There was a press conference on September 11, 2012—but not by Obama

Something else happened Sept. 11, 2012. Netanyahu of Israel said speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”

Little did he know, or we know, that on that day, our moral authority to say anything about what was going on in the Middle East had been shattered. That was also the day Obama turned down a meeting with Netanyahu and then left the next day for a visit with Jay-Z and Beyonce, after a full day of watching the bombing of our embassy in Benghazi in real time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/united-states-and-israel-engage-in-public-spat-over-iran-policy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Two slip ups in one press conference—the first since March

Also, about this press conference, neither the President nor his media pals brought up the bombing currently going on in Israel, our closest ally, at least until the Obama administration, in the middle east.

“At one point he said: “And we’re after an election now. I think it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I’m happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants.” It was, of course, just as important to find out what happened in Benghazi before the election, but we should be grateful to the president for giving us this inadvertent glimpse into the role politics played in his thinking about Benghazi before he was reelected.

The president, perhaps realizing he had made a revealing slip of the tongue, went on to insist that he’d been providing information all along. But in response to a question about criticism of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from Senators John McCain and Lindsey ­Graham, the president slipped again. “For them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Ben­ghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.”

If Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why then was she sent out to represent the administration in multiple television interviews five days after the attacks?”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/susan-rice-s-talking-points_663527.html

Questions about Benghazi-gate

Perhaps this has been addressed in the Benghazi-gate investigation, but I haven't seen it. The reason the CIA was there was to recover weapons which had fallen into the hands of al-qaeda, and which were being funneled to Syria to support anti-regime forces there. OK. Now brushing aside the deaths of the Americans (who were there for that purpose), are tons of weapons still being moved to Syria and are there still Americans in Libya attempting to either run guns or find weapons? The cover up is only part of the story (because of the election), but isn't what we were doing there also important to investigate? It looks like Congress wasn't consulted on any of this.

Another question I have about Benghazi-gate has to do with Jill Kelley, the Lebanese born Floridian socialite who parties with military big-wigs and is a close friend of Petraeus and his “betray us” wife. The FBI got into this, so we're told, because Kelley asked a friend who was in the FBI to find out who was sending her masked e-mails. Tell me how common is this and do we need to be concerned about the FBI, or any agency of government/police, checking up on private individuals as a favor for friends? And yet, asking for ID when voting is a violation of something imaginary?

While that FBI guy was doing something for a friend, another FBI guy much, much higher up saw no need to alert the President that the head of the CIA could be involved in something that could impact national security. Really? What sort of instruction do FBI members get on responsibility, authority, morality, lines of reporting, and the history of love affairs in national security going back to Cleopatra?

40 years of Roe v Wade in 2013

Over 54 million dead babies, and we still are arguing about it.  This excerpt was written in 1971, before its passage.

Now some people want to argue that legal enactments against abortion are similar to the legal enactment of laws governing the private lives of citizens. This is simply not the case. Laws concerning abortion have been made, not to change the hearts of men and women, but to protect the unborn child. Analogically, the civil rights law has been enacted not so much to make whites love blacks as to make them accord blacks those rights which are their just due.

This is common sense to most of us. We should, for instance, be utterly dumbfounded to hear someone argue that he doesn't believe a black man is human, and therefore this government has no right to legislate laws restraining him from shooting blacks. In the same way it is just as absurd for someone to argue that laws prohibiting the murder of the unborn child should not be legislated because that person does not accept the unborn child as being fully human.

http://www.journal33.org/m-frank/abortion.htm

Now things have changed a bit since this was written.  Most pro-abortion Christians I know admit abortion is taking a human life.  Where they go from there is just plain evil.

Obama is pursuing decline

“I could go to a hundred American campuses and say: ‘America’s the rogue nation in the world. It’s America’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s that’s the problem. We should put the leash on America.’ And I’d get thunderous applause at Berkeley, Oberlin College, Yale.

