Obama invitation to Muslim kid who was wrongly arrested and failure to invite others more deserving ticks this young kid off and he expresses himself in an unmistakable manner. (See 1 below.)
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What the third Lebanon War will look like. (See 2 below.)
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What else Kerry gave away. (See 2a below.)
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Like him or not The Donald is cleverrrrrrrr!: He is not my choice but he should be given his due.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
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In humor there can be truth, lots of truth. (See 3 below.)
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Like him or not The Donald is cleverrrrrrrr!: He is not my choice but he should be given his due.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
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In humor there can be truth, lots of truth. (See 3 below.)
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1) This Ted Cruz booster is 13, black, and just shredded Obama on clock kid
CJ Pearson’s recent YouTube video criticizing President Obama.
Earlier this week, a 13-year-old kid named Coreco JaQuan Pearson sat down in front of a camera in the kitchen of his home in Grovetown, Ga. CJ had a lot on his mind: the 14-year-old Muslim student invited to the White House after he was wrongly arrested for building a clock thought to be a bomb; the young woman allegedly shot by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco; the four Marines gunned down in Chattanooga over the summer; the Black Lives Matter movement.
President Obama, CJ feared, didn’t have his White House in order. It was a lot to distill into a short message — one that would catch fire among CJ’s 35,000 Twitter followers and large YouTube audience. But CJ was determined to make this quick — and needed little more than two minutes to make his point.
“Mr. President,” he began, speaking with a Southern twang. “When Kate Steinle was gunned down by an illegal immigrant, you didn’t do anything. You didn’t even call the family. You didn’t invite them to the White House. Is that okay? I don’t think so, Mr. President.”
Twenty seconds had gone by — but CJ was just getting warmed up.
“When cops are being gunned down, you don’t invite their family to the White House,” he said. “You never did.”
This was just the set-up. Then came the punch.
“When a Muslim kid builds a clock?” CJ said. “Well, come on by. What is this world that you are living in?”
As smoothly as a seasoned commentator three or four times his age, CJ then pivoted. He pointed out that it took Obama longer to lower the White House flags to half-staff than it did to light 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with rainbow colors after the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. He blamed Obama for the immigration policies that allowed Steinle’s killer in the country. He blamed Obama for rules that prevented Marines from carrying their own firearms in Chattanooga. He said Obama was trying to appease “domestic terrorists” — that is, Black Lives Matters protesters.
CJ’s conclusion: “You don’t get invited to the White House for building a clock.”
As is probably apparent, CJ is not the average teenager. He is not the average YouTube sensation. And he is not the average conservative. He’s just a really passionate young man who really thinks that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) should be president.
And, of course, CJ is African American — indeed, the national chairman of Teens for Ted, a national group backing a candidate who enjoys only marginal support among black voters.
“I strongly believe that Senator Cruz is truly what America needs to make America the shining city on a hill it once was,” CJ wrote in an e-mail to The Washington Post, saying Cruz would challenge the “Washington cartel.” “To allude to the Hunger Games, he’s the face of the rebellion. Being a teenager, I am definitely a big fan of that haha!”
CJ’s video missives have had him in the news at least since he was 12. He said he was suspended from Facebook after making another video critical of Obama. (Facebook said children under 13 are not permitted to have accounts, which CJ called “complete malarkey.”) And earlier this year, he reportedly sued a liberal activist he claimed threatened him.
But CJ gets attention.
“The Internet allows really anyone to have a voice and build a following, and CJ is a great example,” Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler told the Dallas Morning News. “He can make a real difference. He’s kind of the model that we want others to follow.”
CJ lives in Grovetown with his grandparents — though he says his parents are “actively involved.” His grandfather, he said, is a retired First Sergeant of the Army who works at the Department of Energy. Coming from a military family is what inspired CJ to go into politics in the first place.
This was in 2008, when he was in second grade.
“Senator McCain’s life story resonated with me and I was honored to support a man who was willing to give it all up, including his life, while serving his country in the Vietnam War,” he wrote.
“This whole thing smells like a setup,” Geller wrote at Breitbart. “With ISIS in America, and young moderate Muslims fleeing to Syria to join the terror group, the response of MacArthur High School officials was rational and reasonable.”
But CJ was perhaps the youngest to criticize Obama’s invitation — and almost certainly the only one who appeared on Fox News before he was a teenager.
“I think I’m one of the few voices who has taken such a public stand condemning this decision, but I do believe many people agree with the sentiment I expressed in my video,” Pearson wrote. “Ahmed is being used as a political prop, and to be quite frank, it’s quite disgusting. It’s even more disgusting that he’s enjoying it.”
