Dick Berkowitz, has written a booklet entitled:"A Conservative Capitalist Offers: Eleven Lessons and a Bonus Lesson for Raising America's Youth Born and Yet To Be Born" Half The Proceeds Go To "The Wounded Warrior Project!"
By Dick Berkowitz - Non Expert
Dick wrote this booklet because he believes a strong country must rest on a solid family unit and that Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" has morphed into "A Confused, Dependent and Compromised Generation."
He hopes this booklet will provide a guide to alter this trend.
You can now order a .pdf version from www.brokerberko.com/book that you can download and read on your computer, or print out if you want. Cost is $5.99
In several weeks the book will be available in soft cover format at a cost of $10.99.
Booklet illustrations were by his oldest granddaughter, Emma Darvick, who lives and works in New York.
Testimonials:
Dick, I read your book this weekend. I hardly know where to start. You did an excellent job of putting into one short book a compendium of the virtues which only a relatively short time ago all Americans believed. It’s a measure of how far we have fallen that many Americans, perhaps a majority of Americans, no longer believe in what we once considered truisms. I think your father would have agreed with every word, but the party he supported no longer has such beliefs.
I would like to buy multiple copies of your booklet..
You did a great job. I know your parents would have been proud and that your family today is proud.
Mike
You wrote a great book. The brevity is one of its strong points and I know it was hard to include that in and still keep it brief. Your father in haste once wrote an overly long letter to our client, then said in the last sentence, “I’m sorry I wrote such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
"Dick, I indeed marvel at how much wisdom you have been able to share with so few words. Not too unlike the experience in reading the Bible. I feel that with each read of "A Conservative Capitalist Offers:…." one will gain additional knowledge and new insights…
Regards, Larry"
Dick ,
Your book is outstanding! Due to illness, I've been unable to read it in entirety until today .Your background is often very similar to mine (e.g. Halliburton's influence was very important in my life), and your thoughts reflect very closely the the teachings that I received from my parents and granddad. I will write a more detailed statement in the near future!
All the best, Bob
Your book is outstanding! Due to illness, I've been unable to read it in entirety until today .Your background is often very similar to mine (e.g. Halliburton's influence was very important in my life), and your thoughts reflect very closely the the teachings that I received from my parents and granddad. I will write a more detailed statement in the near future!
All the best, Bob
Regarding your booklet, I have begun to read it and look forward to finishing it this weekend. Congrats on getting it published and
on the great reviews. I know how much this booklet means to you and how important getting this message out to the public is.
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Dick attended Georgia Military Academy, in Atlanta, graduating in 1950. He attended The Wharton School of Commerce graduating in 1954, served both a stint in the Marine Corps Active reserves and The Army Finance Corps.
Upon completing his tour of service he enrolled in The University of Miami Law School (was an associate editor of The Law Review) graduated in 1960, moved to Atlanta and began his Wall Street career as a stock broker with Courts and Company and became a general partner in 1967. When Courts merged he opened an Atlanta Office for Burnham and Company in 1970 and when Drexel Burnham demised, in 1990, he took the institutional department , he created, to Oppenheimer going into semi-retirement in 2006 (he still manages money for some clients.).
Dick resides with his wife of 40 years - Lynn Rudikoff, At The Landings on Skidaway Island near Savannah.
He has three daughters from a former marriage, a son and daughter with Lynn and 7 grandchildren.
During his working career, Dick was a member of The Board of St John's College for nine years (The Great Books School) served on The President's Commission on White House Fellowships during the elder Bush's Administration, and served on the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Board among many other public activities.
After moving to Savannah in 2003, Dick, began The JEA Speaker Series, continues to serve on the Board of The State of Georgia's Museum (GMOA) located on the campus at Athens, is on the advisory board of Spine and Sport and The Skidaway Island Republican Club. Dick also serves on the investment committee board of the Savannah Jewish Federation.
He recently underwent a knee replacement in the hope that he can continue playing tennis.
