GMOA - Georgia's Jewel of A Museum! Jimmy - Georgia's Grouchy Old anti-Semitic Grouch!

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Subject: Fwd: Good Ol' Boys From My Home State!

Two good ol' boys in a Alabama trailer park were sitting around talking

one afternoon over a cold beer after getting off work at the local Nissan plant. 

After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, "If'n I was to sneak over to

your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin'

and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?" 

The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his head and

squinted his eyes thinking real hard about the question.  Finally, he says, "Well, I

don't know about kin, but it would make us even!"   

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Russ and Sam, two friends, met in the park every day to feed the pigeons, watch the squirrels and discuss world problems.

One day Russ didn't show up. Sam didn't think much about it and figured maybe he had a cold or something.. But after Russ hadn't shown up for a week or so, Sam really got worried. However, since the only time they ever got together was at the park, Sam didn't know where Russ lived, so he was unable to find out what had happened to him.

A month had passed, and Sam figured he had seen the last of Russ, but one day, Sam approached the park and -- lo and behold -- there sat Russ! Sam was very excited and happy to see him and told him so. Then he said, 'For crying out loud Russ, what in the world happened to you?

Russ replied, 'I have been in jail.'

'Jail!' cried Sam. What in the world for?'

'Well,' Russ said, 'you know Sue, that cute little blonde waitress at the coffee shop where I sometimes go?'

'Yeah,' said Sam, 'I remember her. What about her?

'Well, one day she filed rape charges against me; and, at 89 years old, I was so proud that when I got into court, I pleaded 'guilty'.

'The damn judge gave me 30 days for perjury'.
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I noted in my previous memo I was out of town chairing a committee meeting of The State Museum located on the campus of The University of Ga. (GMOA.)

Many of you have come to and enjoyed the art tours I have conducted in the past.

The State Museum has sadly  not been supported by governors, state legislators and, directly,  the Board of Regents. Because GMOA is a teaching museum it was decided it should be located on campus in Athens and it gets the majority of its operational funding from the University by way of The Board of Regents.

Because of our fabulous Director, Bill Eiland, who enjoys a national reputation, the generosity and engagement of GMOA's Board, GMOA's reputation is growing both nationally and internationally.

This is evidenced by the fact that many of our outstanding paintings are sought by others for exhibit allowing us to make calls in return for the excellent art exhibits GMOA's Staff  programs as well as donations from art foundations and private donors.  (We just received three outstanding works of art from The George Segal Foundation.)

Today's meeting entailed a discussion pertaining to and acceptance of additional works of art, handmade quilts, items of silver and ceramics etc.

Our collection now numbers over 10,000 objects and includes paintings from The Kress Collection The Pierre Daura Collection, The Alfred  H. Holbrook Collection (Holbrook's 100 works comprised the genesis of our collection,) The C.L Moorehead Collection  etc.

If you have not been to GMOA, I urge you go.
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I admit to having an eccentric sense of humor  and my brain is not wired in a normal manner.

What really angers me is hypocrisy. So lets talk about some of the more recent Hippocratic events that  caught my eye and made me see red:

1)  Obama, and many of those who still believes he walks on water, are taking credit for the drop in gasoline prices.  Production on government lands is down 6%, private lands up over 60% and Obama has done everything he can to appease the Greens and stop the increase in oil production.

When Republicans came up with the phrase "drill baby drill" Obama said it sounded more like a bumper sticker than a successful and achievable strategy because we could not drill our way to cheap oil.

American drillers have supplanted The Saudi's and OPEC as the swing factor.

2) Former Governor Palin was derided for using the "drill baby drill" phrase and yet V.P Biden is the next to succeed Obama and his idiotic comments are seldom highlighted as are Palin's.

I submit, Biden, because of his elected position, is, prospectively,  more a threat to our nation, having seldom been right about most of his predictions, than Palin.

3) Today that genius from California, Pelosi of 'first pass it to understand what is in it, fame,' criticized Republicans for playing ball with national security because of the amendments attached to a funding bill.

Democrats just finished doing the same thing to a bill authorizing  pipeline construction.

5)Former President, Jimmy Carter, is entitled to Secret Service Protection.  If truth be told, his Secret Service Protection should be used to  protect America from Carter and  his inane comments and bias.

