A Daily Beast writer admits she didn’t write about Gosnell because she’s pro-death and didn’t want to hurt the slaughter industry. But what is more interesting – she writes “as if” this would be a big surprise and she’s telling a big secret. Oh, how the all intellectual progs think we slopeheads just cannot keep up – they’re way to slick to us…..

Why I Didn’t Write About Gosnell’s Trial–And Why I Should Have — Megan McArdle, Daily Beast  – But I understand why my readers suspect me, and other pro-choice mainstream journalists, of being selective—of not wanting to cover the story because it showcased the ugliest possibilities of abortion rights. The truth is that most of us tend to be less interested in sick-making stories—if the sick-making was done by “our side.”

Of course, I’m not saying that I identify with criminal abortionists who kill infants and grievously wound their patients. But I am pro-choice. (more…)

UPDATE: Expansion on the phrase “Hitler’s execution crews” has been added at the bottom of the post.

On page 338 of Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he comments on Bonhoeffer’s observations of America when he was in New York City during the summer of 1939.

His friends had begged him to “get out of Germany while the getting was good” — they knew what was coming. He was absorbing the American scene and saw first hand the extent to which  “tolerance trumped truth.”  He was “fascinated” by it. (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 †

WASHINGTON DC – There is only one certainty surrounding the terrorist attack that occurred in Benghazi, Libya last September 11th: seven months later, the American people and the families of the victims and wounded still do not know all the facts and specifics that resulted in the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American heroes. However, I am cautiously optimistic that momentum is building this week in the quest for the truth.

In separate letters to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the groups Special Operations Speaks and Operational Security (OpSec), along with 700 retired military special operations personnel, urged support for House Resolution 36 which is being sponsored by senior Republican Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA). House Resolution 36, if passed, would create a select congressional committee to thoroughly investigate the terrorist attacks in Benghazi and what the Obama Administration did and didn’t do. (more…)

Today we celebrate a very special day, the birthday of our own dear Puddy. We don’t know which of her nine lives she’s on (that’s catfidential information) but we wish her the very best. Puddy has many important functions here in the Tree. She and her sidekick Wee provide the highest form of comic relief. That we can never do without. She brightens our day, brings us our smiles, and makes us belly laugh. Her wit is famous and unequaled in all the world. However, her roles behind the scenes make the Tree function smoothly and with a professional touch unique among blogs. She is the producer, director and artistic consultant on many Treehouse productions. Her talents, humor and giving spirit are a big part of what has made this Treehouse a virtual home on the internet for the wild and woolly crew we have assembled.

News of this event has spread far and wide. We have plenty of extra kibble, cake, and of course, our own spirits, brewed just for Puddy on a moonshiner’s ridge in the Georgia hills. Puddy has friends in all the good places!

She was also a hired assassin for the world famous Mossad in one of her past lives, and this year they offer her birthday cake for our celebration! (more…)

Our coal-burning furnace was a big one.  The furnace room in the basement was a closed off, unfinished portion of the basement, about 25 feet X 20 feet with dirt walls, the floor of the big farmhouse overhead, and entered through a big door from the finished portion of the basement, where all of the canning, freezer, cupboards, laundry and old wood stove things lived.

Walk with me straight into the furnace room and past the furnace — and a left turn has  us standing directly in front of it.  When Dad brought coal to the house from the mine south of the river, he would remove a small window just at ground level.  The coal would be shoveled off the truck, and then through that little opening into the basement where it would lay in a great heap between the furnace and the wall, waiting for its day to heat the house.

On a spring day when there was still quite a bit of coal left–enough to finish the season–Dad came and called to us to come to the basement because there was something he wanted to show us. (more…)

First a recap – From the initial FOIA information provided with affidavits from M-DSPD Commander Fox-Williams, and Sergeant William Tagle, we learn the following:

–  A specific and intentional program was instituted by M-DSPD Police Chief Hurley to change the way the criminal activity of young black male school students was recorded.  Several processes from invoking the “Baker Act” to flat-out manipulating police reports, and in some cases not writing them at all, was used.   This led to a 60% statistical reduction in criminal recording and engagement.  The implication within the research points to Hurley following the instructions of School Superintendent Alberto M Carvalho who appointed Hurley as police chief.

*Alberto Carvalho has close ties to the White House and the Obama administration.

–  We know Trayvon Martin was one of the students who benefitted from such a procedural change, because the School Resource Officer, Darryl Dunn, gave statements during the internal affairs investigation admitting as such. (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 †