The BDS movement is experiencing revitalized support; watch this to grasp the real hypocrisy:
http://www.israelvideonetwork.
And then we have the moral equivalent of Obamacare likened to a sandwich swap!
This is pretty simple, illustrative and even has some laughs in it. Not very long at all.
This guy brings great clarity to the issue. Watch the whole thing as it is worth watching!
Click on: Give me your sandwich.
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Unable to attend, will be in Israel but urge you to go:
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1) An observation of Dennis Miller whos is not Jewish!
- 'A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a
- service to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the
- story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you
- really need.'/
- The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about
- that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called
- Palestine for two thousand years. Like 'Wiccan,' 'Palestinian' sounds
- ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the
- land in the 1967 war, Gaza was owned by Egypt , the West Bank was owned
- by Jordan , and there were no Palestinians.'
- As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as
- basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the 'Palestinians,' weeping
- for their deep bond with their lost 'land' and 'nation.'
- So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word 'Palestinian' any
- more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths
- until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's call them
- what they are: 'Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In Life And
- Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal
- Struggle And Death.' I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on
- CNN. How about this, then: 'Adjacent Jew-Haters.' Okay, so the Adjacent
- Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing: No, they
- don't. They could've had their own country. Anytime in the last thirty
- years, especially several years ago at Camp David . But if you have your
- own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks. And
- Chambers of Commerce, and worse, you actually have to figure out some
- way to make a living.
- That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region
- want: Israel . They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course that's
- where the Real fun is -- but mostly they want Israel ...
- Why for one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or 'The Zionist
- Entity' as their textbooks call it -- for the last fifty years has
- allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their
- own people away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most
- illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've
- ever been around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something..
- It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic
- about the great * *history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm missingsomething, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra,and by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
- Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five
- million Jews.
- Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a
- pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks
- swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone
- will be pals.
- Really Wow, what neat news.*
- Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny
- country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive very Jew into
- the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.
- My friend, Kevin Rooney, made a gorgeous point the other day: Just
- reverse the Numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million
- Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture
- the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of
- course not.*
- *Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations
- to drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense.
- Or dancing for joy at the murder of Innocents? Impossible.
- Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their
- bread with the blood of children? Disgusting.
- No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst
- Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
- However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing
- moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11th our
- president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists
- and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis,
- after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City
- every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and
- we tell them to show restraint.
1a) Life is good for Mahmoud Abbas. He is not about to mess it up by reaching a
- If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would
- all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done
- with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the
- Jordan ..-
comprehensive peace agreement with Israel.
By Abe Katzman
As peace negotiations slog on, Abbas will soon begin his tenth year as
president of the Palestinian Authority. That's impressive, as his term
actually ended in 2009. But with a government full of cronies happy to
oblige him, Abbas continues to unilaterally extend his occupation of the
president's office.
Abbas presides over a population of about 2 million - the size of
metropolitan Kansas City. Yet outsized perks of the P.A. presidency include
fawning foreign leaders, international celebrity status, globetrotting to
collect more foreign aid than any people in history, and - best of all for a
politician - zero expectation of successful governance: "The Occupation"
serves as an all-purpose excuse for everything from corruption to failure to
stop terror to perennial economic basket-case status.
The office certainly pays well enough. Abbas has amassed a fortune as
president estimated at
<http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3066/how-much-is-mahmoud-abbas-worth>
$100 million. His sons, too, have
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/05/the_brothers_abbas?page=fu
ll&wp_login_redirect=0> accumulated great wealth during his tenure,
including from U.S. foreign aid, a monopoly on imported cigarettes, and
public works projects.
In fact, the staggering levels of corruption and embezzlement in Abbas's
government have drawn international notice. The U.S. Congress's Foreign
Affairs Committee issued a 2012 report entitled "
<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg74960/pdf/CHRG-112hhrg74960.pdf>
Chronic Kleptocracy: Corruption within the Palestinian Political
Establishment." Last week, the U.K.'s Sunday Times leaked a report from
the European Union's auditing arm indicating that the EU
<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/10/14/Report-European-auditors-
say-Palestinians-squander-aid/UPI-38231381743285/?spt=rln&or=2> could not
account for some $2.6 billion in aid given to the Palestinians since 2008.
Meanwhile, P.A. unemployment
<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html>
sits at 23%, GDP excluding foreign aid is stagnant, and no manufacturing
base has developed in the 20 years since Oslo.
