Senator Collins gave an impassioned and gracioous speech on behalf of Judge Kavanaugh using much of the arguments I have made not because I went to law school but because they are part of my DNA and based on my belief of what being an American is all about.
I compliment her for her beautiful and reasoned presentation. She ranks along with Sen.Graham for different reasons and deserves a ranking among the best voices ever to speak in the Senate.
God bless her.
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This pertains to my mistaken reference from a long time friend and fellow memo reader:
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After Kavanaugh, the tide will return to the various hearings about how corrupt many of the senior members of our various agencies were during the Obama years and beyond. (See 1 below.)
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An Israeli psychiatrist analyses world Jewry and, I believe, what he wrote has total application to the world of "progressives" who worship Christianity. (See 2 below.)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My number three daughter is a free lance editor. I thought I would post some comments from those whose editing she has done. (See 3 below.)
Her husband is an internationally recognized professor of commercial design (See 3a below.)
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Lawyer for Clinton campaign and DNC gave FBI documents for Russia probe, sources say
Michael Sussmann, a top lawyer working with the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign, provided documents for the Russia probe as federal investigators prepared a surveillance warrant for Trump campaign aide Carter Page, sources close to a congressional investigation said. (Perkins Coie)
A top lawyer working with the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign contacted the FBI’s general counsel in late 2016 and provided documents for the Russia probe as federal investigators prepared a surveillance warrant for Trump campaign aide Carter Page, sources close to a congressional investigation told Fox News, citing new testimony.
The FBI official who was contacted, James Baker, revealed the exchange to congressional investigators during a closed-door deposition Wednesday. He said Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann initiated contact with him and provided documents as well as computer storage devices on Russian hacking. The sources said Baker described the contact as unusual and the “only time it happened.”
Perkins Coie was a key player in the funding of the controversial anti-Trump dossier, which Republicans have long suspected helped fuel the FBI’s investigation. The DNC and Clinton campaign had hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS in April 2016, through Perkins Coie, to dig into Trump’s background. Fusion, in turn, paid British ex-spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, memos from which were shared with the FBI in the summer of 2016.
Sussmann’s contact with Baker suggests another connection between the early stages of the FBI’s Russia probe and those working with the DNC and Clinton campaign. Sussmann's bio on the Perkins Coie website describes him as a former senior Justice Department official with extensive national security and cybersecurity experience: "[Sussmann] is engaged on some of the most sophisticated, high-stakes matters today, such as his representation of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in their responses to Russian hacking in the 2016 presidential election."
Asked about Baker’s statements, however, a Perkins Coie spokesperson said Sussmann’s contact was not connected to the firm’s representation of the DNC or Clinton campaign.
The spokesperson said in a statement:
“Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann served as a cybercrime prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice during both Republican and Democratic administrations. As a result, Sussmann is regularly retained by clients with complex cybersecurity matters.
“When Sussmann met with Mr. Baker on behalf of a client, it was not connected to the firm’s representation of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, the DNC or any Political Law Group client.”
Two Republican lawmakers said after Baker’s deposition that he gave "explosive" closed-door testimony detailing how the Russia probe was handled in an "abnormal fashion" reflecting "political bias."
Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan would not provide many specifics about the private transcribed interview, citing a confidentiality agreement with Baker and his attorneys. However, they indicated in broad terms that Baker was cooperative and forthcoming about the genesis of the Russia case in 2016, and about the surveillance warrant application for Carter Page in October 2016.
Jordan also discussed the revelation of the FBI’s additional source. "During the time that the ... DOJ and FBI were putting together the FISA (surveillance warrant) during the time prior to the election, there was another source giving information directly to the FBI, which we found the source to be pretty explosive," Jordan said.
Baker is at the heart of surveillance abuse allegations, and his deposition lays the groundwork for next week's planned closed-door interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Baker, as the FBI's top lawyer, helped secure the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant for Page, as well as three subsequent renewals. Prior to the deposition, Republican investigators said they believed Baker could explain why information about Steele and his apparent bias against then-candidate Trump were withheld from the FISA court, and whether any exculpatory information was known to Rosenstein when he signed the final FISA renewal for Page in June 2017.
Fox News asked Baker after the deposition about the handling of the Trump dossier, what he told Rosenstein about potential exculpatory evidence and whether he is the subject of an FBI leak investigation. Baker told Fox News he could not answer the questions. Baker, who had a close working relationship with former FBI Director James Comey, left the bureau earlier this year.
Rosenstein is expected on Capitol Hill on Oct. 11 for what Republican House sources have described as a closed-door interview. It comes after The New York Times reported last month that he’d discussed secretly recording the president and removing him from office using the 25th Amendment. Rosenstein and the DOJ disputed that report, calling it “inaccurate.” Rosenstein’s planned in-person meeting with Trump, meanwhile, has been pushed off amid prior speculation he might be fired or resign.
