Everything, and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. from this moment forward will be highly scripted, controlled and manipulated toward a very specific agenda.   Take nothing at face value – question everything.   Just like the fake bomb threat at the Newtown Memorial today, so that media could be kept out…. it is all about a specific agenda now….   As President Obama is quoted here by Knoller:

By Any Means Neccessary…..

WASHINGTON DC – A bill to restrict the use and sale of weapons like the high-powered Bushmaster .223 that coroners said had killed many of the children at Sandy Hook, would be introduced in the next session of the US Congress, promised senior Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein “It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets,” she told NBC News, adding that she expected Mr Obama to support the bill.

The move – which would essentially revive the Bill Clinton-era assault weapons that was allowed to lapse in 2004 – is expected to be highly controversial with the powerful gun lobby and politicians whose constituents cling fiercely to their Second Amendment gun rights. (more…)

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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.

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President Obama talks to Republicans (July 2010)

President Obama talks to Sandy Hook victims (December 17, 2012)

Art Exhibit in currently appearing in New York City (more…)

Not wanting to be beaten up by the tears of Obama media cycle; and recognizing the emotional lift Dear Leader is managing from the exploitation of The Blood Of Innocents, Speaker Boehner gives up on debt ceiling discussion. 

How much you wanna spend ol’ buddy, ol’ pal ?…..

WASHINGTON DC – House Speaker John A. Boehner has offered to push any fight over the federal debt limit off for a year, a major concession that would deprive Republicans of leverage in the budget battle but is breathing new life into stalled talks over the year-end “fiscal cliff.”

The offer came Friday, according to people in both parties familiar with the talks, as part of the latest effort by Boehner (R-Ohio) to strike a deal with President Obama to replace more than $500 billion in painful deficit-reduction measures set to take effect in January.

With the national debt already bumping up against the $16.4 trillion cap set last year, Congress risks a government default unless it acts to raise the debt ceiling in the next few months. (more…)

Dear Leader just wanted to send us a media release informing us that “he” wrote his speech for tonight.   y’ know, because, well, it’s not like his ego is all about him or anything….  no, wait.

White House official: President Obama is the primary author of this speech, working with speechwriter Cody Keenan.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 16, 2012

I don’t remember where I found the artless little story that is today’s Mailboxes and Old Barns.  It is many years since I began saving it and now the paper is soft and worn,  and the creases in the folds almost let the light through.

This is one of those pieces of paper that never gets filed–it never gets “put away.”  It stays, always, with a very small stack of other papers that I don’t ever put away.  Some of them are bits of my own Mailboxes and Old Barns.

This one is someone else’s Mailbox, someone else’s Old Barn.  I don’t know who the author is but like any MBOB, it tells a simple tale of a simple moment from another place and time  that reveals the cure for those days when it seems that we’re just a hurtin’ all over.

Everything was Christmas-wise. (more…)

The Latin word Gaudete means rejoice.  Rejoice Sunday, as we prepare for the birth of the Christ Child in our hearts.

Gospel Lk 3:10-18

The crowds asked John the Baptist,
“What should we do?”
He said to them in reply,
“Whoever has two cloaks
should share with the person who has none.
And whoever has food should do likewise.”
Even tax collectors came to be baptized and they said to him,
“Teacher, what should we do?”
He answered them,
“Stop collecting more than what is prescribed.”
Soldiers also asked him,
“And what is it that we should do?”
He told them,
“Do not practice extortion,
do not falsely accuse anyone,
and be satisfied with your wages.”

Now the people were filled with expectation,
and all were asking in their hearts
whether John might be the Christ.
John answered them all, saying,
“I am baptizing you with water,
but one mightier than I is coming.
I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fan is in his hand to clear his threshing floor
and to gather the wheat into his barn,
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Exhorting them in many other ways,
he preached good news to the people.

The net is flooding with conspiracy theory about this shooting.   Most of them are total bunk.  However there are major issues with the initial, and evolved reports; and indeed something is not passing the sniff test for me either.   One website has begun collecting a list of all the discrepancies (here).   

We are going to thin it down to the pertinent ones; can you think of any to add to the list?  Starting with…. why the pictures of a 20 year old shooter as a child?   Where’s the recent pics? 

1.)  According to the official story, Adam Lanza was found with his older brother’s ID, and it was not stolen. However, older brother Ryan–who officials say is very cooperative–claims not to have even seen his brother since 2010. Where would Adam get this ID?

2.) According to the official story, Adam Lanza was wearing a black outfit with a mask and bulletproof vest. Why would he want to hide his identity, and why would he wear a bulletproof vest, if he planned to kill himself? (more…)

Having previously written at length about the Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee’s decision not to release the 911 call tapes, it is perhaps worth explaining what was going on.

The “Scheme Team” used the initial refusal by Chief Lee to make the audio recordings of the 911 calls public part of their “corrupt Sanford Police Dept.” narrative.

For numerous news cycles Benjamin Crump, Daryl Parks, Natalie Jackson and Jasmine Rand beat this drum loudly.   Each of them proclaiming on television appearances that Lee’s decision was evidence of a botched investigation and subsequent cover-up.   But the truth is considerably different.  Indeed it is totally the opposite.

One of the anti-Zimmerman narrative media sites posted an article about the timeline within the story.   Here is the excerpt as it pertains to the 911 calls: (more…)