Australian teen Chris Lane killed in Oklahoma by black kids in a gang initiation? Why does this happen? Listen to the video link. No male figures in their lives...
89 year old WWII Veteran Delbert Benton killed by black youth in Spokane, WA...Update: Delbert Benton survived being wounded at Okinawa, only to be killed in Spokane...Why no media outrage over this? Meanwhile we have liberal (oh by the way a Democrat and Barack Obama volunteer) douchenozzels stirring the pot and making crap up to cause faux outrage. And they get a pass by the lamestream media. Update: Oprah says you are all racists...
Oberlin College student Dylan Bleier, a disgusting criminal liar who should be horsewhipped. And Juan Williams and Jesse Jackson, spare us okay? I get there is a bigger problem, but let's focus on that bigger problem and not inflame racial tensions when it is not really the cause. Source:http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-isnt-media-freaking-out-about-these.html
Why isn't the media freaking out about these racially motivated crimes? Images
As the file out, Helen seems to look wistfully back up towards the HoH Room, as if she may not see it again.Elissa: Oh my gosh. Are you starving?Helen: Starving.Elissa: I'm freezing.Helen: It is a little cold in here.12:59pmHelen: Slop balls, anyone??Elissa: Absolutely.Andy: Yes, please!Helen: I can't even begin to explain the hunger I feel. I need to take a shower.. I smell so badly. I need to gain some weight. I look too skinny.1:05pmCam 2Rainbow RoomAndy, McCrae, Aaryn
McCrae: 3AM all the way.. Like, we can actually f'in do this.Andy: Yeah.McCrae: Like, all we have to do is keep switching off HoHs and PoVs n shit.Andy: Totally. I completely agree.Aaryn: 3AM comes 1st.McCrae: Yeah. Like.. I'm gonna fight my ass off for it.. I don't think she's (Elissa) gonna put me and Amanda up 1st, which is all that matters. If you and GM go up, GM comes down, then she grows a wild hair and throws Amanda up. I don't think she'd do that though. She hates Spencer so much. He said he was tryin' to talk to her yesterday, but I don't know. I don't think he's ever gonna change anything, no matter how much he talks to her. Andy: We just can't let her win.McCrae: Yeah. Me n you have to f'ing kick ass. I have a feeling Ginamarie's finger's gonna come into play.. All that pressure on it. The cut..Aaryn: She probably will ignore it though. Knowing her..McCrae; I gotta get into pump mode. What time is it? Andy: It's like 1..McCrae: I don't wanna get too crazy, too early..Amanda comes in..
Amanda: I get weird vibes from her. Sometimes she's warm, and other times I don't know what she's thinking.Amanda and McCrae leave.. Aaryn and Andy remain.Aaryn: Should I be worried?Andy: No. We (indicating the 2 of them) don't have anything to be worried about this week.Aaryn: Have they said anything that they're worried about me?Andy: no!! They're worried about.. But I feel like they switch between Gm and Spencer all the time based on who was to go.. But you know that I don't want GM goin' anywhere. Like, if I get HoH, I wont even put her up. So..Momentarily satisfied, Aaryn leaves.1:30pmCam 3 and 4Amanda, Andy, Spencer, McCrae, AarynChair Room - Talk about the comp tonight..Andy: I'm just gonna piss on myself to keep warm.Aaryn: Windbreaker pants and windbreaker jacket might be the best..1:34pmAaryn and GMRainbow Room
Aaryn: I think you should wear leggings.. and a hoodie..1:35pm - Aaryn returns to the chair room where endurance comp everything dominates the conversation.. From wardrobe choices to..McCrae: This is gonna be the toughest competition there ever was.Aaryn: You're gonna freak people out.McCrae: That should get you amped. 1:50pmFollowing another pep-prep talk, Helen and Elissa have a really nice hug..
1:58 - 2:04pmCam 1 and 2Per Helen's instructions, Ginamarie and Elissa make a Pre-HoH Comp deal to not put each other up, but GM will not be throwing the comp to Elissa or anyone else..
