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I got invited to a party and was told to dress to kill. Apparently a turban, beard and a backpack wasn't what they had in mind.
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Bought the missus a hamster skin coat last week. Took her to the fair last night, and it took me 3 hours to get her off the Ferris wheel.
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A government survey has shown that 91% of illegal immigrants come to this country
so that they can see their own doctor.
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My number two, Louisville, daughter has two family Bichons. One is Babe and the other is Ellie Mae. Ellie is very prissy and does not like to get her feet wet in the snow.
This is what my daughter had to say about Ellie Mae :"Ellie is tired of getting her paws wet in the snow. She has no idea she is wearing a bow! That is worse than snow to her!"
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What ISIS wants. Long but interesting: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
You see, according to our president , who has his head in another part of his anatomy,believes ISIS exists because the radical Islamists are unemployed. Maybe Obama can give them a job replacing his Secret Service Detail.
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Secret talks with Iran demand scrutiny. (See 1 below.)
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Yesterday, David Axelrod said there had been no scandals in the Obama Administration for 6 years. That comment was scandalous itself. http://insider.foxnews.com/
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Sent to me by my own orthopedic surgeon , former West Pointer, who was chief of orthopedics at Walter Reed. (See 2 below.)
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Our new Senator, David Perdue, visits Jerusalem and meets with Netanyahu. (See 3 below.)
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This was sent to me by a good friend and fellow memo reader. My previous memo suggested as much and more. (See 4 below.)
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FRIDAY,APRIL 17, I AM PUTTING A GROUP TOGETHER TO VISIT THE "SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY" AROUND 11AM, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH WITH THE KIDS. ABOUT 18 HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP AND I AM LOOKING FOR MORE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE ACTUAL DATE.
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1)
Obama’s Secret Iran Talks Deserve Scrutiny
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the exchange of secret letters between President Obama and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has resumed. The letters are believed to concern Obama’s offer of cooperation with Iran against ISIS terrorists if Tehran will agree to a deal on its nuclear program. These letters have clearly been a crucial element in the six-year administration effort to forge a new détente with the Islamist regime. But they must also be placed in the context of the ongoing dispute between the U.S. and Israel about the nuclear talks. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chided the U.S. for attempting to hide the details about the negotiations from Israel. While the president doesn’t like or trust the prime minister, those concerned about a drift toward accommodation of Iran’s demands are not wrong to note that the secrecy about the negotiations undermines the credibility of the administration’s assurances that it can be trusted not to betray the Israelis or American security interests in a futile pursuit of good relations with Khamenei’s government.
For the past few weeks, concerns about the details of the terms the U.S. is offering to Iran in the nuclear talks have been obscured by the controversy about Netanyahu’s determination to speak to a joint session of Congress next month about Iran. As I’ve pointed out, accepting House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation was a tactical blunder on Netanyahu’s part since it allowed the president and his apologists to divert the discussion about Iran from his indefensible pursuit of an entente with a radical terror-sponsoring tyranny to one about the Israeli’s alleged breach of protocol. This was a no-win confrontation for Israel and its friends that may have made it harder for Congress to pass tougher sanctions on Iran with a veto-proof majority because of defections from Democrats concerned about not taking sides with a foreign leader against the president. But the Journal report reminds us that the stakes here involve a lot more than the personal animus between Obama and Netanyahu.
The decision of the U.S. to keep Israel out of the loop about the details of its talks with Iran makes sense only inside the White House bubble where Netanyahu—the democratically-elected leader of America’s ally—is perceived as an enemy and the theocrat tyrant Khamenei is viewed as the head of a nation that must be wooed and won over in an effort to forge an entente with Tehran. Diplomacy is always best practiced outside of public view, but the problem with the discussion about Iran is that the administration’s public stand about its desire to prevent the regime from getting a nuclear weapon is at odds with everything we know about the negotiations.
As the Washington Post’s David Ignatius pointed out yesterday, the White House continues to claim that its offers to let Iran keep much of its nuclear infrastructure are misunderstood. He writes that officials say granting Iran the right to keep several thousands centrifuges and a stockpile of nuclear fuel would actually be tougher than one that would give them only a few hundred newer machines and a larger stockpile. But this is a classic Obama false choice in which a straw man is set up for the administration to knock down. What the Israelis and concerned members of Congress who support the threat of more sanctions want is for the president to keep his 2012 campaign pledge that stated that any deal would involve the end of Iran’s nuclear program. The administration has abandoned that position in favor of one that gives Iran the ability to build a bomb but only under circumstances that would take more than a year for them to “break out” to a weapon.
