Another Turning for Congressional Democrats?

Interesting things are happening; not all of them bad, by any stretch of the imagination.  Been preoccupied, will continue to be preoccupied, and really shouldn't be wasting too much time in recreational activities, blogging included.

Nevertheless ...

Now the Congressional Democrats are wringing their hands over the question of whether or not to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming address to Congress.  Boehner invited Netanyahu to address Congress, a prerogative, so says the White House, reserved for the Executive Branch and not the Legislative Branch.  And now, Obama is applying some no-so-veiled pressure to the Democrats in either chamber to absent themselves from Netanyahu's address.

It certainly is their right to do so.  But, pray tell, how many of those congresscritters who now are entertaining even the slightest suggestion of a thought to do so were questioning the propriety of NYPD rank-and-file's turning of their backs upon New York City's Commissar de Blasio during the funerals of slain NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu?

Turning on Blaz was labeled as disrespectful; on Netanyahu, not so much.

British Plans Gang Agley in Benghazi

This one here is now making the e-mail rounds: Libyans desecrating the British Benghazi War Cemetery in Libya, as an exemplar of why we shouldn't help Arab countries. And I agree that the video makes crystal clear as to what to expect from the Arab nations. The video speaks for itself. It needs to go viral!

But I also note that several Scottish regiments are represented amongst the burials in that cemetery, including the Black Watch, the Gordon Highlanders, the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders and the Scots Guards. And additionally, there are many a Scottish name to be found amongst the listings from British Army regiments which are not distinctly Scottish.

I cannot help but wonder whether, in the cosmic scheme of karma, there might be some sort of payback element for the Scottish Ministry of Justice's release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the so-called Lockerbie Bomber.