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Bill Eiland, in his inimitable style walked those who came to hear him lecture about The GMOA's art collection were informed and entertained.
Many , who never knew of the existence of The State Museum, now want to go there.
Comment from Adult Learning Director: " Having Bill to speak at TLC today was absolutely my pleasure—and that of the crowd that gathered to hear him! What a talented teacher and presenter! So thank YOU for putting us together!
Thank you also for including me in a delightful lunch! What a great collection of people! Sorry I had to rush back to class!
Thanks for your offer of help with planning a visit. I may just take you up on that one day soon!
Grateful for all, Roger"
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"Dick, many thanks for the excellent article about ideological changes on college campuses. I saw this happening in the 50s as a grad student at Columbia. We had three left-wing profs in the Anthro. Dept : Marvin Harris, Morton Fried, and Marshall Sahlins. One had to know how to "correctly" answer their questions on the exams, and I did so, apparently quite well. I encountered Harris at a conference in Mexico City in 1959, when my association with national defense matters had been made known: he was quite angry that I had somehow gotten through the system without being detected. Thereafter, I was unable to get a position in any Anthro. Dept.! Retrospectively , I'm happy that things turned out that way: it would have been quite difficult to live and work in an environment in which ideological concerns were of greater importance than academic concerns.
During my time at CU we had Ralph Solecki and his wife, Rose, in the department in some kind of grad assistant positions. Solecki had just returned from his 12th field trip to Iraq where he had excavated Shanidar Cave, a Neandertal site, in which he found a Neandertal skeleton of a male who had been seriously injured and had obviously been cared for over a period of many years , while the skeletal damage to the upper body healed. This research was never accepted and Solecki never got a faculty position.... he was an infantry combat veteran of WWII, had fought in some of the toughest campaigns in Europe.
Harris continued at CU, however, playing a major tole in organizing the campus demonstrations of 1968.I'm not certain what happened to Fried and Sahlins..... !
And this is what they called "academia!"
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You decide. (See 1 below.)
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Ignore China!!! (See 2 below.)
And:
Bash Israel. (See 2a below.)
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Worth the read. Unlike "Ole" Bill this young girl enjoy's your pain. (See 3 below.)
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1) Read the information below and judge for yourself.
This email comes in three parts:
Part 1 In just one year. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following: A little over one year ago: 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high; 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; 3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%. Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen: 1) Consumer confidence plummet; 2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon; 3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase); 4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock
and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; 6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure. America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what's handed to him.
Quote of the Day........'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of
the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' -- Barack Obama
Part 2: Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics
enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publicat Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008 Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500 Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500 Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000 Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250 Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates ! It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is
screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or
Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good
portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen.
This is like the movie "The Sting" with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don't even know what happened. PART 3: You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this: Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I find that
RIDICULOUS!
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are
read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included
the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by
state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food
stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cisorg/articles 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. V 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education
for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
V 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children
of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
V 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. V 7. 30% of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. V 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social
services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRA 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half
times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to
make a huge additional crime problem in the US V 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that
crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist
Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana,
crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
V 12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass
deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of
between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' V 13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their
countries of origin.
V 14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States .
V The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. Are we THAT stupid? If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it
does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal
resident in the country, including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five
times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in
our policies and enforcement thereof.
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2) While the left and mainstream media are looking
at Russia because of some Facebook memes, the real threat is gaining steam around the globe.
China has a strategy unlike any the U.S. has faced. In the Cold War with the
Soviet Union, it was military force versus military force. China learned a lesson
from the USSR and is taking an asymmetrical approach in dealing with the U.S.
Yes, China is challenging the U.S. in the military sphere, but it is also attacking
the U.S. on multiple unexpected fronts. China is attacking the U.S. in ways Russia
was never capable of, and has proven to be far more dangerous.
When the U.S. thinks of warfare, it typically thinks of kinetic warfare, physical
destruction of a target by military means. China, however, has adopted a total
warfare strategy. A 2014 White Paper from U.S. Army Special Operations
Command on Unconventional Warfare discusses different methods of warfare
being used by various adversaries. With regards to China, it stated, "China will use
a host of methods, many of which lie out of the realm of conventional warfare.
These methods include trade warfare, financial warfare, ecological warfare,
psychological warfare, smuggling warfare, media warfare, drug warfare, network
warfare, technological warfare, fabrication warfare, resources warfare, economic
aid warfare, cultural warfare, and international law warfare."
