Hope she comes lives with us!
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Comment from very long time friend and fellow memo reader:
Don't know when I've so enjoyed one of your posting. I was laughing out of my chair with your good humor and sticking logic before you got to "Now for a little humor". Yes, I emphatically agree that government rules are stricter regarding class room health etiquette than what Obama wants enforced with respect to immigration.
"Dear Dick,
Don't know when I've so enjoyed one of your posting. I was laughing out of my chair with your good humor and sticking logic before you got to "Now for a little humor". Yes, I emphatically agree that government rules are stricter regarding class room health etiquette than what Obama wants enforced with respect to immigration.
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Being compassionate, which America has proven time and again, does not have to equate with being stupidKeep it up and let's all take time to thank God for our blessings as is the most quintessential American tradition at this time of year.
With best regards,
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My response: "I read Gulliver's Travels early in life and love satire. Me"
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Everything has nothing to do with Islam! (See 1 below.)
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Logical comments from a Kool Aid Drinker.
If she is indicative of what they are teaching and students are absorbing on college campuses then they need to change the course curriculum, send her back to first grade because, if not, we are a doomed society!
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4609384375001/students-want-top-earners-to-pay-their-tuition/?intcmp=hphz27#sp=show-clips
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The SIRC's President Day Dinner Speaker. Plantation Club, Feb 15, 6 PM.
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The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, was a little behind the curve when she reacted to the bloodbath in Paris by insisting that "the attacks have nothing to do with Islam". This is the old spin that, although some terrorists might claim to be Muslim, there's nothing inherently Muslim about their terrorism.
2)- Israeli soldier killed, 2 hurt in stabbing at West Bank gas station
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Everything has nothing to do with Islam! (See 1 below.)
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Logical comments from a Kool Aid Drinker.
If she is indicative of what they are teaching and students are absorbing on college campuses then they need to change the course curriculum, send her back to first grade because, if not, we are a doomed society!
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4609384375001/students-want-top-earners-to-pay-their-tuition/?intcmp=hphz27#sp=show-clips
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The SIRC's President Day Dinner Speaker. Plantation Club, Feb 15, 6 PM.
Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia in the same neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached. He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family.
During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was a Battalion Commander in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and later in Afghanistan. He received many honors including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals and a Valorous Unit Award. In 1993 he was named the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year.
After his retirement from the Army in 2004, Allen taught high school for a year before returning to Afghanistan as a civilian military adviser to the Afghan army, an assignment he finished in November 2007.
In November of 2010, Allen was honored to continue his oath of service to his country when he was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida’s 22nd District. As a member of the 112th Congress, he sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees and was instrumental in passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
Allen is currently President and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. Its goal is to develop and promote private, free-market alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
He is also a Fox News Contributor, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and regularly writes for numerous media outlets.
Allen is an avid distance runner, a Master SCUBA diver and motorcyclist. His wife, Angela, holds an MBA and Ph.D. and is a financial planner. His older daughter, Aubrey, attends college in south Florida, and his younger daughter Austen, is in high school.
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Palestinian butchers continue their carving. Arabs are angry so they kill. They are a sick people. (See 2 below.)
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ISIS takes territory. Bombs destroy structures but do not take territory. Humans take and hold territory. It is a simple and factual concept to understand but we have a president who is an ideologue and is not comfortable when it comes to winning. He is simply a loser.
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The Week in Nothing to do with Islam
By Mark Steyn
The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, was a little behind the curve when she reacted to the bloodbath in Paris by insisting that "the attacks have nothing to do with Islam". This is the old spin that, although some terrorists might claim to be Muslim, there's nothing inherently Muslim about their terrorism.
But why be so modest? In the United States, the most senior members of the Democrat establishment are taking it to the next level. Secretary of State John Kerry:
It has nothing to do with Islam; it has everything to do with criminality, with terror, with abuse, with psychopathism - I mean, you name it.
As my friend Douglas Murray remarked:
So long as you don't name it 'Islam'.
