The Boehner Benghazi Connection - Wild Bill

Did Ambassador Stevens reach out to the Republicans for help before he was murdered? Is that why John Boehner is stonewalling the investigation?

Saturday Night is Bath Night..............

Pic Dump................

Good News..........

H/T Bob C

Teatime Totty................

OH YES!

THE FINAL GEICO COMMERCIAL
Now, where can I find that damn Aflac duck?

H/T Doverthere

France's Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State

France's day of reckoning has arrived: Its wealthy, best and brightest are saying goodbye to a nation they believe doesn't want them to succeed or become affluent.




H/T Politichicks

Ray Stevens - Rayality Webisode 4 "Back at The Encore"

In this webisode of Rayality TV we go back to the Encore Home for Retired Entertainers where Ray meets more of the characters from the home.

Did you know? US economy for the week!...from HAS

This article contains the complete US economic calendar and US treasury auction schedule for the week of April 14, 2014. 

It also includes links to some of the most popular articles from the prior week.

Read at HAS here.

Cartoon Round Up....

News............

Forgetting freedom on Passover by Caroline Glick

"Not Even a Smidgen of Corruption​," Mr. President?

Sen. Sessions: 'Deliberat​e Plan by President' to Collapse U.S. Law Enforcemen​t System

7th Fleet Admits LCS Is Not Suited for Pacific

82nd Airborne Division To Lose Famed ‘Airborne’ Status

Air Marshal director stepping down amid agency gun scheme probe

Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents' decades-ol​d debts

The Untold Story of Kim / Now Available in Paperback

EagleSpeak​: Friday Fun Film: "Hook Down, Wheels Down"

White House: No visa for Iran's UN ambassador pick

Ugly divorce exposes spoils of progressiv​e shakedown racket

Voter Fraud: The Left's Tool For Social Justice

Stephen Halbrook's Masterful History of Nazi Gun Control Measures

Begich Decries ‘Outsiders’ but Enjoys Support from Billionaire Dems

Government Healthcare in Inaction: VA Causes Needless Deaths

Family of Gun Owners Stop Persistent Home Intruder

A police officer was murdered and the Democrat mayor attends the funeral of the criminal instead of the officer

Moonbatter​y » Pencil Peril

'Big E' sailors reunite after 69 years

Bush on Libraries: Size Matters

Measuring Naval Power: Bigger Ain’t Always Better

China Expands Cyber Spying

Media-Suppressed Nevada Case History Shines Truth on Government Ranch invaders

Nevada Showdown Sanity - Wild Bill

The Bundy showdown continues and Sheriff Richard Mack is heading out there. Bill encourages all the pro-Bundy people there to respect the Sheriff's leadership and to listen to what he says.

ZoNATION: Liberals Won? Part Three: It's the Republicans Fault That Democrats Oppress You

This is part 3 of 4 of Zo's examination of a liberal meme that blames conservatives and credits liberals for a list of policies and issues in American history. Zo also points out more of the cowardice of democrats trying to throw people off the scent of their rotten history by trying to switch labels to stigmatize conservatives. Are you going to let democrats twist and paint what conservatism is? Here more in this ZoNation!

Desperate Demagogues Do Desperate Things.............from Dan Friedman

[Rev. Wright, Rev. Sharpton two birds of a feather. If you’re one of those who think we’ve already seen the worst of Obama, just wait what the man has in store for us in the last years of his last term. If liberty-loving Americans don’t take back both Houses of Congress this November, then things will go from bad to worse. df]

 

Obama: Right to vote under threat in the US

     

NEW YORK (AP) — In an unsparing critique of Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday said the GOP is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of the historic 1965 law expanding rights at the ballot box to millions of black Americans and other minorities.

Saturday Totty..............

Disarming the Warriors..................

We are defanging our military. What's more, is that we are taking away their basic human rights to defend themselves, their Second Amendment rights to bear arms in their own self-defense, while asking them to volunteer to defend us. Moreover, we are choosing time and time again to deny them the mental health and veterans' benefits, while giving more money to entitlements for other communities. Meanwhile, shootings on bases have occurred now multiple times, and 22 people in our armed services commit suicide daily. This is unacceptable--hear why in this Afterburner with Bill Whittle.

A quick poll....

Bedtime Totty................

Benghazi Black Friday Teatime Totty...............

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Celebrating Passover and Survival

By Alan Caruba

At sundown on Monday, April 14, Jews around the world will celebrate Passover with the traditional Seder dinner. Passover is about the exodus from Egypt and a reminder that they were slaves until led to freedom by Moses.  Passover is an annual reminder of the survival of Jews and Judaism against extraordinary odds.

Conquered and exiled people in the past often disappeared. As Wikipedia notes, the first appearance of the name “Israel” was an Egyptian inscription dated around 1200 BCE. The term “Land of Israel” is found in the Torah, also called the Old Testament. Around 722 BCE it was conquered as was Judah in 586 BCE. Later, in 165 BCE the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom was established, lasting 99 years and destroyed after the Romans captured Jerusalem in 66 BCE.

Until the State of Israel was reestablished in 1948, a constant Jewish prayer was “Next year in Jerusalem.” When Israel’s independence was declared, it was immediately attacked by five neighboring Arab nations who were to various degrees defeated.

In 1967 Israel was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, but they were again defeated. 1n 1973, the Yom Kippur war took its name from having been attacked on its most holy of days by Syria and Egypt. While other nations are granted the lands they capture in war, particularly a war of defense, Israel continues to be accused of “occupying” them.

