MORE BIBLICAL INCONSISTENCIES

(h/t The Raw Story)

I have previously posted some of the textual issues in the Old Testament and today I found several in the New Testament:

Father Dan's Easter Quiz:

1. Who first came to the tomb on Sunday morning?
a. one woman (John 20:1)
b. two women (Matt. 28:1)
c. three women (Mark 16:1)
d. more than three women (Luke 23:55-56; 24:1,10)

2. She (they) came
a. while it was still dark (Matt. 28:1; John 20:1)
b. after the sun had risen (Mark 16:2)

3. The woman (women) came to the tomb
a. to anoint the body of Jesus with spices (Mark 16:1-2; Luke 24:1)
b. just to look at it (Matt. 28:1; John 20:1)

4. The women had obtained the spices
a. on Friday before sunset (Luke 23:54-56; 24:1)
a. after sunset on Saturday (Mark 16:1)

5. The first visitor(s) was/were greeted by
a. an angel (Matt. 28:2-5)
b. a young man (Mark 16:5)
c. two men (Luke 24:4)
d. no one (John 20:1-2)

6. The greeter(s)
a. was sitting on the stone outside the tomb (Matt 28:2)
b. was sitting inside the tomb (Mark 16:5)
c. were standing inside the tomb (Luke 24:3-4)

7. After finding the tomb empty, the woman/women
a. ran to tell the disciples (Matt. 28:7-8; Mark 16:10; Luke 24:9; John 20:2)
b. ran away and said nothing to anyone (Mark 16:8)

8. The risen Jesus first appeared to
a. Mary Magdalene alone (John 20:14; Mark 16:9)
b. Cleopas and another disciple (Luke 24:13,15,18)
c. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary (Matt. 28:1,9)
d. Cephas (Peter) alone (1 Cor. 15:4-5; Luke 24:34)

9. Jesus first appeared
a. somewhere between the tomb and Jerusalem (Matt. 28:8-9)
b. Just outside the tomb (John 20:11-14)
c. in Galilee - some 80 miles (130 Km) north of Jerusalem (Mark 16:6-7)
d. on the road to Emmaus - Miles (11 Km) west of Jerusalem (Luke 24:13-15)
e. we are not told where (Mark 16:9; 1 Cor. 15:4-5)

10. The disciples were to see Jesus first
a. in Galilee (Mark 16:7; Matt. 28:7,10,16)
b. in Jerusalem (Mark 16:14; Luke 24:33,36; John 20:19; Acts 1:4)

11. the disciples were told that they would meet the risen Jesus in Galilee
a. by the women, who had been told by an angel of the Lord, then by Jesus himself after the resurrection (Matt. 28:7-10; Mark 16:7)
b. by Jesus himself, before the crucifiction (Mark 26:32)

12. The risen Jesus
a. wanted to be touched (John 20:27)
b. did not want to be touched (John 20:17)
c. did not mind being touched (Matt. 28:9-10)

13. Jesus ascended to Heaven
a. the same day that he was resurrected (Mark 16:9,19; Luke 24:13,28-36,50-51)
b. forty days after the resurrection (Acts 1:3,9)
c. we are not told that he ascended to Heaven at all (Matt. 28:10, 16-20; John 21:25; the original Gospel of Mark ends at 16:8)

14. The disciples received the Holy Spirit
a. 50 days after the resurrection (Acts 1:3,9)
b. in the evening of the same day as the resurrection (John 20:19-22)

15. The risen Jesus
a. was recognized by those who saw him (Matt. 28:9; Mark 16:9-10)
b. was not always recognizable (Mark 16:12; Luke 24:15-16,31,36-37; John 20:14-15)

16. The risen Jesus
a. was physical (Matt. 28:9; Luke 24:41-43; John 20:27)
b. was not physical (Mark 16:9,12,14; Luke 24:15-16,31,36-37; John 20:19,26; 1 Cor. 15:5-8)

17. The risen Jesus was seen by the disciples
a. presumably only once (Matt. 28:16-17)
b. first by two of them, later by all eleven (Mark 16:12-14; Luke 24:13-15,33,36-51)
c. three times (John 20:19,26; 21:1,14)
d. many times (Acts 1:3)

