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Why is the Gospel of Love dividing America?
Fed up with the angry, strident language filling the airwaves that
has come to represent the Christian faith, author, director,
and follower Dan Merchant set out to explore the collision of faith
and culture in America. What is all this fighting really about?
The book and upcoming documentary represent a two-year effort to
"join the battlefield in hopes of getting a conversation started."
The result is a book full of offbeat observations, fun anecdotes,
comedic bits and in-depth interviews. From Dan's hilarious bumper-sticker
interviews with folks on the street to his unique "Confession Booth" event
inspired by his meeting with Tony, the Beat Poet, from Blue Like Jazz, he
delves into all the hot button issues with candor, humor and balance.
Lord, Save Us From Your Followers:
Why is the Gospel of Love Dividing America?
Christians slaughterers and enemies of mankind.
http://middle.usm.k12.wi.us/Faculty/markwald/handoutAtrocities.htm
Atrocities of the Spanish Conquistadors in the West Indies
c. 1513
This account is from Bartolome de Las Casas. He was a missionary and conquistador. He took part in the conquest of Cuba. These accounts happened after this and one has to believe he was very troubled by what he witnessed. There is no doubt about it; the Spanish were cruel in the conquest for gold and land. Events like these listed below did nothing to help relations between the vastly different cultures. Instead it was a major reason why the Taino and Arawak peoples became extinct.
The Spaniards with their horses, their spears and lances, began to commit murders and other strange cruelties. They entered into towns and villages, sparing neither children nor old men and women. They ripped their bellies and cut them to pieces as if they had been slaughtering lambs in a field. They made bets with each other over who could thrust a sword into the middle of a man or who could cut off his head with one stroke. They took little ones by their heels and crushed their heads against the cliffs. Others they threw into the rivers laughing and mocking them as they tumbled into the water. They put everyone they met to the edge of the sword.
One time I saw four or five important native nobles roasted and broiled upon makeshift grills. The cried out pitifully. This thing troubled our Captain that he could not sleep. He commanded that they be strangled. The Sergeant (I know him and his friends from Seville) would not strangle them but put bullets into their mouths instead.
I have seen all these things and others infinite. Most tried to flee. They tried to hide in the mountains. They tried to flee from these men. Men who were empty of all pity, behaving like savage beasts. They are nothing more than slaughterers and enemies of mankind. These evil men had even taught their hounds, fierce dogs, to tear natives to pieces at first sight.
AND, when, although rare, the Indians put to death some Spaniards upon good right and law of justice; the Spaniards made an agreement that for every one Spaniard killed they had to slay one hundred Indians.
One time the Indians came to meet us and receive us with food and good cheer! Instead, the devil, which had put himself in the Spaniards, put them all to the edge of the sword in my presence, without any cause whatsoever, more than three thousand souls. I saw there such great cruelties, that never any man living either have or shall see the like.
In three or four months (myself being present) there died more than six thousand children, which the Spanish had sent into the Gold mines. Atrocities of the Spanish Conquistadors in the West Indies c. 1513 This account is from Bartolome de Las Casas. He was a missionary and conquistador. He took part in the conquest of Cuba. These accounts happened after this and one has to believe he was very troubled by what he witnessed. There is no doubt about it; the Spanish were cruel in the conquest for gold and land. Events like these listed below did nothing to help relations between the vastly different cultures. Instead it was a major reason why the Taino and Arawak peoples became extinct.
Christians slaughterers and enemies of mankind
http://middle.usm.k12.wi.us/Faculty/markwald/handoutAtrocities.htm
Look at this Catholic comic book like it was a depiction of your human family.
Christians slaughterers and enemies of mankind
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My god is not a landlord or a pimp.
The Conquistadors justified their behaviour by maintaining that the Indians were mere
"savages" and that it was necessary to populate America with more "civilized" Christians.
This despite the fact that when Cortès arrived in Mexico, at the capital of the Aztecs, he
discovered a formidable city of over a million inhabitants, larger than any great European
capital. As well, the city possessed a network of well laid-out streets and a sewer system that was far more developed than anything in Europe. In Spain, at that time, chamber pots were emptied out of windows. In summer, some streets of Madrid stank so strongly that it was often difficult to breathe. Despite all this, the Conquistadors destroyed the Aztec civilization and looted its treasures.
