The Civilians Of Alleppo Continue To Suffer

                                    The civilian population of Aleppo is caught between a murderous regime and murderous Islamists. Why Russia thinks the endless bombings and blind support of Assad is in their strategic interest is beyond imagination. It is civilians that are paying the price. Civilians are dying, the city continues to be turned into rubble, and no one does anything.

How To Not Stop Dog Fighters And Animal Abusers

                         Contribute to an animal organization that claims to be doing something to stop dog fighting and animal cruelty, and believe their hype. To this very day they continue to go unchallenged about the efficacy of what they actually do. People rely on their unchallenged claims, while people like myself that witnessed firsthand what they actually do can only lament how so many animals must suffer in order for them to maintain their ineffective and often harmful programs and profits.
                       

A Common Terrorist Justification For Evil. Ohio State University Attack

                               Another cowardly terrorist attack took place today, this time at a U.S. university in which the terrorist attacked innocent people, justifying his actions by citing the mistreatment of Muslims in Myanmar and elsewhere.
                                No one anywhere in the world has the right to attack civilian populations based on grievances, real or not. Muslims do not have that right, and so does no one else. There has been a long standing perverse belief that grievances and past harms mean entitlement  to harm others. Open this Pandora box of evil, which is already being opened, and the bloodshed and killing will never stop.

From President On Down, Feed Hype;Then Money And Followers Are Assured

                                         Obama promised change you can believe in, and people fell head over heals over the promise. Never mind that 8 years later, it is unrealized dreams. Including how the U.S. pulled out of its commitments in Iraq, having left Iraq and Syria wide open to a group of genocidal Islamists. It is not enough for Obama to claim success because he followed in the heals of one of the most incompetent, foolish presidents that ever came to power. George Bush rushed into wars that to this day have been disastrous for the world. He and his cronies get to rest in luxurious retirements, or in their continued presence in high paying positions, while the world suffers from their lies, deceit, and eagerness to wage war. An eagerness that was virtually unchecked, including by the U.S. corporate media that years ago ceased to be a free press.
                                           Trump made lofty promises of change. He will bring good jobs back to America. He will revitalize blighted urban low income minority communities and provide jobs. Was there a critical examination of how this will be achieved, and if he really had a viable, achievable plan? He promised to destroy ISIS, offering nothing substantive.
                                            We are inundated with commercials and advertisements from the for profit and nonprofit world from the time we are infants. A constant barrage of often misleading information, false, unchecked promises and claims. By the time we are thinking adults, we are already numbed, dumb downed people that believe what we are told if it comes from a source we are conditioned to believe is reputable. Add to that a school system that stresses conformity.
                                              In the nonprofit world, organizations only have to claim to help animals, the environment, to stop cruelty, to help the poor, to help children, to help the rain forest, to help the chimpanzees, to help the dogs, cats, bats, and on and on, and that is enough to separate people from their pocket books. All the while there is a lack of critical examination of what it is these organizations actually do, and their efficacy.
                                            It is a day and age of no accountability. Just feed the hype, and people will eagerly buy it. As long as an organization or person has enough prestige, power, and money, people blindly follow. From the president on down, just say the right words, make the right promises, feed the right hype, and success, contributions, money and even elections are assured.

The Blind Worship Of Money and Power

                                   One day even the richest man in the world will die, and then he will have the same thing the poorest person in the world has; nothing. People cannot stop themselves from worshiping those that have money and power, no matter how often history teaches to do otherwise.

A Forest And Its Wildlife Dies

                                        Destroying a rare rain forest in order to put up buildings, roads, commercial, industrial, tourist interests, may be considered development. Humans weigh progress by what they construct, not by what they destroy. Nature continues to be of little or no value, especially in most of the third world, except to a few wildlife and conservation organizations that make fortunes by pretending it has value. Meanwhile, a wonderful forest and all its rare and colorful wildlife were destroyed, and no one lifted a finger to protect it. Not one of these undeserving money grubbing organizations will ever take responsibility for this ugly monument that stands where nature once was.