The mystery is why anyone believes Abbas sincerely seeks a permanent peace
agreement. His financial disincentives for peace aside, Abbas also has no
history of expressing desire to coexist with a Jewish Israel.
To the contrary, from his published works (a noxious blend of Holocaust
diminishment, defamation, and denial) to his administrative role in the
Munich massacre of Israel's Olympic team to his autocratic rule, Abbas is
very much of the Arafat-era PLO old guard.
Israel offered Abbas a state in 2008, including a share of Jerusalem.
Abbas's only response was to shut down negotiations. Abbas refuses to
publicly entertain the idea of a final peace agreement that will recognize
Israel as a Jewish state, curb the possibility that millions of descendants
of Palestinian refugees from 1948 might flood into Israel, or end once and
for all Palestinian claims against Israel. Those are conditions absent
which Israel cannot even consider the dangerous leap of allowing a less than
friendly new Palestinian state on its vulnerable border.
Merely publicly floating those possibilities would cost Abbas nothing, yet
it would generate a torrent of pressure on Israel to make huge concessions.
But it might also unleash similar pressures on Abbas to make a final
comprehensive deal with Israel - which he evidently doesn't want.
Rather than condition his subjects to coexistence with Israel, Abbas
obstructs reconciliation by glorifying Palestinian terrorists, avoiding
unqualified condemnation of even the most egregious attacks against civilian
Jews.
The incitement is relentless. Last week, Fatah, which Abbas leads, saluted
the shooting of a nine-year-old Israeli girl,
<http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9827> praising "the sniper of Palestine" for "leaving the signature of real men." The day of Abbas's
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/abbas-s-tired-old-un-rhetoric_653190.ht
ml> anti-Israel rant at the U.N., he also memorialized Abu Sukkar, who
killed 15 Israelis and wounded 60 with a refrigerator bomb in downtown
Jerusalem in 1975, as "
<http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9813> the most noble of the noble" for his terror act. Official Palestinian TV and press promote the
most vile anti-Jewish caricatures and libels, most recently
<http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9706> blaming Israel for spreading drugs among Palestinian youth.
Notably, these are examples from just the past few weeks - while Israel and
the PA are ostensibly engaged in peace talks. Stoking Israel-hatred is not
the mark of a man bent on preparing his people for peaceful coexistence.
Talk of new Palestinian elections occasionally arises. But Abbas won't call
for elections he'd likely lose, or which would bring accountability to his
financial fiefdom. As Abbas is aware, Israel is not anxious to see new
elections, either; as much as Israel would like to see a new Palestinian
president with a sincere desire for peaceful coexistence, the current
likelihood is that new elections would bring about a new leader - from
Hamas.
So the game continues. Abbas calls for unrealistic concessions which would
destroy Israel, incites hatred of the villainous Zionists, blames Israel for
intransigence, pockets millions of dollars in foreign aid, and ritually
incants "the occupation" to deflect all criticism of his corrupt
administration - while half-heartedly engaging in sham negotiations when the
incentives are great enough.
For reasons both financial and ideological, a genuine peace with a Jewish
Israel is the last thing Mahmoud Abbas wants, and the last thing one should
expect to emerge from current negotiations.
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2)Who Built Obamacare's 678 Million Dollar Website?
WELL, WELL, LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING TO LIGHT.....
Another looming scandal that is going to be ignored to the tune of 3/4 of a billion dollars:
The Feds only reviewed one bid to build the Obamacare website.
"Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut. Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal. Some allegations have come to light. Meet:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Toni Townes-Whitley,Senior Vice President at CGI Federal.
*Toni Townes-Whitley, Senior Vice President at CGI Fede-ral for Civilian Agency programs, is Princeton Class of 1985. Michelle Obama is Princeton Class of 1985. Both are members of Association of Black Princeton Alumni.*CGI "donated" $47 Million to Obama's campaign.
*CGI executives were large campaign bundlers for Obama. They helped him shut off all the security features on Obama's campaign donation website in 2008 and 2012 in order to take multi-millions in foreign donations.ALL THE ABOVE FALLS UNDER THE 'YOU SCRATCH MY BACK; I'LL SCRATCH YOURS' CATEGORY. TRANSLATED HERE: 'YOU CONTRIBUTE BIG BUCKS TO MY CAMPAIGN, AND WHEN I WIN, YOU'LL GET GREATER BIG BUCKS CONTRACTS TO LINE YOUR POCKET!'