Pope Nicholas V
http://www.romancatholicism.org/popes-slavery.htm
Popes For Slavery
Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on 18 June, 1452. It authorised Alfonso V of
Portugal
to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims)
and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. This facilitated the Portuguese slave trade from
West Africa
.
The same pope wrote the bull Romanus Pontifex on January 5, 1455 to the same Alfonso. As a follow-up to the Dum diversas, it extended
to the Catholic nations of
Europe
dominion over discovered lands during the Age of Discovery. Along with sanctifying the seizure of non-Christian lands, it encouraged the enslavement of native, non-Christian peoples in
Africa
and the
New World
.
“We weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso -- to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit -- by having secured the said faculty, the said King Alfonso, or, by his authority, the aforesaid infante, justly and lawfully has acquired and possessed, and doth possess, these islands, lands, harbors, and seas, and they do of right belong and pertain to the said King Alfonso and his successors”.
In 1493 Alexander VI issued the bull Inter Caetera stating one Christian nation did not have the right to establish dominion over lands previously dominated by another Christian nation, thus establishing the Law of Nations.
Together, the Dum Diversas, the Romanus Pontifex and the Inter Caetera came to serve as the basis and justification for the Doctrine of Discovery, the global slave-trade of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Age of Imperialism.
Romanus Pontifex
Nicholas, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for a perpetual remembrance.
The Roman pontiff, successor of the key-bearer of the heavenly kingdom and vicar of Jesus Christ, contemplating with a father’s mind all the several climes of the world and the characteristics of all the nations dwelling in them and seeking and desiring the salvation of all, wholesomely ordains and disposes upon careful deliberation those things which he sees will be agreeable to the Divine Majesty and by which he may bring the sheep entrusted to him by God into the single divine fold, and may acquire for them the reward of eternal felicity, and obtain pardon for their souls. This we believe will more certainly come to pass, through the aid of the Lord, if we bestow suitable favors and special graces on those Catholic kings and princes, who, like athletes and intrepid champions of the Christian faith, as we know by the evidence of facts, not only restrain the savage excesses of the Saracens and of other infidels, enemies of the Christian name, but also for the defense and increase of the faith vanquish them and their kingdoms and habitations, though situated in the remotest parts unknown to us, and subject them to their own temporal dominion, sparing no labor and expense, in order that those kings and princes, relieved of all obstacles, may be the more animated to the prosecution of so salutary and laudable a work.
We have lately heard, not without great joy and gratification, how our beloved son, the noble personage Henry, infante of Portugal, uncle of our most dear son in Christ, the illustrious Alfonso, king of the kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve, treading in the footsteps of John, of famous memory, king of the said kingdoms, his father, and greatly inflamed with zeal for the salvation of souls and with fervor of faith, as a Catholic and true soldier of Christ, the Creator of all things, and a most active and courageous defender and intrepid champion of the faith in Him, has aspired from his early youth with his utmost might to cause the most glorious name of the said Creator to be published, extolled, and revered throughout the whole world, even in the most remote and undiscovered places, and also to bring into the bosom of his faith the perfidious enemies of him and of the life-giving Cross by which we have been redeemed, namely the Saracens and all other infidels whatsoever, [and how] after the city of Ceuta, situated in Africa, had been subdued by the said King John to his dominion, and after many wars had been waged, sometimes in person, by the said infante, although in the name of the said King John, against the enemies and infidels aforesaid, not without the greatest labors and expense, and with dangers and loss of life and property, and the slaughter of very many of their natural subjects, the said infante being neither enfeebled nor terrified by so many and great labors, dangers, and losses, but growing daily more and more zealous in prosecuting this his so laudable and pious purpose, has peopled with orthodox Christians certain solitary islands in the ocean sea, and has caused churches and other pious places to be there founded and built, in which divine service is celebrated. Also by the laudable endeavor and industry of the said infante, very many inhabitants or dwellers in divers islands situated in the said sea, coming to the knowledge of the true God, have received holy baptism, to the praise and glory of God, the salvation of the souls of many, the propagation also of the orthodox faith, and the increase of divine worship.
