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Showing posts with label Justice. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Danny Masterson

Daniel Masterson was charged on Wednesday by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office with raping three women.

The alleged separate incidents occurred between 2001 and 2003, according to authorities.

The That '70s Show star was charged with three counts of rape by force or fear. The case was filed for warrant Tuesday, according to the district attorney's office. Masterson was arrested Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., according to jail records. His bond was set at $3.3 million. He bonded out at 2:44 p.m., according to jail records.

Masterson is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman between January and December 2001. The actor is alleged to have raped a 28-year-old woman in April 2003. And, sometime between October and December of 2003, according to authorities, the actor is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman who he had invited to his Hollywood Hills home.

The district attorney's office noted it declined to file sexual assault charges against Masterson in two other investigations, one due to insufficient evidence and the other based on the statute of limitations for the crime alleged.

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Masterson's lawyer said his client was innocent.

“We’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light and witnesses have the opportunity to testify," Tom Mesereau said. “Obviously, Mr. Masterson and his wife are in complete shock considering that these nearly 20-year old allegations are suddenly resulting in charges being filed, but they and their family are comforted knowing that ultimately the truth will come out. The people who know Mr. Masterson know his character and know the allegations to be false.”

Los Angeles police began investigating Masterson over sexual-assault claims in 2017.

There shouldn't even be a statute of limitations for rape, let alone a delay of this many years in getting to the truth. Masterson could have raped countless women in the time it took to get us from 2001 to today.

There was a lawsuit filed in 2019 and Masterson was accused of raping incapacitated or drugged women as well as repeatedly raping and abusing a former girlfriend. What stands out in this particular incident is that Masterson has been accused of being helped in his defense by the Church of Scientology.

Monday, February 24, 2020

The Horror of This Man's Actions

I hope Harvey Weinstein is held accountable for every single heinous thing he ever did.
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and a felony sex crime Monday, marking a climactic end to a high-profile case that in some ways serves as vindication of the #MeToo movement.
Those two counts were connected to individual allegations made by Mimi Haley, a former Weinstein Co. production assistant, and Jessica Mann, a once-aspiring actress. Weinstein was acquitted on the two most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which each carried a potential life sentence.

Weinstein, 69, appeared to be staring ahead while a half-dozen court officers surrounded him just after the verdict was delivered. The movie producer struggled to get up from his seat as he was handcuffed and escorted out of the courtroom.

Judge James Burke ordered Weinstein to be held in custody until his sentencing March 11.
It is a good thing that he is not free to live at home and continue out and about in public. As recently as October he was heckled at a comedy club. Now that he has had his due process, he should not be allowed in polite society ever again.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Racist Jerk Loses His Business

Now, this is how things are NOT supposed to work in this country:

The Dairy Queen owner shouting the n-word at Deianeira Ford told her he could say whatever he wanted at his fast-food restaurant — that any accusations and complaints she uttered would fall on deaf ears.

Ford was vindicated two days later, when her Facebook post about the incident provoked outrage so strong that the Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill., didn’t open for business.

But her victory was tempered by something even more troubling that she heard at a protest: Although she was the most vocal victim of the owner’s racism, she was not the first.

On Wednesday, Ford had taken her two children to visit their grandmother — and, because they were well-behaved, she stopped by the Dairy Queen on the way home. She ordered a $5 box, but part of the order was wrong, and another part was missing.

So she asked the owner to fix the order, and when he balked, she asked for a refund. That’s when things spiraled.

The owner, James “Jim” Crichton, returned her $5, but gave her a mouthful, according to Ford and the police in Zion, 50 miles north of Chicago.

“He called me and my children n—–; he said I can go back to where I came from,” Ford told The Washington Post.

This is how things ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK:

On Friday, Dairy Queen announced that it was closing the location in Zion, Ill., and that it was terminating Crichton’s franchise rights.

Ah, the free market. It has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Quietly Ending the Death Penalty in America

In case you weren't aware of it, the death penalty is going away. Well, a better way to say it might be fading away:

Arizona prison officials told a federal court Friday they could no longer perform executions due to problems obtaining lethal-injection drugs, effectively ending capital punishment in the state for the foreseeable future.

The Arizona Department of Corrections said it amended its execution protocols to omit midazolam and that the state lacked supplies of either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, according to a filing in a federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona. All three drugs are sedatives used to render inmates unconscious during a lethal injection.

The department’s “lack of the drugs and its current inability to obtain these drugs means that the Department is presently incapable of carrying out an execution,” the filing said. The state’s current supply of midazolam is also scheduled to expire before a lawsuit by five death-row inmates challenging the state’s use of the drug will be completed.

One of the things that has always brought international condemnation and shame to the United States has been the uneven and unfair application of the death penalty. Many countries do not even have a death penalty. America is really more into revenge and applying the Biblical punishment of "an eye for an eye." This has become impossible in a day and age when companies become aware of the fact that the drugs they are manufacturing are perfect for putting people to death.

Anyway, it's long overdue for the United States to join the civilized world in 2016. There will always be some asshole who calls for hanging, the guillotine, or the firing squad. Ignore them.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Dennis Hastert to Share Cell With Jared Lee Loughner

I apologize for the click-bait-y nature of this post, but it is a fact that Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert will report to the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. This is where Jared Lee Loughner, the man who killed six people and attempted to kill Gabby Giffords, among others, is currently incarcerated for treatment.

This is about as lenient as the Feds could get in terms of putting Hastert in prison, and, if there is some form of justice out there, then these two could end up sharing some space together. Really, this is what justice looks like in America today? Club Fed for mass murderers and child molesters?

Okay, then.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The Balls on These People

Dead men can vote, apparently:

Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation fellow, last week argued that the Supreme Court should count the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's votes in cases in which the justices have already cast preliminary votes.

During an interview with American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios, von Spakovsky noted that after hearing oral arguments, the justices meet and cast votes in the case before writing the decision.

