Sen. Bob Menendez Shouldn’t Take Foreign Relations Too Literally - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Sen. Bob Menendez Shouldn’t Take Foreign Relations Too Literally - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

COMMENTARY |The major networks appear silent on allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. Websites and blogs like Twitchy are going full speed ahead, however, and The Daily Caller appears angry at the smug hypocrisy of a powerful senator expected to be elevated the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Political scandals are endemic on both sides of the aisle and the unfortunate thing is that we have come to expect them. The Rep. Anthony Weiner scandal, covered by ABC News, revealed a married congressman who couldn't resist emailing revealing photos of himself to women he wanted desperately to impress. Former Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. was disgraced when he betrayed a friendship for a love tryst, as reported by ABC News.

Some Europeans may call American condemnation of sex tourism as an excess of Puritan zeal, but what Americans resent most is the abuse of power. We expect our privileged leaders to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and to spend their time and our resources doing the people's business.

Factbox: New York’s Catholic Gov. Cuomo Faces Abortion Dilemma - Yahoo! News

Factbox: New York’s Catholic Gov. Cuomo Faces Abortion Dilemma - Yahoo! News

* A chart by the Guttmacher Institute comparing the number of New York State abortions to national averages over the period 1991 to 2008 shows that abortions in New York State are nearly double the national average.

* A chart of the latest available figures from the Center for Disease Control shows also that New York State leads the nation in abortions and also that 4.1 percent of New York abortions were performed for out-of-state residents.

Dirty Harry Can’t Be by Your Side at All Times - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Dirty Harry Can’t Be by Your Side at All Times - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com


The New York Daily News reporters now covering the trial strained to justify New York's anti-gun crusaders, attributing the killing to "what's become a scourge of the city -- an illegal handgun."
Swoon! Is it news that thugs with long rap sheets carry illegal guns? Aren't they the ones law-abiding gun owners and cops need to protect themselves from? What cop ever had to worry about being gunned down by Wayne LaPierre of the NRA?

Factbox: 1000-Plus Jobs at Remington Could Exit New York - Yahoo! News

Factbox: 1000-Plus Jobs at Remington Could Exit New York - Yahoo! News

When deranged post-adolescent Adam Lanza grabbed his mom's guns and massacred innocent school children in Newtown, Conn., New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed the weapons used in the murders, and pushed new gun legislation through the assembly. An AR-15 brought to the school by Lanza was like the ones manufactured at the Ilion, N.Y., Remington factory. Not all politicians blamed the weapon, and some had other concerns. State Sen. James Seward worried about the loss of more than 1,000 jobs in upstate Herkimer County. New gun legislation in a state which already has the toughest gun laws in the nation could hurt a state which suffers 8.2 percent unemployment. Consider some facts:

Factbox: Algerian Oil Field Attacks Mark Resurgence of Islamic Terror - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Algerian Oil Field Attacks Mark Resurgence of Islamic Terror - Yahoo! News

Strange to American thinking is that the British-based private security firm Stirling Group was employed to provide security at the facility but its employees are unarmed due to policies of the Algerian government, reports The Telegraph.

Low Information Voters Show Their Stuff – Completely Make Up Crap About Obama’s Inauguration (Video)

Low Information Voters Show Their Stuff – Completely Make Up Crap About Obama’s Inauguration (Video)
Funny!

Fire Investigators have Right to Protect Themselves - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Fire Investigators have Right to Protect Themselves - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

It's pretty bad when things have sunk to this level, but what can you do? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Milner, and members of the state legislature can't make up their minds whether the Syracuse fire cops are carrying concealed handguns legally-- or not.

Factbox: Discovering Mali, the Hard Way - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Discovering Mali, the Hard Way - Yahoo! News

The French are frequently satirized in the U.S. as being pacifist and compromising, but this is not so. At least they didn't feel the need to get U.N. permission to conduct bombing raids northern Mali over the weekend, reported by CNN and an Associated Press article posted on the NPR web site.

The Obama administration voiced support for the French action but national security spokesman Tommy Vietor sounded a cautious note in a statement to The Hill:

 "We are monitoring the situation closely. "We have noted that the government of Mali has asked for support, and we share the French goal of denying terrorists a safe haven in the region," Vietor is quoted.
 

Let's look at some facts regarding this recent eruption of fresh conflict in Africa:

Let’s Train Educator-Security Guards for the Schools - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Let’s Train Educator-Security Guards for the Schools - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

It seems as if anti-gun jack-in-box progressives in the Obama administration were waiting for a tragedy like Newtown to spring from hiding. A great deal of political positioning followed the massacre, and heated political rhetoric soon unleashed a groundswell of hysterical reaction.

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Factbox: Living in a Gangsta’s Paradise - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Living in a Gangsta’s Paradise - Yahoo! News

* HIPHOPWIRED acknowledges that, in gangland, it doesn't take too long to go from quick to dead as shown by Atlanta rapper Yung Teddy who tweeted "N****S WANNA SEE ME DEAD" just 2 1/2 hours before his corpse was found in the house where he lived.

