I no longer have a job so I told my wife to please watch me and make sure I do not go near the knives in the kitchen!
While Obama continues to sound like a college professor bathing in the sound of his own words radical Muslims continue to ignore him and keep on killing knowing he will do nothing until he is forced to do so and then halfheartedly. I assume Obama also has a bridge for sale. (See 1 below.)
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Wonders never cease. (See 2 below.)
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Click on before the Oscar's Tonight. Will "American Sniper" receive its due?
Hometown Battlefield: https://www.youtube.com/embed/
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The definition of the word Conundrum is: "something that is puzzling or confusing."
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America that puzzle me:
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
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My friend Ne'eman makes an admission and correction but sticks to his thesis! (See 3 below.)
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Snowden keeps revealing secrets! (See 4 below.)
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A dear friend and fellow memo reader's viewpoint: "Bill Clinton, like Ted Kennedy , is the consummate salesman. A very large number of people want to believe him because he acts like he really likes them. He doesn't. He wants them to like him and he knows how to play them to get them to do it. Obama is not like them. He is a salesman too, but he gets people to "like" him because they are so surprised that a man of his ethnicity is so "smart." He also surprises them because of his Ivy League personal appearance which is not often seen in someone with his ethnicity. He surprises them and they respect him for seeming to be so much "smarter" than they expect"
I will not post my response but I will say this: If my friend is correct, whether he realizes it or not, he has written something that calls into question the judgement of liberals and their ability to be hoodwinked!
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ON FRIDAY, APRIL 17, AM BRINGING A GROUP TO SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AROUND 11 AM FOLLOWED BY LUNCH WITH THE KIDS! HAVE ABOUT 20 SIGNED UP AND LOOKING FOR MORE!!!
LET ME KNOW
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Dick
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1)
Obama: Islam ‘Woven into the Fabric of Our Country Since Founding’
Howard Chandler Christy
In his bloviating speech on Thursday at his summit on countering violent extremism, President Obama bent over backwards to make nice with Islam. Not only were terrorists not Muslim, President Obama stated, but Islam played a crucial role in America’s founding.
“Here in America,” Obama stated, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”
Obama seems significantly more comfortable with this characterization of the historic role of Islam than he is with the non-fictional actual historic role of Christianity and Judaism in the American founding.
After all, this is the same man who stated in 2006, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
This is the same president who said in April 2009, “Although, as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. I think modern Turkey was founded with a similar set of principles.”
It is fair to say that modern Turkey was not founded upon the same principles as the United States. It is also fair to say that Islam has not been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding, at least not in any meaningful sense.
That does not mean that there were no Muslims in America at the founding — many African slaves were originally Muslim, and were forcibly converted from that faith. But to say that Islam as a religion has been “woven into the fabric of our country since our founding” is simply false. The first wave of Muslim immigrants to the United States did not begin until well after the Civil War. The first mosque in the United States was not built until 1915, by most reports.
Islam had zero impact on the founders or their philosophy – less than zero, given that the founders despised the religion, or what they knew of it. President Obama fictionalized this history at an Iftar dinner in 2012:
As I’ve noted before, Thomas Jefferson once held a sunset dinner here with an envoy from Tunisia — perhaps the first Iftar at the White House, more than 200 years ago. And some of you, as you arrived tonight, may have seen our special display, courtesy of our friends at the Library of Congress — the Koran that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. And that’s a reminder, along with the generations of patriotic Muslims in America, that Islam — like so many faiths — is part of our national story.
Well, not so much. That magical “first Iftar” was a meeting between Sidi Solima Mellimelli, an emissary of the brutal Barbary pirates, and the president. Jefferson had over Mellimelli in an attempt to bribe him into submission after the USS Constitution captured ships from the bey of Tunis. Mellimelli requested food, lodgings, and concubines.
Jefferson already knew of Islam, having been educated in 1786 after Barbary pirates attempted to blackmail America into monetary tribute. At that time, the Barbary emissary justified piracy with reference to the Koran, according to a report from Jefferson:
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.
John Quincy Adams, writing of these negotiations, stated:
The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.
Quincy Adams would later lament, “Such is the spirit, which governs the hearts of men, to whom treachery and violence are taught as principles of religion.”
As Thomas S. Kidd writes, philosophers upon whom the founders relied had similarly negative views of Islam. Montesquieu wrote that the Turks were despotic. William Blackstone wrote that religion could be used for despotism, as shown by “terrible ravages committed by the Saracens in the east, to propagate the religion of Mahomet.” Thomas Paine wrote of Islam in Common Sense, but only as a reference point for despotic attempts to stifle liberty: he said that divine right of kings was a “superstitious tale, conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar.”
The historical record demonstrates that Islam had virtually no role in the foundation of the early Republic outside of being used as a negative comparison point for freedom and self-government.
President Obama is obviously rewriting history. But since he’s busily rewriting the present, too, why should anyone be surprised?
Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014).
