Thursday, December 3, 2015

Are Black Voters Maturing? Who Cares About History Since It Is No Longer Taught! JEB Quit Spending Your Ad Money!


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Does not mean a thing because it is history and no one reads, studies or believes in history.  (See 1 and 1a below.)
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Are black voters maturing?  If so they will desert the Demwits in droves and leave a lot of lonely voters to sink in the muck and mire of their own stupidity. (See 2 below.)
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We are doomed now because we were doomed 93 years ago. (See 3 below.)
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What we have experienced, in the past few days, is an attack by two Muslims who were engaged in an act of terrorism.

The FBI is restrained by rules imposed by Obama so they cannot characterize their act as terrorism until they do more extensive investigation.

What I know from reports allows me to call a spade a spade because I am free to jump to a logical conclusion.

I have no doubt more investigation will reveal a lot more data, possibly contacts and should be of additional help in coming to the decision I already have.

In essence we seem to be more concerned about how to describe what has taken place in order not to trample on sensitivities, starting with our president who is so respectful of Muslim feelings.

Once again, if you were making a movie you could not include all the inanities Obama has imposed on how our nation functions. We have lost all sense of rational responses to events.

I agree with JEB's recent ad about forming a coalition , declaring war on ISIS and ridding the world of this scourge but I also know nothing successful can be attempted as long as Obama remains in office so my advice to  JEB is  - quit spending the money.
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Now for some humor:

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A mother is driving her little girl to her friend's house for a play date.

"Mommy", the little girl asks, "how old are you?"

"Honey, you are not supposed to ask a lady her age", the mother replied.  "It's not polite."

"OK", the little girl says.
         
"How much do you weigh?" 

"Now really", the mother says, "those are personal questions and are really none of your business." 

Undaunted, the little girl asks, "Why did you and Daddy get a divorce?" 

"That's enough questions, young lady. Honestly!"         

The exasperated mother walks away as the two friends begin to play. 

"My Mom won't tell me anything about her", the little girl says to her friend. 

"Well", says the friend, "all you need to do is look at her driver's license.  It's like a report card, it has everything on it". 

Later that night the little girl says to her mother, "I know how old you are.  You are 32."

The mother is surprised and asks, "How did you find that out?"

"I also know that you weigh 130 pounds."  The mother is past surprised and shocked now.  "How in Heaven's name did you find that out?" 

"And", the little girl says triumphantly, "I know why you and daddy got a divorce." 

"Oh really?" the mother asks.  "Why?"

"Because you got an F in sex."



and  some more humor - "the other one."

But the joke is on us! (See 4 below.)
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1) The 'closest we can get' to Jewish monarch from 3,000 years ago

Seal bearing name of Judean king found in Jerusalem

Impression with ‘Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz, king of Judah,’ unearthed next to Temple Mount, is decorated with Egyptian motifs

BY ILAN BEN ZION December 2, 2015

A seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology (ourtesy of Eilat Mazar; photo by Ouria Tadmor)
A seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the
Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology (courtesy of Eilat Mazar; photo by Ouria Tadmor)

Archaeologists deciphered a seal impression bearing the name of the 8th century BCE biblical King Hezekiah recently found during excavations next to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Hebrew University announced Wednesday.
The bulla, a stamp seal impression, was one of dozens found in recent years in a royal building in the Ophel, excavation leader Dr. Eilat Mazar said at a press conference held at the Mount Scopus campus, and bears the name “Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz, king of Judah,” an 8th century Judean ruler.
Mazar called the artifact “the closest as ever that we can get to something that was most likely held by King Hezekiah himself.” She said that the bulla “strengthens what we know already from the Bible about [Hezekiah].”
The bulla in question used to seal a papyrus scroll and an impression of the fibers was preserved on the inverse, Mazar said, suggesting the seal once enclosed a document signed by the king himself.
The minuscule, centimeter-long artifact is decorated with Egyptian-style motifs — a winged sun disk and an ankh, symbol of life. Iconography of this sort had already been appropriated by Judean leaders and appear on other contemporary seals across the ancient Near East.
“The Egyptian motifs were spread over the second millennium BCE all over the region” and no longer bore their original significance, Mazar explained. Ancient Judeans employed the sun disk to denote the Almighty, and its bowed wings may connote Hezekiah’s expression that “my power is thanks to God’s protection,” she said.
“It was nothing like what it meant to the Egyptians,” she said.
The bulla was found during excavations in 2009 but its significance was initially overlooked by researchers. Only this year did Hebrew University archaeologist Reut Ben Arieh decipher the inscription on the seal impression and determine its significance.
An initial study of the seal read the bottom register as the name “Melkiyahu,” but once she noticed tiny punctuation marks in the middle, separating the letters into the words “king” and “Judah,” Ben Arieh told The Times of Israel, “immediately we understood” that it read “king of Judea.”
Other seals bearing the name of King Hezekiah are on the antiquities market, but “none is from an archaeological excavation, and that makes all the difference,” Mazar said. The discovery of this new seal in the archaeological context supports the other artifacts’ authenticity, however.
The Ophel is part of the ancient city of Jerusalem situated immediately south of the flashpoint Temple Mount, the site of two Jewish temples in antiquity. It is the holiest site to Jews and the third holiest site to Muslims.

