What the media are missing!

It comes as no surprise that many in the media side with the terrorists in Gaza, or at the very least are sympathetic to the terrorists. This is seen in the media's comparing the number killed in Gaza (ostensibly by Israelis) to the smaller number of Israelis killed by the terrorists. Last night, one member of the media said that because the number of Israelis killed is significantly less than the number of persons killed in Gaza, Israel's response was not "proportional." I'm no military strategist, but I thought that was how wars are won!
What is being missed? Two things: (1)  Israel doesn't start these things. Israel's enemies do and then they are ready for a ceasefire once Israel pounces on them; (2) Iran and the terrorists attack God when they raise their hands against the Israelis. Before you brand me with an "N" for "nut," consider that I am in good company.
In his biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas tells us that during Kristallnacht in November 1938, Bonhoeffer was reading and meditating on Psalm 74. When he read the second half of verse 8 ("They have burned all of God's houses in the land.") he knew that God was speaking to him through His word. And "[t]he Nazis were attacking God by attacking His people." Today's media would not be very charitable to Bonhoeffer or his view. But, if anything, that only gives strength to this view. Hitler, except in the eyes of a very few perceptive individuals, was popular before he was discovered to be a murderous megalomaniac.
For example, Neville "Peace in our time" Chamberlain was quite the celebrated figure before he too-late realized Hitler's word was good until Hitler decided his world-domination goal was best served by doing other than he promised. Likewise, today's ceasefire will remain in place until Hamas, Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood or Egypt, who can tell the difference? decide it is no longer of any use to them; then they will return to killing Israelis. And the media and America's liberal foreign policy establishment will--reminiscent of Captain Renault's shock upon learning of gambling in Rick's--be shocked to discover that the barbarians have returned to their murderous ways.
In the parenthetical I used "ostensibly because the deaths in Gaza are the result of the terrorists' cowardly tactic of hiding themselves, their weapons, and their bomb-making material in hospitals, schools, homes, etc. and daring Israel to do something about it.
America should let Israel take care of the security of its citizens. Simply put, it is none of our business. Israel is not a threat to the U.S. But the barbarians who seek to destroy Israel are!

Pouring v. Poring

"Administration officials have been pouring over options ....."http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/nov/05/state-consultants-teeing-up-workers-comp-reform/ … No! It's "poring over options." 

Of Mice, Cookies, and Government!

Reports are that Tennessee's Republican governor is considering workers'-comp reform that  includes 31 ombudsmen and 20 workers'-comp judges. That's 51 new bureaucrats; but who's counting! The government's behavior when you start increasing the number of bureaucrats is strikingly similar to the mouse in "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
So, our 51 new bureaucrats need staff so they can do their jobs. Oh, and then we will need someone to write rules and regulations under which these bureaucrats will function; this means hiring some rules-and-regulations writers and what will they need? Staff. You can't have new rules and regulations without hearings and it wouldn't do if these aren't state-wide hearings. And all these new government employees are in addition to the ones who are supposed to be handling workers'-compensation cases under the current system. They aren't going anywhere!
Well, at least the state paid well recognized experts to put together this more-government-will-help plan.  At this rate we should be able to get that pesky unemployment figure down.