3) You can't get angry about something you are not aware of! And, that's why I'm sharing the article below by Michael Barone.
First some history:
The creation of the Dept. of Education Created in1979 by one of your favorite presidents, Jimmy Peanut Carter in thanks for helping electing him. It gave control of our schools to the NEA and teachers unions and created “government schools.” These schools now have a dismal record across America being dumbed down to where:
- the average High school graduation rate is between 25% and 30 % in much of the nation;
- American history isn’t taught in depth if at all.
An article in Newsweek (Dec-20-2010) by Michelle Rhee (ex Sec. of Educ. in Washington, D.C.) revealed the following results that should make any concerned American's blood boil!
Among 30 developed nations the United States ranks;
21st in Science - 23rd in Reading - 25th in Math
Now read the following article which sums up the results of Jimmy Carter's thank you to the unions.
What to do about America's low-skill workforce
Some bad news for America, not on the political front this time, but on what corporate executives call human resources.
I
t's from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's report on adult skills, based on 166,000 interviews in 24 economically advanced countries in 2011 and 2012.
The verdict on the United States: “weak in literacy, very poor in numeracy, but only slightly below average in problem-solving in technology-rich environments.”
On literacy, just 12 percent of U.S. adults score at the top two levels, significantly lower than the 22 percent in largely monoethnic and culturally cohesive Japan and Finland. American average scores are below those in our Anglosphere cousins Australia, Canada and England and Northern Ireland.
One-sixth of Americans score at the bottom two levels, compared to 5 percent in Japan and Finland.
On numeracy the United States does even worse — only 8 percent at the top levels and one-third in the lowest.
Americans do better at problem solving in tech-rich environments, which economist Tyler Cowen in his new book "Average Is Over"says will be of great economic value in the future.
One-third of Americans score at the top two levels, while one-third score at the bottom or lack such skills altogether.
That puts us just below the average of the countries tested. Finland, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada are well ahead.
The OECD report finds a wider range of skills in the U.S. than in other countries surveyed. Americans with only high school educations perform worse than their counterparts in all but one other nation.
And the report found that socioeconomic background is more strongly correlated with skills proficiency in this country.
In addition, there is the uncomfortable finding that disproportionate percentages of blacks and Hispanics have low skills.
Fully half of the Americans with the lowest level of literacy are Hispanic (presumably reflecting some immigrants’ weak English) and another 20 percent are black.
This is probably true of other groups. In his 2012 book "Coming Apart," Charles Murray showed that the 30 percent of whites with the lowest education and income levels have low rates of family formation, little involvement in voluntary associations and high levels of substance abuse.
Most likely those of any race or ethnic groups with divorced or single parents, or who are divorced or single parents themselves, tend to lag below national and international averages in literacy and numeracy.
Another disturbing finding of the OECD is that younger age cohorts in the U.S. do not seem to have skills as high as those in the cohort just below age 65.
All of this suggests that America’s economic future may not be as bright as its past — or that the current economic doldrums may turn out to be the new normal.
What to do? The OECD sensibly calls for better education and more adult skills training. In fact many worthy attempts have been made and are being made to improve education around the country, and some have had positive results.
Even the Obama administration, despite its political debts to teacher unions, has pitched in to some extent.
In the meantime, the United States can do something about improving skill sets by changing its immigration laws to increase high-skill immigration.
Current immigration law has inadvertently resulted in a vast low-skill migration from Latin America and especially from Mexico. Unanticipated large numbers have used the family reunification provisions to come in legally, and large numbers have crossed the border illegally.
Congress can change that by cutting back on extended family reunification, improving border enforcement and requiring use of e-Verify or other status verification technology.
More important, Congress can vastly expand high-skill immigration. The Senate bill passed last spring goes some distance toward this, but not far enough.
The U.S. should take a lesson from its Anglosphere cousins Australia and Canada, which both have higher immigration proportionate to population and which both outscored the U.S. in literacy, numeracy and high-tech problem solving in the OECD survey.
Australia and Canada allocate large shares of their immigration flow by point systems, which give credit for educational achievement and marketable skills. They do not necessarily tie high-skill immigrants to a single petitioning employer, as H-1B visas do in the U.S.
Both countries are attracting high-skill immigrants, especially from China and India, and both have had better performing economies than the U.S. does.
Making a concerted effort to attract high-skill immigrants should be a no-brainer for America.
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