What’s interesting in the news today?
1. Of course they did. 🙄
They pander at any and all opportunities, and if it steers money toward their donors in the process, even better.
From CNSNews “A $350 million grant opportunity announced Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide shelter for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) states that recipients providing residential shelter to these children must provide them with “family planning services” and that residential care providers deliver services in a manner that is “sensitive” to sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Residential care providers are required to provide…family planning services,” says an official description of the grant program published by HHS.
“Residential care providers are required to provide or arrange for the program required services in a manner that is sensitive to the…sexual orientation, gender identity, and other important individual needs of each UAC [unaccompanied alien child],” says the official description.”
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2. This proves once again that they Obama admin always knew it was a terrorist attack, and that a video never had anything to do with it. They’ve lied since day one.
From FoxNews “The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.”
“Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers’ higher ups.”
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3. A bad omen for moderates? I’d be more inclined to agree had McConnell lost too.
From TheNYTimes “The House Republican leadership, so solid in its opposition to President Obama, was torn apart Tuesday by the defeat of its most influential conservative voice, Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader. His demise will reverberate all the way to the speaker’s chair, pull the top echelons of the House even further to the right and most likely doom any ambitious legislation, possibly through the next presidential election.
Conservatives who have helped fuel some of the most contentious showdowns over the last three years on issues such as immigration and raising the federal debt ceiling are likely to be emboldened by Mr. Cantor’s shocking loss as they seek to replace him with someone even more closely aligned with their views.
Further, House Republicans began to immediately plot a new leadership structure that before Tuesday night had hinged merely on whether Speaker John A. Boehner would seek to keep his post next year.”
“One measure of the extraordinary defeat could be seen in the candidate’s finances. Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Cantor’s campaign had spent about $168,637 at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, had spent on his entire campaign. With Mr. Cantor out, members from solidly Republican states will almost certainly be vying for one of the top jobs, if not Mr. Boehner’s gavel. The current Republican leadership slate is filled with members from swing states where the pressure to moderate views on topics such as immigration looms.”
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4. Not surprising. I think a lot more people would choose this option given the choice.
From Breitbart “An upset last night in the Democrat primary for governor of Nevada was almost as stunning as the Brat win in VA-7.
“None of the Above” won with 29.96% of the vote. Nevada was the first state to institute a “none of the above” line to its ballot in 1975, as a way for voters to protest weak, unqualified candidates.
Senator Harry Reid, who runs the Democrat party in Nevada with an iron fist, told reporters earlier this year, that the candidate to run against the popular Republican Governor Brian Sandoval, would be “a respectable Democrat and someone that people know.”
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5. 20 years ago I’d have said this could never happen here. Now I say it will happen here within the next 20 years. Wedding cakes were just the first step.
From TheTelegraph/UK “Gay Danish couples win right to marry in church“
Homosexual couples in Denmark have won the right to get married in any church they choose, even though nearly one third of the country’s priests have said they will refuse to carry out the ceremonies.”
“The country’s parliament voted through the new law on same-sex marriage by a large majority, making it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages.”
“Under the law, individual priests can refuse to carry out the ceremony, but the local bishop must arrange a replacement for their church.”
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6. You mean the anti-gun folks lie to push their agenda? Say it isn’t so…..
From NationalReview “This map, which purports to show that there are have been 74 “shootings at schools” since the abomination at Newtown, is currently doing the rounds.”
“Tuesday’s school shooting in Oregon is at least the 74th instance of shots being fired on school grounds or in school buildings since the late-2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., according to a list maintained by the group Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for policies it believes limit gun violence.
There have been at least 37 shootings on school grounds this year, which is just barely half over. All told, there has been nearly one shooting per week in the year and a half since Newtown. Everytown identifies a school shooting as any instance in which a firearm was discharged within a school building or on school grounds, sourced to multiple news reports per incident. Therefore, the data isn’t limited to mass shootings like Newtown—it includes assaults, homicides, suicides and even accidental shootings. Of the shootings, 35 took place at a college or university, while 39 took place in K-12 schools.
