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Lanny Davis.

Now there’s a statesman.

Was that due to the BO vote or the Rubio vote?

Because Rubio is questionably, but perhaps, worse.

In 2003, when we were looking at a Euro assignment, I said, “London, no, it’s a Muslim City”

That’s ten years ago.

Watching Band of Brothers is wonderful, but it’s heartbreaking.

And Every Brit military guy we have EVER come across has been an outstanding character in many ways and by far.

I focused on the emasculinization of the Mass as only a girl like myself is allowed to in this time of PC.

I meant to say pretty much what Cicero stated so eloquently in post 9.

The rant is a bit held over from a response to the presentation we had at Mass last wknd from the Archbishop who is now, for the moment, off the subject of telling us the USCCB gave a ton of our donated? money to the cause of the illegal aliens here, and that the latino community is the future of the Church (but they need our money, though they have the buildings our ancestors (and theirs) built?, and is now onto the subject of plans for the future.

One aspect they want us to focus on ? ok is bringing some of the 750,000 Catholics in the Archd to Mass as there are only 150,000 attending.

I think it comes from the Holy Father, bless him.

Not sure.

They can start with getting back to the language of the Church - Latin. It’s a dead language, so no misinterpretation can easily occur. Fr. Groeschel says the enemy hates hearing it.

I travel 22 miles just to get the Latin Mass with traditional music done WELL from the loft in the back of the Church (built 1985).

The Mass is Novus Ordo, post Vatican Two, that is, as you know, and where the priest delivers a sermon about the readings often pertinent to current events. There has never been a female on the altar and Communion is via procession and then on the tongue with tincture by the priest and deacons, no EMs.

This pastor is very reverent to VatII and yearly travels to Rome with a willing group from the congregation and school and visits with the Holy Father.

I went to mass last week locally and was subject to a priest who was late due to the “Basketball Game, you can understand”. Oh yes, everyone applauded. I cannot applaud at Mass nor can I take the sea of denim- and shorts! and Flip flops!

The music is vapid. It takes 3 minutes after consecration first for hugging and shaking hands and another for the procession of “extraordinary” ministers - (devised originally for Naval deployment at sea) to do whatever it is they do and them charge back to get communion out, as we are all in a rush to get out of there? That’s what passes for extraordinary.

None of this has anything to do with Vatican II. It was used as an excuse. The new interpretation goes nowhere far enough.

For every one of me, willing to overlook, for the sake of the Eucharist, how many have been lost? How many men can’t take the emasculinization and the lack of reverence - the hand holding, the girls pushing the boys off the altar, women oh what I had last week were two women, sleeveless, lecturing. They couldn’t pronounce the geographical places from the second reading of Pentecost, no problem giggles, “uh, uh”.

If they want to take over, they’d better do it as well as a self respecting man would and that wasn’t it. It’s GOD’s WORD.

Huff!

No one EVER asked nor took a poll to find out how the congregation liked the New (1970’s) Mass. Not anyone.

And not many churches (one in 10,000?) offer any kind of alternative.

Here’s a hint: The men, and the men attending Mass alone, attend the Latin Mass with Gregorian Chant, procession of properly attired men and boys, NO hand holding, No peace greeting.

Hmm. Interesting.

Trey G. does his homework.

“I guess he consulted with someone about Congressional rules.”

It’s a good time for these guys to start figuring those out.

Yes. So, I wish the pundits would call it what it is.

It was an tempt at politeness. It seems that your point is off in terms of the Embassy being completely different from a consulate as far as security and the consequences of security failure, see The Executive Branch meeting the casualties on the tarmac. They did not do this because of good character. It was required.

In any case, a mortally neglected consulate is quite different from “dead Americans”, a regard given to travelling students on a Eurail pass, which, in this case, just don’t command the attention due to the Consulate (equal to the embassy for security, esp when housing the Ambassador, according to the citation below, and according to common sense.

As federal agents, all DSS Special Agents have the power to arrest, carry firearms, . . . DSS Special Agents protect the U.S. Secretary of State and foreign dignitaries.

When assigned to domestic field offices, DSS Special Agents are responsible for. . . providing protection for the United States Secretary of State and . . . U.S. missions, embassies, and consular posts.

Joe, You go out there. Say something. Anything. Go.

