Obama Air Can't Land in Israel! That Smidgen Just Got Smudged!

Is the immigration invasion getting out of hand! You  decide.

Obama Airlines refuses to land in Israel.  (See 1 below.)
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Those who know me know I love art and our home is filled with art, art objects etc.  Many purchased during our travels.

I also serve on the Board of The Sate Museum, housed on the Univ.of Ga. Campus.  That said, I am
not a devotee of Jon McNaughton's stylized art nor that produced by many of his staff but I must confess the painting below speaks to me!




If you are familiar with Jon McNaughton's paintings, this is his latest---his opinions on the current situation are stated clearly by his paintbrush and his comments below.

Many Americans today feel a sense of dismay and horror as we see our country in a downward spiral; economically, morally, and politically.


President Obama's indifferent attitude and the continuous list of scandals and bad policy are leading the country to ruin. As an artist I am reminded of the old saying "Nero fiddled while Rome burned."   

History believes that Nero himself may have set the great fire that burned
a part of Rome during his leadership.  

Afterwards, he blamed it on the Christians who suffered great persecution under his rule.  I see great
similarities to what we are experiencing today.  Obama fiddled, while the people witnessed the demise of America.   Jon McNaughton

McNaughton could do another painting showing the leader of Iran playing Obama as a violin.  (See 2 below.)
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Commentary on peaceful Muslims.  (See 3 below.)

From friend and fellow memo reader now in Israel: "Hi Dick.  ... and I are in Israel and while we have been touring, we are also following events in Gaza which are simply awful.  Hamas is literally dug in to tunnels that extend in to Israel.  They pop out of their holes, dressed as Israeli soldiers, and are attempting to capture Israelis and hold them hostage.  The IDF is having trouble identifying them but once they do, here come the jets."

From another dear friend and fellow memo reader and Israeli who came to America and lives in Atlanta but visiting family in Israel: "In Israel…………………With 2 daughters, 3 grand kids, one son in law (Major in Special Forces) on the Gaza line………………………………………….you don’t want be in my shoes "
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That 'smidgen' just got smudged!  (See 4 below.)
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-1)1. Foreign airline carriers — all of them — suspended flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport. According to Globes, only Israel’s three airlines — El Al, Arkia, and Israir are “continuing routine operations.” This came after a Hamas rocket struck a house in Yehud, a Tel Aviv suburb five km (three miles) from the airport complex. As a result, Ovda Airport near Eilat will replace Ben Gurion for now.

Israeli officials say the bans amount to rewarding terror, but AP notes that the aviation world is jittery after the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine. The Christian Science Monitor explains what the airport means to Israel:

Imagine if the United States had only one airport and that driving in and out of the country wasn’t really an option. That should give you an idea of how important Ben Gurion Airport is to both Israel’s economy and its sense of national well-being . . .

The last time major international carriers suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv was in 1991, ahead of and during the first Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein lobbed Scud missiles towards Israel.

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2) Iran is pushing limits on nuclear deal, former Obama advisor warns

Author:  Paul Richter 

When Iran and the world powers trying to negotiate a nuclear deal announced late Friday that they would extend their five-month-old talks for an additional four months, they said they had been making “tangible progress” toward a deal.

But a former member of President Obama's inner circle on the Iran issue says Iran is actually moving further from the six world powers on the most important issue of all: how much uranium enrichment capacity the Islamic Republic will be entitled to retain.

Robert Einhorn, shown in July 2000 when he was assistant secretary of State for non-proliferation
(Jimin Lai / AFP/Getty Images)

Robert Einhorn, who was a special advisor on arms control at the State Department until May 2013, says the Iranians have been quietly extending what they claim they are entitled to on enrichment — what Einhorn calls “rights creep.”

He warns these demands could gridlock the negotiations.

Einhorn's views carry some weight. He is not among those who have been opposed to deal-making from the start. Rather, he has been a supporter of the diplomacy, acknowledges there has been important progress on some issues, and favors the extension.

But he has been worried that the enrichment issue could be an insurmountable stumbling block.

Einhorn, now with the Brookings Institution, wrote in an article for the think tank's website Saturday that for years Iran pushed to have the West acknowledge its right to enrich uranium.