The problem with the one-year breakout offer is that there is a good argument to be made by the Israelis and others that the breakout period would be much shorter. Moreover, the idea that U.S. intelligence in Iran is good enough to detect the breakout in time to do something to prevent is, to put it mildly, a dubious assumption.
American officials may be angry about the fact that the Israelis are doing their best to publicize the details about American offers to Iran that make it clear that, at best, the U.S. is prepared to acquiesce to Khamenei’s regime becoming a threshold nuclear power. But, like their much publicized hurt feelings about Netanyahu’s speech to Congress that they’ve used to pick off wavering Democrats from the ranks of supporters of more sanctions, their umbrage about the Israeli disclosures rings false. The more we know about Obama’s communications with Khamenei and the fine print in the Western offers in the nuclear negotiations, the more it seems certain that détente is the president’s goal, not putting an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Disputes with Israel are being used as a cover to shield a diplomatic offensive aimed at allowing Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. If the president expects the country and Congress to follow his lead on Iran, it’s only fair to ask where he is leading us before, rather than after, he signs a nuclear deal that endangers U.S. allies and puts American security in the hands of the supreme leader and his terrorist auxiliaries.
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2) Definitely a must see video of 4 minutes; you won’t be disappointed!! http://www.littlethings.com/
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3) Georgia’s new Senator meets with PM Netanyahu and expresses his commitment to Israel….see video
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today at his Jerusalem office, met with US Senator David Perdue (R-GA) and told him at the start of their meeting:
"Senator, welcome to Jerusalem. Your visit here demonstrates your friendship and your commitment to the strong American-Israeli alliance.
Today the forces of militant Islam are on the march throughout the Middle East. Islamic State just barbarically massacred 21 Egyptian civilians in Libya. Our hearts go out to the families and to the people of Egypt facing this horrible savagery. And Israel will continue to stand side-by-side with Egypt in the battle against terrorism, which threatens us all.
While Islamic State butchers the innocent, the Islamic Republic of Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with the express purpose of destroying the State of Israel. The P5+1's latest proposal won't stop them. The Iranians of course know the details of that proposal and Israel does too. So when we say that the current proposal would lead to a bad deal, a dangerous deal, we know what we're talking about, Senator. I'm open to hearing the positions and arguments of those who think differently and I would hope that they would be open to hear the arguments of Israel as well."
"Senator, welcome to Jerusalem. Your visit here demonstrates your friendship and your commitment to the strong American-Israeli alliance.
Today the forces of militant Islam are on the march throughout the Middle East. Islamic State just barbarically massacred 21 Egyptian civilians in Libya. Our hearts go out to the families and to the people of Egypt facing this horrible savagery. And Israel will continue to stand side-by-side with Egypt in the battle against terrorism, which threatens us all.
While Islamic State butchers the innocent, the Islamic Republic of Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with the express purpose of destroying the State of Israel. The P5+1's latest proposal won't stop them. The Iranians of course know the details of that proposal and Israel does too. So when we say that the current proposal would lead to a bad deal, a dangerous deal, we know what we're talking about, Senator. I'm open to hearing the positions and arguments of those who think differently and I would hope that they would be open to hear the arguments of Israel as well."
VIDEO LINK: http://youtu.be/-H7OVsuc114
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4)Former New York City mayor speaks out at private GOP dinner
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he believes President Barack Obama does not love the United States — or the people in it.
“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said Wednesday during a private group dinner in Manhattan, Politico reports. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
The event was attended by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, and “60 right-leaning business executives and conservative media types,” according to Politico.
The former mayor failed in his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Walker is currently considering his own run for the White House.
“With all our flaws, we’re the most exceptional country in the world,” Giuliani said. “I’m looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that and carry it out.
“And if it’s you, Scott, I’ll endorse you,” he added. “And if it’s somebody else, I’ll support somebody else.”
Earlier this week, Walker lashed out at Obama while dismissing criticism that he dropped out of college.
“That’s the kind of elitist, government-knows-best, top-down approach we’ve had for years,” Walker told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Tuesday. “We’ve had an Ivy-trained lawyer in the White House for six years who’s pretty good at reading off the TelePrompTer but has done a pretty lousy job leading this country.”
On “Fox & Friends” Thursday, Giuliani clarified his criticism of Obama but did not walk back his dinner comments.
“Well, first of all, I’m not questioning his patriotism. He’s a patriot, I’m sure,” Giuliani said. “What I’m saying is, in his rhetoric I very rarely hear the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things that I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America. ... I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents. And when it’s not in the context of an overwhelming number of statements about the exceptionalism of America, it sounds like he’s more of a critic than he is a supporter.”
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