d*****o 发帖数: 2868 | 1 The pulpit rock(布道石)地处挪威南部,靠近斯塔万格市的吕瑟峡湾(Lysefjord)中部
,垂直落差604米,顶部有大约625平方米的平台。从远处看去,非常壮观, 而走到近
处,站在布道石平台上,俯瞰峡谷中的吕瑟峡湾(Lysefjord),几乎是挪威的名片。美
国有线电视新闻网(CNN)旗下的旅游及生活网站CNNGO,评出全球50处最壮丽的自然景
观,布道石名列首位.
计划挪威行程的时候,The pulpit rock就是俺特别特别想去的一个景点,为此还特意
在the pulpit rock的旁边订了旅馆。看完了bergen, 我们转天早上一路南下经过
stavanger,一路坐了3次car ferry, 终于开车来到了the pulpit rock的脚下。从布道
石的parking lot走到山顶的trail长约3.8公里 with a difference in altitude of
1082ft, 但坑爹是这个trail有3个非常明显的上坡,走起来多少有些吃力。看下图:
不过俺觉得吧不想做一件事情的话,可以找出n多个理由,想做的话3个字just do it!... 阅读全帖 |
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a**e 发帖数: 5794 | 2 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: apie (奔跑的秃子), 信区: USANews
标 题: Pastors To Preach Politics From The Pulpit
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 25 11:25:29 2008), 站内
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95003709
Pastors To Preach Politics From The Pulpit
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Listen Now [4 min 48 sec] add to playlist
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Jeremy Swinborne
This weekend, 33 ministers are expected to preach a sermon that endorses or
opposes a political candidate by name. This would be a flagrant violation o |
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a**e 发帖数: 5794 | 3 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95003709
Pastors To Preach Politics From The Pulpit
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Listen Now [4 min 48 sec] add to playlist
Enlarge
Jeremy Swinborne
This weekend, 33 ministers are expected to preach a sermon that endorses or
opposes a political candidate by name. This would be a flagrant violation of
a 54-year-old law that bans tax-exempt organizations from involvement in po
litical campaigns. iStockphoto.com
All Things Considered, September 24, |
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D*****r 发帖数: 6791 | 4 Letters from the Earth
When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!"
He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million
stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and
away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far
frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads
sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe.
At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed.
They left... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 5 Feb 6, 2012
By Todd Starnes/TWITTER
The Obama administration has been accused of telling Catholic military
chaplains what they can and cannot say from their pulpits after the Army
ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners from their
archbishop.
The Secretary of the Army feared the letter could be viewed as a call for
civil disobedience.
The letter called on Catholics to resist the policy the Obama Administration
’s policy that would force institutions affiliated with religi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 6 Subpoenas issued to five Houston pastors demanding all sermons and
correspondence dealing with homosexuality, gender identity and the city's
Equal Rights ordinance have been withdrawn, the city’s first openly lesbian
mayor announced at a Wednesday press conference.
"After much contemplation and discussion, I am directing the city legal
department to withdraw the subpoenas issued to the five Houston pastors who
delivered the petitions, the anti-HERO petitions, to the city of Houston and
who indic... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 休斯敦基佬市长终于撤回subpoena
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 30 17:12:19 2014, 美东)
Subpoenas issued to five Houston pastors demanding all sermons and
correspondence dealing with homosexuality, gender identity and the city's
Equal Rights ordinance have been withdrawn, the city’s first openly lesbian
mayor announced at a Wednesday press conference.
"After much contemplation and discussion, I am directing the city legal
department to withdraw the subpoena... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7 发帖数: 8463 | 8 http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/11/10/southern-states-issue-wh
Americans in 15 states issue White House petitions asking permission to
secede
1663 If at first you don’t succeed, just secede!
More than 8,000 Louisiana residents have signed an online petition to the
Obama administration to allow the state of Louisana to, “withdraw
peacefully from the United States of America and create its own new
government.”
