Well, shooting through the windows like the cowards they are, leaves little time to respond, even if armed. My guess is, the i***t didn't know the Marines weren't armed, that's why the cowardly attack happened the way it did.

The fact is, no matter how heavily armed one is - a bushwack gives no warning, so return fire is an after effect - with the assailant long gone. The police response in this case was rapid enough to corner the fool and he paid the price.

What we and the Government need to hound these i***ts with - is the cowardly way they do "battle" - which does NOT make them hero's, martyrs or gain them any rewards in Islamic heaven. Allah rewards courage, not cowardice. The Islamic puppet masters have skewed the Muslims beliefs, to make them think that "anything goes" where infidels are concerned, but that's total crap.

Where are the American Muslims? Hiding? Why aren't THEY up front and center, trying to COUNTER the perversions of their faith? IMO, if they refuse to be part of a solution - then they are part of the problem and deserve to be treated accordingly. American Muslims have had more than enough time to decide what they're going to do for their country - and they've apparently decided to do - nothing. That being the case, then I think the protections of THEIR free speech and freedom of religious expression - has been nullified.

In the wake of Thursday's jihad attack on a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee that left four United States Marines dead, one Marine says he has had enough and has gone to social media to inform the Islamic State, "You wanted attention, and yesterday, you got it. Only, you chose the wrong people to seek that attention from." He was talking about the United States Marines.

Marine Sergeant Jeremy L. Knauff, who served honorably in the United States Marine Corps for four years after graduating from high school, took to Facebook to rip the weakness of Barack Obama and how all the jihad attack has done is paint the target even bigger on those tied to the religion of pieces.
"You did not get the attention of our weak President," Knauff wrote. "He tweeted his support for your medieval holiday following your cowardly attack. You did not get the attention of our useless and corrupt Congress. They were too busy lining their pockets."
"When you attacked those four Marines, you got the attention of every one of our 186,800 active duty Marines, along with every Marine who ever served," he continued. "You just stirred up h**e, discontent, and malice within a group of people who relish the idea of engaging the enemy."
Knauff, who manages Spartan Media, then wrote:
There is something you obviously don't yet know about Marines...
The brotherhood we share is stronger than the challenges we face, the weapons we master, or the enemies we destroy.
You will learn that soon though.
In pointing out the current Rules of Engagement per the Obama administration, which has gotten many of our military k**led, Knauff says that isn't the way it will work when Islamists come to America.

"You see, we won't play by the rules you're accustomed to seeing," he wrote. "When you play in our backyard, we don't have to answer to any chain of command. We will not follow ridiculous ROEs crafted by a spineless bureaucrat to appease some goat herding tribal leader. And we won't be wearing uniforms so that you can easily ambush us. Nope. None of that s**t."
"When you think you're walking into a target-rich environment, you're really walking into an ambush," he continued. "That pudgy, middle-aged guy wearing khakis in the mall, who unbeknownst to you, is a former 0311 and armed, will dump your sorry ass before you have a chance to scream 'allah snackbar.' And that soccer mom pushing a stroller, she's got a Glock and will happily leave you gasping in a pool of your own blood before she lets you hurt her children."
"We are here and we still have the training and experience to wage war, whether here or abroad," he added. "And wage war we will. Every one of us are willing to fight and die to protect our Marine Corps brothers and sisters, our families and friends, and our way of life."
"And we will win, because while you fight to destroy what you h**e, we fight to protect what we love," he concluded. "Semper Fi!"
Indeed, I love when someone tells it like it is. There is no question that many of us have had it up to here (raises my hand way about my head) with Islamists who think they can engage in jihad without consequences.
Marine veteran Nick Powers has already put out the warning to the Islamic State: "Attack us and there will be no mercy." Knauff is just confirming that same heart and spirit, the spirit of the Marines… the spirit of America.
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Between the economy/economic policy, healthcare, wars/foreign policy, civil rights, supreme court decisions.....Pres. Obama has come through with flying colors...working Congress in the process...The Right knows this and it k**ls them...... :thumbup:


Iran Nuclear Deal Is Reached After Long Negotiations
By DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL R. GORDONJULY 14, 2015
VIENNA — Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States have agreed to a historic accord to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions against Iran, a senior Western diplomat involved in the negotiations said on Tuesday.

The deal culminates 20 months of negotiations on a deal that President Obama had long sought as the biggest diplomatic achievement of his presidency.

A formal announcement of the agreement was expected later on Tuesday, when foreign ministers from Iran and the six nations it has been negotiating with will meet at a United Nations complex here in Vienna. Catherine Ray, a spokeswoman for the European Union, said a final plenary meeting of the six nations — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia — will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Vienna, followed by a news conference, but she provided no further details.

Secretary of State John Kerry, second from left, meets with foreign ministers and delegations from Germany, France, China, Britain, Russia and the European Union on Monday in Vienna.Inching Near an Iran Nuclear Deal, Negotiators Go SilentJULY 13, 2015
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Diplomats have declined to provide details until Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, speak at that event. Mr. Obama is expected to make a public statement in Washington, beginning a long process to sell the deal to Congress and the American public.
But the Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was discussing confidential talks, signaled that all of the main outstanding issues had been resolved, including the thorny question of how many years an embargo on conventional arms shipments into and out of Iran would remain in place.

