tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2629769013621959639..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Why Poland is Great , Germany is Not and Russia is important to help the US save Western CivilizationDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88665101517489272252017-07-09T04:50:13.578-04:002017-07-09T04:50:13.578-04:00Hugh is BACK !
Hoorah !Hugh is BACK !<br /><br />Hoorah !Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-374363183671880152017-07-09T04:49:32.197-04:002017-07-09T04:49:32.197-04:00Ms. Ashraf, unsurprisingly, attributes his change ...Ms. Ashraf, unsurprisingly, attributes his change of tone purely to political considerations: “When Mr. Couillard was supportive of Muslims it caused an uproar and now he’s trying to appease the public. He’s pandering.” As long as he held to a pro-Muslim line, he was fine. Once he began to sound a different note about Islam, though, according to Ms. Ashraf, that’s when he was “pandering.” Others might want to turn it around: before, M. Couillard pandered, just like Justin Trudeau, to Muslims, and now, mugged by the reality of so many Muslim terrorist attacks, he has stopped pandering, stopped pretending that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.<br /><br />Could the “contextualization” approach work? That is, could enough Muslims be persuaded to believe that the Qur’anic verses on Jihad are not meant to apply for all time but, rather, to specific campaigns and battles against specific enemies, in western Arabia, some 1400 years ago? It’s impossible to say. It is possible to hope that some Muslims, although they continue to offer lame and even ludicrous excuses for Muslim terrorists (poverty, lack of education, resentment over non-existent “colonialism,” etc.), and still insist, with straight faces, that terrorism “has nothing to do with Islam,” might welcome having such a “contextualizing” interpretation imposed, or at least promoted by, reform-minded imams and scholars, people such as the outspoken Imam Mohammad Tawhidi in Australia. By accepting this interpretation, and persuading others to follow suit, these Muslims would be participating in deliberately re-fashioning the faith by a sort of textual prestidigitation, so that it will be possible for Muslims not merely to pretend, but actually to be able, to coexist with others.<br /><br />Qari Asim, an imam in the northeast city of Leeds, and one of several hundred Muslim clergy in the U.K. who signed a pledge not to conduct funeral services for Muslim terrorists, apparently agrees that the most feasible approach at this point would be to “contextualize” the Jihad verses, to put them into a “particular historical context’:<br /><br />In Britain, Mr. Asim says, Muslim leaders are taking up those cudgels. “We used to ignore those verses” in the Koran that urge Muslims to kill non-Muslims – the ones that Islamic State preachers seize on – he says. “But we need to talk about them and explain to students that they are part of the Koran but that they do not apply today because they refer to a particular historical context that is not the same today.”<br /><br />This language is astonishing, and most welcome, if only enough Muslims can be persuaded to believe what Qari Asim and his fellows are insisting must be believed. But could this ever come to pass, of treating the Qur’anic verses that call for killing non-Muslims as applying only to a particular context? Or is this merely a case of whistling in the dark by decent Muslims, without this view of the Qur’an having much chance of widespread adoption?<br /><br />So far none of the signs are good. It seems an impossible task, this hoped-for “reform of Islam” of which even apostates such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak and write. “As long as there is this book [the Quran],” Gladstone is reported to have said, “there will be no peace in the world.” Very likely. But “contextualization” of the most dangerous verses — holding the apologists for Islam to their own assertions, when they defend the faith, that “those verses can only be understood in their specific context” (as Qari Asim insists, those verses “that urge Muslims to kill non-Muslims” are “part of the Qur’an …that do not apply today because they refer to a particular historical context”) — could be tried. It must be tried, before the world is engulfed in the madness of Islam that has spilled over its historic banks, thanks to the millions of migrants, and is already wreaking havoc in Europe.