Chills and Thrills and Spills

Ten Years After
The last time the differences among intelligence agencies came into such sharp relief was 10 years ago this spring, when the Bush administration sought to explain why it had dismissed the dissenting opinions of parts of the intelligence community over Iraq’s nonconventional weapons. (NYT, 4/12/2013)

This on differing assessments of North Korean capabilities by U.S. intelligence agencies. So let's see, Obama will ultimately have to make national security decisions based on conflicting data. 

Just like Bush did! 

We'll see if the New York Times and others in the Legitimate Media then spend the next ten years examining 'why Obama dismissed dissenting opinions.'


Moments
Advocates for better mental health services said that many of them were initially uneasy about seizing on an event as tragic as the Connecticut school shootings to win improvements in care. And many have noted that very few violent crimes are committed by mentally ill people. But they came to believe that the current time was the best opportunity for real change, and that they might not get another one for a while.

“This is our moment,” said Linda Rosenberg, the president of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. “I hate the connection between gun violence and the need for better mental health care, but sometimes you have to take what you can get.” (NYT, 4/12/2013)

Let's review this strange excerpt.

"...uneasy about seizing on an event as tragic as the Connecticut shootings to win improvements in care." 

• Gun control advocates obviously have no such qualms about seizing on Newtown to push an agenda. 

"...very few violent crimes are committed by mentally ill people."

• Well that may be true, but EVERY mass killing IS committed by a mentally ill person!

"I hate the connection between gun violence and the need for better mental health care..."

• Rosenberg may hate it, but she better admit it or there is no doubt that some town will eventually be dealing with another massacre. Liberals apparently do not want to stigmatize the mentally ill, they would rather stigmatize law-abiding gun owners. 

Goofball VEEP Biden was asked about mental illness and gun violence in a roundtable discussion on MSNBC this week. He replied by describing the administration's plan to provide funding to map the human brain. Yeah, that will solve the problem.

We will end the discussion with Coulter:

If liberals had a decent argument for taking guns away from the law-abiding while doing nothing to prevent schizophrenics from getting guns, they'd make it. Manifestly, they don't, so they send out victims to make the argument for them, knowing no one will argue with a person whose child has just been murdered. 

This allows liberals to act as if Republicans' only counter-argument to their idiotic gun control proposals is: We don't mind dead children.  (Ann Coulter, 4/10/2013)


Complexities
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.”

Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this week by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who groused that "no one fully anticipated” all the complexities of the federal government's deep penetration into an industry that represents one-fifth of the U.S. economy.  (Breitbart.com, 4/12/2013)

We have been out of town. Did they really say this?