“Naturally, when the Hobby Lobby theocrats began messing around with ancient texts for their preposterous Museum of the Bible in Washington, I watched with more than a casual interest. I knew from my study that hundreds of people made a decent living in the Middle East peddling fraudulent manuscripts allegedly written during or immediately after the time of Christ. And the Hobby Lobby people demonstrated quite early on that the provenance—or, for that matter, the legal ownership—of the documents they were acquiring was quite the secondary consideration.
And now, the roof falls in. From CNN:
‘ German-based scholars tested the fragments and found that five “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum.” CNN raised questions about the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments in an article published last November, as the Green family prepared to unveil their new, $500 million museum. At 430,000 square feet, and with views of the Capitol, the Bible museum represents a significant investment for its evangelical founders. Now scholars say the Dead Sea forgeries could be part of the most significant sham in biblical archeology since the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” a fiasco that hoodwinked a Harvard scholar and made worldwide news in 2012. Some scholars estimate that as many as 70 forged fragments have hit the market since 2002.’
This fills me with a flood tide of entirely un-Christian glee. The Green family, the sex-obsessed theocrats behind Hobby Lobby, have done quite enough damage to the country to have earned being played for suckers like this. And, as is customary for all modern Christian evangelicals in politics, the Greens ignored the warnings of experts in Biblical archaeology who told them they likely were buying fakes.
“They made it widely known that they were buying everything,” said Joel Baden, a professor at Yale Divinity school and co-author of “Bible Nation,” a new book about the Greens. “Every antiquities seller knew the Greens were buying everything and not asking questions about anything.”
Blessed are the theocrats, for they shall be called marks and rubes.”
And nothing says christian values to me like smuggling:
“United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby
Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates
Earlier today, the United States filed a civil complaint to forfeit thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae. As alleged in the complaint, these ancient clay artifacts originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, contrary to federal law. Packages containing the artifacts were shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (“Hobby Lobby”), a nationwide arts-and-crafts retailer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and two of Hobby Lobby’s corporate affiliates. The shipping labels on these packages falsely described cuneiform tablets as tile “samples.”
So how come the biggest story in the “liberal media” is not the Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare?
“The long-awaited sequel to The Ebola Panic (2014) has hit theaters just in time for the homestretch of the 2018 midterms. The Caravan is the haunting tale of how thousands of Central American people left their homes, primarily in Honduras, and are currently walking through southern Mexico, a thousand miles from the United States border. Yes, did you know the caravan you’re seeing wall-to-wall coverage on was actually still in Huixtla, Mexico, on Tuesday—a city very near the southern tip of Mexico?
That probably wasn’t readily apparent from the front-page coverage afforded it by The New York Times for yet another day:
Never mind that The Caravan is incredibly far away, and that surely only some slice of the few thousand marching in it will make it to the U.S.-Mexico border, and that many will likely apply for an asylum hearing—a legal right under international law and treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory—based on the claim they are fleeing gang and domestic violence in their home countries. Never mind that only the tiniest percentage are likely to gain entrance to America.
The fact that this is getting exhaustive coverage is just the latest failure in a campaign homestretch from the Mainstream Media in this country, following a 2016 meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s email security protocol and a 2014 cycle where the media went apocalyptic over an Ebola outbreak in southern Africa. Both were hysterias ginned up by Republicans and their allied propagandists in the sprawling right-wing media ecosystem.”
This guy Dayen is going to lead the charge to do the same thing he did in 2016. Separate the party.
I know no one who thinks this is not the liberal idea:
“Liberals prefer the concept of a mixed economy—which even Sanders supports, more than his democratic socialist branding would imply. Competition can come from the public sector or the private sector: Breaking up the banks through size caps, or separating their investment and deposit-taking wings, gets you to the same place functionally. The public sector may be better positioned to build a road, and the private sector better positioned to sell you sandwiches.”
Great. I’m in. Not enough for him though, he has to separate:
“The decision between Warren and Sanders as the standard-bearer on the left is not merely about personality or electability. It will have implications about what Democrats stand for: a party that wants to make capitalism work for everyone, or one that will nationalize parts of capitalism that don’t work.”
EM:
I am not a Bernie or Biden guy. Not sure if Warren would be elected. Gillibrand like to eat other Dems (Franken). Kamala? What is left which might be plausible? Dayen is an ass.
I am totally against Biden as a candidate, and see no way he can win a primary. Bernie scares me only because of the skeletons in his closet that would make the trump voters with a conscience(not a whole lot of them) rethink not voting for him again . Not that they would switch to voting for Dems(that doesn’t happen), but that they are truly appalled at trump and will stay home.
Still I would fully support Sanders if he wins the primary(that is how it should work) but I have only one demand of the Dems. Whoever wins the primary receives the full support of the losers, and if there is not a person of color that wins, the VP must be a person of color.
Trump voters.
