Mrs. Clinton, please forgive our suspension of belief

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 Hillary Clinton faints; suffers concussion  "The conspiracy machine on the right has been working overtime postulating that this fall and injury are too convenient to be true. But the truth is a little more prosaic; Clinton was already doubtful for that testimony and while convenient, it's hard to imagine that Hillary would shed much additional light on what happened that day. If she was going to stonewall, then whether she shows up or not is moot.
"As far as Kerry, better at State than Defense which is where there was speculation he would end up. A man who voted against every major weapons system over the last three decades has no business running our military. He will fit in nicely with the striped pants set at the State Department and will be mostly powerless to make policy. "

The school shooter, the aftermath and the consequences

http://comicallyincorrect.com/

Legal Insurrection; Mother recounts terrors of raising genius son with violence-oriented mental illness   "Progressive gun control advocates were clamoring for more liberty-crushing legislation immediately after the slaughter of the young students and teachers at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Meanwhile, others cry “white privilege” because most mass shooting suspects are white.
"Yet, one critically important aspect continues to get lost in the intense press coverage: The failure to develop and implement serious and protective policies that address the needs of both the mentally ill and their potential victims."

Hugh Hewitt: The mainstream media vultures gather  "The rush to assemble a media mob is now expected and the ratings consequences to the networks of ignoring such a horror are no doubt enormous, but the intrusion into the awful grief of the families of the victims is itself sickening."

Neal Boortz: And so here we are smack in the middle of a debate frenzy over gun control --- and who didn’t know this was where this tragedy was going to go as soon as the news started breaking.
"The debate on this one is going to be furious. Obama has been making it clear for quite some time that part of his “fundamental transformation” of America is to go after our guns. This shooting has given him more ammunition than he will probably need. ...And expect outrage if you point out that people actually DO use guns to protect themselves hundreds of times a day." Boortz refers us to the CATO link below.

Shooter's mother reportedly became ´obsessed´ with guns and taught Adam how to shoot, but on Friday in a grim twist he blasted her to death while she laid in her own bed.

From CATO: Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens

Gun Control - Watch What Happens When Guns Are Banned.

Israel has solved its school shooting problems

Michelle Malkin: 6 simple things parents can do in the wake of massacres without government

Michelle Malkin Malkin begins with this at number one:
1. Teach our kids about the acts of heroes in times of crisis.
Tell them about Newtown teacher Vicki Soto’s self-sacrifice and bravery. Tell them about Clackamas mall shopper Nick Meli, a concealed carry permit-holder whose quick action may have prevented additional deaths. Tell them about Family Research Council security guard Leo Johnson, who protected workers from a crazed gunman. Tell them about the heroic men in the Aurora movie theater who gave their lives taking bullets for their loved ones. Tell them about armed Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, who died fighting back against the museum’s nutball attacker. Tell them about armed private citizen Jeanne Assam, who gunned down the New Life Church attacker in Colorado Springs and saved untold lives.
Read the rest here.

Remember all our fuss over Zero Dark Thirty being used to make Obama look good? How about this?

Zero Dark Thirty confounding liberal film critics   "What if Hollywood made a high profile movie that carried an implicit message supporting George W. Bush's War on Terror policies and made Barack Obama look naïve? What if the movie were made by an acclaimed director, and was really, really good?
"Why, you'd have the amusing opportunity to read up on the critical reaction To Kathryn Bigelow's new blockbuster film, Zero Dark Thirty."

aceshowbiz.com

Westboro Baptist Church Says It Will Picket Vigil For Connecticut School Shooting Victims

HuffPo  "The Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial group known for protesting outside funerals of slain U.S. service members, announced that it will picket a vigil for the victims of Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.

"Shirley Phelps-Roper, a spokesperson for the group and, like most members of the organization, a relative of the group's founder, Fred Phelps, announced on Twitter on Saturday the group's plan "to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment."
"It is unclear when the group plans to protest, although a tweet from Margie Phelps implied that it would be during a vigil that will be attended by President Barack Obama on Sunday evening.
"Members of the Westboro Baptist Church say that America is being punished for its acceptance of gays and lesbians. In recent days, Phelps family members have sent tweets about the Connecticut shooting that have said "God sent the shooter." "
It is hard enough for me to fathom one person feeling this way, but to think of him passing these feelings on to an entire congregation is beyond my comprehension.
We become like what we worship; to draw closer to the Jesus revealed in the Scriptures is to become more like Him who was always aware that everything in his life was under the control of the Father (hence the spiritual struggle I have doing this blog). This is part of what the peace of God the angels spoke of at the first Christmas was about. What these Westboro people have learned of Jesus I cannot begin to guess.
(I'll save the subject of drawing closer to Jesus vs. drawing closer to the prophet Mohammed for another discussion). TD

Newtown CT – Idyllic, Horrific, Courageous

Craig Andresen  "I have never been to Newtown Connecticut…Never even heard of it until last Friday.