Dick also posts to a web page (dick-meom.blogspot.com) on a daily basis focusing on The Middle East, politics and economics.
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I am going to undertake an explanation of how and why, in my humble opinion, the use of the "L" word has become more acceptable in describing and characterizing acts of social and political behaviour. I am not suggesting the use of the "L" word is appropriate just simply why it has become more acceptable.
Finally, in doing so, I might be linking dots both, in a manner, beyond my writing skills and even beyond rational thought and am prepared for the criticism such may evoke.
I begin with Harry Truman's outburst defending his daughter, Margaret, whose singing ability was roundly attacked by a New York Times music critic. Harry called the man an S.O.B and said if he ever met him he would punch him in the nose. Feisty Harry, did not back down to his undying and non-presidential credit. He was a father defending his daughter's challenged skills for which he was roundly berated because he was the President who occupied The Oval Office. That office was still seen and held in an elevated manner.
Then we have Watergate, Nixon's 'lying and cover up' and his forced resignation from that same Oval Office.
Move the clock forward and we have the episode with 'Bill" who denied he 'had sex with that woman' and his refrain that "is, is is." Bill is beloved to this day by many and was recently called upon by Obama to pull his chestnuts out of the fire at the recent Democrat Convention.
Shortly after leaving office in disgrace, a former president, Jimmy Carter, accused a democratic ally, Israel, of being an apartheid nation. Carter's remarks were then sanitized by several Ivy League college professors who have persisted in legitimizing his lie. Furthermore, Carter's overboard claim has been used to delegitimize the State of Israel by many members of the U.N. and most prominently by Middle East dictatorships such as Syria, Iran etc.
Now lets go back in point of time to the O.J. Simpson trial. Johnny Cochran, O.J's lawyer, used his many trial skills and ethnicity to get a mixed racial jury to let O.J. go 'dred scott' free. O.J's actions were incontrovertible but he went free and, I submit, the rule of law was dealt a harsh blow and lying became more acceptable and/or excusable in such racially charged circumstances. The end justifies the means so to speak.
Nor am I suggesting the O.J. trial was the first incident of jury bias or attack on the rule of law. I am simply using it as evidence of a contemporary attack.
Parenthetically, one of my dearest friends, Lamar Dodd, a great regional artist, painted a brown boot that played so prominently as evidence in the trial. Lamar's artistic skills had been impacted by a previous crippling auto injury, heart attacks and strokes but he still caught, on canvas, the symbolic nature of what had occurred. Lamar captured how the O.J.trial served to undercut the rule of law and compelling evidence.
Lamar was clear minded til the day he died. I revered him both as an artist, as a man of God and a very dear friend and I treasure our many decade relationship and the five paintings we own of his.
Moving the clock further forward again, we have the elder Bush telling us to read his lips regarding 'no more taxes' and subsequently breaking his word under pressure from Democrats.
Then we come to his son, GW - vilified for claiming Iraq had WMD and for relying upon flawed intelligence. Obama, however, defends his recent pronouncements, and those in his administration, regarding the film incident and its dreamed up connection with the deaths of our Ambassador and three embassy security personnel as he too claims to have relied upon flawed intelligence. Obama has lied about this but the press and media folks, being wagon circlers and his guardian angels, are unwilling to take him to task so 'veracity' has been left to a Congressional Committee..
As I have repeated time and again: "When all else fails, lower your standards."
I am not justifying or even dignifying the use of the 'L' word to describe current presidential behaviour nor excusing my own use of it when it comes to Obama. I am simply trying, in my halting way, to show how far we have come in allowing occupants of the presidency to either lie and get away with it or to be falsely accused of lying when, in fact, their actions were reviled for partisan reasons.
And now I would like to shift and return to last night's debate. Though I know it is not easy to construct responses of the moment, I submit a few missed 'opportunity responses' by Ryan:
Biden said in the debate: 'war should always be the last resort.' Ryan should have added: 'when appeasement is the first resort it assures war will be inevitable.'