"So that’s the point at which they know how a case is going to be decided and the chief justice then makes assignments of who will write the majority opinion etc.," von Spakovsky said, according to audio posted by Right Wing Watch. "I think the chief justice has an absolute obligation to give credit to Scalia’s vote in those cases that have already been decided, even if he didn’t write his opinion yet, because they know how he would have voted."

I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. And we now have a very interesting precedent--dead men can now vote. The established rules and precedents of the Supreme Court no longer apply. This is, indeed, a world turned upside down, but it does not have to be. If we would just follow the Constitution, the president could nominate a new justice and we'd be good to go.

Funny how the only people stretching reality and changing things and making shit up are the ones who are trying to replace the Constitutional originalist.

The one truth in all of this is the fact that, when a Supreme Court Justice dies, the party in power gets to name the replacement. That's why justices retire. That's why elections have consequences. And that's why, on President Obama's watch, the Republicans have lost again. They can't stand it. They're doing backflips and flipflops and engaging in flights of fancy in order to justify the fact that they just lost control of the Supreme Court.

Basically, though, a guy who made his living complaining about voter fraud wants the Supreme Court of the United States to let a dead man vote. You couldn't make this up if you tried.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Maryland Restores the Franchise to Felons

I wholeheartedly support this. Restoring voting rights to felons should be a national issue. Taking away the voting rights of convicted felons appears where in the Constitution? Hmm?

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Sovereign Citizens

This is actually part of the strategy of the sovereign citizen movement--take everything that the Federal government has in terms of handouts and put nothing back into the "coffers" of the government.

The Bundy family represents the most successful sovereign citizen outfit in America. They should be prosecuted as a syndicate or a crime family because this is part of a systemic effort to avoid taxation and the paying of fees in order to profit from Federally owned resources. To the Bundy's the fact that the Federal government gave them a "loan" is just part of the scam. They spent that money and laughed about it. They will not pay it back, of course. That's for suckers.

You're the sucker because you weren't smart enough to get a loan that you won't pay back for your "kin" or family.

Hypocrites? No, they're not hypocrites. They hate the government and they're not shy about taking money from it in order to "cripple" it because they don't have any shame. They'll take every penny they can get and whatever else. They don't care about fraud and they don't recognize the courts or official looking papers in the mail. They thumb their nose at it because they've already abandoned any pretense of living like regular citizens.

The worst thing a local cop or deputy sheriff will ever run into is not necessarily an armed criminal. It is a sovereign citizen who is armed has no intention of complying with lawful orders. Yes, they're one and the same thing, but anyone who self-identifies themselves as "sovereign" triggers a lot more alarms than a common criminal.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Remember When it Was Tracy Morgan's Fault?

Yeah, it was totally Tracy Morgan's fault that the driver who plowed into his vehicle was awake for 28 hours because Wal-Mart demands absolute fealty to maximum profits over all other considerations. I'm surprised that their lawyers didn't wring a few million out of Morgan in the process of suing him for almost dying when their driver crashed into him.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Prurient Purposes Thwarted

How far does freedom really go?

The man with shoulder-length red hair stood by the sidewalk just north of Island Park Pool. In the muggy heat, he wore gray slacks and a silky, blue, long-sleeve shirt.

From his perch along First Avenue South, the man, who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s, could peer down on swimmers by the pool’s diving boards. He would look around, act like he was smoking and then snap a photo using a camera with a zoom lens.

Jed Felix said he witnessed all this on Monday afternoon. After watching the man surreptitiously take photos for a while, Felix confronted him and asked what he was doing. “He said he was just taking pictures and that he was an artist,” said Felix, 26, of Fargo. “He said it’s completely legal.”

Now, imagine the impending freakout--they're violating his rights.

Well, yes, but no. They've made this an issue of trespassing, which means he went somewhere that he wasn't welcome and he did something specific that violates the use of public property for personal or prurient reasons. This is not the sort of thing that would stand up in every court, but it does make sense when considering the safety of the public.

This is because the man in question, regardless of what he's wearing, is using technology (a camera) to violate the privacy of others. Should they get a search warrant and see what's on the camera? Would a judge sign off on that? Who knows? Your right to be a weirdo is guaranteed up and until the moment when you start taking telephoto lens photos of kids and women (which should be good enough to ban paparazzi, but oh well).

The  kicker in this whole article will appear briefly before your eyes:

One of the comments was from a woman who said she saw the same man taking photos of women in bikinis on Friday in Island Park.

“We watched as he set his camera on his lap and aim it at women in the park and then moments later look through the shots he just took,” she said in a post on her own Facebook site, which included a photo of the alleged photographer, a man with long red hair who looked like the man Felix encountered.

Felix said the man he approached would not tell him his name or show him the photos he’d taken.

“He was very calm during the entire thing like he knew that he was in the right,” Felix said. “He said that until it’s illegal, he’s going to keep doing it.”

Why didn't the man want to show a perfect stranger, a common citizen, what was on his camera? Because he doesn't have to. That's a matter for the courts. Short of that, using trespass laws to keep him out of public places is about the only recourse left to the community, which has rights as well. He's made up his mind to be an asshole. That's his right! Nobody else has to put up with that, though.

Don't be an asshole. You're ruining freedom for everyone else.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Leave People Alone

I know I am a jackass for saying this, but the best thing that a policeman can do is leave people alone.

If you're not breaking the law, you expect to be left alone. That moment of uncertainty when a policeman stops you or approaches you is stressful enough. There are times when you don't want to inadvertently scare people by introducing authority figures into their daily routine.

Really, free stuff is just not worth the aggravation. Leaving people alone is a priceless practice in modern American society.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Tax Cheats and Swiss Banks

Even if you were able to get the taxes owed on the money stashed in HSBC's bank accounts, you wouldn't get it next year or the year after that because the owners would move their assets to another location.

It's a noble idea--make tax cheats pay their fair share. In theory, we could close budget gaps. fully fund education, and put free sweaters on puppies everywhere. This is the goal of tax collection agencies throughout the world, but it rarely turns out to be practical in the long term. You might see a surge of revenue one year and then the tax cheats find a new haven for their wealthy.