The Post is admirably clear that the map includes both colleges and schools, that it counts “any instance in which a firearm was discharged within a school building or on school grounds,” and that the data isn’t “limited to mass shootings like Newtown.” This point has also been made forcefully by Charles C. Johnson, who yesterday looked into each of the 74 incidents and noted that not only did some of them not take place on campuses but that “fewer than 7 of the 74 school shootings listed by #Everytown are mass shootings,” that one or more probably didn’t happen at all, that at least one was actually a case of self-defense, and that 32 could be classified as “school shootings” only if we are to twist the meaning of the term beyond all recognition.”
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Wandering Views 
I think most of us knew this was true, but it is always good to see it in writing.
http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2014/04/26/lower-south-whites-almost-unanimous-in-opposition-to-obama/
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#5 – yup
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#5, That will happen in the US in the next five years. But not in NC.
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#6
I retired in 2007. My school had 2 murders on it, the only Middle School in Los Angeles to have even one. Neither one was related and they happened years apart.
I don’t know how many incidents of gunfire there were in my 29 years there. I had 2 girls who lost brothers to gang shootings. Not related but the same Christmas Vacation.
I never understood why anyone would live in the neighborhood. It was a fact that each street had it’s own personality. One would be gangster and the next would be peaceful.
I never felt unsafe but when I look back on it…
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Oh, now I remember why I posted that little gem above; I am sure most of the gunshots were NOT reported. Heck, if you didn’t talk with a fellow teacher there were lots of things that went on that we never heard about.
Three examples;
1. One of my friends walked up an outside stairway and came across a boy screwing a girl with a group of onlookers watching. In broad daylight. In the middle of class time. At the top of the stairs. In plain view. Outside.
2. One day I arrived in school to find an abandoned car in the middle of our quad. One of the Counselors was standing guard of the gun next to it. I never found out anything about it.
3. Our Union Representative (He later became the President of United Teachers, Los Angeles; the head of the LA teachers union.) was suspended for 4 days and moved from our Middle School (in the Elementary Division) to a High School. I was told later by an administrator who was involved the the teacher had left his room and went next door to ask that teacher to watch his class while he went somewhere and did something or other. While he was there talking he laid his new camel hair sports coat on a desk. A girl was drawing on her desk with lipstick. She kept on drawing right across his new jacket.
He threatened to have one of the gangs beat her up. He did this in another teacher’s classroom in front of the class full of students.
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#5, a minister in our church has suggested that granting (or withholding) of clergy licenses (for conducting legal weddings) will be one focus to force “compliance” in the future.
The proliferation of school (and other mass) shootings is deeply disturbing and it’s no surprise that there will be a renewed push for stricter gun control. I favor some controls with registration and licensing, along with background checks.
But like most of you, I don’t believe the problem will in any way be go away as a result of those attempts. Not only will guns always be available on the black market, but it doesn’t address the root problem. Still, the push for more gun control & perhaps even confiscation at some point will come. And there’s probably little that can be done to counter that given the increased frequency of these horrible incidents and the loss of innocent lives, all at the whim of some crazed gunman.
But the issues are much deeper, much more spiritual than supposedly lax gun laws. They are systemic and are further evidence, I think, of a declining culture that has lost its collective moral compass. Government, even good government, can’t fix that.
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Chas, NC will have no say in it – it will happen at the federal level. PA has a law against same-sex marriage but the recent supreme court decision negated it and they lined up at the court house the minute the ruling was made.
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Michelle
I just read your post from yesterday about Mosul. I have feel that way too. I am also sick about Afghanistan. It doesn’t take much of a prophet or seer to know what is going to happen to many people. I see helicopters being pushed overboard from an aircraft carrier…
The difference is that Cambodians were “re-educated.” Al Qaida just chops your head off.