<br /><br />https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/hugh-fitzgerald-couillard-comes-to-his-sensesCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52880907502122280182017-07-09T04:49:03.393-04:002017-07-09T04:49:03.393-04:00How long will the increasingly implausible excuses...How long will the increasingly implausible excuses of Muslim defenders continue to be accepted? Those Muslims who are repelled by terrorism, but who also recognize that it’s part of Islam, have to figure out how to “reform” Islam in a way that will leave enough of it intact to satisfy Believers, but that strips the Qur’an of its deepest malevolence. What “moderate” Muslims have to understand, and accept, is the need for that very “contextualization” that they always bring up to explain away the Jihad verses. This is the only kind of “reform” of Islamic texts that may be possible. Yes, those Muslim leaders should be asked to relate every Jihad verse, and especially those that invoke the need to “strike terror’’ in the hearts of the Infidels, to a specific time and place and enemy, in Arabia 1400 years ago. And then they must work to have Muslims accept as “the real Islam” that which we are perfectly aware is, for now, only the pretend-Islam that is fed to Infidels by defenders of the Faith when they engage in “contextualizing” away, as descriptive rather than prescriptive, so many violent verses in the Qur’an. Expressed otherwise, as Wallace Stevens put it, “let Be be finale of Seem.”<br /><br />Members of Montreal’s Muslim community were at a loss to explain Mr. Couillard’s change in tone, particularly coming just before this weekend’s end to the holy month of fasting known as Ramadan.<br /><br />Why were they “at a loss to explain Mr. Couillard’s change in tone”? Could the incessant news of attacks by Muslims on non-Muslims, even just in the last month or so in several dozen cities around the globe, have something to do with that change? Is there a point at which even Prime Minister Couillard might become tired of pretending that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam? At the moment he has gone beyond the stage of offering reassurances to Muslims, but still appears to believe (it’s hard to know what, at this point, he really believes) that Muslim leaders have a duty “to explain to your people that this is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion.” The next stage, of course, would be for him to recognize — it will take some serious study — that in fact terrorism is part of Islam, and is not contrary, in either spirit or letter, to the religion. And if enough of the couillards of the Western world, former defenders of Islam, reach that conclusion, and publicly proclaim it, then Muslims will be on their uppers.<br /><br />Community leaders said the Premier was a model of understanding and empathy after the January shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six people. Mr. Couillard, a former brain surgeon, worked in Saudi Arabia for several years and offered words of comfort in Arabic in the wake of the shooting.<br /><br />If he “worked in Saudi Arabia for several years,” then along with his fat Saudi salary, he surely must have observed the misogyny toward women, felt the deep hostility toward all non-Muslims, had even seen the mutawwa or religious police enforcing the Sharia on the streets, and grasped the totalitarian nature of Islam, especially of the ferocious Wahhabi sort. He cannot allow himself to be fooled forever about Islam. Which is why, although for a while he went along with the party line pushed by Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, he finally abandoned the ship of appeasement. He’d had enough.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3744592284496819022017-07-09T04:44:24.002-04:002017-07-09T04:44:24.002-04:00Reeling from the seeming defection of M. Couillard...Reeling from the seeming defection of M. Couillard, some Muslim leaders might be ready for such a volte-face. For Couillard’s defection from the camp of defenders of the faith was truly disturbing:<br /><br />Samer Majzoub, president of the Montreal-based Canadian Muslim Forum, said the Premier’s words “have honestly caused a shock wave.”<br /><br />Usually, Mr. Couillard is a very understanding person. Putting the responsibility of one man’s actions on an entire community … we didn’t expect that from a person who we truly believe is open-minded and who has backed us up in the past.”