The Loan Arranger story:https://biggeekdad.com/2012/
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A comment from a friend and fellow memo reader regarding my posting about Sweden: "
I’m eternally grateful that The Erickssons, Ottosons, Lagerstedts and Thompsons decided to come here around the turn of the last century,,,or else I may have been born and lived in this stupid country. A recent example of the stupidity is the recent appointment of Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. This is an extremely anomalous appointment, since he readily admits that he has not read anything about Sweden’s cultural heritage. But his new job is not really about preserving and protecting Sweden’s cultural heritage and historical sites at all. Please click on the attached link to read the rest of the story. I believe this site to be reliable (Frontpage)
This is an outrage and an affront to all of us with Swedish ancestry. It has been reported that by 2050 Sweden will be 30 percent
Muslim. The city of Malmo, where my maternal grandmother was born, is now 20 percent Muslim. It seems as if they are well on the way to destruction…self destruction.
L----"
A nice patronizing thought but I ain't so sure. (See 1 below.)
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Election results seem to suggest Socialists are increasing their appeal in the Democrat Party. Radicalization of the Democrat Party will probably continue to gain momentum as more youthful candidates, who have s--- for brains, run against and defeat their equivalent of the elitist establishment.
Democrats continue to vote with their heart in the mistaken belief America is evil and owes the entire world a place of refuge from any and all of their unfulfilled complaints.
Eventually, when all of these malcontents illegally immigrate, I suspect they will bring their angst with them, and eventually America will become a cauldron of inflamed radicals and socialists who will continue to practice politics of hate, personal demonization, contempt for our constitution, disrespect for our rule of law system of governance and heightened sensitivities to anything that offends their delicate person-hood.
Now that Assoc. Justice Kennedy has resigned it will make for a very interesting Summer and Fall and if Trump follows Leonard Leo's advice and list of nominees he will pick someone who could have a generational impact and perhaps that person could get our nation back on track..
That The Supreme Court recently upheld the president's right to protect our nation from countries incapable of appropriate vetting is deemed a racist decision defies logic. I suggest, when the next president takes the oath of office, we strike that part which states "I pledge to protect and defend America from all sources foreign and domestic" and substitute " I promise to defend the opening of our borders to anyone engaged in legal and/or illegal entry who can get their ass over here and by what ever mean."
Driven by an emotional hatred of Trump radical change is in the air and is fast becoming the new political climate change.
Stay tuned and watch the constitution melt in it's enclosed, sealed case. (See 2 and 2a below.)
The Supreme Court is the weakest branch, they have no military, they can't even determine their own salaries but as long as we remain a nation of the rule of law it is the most powerful of the three branches.
Meanwhile, there are three ways for Supreme Court Justices to respond/rule.
a) They can read the words, hear the arguments and interpret them as written and defined in the dictionary. "Ole Bill "Clinton once told us: is, is, is.
b) Another popular way, among liberal justices, is to add their own meaning/interpretation to the printed word/arguments and then conclude . Is is whatever they believe it is.
c) The third way justices can enact law is to make sure the outcome fits their sense of justice and therefore, written words actually mean nothing. This is what Associate Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg decided to do because they did not like what Trump said while campaigning and substituted what they thought the outcome should be because they believe Trump is a racist.
The reason behind their decision is they are humanist jurist and know whats best and what America needs. This is also known as "Chutzpah Law."
Liberal Justice decisions are far more entertaining because you never know where they are taking you and what will be the consequences on the next roll of the dice. In other words, liberal humanist judges turn courts into Las Vegas slot machines or crap tables. Dicey but oh such much drama.
If you follow the logic of all this, liberal legal decision making eliminates the need for lawyers to read law books, to seek stare decisis because new laws are simply based on whims and what any judge ate for breakfast. But then I "di-jest."