The agreement and its annexes run more than 80 pages, Iranian officials say, outlining in painstaking detail how much nuclear fuel Iran can keep in the country for the next 15 years; what kind of research and development it can perform on centrifuges and other nuclear equipment; and the redesign of both a nuclear reactor and a deep-underground enrichment site that Israeli and American officials feared could be invulnerable to bombing.

But to strike the deal, Mr. Kerry and the other negotiators had to accept an understanding that essentially left in place most of Iran’s infrastructure at the country’s main nuclear sites, though much of it would be disassembled and put in storage. Iran is likely to cite that fact as evidence that it never gave in to the West’s demands that it dismantle its critical facilities.

Secretary of State John Kerry with foreign ministers and other delegates from the United States' negotiating partners in Vienna on Monday. Credit Pool photo by Carlos Barria
The agreement not to shutter Iran’s most advanced nuclear facilities is expected to be a focal point for critics in Congress, which now has 60 days to approve or reject the deal. Those critics have already complained that the deal being discussed would only delay the day when Iran would have the ability to build an atomic weapon.

The accord will be a political agreement, not a legally binding treaty.

Some restrictions limiting Iran’s program begin to phase out after 10 years. Then, after 15 years, Iran would be free to produce as much enriched uranium as it wanted. In theory, though, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to which Tehran is a signatory, would prevent it from taking the last steps to produce a weapon.
With the announcement of the accord, Mr. Obama has now made major strides toward fundamentally changing the American diplomatic relationships with three nations: Cuba, Iran and Myanmar. Of the three, Iran is the most strategically important, the only one with a nuclear program and still on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Although some provisions, including the arms embargo, are expected to be especially contentious in Congress, Mr. Obama’s chances of ultimately prevailing are considered high. Even if the accord is v**ed down by one or both houses, he could veto that action, and he is likely to have the v**es he would need to prevail in an effort to override the veto. But he has told aides that for an accord as important as this one — which he hopes will usher in a virtual truce with a country that has been a major American adversary for 35 years — he wants to win a congressional endorsement.

Mr. Obama will also have to manage the breach with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and other Arab states who have warned against the deal, saying the relief of sanctions will ultimately empower the Iranians throughout the Middle East.

The announcement comes after years of sanctions and covert cyberattacks to disable Iran’s nuclear program, which Iranian leaders insist is only for peaceful purposes.

Mr. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the secretary of state, began the effort to reach an agreement on the nuclear program by sending aides on secret missions starting in 2012 to meet Iranian diplomats and explore the opening of talks, enraging Israeli officials who had been left in the dark.

A preliminary accord struck in 2013 temporarily froze much of Iran’s program and rolled back the production of a kind of fuel that was closest to bomb grade. The ensuing negotiations have been repeatedly extended and became Mr. Kerry’s single biggest mission. Once-rare American encounters with Iranian diplomats became routine. Along the way, Mr. Kerry has spent more hours with Mr. Zarif than with any other foreign minister.

I decided to complete this set of haikus after someone encouraged me to do so after I posted the first. Here they are. Readers, please let me know your reactions, whther thumbs up or down.



Vapor clouds to rain.

Rain gathers into puddles.

Puddles to vapor.



Flowers form to fruit.

Fruit falls to ground, becomes seeds.

Seeds grow to flowers.



Sun shines for flowers.

Sun swirls in its galaxies.

Galaxies give dust.




Cosmic dust to stars.

Stars collapse, become black holes.

Black holes spew out dust.




God forms earth from dust.

Earth gives a home to mankind.

Mankind becomes dust.



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I read across the board....as much as i am a liberal progressive-it is because I am a compassionate person and believe my fellow man needs a helping hand and is not less than me because he/she does.....even with religion and stances on social issues....I believe in freedom of choice when it is not imposing on ME......but ideologically.....I follow no one...and that is the beauty of academia...it teaches critical thinking...being an engineer taught me pure logical thinking....combine the two and it will optimize one's analytical sk**ls........but I read across the spectrum to accept and reject what I choose to, not because i find any of it compelling or want to be trapped in an ideological box.........and as so far as language..to me it is all a form of exprerssion and not much more....not indicative of an emotional state or none of that jazz...and if people read my posts...they will see I respond to the respectful in a likewise manner like I am doing with you....and for those who take cracks at my language and swear I am not a professor...they never take a look at themselves and acknowledge that they are not engaging with respectful communication themselves...the way a class does...they want a professor but do not want to be a class...they try to train me to take the high road while they remain a r****t, h**eful mob......and that will never work...I give what I get...but more of it....good or bad.....after letting the other person set the initial tone...and that is why I never have crimes of the conscience....because that approach is inherently fair in nature...

