It's laughable. Muslims don't belong in the west, true. but... Consider this. Iceland had a ban on child genital mutilation, one (1) rabbi moved to Iceland and the ban on circumcision? Poof! Gone. One fucking Rabbi... Female genital mutilation is still unlawful... Again, It's not as though every product has a Halal tax...
The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran.
This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…
all for Israel.
Unfortunately the Rule passed just now and no debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of US military technology and supply chains with Israel’s.
The NDAA will receive a recorded vote tomorrow with section 219 in it. I’ll vote no.
This is the worst art restoration in history.
An 81-year-old woman with no training did it. In broad daylight. With the priest's permission.
And nobody stopped her.
The original was called Ecce Homo, a small fresco of Christ crowned with thorns, painted around 1930 by the Spanish artist Elías García Martínez straight onto the wall of a church in Borja, in northeastern Spain.
After eighty years the damp in the walls had begun to eat the paint away, so in 2012 a parishioner named Cecilia Giménez decided to save it. She was 81, she had loved painting all her life, but she had no training whatsoever.
What she left on the wall was a blurred and wide-eyed face staring out of the plaster. When the town saw it, officials assumed the church had been vandalised, and reportedly considered taking legal action.
Then they found out it was Cecilia. She could not understand the fuss. "The priest knew it," she told Spanish television. "I've never tried to do anything hidden." She also insisted she had not even finished. She had left the paint to dry and gone away for two weeks, intending to come back and complete the job.
She never got the chance...
Within days the image had crossed the planet. The internet named it Ecce Mono, and Monkey Jesus, and Potato Jesus, and turned it into thousands of memes.
Not everyone was laughing. For the people who prayed in that church, it was not a joke at all. Some of them called it a desecration, and some called it blasphemy. Whatever the world saw in the image, they had lost the face they had knelt in front of all their lives.
And people now travel across the world to see the thing that replaced it. In the year after the "restoration", around 57,000 visitors came to Borja, a town most of them could not have found on a map.
But the point is this: the beautiful face that Elías García Martínez painted is gone...
Nobody ever thinks about him. He was a trained artist and a teacher at the fine arts school in Zaragoza, and around 1930 he stood in front of that wall and painted the face of Christ onto it by hand.
The whole world knows what happened to his painting. Almost nobody knows his name.
Maskerede betjente uden kendelse smadrer min dør pga yndlingstals- og journalisme-kriminalitet.
I morges kl 0947, da jeg var på vej i bad hørte jeg først ét højt brag. Derefter kiggede jeg i dørspionen og så en gruppe sortklædte og maskerede mænd (mundbind og mørke solbriller) på vej op af trappen.
De begyndte straks at hamre på lejlighedens dør med en rambuk uden på noget tidspunkt at ringe på eller give sig til kende.
Kort efter var de inde i lejligheden (det er ca. her videoen starter) og de lagde mig promte i håndjern.
Næsten alle 8-10 betjente var iført mundbind og mørke briller - helt klart maskering som højst sandsynligt er ulovligt.
De kunne ikke fremvise nogen kendelse og ville ikke sige, hvad jeg var sigtet for. "Det ville tilgå".
Lejlighedens overvågning blev herefter pillet ned af betjentene af "sikkerhedsmæssige hensyn".
Kort efter blev jeg kørt på Bellahøj Politistation, mens lejligheden blev endevendt.
Her blev jeg fotograferet, rullet fingeraftryk og DNA skrabet - uagtet at politiet har det hele i forvejen.
Først til sidst (ved 16 tiden) blev jeg informeret om, hvad jeg var sigtet for: at have det forkerte yndlingstal og at forsøge at interviewe statsministeren om afviklingen af danskernes privatliv gennem forbud mod kryptering og permanent PET-overvågning af alle danskere.
Jeg blev løsladt kl 1640 og kunne begive mig hjem til fods.
Selve anholdelsen betragter jeg som ulovlig. Man må ikke anholde til afhøring - det følger af retsplejelovens paragraf 750. De har allerede både fingeraftryk, foto og DNA - og sagen har intet som helst at gøre med fysiske spor.
Det er også stærkt tvivlsomt, om den helt uvarslede smadring af døren har levet op til proportionalitetsprincippet i dansk ret. Jeg har simpelthen svært ved at se, hvordan nogle opslag på nettet kan retfærdiggøre det. Beviset er opslagene - ikke noget i lejligheden. Det virker mere som ren straf uden fagligt belæg.
Jeg er også ret sikker på, at politiet har tiltvunget sig adgang til min kærestes telefon og derigennem slettet størstedelen af den optagede video. For der gik et par minutter, før de tog kameraerne ned (og tog dem med(!)).
Hvorfor nedenstående video som den eneste ikke blev slettet, ved jeg ikke.
Jeg har det godt, men er en anelse chokeret over politiets helt uproportionale og brutale fremfærd.