Russian Television(RT) - The Art Of Selective Outrage. Syria's Hell Continues

                             Just because ISIS is an evil group of Islamic fanatics does not give justification to the blind support of Assad that Russia chooses to give. There was a time when the Syrian people protested peacefully for more freedom. Instead of responding, Assad, a western educated eye doctor, brutally suppressed the peaceful demonstrators. Now the whole thing has morphed into an incredibly ugly war with civilians caught between a brutal regime supported by Russia, Iran, and Iran's Hezbollah puppet army, and incredibly vicious Islamists on the other side such as ISIS. Assad's regime has been torturing and mass murdering. The world, whatever sane portion is left, has the right to question the insane support of the mass murdering Assad regime along with anyone evil enough to support the murderous ISIS Islamists.
                             Does the mass killing of civilians by Assad's regime bother Russian television(RT)? Or are they more disturbed by any criticism or allegations made against Putin, the multi billionaire Czar of Russia? An American state department official accused Russia of bombing hospitals in Syria. The Putin puppets went nuts over the allegations. How dare anyone question Putin or what he has turned Russia into? Any politician anywhere in the world that uses politics to enrich himself and his cronies, that suppresses all reasonable opposition, that wages wars to support a brutal regime that has nothing to do with that country's national interest, deserves at least a raised eyebrow, something the phony progressives are completely incapable of doing.

A Governor In Indonesia Is Accused Of Blasphemy; Will Toleration Or Darkness Prevail?

                       A governor in Indonesia has been accused of blasphemy. There are those that thankfully are protesting this absurdity and are calling for tolerance and moderation. But there are also those that indulge in bigotry and hate. One cleric was recorded telling a group of young people how the Jews and Christians cannot be trusted. If Indonesia goes the way of intolerance, it will be a huge blow to humanity. Teaching people to hate other people simply because of what is their religion is the way to war and the dark ages. Indonesia has a history of tolerance and moderation. Hopefully this will not be lost, and the elements in the Islamic world that teach bigotry and hate will not poison Indonesia in the same way that they have poisoned other places. The world needs moderation and tolerance, because without these things, there is no future for Indonesia or the world.

Defining The World By Skin Color, Religion, Or Ethnicity; The Inability to Evolve Beyond Hate

                                  Weak people need simple answers and a target to hate. Instead of viewing the world as the complex place that it is, weak people need to make things simple, and what is simpler and baser than indulging in hate? People that know better and should resist hate, too often are selective about who is doing the hating, making excuses for one group while condemning another. While the world faces enormous problems that threaten the survival of humanity, weak people concern themselves only with the color of their skin, or what religion they belong to, or their ethnicity, doing their utmost to make sure that those that are different are excluded and persecuted. And instead of broad basely not accepting hate, those that know better too often indulge their own prejudices by selective and hypocritical morality.

David And The Art Of Race Baiting, Jew Hating And Making A Fortune From Hate And Laziness

                             It is easier to be a spoiled, whiny Jew baiting, race hating weak excuse for a man than to work at a real job, suffer like most of the rest of the world, and quit looking for a scapegoat. Unfortunately, hatred and scapegoating is still the road to fame and fortune for far too many. The world continues to pay a heavy cost for these weak minded cowards.

Islamic Bigotry, Hatred And Intolerance, Not Islam, Must Be Resisted

                                        A significant number of people in the Islamic world are learning religious intolerance, bigotry, religious superiority, the use of terror and violence to achieve religious and political ends, and jihad as the way to expand Islam through war, terror and violence. If the ideology of hatred, intolerance and bigotry is not faced, then humanity will forever be fighting the end product; ISIS like deranged religious fanatics that murder and rape at will the so called infidels and constantly seek to inflict war and terror. Does the world wish to fight these costly, destructive wars and battles, or is it better to start addressing the ideologies of hate and bigotry that creates the hate filled brainwashed fanatics?
                                       No bigotry is acceptable. All bigotry, including towards Muslims, must be resisted. Instead of making excuses for hatred, intolerance, terrorism and violence, this must become unacceptable no matter where it comes from. This means facing up to the harsh reality of Islamic intolerance and bigotry, and resisting it in the same way that all bigotry and hatred must be resisted.
                                     

The Unseen Cost Of Losing Forests, Coral Reefs, Mangroves, Cleans Rivers And Waters

                                          In a certain overpopulated country, one of many, virtually every river and fresh body of water is badly polluted and contaminated.  The air quality in urban areas is hazardous to human health. Fish stock are declining, jeopardizing the daily dietary needs of millions. In the eyes of economists, the economy is expanding, which completely ignores the harsh reality for the majority of the population, and the severe loss of wealth that results from environmental degradation. Just because some so called economists and financial wizards do not consider the cost of losing forests, wildlife, mangroves, coral reefs, cleans rivers, streams and lakes, along with clean coastal regions and oceans, does not mean these things do not have value.