Evangelicals preach to the poor against Satan and the Catholic Church

WITH VINCENT BEVINS
It is 5 p.m., and the church bells in the center of the city begin to toll. Hundreds of commuters stream across the Praca da Se square, passing in front of the headquarters of the largest archdiocese in the nation with the most Catholics in the world.
But over the pealing sounds of the cathedral, many commuters are hearing a very different religious message.
“The world is dominated by sin! Only the Gospel can save you! Only evangelism can save you!” shouts a middle-aged man, gesticulating wildly and increasing volume as he utters each sentence. A rapt crowd of 30 or 40, mostly men, listens as the street preacher seeks to draw in additional passersby, warning them of danger to their souls.
“Satan is hidden everywhere! If you’re with a religion, you’re wrong! If you’re Catholic, you’re wrong! Put your hands together for Jesus!” The crowd obliges.
Nearby, homeless youths huddle together, passing a crack pipe back and forth. A young woman, apparently mentally ill, sits among the worshipers, playing with leaves and sticks on the ground.
Street preachers maintain a daily presence here and elsewhere around Brazil, calling upon believers to accept Jesus directly, rejecting the need for the Roman Catholic Church to serve as mediator.
Whereas some leaders behind Brazil’s large evangelical churches have become famously wealthy and powerful, these men sweat on the street among Sao Paulo’s downtrodden. They’re foot soldiers on the front lines of a religious battle that their side seems to be winning.
When Josemar Bento Mendes was born, 50 years ago, more than 90% of Brazilians declared themselves Catholic. But by 2013, at the time that Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, visited, just 57% of Brazilians claimed allegiance to Rome. About 28% declared a commitment to some kind of evangelical Christian faith.
“I was born and raised Catholic like everyone else. But it’s full of false doctrine and tradition which has nothing to do with the word,” says Bento Mendes, who is preaching in the harsh cold of a wintry June day. “I come here because everyone in the city comes through the plaza. It’s ground zero. It’s a river with many fish, and many people suffering.”
Mendes and others preach that the Bible is God’s authoritative word, which should be spread evangelically, and that the Catholic Church is not necessary to interpret it.
Most of the fish in the river move along quickly, heading into the crowded metro station.
But those loitering in the square tend to respect the seriousness of the gathering. After one young man, visibly high, spends a few minutes giggling, his perceived insolence is quickly singled out.
A tough-looking man in a hoodie and gold chains threatens him, instructing, “Respect the word of God!” The youth is soon clapping and praying along with the rest.
Preachers change off every hour or so and switch up styles. But they all rely on their intensity and passion, which could not contrast more sharply with the inside of the Catholic cathedral.
There, a priest’s sermon is scarcely audible over the PA as he calmly explains the meaning of the church calendar. The audience for his Mass is barely larger than the circle formed around the preachers outside. Their slight presence in the pews is dwarfed by the ornate and grand structure built to hold thousands.
The format of the lessons outside is also looser, with the preachers reading select passages from the Bible, then expounding on their meaning. They may seem to be closer to adhering to Jesus’ message of embracing the poor and sick, but these teachings — and indeed the Gospels themselves — are almost never the main point. Over the course of days and various preachers, a few dominant themes emerge: the imminent apocalypse, the influence of Satan and the evils of homosexuality.
“There are men sleeping with other men! We should see shame in your faces! You are worse than a dog or a pig. I have never seen a pig lie down with another pig,” says one. Some in the crowd just listen intently, while others cry out spontaneously, or raise their eyes to the sky and tremble.
The preacher now turns his wrath on Edir Macedo, the media mogul billionaire leader of the evangelical Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, for airing sexually charged shows on his Record TV network. Bento Mendes and preacher Waldo Silvio Santos belong to the competing Assembly of God congregation.
“Woe to you who pays his tithes to men who put naked women on TV to make millions. False prophets love money.”
The evangelical movement has been criticized for profiting off Brazil’s most destitute and sometimes offering a version of Christianity that they consider fundamentalist and reactionary, rejecting much of modern society. Within the complicated rules of Brazil’s brutal class system, however, many middle-class liberals have also felt uncomfortable criticizing any movement that is largely working-class.
But in the last few months, evangelical figures have risen to top positions of political power, causing liberals to panic. Eduardo Cunha, an evangelical who serves as president of the lower house of Congress, is considered a dangerous, cynical schemer by progressives, and he has said he will bar any v**e on liberalizing a******n, which is illegal here.
After evangelical congressmen staged a protest against Sao Paulo’s recent Gay P***e Parade, the major Folha de S.Paulo newspaper printed a scathing indictment: “A growing spirit of fundamentalism is manifesting itself ... and Congress seems committed to reflect this trend, intensify it, and use it to demagogic ends.”
But the halls of the capitol in Brasilia are very far away from Praca da Se. As a Catholic priest and a Franciscan friar walk slowly, Bento Mendes has no time for focus on matters of politics.
“It is a thousand times better to trust in God than to trust in princes,” he booms. “And I tell you this: Christ’s return is coming sooner than we imagine. If it doesn’t, I’ll stop preaching. I’ll rip up my Bible, if terrible things don’t rain down upon us soon.”
Bevins is a special correspondent.