59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.
Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.
Vrabel really stood in front of the media and said a player posting a bible verse needed to be educated ... then stood in front of the same press and took zero accountability for hurting his family and distracting his team. Which of those two issues has been a bigger distraction?
This didn’t just happen for the Jews either. Pretty much every society that we have surviving documents of from the time, from the Romans to the Chinese, mention their spiritual rituals either no longer working or being seriously weakened around the time of Christs crucifixion.
This Martha Stewart interview is such a great example of how women rewrite reality in their own heads, she calls her husband a piece of shit for cheating but then the interviewer reveals it was she who cheated first (he only started after he found out), her reaction is telling.
”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli. Shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations:
We only find them morally reprehensible because of Christianity.
Before the spread of Christianity, “civilized” Greek and Roman elites openly flaunted underage s*x slaves. This was normal.
Emperor Hadrian built an entire city in honor of his favorite boy.
We’ve heard for decades that Christianity is a barrier to moral progress, but if you undercut the moral foundations of Christianity from the West, culture reverts back to pagan norms.
Bill Maher: “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck. You are in a bubble. And again I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria.”
In 2020, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon accused Trump supporters of spreading conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein because they are bigots, racists and antisemites.
There will be thousands of court cases of children who were mutilated by evil doctors, modern day Mengeles.
The schools, psychologists/psychiatrists and state officials who facilitated this will pay dearly too.