GOP seizes on Obama-Netanyahu rift
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Italy restores Pompeii villa as EU funding deadline looms
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Parallel Verses New International Version “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
16:13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions with contempt. But he warned them, that what they contended for as the law, was a wresting of its meaning: this our Lord showed in a case respecting divorce. There are many covetous sticklers for the forms of godliness, who are the bitterest enemies to its power, and try to set others against the truth.
Verse 13 – No servant can serve two masters… Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Very vividly is this experience brought out in the great parable which immediately follows There the rich man was evidently one who observed the sacred ritual of the Law of Moses: this we learn without doubt from his conversation after death with Abraham. Thus he tried, after his light, to serve God, but he also served mammon: this we learn, too, clearly from the description given to us of his life, from the mention of the gorgeous apparel and the sumptuous feeding. The service of the two was incompatible, and we know from the sombre sequel of the story to which master the rich man really held, and whom – alas for him! – in his heart he despised.
Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
No servant can serve two masters,…. See Gill on Matthew 6:24.
(CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King suggested Friday that some American Jews feel like “Democrats first and Jewish second.”
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 5:48 PM ET, Fri March 20, 2015
(CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King suggested Friday that some American Jews feel like “Democrats first and Jewish second.”
“Here is what I don’t understand, I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel along the line of just following their President,” King, a hardline conservative from Iowa, said Friday on Boston Herald Radio,
“It says this, they’re knee-jerk supporters of the President’s policy,” King said.
As a Republican from Iowa, King has met with virtually every Republican considering a 2016 presidential run, hosting the first cattle call of 2016 Republican hopefuls in Iowa in January.
King was responding to a question about the nearly 60 Democrats, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who decided to boycott Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress earlier this month. Netanyahu came to Congress in defiance of the White House to sound the alarm over the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran, stressing that President Barack Obama was preparing to reach a “bad deal” on Iran’s nuclear program.
Executive director of the American Jewish Committee, a leading global Jewish advocacy group, David Harris, was quick to condemn King’s comments, calling them “painfully wrongheaded and hurtful.”
“It’s a painfully wrongheaded understanding of American Jews and this kind of collective description should have no place in American political discourse,” Harris told CNN. “American Jews, like other faith and ethnic groups, are a very diverse community in their thinking, in their policies and in their voting behavior.”
Harris added it was wrong to equate criticism of Netanyahu as anti-Israel, pointing out that there’s no “single Jewish outlook or point of view.
“I know lots of American Jews who support the President and many others who don’t support the President on Israel on Iran policy,” Harris added.
When asked if anti-Semitism was a factor — it’s not clear if the host was referring to Obama’s policies — King said yes, along with “plain liberalism.”
According to recent polls, a majority of American Jews support the Democratic Party.
Several Jewish groups also criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and his repudiation last week of a Palestinian state in the lead-up to the elections.
Netanyahu has since walked back those comments, insisting that he supports a “sustainable, peaceful two-state solution.”
A number of Jewish groups — both in the U.S. and Israel — advocate for a two-state solution and some oppose Netanyahu’s position on the peace process.
Photos: Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine 44 photos
Ukraine crisis captured by CNN Teams – KIEV, UKRAINE: After the deaths of 25 people during clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters prepare to stand and fight again on February 19. Photo taken by CNN’s Andrew Carey on February 19.
Photos: Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine 44 photos Ukraine crisis captured by CNN Teams – KIEV, UKRAINE: After the deaths of 25 people during clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters prepare to stand and fight again on February 19. Photo taken by CNN’s Andrew Carey on February 19.
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Life under total surveillance and control now the norm in Crimea, says writer
Old Soviet practice of denunciation has become commonplace, he says
He writes: The harder life gets in Crimea, the more people support Putin
editor’s Notes: “The writer lives and works in Crimea and has asked CNN to protect their identity. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.”
(CNN)How can I describe life in Crimea after a year under Russia’s control?
You start saying things like “Let’s not talk about this on the phone” and become careful about the Facebook pages you “like.”
Because total surveillance and control has become routine — like it was in the Soviet Union.
In just one year so much has been lost and many Crimeans seem to have forgotten rights that were part of everyone’s life.
There is a growing level of censorship, inequality and political repression of those who don’t agree with the government.
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A.J. Pero, Twisted Sister drummer, dead at 55
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Spying and control in the new Crimea
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Rep. King: U.S. Jews are Democrats first
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Netanyahu Says A Palestinian State Is ‘Unachievable’ Today http://n.pr/1xCgxbS
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Interior Dept. Issues New Fracking Rules For Federal Lands http://n.pr/1EANUkA
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Statuia lui Ovidiu din Constanța este un monument din orașul Constanța. A fost executată în 1887 de sculptorul italian Ettore Ferrari. O replică identică se află din 1925 la Sulmona (Italia).
Este așezată în partea veche a orașului, în Piața Ovidiu, în fața primei clădiri a Primăriei Constanța, azi Muzeului Național de Istorie și Arheologie, lângă portul Tomis.