Moreover, since, some time ago, it had come to the knowledge of the said infante that never, or at least not within the memory of men, had it been customary to sail on this ocean sea toward the southern and eastern shores, and that it was so unknown to us westerners that we had no certain knowledge of the peoples of those parts, believing that he would best perform his duty to God in this matter, if by his effort and industry that sea might become navigable as far as to the Indians who are said to worship the name of Christ, and that thus he might be able to enter into relation with them, and to incite them to aid the Christians against the Saracens and other such enemies of the faith, and might also be able forthwith to subdue certain gentile or pagan peoples, living between, who are entirely free from infection by the sect of the most impious Mahomet, and to preach and cause to be preached to them the unknown but most sacred name of Christ, strengthened, however, always by the royal authority, he has not ceased for twenty-five years past to send almost yearly an army of the peoples of the said kingdoms with the greatest labor, danger, and expense, in very swift ships called caravels, to explore the sea and coast lands toward the south and the Antarctic pole. And so it came to pass that when a number of ships of this kind had explored and taken possession of very many harbors, islands, and seas, they at length came to the province of Guinea, and having taken possession of some islands and harbors and the sea adjacent to that province, sailing farther they came to the mouth of a certain great river commonly supposed to be the Nile, and war was waged for some years against the peoples of those parts in the name of the said King Alfonso and of the infante, and in it very many islands in that neighborhood were subdued and peacefully possessed, as they are still possessed together with the adjacent sea. Thence also many Guineamen and other negroes, taken by force, and some by barter of unprohibited articles, or by other lawful contract of purchase, have been sent to the said kingdoms. A large number of these have been converted to the Catholic faith, and it is hoped, by the help of divine mercy, that if such progress be continued with them, either those peoples will be converted to the faith or at least the souls of many of them will be gained for Christ.
But since, as we are informed, although the king and infante aforesaid (who with so many and so great dangers, labors, and expenses, and also with loss of so many natives of their said kingdoms, very many of whom have perished in those expeditions, depending only upon the aid of those natives, have caused those provinces to be explored and have acquired and possessed such harbors, islands, and seas, as aforesaid, as the true lords of them), fearing lest strangers induced by covetousness should sail to those parts, and desiring to usurp to themselves the perfection, fruit, and praise of this work, or at least to hinder it, should therefore, either for the sake of gain or through malice, carry or transmit iron, arms, wood used for construction, and other things and goods prohibited to be carried to infidels or should teach those infidels the art of navigation, whereby they would become more powerful and obstinate enemies to the king and infante, and the prosecution of this enterprise would either be hindered, or would perhaps entirely fail, not without great offense to God and great reproach to all Christianity, to prevent this and to conserve their right and possession, [the said king and infante] under certain most severe penalties then expressed, have prohibited and in general have ordained that none, unless with their sailors and ships and on payment of a certain tribute and with an express license previously obtained from the said king or infante, should presume to sail to the said provinces or to trade in their ports or to fish in the sea, [although the king and infante have taken this action, yet in time it might happen that persons of other kingdoms or nations, led by envy, malice, or covetousness, might presume, contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, without license and payment of such tribute, to go to the said provinces, and in the provinces, harbors, islands, and sea, so acquired, to sail, trade, and fish; and thereupon between King Alfonso and the infante, who would by no means suffer themselves to be so trifled with in these things, and the presumptuous persons aforesaid, very many hatreds, rancors, dissensions, wars, and scandals, to the highest offense of God and danger of souls, probably might and would ensue -- We [therefore] weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso -- to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit -- by having secured the said faculty, the said King Alfonso, or, by his authority, the aforesaid infante, justly and lawfully has acquired and possessed, and doth possess, these islands, lands, harbors, and seas, and they do of right belong and pertain to the said King Alfonso and his successors, nor without special license from King Alfonso and his successors themselves has any other even of the faithful of Christ been entitled hitherto, nor is he by any means now entitled lawfully to meddle therewith -- in order that King Alfonso himself and his successors and the infante may be able the more zealously to pursue and may pursue this most pious and noble work, and most worthy of perpetual remembrance (which, since the salvation of souls, increase of the faith, and overthrow of its enemies may be procured thereby, we regard as a work wherein the glory of God, and faith in Him, and His commonwealth, the Universal Church, are concerned) in proportion as they, having been relieved of all the greater obstacles, shall find themselves supported by us and by the Apostolic See with favors and graces -- we, being very fully informed of all and singular the premises, do, motu proprio, not at the instance of King Alfonso or the infante, or on the petition of any other offered to us on their behalf in respect to this matter, and after mature deliberation, by apostolic authority, and from certain knowledge, in the fullness