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News/Politics 12-19-12

What’s news today?

There’s plenty to talk about today. Some of it is just disturbing.

CONTENT WARNING!!!

It’s disturbing to say the least. I guess I’m old-fashioned, but I wasn’t aware that this was so prevalent amongst teens, well Swedish teens at least. I’d heard of it sure, but the number of kids involved, and their ages is just heart-breaking. These are children!

From TheLocal, Swedish News in English

“Swedish high school students outraged over sexual rumours circulating on Instagram about girls and boys in the Gothenburg area barricaded a school in protest and turned violent when police intervened.“

“The turmoil was set off after an Instagram user asked for tips on “censored” in Gothenburg, and promised anonymity to anyone sending in pictures. More than 200 pictures were submitted, giving names and alleged sexual activities of girls and boys aged 13 to 14.”

“Once the Instagram account was shut down, the allegations then appeared on a Facebook page. Users began naming each other and the comments field was quickly filled with threats of violence.”

I’m just speechless.

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All the news that fit to print. Or not….

From CNSNews

“As an independent review into the BBC’s handling of the Jimmy Savile child  sex scandal prepares to release its findings, a British lawmaker says he  has yet to get satisfactory answers from New York Times Company CEO  Mark Thompson about what he knew of the abuse allegations before he left  his BBC director-general post in September.

Not only has Thompson not replied to three letters sent since late  October, Conservative MP Rob Wilson told CNSNews.com Monday, but the New York Times editorial page editor also declined to publish a letter submitted this month – on grounds Wilson found puzzling.

Wilson voiced concerns “about whether the CEO of the New York Times  Company has lived up to the ethical code expected of the company’s  journalists.””

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This one is just sad.

From BBC

“Five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been fatally shot in a string of co-ordinated attacks – four within 20 minutes across Karachi.

The fifth woman was shot and wounded in the city of Peshawar in the north-west and later died of her injuries.

A UN-backed programme to eradicate polio – which is endemic in Pakistan – has been suspended in Karachi.”

UPDATE

From Reuters

“Three more polio workers shot in Pakistan; eight dead in 48 hours.”

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This one? Just one more thing our govt. can’t get right, or it’s intentional.

From TheWashingtonTimes

“The federal government’s system of tracking  immigration status is so broken that it gives a green light to one in eight  aliens who have been ordered deported, according to an audit Tuesday that found  the government has gone on to approve some of  those who slip through for work in sensitive areas of airports and granted them  benefits such as Medicaid or food stamps.

Some of those aliens who should have been kicked out had serious criminal  records, including assault and extortion convictions, according to the audit by  the Homeland  Security Department’s inspector general.

All told, some 800,000 immigrants are living in the U.S. who already have  been ordered deported but have not yet left the country or been removed by the government.”

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And for the last one….. let’s just stick with things they can’t do right.

From CBS

“Another weapon from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious was recently recovered at a Mexican crime scene, CBS News has learned. Congressional investigators say the crime scene was likely where a recent shootout took place between reported Sinaloa drug cartel members and the Mexican military, in which Sinaloa beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez and four others were killed.

According to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the Justice Department did not notify Congress of the Fast and Furious firearm recovery in November, even though Grassley has requested an accounting of weapons that surface from the case. During Fast and Furious, ATF allowed more than 2,000 weapons, including giant .50-caliber guns, to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminals. Other so-called “gunwalking” operations by ATF let hundreds more guns hit the street. Most of them have never been recovered.”

I doubt they’ll mention this while screaming for more gun control. You know, bad optics and all.

27 thoughts on “News/Politics 12-19-12”

  1. There will be no reprocussions from Fast and Furious.
    There will be no reprocussions from Benghazi.
    There will be no further reprocussions from Pertaeus’ affair.
    There will be no reprocussions for Obama for tumbling off the cliff.

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  4. kbells – you’re not being sensitive to the rights and needs of kitten barbequers. Maybe he was trying to reach out to that demographic…

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  5. If I was willing to use STUPID quotes in the Quote of the Day, I’d have my winner for today.

    ““How does something like this happen? Because a person with impaired judgment had access to firepower that should be outlawed. There is no reason why these assault magazines – and that’s what they are. We’ve got to call them what they are.”

    Nancy Pelosi

    🙄

    We’ve got to call them what they are? But you don’t? First off clown, it’s an assualt rifle. A magazine is where you put the ammo that goes in it. I know you’re in a rush to judgment and your emotions are causing you to have the overwhelming liberal urge to do something, anything, no matter how stupid, to not waste this crisis, but really? If you don’t know what you’re talking about, and you obviously don’t, then shut your trap. I think the botox has finally seeped into her brain.

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  7. So, what a surprise–no one is responsible for Benghazi and no heads will roll. In fact, the problem is the lack of money, so we’ll shovel more to the State Department.

    I wonder if anyone will even have a negative mark in their performance review?

    I’m of two minds on this.

    Disgust, yes. But also an understanding that in a fluid, dangerous situation anything could happen and the need to find answers could damage more folks on the ground in the long run.

    My first response –it would be really nice if someone, somewhere, was held accountable for something.

    My second–grace is free and we all make errors.

    As a private citizen, I can live with the second, but those in charge need to take a close look at the first one.

