not exactly a conservative, but his temperament bothers me when I think about his being president — he strikes me as arrogant, authoritarian and often too quick to shoot from the hip.
While he’s raised some important issues with regard to political correctness — and for that I’m glad and it’s given me some laughs, admittedly — I’m not convinced he’s presidential material. It would probably take a lot to reassure me that he’d be more responsible than I think he would.
Obama got elected and re-elected not because people failed to vote for Romney, but because Christians continue to think there’s some sanctified duty to vote against Democrats, and because not enough people voted for Ron Paul when they should have. Don’t blame people for withholding a vote from Romney; blame Christians who ignore what the Bible says about good political leadership.
And here’s a case in point. In an election between Hillary and Trump? To judge from reading here and some other Christian posts and blogs, the answer would be a (very) begrudging vote for Trump. That’s astounding. Trump openly denies needing God’s forgiveness or any need for repenting of anything. How does a Christian bring himself to vote for such a person?
Romney is very similar: he ascribes to an unabashedly, militantly anti-Christian false religion. The Bible has a few things to say about doing such a thing. But Christians are reprimanded here for not voting for the guy? Okie doke.
“Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas was the latest high-profile politician to speak out about the string of sexual assaults in Cologne on Sunday. In an interview with the popular “Bild am Sonntag” newspaper, Maas voiced his suspicions that the crimes which have the whole country reeling were not the result of an opportunistic mob mentality but a thought-out, planned attack on the city’s women.
“No one can tell me that it wasn’t coordinated and prepared,” the minister said. “My suspicion is that this specific date was picked, and a certain number of people expected. This would again add another dimension [to the crimes].”
The newspaper provided details from official police reports citing the use of social networks by some north African migrant communities to encourage their fellows to join them in the square between the Cologne train station and the cathedral, where the now hundreds of incidents of molestation and pick-pocketing took place.”
“If we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so case Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world; we shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all believers in God; we shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us, till we are forced our of the new land where we are going.
Wandering Views 
From the “Washington Examiner’ on line.
Feminists must identify their true oppressor
Just before winter break, my two sons, 8 and 13, started sitting down to pee. This happened out of nowhere, a sudden absurdity, and when I asked them why, their reply was that their school had told them that this was a matter of respect for themselves and their surroundings.
I assumed this was another one of those childhood misunderstandings, so at drop-off the next day I took a few minutes to speak to the teachers and straighten the whole thing out, forgetting for a minute that in this day and age reality is far stranger than fiction.
The principal told me that their new bathroom policy was a smashing success, and that the gains outweighed any initial confusion. ……….
In the past years the demography in this country has changed dramatically, and it has brought with it a society within the society, with its own rules and laws, enforced by young Muslim men who have taken it upon themselves to police the banlieues and control the women who live there. These women have raised their voices at great personal risk, asking for help from the liberal society and the feminists whose chants are usually so proud and so loud.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2579878
This is in Sweden. It could never happen here.
I genuine clash of cultures. Try getting Muslim men to start acting like women.
I think it’s a scheme to have men wait in long lines during breaks in the program.
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This is interesting if it takes.
The Israeli Air Force.
You wonder why Iran, Syria and the other nations haven’t already destroyed little Israel?
This may be one reason.
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Sorry about that.
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Chas is trying to get us to view top secret information? But I don’t have clearance!
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Mumsee – If you don’t have clearance, just ask Hillary to send you an email.
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From an article on “Muslim Brotherhood bucks Obama” in the current Washington Times.
“Like Belgium and France, Britain is home to disruptive groups of Muslims. The government recently adopted a plan to combat extremism, and its options include closing mosques and deporting radical clerics.”
Muslims are disruptive wherever they appear. Islam does not tolerate other religions. It’s part of their faith.
And we cannot use the plan the British have.
Mumsee, it was too awesome for uncleared viewers.
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I used to have a security clearance, but alas, the Internet must know it has lapsed . . .