Biden said: 'Iran has no weapon to deliver a nuclear bomb.' Ryan should have reminded him they have IC missiles.
What Iran has not done is actually test a bomb but they have the ability to make one and there is the growing likelihood they might also construct a 'brief case bomb' and transfer it to radical Islamists.
And finally, when Biden persists in ascribing to Romney a $5 trillion tax cut, Ryan should have asked Biden whether he might consider getting a hearing aid. Repetition of a lie does not excuse the act. It only suggests a tactic deemed to be effective and such has become increasingly acceptable in a 'sound bite' world.
You decide!
This from a friend and fellow memo reader: "Note: Isn't it incredulous that the current administration has placed so much " daylight" between the US and Israel? The obvious is glaring yet so many are blinded by it. Say NO TO 4 more years of more of THE SAME..." (See 1 below.)
And more. (See 1a and 1b below.)
A little lying humor! (See 1c below.)
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This from a learned friend, fellow memo reader responding to the Florida article I previously posted and which was sent to me by another friend who embraced the author's rationale: "The article in the Florida “Jewish” Journal only goes to show you the level of masochism, blindness and lack of understanding of so many Jews towards political reality. The author/paper/community would be willing to accept that night is day and day is night if only the incumbent would say so. A junk car is Cadillac and vinegar is honey and Muslims just want peace. While many of the things in the article are factually correct (and some are not) what is missing is context. What is missing is the weakening of the US position in the world, the lack of trust in its resolve and support of allies (not only Israel), and lack of credibility. The love affair with class warfare totally blinds these Jews to the reality of an economic disaster and foreign policy fiasco. They are welcome to buy a used car from him I would not even buy a new one….. (See 2 below.)
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Dick
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1)The Bibi-Biden debate
When it came to Iran, Biden wasn’t debating Paul Ryan on Thursday, but Netanyahu; here’s how that debate went
The much-anticipated vice-presidential debate came and went Thursday, with what appeared to be a collective yawn from the American viewer.
Initial polling indicated the most boring result possible: a tie. CBS showed 56% of uncommitted voters concluding Vice President Joe Biden could make an effective president and 49% saying the same of Ryan. A CNN/ORC poll reported that Ryan narrowly won the debate, with 48% percent of respondents declaring him the winner, compared with 44% favoring Biden on the night.
That may be a good thing for both campaigns. As Gallup noted on Wednesday, vice-presidential debates don’t affect the race. You can’t help your side, but in such a tight race (Romney leads nationally by an average of 0.7% as of Thursday night), you can still presumably do some damage. For this reason, vice presidents are a lot like doctors: their first rule is, “Do no harm.”
So while the party faithful cheered and sneered on Twitter, and media coverage obsessed over Biden’s combativeness and mocking tone as he interrupted his younger challenger 82 times in 90 minutes, Americans either didn’t care enough — or were too turned off by the bickering — to give a decisive victory to either side.
Luckily, another more interesting debate took place on that stage at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, Thursday night: another “empty chair” moment in the campaign, if you will. When the discussion turned to Iran, it was as though Joe Biden was not debating Ryan, but rather Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last month at the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu delivered a cogent argument against “some who claim” that Iran’s nuclear program can be stopped at the bomb-making stage, rather than the prime minister’s preference that the West draw “red lines” at the earlier enrichment stage. On Thursday we learned that “some” of those “who claim” this include Vice President Biden.
What follows is the debate that took place between Biden’s words in Danville Thursday and Netanyahu’s in Manhattan on that sunny September afternoon. Any artistic license is in brackets.
BIDEN: [Bibi! So good to see you! Did you notice that we world leaders call you by your nickname, even in nationally televised debates? I call you Bibi because we’re such good friends, going on 39 years now, a point I mention to highlight that my opponent Ryan here is barely 42.]
[Anyway, about those Iranians. Look, because of our sanctions,] the ayatollah sees his economy being crippled. The ayatollah sees that there are 50 percent fewer exports of oil. He sees the currency going into the tank. He sees the economy going into free fall. And he sees the world for the first time totally united in opposition to him getting a nuclear weapon.
