How Convenient for Hillary Clinton To Have A Concussion When She's About To Testify

How convenient.  Hillary Clinton was scheduled to speak before Congress this week about the events that transpired in Benghazi, Lybia.  Now she is unable as she states she sustained head injury after fainting at home due to severe dehydration brought on by stomach virus.  Here is the kicker, she was never hospitalized! Don't you think they'd run tests for someone who is fifth in line of succession to the Presidency?
Here is the story:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion after becoming dehydrated and fainting, and will no longer testify Thursday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton had been suffering from a stomach virus at the time, according to a statement on Saturday from Philippe Reines, deputy assistant secretary of state.

She is being monitored by doctors and is recovering at home. She was never hospitalized, Reines said.

"At their recommendation, she will continue to work from home next week, staying in regular contact with Department and other officials. She is looking forward to being back in the office soon," Reines said.

A senior State Department official added that the fainting occurred earlier in the week and the concussion was "not severe."

Source: Obama to tap Kerry to be secretary of state

Secretary Clinton had been scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Thursday about the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, in September that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.

Jodi Seth, spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, said in a statement that Clinton would not testify before that committee Thursday.

"Secretary Clinton's team contacted Senator Kerry this morning to inform them of the Secretary's concussion. Senator Kerry was relieved to hear that the Secretary is on the mend, but he insisted that given her condition, she could not and should not appear on Thursday as previously planned, and that the nation's best interests are served by the report and hearings proceeding as scheduled with senior officials appearing in her place," Seth said.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement it was "unfortunate" Clinton would not be testifying before her committee either on Thursday.

William Burns and Thomas Nides, both Deputy Secretaries of State, will testify before that committee instead.

"Although I respect Bill and Tom, we still don't have information from the Obama administration on what went so tragically wrong in Benghazi," Ros-Lehtinen said. "We have been combing classified and unclassified documents and have tough questions about State Department threat assessments and decision-making on Benghazi. This requires a public appearance by the Secretary of State herself."

The September 11, 2012, attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, and called into question the security of U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad.

Civilian With A Concealed Weapons Permit Stopped Portland Mall Shooter

PORTLAND -- Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.

"I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, 'are you serious?,'" he said.

The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.

"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."

The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.

Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."

The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.

"I don't ever want to see anyone that way ever," said Meli. "It just bothers me."

Gun Control Wouldn't Have Stopped the School and Mall Shooters

 

Domino's founder Tom Monaghan sues feds over new health care law

No business owner or religious institution should be forced to offer health care that goes against their beliefs.

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 in Ann Arbor Township

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.

Congressman That Thought Guam Would Tip Over: I AM SORRY FOR MIDGETS

Rep. Hank Johnson took to the House floor Thursday to apologize for calling what he terms “abnormally small people” “midgets.” Here’s what he said Wednesday night in the House.

“If you put a midget against a giant, he won’t win. They are in entirely different weight classes [in cage-match fighting]. But if you put 30 midgets in with that giant, they just might win [collectively].” -Hank Johnson (~8:00PM ET, 12/12/12, House of Representatives General Speeches)

Johnson used what he now calls the “m word” in that metaphor. This metaphorical fight thankfully did not threaten to capsize the island of Guam. But it did deliver comedy gold as Johnson substituted the “m word” for something he thinks is better: “abnormal.”

The transcript of Johnson’s apology reads like a clever sketch lampooning Democrats and political rhetoric generally.

Johnson: When we say little people, I’m not talking about the Helmsley little people; I’m not talking about the 47%; I’m not talking about the takers instead of the makers as some would describe them; I’m not talking about the middle class, working people, poor people, working poor people — that’s not what is meant by the little people term. It really refers to a medical condition, dwarfism is the name of that medical condition, and sometimes I guess one can even say abnormally small people, abnormally small people which to me is — I like that term better than dwarfism.

And it gets even more surreal when Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) condescendingly pats Johnson on the head for his apology.

Schakowsky: People understand that there are those who are deeply offended by it and that we should all learn what not to say so as to defend, uh, offend people.

From there, Johnson went on to promote a web site about “abnormally small people, or little people, or unusually small people.” Johnson went on to defend his original analogy, then altered it to a story about little fish having to learn to get along with bigger fish or they will get eaten, before launching into a tirade against the legislative group ALEC.
So…it’s the fault of smaller fish when they get devoured by tiger sharks, because they never learned to get along with them. Noted.

Stunning fact: Hank Johnson was a judge, for 10 years, before being elected to represent Georgia’s 4th Congressional District.

Gun Saves 63 Year Old Cancer Patient From Home Intruders

LAKETON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -

 

A West Michigan man who was held at gunpoint by a 63-year-old cancer patient during a home invasion has been sentenced to a year in jail.

 

Alex Dickerson, 26, also was given two years' probation earlier this week and ordered to pay court costs reports MLive.com.

 

A second man, 27-year-old James Polk, is to be sentenced Monday in Muskegon County Circuit Court.

 

They had pleaded guilty to home invasion.

 

They were arrested Sept. 20 after breaking into Dixon Smith's Laketon Township home, about 35 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.

 

Smith has stage 4 lymphoma which is in remission.

 

He previously said he confronted the two suspects just after the duo climbed the stairs to the second floor of his rural home.

 

Smith and police say one of the suspects picked the front door lock.

 

It's Not The Amount Of Guns, It's The Lack Of Respect For God

What has changed? The number of guns has not increased, yet over the last few months there have been more mass shootings then before. It is not the weapons it is the moral decay of society. Life does not mean anything anymore. The fact that we have taken God out of schools and our lives is the result. The fact that its ok to be naked and have sex in public yet to say the pledge or pray to God is taboo. We are living in a bizzare world now. Already the left is complaining and wanting gun control starting with liberal nut job Piers Morgan who just posted that guns must be taken away. We do not need guns taken away we need God back in our lives!

 

27 Dead Including Children: Shooting At Elementary School in Newton Conneticut

 

UPDATED: 1:30PM EST: Four weapons, and two shooters involved in the murder of 27 people of which includes 18 children. The first shooter is believe to be dead, while CBS news has reported that a second shooter was just taken into custody

UPDATED 1:2OPM EST : At least 27 people are dead including 12 children in a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, sources tell FOX 5 News. State and local police have descended on Sandy Hook Elementary School. The gunman is among the dead. He is the father of a student, reports FOX News. Many of the victims were rushed to Danbury Hospital.

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