North Korean officers... Could be easily defeated with a giant magnet...
Why they call them tin horns!
And
Then our pipsqueak president. Obama is out of his league on the world stage. (See 1 below.)
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| Daniel wrote: "It was fascinating to watch it all play out in situ. Let's not forget the threat from Gaza has been continuous and has gone on for over 15 years. So much so that the citizens of Sederot have resorted to making art out of the madness" |
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Our sincerest thanks for all the well wishes , prayers, calls and contributions. Just spoke with Daniel and for anyone who wants to see Daniel's 190 photos from his trip you can go to Facebook and at the top type in Daniel Berkowitz etc.
From Daniel: "Landed safely at Newark. Thanks to you all for the tremendous support, thoughts and prayers. More to follow when I can find time to put pen to paper."
Xoxo,
Daniel
This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader who received from his friend. (See 1a below.)
This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader who received from his friend. (See 1a below.)
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One of my closest friends and fellow memo reader sent me an article that appeared recently in The Investor's Daily Digest pertaining to the crippling cost of Federal legislation. The article, by Paul Dreissen, concluded annual costs amounted to $1.9 trillion and he suggested , in part, this is why our economic recovery has been so historically labored. He further wrote, this was before the Obama Administration set about to kill the coal industry.The cost of this energy payoff to Greens is estimated to cost consumers nearly $300 million more in added heating costs as well as possibly 225,000 jobs. Even the EPA, which is enforcing this legislation, acknowledges the warming benefits will be in the vicinity of .03 degrees.
Dreissen proceeds to cite additional evidence and facts that challenge the benefits derives in view of the various cost constraints.
Common sense dictates we are drowning in red tape and a peer review by independent experts is long over due.
If there ever was any doubt about the incompetence of big government the Obama Administration's mis-management has validated it for any one who is objective and is not brain dead. (See 2 below.)
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This from a friend and fellow memo reader. Did not know but now no longer will buy from them as well! (See 3 below.)
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There is the news and there is the honest news. I have subscribed to the latter for years. You might want to do so as well. (See 4 below.)
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1) Obama ‘Yelled’ at Netanyahu in Ceasefire Demand
Read the rest of this Patriot Update article here: http://patriotupdate.com/2014/08/obama-yelled-netanyahu-ceasefire-demand/#dvESXfFUgfTpVM7U.99
President Barack Obama “yelled” at Benjamin Netanyahu during a tense phone conversation as he demanded that the Israeli prime minister agree to an unconditional, humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, a former Israeli defense official told Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
“It was not a pleasant conversation if you saw what happened . . . it was not pleasant,” Danny Danon — a Likud party member of the Knesset and Netanyahu’s former deputy minister of defense — said on “The Steve Malzberg Show.”
“He was yelling and telling Prime Minister Netanyahu what he should do and what he should not do.
“I tell you very frankly, we have a very close relationship with the U.S. — the strongest ally of Israel. But this is not a way to treat the leader of an ally country.”
According to Danon, the fireworks erupted as Obama urged a permanent end to the hostilities between Israel and Hamas, which last week began firing rockets at key Israeli cities, prompting retaliation
1a) Received this from a friend today. Check this out.
Subject: Latest update from Effi in Israel
Dear Alan,
Hi
Everything ok here -a couple of sirens , into the security, stay the
mandatory 8-10 minutes and then pop out again and try to pick up where we
left off.
Not so easy
But we are glued to the radio and all the TV are on in every room just in
case a new piece of news is aired and to hear if we suffered any more
casualties
Last night one of our war correspondents- Alon Ben David -a very reputable
journalist with decades of experience in security affairs- if you ever need
a fluent English journalist to explain what is going on for some occasion in
your area- have them hire him -from channel 10 news
In any case he just filed a 25 minute report from within Gaza accompanying
the brigade commander as they went from post to post and we could clearly
see that almost in every house there was a tunnel opening, hidden
explosives, mines, rig's, rocket launchers outside etc. - almost in every
civilian home.
