Does Benghazi matter? Apparently not to Hillary!

Clinton Erupts Over Libya: 'What
Difference at This Point Does It Make?'

Princess forgets that Congress tried to get her to testify a long time ago, but poor baby kept falling and hitting her head. That's an excellent defense: "What difference at this point does it make?" Hmmm. Let's try it out. By the time Congress started having hearings on Watergate it had been a while since the break in. Seems the passage of time didn't dim the importance of the investigation. And the "it" to which she refers involved the murder of four Americans. 

I do like those glasses though! Softens her don't you think? Quite a contrast she's working: Glasses to soften her look as she pounds the table to give herself the appearance of the put-upon victim. Why one almost forgets four people were murdered while she slept.

 

 

 

 

Let's use our heads for something other than hat racks!

I don't know the origin of that saying, but my dad used it and it fits this short Sunday-morning post.
MSNBC's Larry O'Donnell said that the president should not use a Bible during the inaugural because the president doesn't believe what's in the Bible. Here's the story. (The president is using two Bibles at his inauguration.) I don't care what O'Donnell says and, if ratings mean anything, nor does anyone else.
But here's where we have to use our heads for something other than hat racks.
Fox News's religion contributor, Father Jonathan Morris, took to the airwaves this morning to denounce the Left's attempt to drive religion from the public square. Ok, so far so good. Then he went on to tell us that the irreligious in our country won't be satisfied until they've removed the mention of God from our Constitution. There is nothing to remove because God is not mentioned in our Constitution! He then went on to lament that one day "In God We Trust" would be removed from our money. This motto first appeared on the two-cent piece around 1864. A few years later, Congress allowed the Secretary of the Treasury to add it to other coins. The motto was added to paper money in 1957. Here's the history of the use of the motto.
And, as we all know, "one nation under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954. Interestingly, Francis Bellamy a socialist minister wrote the original pledge in 1892. It first appeared in The Youth Companion. He wanted it said in different countries so it wasn't until 1923 that the words "the Flag of the United States" were added. Before WWII, when the words "the Flag" were said, you would extend your arm, palm down, toward the flag. Because it resembled the Nazi salute the procedure changed so you keep your hand over your heart throughout. Here's the story about the pledge's history.
History is rarely as cut-and-dried as we would like it. After all, fallible people do the things that make history and some of their acts are historical. Our legends are nice, but let's try to separate fact from the way we wish history were.
So, we use our heads for dual purposes: hat racks and thinking.

John Adams said,

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious

 people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” 

― John Adams

Last night's vote is a tax increase!

The U.S. Senate and the W.H. will, no doubt, claim last night's Senate vote is a tax decrease. But it's not. If you don't believe me, here's what CBS News says, in part, about the vote: "The measure is the first significant bipartisan tax increase since 1990, when former President George H.W. Bush violated his 'read my lips' promise on taxes. It would raise an additional $620 billion over the coming decade when compared with revenues after tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003, during the Bush administration. But because those policies expired at midnight Monday, the measure is officially scored as a whopping $3.9 trillion tax cut over the next decade."
Oh well, it's only what Dear Leader calls it that really matters. 

This is funny!

The D.C. Police are investigating David Gregory because his possessing  a 30-round magazine might have violated D.C.'s gun-control laws.
http://bit.ly/V1WAIP

Just because it comes by e-mail, doesn't mean it's true!

Darrell Scott is the father of Rachel and Craig who were at Columbine High School in April 1999. Rachel died from her wounds and Craig, though seriously wounded, survived. Following Friday's tragedy in Newtown, CT, the e-mail forwarders went to work. An e-mail chain is now working its way along the Internet superhighway telling readers about Darrell Scott's testimony. before a special session of Congress. The e-mail claims that Mr. Scott testified before a special session of Congress and he testified anywhere from 11 years after Columbine to as recently as last Thursday. Mr. Scott spoke before a House subcommittee in May 1999, not a special session of Congress. Here is the transcript of his testimony. And his testimony is powerful on its own without the e-mail forwarders' adding "facts." Other than the quotes from his testimony, the e-mail is misinformation.

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!