Bars In Scotland Are Different!
Continuing to spend our children's inheritance.
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The announcement of Sam's appointment as Israel's Consul General in Los Angeles:
"World Jewish Congress congratulates Sam Grundwerg on appointment as Consul
General of Israel in Los Angeles
Grundwerg has served as the director-general of the Israeli branch of the
WJC since 2012. “Sam has worked endlessly and tirelessly on behalf of the
Jewish people,” says WJC CEO Robert Singer.*NEW YORK* - *World Jewish Congress CEO and Executive Vice President Robert
Singer on Thursday congratulated Sam Grundwerg, the director general of the
Israeli branch of the WJC, on his appointment as Consul General of Israel
in Los Angeles, after six years with the organization. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the appointment on Thursday.*
“The World Jewish Congress deeply appreciates the dedication and commitment
that Sam Grundwerg has shown over the last six years. He has worked
endlessly and tirelessly on behalf of the Jewish people and we are certain
that he will continue to do so in his new position as consul general in Los
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There is no question, in my mind, Hillarious violated laws and used her office for personal gain.
Would a jury take any legal action and convict based on the evidence?
Even if there is sufficient evidence to convict her of breaking various laws would Obama unleash his Attorney General considering that it would knock the props out from under Hillarious' campaign and the Demwit's hope of retaining The White House and stuffing The Supreme Court with liberal appointees?
Do the Clinton's have something on Obama that would cause him look the other way? Has a backroom deal been struck?
One can conjure up an entire list of what ifs and theories but we will simply have to wait and let this drama play itself out on the political stage.
If the voting public concludes Hillarious has been let off the hook that could cause a backlash of voter sentiment.
However, the voting public could also conclude Hillarious did break certain laws but no longer care because they are tired of hearing about her trials and tribulations, in concurrence with Bernie's previous statement. If so she will be given a "Pass Go Card."
That said, the stain of hypocrisy will come back to haunt us at some future time and will manifest in ways we cannot predict now but will be consequential. Why? Because America was founded on the concept of being a peopled nation who had respect for the law, that Justice was deemed blind and all who came before our Judicial System were to be given every right and protection to be proven guilty but if guilty were to receive appropriate punishment regardless of wealth, social standing etc.
We know this concept is broken consistently but the more we disregard our moral moorings the faster our decline as a beacon of hope. The fact that we look the other way with respect to illegal immigration, the fact that we pass laws and then fail to obey them or at the time have no intent of doing so or even pass laws in order to control and erode our freedoms these are corrosive acts which weaken our nation's moral and social fiber. Such builds contempt and serves to move us more and more towards a lawless society. Rot from within may be less visible but it can be more powerful and pernicious.
Because Obama has, all too often, acted in an empirical and majestic manner, because Congress has allowed itself to be bullied and because the public has been willing to endure years of contempt for our Constitution by politicians who place themselves above the laws they impose on those they serve and jurists have been free to legislate, we find our freedoms,our very Republic threatened.
When voters become distraught, when the public becomes confused, angered and disgusted the seeds for radical change are better able to take root. Quick action to right the listing ship of state is appealing and the siren messages of the rabble-rousers,demagogues, anarchists can take many forms and be embraced out of frustration.
Are we there? Is that what the 2016 election has come to be? Certainly is seems that way.
Worthy of a relistening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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This is the nation we once were:
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1) Donald Trump Brings Out the Worst in J Street
There is no question, in my mind, Hillarious violated laws and used her office for personal gain.
Would a jury take any legal action and convict based on the evidence?
Even if there is sufficient evidence to convict her of breaking various laws would Obama unleash his Attorney General considering that it would knock the props out from under Hillarious' campaign and the Demwit's hope of retaining The White House and stuffing The Supreme Court with liberal appointees?
Do the Clinton's have something on Obama that would cause him look the other way? Has a backroom deal been struck?
One can conjure up an entire list of what ifs and theories but we will simply have to wait and let this drama play itself out on the political stage.
If the voting public concludes Hillarious has been let off the hook that could cause a backlash of voter sentiment.
However, the voting public could also conclude Hillarious did break certain laws but no longer care because they are tired of hearing about her trials and tribulations, in concurrence with Bernie's previous statement. If so she will be given a "Pass Go Card."