I knew a man who ran 5th grade SS at church. One of is sons was an interior designer. One of the top Princes of Saudi Arabia liked him. The son got an invitation every year to go on a cruise in the Mediterranean on the Prince’s yacht. Before the Iraq War, the Prince told the son that Saddam was really bad and that the US should get rid of him. How bad do you have to be for a Saudi Prince to make that judgement about you?
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Saddam was a mad man, but he was able to control his country through his madness and power. A nation stitched together like Iraq (following WWI–it all goes back to WWI!), of disparate peoples was never going to work well. We should have let the Kurds separate after 1992, but we were into consencous (sp)–the opposite of Saddam.
My husband and I argued in 1992 about the ending of the first war. I insisted Saddam should have been removed then; he pointed out international law and that wasn’t the mandate. Since bin Laden came out of Afghanistan, I’m not sure what would have happened about 911 if Saddam had been removed.
Moot point now, this is where we are; but it’s heartbreaking. I asked Sawgunner this morning where in Iraq he was stationed and what he thought. No answer yet; but think how miserable you would feel if you had spent a year of your life there and this is the end result.
As to Afghanistan, I wrote to my congressman about it years ago–no one has ever conquered Afghanistan, why try? A doctor from our church is there now, in the Navy.
After 18 months studying WWI, this Navy wife is leaning pretty heavily toward pacifism.
Except, as Donna noted above, the root cause is sin. Until the world is ready to address that, the misery will continue. And only get worse.
Let’s be the lights where we’ve been planted; it’s the only hope for a lost world. 😦
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The reason we did not remove Saddam in 1992 and establish a democracy in Iraq is that Big Bush understood:
A. It is in our interest to have the Sunnis control Iraq rather than have it become a Shia ally of Iran; and
B. The citizens of Iraq are about as capable of self-government as are the citizens of Detroit or the citizens of Haiti.
By 2003 Little Bush and his Neo-Conservative advisors (with all the emotions of 9/11 clouding their judgment) forgot about both of those facts, just as the US forgot that men are supposed to marry women.
5. Are there still any Christian churches left in Denmark? If so, they should go underground rather than submit to the perverts.
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1. What a brilliant way to prevent Conservative Christians from taking in these kids and making Republicans out of them when they get the vote.
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Hey kids! Kbells is back!
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Michelle,
When your husband is feeling better (Projection on my part! ) Ask for his opinion on this Iraq mess. I am interested in what a Flag Officer thinks about it. (At least he should have been a flag officer!)
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Take this six-question quiz – the answers should surprise you.
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Yikes, Tychicus. I put Obama for 2, 4, and 6, and “none of the above” for the others, but I never thought…well, you’re right, I was surprised. 😉 😦
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This is interesting:
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Do you think churches should get out of the business of govt weddings and just do biblical “covenant weddings” (my term)?
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A pastor is designated as a person legally responsible for marrying a couple.
Marriage, to many, nay, MOST, is a religious observance.
A pastor should be free to marry, or deny marriage to any couple of his choosing..
e.g.
A pastor may not marry a person who has been divorced.
A Catholic may refuse to marry a Catholic to a protestant.
A pastor, after consultation may feel that he shouldn’t unite a couple for any reason of his choosing.
There are many other options for a couple to unite in marriage if they pass the requirements of their state.
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He’s an O-5, Bob. and he’s not saying anything about Iraq–I’ve tried.
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I think that’s what my church does, Michele without the second L. The pastor will hold a ceremony, but tells the couple to get their license and be married at the courthouse before hand for government and legal purposes. I didn’t realize that until recently;
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Chas, I’m with you, but you and I belong to a different era.
Tychicus, I was surprised by the answers. Good luck to your team tonight. I accused my mother of sabotaging the air conditioner last week. She seemed pleased to be accused.
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Tychicus, I posted your questions on Facebook and one of my fellow Confederates commented: “It was probably all the stress of being poor.”
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RW: Hopefully the Spurs’ game 3 performance will carry over to tonight…
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