The petition, posted to the online White House petitions page, cites the
Declaration of... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 9 Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most
thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative
entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done
something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the
prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be
required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception
and abortifacients, the bishops, priests,... 阅读全帖 |
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A**H 发帖数: 4797 | 10 Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your
nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead
our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. We will be a country of
generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on
our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life.... 阅读全帖 |
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G***Y 发帖数: 9698 | 11 大苹果活动看板(5/16)
May 18, 2015, 12:14 PM
戏剧·表演
New York City Ballet: La Sylphide
★★★★★
当晚,纽约市芭蕾舞团将首次公开演绎经典芭蕾舞剧《白仙女》(La Sylphide)。
时间:5月16日晚8点、17日下午3点、23日下午2点和晚上8点、24下午3点。
地点:林肯中心大卫·科赫剧院(David H. Koch Theater)。
地址:20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York。
交通:搭乘1号线地铁到66街-林肯中心站。
费用:29美元到164美元不等。
网站:nycballet.com。
Free Annual Memorial Day Concert 国殇日年度免费音乐会 ★★★★★
每年,纽约爱乐乐团(New York Philharmonic)都会在国殇日长周末举办免费音
乐会,纪念所有为美国捐躯的阵亡将士。当天晚上,音乐总监艾伦·吉尔伯特(Alan
Gilbert)将担纲指挥,爱乐乐团将倾情演绎贝多芬的《埃格蒙特序曲(Egmont
Overture)》以及肖斯塔科维... 阅读全帖 |
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x********t 发帖数: 101 | 12 决定去挪威是想起几年前看到的一个游记里布道石的相片,当时就被这个
石头镇住了,觉得好赞。在计划这个行程的时候中间出了一些插曲,但最终克服重重“
困难”,并且非常幸运的在出发前五天找到一个主动改行程跟着我走的小朋友。站在
布道石上时,觉得一切都是值得的。
Day 1 到达Stavanger
到达Oslo是下午三点多。搭乘的挪威航空用了先进的787 Dreamliner, 可以变颜色的窗
户还蛮新奇的。把超爱的Black Swan又重看了一遍。为了多点时间玩,选择三小时后的
飞机直接去Stavanger。到达Stavanger已经是七点了,因为日照时间长,晚上十点还是
很亮。机场大巴司机阿姨很好心的把所有人都送到市区后直接送我到旅店。一路和她聊
天,也不觉得时间漫长。觉得小城市的居民都很友好,节奏比较慢。小朋友最喜欢这个
小城市。如同西班牙的城市基本都有个武器广场,这里的城市中心基本都有个喷泉,天
鹅和繁花朵朵,多想坐在树下静静读一本书。
Day 2 感受Preikestolen
第二天早上便搭公交去市中心的码头爬布道石。提前看天气预报是上午11-1点会出太阳
,其他时间都阴天,所以想搭周... 阅读全帖 |
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j*****6 发帖数: 1059 | 13 第六章 自我省察的必要
「你们总要自己省察有信心没有,也要自己试验。」
(哥林多后书13:5)
柏克司说得对:「要全心归向神是十分艰难罕得的功夫……改邪归正是一番稀罕的功夫。
」[70] 保罗要求哥林多人在神面前省察他们自己的心,看看他们究竟是否真实得救了。
虽然他是在哥林多开创了教会,当他给他们写信时他却不以为凡事会想当然地顺利,乃
是说:「你们总要自己省察有信心没有;也要自己试验!」(哥林多后书13:5)。若是一
个人沾沾自喜而随意说:「灵魂啊,你放心吧!」却实际上是遭神所憎恶的,这该是何等
可怕的状态阿!然而,世上大多数人正是处于这种状态之中。
一个人在今生所当解决的最大问题就是,到底他属于神不是。「您是更新重生了或不是
呢?」这才是关键,因为基督透过尼哥底母告诉我们:「我实实在在的告诉你,人若不重
生就不能见神的国」(约翰福音3:3)。可见一个人的永远命运像是放在天平上,就看你
如何解决这个关键问题了。
什么叫做更新重生呢?更新重生就是神的圣灵将那来自神的属灵生命,传递给一个原先
死在过犯罪恶中的人。有一位古时的作家曾经这样描述过:「那是神的灵借着神的道所作
成的工,叫人得救... 阅读全帖 |
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n********n 发帖数: 8336 | 14 But don’t take this to mean that Simeon pulled any punches when expounding
Biblical texts. He is very forthright in teaching what the Bible teaches and
calling error by its real name. But he is jealous of not getting things out
of balance.
He said that his invariable rule was “to endeavor to give to every portion
of the Word of God its full and proper force, without considering what
scheme it favours, or whose system it is likely to advance” (Moule, 79).