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Those videos. Always creating such ugly world problems.
It’s always “the video,” isn’t it?
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I also see in The Washington Times how, while Obama wants to bring 10,000 (or more) Syrians into the US. one group is being delayed and ignored.
That group is the Afghanistan’s who helped Americans. When we leave, their lives and families will be gone.
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The president will give his last State of the Union address this coming week.
The. Last.
Final. End. Finis. Goodbye.
No more after that.
The glass-half-full view.
It’s been a long, painful time coming …. 😦 😦 😦
I think I’ve managed to avoid all of them except the first. That was more than enough. 🙂
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If he’s smart, he’ll give it during the Clemson/Alabama game so nobody will pay attention.
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Then we’ll all miss our annual class lecture, complete with the accusatory finger-wagging (at least virtually). 😉
Meanwhile …. this is a strange story.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/sex-crimes-across-germany-the-coverup-unravels.php
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Britain’s Daily Mail must be one of the world’s oddest news sources, but occasionally it does some good original reporting. That is the case with respect to its coverage of the epidemic of sexual assault that has erupted across Germany …
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I’ve always felt that this president just doesn’t even *like* most of us very much. 🙂 I really don’t think he’ll miss us much. …
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I agree, Donna.
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What would a truly EVIL President look like?
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It’s odd that he doesn’t seem to like us. (I mean, what’s not to like?)
But I definitely get that vibe from him. Can only imagine what he says in private about the burden of trying to lead such an ornery, independent bunch of people.
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I don’t think it is good that we are middle class.
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Or, as in the case of me and my family, low class.
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Yes, we need to be either poorer or richer.
Well, we are all seemingly getting poorer, so there you go. 🙂
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He’ll miss the power and attention.
So will Hillary.
So will all the contributors to the campaign and foundation.
I miss the America I love.
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I still keep wondering how he ever got re-elected.
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Dona, he got reelected because lots of people didn’t vote for Romney.
Romney wouldn’t have been a good president, you know.
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But Romney had nice hair. Nicer than Trumps.
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Some parts of our government and our culture are really evil. Others are merely hilariously stupid. These provide endless possibilities for humor:
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Here is a little something from the church we attended in Torino. They try to keep track of things around the world. The Philippines:
Nine Christians in the Philippines were cruelly killed as around 200 Islamic militants conducted at least eight raids in Christian villages in the Muslim-dominated southern island of Mindanao, on 24 December.
“They abducted farmers and then killed them,” said Colonel Ricky Bunayog of the local Philippines army unit. “When we attempted to recover their bodies, they fired on us.”According to the military, it was the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) guerrilla group that was behind the raids, a group that in 2014 declared its allegiance to Islamic State, which is persecuting Christians across the Middle East.The BIFF broke off from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the countryâs main Islamist guerrilla group, in 2008 after the MILF entered peace talks with the government. The BIFF has reiterated its refusal to enter into talks with the government and its intention to continue to fight for the creation of an Islamic state on Mindanao island.
The government of this largely Christian country is currently considering a bill that sets out the terms for the creation of a semi-independent Islamic sub-state on part of the large southern island of Mindanao and several smaller islands nearby. However, despite the fact that many people on Mindanao are Muslims and the various Moro rebel groups (Moro is a local word for Muslim) have fought a decades-long insurgency for an independent Islamic state, large numbers of people within the proposed Bangsamoro area are non-Muslims.
When Christians in Mindanao opposed a previous agreement in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in their favour. The MILF responded with violence, killing around 400 Christians and displacing some 750,000.
Since the 2015 Christmas Eve attacks took place, many Christian residents in Mindanao are afraid to sleep in their homes. “People on the outskirts are scared and at night, they move to the centre of the town,” said Colonel Bunayog. Military spokeswoman Captain Joan Pentinglay said that villagers in one area hid in a church after they heard about the attacks.
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But it has nothing to do with Islam, mumsee.