The excavations were a collaborative effort by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Hebrew University.
Excavations at the site are contentious for taking place in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood. Nonetheless, they have unearthed some of the earliest known artifacts in the city, dating as far back as the 12th and 11th centuries BCE. According to Mazar, these include evidence supporting the historicity of the biblical kings David and Solomon, founders of the Judean dynasty.
Two years ago, Mazar announced the discovery of a massive gold medallion and a trove of gold pieces found at the base of the Temple Mount dating to the early 7th century CE. The trove included 36 gold Byzantine coins, gold bracelets, earrings, a silver ingot, a gold-plated hexagonal prism and the large golden medallion embossed with Jewish motifs. It’s currently on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Mazar, a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, has overseen the excavations of the Ophel and Jerusalem’s City of David, the lower slope of the Temple Mount.
1a)PA: Killing Israelis is good
- but PA must choose place and time
so world accepts it

Jibril Rajoub, Head of PA Sport and Youth Affairs:
"The international community does not agree to a bus exploding in Tel Aviv.
But the international community does not ask what happens to a settler or soldier
in the occupied territories at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
No one asks about him! Therefore, we want to fight in such a way
that the world and the international community will remain by our side."
[Official PA TV, Oct. 17, 2015] 

Hafez Barghouti, columnist and former editor of official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida:

"After the events of September [9, 2011] in New York, [Ariel] Sharon
applied the term 'terror' used to refer to those attacks, to our national struggle
(i.e., terror campaign - Intifada). I warned about this at the time, and called
to keep a low profile until the New York turmoil had passed...
Now, after the Paris attacks, we must keep a low profile so that we are not charged
with the crimes of ISIS... We must learn our lessons and wait." 
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 24, 2015]

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Jibril Rajoub, Head of the PA Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs recently expressed total support for Palestinian terror which has murdered 22 Israelis and injured 215 in the last two months, stressing:
"I congratulate everyone who carried them out (i.e., terror attacks). I say to you, we are proud of you."
[Official PA TV, Oct. 17, 2015]
However, Rajoub added that Palestinians must be careful not to carry out suicide terror in Tel Aviv, not because killing Israelis that way is wrong, but because the international community rejects and condemns it. Rajoub recommended that Palestinians murder only those Israelis whose murder the international community will accept as legitimate targets - the "settlers and soldiers" who are killed because they are "at the wrong time and in the wrong place." Rajoub essentially instructs murderers of Israelis to make sure they murder the right ones:

 
"The international community does not agree to a bus exploding in Tel Aviv. But the international community does not ask what happens to a settler or soldier in the occupied territories at the wrong time and in the wrong place. No one asks about him! Therefore, we want to fight in such a way that the world and the international community will remain by our side."
According to Rajoub, it is the international community's message to the PA, possibly through its silence, that it accepts stabbing and shooting murders of Israeli soldiers and civilians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, which enables the PA leadership to continue promoting murder. Clearly, the international community shares in the moral responsibility for the current murder wave if this is how the PA leadership perceives their standpoint. According to Rajoub, if the international community were to send the explicit message to the PA that it "does not agree" to any PA terror anywhere, the PA would be forced to stop so that "the international community will remain by our side."
Palestinian Media Watch reported on the PA's general support for the terror attacks against Israelis, and Rajoub's in particular: 
"These are individual operations (i.e., terror attacks), however, they comprise bravery and composure... These are individual acts of bravery, and I am proud of them. I congratulate everyone who carried them out. I say to you, we are proud of you... The fighter, the prisoner, or the Martyr, they are assets to the entire Palestinian people..."
[Official PA TV, Oct. 17, 2015]
Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist and former editor of the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, focused on the correct timing for murder, so as to prevent international condemnation. Killing Israelis has to be done at a time that will not be rejected by the international community. Now, after the Paris terror attacks that killed 129, "we must keep a low profile so that we are not charged with the crimes of ISIS ... We must learn our lessons and wait," he said.
"After the events of September [9, 2011] in New York, [then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon copied the term 'terror' used to refer to those attacks, to our national struggle(i.e., terror campaign - Intifada)I warned about this at the time, and called to keep a low profile until the New York turmoil had passed, but the concept of 'Palestinian terror' later spread, instead of [the general term] 'terror.' Now, after the Paris attacks, we must keep a low profile so that we are not charged with the crimes of ISIS and its ilk, because the world is in a coma, and it may not wake up from it anytime soon. We must learn our lessons and wait."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 24, 2015]
The following is a longer excerpt of the op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist and former editor for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida:
"Do not call out 'There is no god but Allah' and 'Allah is great' because this has become a game of blood. Anyone who shouts and roars when blessing a child for drawing a knife, or a student for carrying scissors, should see them as his own children. Will he agree to throw his offspring into the thick of battle?Some factions... will utter statements, and play songs calling for more acts of this kind, but are actually trading in the blood of others, setting themselves as those entrusted with our blood, when not even a single drop of their blood spills...

It is our duty to prevent our sons and daughters... from carrying out futile acts, which the enemy in his media and diplomacy has begun to link to the acts of the terror organizations in Paris and elsewhere, in order to strip us of our humanity, and play the role of the human. This is while, there is no one else in the world, except for him [the enemy], who boasts about occupying someone else's land and oppressing its owners. Moreover, we should note that after the events of September [9, 2011] in New York, [then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon copied the term 'terror' used to refer to those attacks, to our national struggle (i.e., terror campaign - Intifada). I warned about this at the time, and called to keep a low profile until the New York turmoil had passed, but the concept of 'Palestinian terror' later spread, instead of [the general term] 'terror.' Now, after the Paris attacks, we must keep a low profile so that we are not charged with the crimes of ISIS and its ilk, because the world is in a coma, and it may not wake up from it anytime soon. We must learn our lessons and wait. It is preferable that our enemy kill us, than for us to encourage our young people to reach such a pointless end, because the value of the dead is determined by the manner of death and its outcomes. Death itself is not a requirement, so do not praise death, so that our deaths will not be in vain. Our duty is to educate the younger generation, and explain to it about the love of life, the seeking of knowledge, and endeavors. As for the struggle, it has its own terms and men [to run it]."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 24, 2015]
Paris attacks 2015 - On Nov. 13, 2015, seven terrorist attacks were carried out simultaneously in Paris, France, in which it is estimated that 129 people were murdered. An additional 352 people were wounded, 99 of them in serious condition. The most massive attack took place at the Bataclam theater during a rock concert, where 87 people were murdered. On Nov. 14, 2015 ISIS claimed responsibility for these attacks.
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Dec. 2 - PHELPS on POLITICS: "Race Ran Edna Jackson Out of Office"