A Justice Department official said Rosenstein agreed to meet with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., but offered no details on the format of that meeting.
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The End of the Jewish World as We Know It
By Ron Jager
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks has stated that the ultimate basis of Jewish peoplehood throughout history has been "Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh" – "All Jews are responsible for one another." We may not agree on anything, but we remain a single extended family. If you disagree with a friend, tomorrow he may no longer be your friend. But if you disagree with a family member, tomorrow he is still part of your family. Being a family is what keeps us together. We don't need to agree with each other, but we do need to care about each other. This historical connection among Jews has come to an abrupt end. It can no longer be ignored or denied. American Jews from the Democratic, progressive side of the political map not only have transformed themselves into a vanguard dedicated to publicly criticizing Israel, but act as if Israel is a flawed democracy unworthy of their support.
This monumental shake-up and self-inflicted division of the Jewish world has been building up, changing the foundation of the Jewish world we have been accustomed to for the past 150 years. Not since the period of European enlightenment leading to the establishment of the Reform movement and secular Judaism, and not even during the darkest days of the Holocaust, has the Jewish world undergone such a widespread and fundamental rethinking of what it means to be Jewish. With the establishment of the State of Israel and her metamorphosis within a relatively short period into a world leader in defense, technology, medicine, agriculture, water purification, and food production, allowing Israel to free herself from the shackles of dependence on the American Jewish community, the schism has only accelerated and is threatening the unity of the Jewish world.
We see it everywhere today; led by self-hating Jews, appearing on mainstream and social media, adopting an anti-Israel narrative that not only rejects Israel's basic national right of self-defense, but simultaneously demands that Israel forfeit her right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Jewish intellectuals, liberal and progressive organizations, Reform rabbis, lay leaders, university faculty members, students, communities, and grassroots movements have all joined hands, using their Jewish identity and Jewish affiliation to represent themselves as a moral authority and amplify their rejection of the State of Israel while making alliances with BDS organizations, Islamic organizations, and anti-Israel movements throughout the world that specifically express their objective of ending the existence of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. They express solidarity with the Palestinians and their efforts to delegitimize the Jewish State.
Peter Beinart, archliberal and Jewish provocateur in regard to Israel, stated in his book, The Crisis of Zionism, that the problems of Jewish unity "are not especially connected to Israel because they are not especially connected to being Jewish." These young and liberal American Jews, who are Jews only in name, seem to have lost their basic understanding of how democratic societies function. In the same manner that they deny the elections in America and deny President Trump any semblance of legitimacy despite his fair and square win over his democratic opponent, these Jews refuse to accept the reality that Israel's political system and political processes are subject to judicial review and cannot in any manner deviate from accepted norms of democratic principles.
Yet despite the undeniable Democratic due process in Israel, progressive Jews still act as if they can no longer defend Israel and infer that Israel itself, as a Jewish state, is a provocation to their humanistic values. Even President Trump's decision to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, was given a cold shoulder by progressive Jews. This being the case, denying the legitimacy inherent in President Trump's election win and denying the legitimacy of laws and regulations enacted by Israel's Knesset are two sides of the same coin.
In response to these Jews' consistent rejection of democratic norms while adhering to irrational yet politically correct viewpoints, we can clearly observe a counter-intuitive response of their political allies on the left side of the political map. Despite the support given to and alliances with black and Latin American political leaders, we are witnessing an unprecedented upswing in incidents of anti-Semitism from these communities. The recent funeral of Aretha Franklin, in which Democrat ex-president Bill Clinton shared a broadcasted center stage with the virulent Jew-hater and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, is one example. In the past, Farrakhan called Adolf Hitler "a very great man and claimed a few years ago that "white people deserve to die." Many progressive Jews on the left may not know the extent of Farrakhan's bigotry, or they may condone it by claiming he did a service for black communities. For example, Tamika Mallory, cofounder of the Women's March, called Farrakhan a "GOAT," or the greatest of all time, and Congressman Keith Ellison, an accused abuser of women and the deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, once called him a "role model for black youth." All this shows something inherently wrong with the reciprocity awarded to progressive Jews for their efforts by the Democratic Party and their cohorts.
On the Israeli front, progressive Jews are being interrogated, detained, and denied entrance into Israel at an unprecedented rate, with new cases being reported every day. It seems that progressive American Jews have crossed the line as far as Israel is concerned.
So who will save these self-destructive progressive Jews from themselves and help them in their hour of need: progressive Jews' newfound partners? The anti-Semitic supporters of the BDS movement? Or maybe the anti-Semitic supporters of the anti-Israel LGBT organizations? Certainly, the 60 million Evangelical Protestant Americans and their families who voted for President Trump won't be in their corner, nor the people of Israel, their historical "kissin' cousins" and partners to 3,000 years of family unity, who have been effectively given the progressive middle finger.