HSBC shouldn't even be allowed to do business in the United States. Withdrawing the protection of the American rule of law would force many wealthy people to go off shore. If you think you can get a better deal paying European tax rates, go live there. Wait until some shady organization with the legal backing of the state confiscates your wealth and then try to get an American lawyer to sue to get it back. I will you well in that endeavor. Ask a former Russian billionaire how they got their money back from the government. I'm still waiting to see what that looks like because it would be fantastic and wonderful to behold.

People are always going to try and cheat, even though the smart money is on using America's legal system as a guarantor of perpetual wealth. Once they have been robbed by questionable governments and sleazy bankers outside of the protection of American courts, let them come home and live under the law and pay their fair share of taxes. Got a bank in the Cayman Islands? Good, steal from these people so we can laugh when they come begging for the protection they saw fit to abandon.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Warren Sapp Has a Working Girl Problem

A good lawyer can make this go away because these kinds of arrests are entrapment situations that usually come down to misunderstandings and a genuine concern for helping a young lady make her school tuition payments on time. You Better Call Saul, my man.

In the case of Warren Sapp, does he have the money to hire a good lawyer? How many times has he filed bankruptcy? Can he afford a criminal defense attorney based on the conditions of his existing bankruptcy?

If this was Las Vegas, he'd be fine. Hence, a great argument for holding every Super Bowl in sin city. I don't know why we persist in maintaining the illusion that the gamblers don't exist. Pander and cater to the gamblers, and grow the hell up.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Tri-State Munchie Run

Technically, it's not brazen if you're not smiling on security camera footage.
An 18-year-old Kentucky man and his 13-year-old girlfriend who have been missing for 12 days are believed to have taken off on a crime spree across the South, authorities said Thursday, during which they're suspected of having stolen at least two vehicles — one of which had guns in it.
"It is imperative that these two be located and apprehended as their behavior is becoming increasingly brazen and dangerous," the Grayson County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The sheriff's office identified the pair as Dalton Hayes, 18, and his girlfriend, Cheyenne Phillips, 13, whom Cheyenne's father reported missing on Jan. 3. They're accused of stealing a neighbor's red Toyota pickup truck, which was spotted on security video nine days later outside a Walmart store in Manning, South Carolina. The couple themselves were captured on video entering the store.
Someone needs to calm down. Americans have more guns than anyone else, and leaving guns in a car is as stupid as it gets.

Have they shot anyone? Nope.

Are they on a run for munchies? Probably.

Which parent thought it was okay for an eighteen year old male to consort with a thirteen year-old girl? Hopefully none of them.

Is this going to lead to a couple of completely innocent people being shot by paranoid idiots? That's a distinct possibility.

Alert me when they're only eight days ahead of the law, okay?

Oh, and South Carolina's age of consent is 14, by the way. Yes, as crazy as that is, this is the law:
The legal age of consent in South Carolina is 16. However, individuals as young as 14 years old are able to consent to have sex with a partner who is 18 years old or younger. Submitting to coercion, especially of an aggravated nature, is not consent.
Something tells me that they're just waiting for a berf-day.

In any event, that's some excellent parenting.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Modern Life is a Nightmare

Ben Edelman is a Harvard-educated lawyer who found out that he was overcharged for Chinese takeout. He became enraged, in only the way that a lawyer can, and terrorized the owner of the Chinese restaurant that made the mistake of trying to have a website online and survive.

We can't let one complete and utter asshole ruin everything, can we?

Follow the link to go read the whole thing. It is the use of the law to terrorize an establishment over a pithy amount. We're not talking about a whole lot of money, and we are talking about principles, but, wow.

Ben Edelman's talents seem to be honed in a way that would make him a sociopath or worse. This kind of behavior is an indicator of other very special things and I would hope that this case would inform everyone's thinking about not to deal with others.

Friday, November 21, 2014

You Should Have Waited For it to be Legalized

A middle-aged man in Baltimore, Maryland is in a lot of legal trouble today. If only he had waited a little while, right?

Maryland is creeping up on legalization, and we might as well get it out there--your town is already full of weed. I don't care where you live--your town is already full of people on drugs. Don't believe the nonsense. The cops know where this stuff is because every time they arrest someone, that someone starts squealing about where they got it and how can that help them out?

Our phony war on drugs and the militarization of the police--a match made in heaven. We are hopelessly screwed up and staring at a future full of falling down houses and ruthlessly beaten people in the streets. Isn't anyone tired enough of this to demand some sort of compromise between the twin realities we face? People are gonna medicate and get high and the cops are going to attack society's problems with no subtlety whatsoever. How do you fix that? Stop the war on drugs, make cops go back to being actual police officers who, you know, serve the public and get the military gear out of our towns and cities. If you're on drugs, you go to treatment not prison if you have only hurt yourself.

I mean, duh.

I'm not convinced that this country is ever going to get to a point where we can grow up completely and legalize drugs. I think we are a long ways away from a time where someone like this could be allowed to do what he's done (no one can tax the weed you grow in the dank corners of your own basement, for starters). And so, we are locked in a war on drugs that will continue to ruin lives, cost billions, and fill prisons.

If you want to talk about wasted potential, look at those plants and tell me what we're doing this for because it has never been readily apparent to me. We have way more important things to worry about. All we are getting is more paranoia, more guns, more violence, too much money in the mix, and people who are tossing their lives into a massive bonfire of misery. I don't get it and I never will.


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What's Engagement Now? Expert Chris Gibbons Discusses Emerging Challenges

This interview with Chris Gibbons is the fifth in a series of brief chats between CFAH president and founder, Jessie Gruman, and health care experts - among them our CFAH Board of Trustees - who have devoted their careers to helping people find good health care and make the most of it.

HIT and Patient Engagement

Gruman: You work on a variety of projects related to health behavior at the Johns Hopkins Center for Community Health, which you direct.  Can you describe how this work is related to the growing need for people to participate actively in their health care?

Chris Gibbons:  Most of my work within the Center these days is focused on whether and how individuals ' sick or well ' use technology for health-related purposes.