“So there’s plenty of people on the left who have this sort of ‘let’s shrink America’ ideology,” Author Dinesh D’Souza

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dsouza-2012-obama-reelection/2012/11/17/id/464528?s=al&promo_code=10C81-1#ixzz2CWmdMcZy

Arrogance and dishonesty. . . breathtaking

VAN SUSTEREN: OK, you say they lied. So be specific. What do you think they lied about?

ROHRABACHER: Well, we know that for six days after the attack -- and we just heard from a member of the Intelligence Committee who saw the film -- they knew within a matter of hours, if not right away, that this was an organized, armed hit job by al Qaeda, probably, but an organized, commanded effort to murder our people.

Yet for six days after that, they were telling the American people that this was movie rage, this was a crowd getting out of control in order -- and then they murdered our ambassador, rather than al Qaeda.

And what does that do? That means we are not worrying about radical Islamic terrorism. Instead we're worried about a crowd getting out of control.

That was a lie! They knew it was a lie when they said it! When they sent out ambassador Rice to all the talk shows, they knew that was not the truth. When you tell something that's not the truth to the American people, especially in the middle of a crisis, they shouldn't expect to get away with it and be forgiven.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2012/11/16/breathtaking-lies-and-dishonesty-obama-and-white-house-spark-anger-benghazi-hearing#ixzz2CWA33qni

Kevin doesn’t need a liberal to tell him how to talk to his black listeners

Priorities, Mr. President?

" IMMEDIATELY after the Benghazi attack, he made the EXTRAORDINARY effort to APOLOGIZE to the Libyan, Islamic-extremist terrorists who attacked our Embassy & the safe-house, which killed an Ambassador, (2) SEALs, and another American… MORE THAN A MONTH AFTER the Benghazi TERRORIST ATTACK, he [Obama] FINALLY addresses the American public, to defend Susan Rice.”  Kitchen Cabinet member Christine Martinez

Since all the other agencies/officials (Clapper, Clinton, Pretraeus) are denying they started the film/video rumor, it could only be the White House.  But how did they get the information?  Made it up?  Hoped no one would check?

Wonder Bread left Columbus in March 2009

And now there will be no more Twinkies, but some of you will have legal marijuana.  I’d rather face a driver who’d just eaten a box of Twinkies than one who is stoned.

 

Guest blogger—a discouraged Romney voter

Not sure, but if I went back through 2004 comments on the internet, this could be a John Kerry voter. In those days, the Democrats were upset about many of the very things that bother Republicans today, especially an expanding war based on faulty intelligence (largely from the Clinton era).  They wanted recounts in Ohio, but decided finally to imitate the “values” position of the Republicans.  I don’t see anything I want to imitate in the Democrat party, except many their ability to tap the new technology to misuse the social media for their gain.  I suspect this guy, after pouting a bit, will get up, dust himself off, and continue voting and working for truth, justice, and the American way.  If he’s right, then the American way is the way of Europe.

I never thought I would see the day where Americans have grown into a mass of greedy, lazy. self serving, socialists. I never thought I would see the day where the once powerful and respectable news media would cave to the love of money over truth. I never thought I would see this once Great Nation, the envy of ALL nations on earth, crumble to the depths of socialism with the massive pile of debt that looms over our heads with no plan in sight to rid us of this burden. I am sick to my stomach. I want to vomit. What we have just witnessed is the end of The United States of America. We will never recover from this. The Republican party is doomed. We have tipped the 50% mark and will now pay the price of our greed. We have reached the point that Thomas Jefferson predicted would happen. Once people are able to vote themselves free money at the expense of other hard working people, we are done. I am done sending out political emails. I am done trying to make sense of what was happening to our country. I am done caring about it. The people have spoken. They obviously don't care. Please do not send me any more "What ifs", or "We should haves", or "if only we" type of emails any more. I really don't care any more. Mark my words, 20$ trillion dollars will be what we owe at the end of this idiots next term. That will be 1$ trillion dollars in interest every year. Unemployment will top out at around 15% and that will be the new normal and it will be okay with everyone, because this guy is....."Cool". Gas will be 6$ to 7$ dollars a gallon. Businesses, the ones that will be left, will be leaving the country in droves. It will no longer be feasible to do business in the USA any more. We will no longer be a manufacturing country. We will be nothing more than a consumer nation that will leach off of the rest of the world. How pathetic have we become? We have allowed a decent, God fearing, caring man like Mitt Romney, who had more knowledge in his little fingernail about how to return this nation to health go down to a self serving, lying, Constitution hating, Declaration of Independence loathing, racially dividing, class envying socialist. Nice work America. Good luck. God help us all.