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1) Prince William: UK-Israel ties ‘have never been stronger’
By HERB KEINON
At the end of a jammed pack day that took him from Yad Vashem to the Prime Minister's residence, Beit Hanasi and the Frishman Beach in Tel Aviv, Prince William said that Israel's “remarkable story” is one of remembering the past but “also looking forward to a much more hopeful future.”
Speaking at a reception in the garden of the British ambassador's residence in Ramat Gan, William - the first member of the Royal Family making a formal visit to Israel – said that "the ties between the United Kingdom and Israel have never been stronger." l.
In brief prepared remarks, standing alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Duke of Cambridge underlined cooperation in the economy, in science and in security. The two countries have much in common, he said: "Two open societies that thrive on innovation, diversity, talent and excellence."
He also hailed “an essential vibrancy to this country.”
William, who will travel to Ramallah on Wednesday, said "The region has a complicated and tragic history. In the past century, the people of the Middle East have suffered great sadness and loss. Never has hope and reconciliation been more need."
“ I know I share a desire with all of you, and with your neighbours, for a just and lasting peace.,” he said. “The United Kingdom stands with you, as we work together for a peaceful and prosperous future.
Netanyahu did not speak at the reception., where he and the price viewed a small display of Israeli high-tech innovation. Among the 350 invited guests at the reception were MKs, cabinet ministers, and celebrities such as Bar Refaeli, Shiri Maimon, and Ivri Lider
Netanyahu, along with his wife Sarah, greeted William at their residence in Jerusalem earlier in the day, and introduced him to descendants of the Jewish family that his great-grandmother, Princess Alice, hid in Athens during the Holocaust.
“You must be very very proud of your great grandmother who saved defenseless Jews, and can tell you that I am very proud that Jews are no longer defenseless,” Netanyahu said, as William nodded.
William met the Netanyahu's for nearly an hour following a trip to Yad Vashem, where he toured the museum, laid a wreath in the hall of remembrance, and met two survivors from the Kindertransport. There he wrote in the the guest book that his visit was “profoundly moving.”
“It is almost impossible to comprehend this appalling event in history. Every name, photograph and memory recorded here is a tragic reminder of the unimaginable human cost of the Holocaust and the immense loss suffered by the Jewish people,” he wrote.
“The story of the Holocaust is one of darkness and despair, questioning humanity itself. But the actions of those few who took great risks to help others are a reminder of the human capacity for love and hope. I am honored that my own great grandmother is one of these Righteous Among the Nations.”
William’s great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Greece, hid Rachel Cohen – the widow of a former member of the Greek parliament – and two of her children in Greece during the Holocaust. She is buried in Jerusalem, and William will visit her grave on Thursday.
“We must not forget the Holocaust – the murder of 6 million men, women and children, simply because they were Jewish,” William wrote. “We all have a responsibility to remember and teach future generations about the horror of the past so that they can never reoccur. May the millions of Jewish people remembered by Yad Vashem never be forgotten.”
At the reception, William spoke of his visit to Yad Vashem, and said he is “well aware that the responsibility falls now to my generation to keep the memory alive of that great crime as the Holocaust generation passes on. And I commit myself to doing this.”
William toured the Yad Vashem Museum accompanied by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, and Britain's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
After meeting Netanyahu, William held a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin, who asked him to pass on a message of peace to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whom he will meet on Wednesday.
He then went to Jaffa to attend a soccer event organized by The Equalizer and Peres Center for Peace, and then to the Tel Aviv beach with Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai. There he met watched some footvolley, chatted with some passersby and met top Israeli wind surfers.
Speaking at a reception in the garden of the British ambassador's residence in Ramat Gan, William - the first member of the Royal Family making a formal visit to Israel – said that "the ties between the United Kingdom and Israel have never been stronger." l.
In brief prepared remarks, standing alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Duke of Cambridge underlined cooperation in the economy, in science and in security. The two countries have much in common, he said: "Two open societies that thrive on innovation, diversity, talent and excellence."