GM reveals that Helen's words have penetrated - she now wants Amanda out, mostly because she has too much influence on Aaryn. GM is irked that Spencer's not even packing..2:05pmCam 3 and 4Helen and AndyAs soon as Elissa and Gm clear out of the cockpit, Helen escorts Andy in. Her work to undermine Amanda's game isn't quite done yet...Helen: I'm going and I want you to know 1 thing that I know. I know that you told Amanda that when you were HoH I told you to put Amanda up. (pause) I'm not mad.Andy: In all honesty, I said it out of anger at you the other day, after you got threateny with me. I was like, this is bullshit, and I was like, I dunno, I was mad, and I'm sorry.
Helen: OK.. But I want you to know that. Umm.. I want you to win this game, if you can get to the end. But.. it's gonna be tough against the 2 of them.Andy: Yeah. Did Amanda tell you?Helen: Yeah. She didn't want me voting for you at the end.Andy: Yeah.Helen: OK? And she's telling me other things too.This is ongoing..**If she can't be in the house, neither can Amanda.2:23pmCam 3 and 4McCrae and Elissa. Amanda joinsMcCrae: Spencer.. and GM... cuz there's a 1 in 6 chance she wont get to play for Veto. If she doesn't play, we have a way better chance of getting her out..
Elissa: Don't you think she's gonna get drawn? It's better if she's on the block. Elissa: You guys need my vote to get rid of Aaryn and Ginamarie..Amanda: What's going on? Something weird's going on..Elissa: If you guys take Aaryn past this point, she's gonna be on fire. She has to go.Amanda: We agree.2:24pmCam 1 and 2Meanwhile in the Cockpit, Aaryn, Andy and GM are also scheming.. kinda..2:32pmMcCrae and ElissaStorage, cont'd.McCrae: It doesn't matter who wins this one, but it has to be you, me or Amanda.2:45pmCam 3 and 4Andy calms and reassures McCrae and Spencer that everything is still a-ok. The HGs are Non-frigging-Stop this afternoon! Spark up your feeds, folks! 
Myanmar, but also Sri Lanka and Thailand. There are growing concerns about how this might affect people's view of this pacifist religion.Time Magazine's latest issue 'The face of Buddhist terror' has been banned in Myanmar and Sri Lanka for fear it may stir further religious hatred. Violence by angry Buddhist mobs has left minority Muslim populations in the two countries bleeding over the past eighteen months.In Myanmar, also known as Burma, two periods of terror in 2012 across Rakhine State saw nearly 200 Rohingya Muslims killed and hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Human rights groups say the hostilities towards the Rohingya were stoked up by local leaders and that several monks had taken part in the rampage.Burma's Bin LadenThe violence spread to the central city of Meikhtila in March this year, where 42 people were killed. Attacks on Muslims continue to this day in several areas, in part because of the sermons of spiritual leader Ashin Wirathu - the focus of Time magazine's story.
Time Magazine focused on Buddhist leader Ashin Wirathu in a recent issueWirathu, who describes himself as the "Burmese Bin Laden", has used speeches on social media to spread the message of the '969' movement - an ultra-nationalist group characterized by one media outlet as "Myanmar's Neo-Nazis".One of their campaigns involves the demand that the local Buddhist population displays '969' stickers and posters in shop windows, homes and on public transport. The three digits have even been spray-painted on the burnt out remains of Muslim-owned stores. Wirathu has also called for the remaining Muslim-owned businesses to be boycotted and inter-religious marriages to be restricted.Junta legacyMany commentators question why a strictly non-violent religion has been so easily used to stir up such hatred. Some think that Myanmar's recent past under almost five decades of military dictatorship has played a large role."People didn't get protection from the state, under the military junta, in fact the state was the threat," said Debbie Stothard from the human rights group ALTSEAN. "Your religious identity and ethnic group became a source of protection and that identity is still very important."
