Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 10/22/17

Trump says he won’t block scheduled release of secret JFK assassination files

Report: GOP Tax Framework Could Raise GDP By 5%, Wages By 7%

The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal

ABC’s “American Housewife” Compares Unborn Baby to Parasite

What Two Former Trans Men Want You To Know About All The Lies

What’s Wrong With The Boy Scouts Goes Deeper Than Social Issues Into Cowardice

Maxine Waters Makes Threat She Will 'Take Trump Out' to Applause

The Democrats Have Crossed The Line

Democrats Should Be Terrified By This Governor’s Race

Send Jimmy Carter To North Korea?

Donald Trump: With My Immigration Plans, 9/11 Would Never Have Happened

Mediaite.com:

In what is possibly the crescendo of his recent commentary of 9/11, Donald Trump claims that his ideas for immigration would have kept the perpetrators out of America.

Chris Wallace asked Trump to comment on his recently-renewed feud with Jeb Bush, who fired back after Trump attacked George W. Bush for allowing the disaster to happen during his presidency. When asked about whether he actually blamed the former president, Trump said he did not, but has gripes with his brother arguing that W. kept America safe.

“Jeb said ‘we were safe with my brother.’ Well, the World Trade Center just fell down,” Trump argued. “Now, am I trying to blame him? I’m not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said ‘we were safe,’ that’s not safe.”

After Wallace asked how he would’ve done things differently, Trump promised that since he is “extremely, extremely tough on immigration,” there's no way the hijackers would’ve gotten anywhere near the planes with him in charge.

“Somebody says ‘well it wouldn’t have been any different.’ well it would’ve been,” Trump said. “So there’s a good chance that those people would not have been in our country. I’m not blaming George Bush, but I don’t want Jeb Bush saying ‘he kept our country safe’ because September 11 was one of the worst days in the history of this country.”

All Trump's doing is going after independent and some socially conservative Democrats voters who can't stand Hillary or Bernie Sanders with all this anti-Bush talk. Which makes sense. But blaming a new President, who was 9 months into his term, for 9/11 especially after Bill Clinton admittedly passed on a chance to kill bin laden, makes absolutely no sense when you look at the facts, which include the many misdeeds of both the Carter and Clinton administrations that led us to the World Trade Center getting attacked.

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No, Jimmy Carter, Jesus Probably Wouldn’t Be a Fan of Gay Marriage

Mediaite.com:

Former Democratic president and born-again Christian Jimmy Carter declared today that he believed that Jesus would embrace gay marriage. In support of this belief, flying in the fact of 2,000 years of scriptural and historical scholarship, Jimmy Carter cited noted theologian Jimmy Carter.

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Let’s take a look at some of the language Carter and host Marc Lamont Hill used:

• “I believe he would, I believe Jesus would.”
• “I don’t have any verse in scripture…”
• “No no no, just intuitively, yeah.”
• “I’m not– that’s just my own personal belief.”

All of which seems be a tacit admission that Carter realizes there’s basically no textual or historical support for his assertion. He just believes that he’s right. And feelings, as the modern left will tell you, trump all.

There are two major and popular perceptions of Jesus, the divine Jesus Christ and the so-called “Historical Jesus,” historians’ attempt to reconstruct Jesus’ life without making any claims of divinity. Either way you conceive of Jesus, it’s extremely unlikely he was a gay marriage supporter.

If Jesus was just a man, he was a peasant in 1st century Galilee. He was a member of a religious community with extremely strict, patriarchal marriage laws and that believed homosexuality should be punished with death. The notion that he would have positive beliefs towards gay marriage literally millennia before any of the world’s brightest minds even considered that marriage could exist outside of a man-woman marriage… well, it’s more than a little far-fetched.

If there are any atheists or skeptics who do believe that Jesus was so incredibly prescient and ahead of his time, I earnestly suggest you might as well embrace His omniscience and divinity. But of course, you’d have to believe that the same disciples who copied down Jesus’ radical claims of divinity and complete equality of the sexes, races, and classes accidentally forgot to add the gay thing.

As for the notion that the Jesus of the Gospels — the Messiah and Son of God that Carter has worshiped for a lifetime — would support gay marriage… well, Carter was right to admit he didn’t have any scripture to quote. The kindest interpretation is that the Gospels are silent about gay marriage. At worst, they are explicit that marriage is intended to be between man and woman.

“Have you not read that He Who made them in the first place made them man and woman?” Jesus told the religious leaders of the day, “It says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will live with his wife. The two will become one.’ So they are no longer two but one. Let no man divide what God has put together.” How heterocisnormative, am I right?

Great piece and Jimmy Carter is obviously old and senile. Meantime I'm still surprised that a leftist site like Mediaite would hire a really good conservative writer like Alex Groswold.

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