He pointed out a command center -abandoned by Hamas with plasma screens that
were fed by cameras focused on the border fence tracking every IDF patrol.
Today, the IDF doesn't chances - find a booby-trapped house or getting
fired on from a house- (and we lost 3 paratroopers who entered a
booby-trapped home and were killed- , they call in the massive D-9
caterpillar tractors- huge monsters, with heavily armored plates and they
just push the house down, burying anyone inside and setting off explosives
They have engaged terrorists and killed them all -in fact Hamas has lost
hundreds of its fighters, many buried alive under houses and in their own
tunnels, and many are giving themselves up.
They have found dead Hamas terrorists in the tunnels - you could say in 3
versions for want of a better word ;
. Fighters- heavily armed and in IDF uniforms
. Suicide bombers- with bomb vests on them
. Large or heavy set Hamas people- why? Because they were meant to
be ones to kidnap either live or dead Israelis and carry them back in the
tunnels into Gaza-. They trained especially just for this task.
Unbelievable!!
And the destruction is awesome- sewgiya, khan unis, -are almost leveled to
the ground- just like what the IDF did to Nasrallah in the Dacha. Warnings
were given to residents to evacuate - and over 100,000 did just that. But
others either did not heed or could not -as Hamas leveled weapons at them
forcing them to stay - and therefore they unfortunately pad the price. It's
always the question of intent. They target our civilian cities just for the
purpose to inflict death. We target hamas strongholds in civilian areas who
are using residents and their homes as shields. Not to mention ambulances
filled with ammunition and explosives .
But we also paid a high price - 43 soldiers and officers- many of them high
ranking as they lead their forces into battle - in other armies this does
not occur - died and it is hard to accept. But the calls from within the
home front is to carry on
The news of the tunnels are headliners and you are going to fall off your
seat when i tell you
. 31-33 attack tunnels were known to exist -heading towards Israel.
The intelligence knew about them and the answers as to why will have to be
given after the war is over.
. They uncovered 31 and have destroyed 16 of them and no matter
whether there's a ceasefire or not -these have to be destroyed. We said
before that their purpose was the mega hit over Rosh Hashanah 2014 with them
emerging from 31 tunnels with thousands of fighters and slaughtering Jews. A
miracle that we entered the campaign today and not after September.
. Smuggling tunnels were in the hundreds but are of no significance
to us as Egypt dealt with them and destroyed - they say -over 90% of them as
their openings were in Egypt.
. But the city under the city is the big news. We knew they had an
extensive tunnel system but we know hear that there are 5,000- yes 5,000
administrative, or command or logistical, communication tunnels
crisscrossing Gaza allowing Hamas free movement underground almost all
across the Strip. I think it may be almost of the same proportion as what
the Vietcong had during the Vietnam war. Where was the soil put. Mostly
in green houses and in house basements where the drones could not penetrate.
So to sum it up till now:
3,700 Hamas targets attacked since the operation began
. 2,600 during the ground offensive
. 350 command centers of Hamas destroyed
. Over 300 Hamas terrorists killed- and more still under the rubble.
Hamas tries to take the bodies away before we get to them.
. IDF has used over 100 tons of explosive to explode the tunnels so far
The air force struck at 80 targets over the weekend
. Hamas has fired over 938 rockets since the fighting began
. 180 intercepted by Iron dome - the rest in open spaces and few scored direct hits
. We have lost 43 of our soldiers and 124 are in hospital, 1 mortally wounded and 1 still missing
Ceasefire:
. Kerry tried but has it all wrong . He just doesn't seem to
understand the Middle East mentality.
.He tried to put forward a proposal that was virtually a copy of the Qatar and Turkish proposal giving
Hamas almost all that they wanted with no mention of Israel's defense needs or allowing us to destroy the tunnels during the ceasefire.