American Gang Culture Is A Wholly Owned American Creation, Not The Product Of A Third World Invasion

                                      The vast gang culture that thrives in the United States is not a product of third world invaders, much as certain pundits and over paid political hacks and writers pretend otherwise. American gang culture, the vast world of drugs and crime, is a wholly owned American creation. Gangs and hate groups are prolific. The new president can choose the easy way, and blame illegal immigrants for everything, or he can take concrete steps to address the growing gangs and hate groups. This includes, but is not limited, to the following: 1. Focus immigration efforts on those that commit crimes, including driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Give a pathway to legitimacy for those hard working immigrants that want nothing more than a better life for themselves and their families, and that do contribute to society by the difficult labor they perform. 2. Remove all tax free status and privilege to any organization, including those operating as a so called religion, that espouse hatred and intolerance. Religious hate groups may be protected by the first amendment, but there is nothing in the constitution that demands that these groups receive tax free status. 3. Do not continue unchanged the nonproductive drug war that has stopped virtually nothing, except make gangs and terrorist organizations more powerful. 4. Consider two to three years of national service (which can include military service for some and other public service for others), for all young people. It is about time people learn that a country is not just about what you can take, but also what you can give. 5. Reform the criminal justice system, and ensure that a responsible society, not gangs and hate groups, control American jails and prisons. 6. Provide widespread employment for marginalized populations. Generations of chronically unemployed people and disenfranchised populations need to be reintegrated into the American mainstream. Simple employment can work miracles. It is not cheap, but it is still less expensive than continuing to maintain the vast criminal justice system that does nothing but chew up lives.

Living In An Increasingly Environmentally Degraded World

                                     Humanity thinks it is advancing, because in a few quarters there is order and abundance. People think that the more technology advances, the more humanity advances. When in fact, all life is dependent upon the natural world. The more nature is destroyed, the more biodiversity disappears, the more species enter extinction, the closer life ends for humanity itself. Destroy nature and the web of life, and it matters not how sophisticated is the technology and alternative realities of people.
                                     What is unfortunate is that someone that lived a hundred years ago would have seen an abundance that I can never imagine. And someone that is young now will never see the nature that I have seen, because with each passing year there is less and less. I remember swimming in a coral reef that was a fraction of what it was thirty years ago. I could only see the loss and devastation. A young couple, seeing the coral reef for the first time, might be amazed at its splendor, not realizing it is less than 10 per cent of what it was just thirty years ago.
                                        Someone has to want to see this world protected and not turned into a sewer. But who? Too much of religion in this world has people brainwashed into thinking this world does not matter, and it is simply the prelude to the next. But if someone really believes in God, then why would they not want what God created protected? Why would God want this precious planet turned into the filthy cesspool it is rapidly becoming?
                                           The more this world is degraded, polluted and contaminated, the harder life becomes for all living creatures. Viruses, new diseases, proliferate in garbage pits. Earth was not meant to be mankind's toilet.
                                             Many that have a lot, and live with order and abundance, fail to see the incredible disorder, environmental degradation and lack of abundance that is the lot of most of humanity.
                                             Caring about the environment is a true expression of faith. We may think that environmental concerns are secondary to our religious, political and economic interests, but they are not. Earth was not meant to be humanity's toilet. There will be a point of no return, if it has not already been reached, in which environmental destruction dooms not just the many species already facing extinction, but mankind itself.

The World Of Animal Programs and Television; Making Big Bucks Off The Backs Of Animals

                                    When I saw first hand decades back the way law enforcement ignored, with very few exceptions, animal cruelty and dog fighting, I hoped that the enforcement of these crimes would move fully into the hands of law enforcement. Instead, a number of animal organizations have done everything to resist this, much to the delight of law enforcement, which is discussed in other blogs. Giving the illusion of doing something meaningful to address animal cruelty and dog fighting is a huge money maker. People do not see, or do not want to see the ugly truths regarding the widespread exploitation of animal cruelty and dog fighting by a variety of organizations and people.

                                     Along for the ride to glamorize certain animal organizations and maintain the aforementioned pathology are the very prolific and profitable animal television shows. I tried appealing to them decades back to think of animals first, and not promote incredibly lucrative and exploitative animal organizations. Needless to say, I never was the face or voice of money, and no one ever listened to me. Now decades later, there is enormous and completely unnecessary pain and cruelty inflicted upon animals that never had to be and does not have to continue to be inflicted.

                                      Conservation and animals are big business. They bring fortunes to organizations and certain media conglomerates.