Some Buddhist monks have endorsed religious hatredStothard told DW that a sense of fellowship explains why Myanmar's dominant religion has become an entry point for the creation of an extremist nationalist movement against Muslims who make up four percent of the population.Hatred spreadsSri Lanka, another Buddhist majority country, has seen several Buddhist monks endorse religious hatred. In April last year, some joined the storming of a mosque claiming it had been built on sacred Buddhist land. Earlier, a nearby Muslim shrine was demolished by a crowd led by a monk."It is fear that fires up this anger and it is often politicians that are behind it," said Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa, one of the founders of the Bangkok-based International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB).In Sri Lanka, one extremist Buddhist group (Bodu Bala Sena) has the support of Defense Minister Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In Myanmar, one of the key people spreading hatred on social media is reportedly a director in the president's office, who goes by the nickname Hmuu Zaw.DW.DEEU criticized for lifting Myanmar sanctionsMyanmar's 'worrying' transitionScores of Rohingyas seek refuge in ThailandBangladeshis join Rohingya in search of opportunityAjarn Sivarsaksa told DW that this type of Buddhism, "whether in Sri Lanka and Burma now or in Japan in the past, identifies itself with nationalism which is very dangerous."Temples used to store weaponsThailand has also seen Buddhism used to endorse violence against Muslims. The army, which has been fighting an insurgency led by Muslim separatists in its three southernmost states over the past decade, has reportedly used Buddhist temples to store weapons and ammunition. The buildings have even been used to interrogate rebels, according to US scholar Michael Jerryson.Although southern Thailand is a Muslim-majority region which has left its Buddhist population marginalized, many academics are uncomfortable with the use of Buddhist facilities for military purposes. "I don't like the idea at all," said Professor Suwanna Satha-Anand from the Buddhist Philosophy department at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.Professor Satha-Anand said Myanmar monk Wirathu is not the first respected Buddhist figure to spread hate speech. Another example can be found in the 1970s when there was a great fear about the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia."At that particular time, a well known Buddhist monk gave interviews saying that killing communists was not a sin. It seems whenever the Thai nation has faced a critical time, Buddhism has been used to justify certain types of violence," he said.Paranoia spreadsIn Myanmar the spread of hatred and intolerance has left Muslim communities in a state of paranoia, it has also left moderate Buddhists with a sense of unease. "We've seen moderate Buddhists killed by Rakhine nationalists, simply because these people sold rice or provided some sort of humanitarian service to the Rohingya," said Stothard. "In some communities, moderate Buddhists are far more afraid of the extremist '969' movement than of Muslims in general," she added.
Thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar since the violence beganProfessor Satha-Anand thinks Buddhism needs to keep a "comfortable distance" from the state. She is concerned about how the current religious interventions across the region will affect the world's view of Buddhism."I want to know how the majority of Buddhists, who are pacifist, are going to respond to this? They should come out and say something. Otherwise people will think that this violence represents Buddhism, which it does not."http://www.facebook.com/mujahedinmuslimworld
The media is in a frenzy over the Edward Snowden - NSA story. Snowden revealed Confidential NSA Security information that he swore an oath he would never divulge. Those that agree with Snowden call him a Whistleblower and Hero. Those that disagree with him call him a Traitor who deserted our Country and a Domestic Terrorist who is endangering the lives of Americans. The information on this story is varied, depending on the media outlet. What is amazing is, this is a bi-partisan story. Republicans and Democrats are for and against Snowden's actions. Michael Moore is siding with Glenn Beck. Mike Rodgers (Republican Chairman of House Intelligence Committee) is siding with President Obama.I decided to do some research so I could decide for myself how I felt about this issue. I created this timeline to allow you, my readers to see, in a nutshell, the Life of Edward Snowden. In compiling this information, I found Questions the Media is NOT asking. I am very curious WHY they are not asking these questions. (see end of this article for questions)Edward Snowden was born in 1983 in North Carolina. At age 9, his family moved to Maryland, a community comprised of Federal and CIA employees. Snowden was a non-achiever. He dropped out of High School in 10th grade. His parents had a difficult marriage and divorced when Snowden was 18. His Dad moved to Pennsylvania. His mom stayed in Maryland. Snowden moved to his own apartment near his mom. His mom paid the rent. Snowden loved video games and took some Community College courses. He also practiced karate. At 19, he was hired as the on-line tech for Ryuhana