Israel rejected it and the only one real one with any chance of success is Egypt's proposal
There have been 3 attempts at ceasefire - we accepted but Hamas breached it each time
Hamas asked for the last ceasefire- a sign of weakness or desperation? -who knows- in any case it was for 24 hours to allow the residents to stock up for the Idle fit festival in 24 hour's time.
It didn't take 45 minutes for Hamas to open up with a rocket barrage again
.So in essence there is no ceasefire
As for the residents coming out of the camps to pick up belongings from their homes in segiya or khan unis (major Hamas strongholds) was a waste of time as there was nothing for them to return to
They are openly accusing Hamas for what is going on but cannot do anything for fear of death
Haniyeh is still underground and doesn't quite know what awaits him
Mashal is still on his tread mill sweating hard but only from exertion, but will regain his composure after a good gourmet meal at the Qatar Hilton - could not resist it
Muhammad Def. is still controlling Hamas and he doesn't care as he has lost 2 legs, is in a wheelchair, and lost the use of 1 arm but is determined to fight tile the last Gaza resident
By the way the IDF says it knows where he is but it is too complicated to get at him and the price of losing our soldiers is not worth it . But we have al long memory and a long arm and his time will come. There
is a saying in Arabic- "kol kelb b'dyomo " - loosely translated -every dog has his day
So we carry on and see what happens overnight and tomorrow
More later
Effi
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2) Nine Decades at the BarricadesJim Buckley has seen Washington as a senator, a judge and executive-branch official. He has some ideas for how to shrink an ever-growing federal government.
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James L. Buckley belongs to an exclusive club. He is one of no more than 30 men in American history to have served in high office in all three branches of the U.S. government. His wide experience makes him a penetrating critic of contemporary American government. Yet his most important legacy may be the Supreme Court case in which he was lead plaintiff: Buckley v. Valeo, which tested the campaign-finance restrictions Congress enacted in Watergate's wake.
At the time, Mr. Buckley was New York's junior senator. In March 1974 he had become the second member of the Senate Republican Caucus (after Edward Brooke of Massachusetts), and the first conservative one, to urge that President Nixon step down—not, the senator took care to emphasize, because he presumed the president guilty but because he thought the Nixon presidency already damaged beyond repair. "Had he taken my advice right away, he'd have been saved a lot of embarrassment," Mr. Buckley, 91, tells me over lunch at a restaurant near his home here. Instead, Nixon clung to power for nearly five months—the 40th anniversary of his resignation is Aug. 9.
Sen. Buckley's prescience about Watergate did not make him sympathetic to his colleagues' post-Watergate reforms—or as he puts it, "things labeled as reforms." Among them were the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which limited both spending by and contributions to candidates for federal office.
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"Any time you have Congress or any legislature drawing up the rules on who can spend what and how much, it's going to be totally in favor of incumbents," he observes. "One of the things that particularly bothered me was the limit on total spending, when members of Congress start out with so many advantages. I heard somebody suggest that incumbency was worth a million dollars"—real money in those days.
He introduced an amendment permitting challengers to spend 30% more than incumbents: "Naturally, that was tabled without discussion, and that was the temper of any constructive proposal I made during the course of the debate." The bill became law in October, and Mr. Buckley sued.
In January 1976 the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that Mr. Buckley describes as "50/50." The justices struck down the spending limit as a free-speech violation but upheld the contribution limit on the ground of "preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption."
Both holdings remain in force, although the high court in recent years has been chipping away at other restrictions on political speech. The best-known of these rulings, Citizens United v. FEC, held that corporations have a free-speech right to make "independent expenditures" on political speech.
Mr. Buckley is blasé about Citizens United: "I must confess that as a matter of pure policy, not constitutional law, I wouldn't mind if institutions with commercial interests—unions and corporations—couldn't express themselves, so long as individuals could express themselves in any way they want, and groups of individuals organizing for the purpose of expressing their views."