This point raised an uncomfortable comparison. If Ahmed — a young man of color embraced by the White House for its own reasons — is a political prop, isn’t CJ?
“Not at all,” CJ wrote. “At the end of the day, I’m not beholden to the Republican Party. They don’t own me and they never will. My political involvement is based on fighting for the conservative principles I believe in and fighting for the future of my generation.”
He added: “I’m not in it for the fame. I’m not in it for the fortune. I’m involved in politics because I strongly believe my generation deserves a voice.”
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2)
What the Third Lebanon War will look like
It's late summer, and all is quiet on the northern front. On the Lebanese side of the border, the extreme heat has driven shepherds and their wards to the shade. Lebanese army and UNIFIL troops take cover at their posts, and Hezbollah's operatives – those who are still in south Lebanon and have not been sent to fight in Syria – collect intelligence on us.
The UN Security Council established after the Second Lebanon War that Hassan Nasrallah's people are forbidden to openly move along the border fence, armed, and provoke Israeli soldiers. They are careful to abide by the rules, but they are here, utilizing all the new technology Iran has provided to ensure that the IDF is not entering Lebanese territory. Meanwhile, they prepare “surprises” to hurt Israel during the next conflict – just like Hamas in Gaza.
At the Lebanese-Israeli border(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
While Hezbollah is deeply submerged in the Syrian quagmire, and despite a substantial interest in avoiding confrontation with Israel, over the past year the organization's leadership has been preparing for the Third Lebanon War as though it will begin tomorrow. This derives mainly from a decision by Nasrallah and members of Iran's Quds Force about a year ago to change the strategy towards Israel.
This strategy is aimed at deterring Israel from pinpoint actions the IDF occasionally takes to foil terrorism and the strengthening of Hezbollah (known in the IDF as a battle between the wars). Fighting Israel provides Hezbollah with the legitimacy it needs to arm itself in Lebanon and battle in Syria.
It was hence decided to treat Lebanon and Syria as a single front against Israel and to respond to any significant attacks attributed to the IDF, even if the result is escalation that leads to destruction and many casualties on both sides.
This almost happened in January. An airstrike on senior Hezbollah field commanders, which killed Jihad Mughniyeh and several others, including an Iranian general, was attributed by Hezbollah and Iran to Israel. According to evidence on the ground and intelligence information, a decision was made to carry out a retaliatory attack.
The IDF and Hezbollah both prepared for the possibility that this response could spark a larger conflagration. Major General Aviv Kokhabi, head of the IDF's Northern Command, was in the middle of preparing orders for a possible counterattack when news broke of Hezbollah's retaliation. The organization fired anti-tank missiles from Lebanon at an IDF convoy on its way to Mount Dov, killing two Givati soldiers. Thanks to troops' alertness and speed, much greater loss of life was prevented.
The leadership on both sides could therefore decide that the account was more or less settled. But only a minority of the Israeli public realizes how close we were at noon on January 28, 2015 to the outbreak of the Third Lebanon War.
Under these circumstances, it's only natural that the commander of the IDF's Sword Battalion, Colonel Alon Madanes, considers the Lebanese border to be a front that is currently quiet, but could boil over within hours. Madanes and his battalion are responsible for the western sector of the border area, which contains 165,000 residents in 55 towns.
Colonel Madanes (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
As we drove along the border fence, I realize that he and the entire Northern Command are preparing for a Third Lebanon War and are working intensively to prepare offensive and defensive actions.
The next war
The next war
It's likely that the next war and its results will be decided in many ways by its opening shot and its timing. But in general, the IDF will have to deal with three main problems.
The first is firing of high-trajectory projectiles, both more frequent and more accurate than in the past, which will target civilians, military facilities, and essential services throughout Israel. This would involve around 1,200 warheads a day that would wreak destruction and losses until the IDF manages to halt the launches.
Damage in the first days of the war or campaign will be much smaller if David's Sling, designed to intercept missiles with a longer range than Iron Dome, is operative by then. But there will still be damage.
The second is attempts by Hezbollah special forces to cross into Israeli territory to conquer towns, kidnap hostage, and block major transportation arteries in the north. This activity will be designed to foil the IDF's tactical plan, particularly any land advance into Lebanese territory, while also attaining a propaganda coup of the likes that enemies of Israel have not achieved since 1948. Nasrallah has hinted since 2011 of his organization's plans to “conquer the Galilee”, and recently flat-out stated this goal.
The third is intensive barrages of mortal shells and short-range rockets, with the goal of unleashing mass death and destruction in border-adjacent communities. Hezbollah learned a lesson from Hamas's tactic at the end of Operation Protective Edge, realizing that the warning time given to civilians in border-adjacent communities and to IDF forces deployed in the field does not always permit finding cover. It intends to take advantage of this fact to maximize the number of civilian casualties, in hopes of causing demoralization and mass evacuation of these communities.