"In my mind, I can picture it now. I have no idea how accurate my mind’s eye might be but, let me share it with you.
"Last Thursday…
"Newtown Connecticut was the 21st century equivalent to a Norman Rockwell painting.
"It’s mid-December. The colorful leave have fallen, been raked up and taken away but, the sky is a vivid blue.
"Newtown, last Thursday, was a clean small town full of cheer.

...."Robbie Parker also talked about Emilie’s little sisters. “They seem to get the fact that they have somebody they’re going to miss very much.”

"And Robbie Parker spoke of the shooter’s family too… “I can’t imagine how hard this experience must be for you.”

"HE…Can’t imagine how hard it must be for…THEM.

"Healing in Newtown Connecticut is going to take time. There will always be voids that will never be filled but, if Robbie Parker is any indication of the strength of the folk who live there and I believe he is, they will find a way through this…Together."....

mercurynews.com

Are evil people so evil that there is not even compassion for small children?

Let us count a few of the instances where not even the innocence of childhood was sufficient to spare victims  from murderers

Beslan school hostage crisis   "At least 334 hostages were killed as a result of the crisis, including 186 children, with a significant number of people injured and reported missing."

Sharia: The long list of Christian children raped, killed by Muslims  "It's not just that the little Christian girl with Down's Syndrome was beaten (along with her mother) for "blasphemy" under the sharia, or the 12-year-old Christian boy had his ears, nose and intestines gutted as part of the reprisal for an alleged act of blasphemy, it's that this is going on daily, the persecution of non-Muslims under the sharia in Muslim countries, and the media not only says nothing; they defame, smear, and destroy those of us who shine the light on these depraved acts in the cause of Islam."

Father and his two sons, and another girl, killed outside Jewish school   "And he could have taken inspiration from Norwegian right-wing extremist* Anders Behring Breivik - who last July went on a shooting spree that killed 77 people."
*No, not the TEA Party as Pelosi would say.

We need to point this out: American Muslims Mourn Rampage Victims. "“The Muslim Community at the Al Hedaya Islamic Center in Newtown CT and at other area Masajid in Danbury CT...share in the grief of the families of the children in today’s tragedy,” the center said in a statement on its website." We will look for instances of regret from these sources of Muslim-caused violence.

Confessed Fogel family murderer sentenced: unrepentant, says he’d do it again and the killers were praised by other Arab Muslims.

Until the Ma'alot massacre we thought that surely no terrorist would kill children.
At least there was some outrage in America over the massacres of American Indians - precious little but more than we see in Muslim nations over killings by Islamists.

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/12/14/cartoons-tragic-school-shooting/#3

Domino's owner sues feds over ObamaCare

MyFox  "The founder of Domino's Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the new health care law.
"Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception is not health care and instead is a "gravely immoral" practice. He's a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court, along with his Domino's Farms, which runs an office park near Ann Arbor.
"Monaghan offers health insurance that excludes contraception and abortion for employees. The new law requires employers to offer insurance that includes contraception coverage or risk fines. Monaghan says the law violates his constitutional rights, and he's asking a judge to strike down the mandate.
"The government says the contraception mandate benefits women and their role in society. There are similar lawsuits pending across the country."

faithmouse

Krauthammer: The right-to-work dilemma

Charles Krauthammer  "The nostalgics look back to the immediate postwar years when the UAW was all-powerful, the auto companies were highly profitable and the world was flooded with American cars. In that Golden Age, the UAW won wages, benefits and protections that were the envy of the world.

"Today’s angry protesters demand a return to that norm. Except that it was not a norm but a historical anomaly. America, alone among the great industrial powers, emerged unscathed from World War II. Japan was a cinder, Germany rubble and the allies — beginning with Britain and France — an exhausted shell of their former imperial selves.
"For a generation, America had the run of the world. Then the others recovered."....