NETANYAHU: [Joe, my good friend, though probably not as good as Romney, I couldn’t agree more, or be more grateful about those sanctions.] Under the leadership of President Obama, the international community has passed some of the strongest sanctions to date… It’s had an effect. Oil exports have been curbed, and the Iranian economy has been hit hard. It’s had an affect on the economy.
But [Joe, buddy,] we must face the truth: Sanctions have not stopped Iran’s nuclear program either. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, during the last year alone, Iran has doubled the number of centrifuges in its underground nuclear facility in Qom.
BIDEN: [Come on, Bibi,] The Israelis and the United States, our military and intelligence communities are absolutely in the same exact place in terms of how close — how close the Iranians are to getting a nuclear weapon. They are a good way away. There is no difference between our view and theirs [er, I mean, yours]…
NETANYAHU: [Joe, you know it’s not that simple. We agree they don’t have a weapon. But] for a country like Iran, it takes many, many years to enrich uranium for a bomb. That requires thousands of centrifuges spinning in tandem in big — very big — industrial plants. Those uranium plants are visible, and they’re still vulnerable.
In contrast… the detonator can be made in a small workshop the size of a classroom. It may be very difficult to find and target that workshop, especially in Iran. That’s a country that’s bigger than France, Germany, Italy and Britain combined. The same is true for the small facility in which they could assemble a warhead or a nuclear device that could be placed in a container ship. Chances are you won’t find that facility either.
So, in fact, the only way that you can credibly prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is to prevent Iran from amassing enough enriched uranium for a bomb.
BIDEN: [I hear that, but] when my friend [I mean Ryan this time, not you, Bibi... I sure have a lot of friends] talks about fissile material, they have to take this highly enriched uranium, get it from 20 percent up, then they have to be able to have something to put it in… Both the Israelis and we will know if they start the process of building a weapon.
NETANYAHU: [Will we? Will we know?] Now, there are some who claim [like you, Joe] that even if Iran completes the enrichment process, even if it crosses that red line that I just drew [on my cartoon bomb], our intelligence agencies will know when and where Iran will make the fuse, assemble the bomb and prepare the warhead.
Look, no one appreciates our intelligence agencies more than the prime minister of Israel. All these leading intelligence agencies are superb, including ours. [And the Benghazi business notwithstanding, yours too, Joe.] They’ve foiled many attacks. They’ve saved many lives.
But they are not foolproof.
For over two years our intelligence agencies didn’t know that Iran was building a huge nuclear-enrichment plant under a mountain. Do we want to risk the security of the world on the assumption that we would find in time a small workshop in a country half the size of Europe?
BIDEN: [What’s your point, Bibi?] All this bluster I keep hearing, all this loose talk, what are they talking about? What more can the president do — stand before the United Nations, tell the whole world, directly communicate to the ayatollah…? We will not let them acquire a nuclear weapon, period, unless he’s talking about going to war.
NETANYAHU: [I’m glad you asked, Joe. I don’t want war.] At this late hour, there’s only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs, and that’s by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
Red lines don’t lead to war. Red lines prevent war. Just look at NATO’s charter. It made clear that an attack on one member country would be considered an attack on all, and NATO’s red line helped keep the peace in Europe for nearly half a century…
Clear red lines have also worked with Iran. Earlier this year, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz. The United States [led by you guys in the White House, in fact] drew a clear red line, and Iran backed off.
Ladies and gentlemen [and Joe], the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant question is: At what stage can we no longer stop Iran from getting the bomb?
BIDEN: [I hear ya, Bibi, but] Let’s all calm down a little bit here. Iran is more isolated today than when we took office. It was on the ascendancy when we took office. It is totally isolated.
MARTHA RADDATZ (Thursday’s moderator, to Biden): You are acting a little bit like they [the Iranians] don’t want one [a nuclear bomb].
