I know politics is a dirty business and generally brings out the worst, as it is doing, in the case of David Perdue.
He is depending upon a ton of out of state money ( not necessarily Tea Party either) and he has begun a campaign of lies and innuendos.
For example: his ads accuse Jack of voting for increased spending because Jack voted to keep the government open. I can assure you, Jack held his nose each time but had he voted against extending the government's ability to meet its debt obligations he would be been excoriated for not doing so.
I know this is all politics but I also believe it shows the kind of person David Perdue is because he has been pretty inconsistent in his own views.
Jack is a conservative and he has a fairly consistent voting record but he also has a proven record of working with the other side in a rational manner.
Perdue, is engaged in a slash and burn approach which suggests he is desperate and cannot appeal on the merits of his arguments.
I and a group are hosting a fund raiser for Jack this Friday at So Ho at 6 pm and again I invite those who are turned off by Perdue's approach and know Jack, to help with the high cost of the run off campaign.
Thanks in advance for any consideration to this request.
To: Dick Berkowitz
From: Chris Crawford – Campaign Manager
Re: Call to Action: Kingston Under Attack
Date: June 25, 2014
From: Chris Crawford – Campaign Manager
Re: Call to Action: Kingston Under Attack
Date: June 25, 2014
Dick:
David Perdue and his shady, out-of-state Super PAC are getting desperate. Unable to defend their candidate's moderate flip-flopping record, Perdue's camp is launching their most aggressive attacks yet on the true conservative in this race. They think they can buy this election by distorting Jack Kingston's proven conservative record of fighting for Georgia.
We cannot let this happen. Will you stand with us to turn back this attack?
Now is the time to make your commitment so we can get on the air and defend Jack's record of cutting spending, strengthening national defense, and encouraging strong private-sector job creation. We need real conservatives in the fight for us with consistent voting records of standing up for our values, not a liberal in conservative clothing who will turn on us as soon as they get to Washington.
While Jack has had a double-digit lead in the last 5 public polls, we cannot take anything for granted. The Perdue campaign and their big spending out-of-state friends will stop at nothing. Please make a contribution today online or mail a check to Friends of Jack Kingston, PO Box 2133, Savannah, GA 31402.
Time is of the essence. Please make your contribution within the next 72 hours, so we can reserve airtime and make Get Out The Vote plans based on your support. This is a fight we can win, but not without your help at this critical time.
Thank you for your continued support.
Chris Crawford
Campaign Manager
Friends of Jack Kingston
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Liberals hate Fox News and and yet, Fox'sr 6 O'Clock News program with Bret Baier is one of the most watched and informative, unbiased news program on TV today..
They report a variety of news unlike the other major TV companies. FOX coverage and reporting is the only shred of news available today whose thrust is objective and broad reporting but liberals hate Fox because their reporters reveals what liberals are unwilling to hear.
Liberals cannot separate the objective reporting by Baier from the other' opinion programs' featuring O'Reily, Hannity, Kelly etc..
All Last week on ABC, NBC and CBS, total news coverage on The VA Scandal, 0% and the IRS Scandal, 3 min, 14 sec., this is combined coverage of all 3 news media's. Wonder why??? No wonder Democrats only know half the story.and Democrats are therefore uninformed. The majority of the Democrats are totally uninformed about their own party and the Obama White House and they enjoy staying that way.
It is hard to comprehend and dangerous for the media to be so totally biased. This is not Cuba, Venezuela, China, Russia, Iraq, Germany in the 30's& 40's etc. Is this a free country or not?
If we are going to retain our freedom we must have a press willing to be objective, one that informs in an unbiased way allowing the chips to fall where they may.
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And some thoughts from Steve Wright sent to me by a great doctor friend and fellow memo reader:
The work of Steven WrightIf you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famousErudite (comic) scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind sees things differently than most of us do.
And from me:Here are some of his gems:1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.3 - Half the people you know are below average.4 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.5 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.6 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.7 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?8 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?9 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.10 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.11 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.12 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.13 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.14 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?15 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.16 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.17 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.18 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.19 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.20 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.And the all-time favourite -21 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
It's a good thing Obama is not driving the train because he seems to always fall asleep at the switch!
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It's also a good thing Obama is not an electrician because he is a dim wit !(See 1 below.)
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I'/we have seen this movie before. (See 2 below.)
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Dick
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1) U.S. Still Flying Blind on Iran Nukes
On a day when we learned, via quotes from anonymous American officials,that Iran is up to its neck in the fighting in Iraq, confidence in Washington’s ability to stay in command of events in the Middle East is dropping rapidly. But the same administration that has dozed as America’s hard-won achievements in Iraq have evaporated is also hoping that its ignorance about what’s happening inside Iran’s nuclear facilities won’t hinder efforts to broker a deal with Tehran.