                                        Recently there was a program about a reckless man as he jeopardized the safety of himself, those around him including his film crew, and lions themselves as he foolishly did things that defy common sense. Any and all ways bucks can be made off of animals are tried. 

                                         Animals will remain big money makers. Too bad for animals and conservation that the organizations, for profit and nonprofit, and the animal related media conglomerates, will continue taking from  animals far more than they will ever give. The cult of loving animals requires only an expression of loyalty and love to the cult, no questions asked. Efficacy, accountability does not exist in that demented, self righteous, incredibly lucrative world.

                                         A certain media outlet from another country sponsored a beautiful documentary regarding a wilderness area and its wildlife.  No glory seekers, no sensational nonsense, no self righteous pretentious clowns, no idiots picking up animals they should not be touching. Just nature, without all the fanfare, which in and of itself is enough. No animals, no conservation, no nature to be exploited. All profits went back to the reserve.

Welfare Reform Should Include Incentives For Having Smaller Family Sizes

                     Welfare reform should include incentives for  people to have smaller, not larger families. Smaller family sizes help lift people out of poverty, in addition to providing a multitude of other benefits.

A Simple Job Program For The Chronically Unemployed , Disenfranchised, And Those Without Opportunities

                             Simple welfare reform for able bodied people, addressing the chronically and long term unemployed, providing alternatives to the black market gang culture, can be accomplished with a simple, straightforward government sponsored or financed work program based on the premise of the civilian conservation corp. Chronic unemployment is now multi generational. A simple program where people go to a pickup point and are taken to different locations to pick up garbage has benefits on many levels. It is good for the environment. It provides jobs and structure to people that may never find, or have never found this available in the private sector. It is an easy program to administer. It provides life skills of work discipline and more.
                             It will not be cheap, but providing people with alternatives to gang life, to a life of unemployment, to jail or prison, to the black market drug trade, is still cheaper than the alternatives the inefficient, violent criminal justice system offers.
                              Like it or not, millions of Americans need an entry level hand that can be a career in itself. Millions do not have the skills required by high tech industries. Millions lack proper education. Millions are held back by criminal backgrounds. A permanent disenfranchised class does not serve the national interests. We do not need more cannon fodder for gangs and the drug world. We do need people to clean up America and to live productive lives.

Giving Crumbs To The Poor. Overpopulation And Environmental Degradation

                                             Addressing poverty and environmental degradation that often accompanies poverty in the third world has to move beyond far beyond giving, which amounts to nothing more than crumbs that makes givers feel good and grants bragging rights. Millions of poor families have no escape, but might make the choice to limit family size if affordable, safe family planning were provided. A family without resources or with few resources that has many children guarantees poverty for the children, whereas if the family size were limited to one or two children, there would be a far greater chance for the children to have a better life and to rise out of poverty.
                                             Giving, even though the giving is wholly inadequate in this day and age of mass poverty, severe overpopulation and environmental degradation, has to move beyond what makes donors and charities feel good. There is mass poverty, especially in many third world countries where hundreds of millions of lives are simply ruined. This earth is not big enough to provide for the huge demands of an ever growing human population that has already devastated much of the natural environment. Overpopulation is a serious issue, and addressing it has everything to do with poverty and saving the environment.

Third World Poverty, American Poverty, The Failed Working Class

                                  The United States has become an increasingly hard place to live for working class and struggling middle class people.  Rich people live like kings. The safety net for those living in poverty is far beyond anything that can be imagined for those living in third world poverty. Working and struggling middle class people have no safety nets, and no protections that wealth brings. It is always one step away, one major sickness or injury away from financial ruin and losing everything. Obama's healthcare plan accommodated low income people, but made insurance not affordable for millions of working and struggling middle class people.
                                  In the third world, if you live in a shack and you lose it to bad weather, or some one with money pushes you off your land, you have no legal recourse. If you live on the streets, as millions do, without even a dirt floor shack to sleep in, then that is your fate. Millions live without any housing. If they get sick, or if they suffer a chronic disease, or from a disease like cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, without money there is no one that will treat them. There are government hospitals in some places, and private religious or charitable hospitals in others. But these are far inadequate to meet the huge need for medical and dental services that hundreds of millions desperately require. Millions die because there is no where to go, or because the few places that are available are so overwhelmed that millions never receive adequate treatment.
                               In the third world, there are no food assistance programs for most. If people go hungry, become malnourished, no safety net exists to address their needs. They have no protections regarding food, medical care, dental care, education, housing, obtaining medicine.
                                In the United States, the culture has become increasingly violent and selfish. Degenerative music goes on endlessly about sex and violence; overpaid talent-less people announcing to the world their desires that they cannot control. The poverty of the states is not the poverty of the third world. The debilitating poverty of the third world is such that poor children often receive no school, no proper food or water, no shelter or inadequate shelter, no medical care, no hope for the future. If the poor of the third world saw the homes and lives of the poor of the first world, they would consider them rich. There are places in this world where people live in the most dire, desperate poverty, and yet there is not the violence that exists in far wealthier places. Addressing poverty is difficult. But it has to start by moving beyond the premise that it is just about giving and nothing more. And violence, no matter what excuses are made for it, keeps people downtrodden. It is not the liberating force that some self righteous fools imagine.