He also hailed “an essential vibrancy to this country.”
William, who will travel to Ramallah on Wednesday, said "The region has a complicated and tragic history. In the past century, the people of the Middle East have suffered great sadness and loss. Never has hope and reconciliation been more need."
“ I know I share a desire with all of you, and with your neighbours, for a just and lasting peace.,” he said. “The United Kingdom stands with you, as we work together for a peaceful and prosperous future.
Netanyahu did not speak at the reception., where he and the price viewed a small display of Israeli high-tech innovation. Among the 350 invited guests at the reception were MKs, cabinet ministers, and celebrities such as Bar Refaeli, Shiri Maimon, and Ivri Lider
Netanyahu, along with his wife Sarah, greeted William at their residence in Jerusalem earlier in the day, and introduced him to descendants of the Jewish family that his great-grandmother, Princess Alice, hid in Athens during the Holocaust.
“You must be very very proud of your great grandmother who saved defenseless Jews, and can tell you that I am very proud that Jews are no longer defenseless,” Netanyahu said, as William nodded.
William met the Netanyahu's for nearly an hour following a trip to Yad Vashem, where he toured the museum, laid a wreath in the hall of remembrance, and met two survivors from the Kindertransport. There he wrote in the the guest book that his visit was “profoundly moving.”
“It is almost impossible to comprehend this appalling event in history. Every name, photograph and memory recorded here is a tragic reminder of the unimaginable human cost of the Holocaust and the immense loss suffered by the Jewish people,” he wrote.
“The story of the Holocaust is one of darkness and despair, questioning humanity itself. But the actions of those few who took great risks to help others are a reminder of the human capacity for love and hope. I am honored that my own great grandmother is one of these Righteous Among the Nations.”
William’s great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Greece, hid Rachel Cohen – the widow of a former member of the Greek parliament – and two of her children in Greece during the Holocaust. She is buried in Jerusalem, and William will visit her grave on Thursday.
“We must not forget the Holocaust – the murder of 6 million men, women and children, simply because they were Jewish,” William wrote. “We all have a responsibility to remember and teach future generations about the horror of the past so that they can never reoccur. May the millions of Jewish people remembered by Yad Vashem never be forgotten.”
At the reception, William spoke of his visit to Yad Vashem, and said he is “well aware that the responsibility falls now to my generation to keep the memory alive of that great crime as the Holocaust generation passes on. And I commit myself to doing this.”
William toured the Yad Vashem Museum accompanied by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, and Britain's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
After meeting Netanyahu, William held a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin, who asked him to pass on a message of peace to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whom he will meet on Wednesday.
He then went to Jaffa to attend a soccer event organized by The Equalizer and Peres Center for Peace, and then to the Tel Aviv beach with Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai. There he met watched some footvolley, chatted with some passersby and met top Israeli wind surfers.
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2) High-ranking House Democrat dealt surprise defeat at polls
By Joseph Ax
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Joseph Crowley, a high-ranking Democrat seen as a possible future leader of the chamber, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday in an upset that highlighted the ideological battles at play in this year's midterm elections.
Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who was fourth in line in the House of Representatives' Democratic leadership, was defeated by 28-year-old challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a safely Democratic district in New York City.
Political analysts cast Ocasio-Cortez's win as the biggest upset since House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Republican, lost in 2014 to a little-known right-wing professor, Dave Brat.
The outcome of the race in New York, one of seven U.S. states that held nominating contests, known as primaries, on Tuesday, added fuel to the battle between the Democratic Party's establishment wing, led by longtime House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and a more liberal faction inspired by Bernie Sanders' presidential run in 2016.
Should Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November, Crowley would have been considered on the shortlist for speaker. Instead, after conceding the race, he said he would support Ocasio-Cortez in the general election.
"The Trump administration is a threat to everything we stand for here in Queens and the Bronx, and if we don't win back the House this November, we will lose the nation we love," Crowley said in a statement.