I’m not so sure Romney would not have been a “good” president — and he certainly would have been better than the incumbent, hands down. The polls were close but on election day the Democrats were able to execute their ground game they’d pulled together for ’08 and it was over before the night had even begun. I didn’t get the sense that people “stayed home” in huge numbers because they didn’t like Romney.
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Adding yet another 4 years to the incumbent’s reign has been nothing short of disastrous. There’s no excuse for people to have sat home on their hands and not voted, sorry. A Romney win at least would have contained the damage somewhat.
Sometimes (OK, often?) we may personally not like the choices — and, I’ll be honest, it would be hard for me to vote for Trump, right now I don’t see how I could — but there’s always a choice and one will be worse than the other.
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I do not like Trump.
I don’t want Trump to be president.
If the election is between Hillary and Trump, I’m voting for Trump.
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Hilary or Trump?
Liar or Buffoon?
Head injury or Big mouth?
Th real problem would be the 2020 election. A backlash against Trump would be?…I don’t see any Democrat on the horizon.
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Trump v. Hillary — In my case, that could be one of the very few scenarios I could think of for voting 3rd party (assuming there’s a serious conservative also running).
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I’d have to be convinced that Trump is not the one-dimensional character I seem to have of him. Not only is he not exactly a conservative, but his temperament bothers me when I think about his being president — he strikes me as arrogant, authoritarian and often too quick to shoot from the hip.
While he’s raised some important issues with regard to political correctness — and for that I’m glad and it’s given me some laughs, admittedly — I’m not convinced he’s presidential material. It would probably take a lot to reassure me that he’d be more responsible than I think he would.
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Obama got elected and re-elected not because people failed to vote for Romney, but because Christians continue to think there’s some sanctified duty to vote against Democrats, and because not enough people voted for Ron Paul when they should have. Don’t blame people for withholding a vote from Romney; blame Christians who ignore what the Bible says about good political leadership.
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And here’s a case in point. In an election between Hillary and Trump? To judge from reading here and some other Christian posts and blogs, the answer would be a (very) begrudging vote for Trump. That’s astounding. Trump openly denies needing God’s forgiveness or any need for repenting of anything. How does a Christian bring himself to vote for such a person?
Romney is very similar: he ascribes to an unabashedly, militantly anti-Christian false religion. The Bible has a few things to say about doing such a thing. But Christians are reprimanded here for not voting for the guy? Okie doke.
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Here we go. 🙂 Another election year has arrived.
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Donna,
I posted a bunch of links on that story a few days ago. Turns out it might even be worse than it appears.
http://www.dw.com/en/german-justice-minister-cologne-attacks-planned-in-advance/a-18969653
“Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas was the latest high-profile politician to speak out about the string of sexual assaults in Cologne on Sunday. In an interview with the popular “Bild am Sonntag” newspaper, Maas voiced his suspicions that the crimes which have the whole country reeling were not the result of an opportunistic mob mentality but a thought-out, planned attack on the city’s women.
“No one can tell me that it wasn’t coordinated and prepared,” the minister said. “My suspicion is that this specific date was picked, and a certain number of people expected. This would again add another dimension [to the crimes].”
The newspaper provided details from official police reports citing the use of social networks by some north African migrant communities to encourage their fellows to join them in the square between the Cologne train station and the cathedral, where the now hundreds of incidents of molestation and pick-pocketing took place.”
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Here they are…..
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cologne-attacks-on-new-years-produced-chaos-say-police-a-1070894.html
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/06/berlin-cologne-hamburg-stuttgart-dusseldorf-new-years-migrant-sex-assault-every-major-german-city/
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mass-sexual-attack-in-germany-inflames-migrant-debate/ar-AAgowzs?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U142DHP
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“If we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so case Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world; we shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all believers in God; we shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us, till we are forced our of the new land where we are going.
John Winthrop in his A Model of Christian Charity
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