Dhamma Wheel

robertk wrote:I think all countries, no matter religious or not, have laws against killing humans.
So I don't follow the reasoning that restricting abortion is bringing religion in?

Human 'persons'.

Gary Gutting: On Abortion and Defining a ‘Person’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes. “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” That’s how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronal...

A good letter from the ACLU to Trump: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/nyt_trump_ad-forprint-rel1.pdf :reading: Kim Excellent, thank-you. See, also -- Hundreds of Jewish scholars of holocaust history call on Americans to 'mobilise in solidarity' against Trump: 'Our reading of...

I find it more interesting that you keep linking to such unbalanced sources, which deserve exactly the kind of short-shrift I gave it. Progressives don't need right-wing commentators such as yourself to identify where it all went wrong. It's simple. The insistence of Hilary Clinton, of the centre-r...

Trump national security adviser General Flynn wrote:"Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore."

Donald Trump appoints anti-Semite Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to national security adviser

On average. Again, the Democrats would have won handily if they hadn't had such a terrible candidate. If they'd had another person with the charisma level of Obama, it would have been no contest. Trump won the election with 600,000 fewer votes than Romney had when he lost in 2012. It's worth pointi...

Hi, Chownah. You might find this more on target: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/201 ... n-election

White nationalist Brad Griffin, who runs the website Occidental Dissent, also rejoiced, posting a clip from the movie American History X where a neo-Nazi sings “The White Man Marches On” to the tune of the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Griffin captioned the video with a message: “White Pride W...

The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, ...

Today, we’re facing a new reality – a president-elect who has denigrated people because of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, and more. Our mission is to hold Donald Trump to what he is saying now – that he will be a president for all Americans and that he will work to bind ...

chownah wrote:

ihrjordan wrote: How well do you think the dhamma would be received in a maximum security prison?

You can find out by googling "teaching buddhism in prisons".
chownah

Please pardon this digression -

inspire (v.) mid-14c., enspiren, "to fill (the mind, heart, etc., with grace, etc.);" also "to prompt or induce (someone to do something)," from Old French enspirer (13c.), from Latin inspirare "blow into, breathe upon," figuratively "inspire, excite, inflame," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + spirare...

Jazz legend Dr. Lonnie Smith :smile:

Sure, and who decides what a nationalist twitter account is ? Since that claim is coming from a super anti trump newspaper you can be sure anything not pro-clinton is considered while supremacy by them. I see no methodology presented in the article, just a phony claim. :console: Demographics Pro is...

The KKK's Official Newspaper Just Announced Its Support For Donald Trump http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/kkk-official-newspaper-support-donald-trump https://i.imgur.com/RT45O9M.jpg Deplorables... Over a Third of Trump Supporters Follow White Nationalists on Twitter, Research Finds

Donald Trump would like voters to focus on the FBI’s continuing investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server — but instead questions about his own legal troubles have been raised again. Author Salman Rushdie reminded voters that Trump will stand trial later this month in a racketeering lawsuit a...

Donald Trump would like voters to focus on the FBI’s continuing investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server — but instead questions about his own legal troubles have been raised again. Author Salman Rushdie reminded voters that Trump will stand trial later this month in a racketeering lawsuit a...

I'm not sure why you're posting material from ISKCON but it should be known that the Hare Krishnas are a dangerous cult. This shocking expose by the journalist coauthors will disabuse readers that the Hare Krishna sect is exclusively a group of religious devotees. The movement began with the arrival...

Two Legends Together: A Young Bob Dylan Talks and Plays on The Studs Terkel Program, 1963

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/122215donaldtrump.jpg Just in case you thought Donald Trump was insufficiently awful: He repeatedly called a deaf actress “retarded,” three sources tell The Daily Beast. Trump, who was accused on Wednesday of making sexual comments to Marlee...