Just in time for Halloween, little Eddy Munster becomes House Speaker. He demands that he has to have more time with his family then with the House.  The former Speaker will now get to spend more time with his bar tender. 

If you are going to post a blog with a picture of Søren Kierkegaard on top, you are probably going to have some jerk eventually post a quote of his regarding the tyranny of the sanctimonious:

Only the person himself understands that he is guilty. The person who does not understand it this way still misunderstands; and the person who does understand it will find the harsh or gentle or quickly sympathizing explanation, according to what he has deserved. … And you, my listener, you of course know that earnestness is to be alone before the Holy One, whether it is the world’s applause that is shut out or whether it is the world’s accusation that withdraws. Did the woman who was a sinner feel her guilt more deeply when the scribes were accusing her than when there was no accuser anymore and she stood alone before the Lord! But you also realize that the most dangerously deceived person is the one who is self-deceived, that the most dangerous condition is that of the one who is deceived by much knowledge, and, furthermore, that it is a lamentable weakness to have one’s consolation in another’s light-mindedness, but it is also a lamentable weakness to have one’s terror from another’s heavy-mindedness. Leave it solely to God-after all, he knows best how to take care of everything for one who becomes alone by seeking him.

Three Discourses On Imagined Occasions, Søren Kierkegaard, June 17, 1844, Hong 1993, p. 35-36

You see, I headed the problem off before things got ugly.

Someone of our useless teevee media should tell dementia Ben the Soviet Army Navy and Air Force suffered nearly 30 million casualties in WW2, and they had tanks, rocket and conventional artillery as well as combat aircraft and ships and submarines.  That is military age mostly males, and the entire world population of Jews was less than half that number.  More guns would not have prevented the Holocaust.

Dr. Carson objects to abortion, which is fine as his personal moral position. He equates abortion to slavery. Carson notes that in slavery, a slave was forced to do what the slave owner desired. Slave women were reduced to breeding machines. If the slave master wanted a woman to have a child by a male slave chosen by the master or have a child of the master himself (also known as conception by rape), the woman had the child. Slave women had no control over their bodies. Dr. Carson wants to return to the good old days of slavery by restricting a woman's control over her body. Abortion is not like slavery, not having access to abortion is a return to the condition faced by female slaves.

I was unaware of Huckabee's inability to realize that the radio show host was sanctioning slavery, but his response is not surprising. Huckabee is part of a segment of Christians who believe that there is no longer any racism. Black problems are the result of black's failing as Christians. Huckabee believes that the country does not have a "skin problem, we have a sin problem."

Huckabee had an online ad containing the same message

We don’t have a skin problem in America, we have a sin problem in America. That is the root and the heart and the cause of racial strife and it cannot be reconciled by the government stepping in and making pronouncements. There is a prescription…2nd Chronicles 7:14….’If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways’ – those are the conditions – then He says ‘He will hear from Heaven, He will forgive our sins, and He will heal our land.’ I think people forget God will heal this land, but He won’t do it if we don’t meet the conditions for Him to heal it.

Bernie Sanders heard this same phrase from, David Nasser,  Liberty University's campus.