When economics and morality clash

Lie after cover up after lie, but does it matter?

Kitchen Cabinet staff are far better researchers and experienced political analysts than I am, but I had this one nailed last week when the news of the Petraeus’ affair came out.  I figured he wouldn't lie even if he was being blackmailed.  I think Clapper and Clinton will eventually decide to tell the truth also, which leaves only the White House claiming the video story to try to save their political skin before the election.  To tell you the truth, I don’t think any smarmy revelation would budge an Obama believer by November 2012.  He’d lost about 10 million voters since 2008 because of his poor behavior as a president, but if they didn’t leave him for what we already knew, he could have dropped the A-Bomb on Libya and his fans would have stuck with him

“This is the story line emerging in the growing coverage of Benghazi by the major media this week. It’s a tale that is too rich in scandal for even the friendly New York media to ignore. But the most important story may be that General Petraeus, exposed in an embarrassing affair, gave up his job rather than line up with Hillary Clinton, the President, the UN Ambassador and others sent out to pretend like Al Qaeda was never involved. A U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans were murdered by Al Qaeda, and The White House appears to have tried to cover it up.”

http://thekitchencabinet.us/it-was-a-cover-up-the-obama-administration-lied-about-al-qaeda/

Do you suppose the election got in the way of the truth? Ya think?

This story is from ABC, after the Petraeus testimony today.  But half the electorate knew the White House was lying on September 12 just by knowing the date and the amount of ammunition used.  Why couldn’t the media connect the dots and ask more questions?  Because they didn’t want to hurt Obama’s election to another term.

"Former CIA Director David Petraeus told the House Intelligence Committee today that it's unclear why the Obama administration's original talking points on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, don't match the CIA's original talking points.

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told reporters that Petraeus insisted today that he was clear with Congress from the start that the event was a terrorist attack.

However, King added, Petraeus said that after the CIA prepared its talking points, they were vetted by agencies including the Justice Department and the State Department, but "no one knows yet exactly who came up with the final talking points."

"The original talking points prepared by the CIA were different than the final ones put out," King said. Originally, he said, they were "much more specific on al Qaeda involvement."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cia-chief-petraeus-grilled-house-senate-intel-panels/story?id=17736952#.UKZ5rIZqCSo

Mr. President, we hold you to this

Kristen writes to those who sent hate mail . . .

“I could stop typing now, but then you all would weep and gnash your teeth because you want more paragraphs of my wisdom over which to rejoice or send me hate mail.”

So I’m not the only one who gets hate mail from my holier than thou, self-righteous readers. . . who would have nothing to do to feel holy if I weren’t blogging about truth.

Kristen writes: “There’s a saying: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re still a liberal at 40, you have no brain.” I get it. Liberalism is obvious to children, because the most obvious way to help people is to give them stuff and be “nice” to them. It takes a lifetime of learning – and, in my opinion, usually the influence of religion, which helps one understand that man can’t fix all of Earth’s problems – to realize that giving people “free” stuff is impossible, because nothing is free. And because giving people stuff and being “nice” to them is not nice, or helpful; it leads to dependency and corruption and general crappiness. (See Africa, ruined by aid. See also certain parts of Chicago, ruined by leniency.)

The rest of Kristen’s story.

The Petraeus testimony

Is “blackmail” a racist term now?  It didn’t work, either.