I think that if people are ever going to be able to use technology to engage in their care, the technologies have to be built for them and have to be usable by them. This admittedly sounds like a no-brainer.'  But unfortunately, most of the tools and applications developed within the HC sector were designed without any participation or particular concern about how non-professionals would use them.

Gruman:  It's hard to believe this is still true, what with all the attention to end-users.

Chris Gibbons:  You'd be surprised. This is true even of things that have great utlility for doctors and nurses like Electronic Health Records (EHRs).'  Part of the purpose of an EHR is to transport data around from office to office; part is to track clinician, clinic and hospital performance and part is to be able to aggregate data for research purposes.'  But an important function that EHRs serve is to be able to support a clinician in his or her office and to enable patients to participate in their care via information they get through a patient portal.

You need to develop those tools with clinicians and patients involved in the process and with their use of them in mind.

Gruman:  And this is not happening?

Chris Gibbons:  AHRQ recently released a report ' ' Electronic Health Record Usability: Vendor Practices and Perspectives ' that shows that this doesn't often happen. ' The study was aimed to better understand what the vendor reported they were doing around usability. In the world of technology development, this means the ability to use a technology safely, effectively and without error.'  In order to get there, you have to involve end-users.'  The report authors asked vendors if they involved patients as end-users and found that most vendors paid little attention to any end-users, much less patients.

When we finally get to the point when we are building health care interactions around EHRs ' for scheduling, communication and so on ' patients and caregivers simply have to be able to use them.'  If they are not able to do so, a burden will fall disproportionately on those who differ from the assumptions of the developers about the characteristics and skills of patients as end-users.'  They will therefore benefit less from their care.

The work we are doing shines light on this problem and pushes the government to look at usability much more so than they have done before as well as thinking about what they might be able to do to lessen the chance that EHRs (and other tools as well) might lead to unintended consequences that exacerbate disparities in care and outcomes.

Gruman: I know you also do some more applied work on this problem as well.

Chris Gibbons:  We are not sure that we (generally) have done as much as we can to understand the differences between people. Pew Internet and American Life project shows that people use technology in very different ways: older, younger; men, women; Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians.'  We don't know enough about the commonalities across those groups to build things better.

We are trying to understand the differences and similarities that may have implications for the design, usability and the outcomes associated with the way different groups will use the different technologies.

Gruman:  What groups are you working with?

Chris Gibbons: As you know, there is a growing interest in the roles of family caregivers, paid caregivers, patient navigators and home health aides who often work in low income, marginalized, sometimes rural communities that don't have the technology infrastructure of urban areas.

We are concerned that the people cared for by these individuals can't benefit from new health technologies.'  Maybe if navigators, community health workers could bring the technologies to people, maybe that will help.

After all, who says you have to have a computer in your home in order to benefit from them?'  Maybe you only need three hours of computer access per week.'  Some people may need a navigator to use the technology right or maybe they just need some coaching to get started.'  It is clear that individuals are able to do more with technology than they do without.

Gruman: Awhile ago, you also published a review of the impact of consumer health informatics in which you concluded that while there was no evidence of harm, there was also no evidence of benefit, and you called for evidence-based standards that might turn this around.

Chris Gibbons:  There are no standards that have been adopted by the HIT development industry.'  For example, for health risk appraisals (HRAs) there is no agreement about standards for the algorithms or for reporting on them and there is nobody overseeing or accrediting their use.'  Sometimes they get it right, sometimes not.'  If we really are trying to get the best tools developed that will address the needs of the widest number of people, we need this.

Gruman: I can just hear those developers now: 'More government interference with the marketplace!'

Chris Gibbons:  Well you are right: many vendors will try to argue that usability is essentially in the eye of the beholder.'  However, there's a vast field of human factors engineering (ergonomics) and a literature that explains and sets forth principles of usability that shows that in many cases, if you understand characteristics of the users and the context of use, you can build to overcome the limitations of both.'  For example, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has just released a report on evaluating and testing the usability of electronic health records.

It's not like usability is an amorphous thing or that we don't know what it is.'  Standards would reflect the state of the science and would save developers time and money in discovering these things themselves ' or not, I guess. It takes time and money to take into account what is known about how individuals use different technologies for different purposes.

But think about it: Apple has spent a HUGE amount of money on exactly this issue. This is the reason their products are so easy to use and so difficult to use incorrectly.'  If you are willing to spend the effort and make the investment to build on what is known, the product will be better.

If you think people's engagement in their health care can be improved through their use of technology, you have to be sure engagement is not just possible for a privileged few.'  You have to ensure that individuals' use of technology can be improved maximally for anyone who uses it'and that it can and should be available for EVERYONE.

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Invasion the Only Realistic Option to Head Off the Threat from Iraq, Argues Kenneth Pollack in The Threatening Storm

September 26, 2002
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New York, September 25, 2002 - To prevent the near certainty that Saddam Hussein will acquire nuclear weapons, the United States has little choice but to invade Iraq, topple the regime, eradicate its weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild the country as a prosperous and stable society. So argues former NSC Persian Gulf Director and CIA analyst Kenneth M. Pollack in a new Council on Foreign Relations book, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. This book is the most detailed and authoritative account yet on how and why this war must be fought.

Saddam’s propensity to miscalculate, his penchant for aggression, and his willingness to absorb horrific punishment will mean that the United States is likely to face a much worse conflict down the road, especially after Saddam has acquired nuclear weapons.

Building on his acclaimed March 2002 Foreign Affairs article, “Next Stop Baghdad?,” Pollack lays out five options available to the United States—bolstering containment, depending on a formal deterrence policy, mounting a covert action campaign, relying on airpower and the Iraqi opposition, and launching a full—scale invasion—and argues that none of the first four are realistic anymore. Therefore only a full-scale invasion involving several hundred thousand American soldiers can deal with the growing threat.

Although Pollack believes that an invasion will be expensive and potentially difficult, he argues that it is our best—or “least bad”—option. While the United States must consider the great cost and potentially high number of casualties of such a war, Pollack points out that throughout history, some of the costliest and most difficult wars have been the most important ones to fight. And waiting too long—as Britain and France did in early 1938—could prove to be a terrible miscalculation.