“Naturally, when the Hobby Lobby theocrats began messing around with ancient texts for their preposterous Museum of the Bible in Washington, I watched with more than a casual interest. I knew from my study that hundreds of people made a decent living in the Middle East peddling fraudulent manuscripts allegedly written during or immediately after the time of Christ. And the Hobby Lobby people demonstrated quite early on that the provenance—or, for that matter, the legal ownership—of the documents they were acquiring was quite the secondary consideration.
And now, the roof falls in. From CNN:
‘ German-based scholars tested the fragments and found that five “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum.” CNN raised questions about the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments in an article published last November, as the Green family prepared to unveil their new, $500 million museum. At 430,000 square feet, and with views of the Capitol, the Bible museum represents a significant investment for its evangelical founders. Now scholars say the Dead Sea forgeries could be part of the most significant sham in biblical archeology since the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” a fiasco that hoodwinked a Harvard scholar and made worldwide news in 2012. Some scholars estimate that as many as 70 forged fragments have hit the market since 2002.’
This fills me with a flood tide of entirely un-Christian glee. The Green family, the sex-obsessed theocrats behind Hobby Lobby, have done quite enough damage to the country to have earned being played for suckers like this. And, as is customary for all modern Christian evangelicals in politics, the Greens ignored the warnings of experts in Biblical archaeology who told them they likely were buying fakes.
“They made it widely known that they were buying everything,” said Joel Baden, a professor at Yale Divinity school and co-author of “Bible Nation,” a new book about the Greens. “Every antiquities seller knew the Greens were buying everything and not asking questions about anything.”
Blessed are the theocrats, for they shall be called marks and rubes.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24121251/museum-of-the-bible-fake-scrolls-green-family/
And nothing says christian values to me like smuggling:
“United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby
Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates
Earlier today, the United States filed a civil complaint to forfeit thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae. As alleged in the complaint, these ancient clay artifacts originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, contrary to federal law. Packages containing the artifacts were shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (“Hobby Lobby”), a nationwide arts-and-crafts retailer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and two of Hobby Lobby’s corporate affiliates. The shipping labels on these packages falsely described cuneiform tablets as tile “samples.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-files-civil-action-forfeit-thousands-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-imported
Thieves and trump voters.
God bless.
So how come the biggest story in the “liberal media” is not the Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare?
“The long-awaited sequel to The Ebola Panic (2014) has hit theaters just in time for the homestretch of the 2018 midterms. The Caravan is the haunting tale of how thousands of Central American people left their homes, primarily in Honduras, and are currently walking through southern Mexico, a thousand miles from the United States border. Yes, did you know the caravan you’re seeing wall-to-wall coverage on was actually still in Huixtla, Mexico, on Tuesday—a city very near the southern tip of Mexico?
That probably wasn’t readily apparent from the front-page coverage afforded it by The New York Times for yet another day:
Never mind that The Caravan is incredibly far away, and that surely only some slice of the few thousand marching in it will make it to the U.S.-Mexico border, and that many will likely apply for an asylum hearing—a legal right under international law and treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory—based on the claim they are fleeing gang and domestic violence in their home countries. Never mind that only the tiniest percentage are likely to gain entrance to America.
The fact that this is getting exhaustive coverage is just the latest failure in a campaign homestretch from the Mainstream Media in this country, following a 2016 meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s email security protocol and a 2014 cycle where the media went apocalyptic over an Ebola outbreak in southern Africa. Both were hysterias ginned up by Republicans and their allied propagandists in the sprawling right-wing media ecosystem.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24164296/caravan-coverage-media-fail-donald-trump-republicans/
This is becoming increasingly frightening.
This guy Dayen is going to lead the charge to do the same thing he did in 2016. Separate the party.
I know no one who thinks this is not the liberal idea:
“Liberals prefer the concept of a mixed economy—which even Sanders supports, more than his democratic socialist branding would imply. Competition can come from the public sector or the private sector: Breaking up the banks through size caps, or separating their investment and deposit-taking wings, gets you to the same place functionally. The public sector may be better positioned to build a road, and the private sector better positioned to sell you sandwiches.”
Great. I’m in. Not enough for him though, he has to separate:
“The decision between Warren and Sanders as the standard-bearer on the left is not merely about personality or electability. It will have implications about what Democrats stand for: a party that wants to make capitalism work for everyone, or one that will nationalize parts of capitalism that don’t work.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/151871/essential-difference-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren
Now he shows some differences where there are really none. Another fen litmus test. Another attack on the Dem Party.
sigh
EM:
I am not a Bernie or Biden guy. Not sure if Warren would be elected. Gillibrand like to eat other Dems (Franken). Kamala? What is left which might be plausible? Dayen is an ass.
I am totally against Biden as a candidate, and see no way he can win a primary. Bernie scares me only because of the skeletons in his closet that would make the trump voters with a conscience(not a whole lot of them) rethink not voting for him again . Not that they would switch to voting for Dems(that doesn’t happen), but that they are truly appalled at trump and will stay home.
Still I would fully support Sanders if he wins the primary(that is how it should work) but I have only one demand of the Dems. Whoever wins the primary receives the full support of the losers, and if there is not a person of color that wins, the VP must be a person of color.
And Dayen is an ass.