BIDEN: Oh, I didn’t say — no, I’m not saying that. But facts matter, Martha. You’re a foreign-policy expert. Facts matter. All this loose talk about them — “All they have to do is get to enrich uranium in a certain amount and they have a weapon” — is not true. Not true… and if we ever have to take action, unlike when we took office, we will have the world behind us, and that matters. That matters.
1a) Biden meltdown burns Obama campaign
VP debate exposes Democrats’ desperation
By Brett Decker
The 2012 presidential election is one of the most momentous crossroads in U.S. history. As Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee, stated in his Thursday debate against Vice President Joe Biden, the outcome on Election Day will determine “what kind of country we are going to give our kids.” Under Obama-administration policies, out-of-control government spending has grown to such an extent that federal debt is now larger than the gross domestic product of the United States, the largest economy in the world. U.S. power and prestige in the world are in such dramatic decline that armed Islamists can overrun an American diplomatic compound, murder a U.S. ambassador and get away with it. On the economic and foreign-policy fronts, our nation is in chaos. The Obama-Biden ticket can’t run on its record of failure so it has moved to a desperate scorched-earth strategy.
Make no mistake about it, Mr. Biden’s obnoxious, smirking, rude behavior on the debate stage was the most disrespectful performance of any presidential or vice-presidential candidate in the history of televised election debates, which goes back to the 1960 contest between then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy. In the end, the arguments and messages of the two candidates this week didn’t matter so much because Mr. Biden suffered an overwhelming loss on the likability scorecard. As Brit Hume of Fox News characterized the match, “It looked like a cranky old man debating a polite young man.”
Out of the gates, it was clear Mr. Ryan had the edge with his solid, policy-based answers to the early questions, which forced Mr. Biden to drop the gloves and play dirty. A count by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus showed that Mr. Biden butted in and interrupted Mr. Ryan 82 times. The incessant smugness, jesting and sneering condescension might have looked like Mr. Biden was an unhinged lunatic coming apart at the seams, but it would be a mistake to conclude the inappropriateness was spontaneous on the vice president’s part. The Biden sideshow was orchestrated by design because the liberal administration knows it has to avoid the issues, especially the sinking economy.
The pressure is on the incumbent Democrats because the election is less than a month away and their campaign is in freefall. After Republican standard-bearer Mitt Romney destroyed President Obama in the Oct. 3 debate, momentum shifted dramatically in the challenger’s favor, with Mr. Romney taking the lead in national polls and jumping ahead or closing the gap in vital swing states. For example, in a Battleground poll released on Monday, Mr. Romney has a massive 16-point lead among independents nationwide. Real Clear Politics has shifted five key states - Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Hampshire - to being a toss-up from leaning Obama a week ago. In must-win Florida, Mr. Romney has taken a commanding 7-point lead, beating out the president with 51 percent compared to 44 percent, according to a survey published Thursday by the Tampa Bay Times, Bay News 9 and the Miami Herald. A month ago, Mr. Obama was up by 1 point in the Sunshine State.
The heat is on for a good reason. When it comes to substance and the issues, the Democrats are in big trouble - which is probably why Mr. Biden felt forced to make statements that were categorically untrue while sitting across the table from Mr. Ryan at Centre College in Danville, Ky., on Thursday night. The biggest prevarication of all centered on White House bungling in Libya that caused the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans when Islamists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. “We weren’t told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there,” the vice president asserted. Both the U.S. State Department under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and military officers who were part of the security team at the Benghazi outpost contradict that whopper.
Scrambling to find a scapegoat, Mr. Biden threw dedicated public servants under the bus and claimed the Obama administration’s stupid line that the Benghazi attack was a response to a YouTube video was the fault of the intelligence community. Left unsaid was that intelligence reports informed the Oval Office within days that the attack was coordinated to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 anniversary and was linked to al Qaeda. He also attacked Republicans for George W. Bush-launched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, blamed U.S. debt on these responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, and claimed he didn’t support the deployments when in fact he voted for resolutions in the Senate to authorize use of force in both conflicts. Whether outright lies or sloppy slips of the lip, Mr. Biden must figure making stuff up has a better chance of winning people over than the truth. He might be right because the truth is, by every measure, America is worse off than four years ago.
