CNN Fires Contributor Marc Lamont Hill For Criticising Israel

CNN Fires Contributor Marc Lamont Hill For Criticising Israel

Hill was accused of anti-Semitism after he called for 'free Palestine from the river to the sea' at UN meeting.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/cnn-fires-contributor-marc-lamont-hill-criticising-israel-181130061452765.html

"Between The Sea And The Jordan There Will Only Be Israeli Sovereignty"
The phrase that apparently prompted CNN to fire Marc Lamont Hill has a long history in Israel. Not that his critics care.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/marc-lamont-hill-cnn-firing-anti-semitism.html

"Is Israel The World's Worst Terror State? An Israeli General's Son Thinks So"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/is-israel-worlds-foremost-terror-state.html

"Frog Hospital" And "Pax On Both Houses" Discuss "Netanyahu And Obama's Deal With Iran"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/pax-on-both-houses-discusses-netanyahu.html

Israel's Peace Plan In Gaza

(Anything wrong with this picture?)

"Is Israel The World's Worst Terror State? 
An Israeli General's Son Thinks So"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/is-israel-worlds-foremost-terror-state.html

Amos Oz Has A Recipe For Saving Israel

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/amos-oz-has-recipe-for-saving-israel.html

Remarkable Recovery From A Post-Gunshot Face Transplant

A 26 Year Old Face Transplant Patient Speaks About His Astonishing Recovery 
Less Than Three Years After Attempting Suicide

1.) https://www.thisisinsider.com/face-transplant-patient-cameron-underwood-speaks-about-his-recovery-2018-11
2.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYztlU0pGbo

Best Recent Pax Posts, Late November, 2018

Charles Blow: "I Don't Believe We Are Reaching The End Of A Nightmare But Are Entering One"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/12/charles-blow-i-dont-believe-we-are.html

 David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American ... We Have A Traitor In The White House"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/david-cay-johnston-trump-is-not-loyal.html

"Voilà! I Just Pluck It Out Of My Ass."

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/voila-i-just-pluck-it-out-of-my-ass.html

Decontextualization: How Trump (And Other "Conservatives") Represent Bullshit As God's Truth

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/decontextualization-how-trump-and-other.html

Reprise: "Must-See" Video Mashup Of Trump's Racism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/reprise-must-see-video-mashup-revealing.html

Great Review Of The "All-Republican Government," Ending Its 2 Year Run In Total Disarray

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/great-review-of-all-republican.html

Trump's Blinding Blizzard Of Bullshit": A Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/10/trumps-blinding-blizzard-of-bullshit.html

"There Are Good Murderers On Both Sides" And My Air Force General Friend On Trump And Putin

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/there-are-good-murderers-on-both-sides.html

St. Paul The Apostle Comments On Trump's Greed

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/st-paul-apostle-comments-on-trumps-greed.html

My Post To "The Catholic Thing's" Discussion Of Priestly Pederasty, Homosexuality And Greed

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/my-post-to-catholic-things-discussion.html

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again: First Time Since "The Spanish Flu" Of 1918

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/us-life-expectancy-drops-again-first.html

Snopes: Did FDR’s Veep Write About "American Fascism" In Ways That Recall/Foretell Trump?

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/snopes-did-fdrs-vice-president-write.html

Hey, Conspiracists! This Is The Frame Tale In Which You Live And Do Fundamental Damage

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/08/hey-conspiracists-this-is-frame-tale-in.html

Snopes: Did FDR’s Veep Write About "American Fascism" In Ways That Recall/Foretell Trump?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/snopes-did-fdrs-vice-president-write.html

"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/our-president-is-essentially-mob-boss.html

Brilliant Putin Cartoon

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/12/brilliant-putin-cartoon.html

"Open Carry" And Concealed Weapons Should Be Permitted In The Congressional Gallery Until...