Has it only been 10 days? It's just amazing what crawled out from under the oval office carpet after the reelection. Even yesterday, in his first news conference since March, the President played the paternalistic protector of the little helpless lady, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, who had lied for him on the talk shows in September. Hides behind her skirts, then accuses the senators of bullying her? If Rice is so weak, why nominate her for Secretary of State? Not the FBI, not the CIA, not the DoJ, not State Dept. It was the White House that changed Petraeus' statement.

"This administration has created more tails [tales] than a tuxedo factory." Greg Gutfeld, host of Red Eye, and subbing for O'Reilly. "When the race card is played, we're getting close to the truth [reference to Rice]."

The new carpet is installed—Friday Family Photo

Not seriously different than the old carpet, except in my office which was very dark forest green and the stairs to the lower level which were sisal, it really looks different.

Is he draining the swamp or feeding the alligators?

This certainly wasn't what we were told, and if this was known, why did Obama (surrogates) spend thousands of dollars on an apology campaign in Pakistan? Why was Susan Rice sent to 5 talk shows to tell lies? Was she in the ladies room when Petraeus spoke about Al Qaeda?  On September 12, on Facebook and blogs and conservative discussion groups people were already connecting the dots and crying foul.  The main stream press didn’t make it a story until it was about sex under and desk after the election. President Obama peddled the lie about the video to the United Nations 10 days after the Rice disgrace and still refuses to say what his role was or when he heard claiming it is all “under investigation.”

                

"Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected -- but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/petraeus-to-testify-knew-libya-was-terrorism-from-start-source-says/

Timeline at the Anchoress

How unions kill jobs

The company had warned it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shut operations if enough workers didn't end their weeklong strike by 5 p.m. ET Thursday.

Twinkies were my husband’s favorite snack before he started watching for sugar on the label.  I probably haven’t bought anything Hostess in years, but the company provided a good living for many people.

Wikipedia:  Hostess Brands, Inc. was founded as Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) in 1930 and was the largest wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States.  It is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands. For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2009, after it emerged from a 2004 bankruptcy, the name was changed to Hostess Brands, Inc., and the headquarters moved to Irving, Texas.^[2] Hostess Brands, Inc., declared Chapter 11 again in 2012.^[3] 

In May 2009, Wonder Bread closed in Columbus, Ohio. The plant was almost 100 years old, and according to the local news was too expensive to retrofit for “natural” products demanded by the consumer.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2009/03/11/wonder_bread_close.ART_ART_03-11-09_C8_QHD6BNI.html

Let’s hope Rayburn, the CEO, doesn’t ever run for president because he’ll be blamed for taking our Twinkies.

             

What shall we do? Guest blogger, Joan

We have  a president who was voted in by the part of the electorate largely incapable of critical thinking - beginning with single women under the age of 29, and the "receivers" of government largesse, etc.

The questions in my mind in addition to the aforementioned unfortunate reason for the accelerated demise of the "republican" form of government are:

• Why is there not more outcry about the voting fraud? The lack of proper identification; some of the Ohio districts having not one single vote for Romney; a cargo plane crashing (reason please?) with 47000 pieces of mail, largely ballots from our servicemen in Afghanistan. The only one screaming is Allen West. More screaming, please.
• And, it was my opinion from the start that the conservatives among us never explained why conservatism trumps liberalism. Fundamental Christians are largely Democrats. It's so touchy feely to help those less fortunate. Never mind that this approach keeps them remain less fortunate. Why haven't we gone to the heart of the matter? It's a philosophical difference. It is the difference between success and failure.
• Our children are not taught the Constitution in school, history has been rewritten, how often do you hear the Pledge of Allegiance these days? Patriotism seems limited only to the military. Seems to me, we have a lot of work to do, and the answer, I don't believe, is in the "perfect candidate" unless that candidate does not have to fight ugly in primaries and go off the deep end early on, and unless that candidate takes the time to sell "conservatism". It's time to wake up a sleeping population.

Guess they will wake up in ashes.

And so I wonder what I can or should be doing. Feel like a voice in the wilderness.

Any ideas, Norma?