Do have a splendid and prosperous New Year, my dear reader.
Best wishes,
Steve Van Nattan
Texas
Best wishes,
Steve Van Nattan
Texas
The great bridge player and popularizer of the game Ely Culbertson described Eisenhower's game as classic and sound with "flashes of brilliance", and said that "You can always judge a man's character by the way he plays cards. Eisenhower is a calm and collected player and never whines at his losses. He is brilliant in victory but never commits the bridge player's worst crime of gloating when he wins." Wikipedia
During the "Bonus March," in which thousands of WW I veterans marched on Washington, illegally encamped, and demanded to be paid their discharge bonuses, then Major Eisenhower strongly advised General MacArthur to stay out of the clearing of the Veterans' encampment by force. MacArthur was a vengeful man, and Ike showed a classic decent and forgiving temperament by trying to downgrade the action.
This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities. The same discriminatory thinking lies behind the continuing gender gap in pay and why there are still so few women in office in the West. The root of this prejudice lies deep in our histories, but its impact is felt every day. It is not women and girls alone who suffer. It damages all of us.
EDITOR: "Higher Authority"???? BAH! What banal drivel. The God of true Christians is not a Higher Authority, he is the ONLY Authority. This is a bow to Mecca, Hindus, and Buddhists, which becomes clear later.
The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures to justify the superiority of men owe more to time and place - and the determination of male leaders to hold onto their influence - than eternal truths I am also familiar with vivid descriptions in the same Scriptures in which women are revered as pre-eminent leaders. During the years of the early Christian church women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets. It wasn't until the fourth century that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant positions within the religious hierarchy.
EDITOR: Jimmy has not done his research. The word "deacon" is found in the Greek feminine once in the Bible, but the Apostle Paul makes it VERY clear that women cannot be in authority over men in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Carter is a classic co-dependent male cream puff trying to curry favor from feminazies. All it will get him is a pat on the head from Hillary and other murderers.
The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world. This is in clear violation not just of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, Moses and the prophets, Muhammad, and founders of other great religions - all of whom have called for proper and equitable treatment of all the children of God. It is time we had the courage to challenge these views.
EDITOR: Jimmy Carter is a blasted fool. He exalts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and he fails to prove his contention that the Bible exalts women above men. Carter is like an old cur dog that rolls over and pees on itself to get a scrap of food from its keeper. Carter's keepers are feminists. And, Carter calls in Mohammed and the "founders of other great religions" in his cause just in care Jehovah God takes umbrage with the dumb bell Jimmy. For this, Jimmy Carter will burn in Hell with Mohammed.
She noticed yesterday and this morning that she could hear the sound of someone humming hymns in the hospital ward. When she went for a walk around the ward (part of her rehabilitation), she thought the singing might have come from the cleaner.
When the cleaner came to her room to clean, she spoke with her.
The lady is a Filipino, 61 years old, and she has a cleaning job so she can pray for the patients and she hums/sings so patients will talk to her!!