The IDF has a solution to these all too real threats. It consists of offensive means and plans, some of which will likely take Hezbollah by surprise, defensive means and plans, and a series of civilian defense measures meant to foil Hezbollah's intentions in all areas.
Make no mistake – the IDF prioritizes the offensive tactics aimed at stopping Hezbollah's rocket fire towards the Israeli home front, and at preventing infiltration into Israeli territory. There will be significant and speedy maneuvering of large IDF forces into Lebanese territory and thousands of targets will be hit throughout Lebanon for many days. This will be the IDF's main effort, but there will also be evacuations of towns.
One of the main difficulties the senior rank of the IDF expects in the next war is mental: How to explain to the Israeli public that Hezbollah could penetrate our territory for a few hours before being chased back. This is the nature of a war in which each side has successes and failures, and the balance sheet is made at the end. Operation Protective Edge proved that the Israeli public is not prepared to accept a situation in which the enemy has any success, even if temporary.
Preparing the public
Another defensive element is what's known as “the obstacle”. This is an artificial cliff IDF is digging in mountain slopes next to border-adjacent communities. “The goal is to significantly erode the advantages given to the enemy by the steep, mountainous terrain and thick vegetation,” says Madanes.
An 'obstacle' to prevent Hezbollah from infiltrating or conquering villages(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
“Hezbollah doesn't need tunnels,” he adds, saying he cannot claim with certainty that there are no tunnels crossing into Israel in his sector, but that he believes that the fact that intelligence has yet to expose such a tunnel is encouraging.
Regarding “the obstacle”, he is more decisive.
“The steep topography and dense vegetation that actually reach the outermost homes in Israeli towns provide the enemy with a hiding place just like the tunnels in Gaza,” he continues. “Digging these cliffs will change this situation. It will not only force them to climb several meters on a steep wall, but they will also stand out to observation units against the backdrop of the cliffs' white chalk.”
Colonel Madanes with Ron Ben-Yishai(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Colonel Madanes hopes that the next war will, thanks to incessant preparations by the IDF, will bring much more decisive results in Israel's favor than the Second Lebanon War.
He is aware that Hezbollah is gaining important experience in Syria, but believes the gap between the Lebanese organization and Israel's army is only widening to Israel's advantage. “Hezbollah is afraid of us,” he says carefully, and after a small hesitation adds: “More than we are afraid of it.”
2a) New Shudders: Guess What Else Team Kerry Gave Away?
For the majority of Americans who have already figured out that the Nuclear Iran Deal negotiated by U.S. President Barack Obama’s team led by Secretary of State John Kerry is a win for the mullahs intent on acquiring nuclear weapons capacity, there’s more nightmare-generating bad news.
Kerry has admitted to various American lawmakers that both Russia and China, as well as Europe will be shielded from any “snapback” in renewed sanctions should Iran be found red-handed violating the few prohibitions contained in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The Secretary of State also disclosed that under the deal he and his team deftly negotiated, the testing of ballistic missiles (those nasty vehicles which can be used to deliver nuclear weapons) is perfectly okay.
Why doesn’t the JCPOA cover testing of ballistic missiles, you ask? It is because there is already a United Nations Security Council Resolution which tells them they “should not” test such missiles. Should. Please.
Not to pick a sore point, but the beloved Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (so much better than his predecessor Ahmadinejad – this one smiles!) is already on the record dismissing any limitations on Iran’s missile program, including those in the new U.N Resolution.
All of these revelations were discovered by the Washington Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo, who obtained documents and information from various lawmakers, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Kerry admitted to Rubio (R., Fla.) that “the United States will work with foreign companies who financially engage Iran to shield them from penalties in the aftermath of Iran violating the agreement,” Kredo wrote.
In an on-the-record statement, Kerry admitted that the Obama administration had confidentially guaranteed the U.S. “would not retroactively sanction companies” doing business with Iran. The U.S. also offered to work with any such companies to help bring them into compliance with any new (snapback) sanctions.
“For companies that have contracts that would otherwise continue after snapback, we have a consistent past practice of working with companies to wind down their contracts,” Kredo quotes from Kerry’s written statement.
All those red lines and “biting” sanctions the Obama campaign crowed about during the last election have turned out to be smiley faces and air kisses now that there are no more elections for him.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the U.S. correspondent for The Jewish Press. She is a lawyer who previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools.
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3)Demerit System
SIMPLE DUTIES
You make the bed. (+1)
You make the bed, but forget the decorative pillows. (-10)
You throw the bedspread over rumpled sheets. (-3)
You go out to buy her what she wants (+5) in the rain (+8)
But return with Beer. (-5)
3)Demerit System
All men who have been married will attest to some real wisdom in this e mail...