However, Pollack argues that the United States must approach an invasion soberly and meticulously. “We have to do it right,” Pollack says. As The Threatening Storm explains, the invasion force must be big enough to overwhelm the Iraqi armed forces and stifle Saddam’s likely counterattacks; the United States must have the support of key Middle Eastern states; Washington should do everything it can to secure the support of its European and Asian allies; and we must be willing to commit the resources and the attention needed to rebuild a stable, prosperous Iraq afterwards. He cautions that if we are not willing to make such commitments, an invasion could create as many problems as it solves.

Advance praise for The Threatening Storm:

"Kenneth Pollack has brilliantly written a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the problem Iraq poses for the United States. This is a must read for those desiring an in-depth understanding of the issues in this complex problem and for those who are responsible for developing policy."

—General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.)

"Iraq is at the top of America's foreign policy agenda and this book should be at the top of your reading list. Kenneth Pollack approaches the problem of Saddam Hussein without ideological blinkers or prejudices. He provides a clear-eyed account of the breakdown of American policy toward Saddam Hussein and makes a powerful case for a shift in that policy. Whether or not you agree with Pollack's solution—and I do—you will admire The Threatening Storm. It is intelligent, balanced, and measured; a model of fair-minded analysis on a topic that rarely gets any. Before you make up your mind on Iraq, read this book."

—Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International

"One of the most important books on American foreign policy in years. There is no greater strategic challenge than Iraq, and nobody better qualified to tackle it than Kenneth Pollack. To have such comprehensive, high-quality professional analysis available publicly and in real time is simply extraordinary. From now on, all serious debate over how to handle Saddam starts here."

—Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

Kenneth Pollack wrote The Threatening Storm as a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Hassan Anifowose tells the story behind ‘Rainy Day in Lagos’.

Making 3D visualizations is what I do all the time, but there is something different about this particular one. I had quite a busy week as usual and it rained a lot during the weekend as I stayed indoors. This was what inspired me to create the rain version of an office building rendering (Designed by Architect Bayo); a project which we already have submitted to the client earlier in the week. Software & tools used were Autodesk 3Dsmax, Chaos Group Vray, E-on’s Carbon Scatter, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Fireworks and my lovely Nikon D5100 Camera (with double lenses, short and long) was used to take the photos from my balcony while I watched the rain pour for a couple of hours.

Observing nature keenly, and a little knowledge of photography has helped increase my 3D visualization skills. In this post, I am going to share the steps in making the 3D visualization of an Office Building in Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria.

The Process

Step 1: Modelling from 2D drawings

The office building drawings were created in 2D Autocad and was modelled in 3D by my colleague (Seyi Oyebode), with Revit (popular architectural building modelling software) and he created the first sneak renderings in 3Dsmax. See one of the images below. The client was clear about the colours he wanted, however, we wanted to make a signature with the glazed stair shaft. Once we established the major features of the building (the glazed stair shaft and sun-breakers), he passed the file to me and I went ahead to scene composition.

Step 2: Scene composition

Placing cameras in the 3d software in order to capture good shots and prepare the scene for rendering was quite easy. It wasn’t a very large scene, so placing entourage (cars, trees, buildings in background) was easy to achieve as I knew what I wanted from the start. I used environment lighting in 3dsmax and boosted the overall mood with background planes. Sunlight was totally absent in the evening rain scene (as we all know this is what happens in reality i.e. the cloud blocks sunlight). At this point, I started trying to simulate what happens in real life. Grass usually will not be bright green but will be detailed, the sky is dark but with some little brightness to indicate it is dusk and not night.

Step 3: Rendering

This stage witnessed several test renders made, and going back to adjust a few things which were not satisfactory. Sometimes, the overall scene brightness must be toned down to really achieve the realism simulation. Lights inside the office building have to be scaled up or scaled down, creating lights for the walkway lamps and street lighting, giving enough room in the sky to appreciate the mood via camera aspects ratio and FOV (field of view) and the scene was ready for final renderings.

Step 4: Post rendering

I pulled in the rendered images into Adobe After Effects, and merged the different passes from 3Dsmax. The aim here was to achieve the mood i.e. dark skies, glowing lights, before proceeding to Adobe Fireworks to add the real elements that will make the render look real.. RAIN..!! I was lucky to have it raining at this time, so I grabbed my camera and stepped onto my balcony. My aim was to understand how rain droplets look when captured. So I did a few tests with the Nikon D5100 camera (using two different lenses with DOF (depth of field) and here are my results.

After understanding how rain droplets behave (blurred and in streaks) when captured in reference to a far focused object, I proceeded to simulating the puddle and water splatter grass effects, adding lightning strike effects and a slightly foggy scene which allows street lamps to glow. Here are more photos from the project.The grass was made with E-on’s Carbon Scatter.

I enjoyed my experience on this project hence, decided to share. Hopefully, you might have learnt a thing or two too. Have you used similar situations to achieve your 3D renderings before? Kindly share your experience or question in the comment box below.

Looking forward to having you visit more of our posts on the blog.

Image credits: Hassan Anifowose, Animation Supervisor at Chronos Studeos. See his profile here.

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BJ's already has a location only 5 miles away in Deer Park and there is a Costco in Commack only 2 miles away from the Macy's site. With the closure of this Macy's, Commack residents would have to travel up to 12 miles away to the nearest Macy's at The Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Station. As a frequent shopper of the Commack Macy's and other stores in the shopping center, I know just how bad the traffic there is now. With big-box retailers like Target, Burlington, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, and a new Whole Foods located right next to Macy's, the area is already very congested. The shopping center's location in the middle of the busy intersections of Jericho Turnpike, Veterans Memorial Hwy, Commack Rd, and the Sunken Meadow Parkway creates more traffic chaos and a BJ's here would cause an even bigger traffic nightmare for locals.