Cu ceva timp în urmă,[Când?] statuia lui Ovidiu a fost toaletată necorespunzător. [1]
Primul dintre monumentele statuare ridicat la Constanța după reintrarea sub administrație românească este cel care îl înfățișează pe marele poet roman Publius Ovidius Naso (43 î.e.n. — 17 e.n.). Statuia din bronz îl înfățișează pe Ovidiu într-o atitudine adânc meditativă. Dezvelirea statuii, în august 1887, a prilejuit o adevărată sărbătoare la care au participat toți constănțenii, în frunte cu prefectul Remus Opreanu, inițiatorul „Comitetului pentru statuia lui Ovidiu”.
Statuia se află pe un soclu de marmură albă, pe care este încrustată o placă cu un text din „Tristele”.
Inițial statuia a fost amplasată cu fața spre nord, construcția Palatului Primăriei impunând, în 1921, mutarea pe actualul loc. În cursul ocupației Germano-Bulgare, în anii 1916-1918, statuia a fost dată jos de pe soclu de armata bulgară, pentru a fi luată ca pradă de război, dar intervenția unor ofițeri germani a oprit originala “inițiativă culturală”; până la revenirea autorităților românești, în noiembrie 1918, statuia a fost adăpostită în subsolul Primăriei. În 1925, o replică fidelă a acestei opere a fost dezvelită în orașul natal al poetului – Sulmona.
Statue of Ovidiu Constanta Constanta is a monument in the city. He was executed in 1887 by the Italian sculptor Ettore Ferrari. A replica is from 1925 to Sulmona (Italy).
It is situated in the old town, Ovidiu Square, in front of the first building of Constanta City Hall, today the National Museum of History and Archaeology, near the port Tomis.
Some time ago, [when?] Ovid’s statue was inadequate taken care of. [1]
Statue of Ovid in 1941
DescriptionThe first statutory monuments raised in Constanta after re under Romanian administration is one that depicts the great Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD). The bronze statue depicts Ovidiu a deep meditative attitude. Unveiling the statue, in August 1887 brought about a veritable feast attended by all Constantenii, headed by the Prefect Remus Opreanu initiator “Ovid’s statue Committee”.The statue stands on a pedestal of white marble, which is encrusted plate with a text of “Tristia”.
“Under this stone lies Ovidiu singer
Tender love succumbed to his talent.
O you who pass by and if you ever loved aicea
I pray for him to be his gentle sleep. “
Originally the statue was placed facing north, requiring the construction of the Palace Hall in 1921, moving to the current place. In the German-Bulgarian occupation in the years 1916-1918, the statue was taken down from the pedestal of the Bulgarian army, to be taken as war booty, but the intervention of German officers stopped the original “cultural values”; to return Romanian authorities in November 1918, the statue was housed in the basement of City Hall. In 1925, a replica of this work was unveiled in hometown of poet – Sulmona.
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
March 20
1413 | Henry IV of England is succeed by his son Henry V. | |
1739 | In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne. | |
1760 | The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings. | |
1792 | In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine. | |
1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris and begins his 100-day rule. | |
1841 | Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published. | |
1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published. | |
1906 | Army officers in Russia mutiny at Sevastopol. | |
1915 | The French call off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front. | |
1918 | The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army. | |
1922 | President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland. | |
1932 | The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule. | |
1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court. | |
1940 | The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany. | |
1943 | The Allies attack Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa. | |
1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers. | |
1969 | Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan. | |
1976 | Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery. | |
1982 | U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there. | |
1987 | The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS. | |
Born on March 20 | ||
43BC | Ovid, Roman poet. | |
1811 | Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt. | |
1828 | Henrik Isben, Norwegian dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler). | |
1904 | B.F. Skinner, American psychologist. | |
1917 | Dame Vera Lynn , British singer. | |
1922 | Raymond Walter Goulding, Radio comedian of Bob and Ray fame. | |
1925 | John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon. | |
1928 | Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood). | |
1957 | Shelton ‘Spike’ Lee, film director (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X). |
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On March 20, 1922, the 11,500-ton Langley was commissioned into the U.S. Navy as America’s first aircraft carrier. Langley was not regarded as a beautiful ship. Her flight deck was 533 feet long and 64 feet wide with an open-sided hanger deck, inspiring the nickname ‘the Old Covered Wagon.’ Under the leadership of Commander Kenneth Whiting, Langley served as a base for reconnaissance aircraft and a laboratory to develop new procedures for launching and recovering planes, such as the use of cross-deck arresting wires to brake incoming aircraft. This photograph shows a Douglas DT-2 airplane taking off from her flight deck.
Photo: U.S. Naval Historical Center
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John Buralli, the seventh minister general of the Franciscans, was born at Parma in the year 1209, and he was already teaching logic there when at the age of twenty-five, he joined the Franciscans. … continue reading
Alahamady Be is New Year’s Day in Madagascar. The Malagasy new year traditionally begins in March, with the appearance of the year’s first new moon. People put on their best clothes, feast, give presents, and sing religious songs. The celebration is particularly festive in the capital city of Antananarivo. The townspeople make their way to the sacred royal hill known as Ambohimanga to offer prayers to the departed. When these devotions are completed, it’s time to eat. The feasting is an opportunity for families and friends to get together and wish each other luck in the coming year. More… Discuss