Meanwhile, two Republicans backed by U.S. President Donald Trump prevailed in their nominating contests Tuesday night, again underscoring his influence among the party's voters.
In South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster beat businessman John Warren in a runoff election held a day after the incumbent campaigned alongside the president.
In a bitter matchup in New York City's Staten Island borough, incumbent Dan Donovan easily held off the man he replaced in Congress, Michael Grimm, who resigned three years ago after pleading guilty to tax fraud.
"New York, and my many friends on Staten Island, have elected someone they have always been very proud of," Trump said on Twitter late on Tuesday, congratulating Donovan.
Grimm, a bombastic former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent known for once threatening to toss a television reporter off a balcony, had cast himself as the true Trump supporter in what had become a nasty, insult-laden campaign. He said his conviction was due to a "witch hunt," echoing Trump's characterization of the investigation into his campaign's possible ties to Russia.
The district is considered within reach for Democrats in November.
SEVEN STATES HOLD PRIMARIES
Voters in Colorado, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah picked candidates on Tuesday for the Nov. 6 midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress as well as numerous gubernatorial seats.
Democrats need to flip 23 of 435 seats to take over the House of Representatives, which would stymie much of Trump's agenda while likely opening up new avenues of investigation into his administration. They would have to net two seats to take the Senate, but face longer odds there.
In Colorado, an establishment-backed Democrat defeated a liberal insurgent to win the right to take on incumbent Republican Representative Mike Coffman, whose district favored Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
Jason Crow, an Iraq war veteran backed by the national party, faced Levi Tillemann, who was endorsed by Our Revolution, a group born out of Sanders' presidential bid. Tillemann earned attention this month with an anti-gun violence video in which he blasted himself in the face with pepper spray.
Democratic U.S. Representative Jared Polis won his party's nomination for governor in Colorado and could become the first openly gay man to be elected governor of a U.S. state. He will face Republican Walker Stapleton, the state's treasurer, in November.
In Utah, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney easily won his party's nod for Senate. He will be heavily favored in November in the conservative state.
The government whistleblower Chelsea Manning finished a distant second to incumbent Democratic Senator Ben Cardin in Maryland.
(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Additional reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Christian Schmollinger)
2a) Donald Trump's Very Good Day -- as Democrats Face an Insurrection
A LANDMARK SUPREME COURT RULING AND SOME ELECTION VICTORIES gave Donald Trump one of his best days as president yesterday, showing that despite endless controversies, it's foolhardy to write him off. Trump boasted of a "profound vindication" from the court, which upheld his travel ban.
IT'S NOT AN EXAGGERATION to contend that Trump now has unshakable primacy over all three branches of government. The Supreme Court, with a 5-4 Republican majority, has veered to the right this year. The executive branch, despite policy bickering, obviously is controlled by him; it can set policy through executive orders. And the legislative branch, controlled by the GOP, can occasionally block his initiatives but has little chance of enacting anything he opposes.
TRUMP'S SIGNATURE ISSUE of course is securing the borders and keeping immigrants out; it's why his base will never abandon him. And yesterday's Supreme Court victory may embolden him to seek non-legislative solutions to close the borders -- just as he has used executive orders on trade -- confident that neither the courts nor Congress can stop him.
ONE THING IS CERTAIN: Trump's iron grip on the Republican Party has been reinforced in recent weeks. Two high-visibility candidates endorsed by Trump -- South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and New York Rep. Dan Donovan -- won elections last night. An endorsement from Trump is coveted, and Republicans have fallen in line. And now he has still another foil . . .
THE RISE OF THE LEFT: The stunning defeat of Rep. Joe Crowley in New York sent quite a wakeup call to the Democrats, who face an insurgency on the left. A rising star in the House ranks, Crowley lost convincingly to a 28-year-old socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Other progressives fared well, including Ben Jealous in Maryland, who won the party's nomination to face a popular Republican governor in the fall -- a victory for Bernie Sanders and the left, who aggressively supported Jealous.