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Alan G Grant
Number of games in database: 99
Years covered: 1994 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2048
Highest rating achieved in database: 2219
Overall record: +35 -35 =29 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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A15 English (9 games)
A04 Reti Opening (5 games)
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D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted (3 games)
A10 English (3 games)
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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A G Grant vs J King  ½-½331994SNCL Div 1 Crowwood-DundeeD00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. A G Grant vs N Farrell  0-1311994SNCL Div 1 Crowwood-EdinburghA45 Queen's Pawn Game
3. J I M Grant vs A G Grant  0-1631994SNCL Div 1 Edinburgh West-CrowwoodA13 English
4. P Hopper vs A G Grant  0-1481994SNCL Div 1 Crowwood-Aberdeen 2C01 French, Exchange
5. A G Grant vs D Russell 1-0311994SNCL Div 1 Aberdeen 1-CrowwoodA45 Queen's Pawn Game
6. I Robertson vs A G Grant  1-0231994SNCL Div 1 Castlehill 1-CrowwoodB06 Robatsch
7. Y Shulman vs A G Grant  1-0282002Monarch Assurance 11thA17 English
8. A G Grant vs S Williams  0-1352003Monarch Assurance 12thA10 English
9. A G Grant vs C McNab  0-1362004111th Scottish ChampionshipA10 English
10. J Stevenson vs A G Grant  ½-½272004111th Scottish ChampionshipC00 French Defense
11. A G Grant vs C Tweedie  1-0772004111th Scottish ChampionshipA15 English
12. S R Burns-Mannion vs A G Grant  ½-½292004111th Scottish ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
13. A G Grant vs C W Pritchett  ½-½482004111th Scottish ChampionshipA20 English
14. K Ruxton vs A G Grant 1-0352004111th Scottish ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
15. A G Grant vs C MacDonald  1-0272004111th Scottish ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
16. S A Brown vs A G Grant  0-1532004111th Scottish ChampionshipA92 Dutch
17. A G Grant vs J Aagaard  ½-½72004111th Scottish ChampionshipA20 English
18. A G Grant vs S Gordon  ½-½602005Hastings 2005/06A07 King's Indian Attack
19. J Gunnarsson vs A G Grant  1-0382005Hastings 2005/06B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
20. A G Grant vs V Prosviriakov  ½-½442005Hastings 2005/06A20 English
21. C McNab vs A G Grant  1-0292006Hastings 2005/06A37 English, Symmetrical
22. W Schoen vs A G Grant  ½-½532006Hastings 2005/06A07 King's Indian Attack
23. A G Grant vs D Karapchanski  ½-½422006Hastings 2005/06A34 English, Symmetrical
24. D Arngrimsson vs A G Grant  0-1852006Hastings 2005/06B22 Sicilian, Alapin
25. A G Grant vs L Wu  ½-½102006Hastings 2005/06A26 English
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Born This Way

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The Gleeks: Born This Way
An evening of song and dance for the whole family!
The Gleeks are an all singing, all dancing, performing arts youth group from all over North Wales and Cheshire, who take their inspiration from the hit TV series Glee. Founded in only March of this year The Gleeks have already made an impressive name for themselves. With 17 members ranging from 7 to 25 years, The Gleeks made the WreX Factor finals in May and were recently head hunted and asked to audition for a place on an upcoming TV show.
Born This Way promises to excite and inspire; Featuring all of the best Glee covers including Living On A Prayer, Thriller, True Colours and Rolling In The Deep, as well as a few musical favourites from Shrek, Rent, Avenue Q, Mary Poppins, Burlesque and Legally Blonde.


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Mother of student shot by U. of C. police had worries about his mental health

Warning: Video contains graphic content and language. Video provided by the University of Chicago shows the shooting of a 21-year-old student by a campus police officer on April 3, 2018. The video was edited by the university to obscure certain visual details.

Living with bipolar disorder, Kathleen Thomas kept close watch on her son, a 21-year-old University of Chicago student, in case he started showing symptoms of the condition.

But Charles Thomas seemed to be doing well in his fourth year at the prestigious Hyde Park university, where he studied history and made friends on the crew team.

That left his mother without a clear answer when she saw video footage released by U. of C. late Wednesday that showed her son swinging an iron tent stake at campus police officers, prompting one to shoot him in the shoulder.

"I have never seen him act that way … I have never seen anger like that," Kathleen Thomas said by phone from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where her son was being treated. "He was under pressure trying to get his big bachelor's thesis done, but this is beyond a stress break. He was saying things, according to his friends, that just did not make sense, which makes me think there's definitely some psychological issues going on."

The shooting Tuesday, believed to be the first by a university department officer in more than 30 years, rattled the South Side neighborhood and raised concerns about the role of an armed, private police force on a university campus and the mental health services available to students.

Thomas, who's from Southern California, faces charges of aggravated assault of a police officer with a weapon and criminal damage to property. In bond court Thursday, Cook County Judge Stephanie Miller set Thomas' bond at $15,000, saying she took into account the family history of mental health disorders and the fact that Thomas had never been arrested before. Miller also ordered Thomas to be kept on electronic home monitoring following his release on bond.

Charles Thomas, 21, a University of Chicago student who was shot by a campus police officer on April 3, 2018, appears in an undated photo.
Charles Thomas, 21, a University of Chicago student who was shot by a campus police officer on April 3, 2018, appears in an undated photo. (Family photo)

Assistant State's Attorney Erin Antonietti said officers from the U. of C. and the Chicago Police Department first encountered Thomas about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 5300 block of South Kimbark Avenue while responding to a call of burglary and criminal damage to property.

Thomas used an iron tent stake to break the front and back glass doors of the apartment building where he lived and smashed three car windows, Antonietti said.

Five officers — three with U. of C and two with Chicago police — saw Thomas swinging the stake back and forth in an alley as he screamed obscenities at them, she said. The officers ordered Thomas to drop the weapon, but Thomas, wearing a visor and what appeared to be a red jacket, continued advancing and ran toward a U. of C. officer who was walking backward.

In videos captured by police body and dash cams, Thomas is seen running toward the officer, who screamed, "Don't come at me" and fired a shot.

Thomas suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder and a broken shoulder blade.

Thomas' attorney, Steven Goldman, argued the episode was an isolated incident related to his client's recent mental health issues.