of apostolic power, by the tenor of these presents decree and declare that the aforesaid letters of faculty (the tenor whereof we wish to be considered as inserted word for word in these presents, with all and singular the clauses therein contained) are extended to Ceuta and to the aforesaid and all other acquisitions whatsoever, even those acquired before the date of the said letters of faculty, and to all those provinces, islands, harbors, and seas whatsoever, which hereafter, in the name of the said King Alfonso and of his successors and of the infante, in those parts and the adjoining, and in the more distant and remote parts, can be acquired from the hands of infidels or pagans, and that they are comprehended under the said letters of faculty. And by force of those and of the present letters of faculty the acquisitions already made, and what hereafter shall happen to be acquired, after they shall have been acquired, we do by the tenor of these presents decree and declare have pertained, and forever of right do belong and pertain, to the aforesaid king and to his successors and to the infante, and that the right of conquest which in the course of these letters we declare to be extended from the capes of Bojador and of Não, as far as through all Guinea, and beyond toward that southern shore, has belonged and pertained, and forever of right belongs and pertains, to the said King Alfonso, his successors, and the infante, and not to any others. We also by the tenor of these presents decree and declare that King Alfonso and his successors and the infante aforesaid might and may, now and henceforth, freely and lawfully, in these [acquisitions] and concerning them make any prohibitions, statutes, and decrees whatsoever, even penal ones, and with imposition of any tribute, and dispose and ordain concerning them as concerning their own property and their other dominions. And in order to confer a more effectual right and assurance we do by these presents forever give, grant, and appropriate to the aforesaid King Alfonso and his successors, kings of the said kingdoms, and to the infante, the provinces, islands, harbors, places, and seas whatsoever, how many soever, and of what sort soever they shall be, that have already been acquired and that shall hereafter come to be acquired, and the right of conquest also from the capes of Bojador and of Não aforesaid.
Moreover, since this is fitting in many ways for the perfecting of a work of this kind, we allow that the aforesaid King Alfonso and [his] successors and the infante, as also the persons to whom they, or any one of them, shall think that this work ought to be committed, may (according to the grant made to the said King John by Martin V., of happy memory, and another grant made also to King Edward of illustrious memory, king of the same kingdoms, father of the said King Alfonso, by Eugenius IV., of pious memory, Roman pontiffs, our predecessors) make purchases and sales of any things and goods and victuals whatsoever, as it shall seem fit, with any Saracens and infidels, in the said regions; and also may enter into any contracts, transact business, bargain, buy and negotiate, and carry any commodities whatsoever to the places of those Saracens and infidels, provided they be not iron instruments, wood to be used for construction, cordage, ships, or any kinds of armor, and may sell them to the said Saracens and infidels; and also may do, perform, or prosecute all other and singular things [mentioned] in the premises, and things suitable or necessary in relation to these; and that the same King Alfonso, his successors, and the infante, in the provinces, islands, and places already acquired, and to be acquired by him, may found and [cause to be] founded and built any churches, monasteries, or other pious places whatsoever; and also may send over to them any ecclesiastical persons whatsoever, as volunteers, both seculars, and regulars of any of the mendicant orders (with license, however, from their superiors), and that those persons may abide there as long as they shall live, and hear confessions of all who live in the said parts or who come thither, and after the confessions have been heard they may give due absolution in all cases, except those reserved to the aforesaid see, and enjoin salutary penance, and also administer the ecclesiastical sacraments freely and lawfully, and this we allow and grant to Alfonso himself, and his successors, the kings of Portugal, who shall come afterwards, and to the aforesaid infante. Moreover, we entreat in the Lord, and by the sprinkling of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, whom, as has been said, it concerneth, we exhort, and as they hope for the remission of their sins enjoin, and also by this perpetual edict of prohibition we more strictly inhibit, all and singular the faithful of Christ, ecclesiastics, seculars, and regulars of whatsoever orders, in whatsoever part of the world they live, and of whatsoever state, degree, order, condition, or pre-eminence they shall be, although endued with archiepiscopal, episcopal, imperial, royal, queenly, ducal, or any other greater ecclesiastical or worldly dignity, that they do not by any means presume to carry arms, iron, wood for construction, and other things prohibited by law from being in any way carried to the Saracens, to any of the provinces, islands, harbors, seas, and places whatsoever, acquired or possessed in the name of King Alfonso, or situated in this conquest or elsewhere, to the Saracens, infidels, or pagans; or even without special license from the said King Alfonso and his successors and the infante, to carry or cause to be carried merchandise and other things permitted by law, or to navigate or cause to be navigated those seas, or to fish in them, or to meddle with the provinces, islands, harbors, seas, and places, or any of them, or with this conquest, or to do anything by themselves or another or others, directly or indirectly, by deed or counsel, or to offer any obstruction whereby the aforesaid King Alfonso and his successors and the infante may be hindered from quietly enjoying their acquisitions and possessions, and prosecuting and carrying out this conquest.