“My endeavor is to bring out of Scripture... 阅读全帖 |
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s***h 发帖数: 372 | 15 http://hippocampusextensions.com/gs/whitefield/
Whitefield 1714–1770
Biographical Note
George Whitefield, evangelist and leader of Calvinistic Methodists, who has
been called the Demosthenes of the pulpit, was born at Gloucester, England, in
1714. He was an impassioned pulpit orator of the popular type, and his power
over immense congregations was largely due to his histrionic talent and his
exquisitely modulated voice, which has been described as “an organ, a flute,
a harp, all in one,” and w |
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T**********e 发帖数: 29576 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: Military
标 题: 搞了半天Dr.King的博士论文是抄的
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 16 08:53:27 2012, 美东)
1991年10月,波士顿大学的审查委员会向校方提交了正式的鉴定报告,指出“确定无疑
的是,金博士在其博士论文中有抄袭作为,他挪用材料的来源有些未在注释中标明、或
错误标明、或泛泛标明,并在行文的间隔之中,稍作措辞变化或逐字逐句地挪用了别人
的材料”。他们鉴定的结果是,抄袭的比重在论文的上半部分占45%、下半部分达21%。
审查小组没有考虑取消金的博士学位,因为这“无济于事”(serve no purpose),况
且金的论文仍然“对学术做出了一份智识贡献”。但他们提议,在图书馆收藏的金的博
士论文副本中附上这份鉴定意见书。Westling 校长接受了他们的建议,并强调指出,
委员会四位教授“开展的调查具有彻底的学术性以及对细节的谨慎关注,并决意不受非
学术考虑的影响”。(New York Times, Oct. 1... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******n 发帖数: 356 | 17 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/church-that-torched-koran-h
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Long before the Rev. Terry Jones threatened to burn a
Koran, former parishioners say he presided over a church that he treated as
a personal fiefdom, imposing a strict orthodoxy that tore apart one
Gainesville family after another.
Congregants at the Dove World Outreach Center, who have dwindled to 30 or so
in number, are required to vow allegiance to Jones — a pledge that places
restrictions on their diets, thei... 阅读全帖 |
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u****n 发帖数: 7521 | 18 美国普通人非常痛恨过度的福利制度
主贴:
Tea Party 'tantrum' not good for nation
1:30 PM, Aug. 5, 2011 |
66Comments
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20110808/VIEWPOINTS03/108080
Thanks to the Tea Party. For them, it's my way or the highway — does that
remind you of your children's temper tantrums? Well, it worked!
Forget the poor, the elderly and the unemployed, while the wealthiest
continue to enjoy their quality of life at the expense of the rest of us.
God help us.
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Adkins
Elmira
评论(被... 阅读全帖 |
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T**********e 发帖数: 29576 | 19 1991年10月,波士顿大学的审查委员会向校方提交了正式的鉴定报告,指出“确定无疑
的是,金博士在其博士论文中有抄袭作为,他挪用材料的来源有些未在注释中标明、或
错误标明、或泛泛标明,并在行文的间隔之中,稍作措辞变化或逐字逐句地挪用了别人
的材料”。他们鉴定的结果是,抄袭的比重在论文的上半部分占45%、下半部分达21%。
审查小组没有考虑取消金的博士学位,因为这“无济于事”(serve no purpose),况
且金的论文仍然“对学术做出了一份智识贡献”。但他们提议,在图书馆收藏的金的博
士论文副本中附上这份鉴定意见书。Westling 校长接受了他们的建议,并强调指出,
委员会四位教授“开展的调查具有彻底的学术性以及对细节的谨慎关注,并决意不受非
学术考虑的影响”。(New York Times, Oct. 11, 1991)
有学者为Dr.King解释:
一位学者Keith Miller的论述则更耐人寻味。Miller是Arizona州立大学的一位年轻助理教授,他最早注意到金在演讲和布道中的“文本挪用”问题,但却对此提出了独特的阐述和辩护:抄袭对金不是问题,因为他根本不认同那个主... 阅读全帖 |
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T**********e 发帖数: 29576 | 20 所以即使是什么团队老爸写的,hh大可以不在乎,只要路线对了头,照样可以做时代领
头人。
回顾马丁·路德·金抄袭事件
刘 擎
1991年10月,我初到美国不久,就在《纽约时报》上读到有关马丁·路德·金博士
论文存在抄袭(plagiarism)的消息,当时感到的震惊无以名状。虽然早就过了崇拜偶
像的年龄,但这位民权运动的领袖、非暴力运动的倡导者、神学博士、魅力型牧师、诺
贝尔和平奖获得者、被邪恶势力暗杀的烈士,仍然是我心中不可亵渎的英雄,难以想象
他会与抄袭剽窃之类的行径有任何牵连。于是,凭借一个中国人“本能的”政治敏感,
自然地就生出一份警觉:这会不会是什么阴谋?会不会是右派势力和种族主义者制造的
污名化运动?存着这份怀疑,便开始关注这个事件的来龙去脉,却获得了一份意外的教
益。
事件的始末
马丁·路德·金于1968年4月被暗杀。无论是他在世的时候,还是他遇难之后的二
十年间,几乎没有人注意到他可能存在抄袭的嫌疑。唯一的例外是 Ira G. Zepp,他在
1971年完成的博士论文中指出,金的自传性作品《迈向自由》(Stride Toward
Freedom, 1958)抄袭了两部著名... 阅读全帖 |
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o**********e 发帖数: 18403 | 21 新教恰恰不认为必须要读神学院才能
发声。 随便谁都可以自发地爬上PULPIT
去讲道。 这是新教的天然自由民主的意识。
所以您这些话有点贻笑大方。
http://weibo.com/p/1001603774559923880307?pids=Pl_Official_Card