18. When Jesus appeared to the disciples
a. there were eleven of them (Matt. 28:16-17; Luke 24:33,36)
b. twelve of them (1 Cor. 15:5)

IF IT'S FUCKED UP, WE MUST BE IN ARIZONA

The state of Arizona has been on a roll over the last few months with several prominent cases of corruption, stupidity & malfeasance and fraud. Let's start with the worst:

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs order abolishing state's CPS agency
abc15.com staff, wire reports
2:58 PM, Jan 13, 2014
10:31 PM, Jan 13, 2014
news | state

PHOENIX - During her State of the State address, Governor Jan Brewer announced that she has abolished the state's Child Protective Services department and has replaced it with a new division.

The move comes in response to an internal investigation that revealed 6,000 reports of child abuse or neglect were never investigated.

The Republican governor said she was ending the agency's oversight by the Department of Economic Security by executive order, saying the recent scandal "broke my heart and makes me angry."

"Enough with the uninvestigated reports of abuse and neglect. Enough with the lack of transparency. And enough with the excuses," she said.

This tragedy makes the little girl with the Uzi almost insignificant.

Only a little less disturbing is the incompetence at the State's medical licensing board:

Head of Arizona medical board resigns abruptly
Alia Beard Rau, The Republic | azcentral.com 4:54 p.m. MST August 29, 2014

Five months after the Arizona State Medical Board hired a replacement for ousted Executive Director Lisa Wynn, its new director has abruptly resigned. The board regulates and licenses physicians in Arizona.

According to a statement from board chairman Dr. Gordi Khera, Lloyd Vest resigned Wednesday, effective immediately.

Vest, 60, was hired in March to replace Wynn, who was fired days after the release of a lengthy ombudsman report that found she and the board's former deputy director were not fully vetting doctors' education, work history and disciplinary actions. Wynn denied wrongdoing, saying state officials sanctioned her actions as part of an effort to speed and modernize licensing practices.

INCONGRUOUS AD ON LIMBAUGH'S RADIO SHOW

Last week I heard an ad for solar power from this company on Limbaugh's show from KNST (Tucson) and I didn't understand the rationale behind putting that ad on a show that is against solar power.  According this DKo's post, other solar companies have also paid for ads on Limbaugh's show so I think we can chalk these instances up to another case of Free Market Fairy Fail.  It's been pretty clear to me that radio advertisers don't pay much attention to the shows they sponsor and in fact don't really know how effective radio ads are for their product or service.

GREAT TALK RADIO NEWS

FlushFools at DKos has an informative Rush Limbaugh that shows his ratings decline in several markets:

Even the sycophantic Talkers Magazine has begun to stop covering up Limbaugh's ratings decline:

As recently as February 2014, Talkers had Fats at 14.00+ and in 2012, 15.00+

YEARS AGO, CHRIS MATTHEWS SAID THAT THE WAPO...

was a neo-conservative newspaper, at least as far as the editorials go, and today we have some evidence that it's still a neo-con outlet because of this article:

Why Obama’s ‘we don’t have a strategy’ gaffe stings
By Aaron Blake August 29 at 6:30 AM
WaPo

Only a neo-conservative warmonger can seriously think that this honesty about a tough problem is a gaffe. BTW, POLITICO isn't any better.

ACCORDING TO PEW RESEARCH...

only a small minority of Americans report "a lot" of sympathy for Palestinians:

in spite of evidence like this:

SOMETHING WENT VERY WRONG IN THE EARLY 70S

(h/t Bob Gricycle)

I first learned about the decline in wage growth for the bottom 99% from David Cay Johnston and this graph shows the essential problem:

$120 BILLION WAS A BIT SHORT

According to this article in The Economist, the total of bankster fines & penalties is at least $132.8 Billion:

THEY STILL DON'T GET IT

(h/t Atrios)

Too many Americans think like these people:

- In another part of town, Donald Storm thought about the war as well, particularly the sacrifices that soldiers made securing a country that’s now in a new stage of chaos.
“I feel a great sense of loss, but it just didn’t occur now,” Storm said. “It occurred when we started telling people our plans” to leave.
Storm is speaking as the former top official of the Kentucky National Guard, a man with 37 years in the military who saw 14 of his citizen-soldiers die in Iraq and another in Afghanistan.
“It’s disappointing. It’s disappointing,” he said. “I don’t think anybody associated with the operations in Iraq thought we could just leave these folks and they would have the infrastructure or anything else to sustain without some kind of help in the long term.”
“You either win a war or you lose a war,” he added. “You don’t just walk away from it.”