Quite. Secretary Kerry doesn't care what you name it as long as you don't name it "Islam". Because the not-naming of Islam is more important than the actual naming of whatever it is. Even the qualification that many have been careful to make over the years - of course, most Muslims aren't terrorists but an awful lot of terrorists unfortunately happen to be Muslim - will no longer suffice. As President-in-waiting Hillary Clinton assures us:
Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
So not only is terrorism nothing to do with Islam, but Muslims have "nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism". She said this a few hours before yet another US citizen was killed by terrorists shouting "Allahu Akbar!" - this time in a mass slaughter at the Radisson Hotel in Bamako, Mali. Hostages were given a stark choice: if they could recite from the Koran, they would live; if they were incapable of reciting from the Koran, they would die. So whoever these terrorists were - "you name it" - they knew enough about Islam to be able to recognize quotations from the Koran. Yet they can't be Muslims because Muslims have "nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism".
So who does have something to do with terrorism? Republicans mainly. Republicans are the greatest recruiting tool for terrorism that has ever been devised - far more effective than jihadist snuff videos on social media. Just ask President Obama:
MANILA, Philippines -- President Obama on Wednesday angrily accused Republicans of feeding into the Islamic State's strategy of casting the United States as waging war on Muslims, saying the GOP's rhetoric has become the most "potent recruitment tool" for the militant group...
"I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate," Obama said during a news conference at a leadership summit here, using an acronym for the Islamic State.
The president said that the group "seeks to exploit the idea that there's war between Islam and the West, and when you start seeing individuals in position of responsibility suggesting Christians are more worthy of protection than Muslims are in a war-torn land that feeds the ISIL narrative."
So "Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism" except when Republicans goad them into it. In this case, they goad them by suggesting that Christians need more "protection" than Muslims. In the Radisson Hotel in Bamako, the Christians did, indeed, need more protection - which is why they're dead and the observant Muslims are alive. In Syria and Iraq, in less than two years, the oldest Christian communities on earth have been entirely eradicated - every Christian male is dead or fled, and their prepubescent daughters are now rape slaves for the sexual inadequates of ISIS. So, whether they're "more worthy of protection", those Christians could certainly have used a little of it.
Even when you make it out of your "war-torn land" and join the great swarm of refugees yearning to breath free, a Christian can use a little "protection":
Rome (CNN)Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.
It is certainly true that, in their march to victory, ISIS and its affiliates are happy to slaughter any Muslim who gets in their way - mainly those inclined to a moderate accommodation with the sane world: Kurds, Jordanian Air Force pilots, post-Gaddafi Libyan democrats... But the willingness to kill any Muslim who gets in your way doesn't change the fact that the killing is in the name of Islam, and Islam is the way. As I wrote all those years ago in my book America Alone:
Many of the developed world's citizens gave no conscious thought to Islam pre-9/11. Now we switch on the news every evening and, though there are many trouble spots around the world, as a general rule it's easy to make an educated guess at one of the participants: Muslims vs Jews in "Palestine", Muslims vs Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs Christians in Africa, Muslims vs Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs Russians in the Caucasus, Muslims vs backpacking tourists in Bali, Muslims vs Danish cartoonists in Scandinavia. The environmentalists may claim to think globally but act locally, but these guys live it. They open up a new front somewhere on the planet with nary a thought--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2)- Israeli soldier killed, 2 hurt in stabbing at West Bank gas station
ISRAEL HAYOM
'If anything happens to me, bury me in Jerusalem'
Family of Hadar Buchris, 21, who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Gush Etzion on Sunday, never expected to have to follow her instructions • Buchris had just returned from India • Brother: We're glad she got to enjoy herself before her death.
Israel Hayom Staff
The Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem is becoming the favorite target of Palestinian terrorists: 21-year-old Hadar Buchris was murdered there on Sunday, three days after three people were murdered on the road leading to the junction from the community of Alon Shvut.
Sunday's attack was carried out soon after 3 p.m. at a hitchhiking post on the side of the road leading south to Kiryat Arba. A Palestinian approached the spot where Buchris was waiting for a ride, and apparently aroused the suspicions of soldiers stationed at the junction, because he kept his hands in his pockets.
The IDF is seeking to clarify whether the soldiers, from the Shimshon Brigade, identified the threat and stopped the suspect for a security check, or instructed him to keep his distance and cross to the other side of the road.
