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China soybeans related: Saudi Arabia is refusing to buy Canadian wheat over political prisoner spat Canada is "sticking their nose in". Canadian farmer comments "I didn't know we sold any wheat to them in the first place." A very effective boycott!
Isn't the soybean production volume difference between US and South America about 4 to 1? Doesn't China buy the equivelent of about half US production? Either way, people are not going to stop eating, just a change in which direction it moves.

#1 Jerry on 2018-08-08 08:26 (Reply)

Mr. Cohen need to stop dissing Trump before Trump decides that "he needs to be taken for a ride". Doesn't he KNOW how cruel and vicious Trump is?

#2 Sam L. on 2018-08-08 10:10 (Reply)

You really think voting for moslems is ok?

#3 Dan on 2018-08-08 10:33 (Reply)

At one point - yes. See, the thing is I bought into the 'Religion of Peace' idea, until I started looking closer. And pretty much EVERY variant offshoot of Islam is rabidly intolerant of every other sect in the ME. (That may be a function of the Wahhabism that's been pushed by Saudi Arabia, but it's certainly ignited something that was already there.)

Think of Baptists blowing up Methodists, or Catholics trying to eradicate Episcopalians.

The go-to methodology for resolving religious disputes is to eliminate the offending sect through any means necessary.

At this point, reluctantly, I don't think Islam as practiced in the ME and Africa and imported by refugees, is compatible with American culture - or Western culture in general. There's no 'live and let live' in Islam. There's no 'I may disagree with you, but I support your right to say what you want.' There's no tolerance of different life styles in Islam.

Guess we'll see where things shake out in a hundred years or so - but in the end, Islam's going to have to change or die.

#3.1 JLawson on 2018-08-08 10:57 (Reply)

If your choice was a socialist Democrat, or a conservative Muslim Republican, who would you vote for?

#3.2 feeblemind on 2018-08-08 11:41 (Reply)

I'd run myself.

The muslim has a higher obligation than his political party, and that obligation is to his mullah or imam, including the obligation to wage war in any way he can against anyone who's not a muslim.

Even if his published agenda and track record look excellent, I'd never trust him an inch to not use his position of power to harm my country, my church (if any), and my life.

#3.2.1 JTW on 2018-08-08 12:49 (Reply)

That is exactly the problem. The Muslim religion is not just a religion it is politics and culture and a way of life with unbelievably harsh penalties for not adhering to their laws. And their laws/quran require that everyone else either become Muslim even if force is required or become subservient to Islam. There is no exception. Today in about 2 dozen countries around the world there is a shooting war of Muslim dominance over previously non-Muslim majorities. They will all end in 100% Muslim nations no matter how many must be killed to do it. There is no compromise, no middle ground, no truce. The best you can hope for is that when they finally take over and convert and enslave everyone you are already dead. I say all this even having Muslim friends and having spent time socially with a Saudi Prince many years ago. They can be absolutely the friendliest and polite people you have ever met, yet they have their unbreakable faith and laws which are totally contrary to your existence. Your choice, Europe, Canada, Australia and America, is to rise up and throw them out of your country and bomb them back into the stone age in their own countries or go fit your wife and daughters for a burka.

#3.2.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2018-08-08 16:10 (Reply)

No. Just no.

#3.3 NJSoldier on 2018-08-08 12:05 (Reply)

Absolutely not! Just read what they believe and are told to do to those that are not in their religion. Why would you vote for someone that wants to end anything that isn't Muslim, including you.

#3.4 JC on 2018-08-08 20:46 (Reply)

Should Christians Vote for Muslim Candidates?

Why not? It depends

Seriously? That's a question that is so trivially easy to answer, I wonder why it's asked at all.

The reason is this: Western Civilization is founded first and foremost on Christianity. The Christianity of repentance and renewal of the New Testament, with the acknowledgment that the law and principles of the Old Testament are a valid tutor, and should be regarded in order to fulfill Jesus' directive captured in John 14:15.

It is W. Civilization, and W. Civilization alone that led to the political philosophy and cultural norms that created a democratic republic.

It is W. Civilization, and W. Civilization alone that led to with the freedoms and liberty we overtly express and adhere to in our Declaration of Independence and Constitutions.

In fact, even that is not universal throughout W. Civilization. Those liberties needed to be cultivated apart from the papist rule seen on the European continent, and away from the long traditions and adherence to the Justinian Code.

Those outside of W. Civ do not respect or adhere to the principles that are necessary for the US to thrive. They do not even understand them. So there is no way for them to enforce and insist on their propagation. No matter the rhetoric used in campaign speeches, the subsequent actions and votes will be in opposition to the founding philosophy, principles, and ultimately failure to restrain government encroachment.

#4 DrTorch on 2018-08-08 19:12 (Reply)

DrTorch: Western Civilization is founded first and foremost on Christianity.

Western Civilization is largely considered to have its roots in the pagan world of Greece and Rome.

DrTorch: It is W. Civilization, and W. Civilization alone that led to the political philosophy and cultural norms that created a democratic republic.

Case in point. Both democracy and republicanism have their roots in the pagan world. Indeed, democracy and republicanism were largely discarded during the vast majority of the Christian era as unworkable, only being rediscovered in the modern era.

#4.1 Zachriel on 2018-08-09 09:28 (Reply)

Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder vs. the ALSC

I have to suspect that the "problematic" language in her books is the bad example she sets for today's children, teaching them things like hard work, endurance, self-reliance, gratefulness for small blessings and the like are virtues. If Pa Ingalls cared for those kids at all, he would have applied for a Section 8 housing voucher, food stamps and a Medicaid card instead of trying that extreme individualism nonsense. After all, he's entitled to those things, society has an obligation to provide for those who can't provide for themselves. What are we teaching our kids if we're teaching them that taking care of yourself is good or noble or admirable rather than selfish, greedy, anti-social and wrong? People who do for themselves have a dangerous habit of starting to think for themselves and next thing you know they start putting their own interests before the interests of the collective and we've got to nip that sort of thing in the bud.

#5 Jerryskids on 2018-08-08 21:41 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Should Christians Vote for Muslim Candidates?

"You really think voting for moslems is ok?"
"No. Just no."
"Absolutely not!"

And thus we sit together now,
And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word! — Robert Browning

#6 Zachriel on 2018-08-09 09:23 (Reply)

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