This carol is perhaps my favorite Advent hymn – there are so may wonderful choral versions of it. This one’s particularly enjoyable:
Lyrics
This carol is perhaps my favorite Advent hymn – there are so may wonderful choral versions of it. This one’s particularly enjoyable:
Lyrics
Yesterday’s massacre, the worst school shooting in Connecticut’s history, is a somber reminder of how fleeting life can be and how vulnerable we all are to senseless evil. This fiend was certainly evil to have been able to do such a thing, but as Ace points out - also pathetic. It was likely his pathetic inadequacies that inspired his evil and that should be conspicuously noted because that’s not how murderous psychos like him want to be remembered. He wasn’t a powerful dark force who went down in a blaze of glory – he was a loser and a coward who managed to slaughter a roomful of defenseless toddlers.
ABC News: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Why Did Adam Lanza Snap?
A child describes how a teacher pulled him into a classroom as bullets whizzed by his head:
Never ones to let a crisis go to waste, lefties immediately politicized the tragedy – before the bodies were even cold….
Twitchy: Anti-gun vulture Michael Moore swoops in, says NRA hates freedom, wants children dead
John Hayward, Human Events: “If I might make a suggestion to everyone trying to politicize this event: there are a lot of innocent people dead right now, a lot of families suffering unspeakable pain and grief, who should know that we’re all thinking of them right now, not trying to fit them like puzzle pieces into arguments that we’ve been having with each other for decades.”
A little pick-me up via Buzzfeed: 26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year:
Sometimes you need a reminder that people can do wonderful things.
Via Oversight and Reform: SEC & the JOBS Act: Just Do Your Job:
Why has outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro blocked a bipartisan law to make it easier for American entrepreneurs, innovators and small businesses to access capital? It’s not pretty: private emails show Shapiro has delayed action on the bipartisan JOBS Act “crowdfunding” reform because she is concerned about her legacy…and, sadly, worried about what a liberal lobbyist things of her. Meanwhile, the economy – and this bipartisan, common-sense, pro-jobs plan – remain stuck. What’s more important to Shapiro and the SEC: her selfish legacy or the American job creators crying out for capital to grow and hire?
Lee Doren: Hank Johnson FAIL!! M-Word?!:
PJTV: A Debt that Will Live In Infamy: America’s Ticking Debt Bomb:
Is the growing federal debt a looming attack similar to Pearl Harbor? Will Obamanomics lead to the empowerment of the rich and poor, at the expense of the middle class? Find out on this Trifecta.
Whittle: “I no longer see a pathway where the ruination of this nation can be attributed to incompetence or even rank stupidity. There’s no other explanation left to me now that it’s not a deliberate attempt to destroy this economy…”
How we’re all feeling about the horrific Connecticut school shooting set to music:
Beethoven, Symphony No 7, II Karajan, Berliner Phil:
Mozart – Requiem:
Congressman Jason Chaffetz went on the Greta Van Susteren Show, last night with his complaint that the State Department is shielding Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, from media exposure and congressional inquiry.
As was reported by Breitbart’s Big Peace, “many people forget that there were Americans who survived the Benghazi attack, some of whom were badly injured and are still recovering.”
“My understanding is that we still have some people in the hospital. I’d like to visit with them and wish them nothing but the best but the State Department has seen it unfit for me to know who those people are—or even how many there are,” Rep. Chaffetz said. “I don’t know who they are. I don’t know where they live. I don’t know what state they’re from. I don’t even know how many there are. It doesn’t seem right to me.”
John Lilyea of This Ain’t Hell reported:
I’ve said before that I know someone who is stationed at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany and was in the operation room when casualties from the attack on the consulate in Benghazi arrived there from Libya. This person told me that there were more than 30 casualties that day and the staff at the hospital was pretty busy.
As Chaffetz told Greta, “it’s typical when have people killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and whatnot, their names maybe are held for 48 hours, but we don’t know how many there are, we don’t know what states their from, we don’t know who these families are, and we would like to talk to them.”
Memo to the MSM: Yep, since Fox and the conservative media is covering this story – you’re off the hook – it’s obviously not a legitimate story – carry on with your coverage of Ann Hathaway’s “devastating” panty-less upskirt scandal.
Well they WOULD have it covered if conservatives weren’t constantly jumping in, politicizing stuff, making mountains out of molehills, and generally mucking things up with their silly, obnoxious conservative spin.
Washington Post blogger, Erik Wemple explains why the media was justified in embargoing the Steven Crowder story:
… if folks are truly scandalized by the lack of generalized media outrage about Crowder’s treatment, they should take a second look at Crowder’s actions. Though he appears to have carried himself nobly while under attack, he’s gone buffoonish since then. He said on Twitter yesterday that this is “getting fun.” He challenged his assailant to a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight. And he has generally sounded as if he’s enjoying this boost to his career prospects, in a way that his Halloween-candy-exposes-the-fraud-of-income-redistribution stunt did not.Given how Crowder has carried on, I, too, may well pass on the story of his beating, were I a network executive producer.
Of course, this is a standard applied only to conservatives – as Ace notes, Sandra Fluke also “engaged in a great deal of partisan political agitation with a strong component of self-promotion (hiring a PR firm, for example!)”
The media offered the same excuse for not covering Benghazi– Oh, we wanted to cover Benghazi, and would have covered it, but then Mitt Romney tried to raise it as an issue for us to cover, so we couldn’t of course cover it.
It’s important to note, here, that the conservative media did jump in right away and vigorously covered the Benghazi story, which had all the earmarks of a scandal, right from the beginning. The MSM used to be good at sniffing out scandals. But when there’s a hotly contested presidential race to win, and their Precious could be hurt by their reportage – not so much…
Ace continues…
Liberal sort of logic here, eh? If a conservative wants a genuinely newsworthy story covered (as Wemple admits this is, before these defend-the-media paragraphs), then the liberal media is required to shut that conservative out. The story becomes non-coverable simply because an important actor in it — a conservative — wishes it to be covered.
What liberals really want is for us to go back to the days before talk radio, and cable news, when their monopoly on the news business was complete. The choice for conservatives apparently is to either shut up and wait for them to cover important stories (like Benghazi, or Fast and Furious) on their own (which presumably they’d do with the conservative media out of the way) – or we continue to shine a light on the stories we know they would embargo no matter what we did.
Because it’s not about us, at all. It’s about THEM and their need to spin stories that are helpful to their side, and ignore the ones that aren’t.
So cut the crap, Wemple.
Linked by Doug Ross, thanks!