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/27/237898_for-kentucky-town-that-gave-much.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

- At the AMVETS Post 116 south of town, a wall is adorned with photos of fatigue-clad soldiers. One shows a young Joe Gross, perched atop an anti-aircraft gun named “Whispering Death.”
“They’re doing what they did in Vietnam,” he said. “We’ve got the might. But politics is what’s killing everything.”

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/27/237898_for-kentucky-town-that-gave-much.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

- Among those veterans are young ones such as Adam Campbell, who was severely wounded in Afghanistan, eventually spending 280 days in a hospital bed recuperating and undergoing five surgeries.
“I honestly feel we pulled out of Iraq too soon,” he said. “It was something done to gain political favor. All the loss we had, all the guys who made tremendous sacrifices. And for what?”

- And they are older ones, such as Bill Jones, who helps lead a local chapter of Disabled American Veterans. Pulling out of Iraq “was the worst mistake we could have ever done,” he said.

“I thought it at the time, and I still do,” he said over coffee at a Waffle House. “If you go and you spill your blood over there, and you come back and then it was all for naught – why did you go to start with? It doesn’t make any sense. Why sacrifice our men and woman in uniform if you’re not going to try to win the war?”

AND I THOUGHT I WAS SAFE FROM SNOOPING

For years I have turned off my cell phone unless I was sure I was going to get an incoming call because I didn't want to be tracked by local, state or federal authorities. I really don't have anything to hide but I also really don't want to be a willing participant in the New Security State. I've suspected that turning off wasn't enough and now I know that's true:

Homeland Security Arms Local Cops With Super Spy Bug
By Peter Robison August 27, 2014
Bloomberg Business Week

The Tacoma News Tribune reported that police in Tacoma, Wash., bought—and quietly used for six years—surveillance equipment that can sweep up records of every mobile telephone call, text message, and data transfer up to a half-mile from the device.

Known as a Stingray and manufactured by Harris (HRS), a Pentagon contractor based in Melbourne, Fla., the device is small enough to be carried in a car. It tricks a mobile phone into thinking it’s a cell tower, drawing information, the paper said.

Is there any defense for phone users? Not really, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The technology can track phones even when they’re not making a call and often when powered down. The group says the only way to avoid tracking is to remove the battery, or to do something even more unthinkable: Leave the phone at home.

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY BY COUNTRY

I expected that Western Europe would have the most religious diversity but I was terribly wrong.  Here are the top 20 countries for diversity according to Pew Research:

Country	RDI	Percent Christian	Percent Muslim	Percent Unaffiliated	Percent Hindu	Percent Buddhist	Percent Folk Religions	Percent Other Religions	Percent Jewish
Singapore	9.0	18.2%	14.3%	16.4%	5.2%	33.9%	2.3%	9.7%	< 0.1%
Taiwan	8.2	5.5%	< 0.1%	12.7%	< 0.1%	21.3%	44.2%	16.2%	< 0.1%
Vietnam	7.7	8.2%	0.2%	29.6%	< 0.1%	16.4%	45.3%	0.4%	< 0.1%
Suriname	7.6	51.6%	15.2%	5.4%	19.8%	0.6%	5.3%	1.8%	0.2%
Guinea Bissau	7.5	19.7%	45.1%	4.3%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	30.9%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Togo	7.5	43.7%	14.0%	6.2%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	35.6%	0.6%	< 0.1%
Ivory Coast	7.4	44.1%	37.5%	8.0%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	10.2%	0.2%	< 0.1%
South Korea	7.4	29.4%	0.2%	46.4%	< 0.1%	22.9%	0.8%	0.2%	< 0.1%
China	7.3	5.1%	1.8%	52.2%	< 0.1%	18.2%	21.9%	0.7%	< 0.1%
Benin	7.2	53.0%	23.8%	5.0%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	18.1%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Hong Kong	7.2	14.3%	1.8%	56.1%	0.4%	13.2%	12.8%	1.5%	< 0.1%
Mozambique	7.0	56.7%	18.0%	17.9%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	7.4%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Macau	6.8	7.2%	0.2%	15.4%	< 0.1%	17.3%	58.9%	1.0%	< 0.1%
Mauritius	6.7	25.3%	16.7%	0.6%	56.4%	< 0.1%	0.7%	0.3%	< 0.1%
Cuba	6.5	59.2%	< 0.1%	23.0%	0.2%	< 0.1%	17.4%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Mongolia	6.5	2.3%	3.2%	35.9%	< 0.1%	55.1%	3.5%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Netherlands	6.4	50.6%	6.0%	42.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
Malaysia	6.3	9.4%	63.7%	0.7%	6.0%	17.7%	2.3%	0.2%	< 0.1%
Burkina Faso	6.2	22.5%	61.6%	0.4%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%	15.4%	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Japan	6.2	1.6%	0.2%	57.0%	< 0.1%	36.2%	0.4%	4.7%	< 0.1%

WE'LL NEVER GET RID OF THE CONSERVATIVE STUPIDS

That's because their ignorance is existential, not contextual, as you can see from this commenter:

Gregory Glass · Follow · Top Commenter · Expert at Pissing People Off · 223 followers
#1. We are not 'granted' rights, we HAVE GOD GIVEN rights.
#2. The Militia is EVERY US CITIZEN.

AIPAC & CONGRESS

This New Yorker article weakly implies that AIPAC is losing its influence over American foreign policy yet provides these counter-examples:

 - Although the Administration repeatedly reaffirmed its support for Israel, it was clearly uncomfortable with the scale of Israel’s aggression. AIPAC did not share this unease; it endorsed a Senate resolution in support of Israel’s “right to defend its citizens,” which had seventy-nine co-sponsors and passed without a word of dissent.

- In 2011, when the Palestinians announced that they would petition the U.N. for statehood, AIPAC helped persuade four hundred and forty-six members of Congress to co-sponsor resolutions opposing the idea.

- In 1995, AIPAC encouraged Newt Gingrich, the new Speaker of the House, to support bipartisan legislation to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This put Rabin in a political corner. On one hand, he knew that such a move would infuriate the Arab world and endanger the Oslo process. On the other, as Yossi Beilin, then an official in the Labor government, pointed out, “You are the Prime Minister of Israel and you are telling American Jews, ‘Don’t ask for recognition of Jerusalem as our capital’? Nobody can do that!” At a dinner with AIPAC leaders, Rabin told them that he did not support the bill; they continued to promote it nonetheless. In October, the bill passed in Congress, by an overwhelming majority. President Bill Clinton invoked a national-security waiver to prevent its enactment, and so has every President since.

- In March, 2010, while Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting Israel, the Netanyahu government announced that it was building sixteen hundred new housing units for Jews in Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Biden said that the move “undermines the trust we need right now.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Netanyahu to upbraid him. But, while Obama and his team viewed the move as a political insult and yet another blow to a potential two-state solution, AIPAC went into defensive mode, sending an e-mail to its members saying that the Administration’s criticisms of Israel were “a matter of serious concern.” Soon afterward, a letter circulated in the House calling on the Obama Administration to “reinforce” the relationship. Three hundred and twenty-seven House members signed it. 

- In early 2009, after a brief truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed in a series of mutual provocations, Israel carried out Operation Cast Lead, an incursion into Gaza in which nearly fourteen hundred Palestinians were killed, along with thirteen Israelis. Baird visited the area a few weeks later and returned several times. As he wrote in an op-ed, he saw “firsthand the devastating destruction of hospitals, schools, homes, industries, and infrastructure.” That September, the U.N. Human Rights Council issued a report, based on an inquiry led by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, that accused Israel of a series of possible war crimes. AIPAC attacked the report, saying it was “rigged.” A month later, an AIPAC-sponsored resolution to condemn the report was introduced in the House, and three hundred and forty-four members voted in favor.

