What’s interesting in the news today?
1. Another “Phony Scandal” update. I recommend you read the whole thing, it’s pretty detailed. This is Obama/Clinton foreign policy legacy.
From TheMailOnline “The Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a self-selected group of former top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack has determined that it could have been prevented – if the U.S. hadn’t been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias throughout Libya a year earlier.
‘The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures,’ Clare Lopez, a member of the commission and a former CIA officer, told MailOnline.
She blamed the Obama administration for tacitly approving the diversion of half of a $1 billion Qatari arms shipment to al-Qaeda-linked militants.
‘Remember, these weapons that came into Benghazi were permitted to enter by our armed forces who were blockading the approaches from air and sea,’ Lopez claimed. ‘They were permitted to come in. … [They] knew these weapons were coming in, and that was allowed..
‘The intelligence community was part of that, the Department of State was part of that, and certainly that means that the top leadership of the United States, our national security leadership, and potentially Congress – if they were briefed on this – also knew about this.’“
Nope, nothin’ to see there…. 🙄
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2. The political fraud about voter fraud.
From TheWSJ “The Obama administration has been ramping up its rhetoric about the evil of voter identification as part of the run-up to the midterm elections. In January, Attorney General Eric Holder told MSNBC that voter fraud “simply does not exist to the extent that would warrant” voter ID laws, adding that many who favor such measures do so in order to “depress the vote.” Vice President Joe Biden claimed in February that new voter ID laws in North Carolina, Alabama and Texas were motivated by “hatred” and “zealotry.”
In an April 11 speech to Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network, President Obama recited statistics purporting to show that voter fraud was extremely rare. The “real voter fraud,” he said, “is people who try to deny our rights by making bogus arguments about voter fraud.”
These arguments themselves are bogus.”
“The president’s speech may have been red meat for his base and good for fundraising. But it failed to engage the serious issues relating to election integrity. The coming months don’t promise an improvement.”
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3. In 20% of American families, no one works.
From CNSNews “In 20 percent of American families in 2013, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), not one member of the family worked.
A family, as defined by the BLS, is a group of two or more people who live together and who are related by birth, adoption or marriage. In 2013, there were 80,445,000 families in the United States and in 16,127,000—or 20 percent–no one had a job.
The BLS designates a person as “employed” if “during the survey reference week” they “(a) did any work at all as paid employees; (b) worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; (c) or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family.”
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4. An Egyptian court’s crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood leaders continues.
From YahooNews “An Egyptian court sentenced 682 alleged Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death on Monday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the defence partly boycotted.
The same court in the southern province of Minya also reversed 492 of 529 death sentences it passed in March, commuting most of those to life in prison.
The court, presided over by judge Said Youssef Sabry, had sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last month amid an extensive crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.”
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5. China has restarted it’s campaign against Christian churches within it’s borders.
From TheTelegraph “Demolition teams began destroying parts of a Chinese church that has become a symbol of resistance to the Communist Party’s draconian clutch on religion, activists and witnesses said on Monday.
Sanjiang church in Wenzhou, a wealthy coastal city known as the “Jerusalem of the East”, made headlines earlier this month when thousands of Christians formed a human shield around its entrance after plans for its demolition were announced.
Church members accused Communist leaders in Zhejiang province of ordering an anti-church crackdown and claimed there were plans to completely or partially demolish at least 10 places of worship.”
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Wandering Views 
The administration is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood under the mistaken assumption that they are “moderate” Muslims. There ain’t no “moderate” Muslims when dealing with infidels. They all have plans for our destruction. The “moderate” part comes in with technique.
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#5 & 6.
Most of the important happening in the world may be happening “under the radar” of the news reports.
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How do you spend your time if you don’t have meaningful work? Do you run your household efficiently (like I did), volunteer at school (like I did), shelve at the library (like I did), run cub and boy scouts (like I did), teach Bible study (you know where I’m going with this)?
The economy is a shambles but what sort of message are you providing your children about vocation and work if you aren’t out there doing something with your life? (See today’s Proverb’s 31 study). Classes are available on-line . . . . books at the library . . . the elderly in need of assistance (both paid and unpaid). I’d love to hear what some of those folks are doing.
It’s emotionally debilitating, of course, not to have work, but there’s paid work and unpaid work and all is valuable.
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From The Washington Times 29 April 2014
“In international government documents with potential repercussions for the 2016 presidential election, top officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development repeatedly cited Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for setting into motion a policy to waive restrictions on who could receive U.S. aid in Afghanistan, resulting in millions of dollars in U.S. funds getting directly into the coffers of Afghan ministries known to be rife with corruption.”
It’s a long article. My point is, it will have no repercussions because it’s too complicated for most people to understand from a political standpoint. Her election will hinge on four simple factors: woman, age, liberal, Clinton.
In that order.
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“What difference at this point does it make?”
If Hillary knew that it was an Al Qaida attack but said it was a riot in response to an internet movie, then she is not worthy of the office of President of the US.
If Barack knew that it was not a response to a movie then he lied about it so he wouldn’t lose an election. He was not worthy of reelection.
“What difference at this point does it make?” A lot!
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I hear on Rush that there is new data tracing the change in public announcements from terrorist to random thuggery to a movie to a decision at the White House.
I knew that, and I think I told you.
You have to understand the bureaucracy.
Whenever you hear some blame a mid-level bureaucrat for something. You know it didn’t happen that way.
e.g. A bureaucrat in the Cincinnati office. A bureaucrat in the CIA or FBI took the decision to change the attack from al Qaida to a riot..
Bureaucrats do not take decisions like that. They make decisions about how to perform their individual tasks. They will report the facts as they are unless directed otherwise. Usually on paper. Unless the decision or change directly affects his career. He may alter some data to make his task look successful. Those changes never become public.
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Where do retired families fit in that percentage? We would be one of those with no one working? I know a lot of people who would also fit that, but did work before retirement.
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