The Gadfly Bouncing Off The Wall

Get A Life: The Israeli journalists (and others) who find offense at a photograph of the president of the United States at his desk with his feet propped up (and thus showing the soles of his shoes) need to get a life. In some cultures, it is an insult to show your soles; in America, it is not. In some circles, it appears, a casual photo is taken as a deliberate statement of your philosophy. To those with nothing better to do, it seems, railing about imagined slights furthers whatever your cause might be. Barack Obama can be faulted for many things; being photographed on the phone deep in conversation with the soles of his shoes showing is not among them.

Absurd: A nutcase walks into the Holocaust Museum in Washington with a rifle and kills a guard. Now, the anti-gun moonbats are wailing the act clearly shows the need for tougher gun laws, especially in the District of Columbia. Let's see if I get this: The shooter violated, oh, probably four or five laws. And a new law would have stopped him? It's a knee-jerk reaction, typical of the lightweights, the belief that a new law aimed at the law-abiding will somehow magically correct the actions of the law-breaker. It is asbsurd.

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