Not only is Carter a crank in his dotage, but an embarrassing buffoon who is also blind.

BOKO HARAM thugs kill thousands but no comments from this pathetic remnant of a president . (See 1,1a and 1b below.)

6) Perhaps the biggest act of hypocrisy is Obama's inability to connect Islam to terrorism.

Subject: FW: DAVID WOOD EXPLAINS ISLAMIC JIHAD'S 3 STAGES  VERY WELL

That should do it until more hypocrisy  hints me in the face. Stay tuned!
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Now let me turn to the economy and the market.

In several of my previous memos I took issue with Obama salivating over the economy and the rise in employment.  Though the statistics reflect improvement, I urged readers to look behind the curtains. and this is what they would see which is now being reflected in a very volatile and weak market:

1) Canada is our largest trading partner and the decline in oil pricing is killing Canada and the effect will eventually spill into our economy.

2)  The same is true for drillers in our own country. The reduction in drilling will negatively impact job growth. Energy jobs are high paying ones.

3)  The decline in world GNP (slowdowns in China, Europe,etc. and the rise  in the value of the dollar )will impact American exports though a strong dollar will  help our trade imbalance.

The World Bank cut its growth assessment for the world from 3.4 to 3% and cited Eurozone problems.

4) Government statistics no longer capture the true economy so we really do not have a good and measurable handle on what unemployment truly is.

5)  Wages have not shown significant improvement and many of the newly employed are not earning what they were in the 90's. Furthermore, when the government tells you there is no inflation that is not true. Food, health care and various taxes have gone way up and the offset in energy costs is  not fully captured by consumers.

6) If you believe one force begets a counter force then we should be careful what we wish for because low inflation could signify and result in deflation.

The Fed's Q E efforts must be unwound and I doubt they will be quick to raise interest rates in such a weak world economic order.

The Fed has a lot of experience with Inflation and,in fact, has encouraged it through their policies.  It has far less experience with deflation and that is what the market seems to fear at this time.

The decline in metal prices suggests deflation is a legitimate concern.

7) I continue to believe Obama is challenged when it comes to understanding economics and if he is not then he is purposely out to harm our nation and do so under the cover of lying about the timbre of the economic recovery and/or for political theater.

Just my thinking.
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Think what you will about Newt he is right on when it comes to terrorism.  (See 2 below.)
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Hezbollah plans to go deep into Israel in the next war their leader says they have already planned and prepared for. Will Israel respond?.  (See 3 below.)
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Dick
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1)

Jimmy Carter: Jews Safer in France than Israel

By Adam Kredo

Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Jews “on the average” are “safer in France” than in Israel, despite a massive uptick in extremist violence that has targeted Jewish people living in that country.

Carter’s claim came in response to a recent call by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inviting France’s endangered Jews to move to Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.

Jews have fled Paris en massage due to growing anti-Semitism and the recent the massacre of Jews in a kosher food store by Islamic extremists. The editor of Britain’s Jewish Chronicle said that the problem is so bad that “every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave.”

However, Carter said that Jews are still safer in France than in “some place in Israel,” an apparent reference to areas often struck by terrorism from groups such as Hamas.

“My guess is that the Jews who live in France will maybe not take this as a positive step, and say the only way you can be safe is to go to Israel,” Carter said in an interview with HuffPost Live. “I would guess that you may be, on the average, maybe safer in France than some places in Israel, but I’m not trying to make a judgment.”

Carter also said that the recent attacks in Paris should provide an opportunity for the West to discover what makes Islam “great.”

“I think this is going to give a lot of people incentive to look into Islamicism, what is it about this religion that makes it great, that makes it appeal to really billions of people and to understand that Islamic leaders condemn this kind of terrorism just like the rest of the world,” he said.

1a) Dershowitz: 'Jimmy Carter Has the Blood of Thousands on His Hands'

By Melissa Clyne

President Jimmy Carter is the reason Israel and the Palestinians are still at war and nobody should listen to anything Carter has to say about the Middle East, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who appeared Wednesday on "America’s Forum" on NewsmaxTV with Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman.

The men weighed in on Carter’s recent suggestion that the International Criminal Court in The Hague should investigate both Israel and Hamas for possible war crimes.

"[Carter] recommended to Yasser Arafat that Yasser Arafat turn down the deal that … would have resulted in the Palestinian state," Dershowitz said. "He has blood of thousands of Jews and Palestinians on his hands. He should just stop talking about the Middle East. 

