Random Politics & Religion #00

President Obama says that race relations in the U.S. have improved during his six years in the White House, amid recent racial tensions sparked by the deaths of two black males during separate police encounters.

“I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided," said the president, according to excerpts of an interview with National Public Radio to be aired starting Monday.

Obama also told the radio network that Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress when members return next week means they can no longer blame the gridlock on him and fellow Democrats who formally controlled the Senate.

“Now you've got Republicans in a position where it's not enough for them simply to grind the wheels of Congress to a halt and then blame me," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/28/obama-america-less-racially-divided-since-took-office-in-200/?intcmp=latestnews


Does this guy even live on the same planet as the rest of us mere earthlings? You just can't make up the stuff that comes outta his mouth its amazing.

Obama is an idiot. Doesn't even know his birthplace.

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Did you know that half of all children are below the median intelligence for their age group? We need to stand up for changes that will make it so that all kids are above median intelligence.

Statistician jokes... Worse than IT jokes...

lol see what i mean aelius i really wonder what they really do with the billions we spend on education in this country.

The U.S. is even more united now than ever... united about being divided.

I mean we can barely get this site to agree on much, short of Michael Moore's movies are horrible (a few dissenters), boobs (more dissenters, for some unknown reason), and a large portion watch anime (albeit different kinds).

Only thing is at one point or another we were all addicts to a game known as FFXI, for one reason or another.

That reminds me, I've gone without my fix in some time, I guess I should update today.

The family of Sir Winston Churchill pleaded with him not to convert to Islam, a newly-discovered letter from his future sister-in-law has revealed.

The Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in the Second World War was apparently so taken with Islam and Oriental culture that his relatives wrote to try and persuade him not to become a Muslim.

He had been exposed to the religion during his time serving in North West India and Sudan.

The revelation contradicts some of the beliefs expressed by Churchill in his own writings.

In the note, written in August 1907, Lady Gwendoline Bertie - who would later marry his brother, Jack - urged Churchill to 'fight against' the desire to convert.

She wrote: 'Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalise [fascination with the Orient and Islam], Pasha-like tendencies, I really have.

'If you come into contact with Islam your conversion might be effected with greater ease than you might have supposed, call of the blood, don’t you know what I mean, do fight against it.'

The letter was discovered by Warren Docker, a history research fellow at Cambridge University, while researching his forthcoming book, Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East.

You talkin A's or D's?

But this site isnt much in the way of comparison, so many people are from other countries. Even still United States is more a Euphemism then anything serious.

My question is, where did they ask the question?

I'm guessing Berkeley.

Not a single scientist on the list.

Yet the leader of a global cult is number two among men, number four overall.

Yeah, our country is really enlightened.

No Kardashians on the list. That's a good sign.

Stephen Hawking would count, but that seems to be the only one.

Yeah, but a woman whose primary claim to fame is marrying into British royalty is on the list. Girls, you see this? Marry a prince. That's the aspiration!

Ugh.

Bah. I managed to miss him. I'm a twit.

Still. 1% to Sarah Palin's 2%.

Still not a good sign.

Edit: Also, I do have to wonder how much takeaway he gets as a pity vote as he's a famous disabled figure in our country.