What’s interesting in the news today.
Open Thread.
The President took his gun control campaign to Mexico, where he blamed the US for gun violence in Mexico. No mention of the thousands his admin allowed to go to drug cartels in his Fast and Furious fiasco. From TheDailyMail
“President Obama used a speech at Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología – the National Anthropology Museum – to claim that ‘most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.’”
“‘But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.”
“Obama also did not mention the more than 2,000 firearms that his Department of Justice ‘walked’ across the Mexican border as part of Operation Fast and Furious, a federal law enforcement project that aimed to track weapons to drug traffickers.”
Gee, I wonder why… 🙄
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Meanwhile back in the States, the biggest opponent to his anti-gun agenda held their annual meeting. Needless to say, liberals are not happy that Republicans spoke to the NRA at the meeting. The comment section is quite amusing. The meme is R’s support gun rights and gun groups, so they support murder. Yet they have no problem with abortion and abortion groups, which are responsible for killing many millions more. From NBCNews
“In an indicator of the continued influence of the nation’s largest gun-owners’ group, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and other Republican politicians addressed the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston Friday, celebrating the defeat of gun legislation in the Senate, assailing the media, and offering a strong defense of the powerful lobbying organization.”
“Alluding to the defeat of a Senate measure two weeks ago to expand background checks for gun buyers, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the crowd that gun control measures a month ago had “looked like an unstoppable freight train” but that they and fellow gun owners across the nation had mobilized to stop it in a victory that was “truly amazing.” But he said Obama and his allies have said “that they intend to come back at us” with another attempt to pass gun legislation in the Senate.
“We must do everything we can to stop violent crime,” the Texas Republican said, as he accused the Obama administration of not doing enough to prosecute felons and fugitives who try to buy guns as well as criminals who use a gun in the commission of a crime.”
While there, Ted Cruz issued a challenge to debate the issue with VP Joe Biden. That seems kinda unfair. Cruz would be in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. 🙂 From TheWashingtonExaminer
“Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noting that Vice President Joe Biden reportedly plans to revive a legislative push for gun control, challenged him to a debate about policy responses to gun violence.”
“Cruz indicated that he doesn’t regard Biden as a formidable opponent, noting that Biden’s home defense advice — firing a shotgun twice into the air — “is very useful, if it so happens that you’re being attacked by a flock of geese.”
So I guess it goes without saying, Chris Matthews is beside himself over the whole affair. 🙂 From NewsBusters
“The staunchly pro-gun control Chris Matthews on Friday sneered that the National Rifle Association is doing a “dance of death” in celebration of their victory over Barack Obama. Regarding senators who voted with the gun group, the Hardball host mocked, “These are the guys who took the easiest vote in American political history. They backed the NRA.” He added that “it was almost a religious experience for these clowns.” (Couldn’t that last part be said of journalists in relation to Obama?)
Regarding speakers at the NRA conference in Texas, Matthews snarled, “I think it might be a dance of death over the President’s political grave, is what it really is. ”
🙄 Drama Queen.
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New info, and confirmation, that it was high level people in the Obama admin that changed the talking points on Benghazi to more politically friendly language for the President’s benefit. From TheWeeklyStandard
“Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom.”
“As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle of events unfolding in Libya, they concluded even before the assaults had ended that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved. Senior administration officials, however, sought to obscure the emerging picture and downplay the significance of attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The frantic process that produced the changes to the talking points took place over a 24-hour period just one day before Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made her now-famous appearances on the Sunday television talk shows. The discussions involved senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the White House. ”
“The exchange of emails is laid out in a 43-page report from the chairmen of five committees in the House of Representatives. Although the investigation was conducted by Republicans, leading some reporters and commentators to dismiss it, the report quotes directly from emails between top administration and intelligence officials, and it includes footnotes indicating the times the messages were sent. In some cases, the report did not provide the names of the senders, but The Weekly Standard has confirmed the identities of the authors of two critical emails—one indicating the main reason for the changes and the other announcing that the talking points would receive their final substantive rewrite at a meeting of top administration officials on Saturday, September 15.”
No surprise that the lap-dog members of the media would dismiss it. Just like with Gosnell, it doesn’t fit their agenda. And heaven forbid they ever report on anything that may make their chosen one look bad.
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Israel appears to have carried out air strikes in Syria. From CNN
“The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN.
U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials. This is the same time frame that the U.S. collected additional data showing Israel was flying a high number of warplanes over Lebanon.”
“The Israeli military had no comment. But a source in the Israeli defense establishment told CNN’s Sara Sidner, “We will do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from Syria to terrorist organizations. We have done it in the past and we will do it if necessary the future.””
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This one is disappointing, and I must say a little surprising that it comes from Texas. From WFAADallas
“An act of faith has cost an area track team a win and a chance to advance to the state championships.
This past weekend, the Columbus High School Mighty Cardinals had just won a boys relay race when a runner’s final gesture got them disqualified.
As he was crossing the finish line, Derrick Hayes pointed up to the sky. His father believes he was giving thanks in a gesture to God.”
“Though O’Connor cannot say why the student pointed, he says it was against the rules that govern high school sports. The rules state there can be no excessive act of celebration, which includes raising the hands.”
C’mon Texas. I’ve come to expect better from you folks given past history. I mean really, it’s not like he Tebowed….. 🙂
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