"The idea that the International Criminal Court should create moral equivalence between a democracy — which has the most moral army in the world and has fewer civilian casualties than any other army in history — facing comparable threats to a terrorist regime that includes Hamas, that commits multiple war crimes every time it sends a rocket, is so obnoxious and so hypocritical and so typical of Jimmy Carter that the world understands that he has made himself irrelevant and tossed himself into the trash pan of history." 

Foxman agreed, saying Carter’s longstanding disdain for Jews is well-known and that he views the world through an Arab-Israeli "fixation."

"Jimmy Carter has always had a problem with Jews and it borders on anti-Semitism," he said. "In the midst of this tragedy, in the midst of this serious debate, to again blame it on Israel. He said that the terrorism and the reason the Jews and this anti-Semitism problem (exist) is because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 

"It's sad, because he was the president of the United States and people listen. What we should do is stop listening to him."

Continuing to create a moral equivalency between Hamas and Israel, as Carter suggests, only encourages Hamas acts of terror, Dershowitz added, feeding right into their hands.

"They want to be in the same room as a well-respected democracy and on the same plain and it's an invitation to Hamas to continue to do this and Jimmy Carter is going to have even more blood on his hands," he said. 

"The tragedy is that among some people in the world he's respected and his word carries some weight and that shouldn't be the case anymore than Bishop Tutu, both of whom have a big Jewish problem. 

"Jimmy Carter goes back to the time he was running for governor. He has a long, long history of theological anti-Semitism coupled with virulent anti-Israelism. He never met a terrorist he didn't like. He loved Yasser Arafat and he hated every Israeli leader he ever met."

1b) BBC reporter apologizes for insensitive remarks given in interview with Jewish Parisian

BBC report Tim Willcox apologized after saying at the Paris unity march on television that Palestinians “suffer hugely at Jewish hands.”

Willcox, who works for BBC News and BBC World News, on Twitter Monday morning tweeted, “Really sorry for any offense cause by a poorly phrased question in a live interview in Paris yesterday – it was entirely unintentional.”

He was covering the unity march against terrorism in Paris on Sunday when he responded to a woman’s comments about the state of Jews in France, “Many critics of Israel’s policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well.”

The Telegraph identified the woman as a daughter of Holocaust survivors.

“You understand everything is seen from different perspectives,” Willcox told her.

Before his comments, the woman Willcox addressed at the unity march had said, “We have to not be afraid to say that the Jews are the target now.”

A BBC spokesperson told The Telegraph: “Tim Willcox has apologized for what he accepts was a poorly phrased question during an in-depth live interview with two friends, one Jewish and of Israeli birth, the other of Algerian Muslim heritage, where they discussed a wide range of issues affecting both the Muslim and Jewish communities in France.

“He had no intention of causing offense.”
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2) WHY WE ARE LOSING TO RADICAL ISLAM!
By  NEWT GINGRICH

The United States has been at war with radical Islamist terrorism for at least 35 years, starting with the November 1979 Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taking of 52 American hostages. President Jimmy Carter , in his State of the Union address two months later, declared the American captives “innocent victims of terrorism.”

For the next two decades, radical Islamist terrorism grew more powerful and more sophisticated. On Sept. 11, 2001, a remarkably sophisticated effort by Islamist terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania.

In response to the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, President George W. Bushtold a joint session of Congress: “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”

We have clearly failed to meet that goal. After more than 13 years of war, with thousands of Americans dead, tens of thousands of Americans wounded, and several trillion dollars spent, the U.S. and its allies are losing the war with radical Islamism. The terrorists of Islamic State are ravaging Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram is widening its bloody swath through Nigeria, al Qaeda and its affiliates are killing with impunity in Somalia, Yemen and beyond, and the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. The killings in Paris at Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher supermarket are only the most recent evidence of the widening menace of radical Islamism.

Confronted with the atrocities in Paris, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told his people on Jan. 10 that they were at war: “It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity.”

Yet France, like the U.S. government, doesn’t have a strategy for victory in this war. Ad hoc responses to attacks have failed to stop the growing threat. We remain vulnerable to a catastrophic attack (or series of smaller attacks) that would have dark and profound consequences for the American people and for freedom around the world.