"I'm told not only is he receiving treatment for a gunshot wound, he is being evaluated with the psychiatric department to get medication," Goldberg said in court.

He noted that Thomas never damaged police squad cars as he walked past them with the stake and was approaching the officers because he was trying to exit the alley and get away.

Ellen Crews, aunt of Charles Thomas, talks about her nephew who was shot April 3, 2018, by University of Chicago police after charging them with a metal pipe. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Students concerned by the shooting took part in a rally on Thursday afternoon at the Booth School of Business in Hyde Park.

Fourth-year student Alex Peltz, 21, a friend who lived in the same apartment building as Thomas, urged the university to provide more resources to students suffering from mental health issues and improve officer training.

"This is a person in the midst of crisis, like a person who is having a heart attack, and our police officers … were so afraid of this scary kid that they had to try to kill him," Peltz, who's from Boston, said.

Four faculty members published a letter in the campus newspaper Thursday calling for a broader and deeper discussion of campus police.

"This is a private police force, it's the second largest in the state and it's likely among the largest private police forces in the country. So the role of a private police force in the community is something that deserves to be interrogated: what role should they play?" said Reuben Jonathan Miller, an assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration.

Thomas was in the hospital under the guard of a police officer, according to family members and his attorney.

Kathleen Thomas said her son enjoyed the rigorous academics at U. of C. and attended the school on a scholarship. He planned to graduate in June and hoped to work on archaeological dig sites for a year before returning to school to pursue a doctorate degree.

Tribune reporter Lolly Bowean contributed.

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The Weekly Briefing

Chorus CEO, Jim Benton, discusses exclusive sales research with GTM executives

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Chorus CEO, Jim Benton, discusses exclusive sales research with GTM executives

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June 22, 2020

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We rebuilt our mobile app from the ground up, and we know you’re going to like what you see.

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Knowing Truth

One of the great truths in Scripture. “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things” (1 John 2:20). As believers, we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit. We have understanding. Perception. Discernment. We can distinguish truth from lies. Man’s opinion from God’s word. Learn how to think. Reexamine what you believe and why. Is it sound doctrine?

So go ahead. Go to the Holy Scriptures. Read. Study. And wait for God to open your eyes of understanding. What a gift!

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Court Rules in Favor of Christian School

Jim Denison | Denison Forum on Truth and Culture | Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Court Rules in Favor of Christian School

Trinity Western University is a private Christian school in western Canada.  It plans to open a law school in September 2016, but has faced intense opposition because its students must agree to a code of conduct prohibiting "sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman."  Opponents claim that this code excludes gays.  As a result, the British Columbia Law Society voted to deny accreditation to the school.
Now the Nova Scotia Supreme Court has ruled that Trinity Western's code does not discriminate against students or undermine the quality of their training.  The code does not ban gays or anyone else—it simply asks them to pledge not to have sex while students at the school.  The judge who issued the ruling stated that people have a right to study among others who share their faith.  Denying this right is a violation of religious freedom.
There is value in Christian community which many in the secular world do not understand. (Tweet this)
In David Brooks's latest New York Times column, he discusses the rise of secularism in our day.  Quoting an author who argues that secular morality is built around the individual's reason, choice, and responsibility, Brooks notes that humans are more than reasoning creatures.  We are governed by our emotions and subconscious impulses as well.  Religion speaks to the mind, but also to the heart.
And it provides an innate community which secularism struggles to duplicate.  Brooks: "Secular individuals have to build their own communities.  Religions come equipped with covenantal rituals that bind people together, sacred practices that are beyond individual choice.  Secular people have to choose their own communities and come up with their own practices to make them meaningful."
Collaboration is essential to personal happiness, but also to global peace.  In Joseph Nye's masterful work, The Future of Power, the former dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard advocates "smart power" as the future of effective global relations.  (Read Nick Pitts's article on The Future of Power's leadership implications.)  "Soft power" employs persuasion and diplomacy; "hard power" uses military and financial coercion.  Now we are in an era of "smart power," using technology to advance global collaboration.  Non-state actors such as al-Qaeda and ISIS are not susceptible to soft or hard power, but cultural groups working together can accomplish what militaries and governments cannot.  Nye says of the U.S., "even the largest country cannot achieve the outcomes it wants without the help of others."
Collaboration is at the heart of the gospel. (Tweet this) The church is a body with many members, a vine with many branches.  But here's the catch: unity for unity's sake doesn't accomplish much.  When we are unified in our passion for Jesus, in love with him and therefore with each other, his Spirit works through us to do together what we could never do alone.
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has affirmed the right to Christian community.  Now let's show the world its value.  Jesus prayed that we would be one so the world will believe the Father sent the Son (John 17:21).  How will you answer his prayer today?
Publication date: February 4, 2015

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Why Phil Robertson Was Mostly Right

Stan Guthrie | Author | Monday, December 23, 2013

Why Phil Robertson Was Mostly Right

I have a confession to make. I’ve never viewed A&E’s immensely popular Duck Dynasty show, and I generally can’t stand so-called “reality TV.” Watching publicity-seekers pretend to live their lives seems like a colossal waste of time at best, a disturbing example of infantile voyeurism at worst.

Still, I can’t help but admit to being an admirer of the Robertson clan, who pray together at the end of every episode, and of their plain-spoken patriarch, Phil. The current controversy is nothing new for the bearded, Bible-believing, camo-wearing agent provocateur.

Last summer, speaking about abortion, Phil caused a stir by bluntly questioning “some woman’s right to tear you out of [the womb] a piece at a time! C’mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother. … what in the world happened to us?”

It wasn’t exactly a nuanced critique—crude but effective is more like it. Well, now Phil has really gone and done it, touching the third rail of America’s culture wars in an interview in GQ magazine. Responding to a question about his definition of sin, Phil started out with homosexuality:

"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men…Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right."

Besides his rough paraphrase from 1 Corinthians 6, Phil also described in coarse, earthy terms the superiority of a basic heterosexual sex act over a basic homosexual sex act (which I will not repeat here), saying the latter is neither desirable nor “logical.” Again, the head of Duck Dynasty was not hired for his nuance. And the firestorm from the Left was predictable.