Either way, the terrorist did not move away. He ran toward the hitchhiking post and attacked Buchris, stabbing her multiple times in the upper body. The soldiers responded rapidly and shot and killed the attacker, but it was too late for Buchris.
Magen David Adom paramedic Zaki Yahav, who was called to the scene, said, "A young woman was lying on the ground unconscious with stab wounds to her upper body.
"Civilians who were there had started to help stop [her] bleeding. We quickly put her into the ambulance and administered first aid while she was anesthetized and on a respirator while taking her to a hospital."
Dr. Ofer Marin, head of the trauma unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where Buchris was taken, said her chances of survival had been slim.
"She sustained a great number of stab wounds, both to the head and in the chest and heart area, and arrived in critical condition, on a respirator, without a pulse," Marin said. "The trauma unit made attempts to resuscitate her, but unfortunately we were forced to declare her dead. There was nothing we could do."
Although Buchris' father, Arie, lives in Safed and her mother, Sigal, in Netanya, Buchris will be buried in Jerusalem. Moments after hearing the bitter news, her family began making efforts to have her laid to rest in the capital.
"Hadar was born and raised near Jerusalem, it's the city she loved most," Buchris' cousin Daniel said on Sunday.
Her grandmother Aliza said: "Right after [finishing] her national service, Hadar left for India, and when she got back she said she wanted to make a life in Jerusalem. She wanted to live in Jerusalem, work in Jerusalem, live her life, and build a family in Jerusalem. She said straight out that if, heaven forbid, anything happened to her, she wanted to be buried in Jerusalem."
Buchris' family was devastated by the killing. Arie Buchris closed himself in a room, crying, "They murdered my little girl, they murdered my little girl."
His brother, Itzik Buchris, said Arie had called him and told him his daughter had been critically wounded and he needed to get to the emergency room in Jerusalem urgently.
"Two minutes later, I was at his house, but even before we left we heard that Hadar had died of her wounds," Itzik Buchris said. "Arie is broken, totally destroyed and in shock. He can't take in the catastrophe."
Hadar Buchris had completed the theater track at the Nov religious seminary for girls on the Golan Heights. Her teacher, Ayala Eretz Hatzvi, described her as "a charming girl, bright, a truly righteous person whose friends could always go to her to talk in the middle of the night. A girl with a talent for theater, both drama and comedy. When the group didn't have any energy, Hadar was always the one who manage to wake everyone up. The best of the best. She had two younger sisters in lower grades."
After high school, Buchris did her national service as a youth coordinator on Moshav Hazorim in the Lower Galilee and on Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in the Beit Shean Valley.
After completing her service, Buchris set out for a six-month trip to India. She returned just three weeks ago and began studying at the Bat Ayin midrasha (religious school) and moved to Kfar Etzion.
"Just a few days ago, we were at a brit milah [circumcision ceremony] together. She got to see the family's first great-grandchild," her brother Zohar said.
"My sister was murdered by an unjust [killer] whose goal was to kill her just because she was a Jew. Hadar was an amazing girl. We're happy she got a change to enjoy herself and have fun before her death."
Hadar's murder is not the first time the Buchris family has been struck by terrorism. Itzik Buchris said his sister Rivka had been "miraculously saved from the slaughter in Maalot in 1974. She was saved by having the presence of mind to jump out the window."
On Sunday evening, as Buchris' friends from the Bat Ayin midrasha gathered together to remember her, a few dozen local residents held a quiet protest at Gush Etzion Junction. Elsewhere, residents of the South Hebron Hills region blocked a number of major intersections in protest against the repeated terrorist murder attempts in the area. Etzion Brigade Commander Col. Roman Gofman issued instructions that on Monday Palestinian workers would not be permitted to enter Gush Etzion settlements.
A Shin Bet investigation into Sunday's attack discovered that the terrorist, Issam Thawabta -- a 34-year-old single man from the village of Fajar near Hebron -- had no criminal or security record.
Buchris' funeral was scheduled to take place at 3 p.m. Monday at Givat Shaul (Har Hamenuchot) cemetery in Jerusalem. The Buchris family was urging the public to attend.
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