Mr. Biden’s total lack of courtesy and dignity didn’t play well in Peoria or anywhere else.
An NBC snapshot poll awarded the Republican congressman with a devastating 20-point victory, 56 percent to 36 percent, over the Democrat veep. Viewer reaction on liberal CNN gave the debate win to Mr. Ryan over Mr. Biden by a 4-point margin, 48 percent to 44. These numbers don’t bode well for Barack. Four years ago, he ran promising to bring change and restore hope. As Mr. Ryan put it, Mr. Obama hasn’t delivered so his 2012 campaign has mobilized to “attack, blame and defame.” It won’t work. Iran is getting closer to obtaining nuclear weapons, federal deficits are topping a trillion dollars every year, and millions of workers can’t find a job. Too many voters are hurting and Joe Biden’s response is to laugh. As Obama-Biden will find out in November, Americans don’t think it’s funny.
1b) Biden Bombed
By Fred Barnes
You don’t win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious. You don’t win by interrupting your opponent time after time after time or by being a blowhard. You don’t win with facial expressions, especially smirks or fake laughs, or by pretending to be utterly exasperated with what your opponent is saying.
That’s why Vice President Joe Biden didn’t win the one and only debate last night with his Republican rival, Mitt Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan.
In fact, though Ryan had several weak moments—one of them was on Syria—the only conceivable takeaway from the veep debate was Biden’s out of control conduct. It will be long remembered—and not favorably.
There’s one person who should be delighted with Biden. That’s Al Gore. He had the honor of having delivered the most over the top and weird performance in a presidential campaign debate when he sighed and frowned and acted frustrated in his first debate with George W. Bush in 2000. Now Biden has taken that crown—or dunce cap—from Gore.
The only good thing about Thursday night’s debate for the Obama campaign was that it involved Biden rather than Obama. As a result, it’s not likely to have any impact in the election and may not even affect the polls over the next few days.
What were the Obama strategists thinking? Yes, Biden’s performance may have pleased the Democratic party’s liberal base. So what? Their votes are in the bag. Obama needs to attract the small bloc of undecided and swing voters. They’re not likely to lurch his way on the basis of the show Biden put on.
No doubt Biden was told to be aggressive. No doubt he was told not to let Ryan get away with anything. No doubt he was told not to let the moderator, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz, restrain him.
But he could have done those things without hurting his cause by acting like a man on uppers. Biden was one of the most popular members of Congress, well liked by Democrats, Republicans, and the press. That Biden wouldn’t have interrupted his opponent to score points or register disgust. That Biden wouldn’t have been disrespectful.
That Biden did well in his 2008 debate with Sarah Palin. I suspect he was on his best behavior out of fear of losing the votes of women if he appeared to bully Palin. So he didn’t. Bullying Ryan may not have been as risky, but it didn’t work either.
There’s a way to disagree with your opponent without acting like a jerk. The most recent example: Romney’s firm but polite disagreements with Obama in their debate last week. One can be assertive but affable, tough but cool. Come to think of it, that was Obama’s style in the entire 2008 presidential race. It worked brilliantly. Biden did the opposite in front of tens of millions of American voters. It didn’t work brilliantly.
1c)In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham , her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent.
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.
To prevent neighbouring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They
were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. And indeed did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates ' drumheads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham , what we have started is being taken over by others."
And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.
Abraham's cousin, Joshua , being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began. And that's the truth..
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 1968 44 years ago Astonishing!
You probably don't remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 42 years ago! Some things never change!
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer – Los Angeles Times 26/5/1968.
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem.
Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.
Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman.
Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.
Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms.
But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.
Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia .
But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him.
The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam , did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.
They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway .
The Jews are alone in the world.
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.
Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally.
We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.
And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us.
Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.
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