Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation – POLITICO.com

Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation – POLITICO.com.

The Greens are sponsoring scholarly study of the Bible and hosting forums such as a recent panel on faith’s role in shaping early America, which they hope to package for national broadcast.

Most provocatively, they’ve funded a multimillion-dollar effort to write a Bible curriculum they hope to place in public schools nationwide. It will debut next fall as an elective in Mustang High School, a few miles from Hobby Lobby’s Oklahoma City headquarters.

A draft of the textbook for the first of four planned yearlong courses presents Adam and Eve as historical figures and introduces God as “faithful and good,” “gracious and compassionate” and “an ever-present help in times of trouble.” A list of “curses for disobeying the Lord” warns of defeat, fever and “disaster and panic in everything you do.”

How delightful. Substituting fairy tales and faith for the dissemination of tangible fact and deductive reason is going to work out well, right? Just think of how many cures for cancer the Christian Scientists have come up, right? Um, not….

Besides the entire country should have to bow down and accept the faith of this family, just because they are richer than hell, right? I mean, it’s the American way, right? Not.

Well, God is powerful and good so maybe they will go bankrupt.

Palestinians freed in 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner-swap back in custody | World news | theguardian.com

Palestinians freed in 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner-swap back in custody | World news | theguardian.com.

“Israel says re-arrest of more than 50 former prisoners during search for missing teens sent ‘important message’ to Hamas,”

Yes, and that message is, ‘don’t belive anything we say or do. We could take it back and fuck you over at anytime. You have zero motivation for cooperating with us or acting peaceably.’

The government of Israel is culpable in the repeated murder of its citizens, because hey, being racist is more important that being right or doing well by your own people.

Israel aims to break Hamas as hunt for youths intensifies – Yahoo News

Israel aims to break Hamas as hunt for youths intensifies – Yahoo News.

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel stepped up efforts to crush Hamas in the West Bank Tuesday as the hunt for three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by the Islamist movement entered its fifth day. [Emphasis mine]

The effort to crush Hamas is the real story here. Israel is using the disappearance of 3 teenagers as cover for their true agenda: extermination of their neighbors.

Meeting again Tuesday for three hours, the security cabinet decided to further “increase pressure” on Hamas, an official told AFP, saying there was “a discussion about steps that can be taken against Hamas prisoners.”

Because employing torture doesn’t make them monsters. Oh wait, yes it does.

Writing in Yediot Aharonot, Alex Fishman said the kidnapping had created a “one-time operational opportunity” that Israel would use to “castrate” Hamas and suppress its “strongholds in Palestinian Authority territory to the greatest extent possible.”

….Or at least galvanize the resolve of their victims to endure through sheer hatred.