<br /><br />Shaheen Ashraf, a Quebec board member of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, said she “is very disappointed” in the Premier for putting the onus on her community.<br /><br />“You don’t think we try?” Ms. Ashraf said. “You can tell the community Islam is a religion of peace until the cows come home and there will always be people who don’t want to hear you.”<br /><br />All these shock waves, all this disappointment, all this unexpected truth-telling from someone whom “we [Muslims] truly believe is open-minded and who has backed us up in the past” certainly can shake things up. Perhaps M. Couillard has had it up to here with making excuses for Islam. At least he would like Muslim leaders “to explain to your people that this is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion.” Whether that is true or false, many Infidels, and “moderate” Muslims alike will agree that it is best to act as if it were true, as if terrorism is “contrary” to “the teachings” of Islam, giving some Muslims a possible way out — call it a willful misunderstanding — of the most disturbing aspects of their own faith.<br /><br />Ms. Ashraf herself reveals, in casual passing, that this “religion of peace” business offered for Infidel consumption is not accepted by Muslims — “we [the Muslim leaders] can say it is ‘until the cows come home”’ but “there will always be people” who “don’t want to hear you.” How many? One or two, or quite a few? We all know the answer to that. Perhaps the question ought to be a different one. Perhaps Shaheen Ashraf should ask this of those Muslims who listen to her: “Why should non-Muslims be expected to permanently welcome us, Muslims, into their lands, and endure our demands, and the generous benefits we lay claim to and receive, and our Stealth Jihad, and our terrorism, and the huge security expenses our presence requires, while we do not even try to find a way to remove the murderous sting from those many dangerous verses in the Qur’an? Yes, it’s up to us to interpret away the malevolent meaning of more than a hundred verses, through the only possible way, making true the very falsehoods we have been feeding the Infidels (as when we insist that ‘you have to realize this verse — 9:5, 9:29, 2:191-3, 47:4, 8:12 and so on — pertains to a specific context’), to explain away those Jihad verses. We will find a way to limit the application of these verses to a specific context, some 1400 years ago, when Muhammad was fighting against a series of local enemies whose identities we should be able to unearth.”<br /><br />This will, of course, be opposed by many Muslims. But more than a few Muslim leaders surely realize that when even a man like Premier Couillard has declared it incumbent on Muslim leaders to explain that terrorism “is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion,” then he has to be listened to, and his counsel followed by Muslim leaders. It will not do to have him reluctantly conclude, as he would otherwise have to, that terrorism is NOT contrary “to the teachings of the religion.”<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15479999814893962472017-07-09T04:41:40.582-04:002017-07-09T04:41:40.582-04:00It’s hard to know what Couillard — or Macron — rea...It’s hard to know what Couillard — or Macron — really think. Does Couillard believe that “this” — meaning terrorism by Muslims — is not “part of the religion” of Islam, or does he know perfectly well that it is not just part of it, but a central weapon in the worldwide Jihad against the Infidels? And if he does, is he simply trying to put Muslim leaders in a bind, by telling them they must “explain to your people” (a telling phrase, signifying a recognition that Muslims are not “our people,” they are not fully integrated, they remain a people apart, not because the Quebecois shun them, but because they refuse integration themselves) that this “is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion”? But how can Muslim leaders really be expected to tell their “own people,” as Couillard and Macron insist is their responsibility, what for them is an obvious untruth? It’s one thing to mislead Infidels with such falsehoods, but quite another for Muslim leaders to tell “their own people” such things. Muslims know perfectly well what the texts and teachings, of Islam contain. That is, they know that violence and terrorism are “part of the [Islamic] religion,” and are not “contrary to the teachings of the religion.”