And we decree that whosoever shall infringe these orders [shall incur the following penalties], besides the punishments pronounced by law against those who carry arms and other prohibited things to any of the Saracens, which we wish them to incur by so doing; if they be single persons, they shall incur the sentence of excommunication; if a community or corporation of a city, castle, village, or place, that city, castle, village, or place shall be thereby subject to the interdict; and we decree further that transgressors, collectively or individually, shall not be absolved from the sentence of excommunication, nor be able to obtain the relaxation of this interdict, by apostolic or any other authority, unless they shall first have made due satisfaction for their transgressions to Alfonso himself and his successors and to the infante, or shall have amicably agreed with them thereupon. By [these] apostolic writings we enjoin our venerable brothers, the archbishop of Lisbon, and the bishops of Silves and Ceuta, that they, or two or one of them, by himself, or another or others, as often as they or any of them shall be required on the part of the aforesaid King Alfonso and his successors and the infante or any one of them, on Sundays, and other festival days, in the churches, while a large multitude of people shall assemble there for divine worship, do declare and denounce by apostolic authority that those persons who have been proved to have incurred such sentences of excommunication and interdict, are excommunicated and interdicted, and have been and are involved in the other punishments aforesaid. And we decree that they shall also cause them to be denounced by others, and to be strictly avoided by all, till they shall have made satisfaction for or compromised their transgressions as aforesaid. Offenders are to be held in check by ecclesiastical censure, without regard to appeal, the apostolic constitutions and ordinances and all other things whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. But in order that the present letters, which have been issued by us of our certain knowledge and after mature deliberation thereupon, as is aforesaid, may not hereafter be impugned by anyone as fraudulent, secret, or void, we will, and by the authority, knowledge, and power aforementioned, we do likewise by these letters, decree and declare that the said letters and what is contained therein cannot in any wise be impugned, or the effect thereof hindered or obstructed, on account of any defect of fraudulency, secrecy, or nullity, not even from a defect of the ordinary or of any other authority, or from any other defect, but that they shall be valid forever and shall obtain full authority. And if anyone, by whatever authority, shall, wittingly or unwittingly, attempt anything inconsistent with these orders we decree that his act shall be null and void. Moreover, because it would be difficult to carry our present letters to all places whatsoever, we will, and by the said authority we decree by these letters, that faith shall be given as fully and permanently to copies of them, certified under the hand of a notary public and the seal of the episcopal or any superior ecclesiastical court, as if the said original letters were exhibited or shown; and we decree that within two months from the day when these present letters, or the paper or parchment containing the tenor of the same, shall be affixed to the doors of the church at Lisbon, the sentences of excommunication and the other sentences contained therein shall bind all and singular offenders as fully as if these present letters had been made known and presented to them in person and lawfully. Therefore let no one infringe or with rash boldness contravene this our declaration, constitution, gift, grant, appropriation, decree, supplication, exhortation, injunction, inhibition, mandate, and will. But if anyone should presume to do so, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at
Rome
, at Saint Peter’s, on the eighth day of January, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one thousand four hundred and fifty-four, and in the eighth year of our pontificate.