Last year, the Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time that it could support Iran having a domestic enrichment program. But now Iran has gone further, contending that it is entitled to produce enough enriched uranium to supply what it hopes will be a huge nuclear power generation program.

The Iranians are now insisting that they be able to have that capability by 2021, although the six powers are demanding, so far, that the deal restricting Iranian nuclear capability should last at least 10 years.

Iran's growing demands became publicly apparent July 7, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a major speech that Iran needed an enrichment capacity that would require more than 100,000 first-generation centrifuges.

The six powers' opening demand was that Iran be limited to 500 to 1,200 first-generation centrifuges.

Some advocates for a deal have insisted that Khamenei's statements were a positive sign, because he showed flexibility in indicating that he wasn't seeking this huge capacity right away. But Einhorn quotes Ali-Akhbar Salehi, head of Iran's nuclear agency, as clarifying that, in fact, Iran wants the infrastructure 

in place by 2021.

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3)   Please don't try to feed me the BS that most Muslim's are peaceful and only the Muslim Terrorists are the bad guys. What we are seeing is mass demonstrations and destruction by what makes up the Muslim neighborhoods in the suburbs of France, Spain, Germany, Detroit, New York, San Francisco, the UK etc.  This is coming to neighborhoods near you in the U.S. and we already have hot spots building up (Dearborn, Michigan), around the good ole U.S.A.  Just sit back and watch while you pick the lint out of your belly buttons thinking it can't happen here!!!!!!!  These are the same people who fill the mosques to pray for the extinction of Jews and Christians everywhere on this earth.

 

ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ROCK PARISTHOUSANDS RALLY IN LONDON ---------------------------------------- 4)

Obamacare's Fraudulent Incentives

By Conn Carroll |
The Government Accountability Officeconfirmed yesterday what conservatives have been warning for years:Obamacare is an open invitation to fraud.

Specifically, GAO Forensic Audits and Investigative Service Acting Director Seto Bagdoyan testified before the House Ways and Means Committee about a GAO investigation that tested Obama administration claims about the internal controls the federal government has set up to prevent fraudulent Obamacare coverage and subsidies.

GAO investigators used fictitious identities and documents to apply for Obamacare coverage on 12 separate occasions. The Obama administration granted coverage and subsidies to 11 of 12 fraudulent applicants. Additionally, as of July 2014, the GAO reported that fake documentation sent for two enrollees had been "verified".

“The total amount of these credits for the 11 approved applications is about $2,500 monthly or about $30,000 annually. We also obtained cost-sharing reduction subsidies, according to marketplace representatives, in at least nine of the 11 cases,” Bagdoyan said.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare is set to spend $1.4 trillion on Obamacare subsidies over the next ten years.

Obama's complete failure to prevent fraud in his signature domestic accomplishment even had some liberals questioning the administration. "This lack of oversight just isn’t acceptable," Indiana University School of Medicine professor Aaron Carroll (no relation) blogged, "The GAO should be checking this stuff, and the administration should be responding to it. Let’s see what happens."

Carroll should not hold his breath. Obama has every incentive to get as many "beneficiaries" signed up for Obamacare no matter how fraudulent they are.Democrats have made the number of "Americans" enrolled in Obamacare the defining metric for the law's success. There simply is no penalty for signing up fake people.

True, the IRS will supposedly fine people who "knowingly and willfully" provide false information $250,000. But no one believes the IRS will ever enforce those penalties. Carroll's co-blogger Nicholas Bagley, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan, explained to Vox, "The money at stake in any given case is too small, and the process for imposing civil money penalties too cumbersome, to justify much in the way of governmental enforcement."

"I would be surprised if the government decides to spend a lot of government resources on this," added Washington and Lee University law professor Timothy Jost.

In fact, the federal government has a long history of ignoring fraud in welfare programs. Just look at the Earned Income Tax Credit. According to the Inspector General of the Treasury Department, the IRS mails out somewhere between $13.3 billion and $15.6 billion in fraudulent EITC payments every year. That comes out to about 22 to 26 percent of the entire EITC program.

As long as a program's success is defined solely by how many people are benefitting, the federal government will continue to shell out billions in fraudulent payments every year. Obamacare only made that situation much, much worse.

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