Thus he still thinks the justices got it wrong in 1976 by upholding individual contribution limits—a finding reaffirmed in Citizens United—and he hopes they'll eventually overturn it. Asked to gauge the prospects, he answers: "How about 50/50?" He acknowledges that there is "something to" the concern about the appearance of corruption, but says "you have to balance the costs and benefits, and restricting the ability of people to get into the game to me is a capital sin."
The Buckley v. Valeo lawsuit was bipartisan. The co-plaintiffs included former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, the antiwar Minnesota Democrat whose unexpectedly strong primary challenge had prompted Lyndon Johnson to abandon his 1968 re-election bid. McCarthy and Mr. Buckley understood the challenges facing political outsiders. As Mr. Buckley says of McCarthy: "He was launched by 12 people who contributed a million dollars to his cause. He couldn't have gotten off base without that kind of backing."
Although he would spend nearly a third of his life in government, Mr. Buckley was anything but a professional politician. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he practiced law and worked as an executive in the family's international oil-financing business before accepting his first political job—as a favor to his younger brother.
It was 1965 and William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review, was running for mayor of New York as the nominee of the recently formed Conservative Party. The campaign aimed for influence, not victory; when a reporter asked the younger Buckley what he'd do if he won, he quipped: "I'd demand a recount." But he needed a campaign manager, and his brother, though initially incredulous at the request, agreed to sign on.
Bill Buckley finished third, then in 1968 persuaded his brother to launch a similarly quixotic campaign to unseat Jacob Javits, a liberal New York Republican senator. That bid failed, but Mr. Buckley says that over the next two years he began to feel the pull of politics: "I found myself in places like the Philippines or Australia, and people were saying, 'What the hell is happening in the United States?'—with student bombings and Vietnam protests and so on. My Boy Scout impulse kind of took over."
He made another Senate run in 1970 on the Conservative line. The Republican incumbent, Charles Goodell, had been appointed from an upstate House seat to finish the term of the murdered Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Goodell was vulnerable, owing to "what many Republicans view as an abrupt and calculated shift from hard-line conservatism to hard-line liberalism," in the words of a contemporaneous news account. Mr. Buckley's 39% plurality was enough for victory.
When he sought re-election in 1976, he had both the Republican and Conservative nominations. In a two-man contest, he lost to Daniel Patrick Moynihan. But a few years later, Mr. Buckley was back in Washington as Ronald Reagan's presidency opened new doors to conservatives. Mr. Buckley served as undersecretary of state for security assistance (1981-82) and president of Radio Free Europe (1982-85).
In 1985 Reagan nominated him to serve as a federal judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. "I said, 'This is the wildest idea I've ever heard of.' . . . Plus, what was my competence to do it?" His friend Potter Stewart, who had retired from the Supreme Court, persuaded him that his background as a legislator and lawyer was sufficient.
Judge Buckley assumed senior status after 11 years on the bench, and stopped hearing cases a few years after that. He has kept busy in retirement, thinking and writing about the dangers of an ever-expanding federal government. He notes that at the beginning of the New Deal, the U.S. Code, the entire body of federal statutory law, took up a single volume. "At the end of the New Deal, there were three volumes. When I served in the Senate, there were 11 volumes. . . . The one that is called a 2012 edition—they're still printing the volumes—is going to be about 33 or 34 volumes."
That's not the half of it. "We've got in the habit of writing more and more legislation that kind of gives broad outlines to be implemented by regulations," he says. "There are now 235 volumes of regulations that occupy . . . 17 feet of shelf space of six-point or seven-point type." Even unintentional violations can bring criminal penalties, "so that you can now find yourself in jail for violating a statute you would never have any reason to know existed."
Bur Mr. Buckley's is not a counsel of despair. He envisions a legal challenge to this bureaucratic power, alleging "an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to an unelected board." And his book "Saving Congress From Itself," forthcoming in November, argues for a revival of federalism—the devolution of power from Washington to the states.
