Benghazi is a conspiracy to get Hillary Clinton elected president

The true meaning is at last revealed. I watched bits and pieces of Clinton’s hearing yesterday, and it all became clear.

Years ago, undercover operatives within the Republican party exploited a tragic, deadly attack in Libya. They stirred up some of the dumbest people in the party with a story: Benghazi is in a foreign country, and everyone knows that the Secretary of State is in charge of the foreigns, and so master manipulator Hillary Clinton must have done sumfin’ to rile up the brown people. And then all the dumb people started howling “Benghazi!”, further derailing their party, and getting the people who howled loudest into prominent positions, and sucking up millions of dollars for an “investigation”.

And then they put a guy with a funny name and an even goofier haircut in charge of the whole thing, and every third-rate sour, bitter Republican they could on the committee, and they staged a show trial in which posturing clowns asked stupid questions and Hillary Clinton could demonstrate god-like patience and look like the only grown-up in Washington DC.

It was brilliant. The Republicans look like twits, while Hillary Clinton looked presidential. It was the Kennedy-Nixon debate all over again, with Clinton as the telegenic, good-looking one, and the entire Republican party looking thuggish.

I heard the siren song. I found myself thinking that maybe I should vote for Clinton, too — never mind that Sanders is closer to me politically, man, I could picture President Hillary Clinton so easily.

And in case you missed it all, here is a most accurately abbreviated transcription of the whole thing.

What modern weapons do

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Here is a photo essay of the inside of the MSF hospital in Kunduz that was attacked by US air power. The destruction is chilling.

It’s horrible that this devastation and death was wrought on a hospital, but we need to keep in mind that this is what follows every time our military decides that a point on the map needs to be obliterated. This is the wreckage we leave behind with every mad venture we engage.

We just don’t see the detailed images of the ruined lives and buildings afterwards.

The Democrats are easy, at least

I watched the Democratic debate tonight, sort of. I wasn’t paying close attention, but here are my impressions, anyway, ranked in my order of preference.

5. Chaffee: why is this guy even here? Muddled and goofy.

4. Webb: Beetle-browed bellicose buffoon.

3. O’Malley: Meh. Not awful, not very interesting.

2. Clinton: The confident moderate. Will probably win. Don’t expect much change.

1. Sanders: The revolutionary. Would shake things up, if he had a cooperative congress…otherwise, nothin’.

Just send 5, 4, and 3 home — I can’t imagine them making a decent showing in a debate with the blustering clowns in the Republican party.

You probably have a different impression.

The untenable situation of guns in America

In South Carolina, a two-year-old found a gun in his car and shot his grandmother.

Bollinger noted that investigators had already determined that the child was not in a car seat at the time of the shooting, enabling him to reach the .357 that was hanging in a pouch on the back of the passenger seat.

“We’re still trying to figure out how the child pulled the trigger,” he said. “We’re encouraging folks as always, keep your weapons secured, especially around small children.”

I have to ask…why did this person need or want a deadly weapon hanging off of their car seat while they were running routine errands? Did it make them feel more safe than putting their child in a car seat, because that also seems irresponsible and dangerous?

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Nimrud, Hollywood, all the same

I saw this silly comparison somewhere.

radical

Radical Islamists are destroying irreplaceable artifacts that are thousands of years old. This is deplorable and disgraceful.

Those secular “radicals” are asking that we not regard a movie promo from 1956 — that’s right, most of these monuments were sent out to advertise a movie by Cecil B. DeMille — as appropriate civic displays, and are asking that they be removed from courthouses and moved to private places, like churches.

Where the congregation can more appropriately continue their worship of Cecil, capitalism, and the era they regard as the high water mark of American culture.

Where’s the revolution when you need one?

Unbelievable.

I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.

Ben Carson

But he has Rupert Murdoch’s support!


Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else.

What it takes to become rich and powerful: a complete absence of empathy and morality. We are ruled by psychopaths.