An example of China using financial warfare is the Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI). The BRI is an ambitious development project spanning the globe. Through
a series of Chinese controlled ports stretching from the mainland to the
Mediterranean and railroads running to Europe, China pushes to exert control.
The project will connect China to 65 percent of global population and 40 percent
of worldwide GDP.
China has already used the BRI to exert pressure and influence policies. China's
COSCO Shipping took a 51 percent stake in Greece's largest port in 2016. One year
later, Greece would block a European Union statement on human rights abuses
by China in the UN. It was the first time the EU failed to make such a statement at the UN. Many directly attributed the move to Chinese pressure.
One of the chief weapons in China's economic warfare toolbox is intellectual
property (IP) theft. China steals IP of companies doing business in China. When a
foreign company goes into the communist country, they are often forced to
partner with a Chinese company to do business. From there the Chinese company
steals the IP and competes against their former partners. The Chinese company
skips R&D, saving itself millions, often putting the foreign company out of
business.
Chinese IP theft costs the U.S. economy between $225 billion and $600 billion
annually. No small sum.
There is now a growing number excusing China's IP theft. They point to the rise
in Chinese payments of licensing fees and royalties over the last decade. The
payments now reach almost $30 billion per year. What is being forgotten is how
China got to where it is.
Of course, China wants to play by the rules now; the Communist government has
stolen so much IP it is now in its financial interest to enforce IP laws. China's
nefarious actions put so many companies out of business of which it now holds
the IP, and it wants the royalties and fees paid. China will play by the rules when
it is in its interest and break the rules it feels it needs to in order to gain an
advantage.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. From U.S. universities to Hollywood to Wall
Street, China has launched an all-out assault, with the goal of supplanting the U.S.
as the world's superpower. However, it may not be too late. It seems some are
starting to take notice of the Chinese threat.
Last week, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing
Innovation Leadership." Testifying before the committee was a bevy of experts
on the threat posed by China. One of the experts captured what is really at stake
with China.
James Phillips, Chairman, and CEO of NanoMech testified before the committee,
"When and if that happens, America loses. The world changes, everything changes. China may dominate the world. But it won't have to use its military. When its GDP surpasses
Americas, it will dominate the world economically by a margin far more than the
United States currently has. At that point China will be the new leader of the
world. All decisions between countries on the subjects of peace, trade,
environment, borders, laws, and human rights would defer to China. Because
more than ever, the new golden rule applies: He who has the gold, rules. And the
country with the dominant GDP has the gold and the good jobs."
FBI Director Christopher Wray also sees China as the greatest threat. Wray spoke
at the Aspen Security Forum last week stating, "I think China, from a
counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest, most challenging, most
significant threat we face as a country." He continued, "It is economic espionage,
as well as traditional espionage...It is non-traditional collectors as well as
traditional intelligence operatives. It is human sources as well as cyber means."
Russia doesn't pose near the threat as China. As Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
famously said, "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country," China, on the
other hand, has the capability to challenge the U.S. not just militarily, but economically. President Trump recognizes the threat China poses; it is time for Congress to do the same.
Printus LeBlanc is the Legislative Director at Americans for Limited Government
2a)ISRAEL’S ULTIMATE BATTLE:
RIGHT TO EXIST
Today, after 3 wars in Gaza, the majority of nations vote in
favor of UN resolutions accusing IDF soldiers of
BY MICHAEL OREN
Asked why his forces killed thousands of innocent Arab civilians, the military
spokesman replied, “When you have an enemy that uses noncombatants as
collateral damage, it is difficult to completely avoid any casualties.”
Sound familiar? This could easily be the IDF Spokesman justifying our actions
against Hamas in Gaza. But, in fact, the statement was recently issued by a US
Army colonel fighting Islamic State in Syria. The explanations are identical, but
while America’s is accepted by the world, Israel’s is almost universally rejected.
Worse, it is condemned as a cover-up for war crimes.
The difference underscores one of the greatest dangers – and, to date, the
most glaring failure – of our Gaza policy. The IDF is certainly prepared for any
contingency, including reconquering the Strip. But Israel is not poised to win
the ultimate battle – for our right to self-defense and even our right to exist.
That is Hamas’s goal. Beyond killing Israelis, its rockets are designed to get
Israel condemned for killing Palestinians. For the same reason, Hamas sends
children to break through the border fence and even pays them for every
gunshot wound. Indeed, the demonstrator is the new rocket — cheaper,
unlikely to trigger an Israeli military response, and immensely damaging to our
legitimacy.
