You could look it up
I would like to point Bill Kettenhofen to this Washington Post fact check concerning Marco Rubio’s statement, during the debate, that Hillary Clinton ‘got exposed as a liar’ before the Benghazi committee.
Go to www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/30/is-hillary-clinton-a-liar-on-benghazi/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b. This article gives a good time line on what HRC knew and when this information from the intelligence community changed. It even reports that Rubio was on the Senate Intelligence Committee and signed off on the report that found that HRC did not lie to the US people.
From the report, “Intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion.” So it appears that even though Rubio knew that HRC was telling the people the best information available at the time he comes up with false statements so he can look good before the Republican base.
I also encourage you to read the transcript of the hearing. Unless, of course you believe as Mac does, that the lame stream press makes up the news rather than reporting it.
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
Truly grateful
As I read our Record Bee and Lake County News, I am totally overwhelmed by the fund-raising efforts all over and even out of the County. Truly this is a time when many have been affected by this total tragedy to the Cobb Mountain, Hidden Valley and Middletown areas. As children at Terrace Middle School in Lakeport are actively seeking and uncovering relics and treasures from our past, the families of Lake County and many out of county have risen together to unite in raising funds for the stricken families in my area.
I speak as a current resident of Cobb Mountain, truly thankful my home was spared even though the fire was only a mile from me. To see how people have risen to this occasion to raise monies for fire victims, provide grief and loss counseling and recovery efforts regarding the devastating psychological and emotional losses is truly ingratiating.
Thank you, Lord, for my residence and citizenship in this Northern California community. I am truly grateful to be a resident here.
Melissa Bentley, Cobb Mountain
Biblical cause and effect
Allan Carter (R-B 2/12/15) believes that fulfilled Bible prophecy is a result of people being inspired by the written word and then acting accordingly to bring about its fulfillment. Mr. Carter is partially correct. For example, when the king Cyrus the Great saw the Isaiah 44:28 prophecy that originated more than a hundred years before his birth concerning the release of the Judean captives and the restoration of the temple of Jehovah, he felt compelled to fulfill his divinely appointed mission.
However at the other end of the spectrum it is obvious that humans could not have orchestrated the whole spectacular Jesus phenomenon that was outlined in the Old Testament, not to mention the rise and fall of certain world empires, kingdoms, and ancient cities throughout the history that were predicted in Ezekiel 29:15, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 51:37, Nahum 2:10 and Daniel chapters 2 and 7-12.
On another front I am puzzled by Mr. Carter’s line of reasoning. In the secular world Mr. Carter utilizes the concept of cause and effect in his everyday living, but then when it comes to religious issues “cause and effect” is ignored despite the fact that the Bible suggests, in very strong language, that the law of cause and effect should be taken seriously when we are contemplating on whether or not there is a God (Romans 1:18-23 and Matthew 16:1-3)
Bill Kettenhofen, Kelseyville
Our Achilles heel
It’s time our nation faces up to the fact that we have an Achilles heel that needs to be dealt with to lessen the number and need of decades long winless wars. Their cost has become too high in taxpayer funds and, tragically, lives of our fellow citizens lost along with the lifelong injuries sustained by so many.
Our nation must establish a policy that we no longer in the future supports any foreign government that has not separated state and faith based religions in their constitutions. The only reason that has not been done to this date is our total support of Israel, which is a nation that has combined both civil laws and faith based belief’s, and would be affected by this change in our policy.
I have no problem in having a defense treaty with Israel that simply states we will come to their aid if any nation attacks it. But that would be the total of our commitment to them. No longer should we support them with any other aid packages funded with our nation’s hard earned taxpayers funds, unless it is or becomes a nation where civil rights and laws cover all its citizens equally. Too many nations with faith based governments highly disfavor their citizens who are of different persuasions from the dominant established religion.
By doing this, we would also drop most of the Middle East nations who also combine civil law and faith based rules and laws in their constitutions. Those saved funds can be well spent on improving the standards of living in our own nation. Every war that we are in is driven by nations who use faith based laws and beliefs in the daily rulings and laws of their nations. Every single one.
Our political leadership has allowed this for far to long and we need to stop it. The only segment of our nation that benefits from continuing this faulty policy are those corporations and investors who sell and reap the profits from manufacturing goods that are used in supporting unneeded wars.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