Press which specialized in on-line anime art. He joined several IT forums. In May 2004, when he was 21, he decided to join the Army. He wanted to be in the Green Beret and go to Iraq. He failed training and the Army discharged him in September 2004. He claimed he broke both of his legs, but the Army said there's no record of it.He moved back to his Maryland community and was hired as a Security Guard at the University of Maryland -- which has affiliations with the CIA. And, because of his computer skills, was hired as a tech for CIA Network Security. From 2007 - 2009, the CIA sent him to Geneva, again as a tech in Network Security. Snowden said he became disillusioned about the government invading people's privacy and quit. It was around this time that he bragged on-line about how his computer skills enabled him to get high paying jobs even with his limited education. Later in 2009, he worked as an NSA Military Contractor with Dell in Japan. He also commented on line that he loved travel and he loved Japan. In on-line forums he continued to complain about government invading privacy, yet at the same time, bragging about his travel, salary and lack of education/no Student Loans. In January, 2013, he contacted Laura Poitras who was well known for her documentary about the famous government whistle-blower "Daniel Ellsberg." Low achiever Snowden fancied himself another Daniel Ellsberg. News reports also indicate that in February, 2013 Snowden met with Glenn Greenwald from the Guardian. After these meetings, Snowden left his contractor job at Dell and in April, 2013, he joined Booz, Allen, Hamilton. In early May, Snowden copied 3 laptops full and several thumb drives full of Top Secret Confidential files. Then, on May 20, he flew to Hong Kong to meet with Glenn Greenwald who was the first reporter to cover the story.Now here's an interesting side note: Back in 2010, Greenwald wrote an article titled: "Mike McConnell, the WashPost & the dangers of sleazy corporatism." In this article, he wrote about Booz, Allen and "a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and a rapidly eroding wall separating the public and private spheres."Another interesting side note: In December, 2012, just one month before Snowden went to Poitras and Greenwald, a group of high-profile journalists and free-speech activists launched the "Freedom of the Press Foundation." Here is where this story gets really interesting: Both Poitras and Greenwald are FOUNDING MEMBERS. Daniel Ellsberg is ALSO a Founding Member.Now here is where my Questions come in: "Why Did Edward Snowden Leave NSA Contractor Dell and start working for Booz, Allen?" "Were there better Confidential/Security Secrets at Booz, Allen than he had at Dell?""Was there a better story created by secrets revealed at Booz, Allen?""How did Snowden get hired so quickly into Booz, Allen?" "Did someone provide him contacts? References?" "Did someone coach him to do this?""Who influenced him to do this and why?""Is Edward Snowden being used?" "Is he a pawn?""Why isn't the media asking these questions?"I don't have an agenda and I don't have the answers to these questions. Right now, I'm just CURIOUS why these obvious questions are not being asked by anyone.
"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[b] 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brethren[c] only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors[d] do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:43-48 Last night, Cahnman's Musings was on the ground at the Texas State Capitol. We arrived at 5:45 pm and left shortly before 1 am. We were right outside the Texas Senate chamber when the closing events took place.One observation stands out: heartbreaking spiritual deception.The pro-life movement does a disservice to ourselves if we portray last night's mob as mind-numbed robots; they weren't. That mob was thousands of individuals acting together out of their own free will. And that's much, much worse.The root cause of last night's activities was spiritual deception over sex. Regular readers know this is a topic we've discussed extensively. In March 2012, we outlined the problem. Last November, we identified a solution. As we wrote:Free stuff is the symptom, promiscuity is the disease. People voted to maintain their sex lives. Substitute 'abortion' for 'free stuff' and 'showed up at the Capitol' for 'voted' and you've got a fitting description of last night's crowd.And that's heartbreaking.There's only one solution, and that's prayer. A critical mass of (mostly, but not exclusively, younger) Texans believe the United States Constitution endows them with a right to consequence free sex. They've bought the lie of 'sexual freedom' hook, line, and sinker. And that's tragic. But last night's events were a political manifestation of a spiritual problem, and it requires a spiritual solution.
Source: ThinkProgressPer ThinkProgress, the soon-to-be president of the NRA has even more radical views than his predecessor. I think the hysterical mistrust of the Federal Government that has infected the South since the founding of our country has spread throughout the country and we are fighting what I would term a 'Civil Cold War' that is nation-wide in scope. Our segregation is less geographic than ever and more maintained by news sources, pastimes, religions, and other more portable markers.