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/12/open-carry-and-concealed-weapons-should.html

Ultimately, North Carolina Is Paradigmatic Of All Neo-Confederate Political Corruption Rooted In The Moral Turpitude Of Slave-Keeping And The Civil War That Slave-Keeping Caused. Attributing The Civil War To "States Rights" Is Just Another Bible Belt Falsehood.

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/12/ultimately-nc-political-corruption-is.html

NPR: "Israel's Army Says It Found Tunnels Dug By Hezbollah Beneath Border With Lebanon"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/12/npr-israels-army-says-it-found-tunnels.html

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mark-twain-and-dunning-kruger-effect.html

U.S. Longevity Has Declined For The Third Straight Year: This Has Never Happened Before

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again: First Time Since "The Spanish Flu" Of 1918

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/us-life-expectancy-drops-again-first.html

Snopes: Did FDR’s Veep Write About "American Fascism" In Ways That Recall/Foretell Trump?

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/snopes-did-fdrs-vice-president-write.html

Snopes: Did FDR’s Veep Write About "American Fascism" In Ways That Recall/Foretell Trump?

Did FDR’s Vice-President Write an Op-Ed About ‘American Fascism’?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wallace-american-fascism/

St. Paul The Apostle Comments On Trump's Greed

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/st-paul-apostle-comments-on-trumps-greed.html

My Post To "The Catholic Thing's" Discussion Of Priestly Pederasty, Homosexuality And Greed

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/my-post-to-catholic-things-discussion.html

"My Gripe With Christianity"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-christianity.html

The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-christian-doctrine-of-damnation-and.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

The Obsolescence Of God:

Good Religion And Bad

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/11/obsolescence-of-god-good-religion-and.html

"Has America Lost Its Mind?" 1A's Brilliant Interview With "Fantasyland's" Kurt Andersen
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/has-america-lost-its-mind-1as-brilliant.html

Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/televangelist-jim-bakker-resurrected-if.html

Many Christians Live In An Unbreakable Bubble Of Biblical And Theological Dunderheadedness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/many-christians-live-in-unbreakable.html

Trump: More Effective Than Ipecac

Trump's Bafflegab: He Clings To "No Way!' Until He's Caught. Then He Shifts To "Why Not?"

The Trump Denial Pattern: From "No Way" To "Why Not?"

Trump will often deny politically iffy actions -- until he's caught.

By Philip Bump  •  Read more »

"Trump's Blinding Blizzard Of Bullshit": A Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/10/trumps-blinding-blizzard-of-bullshit.html

David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American ... We Have A Traitor In The White House"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/david-cay-johnston-trump-is-not-loyal.html

"Voilà! I Just Pluck It Out Of My Ass."

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/voila-i-just-pluck-it-out-of-my-ass.html

Decontextualization: How Trump (And Other "Conservatives") Represent Bullshit As God's Truth

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/decontextualization-how-trump-and-other.html

Reprise: "Must-See" Video Mashup Of Trump's Racism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/reprise-must-see-video-mashup-revealing.html

Great Review Of The "All-Republican Government," Ending Its 2 Year Run In Total Disarray

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/great-review-of-all-republican.html

My Post To "The Catholic Thing's" Discussion Of Priestly Pederasty, Homosexuality And Greed

The Catholic Thing

13 hrs · 

“Gay” Priests and Indulgence of Homosexuality

David Carlin: If we are determined to be “tolerant,” as the secular world wishes us to be tolerant, we'll be enemies of the Church and the Gospel too.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/…/gay-priests-and-indulgen…
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Jim Norton Hey, here's a crazy idea: treat those at the top of this international conspiracy to obstruct justice as the criminals they are. Extradite McCarrick, Ratzinger, Bergoglio, and all the others who have known for decades what was going on and have withhel…See More

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Cheryl Jefferies Leave Benedict out of this. He tried...and we know where it got him.

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Jim Norton Cheryl Jefferies, I will not. It's all well and good to eventually defrock 384 pedophile priests - after decades of being the clearinghouse for internal complaints and investigations about thousands of priests - but Ratzinger never took the next step of turning over information or offenders to civil authorities. 