* The Columbian hip-hop artist known as "El Duke" conveyed an anti-violence message that may have got him killed and caused "60 musicians linked to him…to flee Medellin," according to the Christian Science Monitor.

* NBC reports that Detroit, once known as the "Murder Capital," broke through its old previous 40-year homicide rate in 2012 with the stabbing death of an 8-year-old girl and the shooting of a cab driver.

For Anti-Gun Crusading ‘The Journal News,’ Hypocrisy Accusation is Inescapable - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

For Anti-Gun Crusading ‘The Journal News,’ Hypocrisy Accusation is Inescapable - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Publication of the gun owner database seems not to have a point other than to bolster the Gannett stock price (GCI).
Things I have heard about a "point" center on neighbors not allowing children to play in the homes of people permitted to own handguns. But far more powerful rifles, capable of penetrating walls and with a range measured in miles, are not on the list.
So much for the argument that the newspaper was protecting anyone

Factbox: Impact of Hurricane Sandy Roils Political and Economic Waters - Yahoo! News

If there's anything high-profile New York politicians have in common these days, it's outrage over the costs of Superstorm Sandy. Messrs. Schumer, Cuomo, King and others have levied blistering attacks on Congress for delaying a vote on the Sandy package. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie directed an ad hominem attack on House Speaker John Boehner, who confronted "fiscal cliff" issues while delaying the Sandy relief bill. The Congress today takes on the $9 billion FEMA replenishment part of the bill. On Jan. 15, it will take up an additional $51 billion package with contents largely unknown. Let's look at some facts:

Gov. Chris Christie Got Off Subway at the Wrong Stop - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Gov. Chris Christie Got Off Subway at the Wrong Stop - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

We're not in Kansas anymore. Neither are the people left homeless and about to be evicted from their FEMA-paid Super 8 housing in Brooklyn, reported in the New York Daily News.

Spielberg’s “Lincoln” Pretends Black Rebellion and White Repugnance Had Nothing to do with Emancipation

 

I enjoyed the film “Lincoln.”  The actors were sensational, the script had only minor dings,  and I managed to learn something from a film that was deeply researched.  

I’d like to get that out of the way before I rage on. 

Why did Stephen Spielberg decide to do a film on America’s 16^th president?  The timing is right, and there was a ready audience for it.  Abe Lincoln has been pretty much in the news, popular on all sides of the political aisle, with President Obama laying claim to him as his favorite and Bill O’Reilly writing a book on Lincoln, too. 

We know Lincoln as the Civil War president, and that event has legions of followers, enactors, readers.   Besides, can you say “Emancipation Proclamation” without thinking of the gaunt-faced man who led America through some of its bitterest days?

What I’m saying is that any decent film about Lincoln would have impressed an audience, and this one is entirely decent.   Spielberg knows what the public likes, and he always makes decent movies, sometimes exceptional ones.

 But he’s a liberal Democrat, and a heavy contributor to the Obama campaign.  As such he had a problem.  How could he make a  film adulating Republicans without antagonizing Democrats?   Southern Democrats, the political ancestors of the late Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, were the mainstay of the KKK and the most virulent, vocal, activist, and racist opponents of emancipation and the 13^th Amendment.  

 Spielberg solved is problem by focusing on the “conservative” wing of the Republican Party.   The movie wastes a lot of digital celluloid in focusing on the stodgy indignation of the traditional wing of Abe Lincoln’s Republican confreres and supporters.

That’s not to say that there were no racist Republicans.  That would be as idiotic as today’s Democrats and their sycophantic jockstrap caddies in the liberal media saying that everyone who voted against Obama, or doesn’t like him or his policies, is a racist.   

Or as stupid as the old regional stereotyping of the North as being free of racism, while the South is full of bigots.   Only demented degenerated people like Michael Moore say such things.

Yet, for Spielberg to focus his abolitionist cameras on Republican conservatives instead of on the masses of racist Democrat KKK men, the real engines of racism,  is the type of fakery and fraud that weakens “Lincoln.”    

If Spielberg was that much afraid of offending Democrats, he shouldn’t have seized upon the money-making opportunity of making a movie about the president who “freed the slaves.”  But then again, we have become accustomed to that type of hypocrisy from liberal Democrats, from Progressives, and from Obama administration flaks.

Director Spielberg also spends too much tedious film time on the congressional intricacies and chicanery that opened the door to the 13^th Amendment.  If the workings of Congress are his true interest, why not make a film of today’s congressional labyrinths. 

Too difficult, I’m sure.  Better to revise history.  Spielberg tries to sublimate his contemporary thematic ideology by embedding it into the workings of a divided Republican Party in 1865.  

Who could fail to be hooked by the subterfuge?   We’re supposed to love Lincoln, and we do, though it’s an often portentous, boring story-for-every-occasion Lincoln with a high squeaky voice.  Wasn’t there even the hint of a tough streak in the dour man? 

