Word: blame
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...blame Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for not waving the LGBT flag during this primary? No. I can point fingers at myself, however, and everyone else who intellectually supports LGBT rights but has yet to take up Reitan’s call to action (which is so movingly portrayed in the new movie, “For the Bible Tells Me So”). Much of the country has made remarkable progress over the past 20 years in its treatment of LGBT people, but we are far from any finish line. McCarthy described the situation perfectly...
...Last week, the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut was evacuated following an anonymous telephone threat to rocket the building. The threat came amid an uproar in Kuwait when Shi'ite lawmakers held a rally to mourn Mughniyah's death, drawing anger and a lawsuit from Sunni legislators. The Kuwaiti authorities blame Mughniyah for a series of attacks in the Gulf state in the 1980s. Kuwait has now joined Saudi Arabia in issuing Lebanon travel advisories for its citizens...
...skirt around the elephant to avoid bumping a trunk or treading on a large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,” examines the fine line between ignoring the elephant and blaming everything on the beast...
...Many Serbs see Kosovo as their ancestral homeland . They believe they are being unfairly punished for the sins of one man, Slobodan Milosevic, the former strongman who died in 2006 while facing war crimes charges in the Hague. And they blame the U.S. in particular for backing Kosovo Albanians drive to independence. U.S. warplanes bombed Belgrade in 1999 at the height of the campaign to stop Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" campaign in Kosovo...
...really to blame for the lack of commitment by JV athletes? Sure, some students may not be dedicated and may take their responsibilities lightly. But it’s not as if the Athletic Department is establishing any sort of organized infrastructure that is supportive of those who want to play JV sports...