Help me out here. I’m closer to the situation than you are, and way closer than what the most in the media call it.

From IBD:

“. . .murdered our ambassador to Libya. . .”

From Wikipedia:

John Christopher Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 12, 2012) was an American diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from June 2012 to September 12, 2012.[3][4] Stevens was killed when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked on September

I’ll have to read it. But, you know, I’ve got family we all do right who say things like oh you are just so wacko for not adoring the administration you are so gullible to believe the crazy things you hear on right wacky wing radio and tv.

and in the same conversation, Are you going to the beach this summer? I don’t know how many more years we’re going to b able to go and meet at aunties cottage with the tides rising and all. soon, with climate change there won’t be any houses there.

Well, you know, I try to get in, before the angry change of subject, there’s no scientific consensus on that theory, there’s not a preponderance of insurance co.s telling us our cottage is projected to be gone soon (I could try, you’re wacko for listening. . .)

But by now it’s huffing and puffing and we’re done.

This guy is one of that kind of thinker. Northeasterners particularly breed it as they interact. HE’s from RI.

convinced because of his feelings that the flyover people are ruining everything.

“I want a taxpayer to meet that plane at the airport, and present a bill”

Yes, particularly as Keating was in charge of “emerging threats” and hasn’t been held accountable any more than sending him on a nice trip.

these guys geeze, who gets away with the kids of things they do?

I don’t know. Rush is right. BO is bad, but liberalism and its corruption and resultant communism and corruption seem to be the real problem here.

He apologized. I read the headline, not his words.

so. . .

total idiot

Is anyone following these stories?

BIden came out in favor of Gay marriage and BO had to follow suit.

It was Biden alone that caused all of this.

They sent him out in front with something, anything that could get the press talking.

They tried with the Ft Hood shooter draws a paycheck, NBC couldn’t even get it right, saying, Ft Hood shooter paid (like he was donating something- what- to the tornado victims?)

Now they drag crazy uncle Joe out to mumble something inflammatory, even anti Semitic, as this is.

BO must be missing the old days. They’re over.

But the Senate is busy with the liberal deeds of the day, passing amnesty in committee and chanting in Spanish. what do they give a rat’s a that the Embassy staff was murdered in country, neglected by everyone save two normal (way above standard for today) patriots. what do they care about the IRS?

Rubio McConnell, McCain

They’re busy with liberalism. Press one for your language or hang up we’ve got stuff to give away to the important people.

Of course, Rush is right. He probably wishes he weren’t

Well, Rush is right is one of those old sayings.

Sometimes, I imagine, he doesn’t enjoy it any more than we do.

Here it is already:

The Senate is chanting in Spanish,th , today, while the facts are finally coming out about how OUR Embassy folks perished, neglected, while a leader in the IRS pleads the 5th and is still employed by that same enterprise which is gearing up to take over our heath care, the most personal private entity’ and while facts around the invasion of communication of the press come out, our Senators, GOP pushers prominent chant in Spanish in the Senate session, that “yes we can” allow the amnesty of uncounted millions of illegals.

Rush is right.

Keep attention on liberalism, BO is part of it.

Meanwhile, the Senate is chanting “Yes We CAN!” In a foreign language in the senate session on passing the amnesty for illegals today.

They’re happy.

While we’re busy watching, working to see if any of them care about our murdered American Embassy folks

“This guy is so wobbly it’s disgusting...He doesn’t belong in the Senate.”

I don’t know, he seems to fit in just fine, and that’s our biggest problem right now.

We’re distracted form the real invaders of the Constitution.

no. the senate is very busy today pushing through amnesty for those they treat best, illegal aliens.

Push one for English.

Meanwhile, Congress is pushing for amnesty for uncountable illegal aliens.

You think GOP will gain 12 votes?

That’s an awfully high estimate.

Mexifornia, OK.

Get ready for Mexitexas, ‘cause it’s moving in and the highlight is on the first nation listed - most favored. Don’t kid yourself.

These guys are exerting a lot of power and not representing the rule of law, much less, the Constitution.

Don’t they have other things to do?

“. . .to find and muzzle insiders.”

James Rosen is Not an admin insider.

NYT.

“His Girl Friday” is such a great flick, made in 1938.

The sleaziness, the cunning of the paper staff all the way up to the Editor, Mayor then Governor are so amusingly displayed by such a talented cast, the story could be done now with different fashion and technology word for word without changing the plot one bit.