...In the world of romance, one single rule applies:
MAKE THE WOMAN HAPPY!
Do something she likes, and you get points.
Do something she dislikes, and points are subtracted.
You don't get any points for doing something she expects.
Do something she dislikes, and points are subtracted.
You don't get any points for doing something she expects.
Sorry, that's the way the game is played.
Here is a non-exhaustive guide to the point system:
Here is a non-exhaustive guide to the point system:
SIMPLE DUTIES
You make the bed. (+1)
You make the bed, but forget the decorative pillows. (-10)
You throw the bedspread over rumpled sheets. (-3)
You go out to buy her what she wants (+5) in the rain (+8)
But return with Beer. (-5)
PROTECTIVE DUTIES
You check out a suspicious noise at night. (+1)
You check out a suspicious noise, and it is nothing. (0)
You check out a suspicious noise, and it is something. (+5)
You pummel it with an iron rod. (+10)
It's her pet Schnauzer. (-30)
You check out a suspicious noise at night. (+1)
You check out a suspicious noise, and it is nothing. (0)
You check out a suspicious noise, and it is something. (+5)
You pummel it with an iron rod. (+10)
It's her pet Schnauzer. (-30)
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS
You stay by her side for the entire party. (+1)
You stay by her side for a while, then leave to chat with an old school friend. (-2)
Named Tina (-10)
Tina is a dancer. (-20)
Tina has breast implants. (-40)
You stay by her side for the entire party. (+1)
You stay by her side for a while, then leave to chat with an old school friend. (-2)
Named Tina (-10)
Tina is a dancer. (-20)
Tina has breast implants. (-40)
HER BIRTHDAY
You take her out to dinner. (+2)
You take her out to dinner, and it's not a sports bar. (+3)
Okay, it's a sports bar. (-2)
And its all-you-can-eat night. (-3)
It's a sports bar, it's all-you-can-eat night, and your face is painted the colors of your favorite team. (-10)
You take her out to dinner. (+2)
You take her out to dinner, and it's not a sports bar. (+3)
Okay, it's a sports bar. (-2)
And its all-you-can-eat night. (-3)
It's a sports bar, it's all-you-can-eat night, and your face is painted the colors of your favorite team. (-10)
A NIGHT OUT
You take her to a movie. (+1)
You take her to a movie she likes. (+5)
You take her to a movie you hate. (+6)
You take her to a movie you like. (-2)
It's called 'Death Cop.' (-3)
You lied and said it was a foreign film about orphans. (-15)
You take her to a movie. (+1)
You take her to a movie she likes. (+5)
You take her to a movie you hate. (+6)
You take her to a movie you like. (-2)
It's called 'Death Cop.' (-3)
You lied and said it was a foreign film about orphans. (-15)
YOUR PHYSIQUE
You develop a noticeable potbelly. (-15)
You develop a noticeable potbelly and exercise to get rid of it (+10)
You develop a noticeable potbelly and resort to baggy jeans and baggy Hawaiian shirts. (-30)
You say to her, "It doesn't matter, you have one too." (-80)
You develop a noticeable potbelly. (-15)
You develop a noticeable potbelly and exercise to get rid of it (+10)
You develop a noticeable potbelly and resort to baggy jeans and baggy Hawaiian shirts. (-30)
You say to her, "It doesn't matter, you have one too." (-80)
THE BIG QUESTION
She asks, "Do I look fat?" (-5)
(Yes, you lose points no matter what)
You hesitate in responding. (-10)
You reply, "Where?" (-35)
You give any other response. (-40)
She asks, "Do I look fat?" (-5)
(Yes, you lose points no matter what)
You hesitate in responding. (-10)
You reply, "Where?" (-35)
You give any other response. (-40)
COMMUNICATION
When she wants to talk about a problem, you listen, displaying what looks like a concerned expression. (+2)
You listen, for over 30 minutes (+50)
You listen for more than 30 minutes without looking at the TV. (+500)
She realizes this is because you have fallen asleep. (-4000)
When she wants to talk about a problem, you listen, displaying what looks like a concerned expression. (+2)
You listen, for over 30 minutes (+50)
You listen for more than 30 minutes without looking at the TV. (+500)
She realizes this is because you have fallen asleep. (-4000)
and I will add one from my own experience:
DRESS
When you wear what your wife likes (+10)
When you wear something you like and it looks better (-30)
When your wife likes what she wears and asks your opinion and you tell her
you like it and she does not believe you (-50)
When you buy your wife something to wear which simply proves you have
not been noticing what she wears all your marriage (-100)
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