Bibliographic reference
This English translation of Romanus Pontifex is a reproduction of its publication in European Treaties bearing on the History of the
United States
and its Dependencies to 1648, Frances Gardiner Davenport, editor, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917,
Washington, D.C.
, at pp. 20-26. The original text in Latin is in the same volume, at pp. 13-20.
Popes For Slavery
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THEDOGSOFWAR
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Helical Structured Wind Turbine
Helical structured wind turbines are the future of wind mill technology. These amazingly unique looking twists and turns will replace those
long and boring blades which represent the conventional image of a windmill. These new and sleek looking windmills are designed much
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unique and special. In fact, they logically should function better than the traditional windmills as the helical structures seems to not just
utilize the energy of the wind, but maximize it by containing the wind.
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Helical Wind Turbine
These amazingly unique looking twists and turns will replace those long and boring blades which represent the conventional image of a
windmill. Traditional wind turbines capture horizontal winds and must rotate to follow changes in wind direction. Helical structured wind
turbines are the future of wind mill technology. A helical twisted VAWT.
This Helix turbine uses the wind to spin the . The helical turbine designed in contrast to the more common bladed design is claimed to be
a more efficient form of developing wind energy for domestic users. And you need to know the efficiency of the generator to be used.
Probably the Giromill subtype of the Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine. The models discussed in the green sheets use a helical wind turbine.
It may not even be possible to run an entire school with the winds in that area. Studies also show that the VAWT are quieter running and
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turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to generate electricity from the energy carried in the wind. The turbine consists of a
number of aerofoils usually–but not always–vertically mounted on a rotating shaft or framework. This design of wind turbine was patented by
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, a French aeronautical engineer in 1931. The Darrieus type is theoretically just as efficient as the propeller type if
wind speed is constant, but in practice this efficiency is rarely realised due to the physical stresses and limitations imposed by a practical design
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to the structure on which they are mounted. This arrangement is equally effective no matter which direction the wind is blowing — in contrast to the conventional type, which must be rotated to face into the wind. When the Darrieus rotor is spinning, the aerofoils are moving forward through the air in
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Eric....these go well with your "Trueisms"
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Dijon vu - the same mustard
as before.
Practice safe eating
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Shotgun wedding
A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress
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A hangover is the
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Dancing cheek-to-cheek is
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Does the name Pavlov
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Condoms should..
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Reading while sunbathing
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When two egotists meet,
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A bicycle can't stand on its own
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What's the definition of a will?
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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
In democracy your vote counts.
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She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg
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If you don't pay your exorcist,
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You feel stuck with your debt
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He had a photographic memory
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A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is.....
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Once you've seen one shopping center,
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Bakers trade bread recipes
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Santa's helpers
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Dolphin slaughter in Denmark
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hip-hop to entertain and delight passengers and airport staff alike.
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Phantom black assailants Hotel Rwanda
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Aztecs dying of smallpox, (Aztec drawing transcribed by Fray Sahaguns, “The Florintine Codex”).
3) Many people in the Americas adopted “the great gift of the Christian faith” at the point of a
gun or sword. Others turned themselves in to missionaries to be baptized, and accepted the
rule of the colonizers and the church. The story of why people submitted to Christianity is yet a
further indictment of the role of religion: The Europeans had developed immunities to the diseases
they brought, diseases that spread very quickly among the peoples of the Americas who had not been exposed to them. In his book Disease, Depopulation, and Culture Change in Northwestern
New Spain, 1518-1764, anthropologist Daniel Reff explains: “The Jesuits came well prepared with a
belief system to explain why native people suffered from disease. The thrust of the Jesuit explanation
was that the natives were being punished for their belief in false gods and for listening
to the Jesuits' arch rivals, the hechiceros [shamans -- Revolution]. This message carried great weight inasmuch as the Jesuits generally went unscathed during epidemics, while native priests and shamans
suffered along with other native peoples." Fearing the “god” who brought all this disease and death, indigenous peoples in many cases fled to Christian missions to be converted, hoping for protection from
the Christians’ supposedly more powerful god.
And so, through a combination of the conquistadors' swords, guns, and disease, and the myth of Christianity,
the peoples of the Americas were enslaved in both literal and mental chains.