At one point, I expected Lincoln to emerge from his bedroom wearing Birkenstock sandals.

 To love Spielberg’s portrait and depiction of Abraham Lincoln, we must also carry the banner of the white-centric Progressive-appealing contemporary Democrats who want to blame Republicans, and Bush, and Tea Parties, and anyone but Obama for the mess we’re in today.

Another huge weakness of “Lincoln” is that pretends that African-Americans are passive and obedient beneficiaries of President Lincoln’s good heart.   Hasn’t Spielberg read William Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner?”  Where was Frederick Douglass in this picture? 

It is a fact, too, that there were so many Americans, and so many Europeans (the Brits abolished slavery long before we did), citizens of both North and South that were completely sick of the savagery and dehumanization of slavery. 

Human slavery must have been as sickening to many whites, as cruelty to animals is sickening today. It was certainly sickening to John Brown, “mouldering in the grave” John Brown who hated slavery so much he armed black men and went to war with the slave masters at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.

Not even a mention?    No, Spielberg’s “Lincoln” ignores so much of background, of outrage, of rebellion, that it almost seems to ennoble the status quo, as if the 13^th Amendment was some idea contrived by Progressives to win elections.

 

 

 

 

 

D.C. Gun Cops Should Sell the David Gregory Crime Drama to Hollywood - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

D.C. Gun Cops Should Sell the David Gregory Crime Drama to Hollywood - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

If it's true that the Washington Police Department is really investigating NBC reporter David Gregory for holding up a 30-round ammo clip during a broadcast, I think it's time to call in some mental health professionals.

Or maybe a Hollywood film crew.

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Factbox: Conflicting Facts of Gun Control Perplex the Public - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Conflicting Facts of Gun Control Perplex the Public - Yahoo! News-

 Using conventional weapons, Charles Whitman killed 13 people, and wounded 32 others at the University of Texas in 1966, according to an extended account at the TruTV Crime Library. Whitman stabbed his mother and wife to death, according to BIO True Story.

Japan's Shinzo Abe Said "NO" --and the Money Printers Panicked

Christmas Eve goes on all around me.  Downstairs, a lonely woman is talking to another lonely woman on the telephone.  Somewhere planes are landing as others are taking off and people are punching keystrokes into their cell phones nervously.

The new Prime Minister of Japan is the new “Honest Abe.”   He’s fed up with countries that fire up the presses to counterfeit their money to beggar their citizens, to depress their wages, increase their exports, and mainly trying to save their own asses. 

The new Japanese Prime Minister is not really “Honest Abe.”  His real name is Shinzo Abe and that “Abe” thing is pronounced “Ah-bey” but at least he’s not a slimy crook like Treasury Secretary Tim “Turbotax” Geithner.    With America leading the way down into the financial cesspool, other countries are expected to follow suit.  They are the master class.  Ours but to spend or die. 

Nobody gives a shit if bread costs three dollars and some ghetto rat has to rob a liquor store at knifepoint or sell drugs to feed his rugrats.  The Master Class must convince the media that it is “saving the economy.”  The media will then contribute to the wall of B.S. washing down like a Japanese typhoon on the unsuspecting too ground down with worry to even give a shit.

So Shinzo Abe of Japan is at least one dude who is not going for it.   I salute you Shinzo, and I hope you will slap our American president into wakefulness.

Take “Fair” Out of the Vocabulary of Politics - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Take “Fair” Out of the Vocabulary of Politics - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

No, "fair" is a term of art, used mainly by children desiring to get what they want from frustrated parents, and by adults behaving like children to get what they want. Unlike issues of equality, you will never see "fair share" brought up as an issue to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Obama uses the term "fair share" to get what he wants: $1.6 trillion in tax increases. He's betting that the energy of resentment can be harnessed, directed, put to political purpose. He's right, judging from the 2012 election results. But just because you are holding a whip doesn't mean you have to flog the horses pulling the wagons.

Anxious to Protect White House, Bumbling Bureaucracy Bungled Benghazi - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Anxious to Protect White House, Bumbling Bureaucracy Bungled Benghazi - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

The original CIA reports, which mentioned al Qaida, were scrubbed and made ready for public consumption. Administration officials in the Office of Sanitization (hopefully, there's no such thing) "were concerned that fingering al Qaida would tip them off that they were being monitored," writes the Wall Street Journal.
Yes, folks, there are people in government who really say such things.

First Amendment Protections Weren’t Meant to Protect Child Sex Predators - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

First Amendment Protections Weren’t Meant to Protect Child Sex Predators - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Because press freedom is protected by the First Amendment, the online exploitation of children in illegal sex trafficking also continues.
As spiders catch flies, the sex web is always waiting to capture vulnerable kids who have run out of money and luck. The Washington Post in 2010 related the grim tale of child victims of online prostitution.