The homosexual rights group known as GLAAD called his remarks “vile.” CNN personality Piers Morgan said that the First Amendment “shouldn’t protect vile bigots” like Phil Robertson. Responding to the outrage, A&E Networks, which surely knew his views when they hired him, suspended Phil from Duck Dynasty filming “indefinitely,” saying “[we] have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community.”

(One wonders if they felt the same way about “journalist” Martin Bashir’s despicable comments about Sarah Palin or Miley Cyrus’s lascivious “twerking.” Somehow, I suspect this is another case of very selective outrage.)

The response from certain Christian leaders, unfortunately, was also predictable. Typical is author and pastor Jared Wilson on his blog for The Gospel Coalition. Wilson downplayed whether Robertson’s suspension constituted religious oppression, saying, “We ought to remember that the first amendment [sic] does not guarantee anyone’s right to have a show on cable television.” Wilson insinuated that Robertson might be a racist and that, whatever happens to him, it pales in comparison with the persecution endured by believers in other parts of the world.

Wilson then told those of us concerned over Robinson’s punishment to “get real,” adding, “This doesn’t mean we should bury our heads in the sand about genuine free speech and free exercise violations in our theoretically free nation; it just means we ought to be more circumspect than reactionary, more wise than whiny, more joyful than outraged.”

At the risk of sounding whiny, let me be frank: I’m getting a bit tired of well-meaning Christians who always seem to be advising the rest of us not to offend anyone, to stand back and say nothing when we see our rights as citizens under assault. Why is it that many of us are so quick to criticize Robertson, but so slow to stand up to the steady attacks against our religious liberty and freedom of speech? Have we lost our nerve?

I agree with Wilson that we shouldn’t lose our heads over this incident, that Robertson is an imperfect messenger of the gospel, that this is not strictly a First Amendment issue, that we evangelicals have sometimes been poor witnesses for Christ in the public square, that no one is guaranteed a job on A&E, and that Christians elsewhere suffer much more for their faith than we do.

But this is still a religious liberty issue—a disturbing attempt to punish someone because he had the temerity to state his Christian beliefs ... and it requires a forthright response from Christians in a country supposedly devoted to free speech and religious freedom. Would that more of us would follow Robertson’s bold example! Out of a legitimate desire not to offend people needlessly, sadly, we seem to be afraid to open our mouths at all.

Wasn’t it the Apostle Paul who staunchly defended his rights as a Roman citizen in order to continue preaching the gospel? We need to do the same, whether the Christian under cultural assault is Phil Robertson or someone more polished. If we don’t stand up now, we shouldn’t be surprised when the same thing happens to us later.

Yes, of course, human sexuality is a sensitive issue in our culture (as it is in every culture), the gospel is about much more than sex (though it certainly is not about less), and we don’t want to be known as sexual prudes. But surely the gospel has something to say about sexuality and marriage—that these are God’s good gifts, that when used properly they express something vital about the nature of being human, and that they mirror something of God’s love for his people.

When it comes to homosexuality, are we Christians still willing to say what Phil Robertson said—albeit in a more sensitive way—or have we given up? As he reminds us, those who cling to ungodly sexual practices—of all kinds—risk the eternal wrath of God. It is not loving to say otherwise—or to remain silent. Those who are willing to warn people of the dangers of homosexuality seem an endangered species in our society. Who will speak the truth to this generation? Must we leave it to those who appear to be ZZ Top groupies

Noting the undeniable complexity of our sexuality, some Christians counsel that we focus on other issues related to the kingdom, such as the gospel, or feeding and clothing the poor. It is probably true that we ought not to start a conversation with an unsaved neighbor by talking about sex. It is surely wise to build a durable relationship first, something that Phil could not and did not do in his GQ interview.

However, we need to remember that our sexuality matters to God, who created us, and that sometimes being faithful to him requires that we say uncomfortable things about people’s sexual choices. Remember that John the Baptist was imprisoned (and eventually martyred), not for counseling people to share with the poor, but for criticizing the sex life of Herod.

In our desperate, sex-crazed culture, sometimes we must do the same.

Stan Guthrie is author of the new book, A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy: 60 Predictions Everyone Should Know. Stan blogs at stanguthrie.com.

Publication date: December 23, 2014


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Numbers 12 Bible Commentary

John Darby’s Synopsis

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Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses

After that (for what form will not rebellion assume?) Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses. It is the prophetess and the priest (one who has the word from God and access to God, the twofold character of the people of God), who rise up against him who is king in Jeshurun, with whom God speaks as unto His friend. In this Moses is in all respects a type of Christ, who stands personally outside the rights which grace has conferred upon the people. Faithful in all the house of God, he enjoys close intercourse with Him. Miriam and Aaron ought to have been afraid. The excuse of the two rebels was, that Moses had taken an Ethiopian woman—a blessed sign for us of the sovereignty of grace which has introduced into the blessing of Christ those who had no right or title to it. The people of God, whatever their privileges, ought to have recognised this sovereignty. Israel would not, and was smitten with leprosy. It is, however, in their character of witness or prophet that they suffer this chastening.

Aaron as intercessor, and the position of Moses

Aaron resumes his place of intercessor, and speaks humbly to Moses (a figure, I think, of the humiliation of Israel, grounded on the value of the intercession of Christ, identifying Himself with the position of the people). God's answer is, that Miriam should be humbled and chastened, shut out, for a time, from intercourse with Him, then restored to favour again. The people wait for her restoration. Let us remember that the Lord here recalls this fact, that the most glorious position for Moses was that when he was separated from the people—when he pitched his tent without the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation or meeting. The people had but too much forgotten this. When the members of the church also, in the thought of making themselves spiritual, take advantage of their glory and position as prophets and priests (characters which do indeed belong to them), to disown the rights of Christ, as king in Jeshurun, having authority over the house of God, there is room for considering whether they are not guilty of the rebellion here spoken of. For my part, I believe they are.


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