蒙元和满清两朝为何打压道教的真相
抱朴守拙
张绪通在《从“化胡”到“化全球”》中写道:蒙元规定,把国内人种分成四等:最上
等是蒙古族;次等民族是“色目人”,就是洋人;三等民族是北方汉人;末等是南方汉
人。对代表汉族文化的道教,成了被歧视、打压的首要对象。所以,佛教时逢其会,终
于得到了全盘胜利。这次对《道藏》的毁禁,执行非常彻底,人民不敢匿藏。造成了中
国文化史上的空前大劫,永难弥补。后来明朝定鼎,集全国的力量,复修《道藏》,仅
得五千三百余卷。其余二千五百多卷,俱已葬身火窟,包括《老子化胡经》,据说《老
子化胡经》从世上永远绝迹了。满清是满洲人入主中原,对汉人有一定的歧视和顾忌。
虽然没有对《道藏》作过过激的毁损,不过在精神上,打击和压制代表汉文化的道教,
是不遗余力的,例如,把统理天下道教的张天师,从国师二... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: v5:30家科技公司签署大统令的diversity pledge
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 18:05:44 2016, 美东)
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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I*******g 发帖数: 7600 | 23 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: fatboyslim (fatboyslim), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 工作AA终于来了, 以后老中进这30个公司就不容易了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 18:20:43 2016, 美东)
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
... 阅读全帖 |
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D**s 发帖数: 6361 | 24 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: v5:30家科技公司签署大统令的diversity pledge
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 18:05:44 2016, 美东)
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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f***e 发帖数: 5443 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: v5:30家科技公司签署大统令的diversity pledge
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 18:05:44 2016, 美东)
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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s******t 发帖数: 1956 | 26 原来的修正案是:免税的教会等不能干政。现在,Trump要把它废了。怪不得我周边的
华人教徒都支持Trump呢,不少连绿卡都没有。
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WASHINGTON — When President Trump told an audience of religious leaders on
Thursday that he would ‘destroy’ the Johnson Amendment, he declared his
intention to sign a bill that would fundamentally alter a major aspect of
the church-state divide that has been a constant in American politics for
generations.
But what exactly is the Johnson Amendment?
A restriction for churches and nonprofits
It is one of the brightest lines ... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n 发帖数: 11530 | 27 Trump doesn't have magic wand to wipe out Puerto Rico's debt
by Matt Egan @mattmegan5
October 4, 2017: 2:48 PM ET
The "King of Debt" has plenty of power, but he can't make Puerto Rico's
mountain of debt magically disappear.
President Trump, who gave himself the royal moniker during the 2016 campaign
, told Fox News' Geraldo Rivera that "we will have to wipe out" Puerto Rico'
s crushing debt load.
Trump's dramatic statement spooked the market. The price of some Puerto
Rican bonds crashed 15%... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 28 Norma Rae, Martin Ritt, 1979 - Union Sign Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ulYIVcCeY
40 Years Ago, Norma Rae Understood How Corporations Weaponized Race
The most enduring image of the film Norma Rae, which was released 40 years
ago, is surely Sally Field’s titular character silently standing on a table
, holding up a cardboard sign with the word union scrawled on it. One by one
, her fellow factory workers shut off their deafening textile machines in
solidarity. The climactic scene sugges... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d 发帖数: 4174 | 29 Posted on Advocate.com August 29, 2011 03:35:00 PM ET
Religious Right, Oppressed Minority
By Trudy Ring
TONY PERKINS SPEAKING X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Those straight white male right-wing Christians keep playing the victim card
. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, has joined Brian Brown
of the National Organization for Marriage and Republican presidential
hopeful Rick Santorum in casting the religious right as an oppressed
minority.