4) “ From the encounter between that faith and the indigenous peoples, there has emerged the rich Christian culture of this Continent, expressed in art, music, literature, and above all, in the religious traditions and in the peoples’ whole way of being, united as they are by a shared history and a shared creed that give rise to a great underlying harmony.” (Pope, Brazil, 2007). The “great underlying harmony,” brought by “Christian culture” (as a component of the enslavement by capitalism) manifests today in the teeming shantytowns and landless peasants, and all the inequality and oppression that stamps Latin America today
5) Karl Marx wrote with bitter irony, “The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting
of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.”
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/ejg1.html
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/doc/lascasas/casas.htm
Theodore De Bry's Illustrations for Bartolome de Las Casas's
Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
(page references, when given, are to the Penguin edition, 1992, ed. Nigel Griffin,
and are to the portions of text on which the illustrations are based)
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Theodore De Bry's Illustrations for Bartolome de Las Casas's
Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
(page references, when given, are to the Penguin edition, 1992, ed. Nigel Griffin,
and are to the portions of text on which the illustrations are based)
1 (p. 15)
2 (p. 15)
3 (p. 48)
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Las Casas, Bartolomé De (1474–1566
THE CRUELTIES OF THE SPANIARDS ON THE INDIANS
Bartolome de Las Casas (1476-1566)
http://www.nathanielturner.com/aristotleamerica.htm
Catholic priest Bartolome de las Casas, in the multi-volume
“History of the Indies” published in 1875,
The myth of “America”
by Paul Woodward on October 12, 2009
The myth of “America”
By Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, Truthout, October 12, 2009
Catholic priest Bartolome de las Casas, in the multi-volume “History of the Indies” published in 1875, wrote, “…
Slaves were the primary source of income for the Admiral (Columbus) with that income he intended to repay
the money the Kings were spending in support of Spaniards on the Island. They provide profit and income
to the Kings. (The Spaniards were driven by) insatiable greed … killing, terrorizing, afflicting, and torturing
the native peoples … with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty.”
This systematic violence was aimed at preventing “Indians from daring to think of themselves as human beings.
(The Spaniards) thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the
sharpness of their blades…. My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as
I write.”
Father Fray Antonio de Montesino, a Dominican preacher, in December 1511 said this in a sermon that implicated
Christopher Columbus and the colonists in the genocide of the native peoples:
“Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what
authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dealt quietly and peacefully on
their own lands? Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and
slaughters never heard of before …”
In 1892, the National Council of Churches, the largest ecumenical body in the United States, is known to
have exhorted Christians to refrain from celebrating the Columbus quincentennial, saying, “What represented
newness of freedom, hope, and opportunity for some was the occasion for oppression, degradation and
genocide for others.”
Yet America continues to celebrate “Columbus Day.” [continued...]
http://warincontext.org/2009/10/12/the-myth-of-america/
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due largely to the high cost of cell production. Hence, a worldwide search is on for new types of solar
cells that can be produced at low cost, while still providing high conversion efficiencies. Polymer solar cells—
in which organic molecules with semiconducting properties absorb light and generate electrical power—
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"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these
the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?"
Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.
But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"
The Spirit was immovable as ever. -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Even the United States of America is not immune to the rules of nature and commerce that
govern other nations. Over the last few decades, our country has made some very foolish
economic choices. It seems as if we have come to believe that the rest of the world is
going to finance our government spending in perpetuity, even as it becomes clear that
we have no intention of getting spending under control or paying back our debt. Because
the wheels of history turn very slowly, we've gotten away with this for a long time, but
as the baby boomers are starting to hit retirement age, the time to pay the piper is
drawing nigh. In the next decade or two, we're likely to face a financial crisis more dire
than any this nation has ever seen.
What is that going to mean in real terms? It means that barring an unforeseen miracle, our
out-of-control spending is going to lead to some very painful decisions that will make a
lot of people, including conservatives, very unhappy. What you're about to read are the
ugly truths about what our behavior today means for our country's future.