The Obama administration’s slender grasp of the facts about Iran’s extensive network of nuclear facilities is the most important point to be gleaned from a New York Times feature that centers on the largely unspecified role that scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh plays in his country’s effort to build a bomb. Fakhrizadeh is, according to the Times, Iran’s J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project to nuclear success during World War Two. His absence from the negotiations being conducted with the West is much remarked upon because he, rather than some of the Islamist regime’s representatives who are taking part, is the key to Iran’s nuclear program. While that absence is motivated largely by a prudent desire to avoid Israelis who rightly think scientists trying to create genocidal weapons are good candidates for elimination, the speculation about the gap between what the West knows about Iran’s program and what Fakhrizadeh could tell us is the focus of the Times piece.
But the point of the questions that abound about Iran’s mysterious nuclear expert ought to alarm those who believe the United States knows what it’s doing in the Iran talks. The U.S. has a poor track record when it comes to monitoring Tehran’s actions outside its borders, such as international terrorism and its military intervention in Syria and now Iraq. But President Obama is betting what’s left of his reputation on the world stage and the security of America’s allies in the region on the strength of a number of assumptions about what Fakhrizadeh and his associates have achieved that are difficult to back up.
As the Times reports, the interesting point about Fakhrizadeh is that the timeline of what Iran has already created is extremely fuzzy. There is widespread confusion about whether the claim that Iran halted its nuclear program in 2003 is accurate, especially since no one in Washington or anywhere else outside of Iran seems to be sure about when those activities were resumed under different organizations. Yet the administration seems to be assuming that understanding what Iran’s program achieved in the past is irrelevant since they think that they can trust the regime’s promises going forward and believe U.S. intelligence is capable of keeping track of current work.
But the Times lets slip an ominous truth buried deep in the article:
Obama administration officials say they have no illusions that they will get visibility into many of Iran’s most heavily protected sites, even if a deal is reached in the next month. That will leave verification of the accord reliant on the American intelligence community’s ability to track covert nuclear activity, a record that is littered with failures.
In other words, even after the next nuclear deal with Iran is reached, the administration is assuming they still won’t have access to all of Iran’s most critical nuclear sites. Underlying that assumption is a belief that the deal will not require Iran to open up its facilities devoted to military research or its ballistic missile program.
This next deal will leave, as did the interim agreement signed last fall, Iran’s uranium enrichment program in place and allow it to keep a stockpile of nuclear material that could be upgraded to weapons-grade levels. That means any hope of preventing the Iranians from “breaking out” and using the nuclear program left in place by the deal to produce a weapon–regardless of its promises–hinges on the U.S. knowing almost immediately if Tehran breaks its word. But given the American ignorance about what Iran has already done and sketchy intelligence and lack of access for inspections about its current activity, how can the president or anyone else say with any assurance that this next agreement will be worth the paper it is printed on?
Even with full access and inspections of the nuclear sites we know about—as opposed to those that Washington isn’t aware of that most intelligence experts assume exist—the chances of stopping Iran are slim. But to knowingly sign such an agreement with such poor information is a virtual guarantee of failure.
Jonathan S. Tobin is senior online editor of COMMENTARY magazine
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2)- As Europe slides into a Dark Age, Jews must review their future
By I leibler
Recent developments signal that the prospect of Europe sliding into a new Dark Age is now a horrifying reality. It is as though all the elements negating the open society have been blended into a witches’ brew to undermine Europe’s liberal cultural ethos.
First in line to suffer are the Jews, attacked from all sides, isolated, friendless and unable to adequately defend themselves. Their greatest threat is the rabidly anti-Semitic Muslims supported by anti-Semites from the far Left. This unholy alliance of religious and secular extremists employs radical anti-Israelism as a surrogate for traditional anti-Semitism and is now a fixture at Hezbollah and anti-Israeli demonstrations, where they wave placards and shamelessly accuse Israelis of emulating Nazis.
In contrast to the post-Vatican ll Catholics, most Protestant denominations (other than the evangelicals) have revived their vicious efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. Spearheaded by the radical World Council of Churches, many are vigorously pressing charges of deicide against the Jewish people and resurrecting replacement theology asserting that by rejecting Christ, Jews are no longer the Chosen People. They also collaborate with the Palestinians in promoting Jesus as a Palestinian rather than a Jew. Some even deny the historical link of Jews with the land of Israel, claiming that Jews are descendants of the Eurasian Khazars who converted to Judaism in the eighth century C.E., and that Palestinians are the truly indigenous people of the region.
Even non-governmental organizations promoting human rights have been hijacked by the radicals to demonize and delegitimize Israel, focusing far more attention on the construction of homes in exclusively Jewish suburbs of east Jerusalem than on the carnage and murder of tens of thousands in Syria and other Muslim-ruled countries.
Officially, most European governments condemn anti-Semitism but, because of a combination of cowardice in facing Islamic violence and fear of losing Muslim electoral support, they abstain from taking the tough action required to turn the tide.
Multiculturalism and diversity are admirable qualities for a democracy but can only apply if all parties are committed to an open society.
European governments failed to integrate Muslim migrants, enabling radical Islamists to create separatist educational and religious institutions. Their schools and mosques are directed by jihadists and frequently financed by Saudi Wahhabi fanatics who brainwash the second generation of migrants into becoming more radical in Europe than their parents had been in their countries of origin.
It is from such incubators that children raised in Europe become engaged in hate crimes, with some graduating into jihadi terrorists.