That said, the stain of hypocrisy will come back to haunt us at some future time and will manifest in ways we cannot predict now but will be consequential. Why? Because America was founded on the concept of being a peopled nation who had respect for the law, that Justice was deemed blind and all who came before our Judicial System were to be given every right and protection to be proven guilty but if guilty were to receive appropriate punishment regardless of wealth, social standing etc.
We know this concept is broken consistently but the more we disregard our moral moorings the faster our decline as a beacon of hope. The fact that we look the other way with respect to illegal immigration, the fact that we pass laws and then fail to obey them or at the time have no intent of doing so or even pass laws in order to control and erode our freedoms these are corrosive acts which weaken our nation's moral and social fiber. Such builds contempt and serves to move us more and more towards a lawless society. Rot from within may be less visible but it can be more powerful and pernicious.
Because Obama has, all too often, acted in an empirical and majestic manner, because Congress has allowed itself to be bullied and because the public has been willing to endure years of contempt for our Constitution by politicians who place themselves above the laws they impose on those they serve and jurists have been free to legislate, we find our freedoms,our very Republic threatened.
When voters become distraught, when the public becomes confused, angered and disgusted the seeds for radical change are better able to take root. Quick action to right the listing ship of state is appealing and the siren messages of the rabble-rousers,demagogues, anarchists can take many forms and be embraced out of frustration.
Are we there? Is that what the 2016 election has come to be? Certainly is seems that way.
Worthy of a relistening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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This is the nation we once were:
What We Did!! Seems Impossible!
During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945,
"We the People of the U.S.A. " produced the following:
22 aircraft carriers
8 battleships
48 cruisers
349 destroyers
420 destroyer escorts
203 submarines
34 million tons of merchant ships
100,000 fighter aircraft
98,000 bombers
24,000 transport aircraft
58,000 training aircraft
93,000 tanks
257,000 artillery pieces
105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns and
2,500,000 military trucks
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and, ultimately, conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama Administration couldn't even build a web site that worked and has reduced our military to levels comparable to those that existed around the First World War.
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Skidaway Island Republican Club
Presents:
True Perspectives
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
THE STATE of OUR STATE
Sen. Ben Watson
Rep. Jesse Petrea
Plantation Club
Cocktails/Cash bar : 4:30 PM
Presentation : 5:00 PM
Sustaining members – Free
Regular members - $5
Non-Members - $10
All Welcome
Come hear our representatives tell you of the happenings and non-happenings in this legislative season in Atlanta. Ask them questions that concern you.
Please join your friends and neighbors for this meaningful session. Come at 4:30 to see friends and renew acquaintances.
For reservations:
Russ Peterson
598-9845 (russp16@aol.com)
or
Dick Miller
598-5049 (hrmatthelandings@gmail.com)
Also at 4PM, Saturday, April 30th, at our home, we are hosting a meet and greet jointly with Marolyn Overton, for Peter Muller who is running for a Chatham County Circuit Court judgeship position.
Peter is the managing partner of the Savannah Office of Bouhan, Williams and Levy LLP
This is a very important position and we hope you will come and determine for yourself why we believe Peter deserves your vote. 598 9251.
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Finally Trump and J Sreet. (See 1 below.)
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1) Donald Trump Brings Out the Worst in J Street
Which wasn’t difficult, as the anti-Israel lobby flops in its anti-AIPAC mission.
Most Americans perceive Donald Trump as a talking car-crash. You don’t like what you hear or see, but you’re unable to look away. This was certainly true last month as almost 19,000 supporters of Israel assembled at our nation’s capital for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference.
Trump’s appearance at the largest gathering of pro-Israel activists was laden with “The Donald’s” baggage. The GOP frontrunner’s previous remarks about Muslims, Mexicans, and immigration have not endeared him to a Jewish community that proudly teaches our children about the role Jews played during the civil rights movement.
But AIPAC is about bipartisan support for the U.S.-Israel relationship. Regardless of where you stand on the political, economic, or social spectrum, supporting Israel’s right to exist as a safe and secure Jewish state transcends party loyalties. And that is why the overwhelming majority of policy conference attendees were respectful to Trump and the threatened walkout or boycott of his speech was as noticeable as an individual blade of grass on a golf course.
