I forget their order but;
1) Pertained to a non surgical , quick, circumcision procedure which is saving lives in Africa because a circumcised male is less likely to give AIDS. The device is amazing, is painless, bloodless, takes a few seconds and can be administered after a short training session. Just amazing.
2) The Israeli scientist who is making strides in levitation demonstrated his recent accomplishments.
Having just AMTRACKed back from DC , and bullet trained in Japan I can attest to the speed and smoothness of such.
3)An American paraplegic told us about his hunting accident and demonstrated, on stage, how he can now walk because the Israeli scientist invented an automated system. The scientist is a quadriplegic, wheeled himself out onstage and told us he too expects to walk shortly after he completes further work on his new device.
4) The final Israeli technological breakthrough dealt with restoring sight. Israeli scientists now have perfected a system that provides the sightless with the ability to distinguish objects and make the proper selection. The shapes are touched and then waves are sent to the brain and I believe sound is created which then allows the sightless to distinguish shapes.
I have described it poorly and probably not even correctly, but two successful demonstrations occurred before my own eyes.
All of this from a nation the size of Rhode Island whose people seek nothing but peace from radical neighbors who want to destroy them for no other reason than hatred.
This hatred is coming to America and is already here.
Lynn went to a break out session with Dr.Steven Emerson, an investigative journalist and author specializing in terrorism, national security and Islamic extremism.
He warned the audience before his presentation they would need a Valium.
One in the audience had two questions after Emerson finished and the first was 'where do I get that Valium!'
Stay tuned.
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From a friend and fellow memo reader: "This is a worthwhile watch…..and good satire.
This is a satirical repeat that I posted last year but is refreshing!
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Obama is in deep doo doo with Michelle for shutting kids out of the White House. This is tantamount to telling them 'to eat cake.' As you know she wants kids to eat their greens.
The consequence is she is thinking about throwing his majesty out on his ear. The Secret Service are alarmed because they protect both her highness and the messiah.
She has also threatened to sequester his golf clubs.
Even his two daughters no longer are breakfasting with their father and refuse his kisses. The family pooch just bit him.
He has retired to the Oval Office and is sleeping on the couch.
To make matters worse, the illegal criminals Obama released from jail are coming to the White House seeking employment and this will only complicate the unemployment figures.
It just does not pay to lie and stick it to the American people because they eventually get it and often are clever enough to figure it out as they seem to be doing.
When you diss kids and cause them to stay home rather than travel so their folks can get some relief you might create a backlash effect. But then since most everyone is now divorced and kids are only raised by one parent you create problems mostly for mothers. Ah, but is that not the equivalent of war on women? Boy this sequester joke just gets trickier and trickier for Obama. Maybe he better come clean and explain he has been lying all along about its effect..
To make matters worse, the illegal criminals Obama released from jail are coming to the White House seeking employment and this will only complicate the unemployment figures.
It just does not pay to lie and stick it to the American people because they eventually get it and often are clever enough to figure it out as they seem to be doing.
When you diss kids and cause them to stay home rather than travel so their folks can get some relief you might create a backlash effect. But then since most everyone is now divorced and kids are only raised by one parent you create problems mostly for mothers. Ah, but is that not the equivalent of war on women? Boy this sequester joke just gets trickier and trickier for Obama. Maybe he better come clean and explain he has been lying all along about its effect..
Stay tuned. (See 1 below.)
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Every once in a while even Peres asks the right question. (See 2 below.)
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Employment index up because less looking for work. This is the kind of false readings government loves to use and that is why cuts are simply a slow down in spending.
When you no longer trust your government it is likely the government will eventually change and I suspect after Obama , America will never be the same.
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Off to Winter Park in a few minutes but had time to get this e mailed. You know me.
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Dick
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Strassel: Jumping the Sequester
When the president canceled White House tours, he revealed his claims as ludicrous.
The phrase "jumping the shark" describes that gimmicky moment when something once considered significant is exposed as ludicrous. This is the week the White House jumped the sequester.
The precise moment came Tuesday, when the administration announced that it was canceling public tours of the White House, blaming budget cuts. The Sequesterer in Chief has insisted that cutting even $44 billion from this fiscal year will cause agonizing pain—airport security snarls, uninspected meat, uneducated children. Since none of those things has come to pass, the White House decided it needed an immediate and high-profile way of making its point. Ergo, it would deny the nation's school kids a chance to view a symbol of America.
The act was designed to spark outrage against Republicans, yet the sheer pettiness of it instead provided a moment of clarity. Americans might not understand the technicalities of sequester, but this was something else entirely. Was the president actually claiming there was not a single other government item—not one—that could be cut instead of the White House tours? Really?
The cancellations were an open invitation for the nation to dive into the gory depths of the federal budget—and re-emerge with a debate over waste and priorities. Over the past week, an entire cottage industry has sprung up of journalists, watchdog groups and average citizens reporting on the absurdities of federal spending. Republicans have lit up Twitter with examples of indefensible projects (#SequesterThis).
We've learned that the White House employs three calligraphers, who cumulatively earn $277,000 a year. The Environmental Protection Agency gave $141,000 to fund a Chinese study on swine manure. Part of a $325,000 National Science Foundation outlay went to building a robotic squirrel.