<br /><br />Can it be that Couillard and Macron really believe that terrorism “is not part of the [Islamic] religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion”? Or do they mean something like “you’d better start teaching that terrorism is contrary to the teachings of your religion — Islam — whatever you really think, because otherwise even we will abandon you. But how you do it is your own business.”?<br /><br />Perhaps the defection of Premier Couillard will be taken as a warning by Muslims that, unlike Prime Minister Trudeau, not all politicians in Canada are limitlessly gullible. Even those who were friendliest to them, who could be counted on always to defend them, like Couillard, are getting fed up. Almost every day brings fresh news of some Muslim atrocity somewhere in the world. Just in the last few weeks, there have been attacks in London, Manchester, London again, Paris (twice), Brussels, the Philippines, Israel, India, Kenya, and Michigan, the attack that apparently was the last straw for M. Couillard.<br /><br />The Muslim leaders know, and so do “their people,” that terrorism is part of their religion. Are some of them, the so-called “moderates,” disturbed enough by the defection of M. Couilllard to realize that they have somehow to dampen the appeal of that terrorism? For years they have been playing a game of let’s-pretend about Islam, claiming that the calls in the Qur’an for terrorism and other Jihad verses preaching violence must be “contextualized.” That’s a game played to mislead credulous Infidels. Some of those “moderates,” realizing they are losing support among those who, like Premier Couillard, they once could count on, should perhaps now try not to persuade not Infidels but, rather, fellow Muslims, to believe in the “contextualization” of the Jihad verses, including those that specifically mention terror, in the Qur’an.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44411348227704859342017-07-09T04:40:40.585-04:002017-07-09T04:40:40.585-04:00Hugh Fitzgerald: Couillard Comes to His Senses
JU...<b>Hugh Fitzgerald: Couillard Comes to His Senses</b><br /><br />JULY 8, 2017 10:03 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD<br /><br /><br /><i>While Justin Trudeau descends ever further into folly — “Pride Mubarak” and what it implies might get him a prison term in a dozen Muslim countries — Premier Couillard of Quebec gives tentative signs of coming to his senses (although the final returns are not yet in).</i><br /><br />From a recent news item in the Globe and Mail:<br /><br />Quebec’s Premier has sent “a shock wave” through his province’s Muslim communities after he linked the lone-wolf attacker who stabbed a Michigan police officer to the wider Islamic religion.<br /><br />Philippe Couillard, long seen as an ally in Quebec’s mainstream Muslim communities, has for years taken pains to avoid linking the broader Islamic faith to terrorist attacks, including those perpetrated by Quebeckers on Canadian soil. The Premier’s political opponents have often accused him of being soft on Islamist terrorism.<br /><br />On Thursday, one day after a Quebec man was accused of wounding a police officer while shouting the Islamic phase “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) in an airport in Flint, Mich., Mr. Couillard dramatically shifted approach.<br /><br />A reporter pointed out terrorist attacks have often triggered a spike in assault, vandalism and name-calling against Muslims in Quebec and asked the Premier if he had a message to Quebeckers.<br /><br />Note how expectant and eager the reporter was that the “message” the Premier would offer “to Quebeckers” would not be an attempt to reassure the Infidel targets of Muslim terrorists that security concerns were paramount and Muslim terrorism would be stamped out. Instead, the reporter expected Couillard to offer a reassurance to Muslims themselves. How disappointed he must have been when Prime Minister Couillard, in the past considered to be among the best friends of Quebec’s Muslims, did not speak according to plan.<br /><br />This is what Premier Couillard replied:<br /><br />“You cannot disconnect this type of event, terrorism, from Islam in general,” Mr. Couillard said. “I think President [Emmanuel] Macron yesterday was very eloquent about this when addressing the Muslim community in France. He told them it’s also your responsibility to act on the theological front to explain to your people that this is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion.”<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62357366490369205312017-07-09T01:07:30.761-04:002017-07-09T01:07:30.761-04:00Maxine is going bare knuckles....
