MEMBER BLOG TAG: murder
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:06PM | | | | Fair & Balance Investigation | Tags: media, politics, POWs, murder, torture, Lamar Smith, treason, Bush & Blair knew no WMD
| | | | We should all be grateful to the Honorable Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and his fair and balanced committee of Republicans for their willingness to investigate liberal media such as the New York Times, ABC, NBC, CBS.
We can only hope that they will discover why the liberal New York Times would not permit its writers to say George Bush lied when he said there were no warnings of a terrorist attack before 9/11 and that no one imagined using airliners as bombs. At least 12 other nations and a Taliban official warned the Bush administration of a planned attack on the US. US intelligence had known since 1998 of a plan to use hijacked airliners to attack the World Trade Center, and since 1999 of a... | | | | | | | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:52PM | | | | David & Bathsheba | Tags: marriage, homosexuality, adultery, murder, war
| | | | If you’ve seen the movie you know that King David was a mighty warrior, a great king, a great lover, and his great love was Bathsheba.
If you attended the Sunday School classes I did you also knew that David committed a great sin. He allowed himself to be seduced by a temptress.
The men and women of the Bible were a sorry lot. The women were wanton, the men helpless to a woman’s smile. Adam ate whatever Eve gave him to eat. Lot’s daughters got him drunk so that he was unable to avoid incest. Samson allowed Delilah to trim his hair. Hebrew bucks were seduced into idolatry by Moabite women. And King David was taffy when he saw Bathsheba.
There are a few details missing from... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:58PM | | | | The Secret Lives of Cities Revealed | Tags: cities, femicide, censorship, crime, murder, representation, Riyadh, Guatemala, Minneapolis, El Paz
| | | The Secret Lives of Cities
Thursday, May 1st, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Instituto Cervantes New York
Juan de Recacoechea, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Francisco Goldman & Joshua Furst. Moderated by Matt Weiland
Riyadh. Minneapolis. La Paz. Guatamala City. As Paris Review editor and panel moderated Matt Wieland rightly pointed out, this is likely the first time on earth that the four aforementioned cities have been yoked together on a panel.
Urban spaces are reflective of the denizens who constitute its population and there's often a sociological symbiosis that takes place between the inhabitants of a city and its culture and climate. Whether consciously or unconsciously we attribute the qualities of a city - its architecture, cuisine, and pace of life - to the personalities... | | | | | |
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