Leading up to the AIPAC conference, the progressive “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street was hard at work to undermine the event, particularly where Trump was concerned.
To be clear, J Street wields about as much power in the pro-Israel community as I do among the ranks of Hamas. What J Street does offer is cover for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic individuals, organizations, politicians, and pundits who capitalize on the affiliation to demonize the Jewish state. History reminds Jews that they should never ignore any voice or movement that undermines their safety, security, or existence — especially the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the Iran deal — which J Street supported even before reading it, provided what seemed like an opportunity to grab some of AIPAC’s turf on Capitol Hill last year because its passage was considered a big defeat for AIPAC and a sign of its declining influence. With the policy conference’s record-breaking attendance of over 18,000 and a speakers list that included leading presidential candidates, the Speaker of the House, and the U.S. Vice President, AIPAC obviously hasn’t skipped a beat, and J Street’s wishful thinking was just that.
J Street, in fact, no longer holds an annual conference. Having attended last year’s J Street big event, I can tell you that the tumbleweeds rolling in the halls spoke to its attendance numbers. The progressive ideologues of the Left having elevated social justice and class warfare to the level of a religion in place of their Judaism, J Street hoped to fundraise and increase support by opposing Trump’s AIPAC appearance.
But J Street forgot to mention that hate and violence represent the core of who they are.
As AIPAC attendees packed their bags and boarded planes back to every corner of the country and planet, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami sent an email that opened with:
Yesterday, thousands of delegates to the AIPAC Policy Conference stood and applauded the speech of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump — shocking so many of us who have been appalled at Trump’s racist and hateful campaign.
The fact that Ben-Ami insulted the AIPAC attendees is to be expected. But his selective condemnation of bigotry and hateful rhetoric reveals the hypocrisy of J Street’s pro-progressive, not pro-Israel agenda.
A year ago at this time, Ben-Ami was welcoming chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to address the J Street conference.
While it’s true that Donald Trump has singled out Mexicans and Muslims when voicing his immigration concerns, Erekat has compared Israel to ISIS and defended the murder of Jews at the hands of Hamas. During the recent wave of knifings by Palestinians, many of them children, Erekat defended the violence against civilians as an act of self-defense.
Erekat is such an appalling individual that Hillel International President and CEO Eric Fingerhut, who is regarded by many in the pro-Israel community as being too far to the political Left, canceled his appearance at J Street, refusing to give legitimacy to Erekat.
At the same conference, J Street’s keynote speaker was former Secretary of State James Baker. You know, the guy who once said, “F**k the Jews, they didn't vote for us anyway.”
The list of abhorrent individuals speaking at J Street events is mind-boggling. After attending their last conference, I literally curled up in bed for a week, distraught over the vile individuals who were invited to spew their venom, prompting my children to ask why Daddy was so sad.
J Street and truth go together like a baked ham and a Passover Seder.
After the 2014 midterm elections, J Street, desperate to save face with donors and supporters, claimed victory even though they lost just about every major race they had invested in.
The organization’s boast that “90% of J StreetPAC-endorsed incumbents are leading or have won” is misleading at best and dishonest at worst.
J Street darling Democrat Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) faced a Republican challenger who is allegedly mentally unstable. Even the Illinois GOP refused to recognize and endorse Schakowsky’s challenger due to her state of mind. Not exactly a victory worth bragging about.Democrat John Conyers (MI-13), who serves a district that regards the Republican Party as an extension of the Ku Klux Klan, won his 26th consecutive term in Congress. Way to go out on a limb, guys.
More recently, J Street sold the public a lie about the Iran deal. Claiming that 60 percent of American Jews supported the deal, they failed to tell the public that the poll they cited never asked respondents whether they supported the deal. Notwithstanding the aphorism about “two Jews, three opinions,” in the case of the Iran deal, most surveys reveal a community solidly against.
As much as J Street wants to claim to take the higher road, their actions speak just the opposite. But to be fair, they told us back in 2009, “Our No. 1 agenda item is to do whatever we can in Congress to act as the president’s blocking back.” Those may be the last believable words Jeremy Ben-Ami ever spoke — indeed a fitting epitaph for J Street.
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