Now there is a frightening additional development with the massive infusion of youngsters volunteering to fight in Syria with al-Qaida and who return to their countries as hardened killers. It is estimated that thousands of European Muslims are, or at one time were, engaged in the fighting in Syria. Most will return home as seasoned killers imbued with jihadi hatred and seeking new targets, primarily Jews.
Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people, including three Jewish children and their teacher, in Toulouse in 2012 and Mehdi Nemmouche, who murdered four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum, both had jihadi experience.
Regrettably, the culture of political correctness and fear of accusations of Islamophobia for criticizing any aspect of Islam or Muslim behavior prevents appropriate response. Neither the EU nor individual European governments are willing to take tough decisive action, which must include closing extremist Islamic schools, ruthlessly excluding jihadi mullahs from the mosques and aggressively prosecuting Muslim elements engaged in hate crimes, riots or law infringement.
An example of the pernicious extent of Islamic influence was the speech delivered by EU Middle East policy chief Catherine Ashton on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when, to avoid offending Muslims, she omitted any mention of the Jews – the primary victims of the Nazi genocide.
The recent mushrooming of popular support for radical right political parties has intensified the problem.
Some Jews instinctively feel that the strengthening of the enemies of our enemies is to our benefit. They are wrong. The far Right has indeed been galvanized by those who feel threatened by Muslims. But many (not all) are equally anti-Semitic. Yet, while most individual Jewish voters are likely to avoid extremist parties – both Left and Right – Jewish community policy should be highly selective before officially confronting Right-wing parties.
These range from the British U.K. Independence Party, which shuns anti-Semitism, to France’s National Front, which ”softly” distances itself from its anti-Semitic past, to Greece’s blatantly neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, the Hungarian Jobbik party, and the National Democratic Party of Germany, whose anti-Jewish paranoia Hitler would have eagerly endorsed.
Golden Dawn and Jobbik must be confronted. However, Jews should be officially neutral about the U.K. Independence Party which has assiduously dissociated itself from any anti-Semitism and refused to associate with parties tainted with Jew-hatred.
The National Front is more problematic. Officially, Marine Le Pen has dissociated her party from its former anti-Semitic past and condemned Holocaust denial. Although most of the party’s supporters are not hostile to Jews it still carries some of its former anti-Semitic baggage and Le Pen’s father, a notorious and unrepentant Holocaust denier, remains the honorary chairman and an EU parliamentarian.
So long as leadership elements genuinely strive to discard former anti-Semitic associations and unless the party formally adopts anti-Jewish policies, it would be counterproductive to officially designate the largest political party in France as anti-Semitic. The challenge for Jewish leaders is to identify and expose the anti-Semites who are obsessed with insane theories about a global American–Zionist conspiracy, such as Aymeric Chauprade, one of Marine Le Pen’s foreign policy advisers.
It should also be noted that although 70 percent of the French population fear Islamic domination, that has not stemmed the tide of traditional anti-Semitism, as evidenced by the popular support enjoyed by comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala with his “quenelle,” the inverted Nazi salute.
The writing is clearly on the wall. Hostility is intensifying with renewed efforts to ban circumcision and shechita (kosher slaughter) by hypocritical societies that respect hunting as a sport.
In a sense, it is even worse for Jews today than during the 1930s when at least the liberals and the Left combatted anti-Semitism. What is more depressing is that, as a rule, the public is even more anti-Semitic than the government and perceives Israel as the principal source of global evil – no different to the Middle Ages when the Jews were regarded as the source of all natural disasters such as plagues and famine.
Despite the hullaballoo surrounding Islamophobia, it is Jews and not Muslims, who require armed guards at their schools and houses of worship. And the hate crimes, now including murder, perpetrated against Jews are infinitely more acute than those suffered by Muslim minorities. Indeed it is preponderantly Muslims who are engaged in violence against Jews.
The two major European Jewish communities react differently. The vast majority of French Jews are under no illusion about their future and many are planning to leave. Their leaders speak out, courageously protest against anti-Semitism and defend Israel.
In contrast, much of Anglo Jewry remains in denial, deluding themselves that their lives are unaffected by anti-Semitism despite what they read and see in the media and what their children endure at the university campus. Their leaders, the traditional “trembling Israelites,” believe primarily in “silent diplomacy” and seem to have only marginal influence in the corridors of power.
Most Jews cannot be expected to live like pariahs. To continue to live a Jewish life in which anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism occupy such dominant roles is soul-destroying, especially for youngsters.
There are today about 1.5 million Jews in Europe – just one-seventh of the prewar numbers. There will always be Jews in Europe, but the communities will shrink to tiny enclaves unless the tide is turned. Those in a financial position to do so will voluntarily leave or at least encourage their children to leave. Many will come to Israel.
In this highly depressing European environment, we can begin to visualize how Jews felt in the 1930s, unable to obtain entry visas from any country to escape the Nazis as the Holocaust approached. It should make us appreciate more than ever how blessed we are to have a Jewish state powerful enough to defend us from the barbarians at our gates and able to provide a haven and assistance to Jews in need.
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