The U.S. and its allies must now design a strategy to match a global movement of radical Islamists who sincerely want to destroy Western civilization.

Congress should lead the way, first by convening hearings that outline the scale and nature of the threat. Additional hearings should seek advice from a wide range of experts on strategies to defeat radical Islamists.

Understanding the global threat, outlining strategies that might lead to its defeat, identifying the laws and systems that need to be changed to implement those strategies—all are complex problems that will require months to sort out. But the American people will rise to the challenge if they are given the facts about the real dangers we face.

Here is an outline of the sequence of topics that Congress should investigate:

1. The current strength and growth rate of radical Islamists around the world. We need a detailed sense of the total picture. The scale of the threat from this nihilistic global movement, I suspect, will be stunning.

2. The country-by-country danger. Americans simply don’t realize how dire the situation is in specific areas. Boko Haram has killed thousands more people in Nigeria alone than Ebola has in all of Africa, according to data compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Centers for Disease Control. One or more hearings should focus on each center of radical Islamism, including Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

3. The role of the Muslim Brotherhood. The group is vital to the global radical Islamist movement, yet so little understood by Washington elites that it deserves its own set of hearings.

4. The primary sources of radical Islamist funding, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran.

5. The Arab countries—including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria—that have successfully contained and minimized radical Islamists. We must learn how this was accomplished and what aspects should be replicated.

6. Radicalization in mosques and on social media. How are young Muslims being drawn into terrorism? What can be done to counter a seductive message that has reached deep into Europe and the U.S. and inspired jihadists by the thousands to travel to the Middle East for terrorist training that can be exported back home?

7. The Islamist cyberthreat. The hacking of the U.S. Central Command’s social-media accounts this week apparently didn’t inflict serious damage, but the episode was evidence of a new front in the fight against terrorism.

Once congressional hearings have outlined the scale of the challenge, it is essential to turn to the sources of our enemies’ strategic thinking and doctrine. Doing so will be controversial, but it is vital to understand the motivations and assumptions of the radical Islamist movement.

On Feb. 22, 1946, U.S. attaché to Moscow George Kennan sent what became known as the “Long Telegram.” In 8,000 words, he outlined the nature of Soviet Union communism with clarity and force. His analysis shaped much of the American transition to a policy of containing the Soviet Union. It is a tragedy, if not a scandal, that nearly 14 years after 9/11, we are still in need of an equivalent “Long Telegram” about the nature of radical Islamism.

The terrorists are immersed in Islamic history and doctrine. It is extraordinary that the political correctness of Western elites has discouraged the study of what inspires those who dream of slaughtering us. Congress should hold hearings on the historic patterns, doctrines and principles that drive the radical Islamists. No doubt these facts will make some of our elites uncomfortable. They should. We must understand the deep roots of Islamist beliefs, like the practice of beheading, if we are going to combat them.

Finally, having held hearings on the enemy and its thinking, Congress must hold hearings on strategies for achieving victory. Once the hearings are complete, preferably this year, Congress should form a commission of the wisest witnesses it heard and charge them with designing a national strategy for winning the global war against radical Islamists. If the current administration doesn’t embrace the strategy, then it can become part of the 2016 presidential campaign: Who wants to get America on offense, with a coherent and intelligible strategy, against those who would destroy us?

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3) Nasrallah: Hezbollah prepared for war deep into Israel, beyond the Galilee

"We have made all necessary preparations for a future war with Israel," Hezbollah chief says.

Hezbollah is prepared for military intervention in Israel's Galilee and beyond, deeper into Israeli territory, the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV to be aired Thursday evening.

"We have made all necessary preparations for a future war with Israel," Nasrallah said.

He vowed that the group would not stay quiet in the face of attacks attributed to Israel in Syria. "We will provide an answer for every attack against Syria," he said.

"We have military abilities that will deliver us the victory against Israel," Nasrallah threatened. "The military capability of the resisitance has not been damaged, and if Israel thinks differently, it is wrong."

In excerpts of the interview that were previously released on Wednesday, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah has more types of weapons than Israel can imagine.

According to the Hezbollah leader, Israel is interested in a conflict that would be a landslide victory for it, however he claims that such a win is completely unrealistic. "If Israel attacks Lebanon, our resistance is strong and our ability to win is great."

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