This is a serio...Maxine is going bare knuckles....<br /><br />This is a serious development not to be taken seriously.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87245631867031617622017-07-09T01:05:53.221-04:002017-07-09T01:05:53.221-04:00OOHHHH.....oooooooo
Maxine Waters: ‘I’m taking t...OOHHHH.....oooooooo<br /><br /><br /><b>Maxine Waters: ‘I’m taking the gloves off’ on Trump</b><br />BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 07/08/17 12:56 PM EDT <br /><br />Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has decided to take “the gloves off” to encourage others to see President Trump's the way she does, the House Democrat said in a New York Times profile published on Friday. <br /><br />“Trump was just so outrageous, so disrespectful, such a bully and dangerous for this country, I decided, ‘You know what? I’m taking the gloves off and I’m going to step out,’” Waters told the Times, explaining her bombastic rhetoric toward the president. She has called for his impeachment.<br /><br />“I was going to not only challenge him but encourage others to see him for what he is: basically a bully, an egotistical maniac, a liar and someone who did not need to be president,” she continued.<br /><br />Waters has proven to be one of the most vocal critics of Trump during his presidency, and has called for his impeachment.<br /><br />“We don’t have to be afraid to use the word impeachment,” Waters said in May, adding: “All we have to do is make sure we are talking to the American public, we are keeping them involved, we are challenging every day, we are resisting every day.”<br /><br />The congresswoman slammed Trump on Friday during an MSNBC interview, after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying “America is getting played” by of the leaders.<br /><br />http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341098-maxine-waters-im-taking-the-gloves-off-on-trumpCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10531938501209400532017-07-09T00:53:04.266-04:002017-07-09T00:53:04.266-04:00“A Matter Of Hours”: ISIS Positions In Mosul Crumb...<b>“A Matter Of Hours”: ISIS Positions In Mosul Crumbling</b><br />ED MORRISSEYPosted at 4:01 pm on July 8, 2017<br /><br />Iraqi forces have already begun celebrating the liberation of Mosul on the banks of the Tigris, as the last lines of defense for ISIS have begun to collapse. Reuters reports that Iraqi television claims that the final declaration of victory over the terrorist group in Mosul will come in just hours. If so, it comes after nearly three years of darkness for Mosul and the Nineveh province:<br /><br />Iraqi security forces expect to take full control of Mosul within hours as Islamic State’s defensive lines crumble in its former de facto capital in Iraq, military commanders said on Saturday.<br /><br />Dozens of soldiers celebrated amid the rubble on the banks of the Tigris river without waiting for a formal victory declaration, some dancing to music blaring out from a truck and firing machineguns into the air, a Reuters correspondent said. …<br /><br />A military spokesman cited by the TV said the insurgents’ defense lines were collapsing. Iraqi commanders say the militants were fighting for every meter with snipers, grenades and suicide bombers, forcing security forces to fight house-to-house in the densely populated maze of narrow alleyways.<br /><br />How desperate have ISIS fighters become? Some tried to swim away in the Tigris, while others did what was once unthinkable.<br /><br />“The battle has reached the phase of chasing the insurgents in remaining blocks,” the Iraqi military media office said in a statement. “Some members of Daesh have surrendered,” it added, using an Arab acronym of Islamic State.<br />ISIS morale may have finally been broken by the failure of a last-ditch effort to beat back the Iraqi military. A counter-attack launched yesterday fizzled out within hours:.....<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/08/matter-hours-isis-positions-mosul-crumbling/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32830611740905985592017-07-08T23:27:25.215-04:002017-07-08T23:27:25.215-04:00Fusion GPS - founder Glen Simpson, another anti Tr...Fusion GPS - founder Glen Simpson, another anti Trump scumbag.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21158932435365270932017-07-08T23:23:18.415-04:002017-07-08T23:23:18.415-04:00Fusion GPS - another left wing operative group try...Fusion GPS - another left wing operative group trying to take down Trump. Another nothingburger story from the alt left NYT.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62646586125107145312017-07-08T23:13:38.047-04:002017-07-08T23:13:38.047-04:00Obama Holdover Ethics Chief Resigns, Joins Soros-F...<b>Obama Holdover Ethics Chief Resigns, Joins Soros-Funded NGO</b><br /><br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/07/obama-holdover-white-house-ethics-chief-resigns-joins-soros-funded-ngo/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8303120973416962062017-07-08T23:04:32.544-04:002017-07-08T23:04:32.544-04:00Donald Trump Struck a Righteous Blow against Unive...