They probably didn’t anticipate the mispatriotic (I just made that up. Sedition is better perhaps) antics, subversivness rampant now.

The NYT is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell making fun of the amorality ad sheer BS of the newspaper business.

Ooh. Good one.

Did you get a call from the IRS, OSHA?

My ninth grade students are starved for honesty AND truth. They know it when they see it. Hypocritical people cannot deal with the classroom.

“They are looking for a scape goat. Some poor slob is sitting in jail over a Youtube video to protect the president and Clinton.”

A reality show. The scapegoats’ prison. It’s some ankle bracelet country club somewhere in Kenya or Camp David (BO never uses it).

They’re seen bickering over who cooks and they can have sports contests and get makeovers done.

I know! If one won’t do something because it will incriminate them why do they still have a job?

But as a head of an institution?

As a head of the IRS?

In charge of our health records?, insurance?, decisions!?

Beam me back to Kansas, Toto!

“when are the GOP the normal minded people and the corrupt media going to wake up and understand and call this administration out. . .”

My guess is they are awake and haven’t wanted to call out anyone because they don’t want their computer compromised.
Whatever one calls that. Cowardly is one.

So, I’m just on this.

I want journalists and pundits to call this what it is.

The take down of the US Embassy.

Guess this is the best we can expect fro Wa Po but she lost me in the first sentence.

Four Americans multiplied were killed yesterday, More in Boston, on the Helicopter wherein the SEAL team were killed. What difference does it make? Even H! is winning on this.

They are the Embassy staff. US representatives in Libya. The Libyans know this, so do AQ, MB, Egypt, Syria and a few Americans with a semblance of basic knowledge of our government and it’s place in the world.

Foreigners are confused and encouraged by our govt’s stupidity on this and the American electorate is confused that this story won’t go away, though H! wants it to. They thought she was more powerful than that.

She is not. They haven’t fundamentally transformed America yet, and it was the Embassy staff. When will the journalists including Hannity get a clue and call it what it is and bring some proper order onto this story.

Right. So what point is NBC trying to make with this (misleading) headline, here?

“. . .Shooter Paid $278,000. . .”

I don’t know. I guess I live in a parallel universe having been taught RRR’s, but this headline drew my eyes to the article. I had to read to find out if the shooter paid someone (the IRS?) and whom did he pay.

Not finding out, I looked as now trained to do, at he source.

NBC appealing to the headline thinkers (lo infos)

No. He didn’t pay, as the grammatical sense of the headline implores.

He was paid, as in, “Shooter Was Paid $278,000 (by our government)While in Jail”.

We know, but the low info?

I was asked last week by on of them, “Well, the president served in the military, didn’t he? I thought he did.”

Ok

It’s easier to parrot some online thing, yes, because teaching is not about the students. I’s about staying out of trouble with the feds who run the schools.

They have infected and overtaken Texas schools. CSCOPE is a natural progression.

I know a child, a valedictorian, majoring in History at University. Her mother had to pay her Univ. Freshman summer to read a western civilization tome. The child had been taught in some big stupid football school, the athletic field rivals the Meadowlands, History of the world via Asia. Not one course on Western, European, Christian, Catholic, Roman, Greek course and on her way to infect the university with her brainwashed idea of inferiority of western civ.

Her parents astound me. Pillars of Catholic life here in town. Why do parents allow this?

Glenn Beck can’t do everything.

Anyway, we can pretend Texas is safe at our own peril.

Parents are in charge of educating their children. They need to act like it.

Worked for us.

The SEALs are the best our country has to offer. I can’t even look at the photos of the casualties of the downed “SEAL” helicopter.

They were THE heroes.

The issue is that our electorate is uninformed. It’s why Benghazi doesn’t mean anything to them.

We have 51 dead in Oklahoma as of this morning from the storm. We have dead SEALs and military every week , from the Mideast.

It’s awful.

So what makes the four dead at the embassy different?

As individuals they are no different. And compared with the schoolchildren who perished yesterday in OKC, forget it.

So people forget about them from time to time. They say,
“four dead Americans, oh yeah, Wasn’t that in that place with the B and the Z? Well, what were they doing over there anyway? What did they expect?”

And they get forgotten. And then, “oh,yeah there was something about Hillary? It must be political.”