That damage is cumulative. Today, after three wars in Gaza, the vast majority
of nations vote in favor of UN resolutions accusing Israeli soldiers of
indiscriminately shooting peaceful Palestinian protesters. Hamas is not even
mentioned. By contrast, Israel’s fundamental right to defend itself against j
ihadist terrorists who are hiding behind human shields is dismissed out of hand.
The erosion of Israel’s narrative certainly reflects an anti-Israel bias and even
antisemitism, but it also results from our unwillingness to mount a
comprehensive diplomatic campaign to convey the facts of Gaza. The result is
painfully apparent, and not only in the UN.
Briefing the 10 pro-Israel Congress members who attended the opening of the
new US Embassy, I was shocked to discover that none knew that Israel, alone,
maintained three border crossings into Gaza. None knew that all commodities,
except weapons, were allowed into the Strip. None had heard that Hamas
shelled, burned and tunneled under those crossings in order to create a
humanitarian crisis that could be blamed on Israel. None was aware that
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had cut off the salaries and
medical care of tens of thousands of Gazans, further deepening that crisis. If
some of our best friends in Washington didn’t know these basic facts, how can
we expect the world to? As the specter of a fourth Gaza war looms closer, it is imperative that Israel
strengthen its diplomatic defenses. Together with our military Iron Dome, we
need a public relations and legal Iron Dome to protect us from the accusations
of disproportionality and war crimes that are certain to accompany any large-
scale military operation. We need to operate in multiple media – in cyberspace,
in the traditional press, on campuses and among decision- and opinion-makers
To be sure, there are several ministries addressing these needs. Just this week,
the Foreign Ministry excoriated CNN and BBC for their distorted coverage of
Gaza. But there is yet no single authority that coordinates and supervises these
various activities. There is no interministerial agency with the power and budget
to develop diplomatic messages that are consistent and globally distributed.
There is no government body capable of coordinating with Israel advocacy
groups home and abroad or of rapidly disseminating images and information
from the IDF Spokesman’s Office.
Presenting this case to Israeli audiences, I frequently hear that “the world will
hate us anyway, so why bother?” My answer is that, yes, much of international
community will still denounce us, but we are nevertheless duty-bound to strive
to reduce the damage. We must, through public diplomacy, provide the IDF
with the maximum amount of time and space needed to defend us. And we
must deny Hamas the ability to win in The Hague what it lost on the battlefield.
Now is the time to establish that interministerial authority. Now is the time to
mount a preemptive diplomatic attack. We have all the talent, the dedication,
the allies and, above all, the truth to make an effective case. We just need to
prioritize and decide. The writer, an MK from Kulanu, is the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s
Office.
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3)
I like to, no I'm compelled to share this.........To all the people who let this election break up
families and friends let this sink in I think the last civil conversations we had occurred just
days before November 8, 2016. You were supremely confident Hillary Clinton would win the
presidential election; you voted for her with glee. As a lifelong Republican, I bit down hard
and cast my vote for Donald Trump. Then the unimaginable happened. He won.
And you lost your freaking minds.
I knew you would take the loss hard—and personally—since all of you were super jacked-
up to elect the first woman president. But I did not imagine you would become totally
deranged, attacking anyone who voted for Trump or supported his presidency as a racist,
sexist, misogynistic, homophobic Nazi-sympathizer.
The weirdness started on social media late on Election Night, as it became clear Hillary
was going to lose. A few of you actually admitted that you were cradling your sleeping
children, weeping, wondering what to tell your kindergartner the next morning about
Trump’s victory. It continued over the next several days. Some of you seriously expressed
fear about modern-day concentration camps. Despite living a privileged lifestyle, you were
suddenly a casualty of the white patriarchy. Your daughters were future victims; your sons
were predators-in-waiting. You threatened to leave Facebook because you could no longer
enjoy the family photos or vacation posts from people who, once friends, became Literal
Hitlers to you on November 8 because they voted for Donald Trump. I admit I was a little hurt at first. The attacks against us Trump voters were so personal and
so vicious that I did not think it could be sustained. I thought maybe you would regain your
sanity after some turkey and egg nog.