For at least 50 years the Catholic Church has chosen moral bankruptcy over financial bankruptcy. The corruption and rot is now institutional.

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Alan:

The Catholic Church is sex-obsessed.

Notably, this fixation with carnality presents more perilous moral risk than sins of the flesh themselves. (It is not insignificant that two direct ancestors of Jesus Himself, Tamar and Rahab, were prostitutes.)

Please note that greed, not sex, is the pathognomic sin of our age and, as such, deserves more attention than sexual immorality.

I am not arguing in support of promiscuity or quiescence when confronting the systemic monstrosity of priestly pederasty.

However, the swollen ranks of Christian prudes alone will undertake more than enough counter-productive finger-wagging at "the lustful."

Aquinas always argued on behalf of perspective-and-proportion, and to that end, Chesterton has this to say about the disordered instinct that makes people rich:

"In the olden days it... was fully understood. The Greeks enshrined it in the story of Midas, of the 'Golden Touch.' Here was a man who turned everything he laid his hands upon into gold. His life was a progress amidst riches. Out of everything that came in his way he created the precious metal. 'A foolish legend,' said the wiseacres if the Victorian age. 'A truth,' say we of to-day. We all know of such men. We are ever meeting or reading about such persons who turn everything they touch into gold. Success dogs their very footsteps. Their life's pathway leads unerringly upwards. They cannot fail.

Unfortunately, however, Midas could fail; he did. His path did not lead unerringly upward. He starved because whenever he touched a biscuit or a ham sandwich it turned to gold. That was the whole point of the story, though the writer has to suppress it delicately, writing so near to a portrait of Lord Rothschild. The old fables of mankind are, indeed, unfathomably wise; but we must not have them expurgated in the interests of Mr. Vanderbilt. We must not have King Midas represented as an example of success; he was a failure of an unusually painful kind. Also, he had the ears of an ass. Also (like most other prominent and wealthy persons) he endeavoured to conceal the fact. It was his barber (if I remember right) who had to be treated on a confidential footing with regard to this peculiarity; and his barber, instead of behaving like a go-ahead person of the Succeed-at-all-costs school and trying to blackmail King Midas, went away and whispered this splendid piece of society scandal to the reeds, who enjoyed it enormously. It is said that they also whispered it as the winds swayed them to and fro. I look reverently at the portrait of Lord Rothschild; I read reverently about the exploits of Mr. Vanderbilt. I know that I cannot turn everything I touch to gold; but then I also know that I have never tried, having a preference for other substances, such as grass, and good wine. I know that these people have certainly succeeded in something; that they have certainly overcome somebody; I know that they are kings in a sense that no men were ever kings before; that they create markets and bestride continents. Yet it always seems to me that there is some small domestic fact that they are hiding, and I have sometimes thought I heard upon the wind the laughter and whisper of the reeds.
At least, let us hope that we shall all live to see these absurd books about Success covered with a proper derision and neglect. They do not teach people to be successful, but they do teach people to be snobbish; they do spread a sort of evil poetry of worldliness. The Puritans are always denouncing books that inflame lust; what shall we say of books that inflame the viler passions of avarice and pride?" (from "Democracy and Industrialism," 1932)
In our time, we have normalized greed and, seduced by all-consuming consumerism, now feel "at home" with avarice. Greed is part of the family, often the central part, the very axle around which crazed careerism and the consolation prize of acquisitiveness revolve.
Consider.
American Christians (including about half of Catholic Christians) have elected -- as model for our children, ourselves and our world -- a president who flaunts greed as virtue.

St. Paul The Apostle Comments On Donald Trump's Greed
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/st-paul-apostle-comments-on-trumps-greed.html

Next time you're tempted to rail against "the promiscuous," particularly homosexuals who are promiscuous, at least ask yourself if your priorities are right.

Follow the money.