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized the international community for negotiating with Iran while taking no steps to curb its sponsorship of global terrorism, as top American and Iranian diplomats attempted to hammer out a deal in Geneva. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, the prime minister said that it was “astonishing that even after the recent IAEA report determined that Iran is continuing to hide the military components of its nuclear program, the nuclear talks are proceeding.
” “Not only are they continuing, there is an increased effort to reach a nuclear agreement in the coming days and weeks,” Netanyahu said. The deadline for the six world powers and Iran to reach a political agreement about Tehran’s unsanctioned nuclear program is March 31 . His comments came as US Secretary of State John Kerry was set to arrive in Geneva for renewed talks with his Iranian counterpart on Tehran’s nuclear program, after warning “significant gaps” remain ahead of the deadline, an IAEA report stated that Tehran is being evasive and ambiguous in its dealings with the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, preventing the organization from launching a thorough assessment of the country’s nuclear program. In the wake of the report, Netanyahu called on world leaders to stop “wooing Iran” over a nuclear deal. Netanyahu also panned the international community for continuing to negotiate despite Iran’s sponsorship of international terrorism.
Arab nations have joined Israel in expressing concern over the emerging details of a US-led international nuclear deal with Iran, indicating in private talks with US officials that they are worried about the apparent terms of the agreement, the Wall Street Journal reportedSaturday.
Though Arab officials have been careful not to side with Israel in their stated positions, their worries over the possibility of a nuclear-armed Tehran are in fact similar to those of Jerusalem, and their attitudes towards the current state of nuclear talks between Tehran and Western powers are similarly pessimistic, according to the report. Leaders of Sunni states such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia fear a bad deal with Tehran would allow it, with the removal of sanctions, to become a nuclear threshold state, the WSJ reported. They say it could also lead to a nuclear arms race in the region. “At this stage, we prefer a collapse of the diplomatic process to a bad deal,” an official from an unnamed Arab nation told the paper. Arab officials have also reportedly held discussions with the US over the possibility of Washington placing their countries under its “nuclear umbrella” — a guarantee to take military, even nuclear, action to protect an allied state under certain circumstances. The WSJ report came amid news that US
President Barack Obama will meet next week with the leader of Qatar, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to discuss shared concerns over stability and prosperity in the Middle East. Obama, meanwhile, has refused to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Washington in early March, citing the trip’s proximity to Israel’s elections.
Netanyahu is to speak to Congress against what he says is an imminent deal, pushed by US-led negotiators, that could legitimize Iran as a nuclear threshold state.
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3)Netanyahu's Speech Before Congress - Correction
I incorrectly wrote that John Boehner did not inform the White House - He explained that he did in an interview at the end of January that I missed. My mistake - no excuses.
I thank our readers for making me aware on this point.
A corrected article will appear on the Mideast on Target site.
Yisrael Ne'eman
However, I still hold to the point of the necessity of a national unity front. A delay of two and a half weeks would not make a difference. Reports claim the accord is meant to be finished in April. This way moderate and conservative Democrats could also buck any objections the Obama administration might have to Netanyahu's appearance. In the end there may be a downgrade of the actual venue - not a good outcome.
Everyone could have been unified against the impending agreement with Iran which I believe virtually everyone agrees will not be good for Israel or anyone else except for extremist Islam.
Today many people believe (on the Right as well) that Netanyahu could have handled this much better.
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| By JPOST.COM STAFF |
| The latest classified document leaked by US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals information about the cooperative intelligence gathering efforts of US, British and Israeli Intel against Iranian targets. The document from April 2013, marked top secret, highlights the successes of US and British intelligence cooperation against Iran, the growing regional and cyber threat that Iran constitutes and reluctance to have an overarching intelligence sharing agreement with Israel. The document was published Sunday on website The Intercept, the platform created by journalist Glenn Greenwald to report on documents provided by Snowden. The NSA document details "multiple high priority surges" with GCHQ (Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters), including intelligence gathering surrounding the 2011 storming of the British Embassy in Tehran, the Iranian discovery of FLAME, a computer virus meant to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, and "support to policymakers" during nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers. "NSA has seen Iran further extending its influence across the Middle East over the last year," the document warns, citing in particular Iran's efforts to launch cyber attacks against US financial institutions. The document discusses trilateral cooperation between the NSA, GCHQ and the ISNU, the IDF's 8200 Signals Intelligence Unit. The document reports on a first-ever video conference taking place between elements of the three agencies. "The trilateral relationship is limited to the topic of [redacted] and will serve as proof of concept of this kind of engagement," the document reads. Marked under the heading "Potential Landmine," the final section of the document states that Britain's GCHQ has long advocated that it work with the NSA and Unit 8200 in a trilateral arrangement "to prosecute the Iranian target." However, the document adds, that the NSA signals intelligence chief "has been opposed to such a blanket arrangement." It concludes that the NSA and GCHQ agreed to share information gleaned from the respective bilateral relationships with Israel's Unit 8200. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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