Speaking last week with conservative radio h... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1 发帖数: 19713 | 30 By Neal Broverman
Pastor O'Neal Dozier X390 (YOUTUBE GRAB) | ADVOCATE.COM
Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center
Rick Santorum has a scary friend leading his Florida primary effort: O'Neal
Dozier, an evangelical preacher who hates gays and Muslims.
Dozier runs the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Fla.; Santorum
spoke from the Center's pulpit on Sunday. Extreme may be putting it mildly
when describing Dozier, who is serving as honorary chairman of Santorum's
Florida effo... 阅读全帖 |
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m*****n 发帖数: 5245 | 31 http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4452990&page=2
Obama Disagrees With 'God Damn America' Sermon, But Defends Pastor
By BRIAN ROSS and REHAB EL-BURI, ABC News
March 14, 2008
In a statement to ABCNews.com yesterday, Obama's press spokesman Bill Burton
said, "Sen. Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this
have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from
a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church. Sen. Obama does not think
of the pastor of his |
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c******i 发帖数: 27 | 32 还很嚣张。不过这样的跳梁小丑多出点也好。让正常的人们对极左心生反感。比负面campain还有效。
CHICAGO — The Catholic priest who mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton has
returned to his Chicago parish after a nearly two-week suspension.
Rev. Michael Pfleger told a cheering congregation at St. Sabina church on
Sunday that he will not let his faults make him “play it safe or become
silent.”
Cardinal Francis George suspended Pfleger this month after the priest mocked
Clinton while preaching at the church Barack Obama belonged to at the time.
Pfleger |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 33 September 20, 2011
By Robert Gelinas
The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will
be made long before November of 2012. After the current president's most
recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly
becoming a foregone conclusion who it's not going to be.
The Obama-adoring New York Times concedes that their manufactured politician
may be in deep trouble as his own base begins to abandon him. Independents
have already done so. The righ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 34 By Thomas Cloud
February 2, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today
that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the
Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic
individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance
plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including
those that induce abortions.
The Catholic church teaches that sterilization, artificial contrac... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 35 The Church of Obama
The president his issued his own Act of Supremacy.
By Mark Steyn
Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception,
sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most
Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of
church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”
Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished
to separate from was that of the British mo... 阅读全帖 |
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Y***a 发帖数: 193 | 36 Former first lady Laura Bush has broken with her husband on the premier
social issues of his administration and said she backs gay marriage and
abortion.
After more than eight years of silence on the controversial issues, Mrs.
Bush said in an interview with CNN's Larry KingTuesday, that gay marriage
and abortion were points of contention with her husband, former President
George W. Bush.
Mrs. Bush in recent weeks has been promoting her memoir "Spoken from the
Heart," in which she writes about he... 阅读全帖 |
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Y***a 发帖数: 193 | 37 Former first lady Laura Bush has broken with her husband on the premier
social issues of his administration and said she backs gay marriage and
abortion.
After more than eight years of silence on the controversial issues, Mrs.
Bush said in an interview with CNN's Larry KingTuesday, that gay marriage
and abortion were points of contention with her husband, former President
George W. Bush.
Mrs. Bush in recent weeks has been promoting her memoir "Spoken from the
Heart," in which she writes about he... 阅读全帖 |
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k****g 发帖数: 1509 | 38 By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 2, 2012 481 Comments
WASHINGTON
ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a tornado watch. And that
was the best thing that happened to the White House all week.
As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on
national security, he was being rapped by a Times editorial for being too
aggressive on national security.
A Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane revealed that the liberal law
professor who campaigned against torture and t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 39 According to a new Reason-Rupe poll released today, just 27% of Americans
believe that an assault weapons ban would have helped prevent the tragedy at
Sandy Hook in Newtown, CT. 67% of Americans believe that the ban, which
expired in 2004, would not have prevented the tragic shooting. Overall, the
poll finds Americans far more skeptical of gun control laws than the
Democrats and media assume.
Asked what the government's response to the Newtown shooting should be, just
16% said "stricter gun cont... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 40 February 18, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
Recently NPR’s Morning Edition aired a segment on Chicago’s “gun violence
” featuring taped comments from local Catholic Priest Father Michael
Pfleger. Unfortunately the taxpayer-funded radio show presented Pflager as a
benign “social activist” and never informed listeners of just how radical
this man is.