<b>Donald Trump Struck a Righteous Blow against Universalism</b><br /><br />It’s a false ideology, a burden and a cancer on our body politic. It defies reality. Before I address the text of Donald Trump’s speech yesterday in Poland, it’s worth pulling up two quotes from our two previous presidents. These quotes, I think, encapsulate the difference between the ideas Trump articulated yesterday and the core ideas of many of his liberal critics. <br /><br />First, let’s go with Barack Obama, in a speech to the British Parliament on May 25, 2011: <br /><br />For both of our nations, living up to the ideals enshrined in [our] founding documents has always been a work in progress. The path has never been perfect. <br /><br />But through the struggles of slaves and immigrants, women and ethnic minorities, former colonies and persecuted religions, we have learned better than most that the longing for freedom and human dignity is not English or American or Western — it is universal, and it beats in every heart. <br /><br />Next, let’s step into the wayback machine to George W. Bush’s first State of the Union address following the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom: <br /><br />We also hear doubts that democracy is a realistic goal for the greater Middle East, where freedom is rare. Yet it is mistaken and condescending to assume that whole cultures and great religions are incompatible with liberty and self-government. <br /><br />I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. <br />And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again. <br /><br />These statements are remarkably similar, perfectly encapsulate a universalist view of human nature and human freedom, and are totally and completely wrong. <br /><br />Our previous presidents — and, indeed, much of the intellectual establishment left and right — have sold the American people a false bill of goods about human nature, their own history, and the role of culture in the inculcation of our civilizational values.<br /><br />http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449307/trump-poland-speech-western-civilization-values-universalismDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29621843811844427432017-07-08T22:54:41.693-04:002017-07-08T22:54:41.693-04:00Doug Sat Jul 08, 05:22:00 PM EDT
Bizarre:
NYT S...Doug Sat Jul 08, 05:22:00 PM EDT<br /> <br />Bizarre:<br /><br />NYT SUNDAY ALARM: Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign... <br /><br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html<br /><br />===<br /><br />Doug Sat Jul 08, 05:37:00 PM EDT<br /><br />Laura Ingraham adopted a Russian child.<br /><br />Ban her from the airwaves.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81933369434733218832017-07-08T18:16:10.648-04:002017-07-08T18:16:10.648-04:00Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Repub...Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.<br /><br />The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.<br /><br />While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald J. Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting.<br /><br />Representatives of Donald J. Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it. In a statement, Donald Jr described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed.<br /><br />Continue reading the main story<br />RELATED COVERAGE<br /><br /><br />Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms APRIL 6, 2017<br /><br />Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer MAY 24, 2017<br /><br />Trump Sons Forge Ahead Without Father, Expanding and Navigating Conflicts FEB. 12, 2017<br /><br />Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief AUG. 14, 2016<br /><br />Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry JULY 2, 2017<br />American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers and propagandists worked to tip the election toward Mr. Trump, and a special prosecutor and congressional committees are now investigating whether his campaign associates colluded with Russians. Mr. Trump has disputed that, but the investigation has cast a shadow over his administration for months.<br /><br />Mr. Trump has also equivocated on whether the Russians were solely responsible for the hacking. But in Germany on Friday, meeting President Vladimir V. Putin for the first time as president, Mr. Trump questioned him about the hacking. The Russian leader denied meddling in the election.<br /><br />The Russian lawyer invited to the Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, is best known for mounting a multipronged attack against the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged Mr. Putin that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2749467217407071492017-07-08T18:15:25.103-04:002017-07-08T18:15:25.103-04:00Trump hasn't landed yet from a super successfu...Trump hasn't landed yet from a super successful trip and the NY Times mysteriously receives a letter that the Trump campaign had a meeting with a lawyer who had ties to the Kremlin.<br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86410406851816865822017-07-08T16:50:22.746-04:002017-07-08T16:50:22.746-04:00My Pappy used to say--
"One fine day we will...My Pappy used to say--<br /><br />"One fine day we will be allied with the Russians against the Chinese."<br /><br />Soon we will have naval bases and aircraft in Vietnam.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90469019238770055582017-07-08T16:17:24.868-04:002017-07-08T16:17:24.868-04:00I consider this to be perfection in itself ----:
...I consider this to be perfection in itself ----:<br /><br /><i><b>In the beauty of the lilies<br />Christ was born across the sea,<br />With a glory in his bosom<br />that transfigures you and me,<br />As He died to make men holy<br />let us live to make men free,<br />His truth is marching on</b></i><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59172466895057313542017-07-08T16:12:31.147-04:002017-07-08T16:12:31.147-04:00That Lord Dannatt reminds me of Prince Quirk.