Progressive American Jews have lost support on the left and on the right and are entering dangerous waters. Should they continue and suppress expressions of support for Israel or ostracize pro-Israel individuals, the progressive Jews of America will continue to alienate and distance themselves from the Jewish world and will find themselves acting like the beached whales that run themselves aground again and again until they eventually die. Progressive Jews might well bring upon themselves a similar fate in the near future. They have no one to blame but themselves.
The writer, a 25-year veteran of the IDF, served as a field mental health officer and commander of the Central Psychiatric Military Clinic for Reserve Soldiers at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring from active duty, he provides consultancy services to NGO's implementing psycho-trauma and psychoeducation programs to communities in the North and South of Israel and is a former strategic adviser to the chief foreign envoy of Judea and Samaria. Contact: medconf@netvision.net.il.
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The Neurologic Wellness Institute, a functional neurology and functional medicine practice in Chicago and Wood Dale, launched its rebranded website in September 2018. Lisa Thaler was the content editor of eight online essays and technical articles.
"...an involving, surprising, gracefully designed, meticulously documented, and picture-rich first biography," writes Donna Seaman in a starred review in Booklist (6/2008). "Kolin is fascinating and evocative, and Thaler portrays her with precision and sensitivity." For Artopia, John Perreault writes, "Look Up is a window to an art world that no longer exists....I would have loved to have invented both the subject...and the author of record. Because the writing style is lean, the text could pass for latter-day modernism." Design: Christian Marc Schmidt
Donna Seaman reviewed Lisa Thaler's book Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin (Midmarch Arts, 2008) in the Chicago Tribune (8/16/2008). Thaler "conducted several hundred interviews" and is "eloquent and incisive as she interprets Kolin's unusual personality and the provocative polarities embedded in her work."
Jacqueline Saper signed a book deal with University of Nebraska Press's Potomac Books for her memoir From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iran (forthcoming spring 2019). In the acknowledgments, Jacqueline writes, "I thank my editor Lisa Thaler, who read my manuscript with remarkable diligence and enriched it with her skill and keen insights." Lisa was also engaged to draft the 2,500-word synopsis as part of the submission packet.
You Heal You by Jane G. Doyle won first place (healing category) in the First Annual Body Mind Spirit Book Awards (3/2017) and has released an edition in Portuguese (2018). Jane and 17 storytellers share their heartfelt journeys of recovery from emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges using conventional and alternative methods. Each kick-started healing through self-empowerment. In the acknowledgments, Jane writes, "I am blessed to have Lisa Thaler as my editor. Her patience, hard work, attention to detail, and high level of professionalism made my newest adventure a deeper and more rewarding experience. You are amazing, Lisa. Thank goodness I followed my angel track that led me to her." Design: Jeff Hall
Lisa Thaler edited the chapter "Bauhaus Products for Our Time" by Martin Thaler, for the book Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, forthcoming 2019) in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus. Lisa is acknowledged "for making the ideas and thinking clear to the reader."
Lisa Thaler edited the wall text for the Bauhaus futures coursedisplay at the IIT Institute of Design's End of Year Show "Visible Invisible" (5/2017). Students created future product concepts inspired by the tenets of the Bauhaus. Shown (from top) are a portable lamp, a team chair, and a stand for kombucha. Design:Martin Thaler
During his confirmation hearing in 2013, United States Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman cited his and his wife Vicki's family ties to the country (video 1:57–2:42). Bruce and Vicki had contacted Lisa Thaler to expand her prior research on their ancestors who had immigrated to Canada in 1910 and 1911. Lisa's monumental work, commissioned by the Heyman-Simons family, is Enduring Legacies (1998, 536 pp., 438 illus., 40 maps). The book is lauded for having set a new standard in genealogy, and was included in the exhibition "Jewish Roots in Chicago" (Spertus Institute, 2000). For another local family, Lisa researched and wrote the narrative genealogies A Shared Life (2015) and A Promise Kept (2013).
Yaniv Ben-David, founder of Basic-Naturals plant-based skincare line, believes "Mother Nature knows best." In 2018, the company won an A'Design Award & Competition for its packaging design by Sophia Georgopoulou. In 2017, Lisa Thaler named the new balm Hand Shake, and has edited select website essays and social media items and all product labels. (Lisa shyly takes a bit of credit, too, for having inspired Clean Face - Purifying Cleanser.) About their collaboration, Yaniv says: "Lisa is prompt and precise and very detail-oriented....She has helped us stay on track and develop better products....Without her help and commitment, the creation of the packaging would've been a painful project."