The government gave a $3,700 grant to build a miniature street in West Virginia—out of Legos. It shelled out $500,000 to support specialty shampoo products for cats and dogs. A San Diego outfit got $10,000 for trolley dancing. The feds last year held 894 conferences that each cost more than $100,000—$340 million altogether. But Mr. Obama is too broke to let American kids look around the White House
Speaking of that, the tour stunt itself is turning into a PR fiasco. ABC reports the cancellations save a total of $18,000 a week. A Forbes opinion piece noted the cost of cutting the tours was equal to about two hours operating Air Force One. Speaker John Boehner twisted the knife, announcing that while Congress was also getting hit by sequester, it had planned wisely, and tours of the Capitol would continue. Come on down folks! Visit the government branch that knows how to prioritize!
To top it off, a group of cherubic sixth-graders from St. Paul's Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa, became a national sensation in a YouTube video pleading with the White House to reopen tours. "The White House is our house. Please let us visit," they beg in unison. The White House hasn't yet responded, no doubt being too busy overseeing its $27 million project that helped fund pottery classes in Morocco. (No joke.)
This is the opportunity Republicans have been pushing for, to pivot the sequester discussion to the problem of spending, and they are taking a lead from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn. This was the guy, remember, who in 2005 offered an amendment to remove funds from a little thing he called the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" and to divert them to a vital bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Bridge to Nowhere became such an embarrassing symbol of waste, Congress ultimately gave up earmarks.
Not all Republicans appreciated that episode, but they took away a couple of valuable political lessons. One, the public responds strongly to examples of waste. And two, the way to claim the high ground in such a debate is to contrast that waste with projects of real importance (like the Katrina bridge). Both lessons are tailor-made for today's sequester fight.
Sen. Coburn himself has daily been sending letters to federal agencies, demanding that they justify their decisions to furlough existing workers rather than forgo new hires or fancy conferences. His efforts were one reason the Department of Agriculture spent this week stuttering out a justification for its sponsorship of a wine junket in California.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee has been producing graphics that show, for instance, pictures of free government cellphones next to pictures of border agents—with the Twitter tag #CutThisNotThat. Since late February, the House GOP has been highlighting its own #CutWaste projects, each of which contrasts Mr. Obama's call for taxes with an example of embarrassing government outlays.
The White House's shark-jumping moment has given these efforts new attention and threatens to take the sequester debate to a place this overconfident administration never imagined. The whole point of the White House's effort to make the cuts hurt was to convince Americans that they couldn't live without big, sweeping government. Now Americans are asking how the White House justifies living with it.
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| No other country has faced the dangers and paid the price for its existence as Israel has, President Shimon Peres said Wednesday in Brussels. He then asked a rhetorical question of the country’s legion of European critics: “How would you behave were you in our place?” Peres’s remarks came during a meeting with parliamentarians from Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland who are friendly to Israel, as he attended the opening at the European Parliament of a traveling exhibition to mark the 70th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry from the Nazis’ clutches. “Israel was established 65 years ago, and since then has gone through seven wars – I don’t know another country that has withstood that degree of danger and paid such a high price in life,” he said. Repeating what he has said on numerous occasions in the past, Peres called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a “man of peace,” and said that Israel yearns for peace with its neighbors. “We signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and gave back considerable territories,” he said. The president said peace was still possible and that the gaps between the sides were not great. “We tried to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and we left Gaza and uprooted 8,000 residents,” he said. Regarding the Iranian threat, Peres said that while he respected the Iranian people, the Iranian leadership was funding Hezbollah and training terrorist organizations that were carrying out terrorist attacks around the world, including Europe. Peres said Iran is not threatened by the world, but does not respect international agreements and is itself threatening world peace. The Bulgarian Jewry exhibition, which was a joint venture of the Republic of Bulgaria and Yad Vashem, was initially displayed in the UNESCO building in Paris on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov also attended the opening ceremony. Mladenov said his country, which had demonstrated courage in the past in saving Jews, will not blanch today in the face of terror and will call it by its name. He was referring specifically to Hezbollah’s involvement in the bombing of a tour bus in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas in July of last year, which resulted in the deaths of five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver. Mladenov was hopeful that all the member states of the EU would realize the importance of recognizing Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and would act accordingly. If this happens, Hezbollah will find it increasingly difficult to raise funds in Europe, which will cause its activities to be severely hampered. Peres, in his meetings with European leaders in Brussels, Paris and Strasbourg over the next week, will also be pressing this issue as well as concerns over the Iranian nuclear threat and the dangers posed by Syria’s chemical arsenal, and will emphasize the fact that both Hezbollah and Syria are strongly backed by Iran. With regard to Bulgaria, Peres noted that it has a warm place in the hearts of Israelis because of its courage, integrity and humanity. He expressed deep regret that what happened in Bulgaria had not been emulated in Greece and Macedonia whose Jewish communities all but disappeared at the hands of the Nazis. Peres also praised Europe for its ability to unite after a millennium of wars and hatred. On Tuesday, Peres and the crown prince of Belgium recognized 11 families who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Peres and Prince Phillipe bestowed the decorations of the Righteous Among the Nations on the 11 Belgian families. “On behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, I thank you from the depths of my heart,” the president told the families, emphasizing there were not many like them. “The Righteous Among the Nations brought light into the world, and exhibited bravery and courage in the face of the atrocities of the Holocaust.” Holocaust survivors from around the world were among those attending the ceremony along with Jewish organizational leaders, government ministers, lawmakers and the heads of faith communities in Belgium. Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Didier Reynders said the lessons of the Holocaust will be taught to future generations and that the Righteous Among the Nations showed that even in the darkest times, when lives are in danger, it is possible to say no to cooperation with cruelty. In the past year, Belgium accepted responsibility for its involvement in the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust and saw a museum inaugurated in the city of Mechelen, from where trains departed to the Auschwitz death camp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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