Tru...That Lord Dannatt reminds me of Prince Quirk.<br /><br />Trump can't do anything right, is incapable of building things, and goes to bed early so he can arise and Twitter.<br /><br />The Twitter Account is all Poor Donald has going, the moron Quirk would affirm.<br /><br />The Lord Dannatt and The Prince Quirk are made out of the same royal stuff. They should go a-foxing .Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74288421564631502672017-07-08T16:04:50.885-04:002017-07-08T16:04:50.885-04:00Onward Christian soldiers, marching as if to war.....Onward Christian soldiers, marching <i><b>as if to war...</b></i><br /><br />Much better is The Battle Hymn of the Republic<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Mine eyes have seen the glory <br />of the coming of the lord, <br />He is trampling out the vintage <br />where the grapes of wrath are stored,<br />He hath loosed the fateful lightning<br />of His terrible swift sword,<br />His truth is marching on <br /><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on<br /><br />I have seen Him in the watch fires<br />of a hundred circling camps,<br />They have builded Him an altar<br />in the evening dews and damps, <br />I can read his righteous sentence<br />in the dim and flaring lamps,<br />His day is marching on <br /><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on<br /><br />I have read a fiery Gospel<br />writ in burnished rows of steel,<br />"As ye deal with My contemners<br />so with you My grace shall deal,"<br />Let the Hero born of woman<br />crush the serpent with His heel,<br />Since God is marching on <br /><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on<br /><br />He has sounded forth the trumpet<br />that shall never call retreat,<br />He is sifting out the hearts of men<br />before His judgment seat,<br />Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him!<br />Be jubilant, my feet,<br />Our God is marching on <br /><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on<br /><br /><br />The following stanzas are presented<br />as sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1960<br /><br /><b>In the beauty of the lilies<br />Christ was born across the sea,<br />With a glory in his bosom<br />that transfigures you and me,<br />As He died to make men holy<br />let us live to make men free,<br />His truth is marching on</b> <br /><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on <br /><br /><b>He is coming like the glory<br />of the morning on the wave,<br />He is wisdom to the mighty<br />He is honor to the brave,<br />So the world shall be His footstool<br />and the soul of wrong His slave,<br />Our God is marching on </b><br /><b><br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah <br />Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on</b> <br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57157397643669791372017-07-08T15:39:02.966-04:002017-07-08T15:39:02.966-04:00Christian Deplorable. That be me.Christian Deplorable. That be me.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21253200249984003782017-07-08T15:27:51.155-04:002017-07-08T15:27:51.155-04:00Onward Christian Deplorables!Onward Christian Deplorables!Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74387206762848806102017-07-08T15:26:13.504-04:002017-07-08T15:26:13.504-04:00{...}
But the danger is that we might do just tha...{...}<br /><br /><b>But the danger is that we might do just that.</b><br /><br /><i>“We have to remember that our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will. Because as the Polish experience reminds us, the defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of its people to prevail and be successful and get what you have to have. The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?<br />“We can have the largest economies and the most lethal weapons anywhere on Earth, but if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive”. </i><br /><br /><b>The millions who voted for Trump did so because of the promise he made them that he would defend America and the western values of life and liberty that it embodies. They understand very well that America and the west are not just being threatened from outside but are being undermined from within by the kind of people who are engaged in a fight to the death to destroy him – and by the kind of people who took part in that discussion on Today.</b>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50292258803997683302017-07-08T15:24:32.822-04:002017-07-08T15:24:32.822-04:00{...}
