The boss is rubbing off

Thanks to Ann Voskamp

Our nearest galactic neighbor

Thanks to Ann Voskamp

Principal informs students of snow day

Can there be a better way to inform students of a snow day?


Thanks to Ann Voskamp

No quit in this guy

Thanks to Ann Voskamp

He does not want to let go of the memories

He brings his wife of 56 years a daisy and a penny every day. Read the story here.

His best friend does not hesitate

Thanks to Ann Voskamp

Pedophile Island

Have you been following the many articles recently appearing about billionaire and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his V.I.P. friends, including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Alan Dershowitz? An Arkansas blogger has a very detailed article with many links here.




Paradise retreat: Little St James, a private 72-acre island three miles off the east coast of St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin islands owned by America billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
The Daily Mail reports:

Now, lawyers for four of Epstein's alleged victims are fighting to get a federal non-prosecution agreement against Epstein thrown out so he can potentially face criminal charges for allegedly sexually abusing the women, one of whom says she was only 13 at the time of the assault.

Virginia Roberts was one of Epstein's sex slaves. Here is a picture of her with Prince Andrew. In the background is Epsteins's lover Ghislaine Maxwell, friend of Bill Clinton, who is accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein. Roberts has filed a federal lawsuit in Florida against Epstein claiming that

he kept her as a teen “sex slave” and paid her a $15,000 bonus to bed the prince.

Read more here.

This article points out that logs show that Clinton flew on Epstein's private jet at least ten times.

Epstein was jailed for 13 months in 2008 for soliciting girls for underage prostitution.

More than 40 women have come forward claiming he abused them, with most settling out of court.

John Hinderaker writes:

there is a joker in the deck: Epstein is a voyeur, and his various residences were equipped with secret cameras and video recorders. Reportedly the Palm Beach police are in possession of a vast trove of photographs and videos of Epstein’s guests engaging in various acts with his underage girls. Are there any of Bill Clinton that could come tumbling out between now and November 2016? Undoubtedly Hillary has asked Bill that question; I assume he said No. Do you think Hillary can trust Bill to tell the truth about this? No, I don’t either. It’s one more worry to add to Hillary’s list.

Read more here.
Ann Coulter says "this is a really important story" of how elites are circling the wagon to protect a pedophile:

How the Holder Justice Department shuts up a whistleblower

The man pictured above is Jay Dobyns. He is a former ATF agent who infiltrated

Hell's Angels and worked on cases involving the Aryan Brotherhood and MS-13 during his law enforcement career.

Last summer the federal judge pictured above, US Court of Federal Claims Judge Francis Allegra,

awarded Dobyns $173,000 in damages and rebuked the ATF for failing to adequately protect Dobyns and his family.

The controversy began after someone burned down the home of Dobyns. Dobyns claimed the ATF failed to protect his family, but the agency claimed Dobyns burned down his own home, a charge he denied. Dobyns then sued the ATF in U.S. Federal Claims Court for damaging his reputation and retaliation.

That’s when Justice Department lawyers got involved. In the ruling from last month, Allegra found a key witness in the trial said he was threatened by another ATF agent – and that ATF lawyers told the threatened agent not to tell the judge about it.

Judge Allegra angrily accused Justice Department attorneys in newly unsealed documents of "fraud upon the court" by intimidating a witness

“It is atrocious. If they can do this to a highly decorated federal agent, imagine what they can do to the average Joe,” said Vince Cefalu, a former agent who helped expose the Operation Fast and Furious scandal and who successfully sued the ATF for retaliating against him.

The ATF declined to comment on the case. Fox News also asked Attorney General Eric Holder if the lawyers involved had been disciplined. The Department of Justice declined to comment.

Blogger David Codrea, one of the first to discover the unsealed documents, said it shows “a pattern of institutional corruption and arrogance that gets its tone set from the top.”

Read more here.

Some important inventions of the last hundred years

What do you think are the most important inventions of the last hundred years? Seth Godin mentions a few, and why they are important:

Air conditioning--which made it possible to do productive work in any climate

Credit cards--which enabled transactions to take place at a distance

Television--which homogenized 150 world cultures into just a few

Federal Express and container ships--which made the transport of physical goods both dependable and insanely cheap

The internet--which moved information from one end of the world to the other as easily as across the room

Cell phones--which cut the wires.

How have these inventions affected you?

Bush may be the one most hurt by Romney's decision not to run.

Dick Morris gives his take on Romney's announcement that he will not run for the GOP nomination.

At first blush, one would have to assume that former Governor Jeb Bush is the most likely beneficiary of Mitt Romney’s decision to bow out of a race in 2016. But that may not be the case.