That's a familiar conservative refrain, but Mr. Buckley's improvisations are worth a listen. He attributes a great deal of mischief to Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, the 1937 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Social Security Act's unemployment-compensation scheme, which is federally designed and funded but administered by the states. The justices adopted a broad interpretation of Congress's power to spend money under the Constitution's General Welfare Clause—"in a manner that utterly subverts what was left of the 10th Amendment," in Mr. Buckley's view.
The court held that Congress could condition federal funding on states' enactment of laws that met with Washington's approval. These grants-in-aid programs have multiplied. "They started blossoming with Lyndon Johnson," Mr. Buckley says. "There may have been 100, 120 of them at that time. By 1970 there were about 300, with an annual expenditure of $24 billion. There are now over 1,100 of them, with a federal expenditure this current fiscal year [of] $647 billion. So it is now the third-largest category of spending," after entitlements and defense.
"You're talking about . . . a sixth of total federal spending on matters that are admittedly not the businesses of the Congress because they are in the exclusive jurisdiction of states and localities," Mr. Buckley says. "These programs have proved extraordinarily costly in terms of dollars and cents, extraordinarily costly in terms of warping priorities, extraordinarily destructive and costly in terms of disenfranchising the people."
Steward Machine Co. is settled law, so Mr. Buckley looks to a legislative solution: "What you'd have to do is say, 'We're killing them all, but converting the expectations into a single block grant—no strings attached—phased out over five [or] six years,' which would give the states the opportunity to revamp their own tax claims and the federal government to reduce theirs." That, he says, would require "an enlightened Congress that is willing to say, 'We've been on the wrong track all this time. We're wasting our time doing the work of city aldermen.' "
Which raises the obvious question: How do you get an enlightened Congress? "You create the kind of grass-roots demand for it that occurred four years ago, called the tea party," Mr. Buckley answers. But he sees his idea as having an appeal beyond the right: "It's in nobody's interest to waste money, and it's in nobody's interest to defer local decisions to federal bureaucrats."
Nobody's interest, I reply cynically, except perhaps those federal bureaucrats and unenlightened congressmen. He concedes the point and offers a qualification: nobody's interest "in terms of citizens, the grass roots."
Mr. Buckley doesn't claim it will be easy. He estimates the likelihood of success as "one chance in two million." If the alternative is complete futility, you've got to like those odds.
Mr. Taranto, a member of the Journal's editorial board, writes the Best of the Web Today column for WSJ.com.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4)After you see what Edible Arrangments did for Hamas, you’ll never buy from them AGAIN
Edible Arrangements was founded by brother Kamran (left) and Tariq Farid (right)Edible Arrangements just lost my business forever. If you’re looking for something to send your family or friends next Christmas or Hanukkah, make sure it’s not from this place.Tariq Farid is the CEO of Edible Arrangements, which he started with his brother, Kamran Farid. Not only are they devout Pakistani Muslims, but they are major donors and fundraisers for American mosques, Islamic schools, and similar enterprises in Pakistan. Recent tax returns of their Farid Foundation, to which they and Edible Arrangements are major contributors, show that their foundation gives tens of thousands of dollars to extremist Islamic schools and mosques in America and to Islamic Relief, the HAMAS/Al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood “charity” which sends tens of millions of dollars to finance jihad around the world. An Islamic Relief fundraiser I attended undercover featured young Muslim Arab kids simulating beheadings of Americans, Brits, and Israelis as the evening’s “entertainment.” And as I told you, Islamic Relief’s chief official in Gaza was a HAMAS official with Bin Laden’s photo, swastikas, and a “G-d Bless Hitler” banner as his screensavers. As I also told you, Islamic Relief’s registered agent in the U.S. is Kazbek Soobzokov, the son of Nazi Waffen SS officer Tscherim Soobzokov and the lawyer for deported accused terrorist and Islamic cleric, Imam Wagdy Mohamed Ghoneim.Edible Arrangements is also a major donor to IMAN in Chicago, which converts inner city residents to Islam and organizes Muslims to impose sharia on America’s political system. IMAN also aligns with Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.Make sure to share this article with your friends because, after all, friends don’t let friends support Hamas.
 
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