conservatism

Dan Cathy’s anti-gay rhetoric:

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

Well, actually, that’s Barack Obama speaking in 2008.

This is what Dan Cathy said.

We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit.

It’s interesting to me that Dan Cathy doesn’t actually mention anything about homosexuality or same-sex marriage in the entire interview, and is painted as a bigot and a homophobe. Yet Barack Obama speaks directly about the issue in opposition same-sex marriage and his comments were largely ignored. It’s worth noting, Obama has since changed his stance on same sex marriage.

A. G. Sulzberger at the NY Times:

TIOGA, N.D. — As much as the drilling rigs that tower over this once placid corner of the prairie, the two communities springing up just outside of town testify to the galloping pace of growth here in oil country…Confronted with the unusual problem of too many unfilled jobs and not enough empty beds to accommodate the new arrivals, North Dakota embraced the camps — typically made of low-slung, modular dormitory-style buildings — as the imperfect solution to keeping workers rested and oil flowing.

We have lots of oil. Why are ND and a handful of other states the only selling it? One word answer: Obama.

From just a few days ago.

With all the press Islam gets for being a “religion of peace”, I thought I’d share something that sheds some light on a different religion of peace:

Steve Jordahl At Citizen Link:

It’s been almost two years since the devastating earthquake that leveled much of Haiti. Steve Jordahl tells us the world’s attention may have moved on, but one church has not forgotten. These medical workers are teaching the people in Haiti how to avoid Cholera. They’re sponsored by the Christian organization World Concern.

Who am I kidding. They’re probably occupying Haiti and pillaging their towns, right?

NY Times, back in September:

Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al Azhar, the bastion of Sunni Islam scholarship that prides itself on a moderate form of Egyptian Islam, issued a document that seeks to marry secular attitudes with conservative theories.

Ynet news, yesterday:

 A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo’s most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to “one day kill all Jews.”

Moderate.