But you did not. You got worse. And I went from sad to angry to where I am today: Amused. As the whole charade you have been suckered into over the last 18 months starts to fall
apart—that Trump would not survive his presidency; he would be betrayed by his own staff,
family, and/or political party; he would destroy the Republican Party; he would be declared
mentally ill and removed from office; he would be handcuffed and dragged out of the White
House by Robert Mueller for “colluding” with Russia—let me remind you what complete
fools you have made of yourselves. Not to mention how you’ve been fooled by the media,
the Democratic Party, and your new heroes on the NeverTrump Right. On November 9, you awoke from a self-induced, eight-year-long political coma to find that
White House press secretaries shade the truth and top presidential advisors run political
cover for their boss. You were shocked to discover that presidents exaggerate, even lie, on
occasion. You became interested for the first time about the travel accommodations, office
expenses, and lobbyist pals of administration officials. You started counting how many
rounds of golf the president played. You suddenly thought it was fine to mock the first lady
now that she wasn’t Michelle Obama. Once you removed your pussy hat after attending the
Women’s March, you made fun of Kellyanne Conway’s hair, Sarah Sanders’ weight,
Melania Trump’s shoes, Hope Hicks’ death stare; you helped fuel a rumor started by a
bottom-feeding author that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slept with Donald Trump. You
thought it was A-OK that Betsy DeVos was nearly physically assaulted and routinely
heckled. You glorified a woman who has sex on camera for a paycheck.
You have learned all kinds of new things that those of us who didn’t willfully ignore politics
for the past eight years already knew. For example, we already knew that illegal immigrants
were being deported and families were being separated.
Some of your behavior has been kinda cute. It was endearing to watch you become experts
on the Logan Act, the Hatch Act, the Second Amendment, the 25th Amendment, and the
Emoluments Clause. You developed a new crush on Mitt Romney after calling him a “sexist”
for having “binders full of women.” You longed for a redux of the presidency of George W.
Bush, a man you once wanted imprisoned for war crimes. Ditto for John McCain. You
embraced people like Bill Kristol and David Frum without knowing anything about their
histories of shotgunning the Iraq War.
Classified emails shared by Hillary Clinton? Who cares! Devin Nunes wanting to declassify
crucial information of the public interest? Traitor!
But your newfound admiration and fealty to law enforcement really has been a fascinating
transformation. Wasn’t it just last fall that I saw you loudly supporting professional athletes
who were protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem? Remember
how you fanboyed a mediocre quarterback for wearing socks that depicted cops as pigs?
But now you sound like paid spokesmen for the Fraternal Order of Police. You insist that
any legitimate criticism of the misconduct and possibile criminality that occured at the
Justice Department and FBI is an “attack on law enforcement.” While you once opposed
the Patriot Act because it might have allowed the federal government to spy on terrorists
who were using the local library to learn how to make suitcase bombs, you now fully
support the unchecked power of a secret court to look into the phone calls, text messages
and emails of an American citizen because he volunteered for the Trump campaign for a
few months.
Spying on terrorists, circa 2002: Bad. Spying on Carter Page, circa 2017: The highest form
of patriotism.
And that white, male patriarchy that you were convinced would strip away basic rights and
silence any opposition after Trump won? That fear has apparently been washed away as
you hang on every word uttered by James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper. This
triumvirate is exhibit “A” of the old-boy network, and represents how the insularity,
arrogance, and cover-your-tracks mentality of the white-male power structure still prevails.
Yet, instead of rising up against it, you are buying their books, retweeting their Twitter rants
and blasting anyone who dares to question their testicular authority. Your pussy hat must be
very sad.
But your daily meltdowns about Trump-Russia election collusion have been the most
entertaining to observe. After Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel, you were
absolutely convinced it would result in Trump’s arrest and/or impeachment. Some of you
insisted that Trump wouldn’t last beyond 2017. You quickly swallowed any chum tossed at
you by the Trump-hating media on MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post
about who was going down next, or who would flip on the president.
For the past year, I have watched you obsess over a rotating cast of characters: Paul
Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Carter Page, Reince Priebus, Jeff Sessions,
Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Sam Nunberg, and Hope Hicks are just a few of the people
you thought would turn on Trump or hasten his political demise. But when those fantasies
didn’t come true, you turned to Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels for hope and
inspiration. It will always be your low point.Well, I think it will be. Each time I believe you’ve
hit bottom, you come up with a new baseline. Perhaps defending the unprecedented use of
federal power to spy on political foes then lie about it will the next nail in your credibility
coffin. The next several weeks will be tough for you. I think Americans will learn some very hard
truths about what happened in the previous administration and how we purposely have
been misled by powerful leaders and the news media. I wish I could see you as a victim
here, but you are not. I know you are smart; you chose to support this insurgency with your
eyes wide open. Now, I shall sit back and enjoy your pain.
Andi S.
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