…because if she did, someone, heck anyone, would have told her this was a really inappropriate idea.   Actually, more like stupid, callous and in poor taste.     She dressed for Halloween as a Boston Marathon Bombing Victim;  Apparently thinking this was funny or something… 

Her life has been wrecked by her incapacity to think through consequences (Read the outcome HERE)  Oy’ , the stupid, it hurts…

Deception is an uncomfortable characteristic to witness.

(FOX NEWS) The architect of the Affordable Care Act insisted on “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama isn’t to blame for the rocky rollout of ObamaCare and deflected charges that the administration misled Americans about being able to keep their current health plans.
Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist, was part of the president’s health care reform team for two years and is the brother of former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

“We grandfathered in plans,” Emanuel said.
Host Chris Wallace pressed Emanuel to defend the growing number of cancellation notices sent to people whose plans changed after the law was implemented, but Emanuel could not.
Instead, he blamed much of the problems on insurance companies and not the new law. (more…)

We’ve written about the intellectual debate capability of Kirsten Powers before.    As a self-described avowed liberal you can often see her struggle to reconcile the flaws within liberalism, as a political ideology, with current events.   
Powers is honest enough to notice the “consequences” of liberalism when exhibited to its natural conclusion; yet the foundational anchors of her youth, and the modern social circle of greatest influence, i.e. ‘the society of her comfort’, make it difficult to walk it all the way out.  
Her recent article posted at Christianity Today is well worth the read.
(Christianity Today)  Just seven years ago, if someone had told me that I’d be writing for Christianity Today magazine about how I came to believe in God, I would have laughed out loud. If there was one thing in which I was completely secure, it was that I would never adhere to any religion—especially to evangelical Christianity, which I held in particular contempt. (more…)

My brother was about eleven years old when he and his friend from the farm about two miles over stumbled into an opportunity to get free rabbits. Even as a nine-year-old, I was surprised when Mom and Dad said it would be all right
What on earth do we need with a rabbit?
It was obtained for sheer curiosity and to achieve the status that an eleven year old achieves by owning a rabbit. There really was nothing more to it than that and of course, it easily satisfied those childhood goals. (more…)

Detroit hasn’t elected a white mayor since 1970.  That was Roman Gribbs, a Democrat.   Gribbs served as an assistant prosecutor from 1956 to 1964 and as sheriff of Wayne County in 1968 and 1969 before deciding to run for mayor.  Gribbs was mayor for one term, declining to seek re-election.

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David Gergen appeared on the AC360 Later show on Wednesday October 30th.    Gergen is a Clintonian Liberal, and gave his assessment of how President Obama appears disengaged from governance. 
However, his more accurate summary was when he described the White House as a command center for purely politically driven operations, and not actually governing or accomplishing anything.
…. at least he started out that way until the Kool-Aid drinkers, Andrew Sullivan and Charles Blow, were able to pick their aghast jaws off the floor and begin to push back.  D’oh…. It was quite humorous to watch.
The Copyrighted Video of the segment is available HERE.  It is well worth the watch.   Also, below is the CNN transcription from the segment.
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For those following the backstory surrounding the players in/around the Benghazi consulate on 9/11/12,  things again took an unusual twist.    Within 48 hours after appearing on the 60 minutes expose’,  Security Agent, Morgan Jones, was ‘outed’ by the Washington Post – as intelligence operative “Dylan Davies”.   It appeared to be a strategic attempt to discredit his reporting to Lara Logan and CBS’s 60 minutes.
Someone, presumably from within the State Dept, leaked an unsigned incident report, to the Washington Post, supposedly written by Dylan Davies while he was contracted by Blue Mountain – the UK security firm.    However, Davies is now disputing the report saying he never wrote it – and apparently it might have been authored by an executive inside Blue Mountain specifically for the FBI and Congressional Committee investigation.

(The Daily Beast – Eli Lake)  The Benghazi whistleblower whose new book details massive security failures in the run-up to the September 11, 2012 attacks denies he wrote an incident report made public this week that undermines key details in his memoir.
The debate over the Obama administration’s actions before and after the attack on the U.S. mission was reignited following an Oct. 27 60 Minutes report featuring an interview with Morgan Jones, a pseudonym for a British security contractor who trained and advised the local Libyan guard force for the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Jones’s book, The Embassy House, was released two days later and contains a firsthand account of his time in Benghazi and his actions during the series of attacks that resulted in the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

This story is another reflection of how short-sighted and self-interested the circle around President Obama is.    Everyone knows that Israeli covert military strikes are done to stop the risk before it reaches the gate.  They live surrounded by enemies.  
In this example a Russian / Syrian military weapons cache was destroyed.   The White House leaks that Israel were the ones who carried it out.   This type of leak puts international pressure on Israel, makes them appear further isolated, and can weaken their ability to proactively respond to threats.
(Via Times of Israel) – Israel is fuming with the White House for confirming that it was the Israeli Air Force that struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, hitting weaponry that was set to be transferred to Hezbollah.
Israel has not acknowledged carrying out the strike, one of half a dozen such attacks widely ascribed to Israel in recent months, but an Obama administration official told CNN on Thursday that Israeli warplanes had indeed attacked the Syrian base, and that the target was “missiles and related equipment” set for delivery to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel’s Channel 10 TV on Friday night quoted Israeli officials branding the American leak as “scandalous.” For Israel’s ally to be acting in this way was “unthinkable,” the officials were quoted as saying. (more…)

I have long felt that life is like a series of links in a chain. You might be driving down the road and you hear a song on the radio, or see a picture, and you feel a memory,…. something that reminds you of a different time and place than where you are right now.
You reflect.
The memories you consider remind you of a totally different place in your life. Perhaps you lived in a different place. Perhaps you were surrounded by different people. Perhaps a different job or completely different friends. You recognize those memories were constructed like frozen moments in time. They become individual links in the chain in your life. (more…)