The Election, Race, Pandering, Simplistic Narratives

                                          Hillary Clinton could never have been the president for all Americans. No one can, because all Americans do not want the same things. There are those that accuse her of being racist for helping implement welfare reform. Yet there never was true welfare reform, and the welfare system is still in desperate need of change. Pandering to those that throw out the word racist every time things do not go their way is nothing but manipulate b.s.
                                         At the same time a person can decry racism and bigotry, it does not mean having to accept the narrative of victim hood and lack of accountability that some insist must be accepted whether people believe it or not. They say they want a conversation, but they do not. They only want their side heard.
                                        The narrative of white supremacy and minority victim hood, while completely ignoring and excusing violence, is nothing but a way to free one side of accountability and responsibility. Plenty of whites are not born to privilege, and plenty of nonwhites have soft, easy lives.
                                        For how many decades have people ignored or accepted black violence, irresponsible men having children they do not raise, all the while making excuses? Racism is wrong when it is in the form of overt discrimination. But pandering and failing to hold people responsible is also racist.
                                        Trump made a promise to improve low income black and other minority communities. He promised to bring jobs. Whether he does this or not will be easy to measure. Or he might instead choose to forget all of this and focus on soft, easy targets like illegal immigrants- most of whom are hard working people that do the jobs Americans do not want without any rights or benefits.
                                          The struggle for justice is not an easy one. Pandering, following simple narratives, and following racists, whether black, white, or anything in between will never lead to anything positive.

Hillary Clinton In Defeat, Unscripted, Gracious

                                      Hillary Clinton in defeat has been showing a side that she and her handlers made a huge mistake hiding. Gracious, humane, caring. Whatever idiots thought a woman this bright had the best chance of winning by being constrained and less than genuine made an enormous miscalculation. Without the script, without constraint, Hillary Clinton in defeat shows a side to herself that this country desperately needs in a president. Someone bright, kind, humble, gracious, not arrogant, not full of easy and simple answers that are nothing but deceptive commercials.

Time And Health Wasted In Third World Traffic

                           All over the third world, people daily choke on the fumes of heavy traffic, spending countless hours wasted in traffic that barely moves. People spend up to five or six hours in a daily commute, breathing toxic fumes from vehicles that emit the worst exhaust. The infrastructures are not built for these many cars, these many people. If only a country like Japan could intervene and construct modern railway systems, maybe that will alleviate some of the problem. The pollution and desperation of the third world is a worldwide problem, not a third world problem.

Clinton Wins The Popular Vote, But The Electoral College Dinosaur Rules Again

                                            It has come out that Clinton won the popular vote, but because the United States is glued to an irrelevant, unnecessary electoral college system, it does not matter. The last time a president was elected that lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, he plunged the United States into wars that still have no end in sight.

Trump's Promises, Jobs, Economic Growth. Will Illegal Immigrants Be Further Marginalized?

                                      Trump made a lot of lofty promises. Significant economic growth far beyond what there is now. Jobs, growth, things that will be easy to measure. Will this be more promises of change that lead nowhere? We will see if he delivers, or if it is more hot air. Will his presidency be yet another presidency for and by the rich? If he really brings about the significant economic growth he promised to bring, pretty much everyone will benefit. But promises and delivering are two different things.
                                      Those much maligned illegal immigrants that do the labor Americans do not want to do or are too lazy to do, deserve more than having their labor exploited in exchange for nothing. They work the fields, fix the roofs, do hard labor that like it or not the average American is adverse to performing in exchange for low wages. Sure it is easy to malign them, especially from the likes of the soft Dukes of the world that make fortunes from laziness and hate, not from real work. Let there be paths to legitimacy for illegal immigrants and in this way law enforcement can spend their energy on those illegals that are criminals or terrorists. Donald Trump must realize that he has been granted great power to do good. Whatever he was in the past, good or bad, he must now be a man of great integrity. If not, the whole thing was nothing but another great lie.