 “Race Ran Edna Jackson Out of Office"
December 2, 2015 - I had an interesting call today from Leo Smith, Minority Engagement Director for the Georgia Republican Party, regarding Tuesday's election results.
What followed was a discussion about the growing Black middle class in Georgia who are focused on candidates that will bring economic development and quality education for their children when they go to the ballot box – no matter their race.  These are Black voters who reject the concept that to be a good Black citizen – and honor their race – they have to be a Democrat or automatically vote for a Black candidate.
It’s clear that we’re seeing a growing number of such black voters in the Savannah area, people who no longer just automatically ‘vote Black,” and that shift has shaken some in power here to the core.
Mayor Jackson, in a desperate move to get re-elected, brought race into her run for re-election, even running an ad calling on voters to help her “fight her enemies,” as just one example.  It’s a shame, as it has damaged her legacy.  And because she did this, she lost the white vote that had supported her in her early days, people who even two months ago still stood with her and had intended to vote for her on Nov. 3, even with the City’s crime problems. 
“She’s learned from her mistakes” ... “I don’t really know Eddie” …. “We’re a Black majority city and I’m concerned about having a white Mayor in this day and age," are just some of the kind of comments I heard from people many of us know. 
But she "went racial" as a reason to vote for her, versus enunciating a platform for her next four years in office, dooming her to failure ... though her attempts to scare some voters did bring more black voters to the polls in the runoff.  
"Race" hurt her because throughout much of her four-year administration, as well, as she put people in positions of authority - Lovett, Small-Toney and Cutter - based on their color many believe ... put them in positions for which they were insufficiently qualified. She created disarray in our City governmental structure, and is leaving a long list of incomplete projects for DeLoach to complete.
She even made calls to get people jobs in the school system or the County government, particularly if they were Delta Sorority sisters from Savannah State – one of Savannah’s dirty little secrets that only those on the inside understand.  
There are Black voters and business people in Savannah who are not comfortable, however, with calling themselves a Republican, yet - sorry Leo.
Instead, they describe themselves as ‘Moderate,’ and say they now vote for the best candidate versus voting their color.  And, they are part of the 15% to 20% of Black voters who helped elect Eddie DeLoach, Brian Foster and Bill Durrence.
They articulately explain that we will never be ‘one’ until we get to that place, and they reject that they’re supposed to have a knee-jerk reaction to some of the black political rhetoric:  ‘You’re not black enough if you don’t support the black candidate over a white candidate.’ 
Daily, I hear from a growing sector of our city’s great black citizens who are focused on solutions versus rhetoric; they don’t want empathy about people’s troubles or promises to solve problems that are not fulfilled.  
And, they reject the notion that there is someone trying to keep ‘Black folks’ from voting, or from succeeding.  
No one is denying them a job except for their own foolishness when they were younger, or their failing to use their school years to their fullest potential, and they don’t want their children to make the same mistakes, they tell me.
These black voices are the future for our city, who care about all our children, and who are willing to help other parents who are struggling to break old habits and dig out of poverty.  They don't think in terms of Black and White.  They see Gray.
For those who have grown up for years in the political language of the black community, however, this is a time of transition here after 20 years with a Black Mayor.  Floyd Adams was sworn in January 1996.
Every day, our country’s black Americans get older, projecting them further away from “the struggle” of the Civil Rights era of the 60’s.  Failing to remember this leads to yesterday’s election result.
Some of the epithets being hurled by a vocal black activist minority here in Savannah has reminded me of the writings of Booker T. Washington who wrote about black leaders who have made their living by promoting black victimhood and white guilt.
He warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book “My Larger Education,” and described them as “problem profiteers.” 
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." he wrote.
More than one hundred years ago, he was writing to the black community that ‘Character is power.’ So, these are not new topics, or new struggles within the black community.  But, they are front and center in the discussion here now.
We all recognize that the white community in the U.S. exacerbated racial issues in this country when many they tried to keep black people from voting, and failed to desegregate schools and housing and jobs opportunities.  We all know and understand this shameful past of our history. But we no longer live in 1960.  
In the final weeks of the campaign, and in the runoff, Edna kept interjecting race, and it sealed her fate.  Because while the strategy did, in fact, pull out a larger that normal black vote at Tuesday’s runoff, she also ran off her white support.
She is not alone in this among black leaders, a number of whom have harmed themselves in this election cycle.   
But there were enough of Savannah’s black middle class, moderate-view black voters - and some black leaders - who rejected this attempt, who had looked at her record, her age and her mistakes in judgement and said, ‘I have to try someone else.’
We need to acknowledge their strength, their vision for our City’s future, their willingness to create change by voting for the best candidate, their personal responsibility in how they live their lives and raise their children, and the fact that they are creating change through the ballot box.
Their voices will not be drown out by the the foolishness of those now trying to find a new footing, posting threats on social media, and shouting at street corners.
And to those who today do not understand why their candidates lost, I recommend going back and reading the writings of Booker T. Washington.
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3)=The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway.  Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.  Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.  Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.   Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.  Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.  Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.  This is believed to be caused by the emissions from Ford’s Model T automobile.
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I must apologize.  I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 93 years ago
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4) 
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk into a bar and grab a booth.
Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says:
“The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean the Mexican gun running?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean SEAL Team 6?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi ?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean voter fraud?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the  drones in our own country spying on citizens without the benefit of the law?
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million right before it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean Obama arming the Muslim Brotherhood?” 
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The IRS targeting conservatives?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens’ phone calls, emails and everything else?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Obama’s ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Obama’s threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Obama’s repeated violation of the law requiring me to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Obama’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper, and Holder all lying to Congress?” 
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who don’t pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck middle class tax-paying citizens again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?”

Trump: “THAT’S THE ONE!”
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