SO TRUMP NOW GETS TO BRAND THE DEMOCRATS as veering sharply to the left; the radical Rep. Maxime Waters already has become a convenient Trump foil. Most of the party's veterans want to downplay speculation about impeachment, but the activists won't drop that issue -- still another gift to Trump, who can rally his base with charges of a "witch hunt."
TRUMP STILL HAS PROBLEMS: He lost a court ruling last night on the separation of illegal immigrants from their children; he got a not-so-subtle scolding from Justice Anthony Kennedy on respecting the Constitution; the Congressional Budget Office warned of staggering deficits and surging debt service costs; and uncertainty persists on trade policy.
BUT TRUMP GOT TWO GREAT GIFTS YESTERDAY, and now he gets to watch a ferocious internal struggle among Democrats, who face a risky choice: either embrace an avowedly socialist agenda that will not play well in Middle America, or crush an insurrection from the Bernie Sanders wing. They chose the latter option in 2016, and millions of disillusioned young voters stayed at home on election day.
2a) Donald Trump's Very Good Day -- as Democrats Face an Insurrection
A LANDMARK SUPREME COURT RULING AND SOME ELECTION VICTORIES gave Donald Trump one of his best days as president yesterday, showing that despite endless controversies, it's foolhardy to write him off. Trump boasted of a "profound vindication" from the court, which upheld his travel ban.
IT'S NOT AN EXAGGERATION to contend that Trump now has unshakable primacy over all three branches of government. The Supreme Court, with a 5-4 Republican majority, has veered to the right this year. The executive branch, despite policy bickering, obviously is controlled by him; it can set policy through executive orders. And the legislative branch, controlled by the GOP, can occasionally block his initiatives but has little chance of enacting anything he opposes.
TRUMP'S SIGNATURE ISSUE of course is securing the borders and keeping immigrants out; it's why his base will never abandon him. And yesterday's Supreme Court victory may embolden him to seek non-legislative solutions to close the borders -- just as he has used executive orders on trade -- confident that neither the courts nor Congress can stop him.
ONE THING IS CERTAIN: Trump's iron grip on the Republican Party has been reinforced in recent weeks. Two high-visibility candidates endorsed by Trump -- South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and New York Rep. Dan Donovan -- won elections last night. An endorsement from Trump is coveted, and Republicans have fallen in line. And now he has still another foil . . .
THE RISE OF THE LEFT: The stunning defeat of Rep. Joe Crowley in New York sent quite a wakeup call to the Democrats, who face an insurgency on the left. A rising star in the House ranks, Crowley lost convincingly to a 28-year-old socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Other progressives fared well, including Ben Jealous in Maryland, who won the party's nomination to face a popular Republican governor in the fall -- a victory for Bernie Sanders and the left, who aggressively supported Jealous.
SO TRUMP NOW GETS TO BRAND THE DEMOCRATS as veering sharply to the left; the radical Rep. Maxime Waters already has become a convenient Trump foil. Most of the party's veterans want to downplay speculation about impeachment, but the activists won't drop that issue -- still another gift to Trump, who can rally his base with charges of a "witch hunt."
TRUMP STILL HAS PROBLEMS: He lost a court ruling last night on the separation of illegal immigrants from their children; he got a not-so-subtle scolding from Justice Anthony Kennedy on respecting the Constitution; the Congressional Budget Office warned of staggering deficits and surging debt service costs; and uncertainty persists on trade policy.
BUT TRUMP GOT TWO GREAT GIFTS YESTERDAY, and now he gets to watch a ferocious internal struggle among Democrats, who face a risky choice: either embrace an avowedly socialist agenda that will not play well in Middle America, or crush an insurrection from the Bernie Sanders wing. They chose the latter option in 2016, and millions of disillusioned young voters stayed at home on election day.
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