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  9. Nancy could well be speaking of herself:

    ““How does something like this happen? Because a person with impaired judgment had access to congressional power that should be outlawed. There is no reason why these voter assault bills – and that’s what they are. We’ve got to call them what they are.”

    😀

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  10. AJ,
    Nancy has been two sandwiches shy of a picnic for a long long time. She’s clueless of anything practical. I bet she couldn’t even find a tire iron if it was framed, showcased, red-carpeted, and labeled with neon lights.

    I’m surprised she can dress herself.

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  13. Michelle, I don’t give anyone a pass on this Benghazi thing. It isn’t as if there were no exestential threats to our embassies. Our embassies have been attacked several times in Muslim countries. They should have had armed marines stationed there. I’m sure they have them in other places.
    They had locals guarding the place!

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  14. To her credit, Nancy Pelosi was very kind to an elderly friend of mine at a book signing. Of course, she sold him a book, but she waited for his long walk up to her and then listened to him far longer than she should have (he was the last buyer).

    I think of her humanity, then, when I get so very tired of her every other place. 🙂

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  16. Why is it so easy to blame guns for the senseless killings?
    1. Our Society has told God, You are not welcome in our schools, but our school’s are going to promote everything that goes against Your Word an present it as being normal.

    2. Our Society has told God, You are not welcome in our Court Rooms, but our judge’s are going to promote everything that goes against Your Word and present it as being normal.

    3. Our Society has told God, You are in our City, State, Federal Buildings, but Our Society keeps electing people who despise You, Your Son, Your Word and your people, and are promote everything that goes against Your Word and present it as being normal.

    People wonder why our society has lost its moral ways, and producing these types of killers? It is because people in society today people do not want to address the real issues, because it may mean they must change the way they are doing things. They cannot do that so they must blame the Guns.

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  17. I see in the latest World that on 28 June, the US House of Representatives held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for obstructing justice in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation.

    What ever came of that?

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  18. AJ — the stuff thats said over facebook gets spilled over into schools. Accusations, rumors, threats, etc are all too common.

    The polio program in Pakistan has been accused by Islamic extremists as a front for the CIA. As ridiculous as it sounds, the US has used vaccination programmes in the past to acquire information on various persons whereabouts.

    The war on Christmas — corporate version
    http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/12/19/mcdonald-encourages-franchises-to-stay-open-christmas-day/

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  20. HRW, the commercial war against Christmas pales by comparison to to the snide assault against this Holy period by the hard-edged secular left, Your tears with regard to Christianity are rather of the crocodile sort.

    Pastor Roy, the left by Pavlovian response cries the siren song of gun control and says little of the corrosive effect it has had in the decline of religion and the dissolution of the family that happen to be the cardinal causes of both ordinary murder and random mass murder.. Personally, I favor more strict gun control, though with no delusion that this will have much effect.

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  22. It seems solar and sails suffer from selective outrage. It does little to demand Christmas in the public square when workers are preventing from celebrating Christmas. As a socialist, I am upset when workers are deprived their holidays and spending time with their family. I argued against the repeal of the Sunday “blue” laws which kept Ontario closed on Sunday.

    Sails — I’ve read a few comments by Huckabee, Dobson et al regarding the relationship between the decline public religiosity and Newtown. I’ve also read far better Christian rebuttals questioning any statement that God deserts us because we desert him. Personally, I don’t understand the reasoning — America is by far the most religious developed nation yet it suffers mass shootings. Yes they happen elsewhere but not as often. Thus I doubt its the lack of religiosity. Gun control is one issue. Mental health system is another. A culture of violence is another. These three are far more likely than the pronouncements of Dobson and friends.

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  24. hwesseli: What was I outraged about again? You don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’m not outraged about that, so it may be something else. What?

    I don’t really care what McDonald’s does. I probably differ with Sails in that I don’t consider the season to be holy, but I do like the season. It’s nice when people can spend the day with their families, but hardly a biggie if they can’t. Lots of way bigger fish to fry in the Christian community.

    If a lot of people stop in at McD’s on Christmas day, apparently they’re doing a service for people and accommodating activity on the day. From the sounds of the article, they’re helping people who are on the road to visit family. That seems like a decent deal. Probably not gonna kill their employees, either.

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  25. I went to Walmart and Big Lots on Thanksgiving day. I probably talked to 6 different employees. None held a grudge against their employer about working the day. Not at all. I used to work in a production environment where it was impractical to EVER shut down all equipment. This entailed mostly-full shifts working on holidays. Probably half the crew were there because they had to be–the other half had volunteered and were sitting in for those whose seniority clinched their vacation bids. Not a soul held a grudge about working on holidays. Not over the 20 years I was involved in the industry. Not a huge deal, in my experience.

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  26. I also regard Dobson and, especially, Huckabee to be clueless in a lot of their social commentary (Dobson’s pretty good on family stuff), but it sounds like they’re wrong on the public religiosity thing. The *church’s* failures account for the greatest portion of the nation’s ills, in my humble view.

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  27. I’ve never been on a job that requires working on Christmas, except in the Air Force. But my dad was an electrician at a steel plant. The plant had to operate 24/365 because they couldn’t let the furnaces cool.
    He didn’t mind working because he got other time off at time and a half.
    i.e. If he worked eight on Christmas, he got twelve vacation hours.

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