Were Romney and Bush both to have run, it would be fair to assume that their combined vote share in the early primaries might approach or even exceed a majority of the voters. The main attention in the race would be focused on the push/pull between the two, leaving little in the way of money, media attention, or available voters to impel one of the other candidates to the first tier.

A tame two way Romney-Bush race was highly predictable. My bet is that Romney would have won by using the immigration issue. Now all bets are off and there is time and room for other candidates to come forward.

Read more here.

Guilty people come forward to confess, but science acquits Brady and Belichick

Jimmy Kimmel has the best late night talk show on t.v.

The New York Times has the scientific research exonerating Brady and Belichickhere.

Brady: "This isn't ISIS'

Katy Perry is the halftime entertainment at Sunday's Super Bowl, but I have heard rumors that they might wheel Richard Sherman's girlfriend out on the field if she gives birth to their baby. Another rumor is that the Patriot's locker room/ball guy might take a bow.

Fred Thompson writes:

At a press conference, Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady downplayed DeflateGate, saying "this isn't ISIS".

True. You can tell because the media's all over this story.

Armenian girl with amazing voice!

Thanks to Maetenloch

If you lose your wallet, make sure you lose it in Helsinki

Researchers did a test of honesty in major cities around the world based on lost wallets.

Sixteen world cities, times twelve wallets. Each wallet containing the equivalent of $50 in local currency, some business cards and family photos, and a mobile phone number. How many wallets are returned?

...First, the good news: none of the cities surveyed brought shame on itself by returning none of the wallets. The bad news: globally, your chances or getting your wallet back are less than half. Of the grand total of 192 wallets sprinkled across malls, parks and sidewalks in those 16 cities, only 90 were returned - not more than 47%.



Thanks to Ace of Spades

Listen for the soft sound of His sandalled feet

Ann Voskamp writes:

Parenting’s this way of bending over in humility to help the scraped child up because you yourself know it takes a lifetime to learn how to walk with Him.

How’s it going? I guess it’s always just about going to Jesus.

I just desperately need the perfect, sinless sacrifice of Jesus Christ who can take all my broken messes and make them into mosaics of Grace.

I just desperately need to come to His table of communion so I can celebrate one ridiculously messy life. Because this is how the dictionary defines a celebrant: “The person who stands at the table of Communion is a celebrant.”

The person who lives in communion with Christ is a celebrant! The one keeping company with Jesus is a celebrant — is the one who gets to always celebrate grace!

A celebrant is one who celebrates the extravagant grace of Christ.

A celebrant is the one keeping her eyes on Jesus and His perfect sacrifice — precisely because she isn’t perfect.

Grace lets those whose messes and wounds are many — simply see Jesus and Him only.

It’s the sinners and the sick, the broken, the discouraged, the wounded and burdened — we are the ones who get to celebrate grace!

Christ invites us to celebrate the full life as the celebrants — not because we’ve got it all together, but because He’s finished it all at the Cross!

The Art of Celebrating Life isn’t about getting it all right — but about receiving all His Grace.

Regardless of the mess of your life, if Christ is Lord of your life — then you are the celebrant out dancing in a pouring rain of grace!

When sin threatens to deafen you — listen for the soft sound of His sandalled feet coming to literally hold you away from the lies that threaten to condemn you.

The only thing you require to get His grace — is that you get that you’re a mess.

Thanks Ann. I really needed your words today.

"Pathologically naive"

That's what one prosecutor said about 19-year-old Coloradan Shannon Maureen Conley. Why? Because she agreed to marry three different people in a matter of months, including a jihadist with the Islamic State. Judge Raymond Moore sentenced her to four years in prison.

Her prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service, in which she has to interact with "ordinary people," Moore said.

He also prohibited her possession of any black powder or explosive materials.

Her attorney

noted that Conley, a convert to Islam, changed her adopted Muslim name from Halima to Amatullah, because she is a different person now. Amatullah means female "servant of Allah." Conley initially took the name Halima after converting to Islam.

But Moore adamantly responded, "She had another name before Halima."

"Don't tell me that changing her name means she gets it. She changes her name like I change my socks," the judge told the defense.

"She's a look-at-me girl," Moore continued.

John Conley reportedly caught his daughter talking to her ISIS "suitor" on Skype. The couple asked for the father's blessing, but he said no.

On April 1, the father called the FBI to report that he had found her ticket for an April 8 flight to Turkey on his desk.

Read more here.

Pinnochio is alive and well

Glenn Kessler writes the Washington Post's Fact Checker column. Kessler gave Obama three pinnochios for this statement Obama made in the State of the Union Address:

“Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material.”

Women of soul come to the White House

Head for higher ground

Christopher Buckley links to this You Tube video of Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger and June Carter. Pete asks Johnny to sing about the Mississippi flood of 1937.