1) Entitlements must be cut. By 2030, the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will make up 75% of our budget spending. In other
words, unless we get a handle on entitlement spending, it will be impossible to get our
deficits under control. That means the age eligibility for these programs must be raised
and the amount spent per person will need to be dropped to try to close the gap between
what we take in and what we pay out. Given how explosive this issue is politically, it's
not going to be easy to accomplish. However, it's not realistic to believe that future
generations of Americans are going to be willing to live like indentured servants for
decades to support their own personal senior citizen who's lying around in a hammock
somewhere, enjoying a 25 year long retirement. The sooner we start making changes, the
easier it will be on everyone and the less shock there will be to the system when the
inevitable changes start to take place.
2) Our military is going to weaken. By historical standards, the United States is not
spending an extraordinary percentage of our budget on defense. However, we are spending
an extraordinary amount of money on defense for a nation that's flat broke. Is this
sustainable? Is China going to keep loaning us the money we need to keep our military
going when it's the only thing standing between them and Taiwan? Are Americans going to
keep spending billions to defend foreign countries that are ungrateful for our help
when we don't have enough money at home? The answer to that question is, "No, we're not."
That's a shame -- because the United States military is doing more to promote world
stability than any other 20 nations combined, but we simply can't afford to keep it up.
We'll be forced to cross our fingers, cut back on military spending, and hope that the
world doesn't completely fall to pieces when the sheriff hangs up his guns.
3) Taxes are going up. Ronald Reagan was right when he said that, "The problem is not
that people are taxed too little; the problem is that government spends too much."
Unfortunately, we've allowed our government to spend so far beyond its means for so
long that it's going to be almost impossible to close the gap by merely cutting spending.
Taxes must go up on the rich, the middle-class, and, yes, even the poor. The whole
idea that more than 40% of the population can avoid paying any income taxes at all
when we're running trillion dollar deficits is sheer madness. Everybody is going to
end up having to pay more -- and sickeningly, it won't even be for more services;
it'll simply be to pay for what we've already spent.
4) Economic growth is going to stagnate. The bigger the government grows and the more
it borrows, the less virile the economy becomes. We've seen this in Western Europe
where policies -- of the sort the Obama Administration is now pursuing -- have led
to the kind of perpetual sluggish growth and jobless rates we associate with economic
downturns in this country. As the Congressional Budget Office has said:
Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing
from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth
in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to
the economy.
Less growth means less jobs, less prosperity, and handing future generations of
Americans a country that doesn't hold as much promise as the one that we grew up in.
5) We will have a world where the United States isn't a super power. As the growth
of the US economy slows, our military declines, and we become ever more dependent
on the foreign powers that hold our debt, the United States will cease to become a
super power. We won't have the cashflow to engage in another Marshall Plan, the
manufacturing capacity to gear up as we did in World War II, or the dominant military
needed to score decisive victories over our opponents. Certainly, the United States
won't become completely insignificant, but Reagan's description of our nation as a
"shining city" above the rest of humanity will no longer be true. Instead of being a
colossus striding the globe -- we'll be like Russia, China, France, Britain, or
Germany -- just one of many.
Are these events that "will be" or "may be?" If we depart from the course our nation
is on, will "the ends" change for our nation or are we too far gone down the road
to serfdom? Sadly, we've run so aggressively towards a socialist oblivion that our
country may be on the backside of the mountain and unable to climb back to the top.
Time will tell, but after all the privileges we've had growing up as Americans in
this great nation, we have a solemn duty to bear whatever we must as a country to
pass on the promise, the potential, and the dream of America to future generations.
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The answer to Arab extremism... is Arab joy...
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Posted by Rick
Published: March 17, 2011 - 12:00 PM
More of this... please... even though it's likely to upset the radicals amongst them, I see
it as a sign of hope:
From the notes at YouTube:
Whilst the idea of a flash mob isn't a new thing, a Dabke / Hip-Hop flash mob in Beirut
Rafic Hariri International Airport (Beirut Duty Free) at a time when the region is in flux
is certainly a first.
On March 5th, 2011, passengers experienced something a little different. A flash mob
performed a mix of Dabke and hip-hop to entertain and delight passengers and airport staff alike.
M&C Saatchi and Beirut Duty Free, created this vibrant event as part of their
"Take Back More." campaign. The aim was to literally create a wonderful memory of Lebanon that
passengers could take with them on
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/03/17/the-answer-to-arab-extremism-is-arab-joy.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wizbang+%28Wizbang%29
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