The segment focused on President Obama’s Friday, February 15, visit to
Chicago that was meant to highlight his anti-gun policies. Without fully
informi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 41 In the aftermath of the failure of gun control amendments in the Senate,
most attention has been focused on the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey
provision to expand background checks. While that provision wouldn't have
prevented Newtown or any other recent mass-shooting and made mostly cosmetic
changes to federal law, it went down to bi-partisan defeat. The bigger
story, however, is that Obama's signature proposal, a ban on assault weapons
and extended magazines, was overwhelmingly rejected by the S... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******o 发帖数: 8869 | 42 Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of
their own Nation…and as few of the English understand the German Language,
and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, ’tis almost
impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain…Not being used to
Liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it…I remember when they
modestly declined intermeddling in our Elections, but now they come in
droves, and carry all before them, except in one or two Count... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 43 More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
The companies pledged to set specific diversity and hiring goals, and also
to publish the data openly. They further vowed to "invest in partnership... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******h 发帖数: 7021 | 44 “Thank you. That’s so nice. Thank you.
“Well, that’s so nice. And, Bishop Jackson, I want to thank you and Dr.
Jackson and you have some voice, I have to say. Incredible. And some spirit,
some spirit. Talent.
“Thank you. Well, I just wrote this the other day knowing I’d be here. And
, I mean it from the heart and I’d like to just read it and I think you’ll
understand it maybe better than I do in certain ways.
“For centuries, the African-American church has been the conscience of our
country. So ... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******h 发帖数: 7021 | 45 赞
Thank you. It’s great to be here today.
In particular, I want to thank Mr. Ron Packard and Ms. Deborah Mays for
hosting me at their school.
Today, we are going to discuss one of the most important issues in this
campaign: school choice.
But before we do, I want to briefly discuss new revelations about Hillary
Clinton’s emails. According to the FBI report: “The FBI did find that
hostile foreign actors gained access to the personal email accounts of
individuals with whom Clinton was in regular c... 阅读全帖 |
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w********t 发帖数: 12853 | 46 (转载)
The secretive leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is believed
to be holed up in the terror group's hub of Mosul, as Iraqi and U.S. forces
close in this week ahead of what could be a climactic fight.
Senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari said his forces had "solid"
intelligence al-Baghdadi was somewhere in the Iraqi city of more than a
million people and up to 6,000 ISIS fighters. The ISIS leader is likely with
the group's bomb maker Fawzi Ali Nouimeh, Kurdish officials told... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B 发帖数: 4796 | 47 放心,奥粑粑已经下令开放一条通道护送他们安全出城,条件是他们答应到叙利亚去打
阿萨德。
:(转载)
:The secretive leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is
believed to be holed up in the terror group's hub of Mosul, as Iraqi and
U.S. forces close in this week ahead of what could be a climactic fight.
:Senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari said his forces had "solid"
;
:intelligence al-Baghdadi was somewhere in the Iraqi city of more than a
:million people and up to 6,000 ISIS fighters. The ISIS leader is likely
with the g... 阅读全帖 |
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s*f 发帖数: 1071 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: stevenct (狮子头), 信区: Military
标 题: 这个更狠:Trump要政教合一啦!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Feb 2 20:49:43 2017, 美东)
原来的修正案是:免税的教会等不能干政。现在,Trump要把它废了。怪不得我周边的
华人教徒都支持Trump呢,不少连绿卡都没有。
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WASHINGTON — When President Trump told an audience of religious leaders on
Thursday that he would ‘destroy’ the Johnson Amendment, he declared his
intention to sign a bill that would fundamentally alter a major aspect of
the church-state divide that has been a constant in American politics for
ge... 阅读全帖 |
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z***t 发帖数: 10817 | 49 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: Daos (刀丝), 信区: Military
标 题: v5:30家科技公司签署大统令的diversity pledge (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 19:42:10 2016, 美东)
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: v5:30家科技公司签署大统令的diversity pledge
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 22 18:05:44 2016, 美东)
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high... 阅读全帖 |
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b**********5 发帖数: 7881 | 50 我一直觉得你得让那些黑人mexican有点education, 然后他们的下一代也可以越来越
好, 进入一个良性循环。。。 现在这种 workplace affirmative action, 到处
racial quota, 太左了
More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
The companies pledged to set ... 阅读全帖 |
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