Final Thoughts On Clinton And Trump, Yazidis And Middle East Christians

                                                  It is clear from previous blogs I am not a fan of either. I think she will more than likely win, and for that reason I have been harsher on her. But whichever of the two wins, things have to change. It cannot continue to be business as usual. Too much of the world is on fire. The next president should learn from the past two. First there was Bush, a reckless man that jumped clueless into wars without any regards for the consequences or any consideration that there are ways to fight wars without full scale invasions.. He and his cronies get comfortable retirements while the world suffers. And then Obama,  a man great with words but empty with actions. Draws red lines he does not mean. Talks tough but carries no stick. The Yazidis, the middle east Christians, the thousands of Yazidi girls and young women still held as sex slaves by deranged Islamists, the Syrians and others did not deserve such a tough talking, articulate, but weak in action American president. The United States left these people high and dry.
                                                   The next president needs to be a leader, not a politician.

Fareed Zakaria- Iran With Nuclear Weapons Is Stabilizing?

                                                There was a debate regarding Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, and what the result will be. Do the research and see what arguments Fareed Zakaria made in defense of the acceptability of Iran becoming a nuclear armed state. The mullahs of Iran, with the supreme mullah holding absolute power( extreme concentrations of wealth and power are inherently dangerous and corrupting) have already brutally suppressed, murdered and tortured dissidents, religious minorities, and others, and are engaged in aggressive proxy wars, to say nothing of the already colonization of Lebanon by Iran's Hezbollah puppet army. Extreme power to destroy in the hands of religious fanatics, or any fanatic, brings the world that much closer to an end.
                                         
                                               

Wall Street Higher Figuring Their Bridge Building Woman Is In

                                      When Hillary Clinton went around for years amassing millions by her overpriced speeches to wall street banks and brokerages(money means nothing to those entities; it pours to them them like water without having to do an ounce of real work or sweat), was that the bridge building she is promising now?  Is that why wall street had a huge jump, ecstatic with joy that the FBI investigation is over and that she will prevail? This is not to say Trump is a man of the people or that he will not serve their interests.

Clarifying Some Differences Between Clinton And Trump Regarding The Military And Police

                                         Both operate under the illusion, although to different degrees, that pumping more money into the military and law enforcement makes these entities better and more efficient. The reform and accountability that is needed will not come.
                                         Regarding police departments, reform does not mean following the simplistic narratives of racial politics. Police departments that are stagnant, inefficient beuracracies full of clout and cronyism need change, not more money.  Police work should not be the reinvented brainchild of politicians, bigshots, academics and other elites. What it should be is already discussed in other blogs.                
                                     

The Cult Worship Of A Tiny Number Of Dogs And Cats

                                        In the third world, millions of dogs and cats wonder the streets, most emaciated and diseased. Most do not live long, and often die slow, painful deaths from malnutrition and disease. It is a far cry from the United States, where there is a cult like worship of a tiny, select number of dogs and cats to the exclusion of all else that lives, including dogs, cats, other animals, and people.

The War Does Not End At Mosul

                                       People have a way of ignoring and dismissing the worst in humanity until it festers and boils over into war. For many years now oil rich regimes and kingdoms such as Iran on the Shia side, and Saudi, Qatar and others on the Sunni side have been spreading all over the world the most intolerant, bigoted, hate filled interpretations of Islam. The battle should have been waged decades upon decades ago in the world of ideas, long before it became literal battles on the ground. The west chose easy oil over moral considerations, and never made demands to end the spread of hate, intolerance, and religious supremacy.
                                       The genocidal rapists known as ISIS will be destroyed. But the religious indoctrination that creates these sadistic fanatics is not being destroyed and only continues to grow.
                                      

One Man's Claim Eating Whales Is Fine By Jesus

                                             On a ship going to Japan, an American described his love for whale meat, and his eagerness to arrive in Japan in order top eat this meat that is forbidden in most places in the world. He said that Jesus gave mankind dominion over the world and all the animals, and it is the right of people therefore to eat whatever they want.  He stated that the whales Japan captures and kills are not endangered, but stated some might be and that it did not matter. Regarding the slow and painful deaths involved in capturing and killing whales, he replied that all animals are Jesus' gift to people to do as they want.                                                            Religion is not an excuse for lacking simple compassion.