- “I think AIPAC thought this vote would be one hundred per cent,” Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, said. It was close: out of four hundred and thirty-five members, only eight voted no.

ISIS == ANOTHER FAILURE OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE

According to this ABC News report, ISIS is considered by some to be VERY professional and as far as I can tell, no one in the US Intelligence apparatus seems to have a clue, unlike Juan Cole.

IS IT POLICIES OR PEOPLE OR SOMETHING ELSE OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?

ql points out that lowest teen birthrates are in New England and the highest are in the South and Southwest.  I associate high teen birthrates with poverty and poverty in America is strongly correlated with race/ethnicity so I decided to look at the percentage of White, non-Hispanic in the top five and bottom five states:
TOP

New Mexico	39.4
Oklahoma	67.5
Mississippi	57.5
Arkansas	73.7
Teas	44
	56.42

BOTTOM

New Jersey	57.6
Vermont	93.8
Connecticut	69.6
Massachusetts	75.1
New Hampshire	91.6
	77.54

The Massachusetts and New Jersey have percentages similar to Arkansas and Mississippi, so the birthrate difference is not due to race/ethnicity between those states.  The USA Today article reports the following groupings:

Asian or Pacific Islanders had the lowest 2012 rate at 9.7, compared with Hispanic teens who had the highest rate at 46.3. Rates for the other groups are 20.5 for white, 34.9 for American Indian or Alaska Native and 43.9 for black teens.

It would be useful to find out why the Asian/Pacific group rate is so much lower than all the others.

CAPITALISM, THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BAGGERS

You may have heard a Bagger or a talk radio gasbag claim that the Constitution enshrines capitalism so I decided to use the OED to see when the word "capitalism" was first used.  Below are the results and it turn out that the word if not the concept was first used in 1833, 44 years after the enactment of the Constitution. 

capitalism, n.²

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Pronunciation:  Brit. /ˈkapᵻtl̩ɪzm/ , /ˈkapᵻtəlɪzm/ , U.S. /ˈkæpədlˌɪzəm/

Etymology:  < capital n.² + -ism suffix, after capitalist n.

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  The possession of capital or wealth; an economic system in which private capital or wealth is used in the production or distribution of goods and prices are determined mainly in a free market; the dominance of private owners of capital and of production for profit. Cf. capitalist n., socialism n. 2.Sometimes used depreciatively.

Freq. with modifying term; for anarcho-, anti-, market, monopoly, popular, pro-, state, venture, welfare capitalism: see the first element.

1833   Standard 23 Apr.,   Whatever tended to paralyse British industry could not but produce corresponding injury to France; when the same tyranny of capitalism which first produced the disease would be at hand to inflame the symptoms by holding out promises of loans, &c.

1848   Caledonian Mercury 25 Sept.,   That sweeping tide of capitalism and money-loving which threatens our country with the horrors of a plutocracy.

1884   Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 6/1   A loophole for capitalism to creep in upon the primitive Christian communism.

1894   S. Gompers in J. Swinton Striking for Life 318   When the time comes, if it does come, for the displacement of the barbarity of capitalism to make way for humane conditions it will be accomplished by men whose heads are as cool as their hearts are warm.

1908   Polit. Sci. Q. 23 670   Socialism..will step into its heritage when capitalism..has created a thoroughly proletarized, class-conscious and revolutionary population.

1919   Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 371   The beginnings of capitalism in England are to be traced to the thrifty manufacturing middle class.

1969   Listener 28 Aug. 267/1   Can capitalism..achieve the rate of growth that planning in a really publicly-owned economy has achieved?

1986   H. J. Maroney Feminism at Work in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 119   Kinship networks have also traditionally provided a support base for working-class struggles. Their steady disintegration in late capitalism thus has a mixed import for class-based politics.

2010   N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 June a25/3   The rivalry between democratic capitalism and state capitalism is not like the rivalry between capitalism and communism.

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