“And when the day came on June 2nd, 1979, a...{...}<br /><br /><i>“And when the day came on June 2nd, 1979, and one million Poles gathered around Victory Square for their very first mass with their Polish Pope, that day, every communist in Warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down. They must have known it at the exact moment during Pope John Paul II’s sermon when a million Polish men, women, and children suddenly raised their voices in a single prayer. A million Polish people did not ask for wealth. They did not ask for privilege. Instead, one million Poles sang three simple words: ‘We Want God.’<br />“In those words, the Polish people recalled the promise of a better future. They found new courage to face down their oppressors, and they found the words to declare that Poland would be Poland once again.<br />“As I stand here today before this incredible crowd, this faithful nation, we can still hear those voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out “We want God.”<br />“Together, with Pope John Paul II, the Poles reasserted their identity as a nation devoted to God. And with that powerful declaration of who you are, you came to understand what to do and how to live. You stood in solidarity against oppression, against a lawless secret police, against a cruel and wicked system that impoverished your cities and your souls. And you won.”<br />“Our adversaries, however, are doomed because we will never forget who we are. And if we don’t forget who are, we just can’t be beaten. Americans will never forget. The nations of Europe will never forget. We are the fastest and the greatest community. There is nothing like our community of nations. The world has never known anything like our community of nations.”<br />“We write symphonies. We pursue innovation. We celebrate our ancient heroes, embrace our timeless traditions and customs, and always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers.<br />“We reward brilliance. We strive for excellence, and cherish inspiring works of art that honor God. We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression.<br />“We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success. We put faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, at the center of our lives. And we debate everything. We challenge everything. We seek to know everything so that we can better know ourselves.<br />“And above all, we value the dignity of every human life, protect the rights of every person, and share the hope of every soul to live in freedom. That is who we are. Those are the priceless ties that bind us together as nations, as allies, and as a civilization.<br />“What we have, what we inherited from our — and you know this better than anybody, and you see it today with this incredible group of people — what we’ve inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.”</i>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35502725338490894062017-07-08T15:23:31.466-04:002017-07-08T15:23:31.466-04:00{...}
As for Lord Dannatt complaining Trump wasn’...{...}<br /><br />As for Lord Dannatt complaining Trump wasn’t specific about the threats he had in mind – well, talk about missing the point! Russia, Isis and North Korea are all threats to the west. The question was whether the west actually wanted to defeat any or all of these and more.<br /><br />And Lord Dannatt’s reference to climate change was unintentionally revealing – about himself. Climate change supposedly threatens the survival of the planet. No-one suggests it poses a threat to the west alone! So it was irrelevant to the issue under discussion. Its inclusion implies that Lord Dannatt knows one thing: that Trump is wrong about EVERYTHING. So he just threw in climate change for good measure to show how wrong about everything Trump is.<br /><br />So what exactly did Trump say to produce such finger-wagging disdain? Well, he produced an astonishing, passionate and moving declaration of belief in the west, its values of freedom and sovereignty and his determination to defend them.<br /><br />He summoned up Poland’s resistance against two terrible tyrannies, Nazism and the Soviet Union, to make a broader point about western civilisation. Most strikingly, he identified Christianity as the core of that civilisation, that it was Christianity that was crucial in Poland’s stand against Soviet oppression – and that, in an echo of Pope Benedict’s warning years ago, the west has to reaffirm its Christian values in order to survive.<br /><br />{...}Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com