And yet, it doesn’t go away.

We’ve gone into thinking that we decide things as we go along. Hillary and BO met them on the tarmac because they are nice and they’re compassionate and BO and H! are stand up people when they feel like it.

No. They had to meet them because they were the embassy staff. The brave and dedicated former SEALs were honored with this presidential recognition. They were not, reportedly, part of the embassy staff.

What’s getting lost in this, is that the State dept. not Hillary, as powerful as she’d like to be, and not confined to the head of State, and the State dept still IS bigger than she, even while she was in charge, sent them over to Benghazi.

The embassy staff represents the US in country. They are afforded security and are given US housing. If they are hurt or killed in country it goes up to the President as they are his representatives in country Stat doesn’t just get involved because they are wonderful. They HAVE to. The embassy staff works for them. State is responsible for meeting them at repatriation and then explaining to the American people what happened. “What difference does it make” doesn’t and will not cut it.

If people realized this, it might go a lot quicker as congress is allowed to play around with this as much as the Executive branch.

The embassy was overrun. The Libyans know it as does the MB and AQ, Egypt, Syria and whoever is left in this country to pay attention to Government 101.

It’s not about four dead. It’s huge. It’s about the Embassy, whether H! and BO want to fundamentally transform the Govt or not, they haven’t yet.

We are still under the same rules that were in place when Tony Mendez worked very hard to get the Foreign Service workers out of Iran, and we’re probably in that same fight.

So, IBD gets it right. And it’s why this is not going away.

I see that.

It is rather scathing in the first third.

Did Jim Geraghty write this?

I’ll have to reread it. Maybe I missed the tone. Or he toned it as much as possible for the Daily News.

“. . .murdered our ambassador to . . .”

IBD gets it. No one else seems to.

It was not four Americans.

It was the US Embassy Staff.

THe enemy knows it and that point alone makes it mortally, supremely important.

And it’s why, by the way, it is not going away.

Pundits take heed, you too, Hannity.

The Ambassador and the Embassy Staff.

This confusing, theme-challenged piece is the best the poor now hero-challenged NY Daily News can come up with.

OK.

And Eleanor Clift was laughing yesterday on the McLaughlin Group while Rich Lowry challenged her weird points on Benghazi.

Laughter is not appropriate on the matter, not even for her. I took it as a desperate attempt at distraction.

The truth and exposure are awkward and painful for them.

I see it here.

Only him?

Congress is mulling over a seemingly remote idea to investigate.

From the Wash. Times this am:

“Republicans weigh risks, benefits of select committee on Benghazi”

As if it would have been ok for Boston emergency medical personnel to weigh the risks and benefits of running toward the victims of the bombing.

Can some savvy freeper post that shot of John McClean welcoming his pal to the party?

they also export abortion to Africa.

I dont’ want their dirty money anyway

Geeze, will then quit making my kids stop filling out their test questionnaires claiming their race status so that the Hispanics can get scholarships.

I hope so because it’s impossible to explain to an innocent and logical kid that she’s not an oppressive majority while she’s surrounded by people who tell her she is; teachers, princ’s, text books, videos, books on the Holocaust, slavery, and kids of other races who remind her of that every day, and witnessing the recipients of these race based scholarships hopping into a new Escalade, ignoring all rules of dress code and respect.

Thx.

Anyone have a good contact site. where to find our rep’s contact info?

They seem so elusive, I don’t doubt they don’t like contact, guess I’m jaded.

The GOP.

They need prayers, they’re up against some tough characters with the highest backing money and muscle can purchase.

And they need a flood of communication.

And they need to do not only research, but reexamination of the Constitution and letter of the law and how ethics fall into that; they’ll be dealing with a lot of “it wasn’t illegal”.

And they need gonads, questionable.

I just heard a Two Star describe a recent repatriation mission, where he recovered, along with an honor guard detail, six MIA VN GIs.

Full honors, Time taken for each one.

He and, everyone was a mess (crying)

Salute!

May God rest his soul.

This made me laugh.

I’ll have to pick up a copy for the first time in many, many years, just for support.

Used to look forward to looking at it every Tuesday.

I still have trouble missing the Sunday NYT Crossword.

But it is now, as a family friend, a real-thing Greenwich (CTP) once called it, a muslim rag.

Whatever