In April 2018, Fotoula Adrimi of Glasgow released The Golden Book of Wisdom: Ancient Spirituality and Shamanism for Modern Times, a roadmap to spiritual awakening—with a foreword by Sandra Ingerman. In the acknowledgments, Fotoula writes, "My editor Lisa Thaler did an amazing job. Thank you, Lisa, for your dedication, professionalism, and support."
Christian Marc Schmidt won a Print regional design award (for New York City, in 2009), for his cover design of Lisa Thaler's biography Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin (Midmarch Arts Press, 2008). Christian is the founder and principal of Schema, an interaction design firm in Seattle.
After witnessing, over 25 years, how the editorial process advances the writer's self-understanding and growth, Lisa Thaler developed a program to assist individuals with personal transformation through writing—regardless of their intention to publish. The effort is tailored to the writer's goals using a range of verbal and visual tools. For example, the tableau shown is a concept cover for a grief memoir. A meditation on impermanence, each heirloom represents one of the Four Noble Truths. The hammered tray symbolizes universal suffering. The frail luxury of the covered Wedgwood dish depicts attachment as the cause of suffering, and the containment/container itself—of greed. The jeweler's loupe suggests the way forward: to see things as they are. The bell is the call to the eightfold path. (3/2016)
In addition to her archival references and articles on research methods and sources, Lisa Thaler has published book and exhibition reviews on European history, immigration, and genealogy. Selected titles include There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach; The Pied Piper of the South Shore: Toys and Tragedy in Chicago by Caryn Lazar Amster; Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places by Laura Szucs Pfeiffer; Finding Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City and Cook County by Grace DuMelle; and "Engaging with the Present: The Contribution of the American Jewish Artists Club to Modern Art in Chicago, 1928–2004."
Lisa Thaler continues to collect rejections from the New Yorker for her cartoons. During the Marie Kondo-Magic-of-Tidying-Up craze, in 2015, Lisa submitted her first cartoon. A woman sits in the lotus position in an empty closet. The top of the woman's head is turning to mist. The caption reads: "I don't want to declutter. I want to dematerialize." Undeterred, Lisa has persevered (and practices drawing). In 2017, Lisa was inspired by a local news story of a pregnant woman en route to the hospital, who delivered 2 babies at an L stop. Lisa drew the subway station with its speaker ablare: "Delays! A woman gave birth to twins this morning on the Chambers Street platform. She plans to name the babies 'Choo' and 'Choo.'"
Alongside developmental editing, Lisa Thaler helps all clients articulate their marketing message. In 2018, Lisa and mindfulness maven Amanda Steinken crystallized her project mission as "be whole | live fully." For Jane G. Doyle's series You Heal You, in 2016, Lisa wrote the slogan: "Take the stairs with Jane." (Jane had described her healing journey as a "stairway to joy.") In 2012, Lisa created the You Heal You tagline: "Inspire / Redirect / Heal," which became the focus for successive books in the series.
Lisa Thaler edited Illumine magazine's launch issues (fall 2013 and winter 2014). Among the articles Lisa edited are Andrew Gurvey's "Music in Yoga Class: A Turn-Off or a Turn-On"; Adam Grossi's "The DNA of Discipline: How Yoga Redefined My Work Ethic"; and Ruth Diab Lederer's "Site Specific and Well Proportioned" on the Vaastu Shastra building code.
Among the articles Lisa Thaler edited for Illumine magazine's winter 2014 issue are "Jyotish Astrology Is Stellar!" by Souvik Dutta; "Jewelry with a Purpose" by Kimberlee Ovnik; and "Memorial Tattoos: Wearing and Sharing Stories of Grief" by Nancy B. Perlson, founder of behind-the-ink.
3a) Martin Thaler is a studio professor at IIT Institute of Design. He holds a master of fine arts from the Royal College of Art and a bachelor of fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. For the past 12 years he has led multidisciplinary teams at the IDEO Chicago office for companies in the consumer electronics, medical, and furniture industries.
His work for clients including Motorola, Lilly, Steelcase, Baxter, DaimlerChrysler, Gateway, McDonald’s, and Nanosphere have resulted in designs that successfully blend user, technology, and business needs. Prior to joining IDEO in 1985, he co-founded the award-winning consulting firm Design Logic in Chicago. His clients included Bang & Olufsen, Dictaphone, and View-Master. Martin’s work has been exhibited and been published in books and periodicals including ID, Blueprint, Casa Vogue, and Time.
Martin has taught product design and environmental design as an ID adjunct faculty member over the past 16 years. He is keenly interested in the fundamentals of design. Martin is committed to providing students with real-world opportunities in hospitals, schools, businesses, and other institutions from which they can experience how design can make a difference in people’s lives.
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