A Long Winter's Night
Bensblurb #520 1/20/10
A Long Winter’s Night
Here I was about to dread the rest of this cold winter. I had forgotten we live in exciting times. For instance....
Critical Mass:
“Poor Obama! It's the eve of the anniversary of his inauguration. The State of the Union was supposed to be very grand. And now what? He has been repudiated! He made this election a referendum on the Democrats agenda, and the people of Massachusetts, the most liberal state, gave him a resounding no.”--Ann Althouse
In awe, I listened last night to Scott Brown’s acceptance speech, carried in total on Fox News but nowhere else on commercial TV. He is definitely an up and comer. His expressed political sympathies are Barry Goldwaterish, without the growl. Step aside, Sarah Palin. A star is born.
Mass for the departed:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz believes a victory by Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in Tuesday's special senatorial election in Massachusetts would signal "the end of change as we know it."
"I think it`s just an unbelievable scenario that`s playing out and don`t kid yourselves, folks, this could derail the rest of the Obama agenda for 2010 and beyond," Schultz told his "Ed Show" audience.
"The way the political winds are turning right now is absolutely amazing," he continued.
"If the tea party-endorsed candidate nabs Ted Kennedy`s seat in Massachusetts it`s the end of change as we know it"
--Amen
Politically Correct Army?
Here’s one of my heroes, Bill Bennett, sounding off on the new report, "Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood."
It’s “gutless.“ “It mentions the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ not once. Not once. It refers to Hasan as a ‘gunman.’ As Ralph Peters put it, the report is ‘not about what happened at Fort Hood.’ And ‘It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened.’“You can read that ‘low self-esteem, depression, and anger are tied to many different types of violence’ in the report. You can read about ‘workplace violence’ and ‘disgruntled employees’ in the report. You can read about ‘Motivations for domestic terrorism’ such as ‘animal rights, white supremacy, and religious intolerance’ thrown in on equal par among other factors that simply were not in play here in the report. And you can read the grand conclusion that ‘Religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor; most fundamentalist groups are not violent, and religious-based violence is not confined to members of fundamentalist groups.’“But you would be reading a complete and total whitewash. You'd be reading a lie of a report. But that is what the Pentagon has produced.”
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A Long Winter’s Night
Here I was about to dread the rest of this cold winter. I had forgotten we live in exciting times. For instance....
Critical Mass:
“Poor Obama! It's the eve of the anniversary of his inauguration. The State of the Union was supposed to be very grand. And now what? He has been repudiated! He made this election a referendum on the Democrats agenda, and the people of Massachusetts, the most liberal state, gave him a resounding no.”--Ann Althouse
In awe, I listened last night to Scott Brown’s acceptance speech, carried in total on Fox News but nowhere else on commercial TV. He is definitely an up and comer. His expressed political sympathies are Barry Goldwaterish, without the growl. Step aside, Sarah Palin. A star is born.
Mass for the departed:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz believes a victory by Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in Tuesday's special senatorial election in Massachusetts would signal "the end of change as we know it."
"I think it`s just an unbelievable scenario that`s playing out and don`t kid yourselves, folks, this could derail the rest of the Obama agenda for 2010 and beyond," Schultz told his "Ed Show" audience.
"The way the political winds are turning right now is absolutely amazing," he continued.
"If the tea party-endorsed candidate nabs Ted Kennedy`s seat in Massachusetts it`s the end of change as we know it"
--Amen
Politically Correct Army?
Here’s one of my heroes, Bill Bennett, sounding off on the new report, "Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood."
It’s “gutless.“ “It mentions the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ not once. Not once. It refers to Hasan as a ‘gunman.’ As Ralph Peters put it, the report is ‘not about what happened at Fort Hood.’ And ‘It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened.’“You can read that ‘low self-esteem, depression, and anger are tied to many different types of violence’ in the report. You can read about ‘workplace violence’ and ‘disgruntled employees’ in the report. You can read about ‘Motivations for domestic terrorism’ such as ‘animal rights, white supremacy, and religious intolerance’ thrown in on equal par among other factors that simply were not in play here in the report. And you can read the grand conclusion that ‘Religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor; most fundamentalist groups are not violent, and religious-based violence is not confined to members of fundamentalist groups.’“But you would be reading a complete and total whitewash. You'd be reading a lie of a report. But that is what the Pentagon has produced.”
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
7:26 AM