American gun culture illustrated

Sense of Events  "Funny how in the aftermath of tragic events such as Sandy Hook school Friday, when the Left starts once again to bewail and condemn the "American gun culture," they always zero in on guns and never the culture.
"Well, here's the culture part:

"After the massacre at the high school in Columbine, Colo., in 1999, I told this to my congregation:"

Boston Globe editorialist John Ellis wrote, “Ours is a culture that glorifies violence, profits from it, sells it with the most advanced technology known to mankind. Violence bounces off satellites in outer space and beams into every American home, every hour of every day, every month of every year.”

You have probably heard that the average preschool or elementary school child spends twelve hundred minutes per week watching television and only forty minutes talking with parents. The average teenager spends nine hundred hours in school per year and fifteen hundred hours watching television. These hours do not include the time kids may spend listening to heavy metal or “gangsta” rap, which glorifies killing cops and raping women, or playing computer games both violent and occultic, or watching violent movies on video or in theaters.

According to researchers, during prime time viewing hours, at least fifty people are killed, shot, maimed, or raped on broadcast and cable television. Eight out of ten television producers say there is a link between television violence and real-life violence.

Wrote Ellis, “In the 1980s, evangelical groups tried to lead boycotts against entertainment and media companies that produced and broadcast gratuitously violent fare. Their efforts met with some success at the grass roots and nothing but scorn from media elites. Hollywood’s contempt for public concern about the ceaseless stream of violent media was perfectly captured in a quote from Ted Field, co-founder of Interscope. ‘You can tell the people who want to stop us from releasing controversial rap music one thing,’ said Field: ‘Kiss my ‘[snip].’”

"I will be much more sympathetic to calls for more gun control when those same people are just as adamant about culture control. Sort of like what Glenn Reynolds has said in another context: "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."
"In the meantime, perhaps we should remember that the Left has been working full tilt on culture control all along:"

About.com

UPDATED:

The Blaze   "Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit no matter one’s age. Others found their life’s work in sheltering these little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. After the gunfire ended Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the trail of loss was more than many could bear: 20 children and six adults at the school, the gunman’s mother at home, and the gunman himself.

"According to the authorities, all six adults killed at the school were women.
"Of the 20 children who were shot to death, eight were boys and 12 were girls. All the children were ages 6 or 7."

Here is the complete list:     
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Rachel Davino, 29
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Dawn Hochsprung, 47 (pictured at right)
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56 (pictured below)
Victoria Soto,27
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
"When the shots rang out, school psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56, threw herself into the danger.
"Janet Robinson, the superintendent of Newtown Public Schools, said Sherlach and the school’s principal ran toward the shooter. They lost their own lives, rushing toward him.
"Even as Sherlach neared retirement, her job at Sandy Hook was one she loved. Those who knew her called her a wonderful neighbor, a beautiful person, a dedicated educator"

'Always smiling': Portraits of Conn. victims


In this undated photo provided by Mark Sherlach, Mark Sherlach and his wife, school psychologist Mary Sherlach, pose for a photo. Mary Sherlach was killed Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 children and adults at the school. Photo: Courtesy Of Mark Sherlach / AP

"Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau, 30, teacher;  Lauren Rousseau had spent years working as a substitute teacher and doing other jobs. So she was thrilled when she finally realized her goal this fall to become a full-time teacher at Sandy Hook."....

"Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher A happy soul. A good mother, wife and daughter. Artistic, fun-loving, witty and hardworking.

"Remembering their daughter, Anne Marie Murphy, her parents had no shortage of adjectives to offer Newsday. When news of the shooting broke, Hugh and Alice McGowan waited for word of their daughter as hour by hour ticked by. And then it came.

"Authorities told the couple their daughter was a hero who helped shield some of her students from the rain of bullets. As the grim news arrived, the victim's mother reached for her rosary."....

 

" Nancy Lanza, 52, gunman's mother; She was known before simply for the game nights she hosted and the holiday decorations she put up at her house. Now Nancy Lanza is being called the mother of a killer and his first victim."....

 

 

 

Sandy Hook Shooter’s Mother Not A Teacher At School, He Just Decided To Kill Children…

Weasel Zippers  "Initially it was reported Adam Lanza killed his mother in her classroom at the elementary school, now it turns out she wan’t a teacher or even connected to the school. He killed her at their house, then drove to the school and killed 20 children. Mind blowing."