Israel has never really enjoyed peace with the nations that surround it and others in the Middle East. These days it is continually under attack from the Palestinians who protest their refugee status, but nothing is ever mentioned of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who became refugees when they were forced to flee from Middle Eastern nations in which many had lived for generations; double the number cited for Palestinians displaced in 1948.

A constant stream of UN resolutions has been directed against Israel. The Palestinians today are demanding recognition as a separate state, but after six decades they have never accepted the right of Israel to exist, insisting instead on its destruction.

These days it is the Christians of the Middle East experiencing the persecution the Jews have always known.

I was thinking about this as I read of the latest failure of the Obama administration to achieve what no previous one accomplished, a state of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Secretary of State, John Kerry, was so desperate for any solution that he floated the notion of freeing the Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, currently serving a life sentence, in exchange for Israel’s acceptance of the transfer of strategic parts of its homeland and acceptance of the return of millions of Palestinian Arab refugees—now the oldest “refugee” group in the world. Even Pollard denounced this.

How eager have the Israelis been to find any grounds for peace? They have repeatedly released Palestinians who engaged in terrorist attacks, many of which resulted in the deaths of Israelis. The latest such release was abandoned as the Palestinian leadership repeated its impossible demands. Unlike Gaza that was abandoned by Israel to provide Palestinian living space and is controlled by Hamas, a terrorist organization, the Arab citizens of Israel enjoy the same rights as their Jewish neighbors, a true democracy that does not exist anywhere in the Middle East where monarchies and despots continue to rule.

The “Arab Spring” was an effort by Egyptians, Libyans, and Tunisians to overthrow their despots. The new, interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The Palestinian groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, have a long history of terrorism as do fascist Islamic groups such as al Qaeda and others.

The Passover Seder is the same dinner as the Christian “last supper” celebrated by Jesus and his apostles. While Jews pray for a messianic age, Christians identify Jesus as their messiah. Ironically, early Muslims prayed facing Jerusalem until the Jewish tribes of their time refused to accept Mohammed as the final prophet of God and were driven from Medina, suffering great slaughter and enslavement.

Islam practices a form of equal opportunity intolerance. It holds all other religions in contempt, but retains a special disdain for Judaism and Christianity.

I doubt that either President Obama or John Kerry know or care about the history I have cited. Despite the fact that Israel is literally the only ally the U.S. has truly had in the Middle East, Obama’s policy has been to withdraw from that region of the world and largely abandon it to the turmoil it is enduring. Their effort to negotiate with Iran ignores its hatred of the U.S. since it took our diplomats hostage in 1979 and its long quest to have its own nuclear weapons with which to impose its hegemony. All of Obama’s efforts regarding the Middle East have met with failure.

In two places, Israel and America, a population of six million Jews in each nation represents the bulk of the world’s Jews. Scattered throughout the rest of the world is the Jewish Diaspora. All suffer open or silent anti-Semitism to some degree. Jews have not engaged in the evangelism of Christianity or Islam, but they have never closed the doors to anyone who has adopted their faith.

From a spiritual point of view their existence and the resurrection of Israel is a miracle. In my lifetime, they have risen like the mythical phoenix from the ashes of the Holocaust in which millions were killed, as were Christians who also perished in Nazi death camps.

I do not know why Jews have been the subject of so much hatred over thousands of years. Some of it can be attributed to the competition of the religions whose roots began in Judaism; Christianity and to a lesser degree, Islam. Some of it has to be an irrational belief that Jews are different from the rest of humanity, but they are not.

They are a people who have survived based on their belief in a universal God of all mankind, the laws He set forth, and in their history as recorded in the Old Testament and since.

“Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel. And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him…And all the people answered together and said: ‘All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.’”  Exodus, 19.

The holy nation endures.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

NewsBusted 4/11/14

Cartoon Round Up....

News...........

White House pay gap twice as large as pay gap in the District of Columbia

The week of the whining womin

Capt. Kirk: Christenin​g of stealthy USS Zumwalt honors admiral's legacy

L-159 Sale to Iraq May Fail for Several Reasons

Harvard study: Your share of the federal debt is $106,000

W​est Virginia Prosecutor​s Prove Once Again Why Individual​s SHOULD be Permitted to Sue the State for Malicious Prosecutio​n

Divorce Beltway Style: The Democratic breakup that exposes Washington’s rotten core

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' kicked off movie magic in Lower Alabama


HHS Secretary Sebelius Resigns

Video || Shoe Thrown at Hillary

Dangerous Neighborhoods: U.S.-Japan Naval Cooperation

Martin Indyk: A Man as Crooked as His Smile....................from Dan Friedman

[In case you’re wondering, yes, Indyk is a Jew. He has played the role of Judenrat for both Clinton and Obama. His footnote in history will read “a garden-variety peace process loser.” df]

Washington Free Beacon, April 10, 2014

Inside the White House’s Secret Campaign to Scapegoat Israel

Top diplomats planted anti-Israel reports in lead up to peace talk collapse

 

Are these 10-year EU sovereign debt yields sustainable?...from HAS

As the charts in this article show the improvement over the past two years in the 10-year sovereign debt yields for some of the EU's weakest economies has been nothing short of spectacular .

The question then becomes whether they are sustainable?

Read at HAS here.

Nothing To Sneeze At

Red Friday Totty.............