Lynn recently asked me why I send two memos/day and post memos that are out of date with the recorded events.
I did not convince her of my response though, I gave her these reasons:
a) I hoped, by doing so, each memo would be shorter and readers might finish them.
b) I did not consider my memos were meant to be a newspaper but more of a commentary on events.
c) There were some "time" factors involved as well so I could reduce the time I spend sitting and writing each memo.
Lynn did not buy my explanations but I thought it useful to post them.
Frankly, since I am not employed to write, I do so for my own pleasure. Secondarily, I might get those who wish to read them to think about what I write so they reflect more deeply about what is happening to our nation, encourage them, perhaps, to get involved and, most important of all, realize their freedoms are being impacted by these events and, lamentably, all too often threatened.
In my humble opinion, I believe we have lost our republic and am fearful we will never recapture the essence of what it means to be an American. To me, being an American is a unique privilege which we have squandered by reason of illegal immigration, extreme indebtedness, disregard of law and order, ignoring the role of a solid education and we have lost sight of the values that made us a great nation and people.
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This is a Facebook posting by a dear friend and fellow memo reader:
Covid note 12/5/21: person never seen by me called my office for help after taking ill and testing positive for Covid. Told by her “primary care doctor” to take some Tylenol and go to the ER if she “got more sick.” Took her history over the phone and called in my Covid Medication Protocol to Walgreens Pharmacy in Okatie, SC. Pharmacist there today, at or around 2PM, refused to follow my order for Hydroxychloroquine, though agreed to fill orders for five other medications. He told the patient that he would not fill the order for HCQ because “it is not approved by the FDA.” That is not correct for a number of reasons. It is, in fact, approved by the FDA, specifically for Malaria prophylaxis, and treatment of both Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis. The FDA position on use of HCQ in Covid is as follows: “It is not recommended.” That’s all. Hence, from the FDA point of view, my use of HCQ in Covid is “off label.” That does not even remotely rise to the status of “not approved.” Physicians routinely order a multitude of medications “off label” for a variety of reasons with no known push back from licensed pill dispensers. This is more than an egregious “trend” in this country. This is a nationally pervasive policy that DENIES LIFE SAVING MEDICATION from people in dire need for safe, cheap, and effective treatment. I know this because I have treated a multitude of Covid patients with HCQ for almost two years without mishap and with wonderful outcomes. The hospitals, physicians, and pharmacists who refuse to use this medication to treat Covid patients are grossly in error. A government bureaucracy that perpetrates confusion and misinformation over the use of HCQ in Covid is grossly corrupt. How many of the nearly eight hundred thousand Americans dead from Covid would now be alive had they been treated with HCQ in a timely way? So, Walgreens in Okatie, SC, along with Walgreens on Largo Drive in Savannah, Ga, every CVS anywhere, take note: you are now on the shit-list of Stephen M Herman, MD, Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1981, trained to treat Infectious Disease at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (ret), West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and holder of a Purple Heart, and some other items of interest. FB: censor this post and I will sue you. CF Alan Lowe, Esq.
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David get's my vote:
David Perdue to Announce Georgia Gubernatorial Bid
By Landon Mion
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Edited:
Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, and the liberal mob want to silence us and turn Georgia into a state that’s more like California or New York.
Not on my watch.
As your Governor, I will:
Completely eliminate the state income tax
Crack down on crime and make our communities safe again
Put parents in charge of their children's education
Ensure the safest and securest elections in the country
Stand up to the woke mob and radical left
Fight back against Biden and his overreaching mandates
Career politicians say it can’t be done, but with your support, we can STOP STACEY and send a clear message that Georgians will never bow down to the radicals or the liberal elite.
Bonnie and I are forever humbled by your support – and we’re asking for your help again today.
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Would it not be nice if all humans became like these two animals?
Is Iran about to undo Zionism's very purpose?
It's not their using that weapon, but having it, that could change everything
Iranian Brig.-Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Fifteen years or so ago, we were sitting around the Shabbat table when the conversation turned to the question of whether there were threats to Israel that it could not survive. That’s hardly our usual Shabbat table fare, but those were the years not long after the intifada, and I guess it was still in the air.
In the middle of the conversation, our daughter’s boyfriend (now the father of our granddaughters), born and raised in Israel and a veteran of seven years in military intelligence, interrupted the flow of the discussion and said:
I have no idea what you’re talking about. That’s the most Diaspora-mentality-laden conversation I’ve ever heard here. No Israeli who was born after the Yom Kippur War has any recollection of a single moment in which Israel faced an existential challenge. Was the Intifada horrible? Of course it was. But at the end of the day, they blew up restaurants and buses. You can’t take down a country that way. They can hurt us, obviously, but destroy us? What are you talking about?
I’ve thought about that soliloquy numerous times since, because it struck me then, as it does still, as the ultimate statement of Zionism’s success. Not “success” in the sense that the Jews were invulnerable, but “success” in the sense that the Jews felt invulnerable. That was the purpose of Zionism—to change the existential condition of the Jews.
The primary purpose of Zionism was to restore dignity to the Jewish people, to end millennia of Jews living in fear. You could see it and hear it everywhere in the heyday of Zionist ideology. Herzl said it often. The anthem of Beitar, Jabotinsky’s movement that would produce Menachem Begin and the Likud, proclaimed, ivri gam ben oni, ben sar—every Jew, even a poor one, is royalty.
When Begin launched Operation Litani to get the PLO out of southern Lebanon in 1982 (an operation that morphed into the 18-year-long Lebanon War), it was because he couldn’t bear the notion that in a sovereign Jewish state, children in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona were crying themselves to sleep in bomb shelters, as Katyusha rockets pummeled the town. Hiding from enemies, shivering in fear and praying that nothing would happen to them was Judaism of Europe, Begin believed. He was going to end that.
What was the point of a Jewish state if it didn’t eradicate fear? In what way was Israel possibly a success if Jews would live in the Middle East the way that they had in Europe?
Begin had sounded like a biblical prophet the year prior when he told an exultant crowd after the June 1981 destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak:
The nuclear reactor has been destroyed, it is no more! There will be none in the future! The Children of Israel shall live! And they will build for themselves homes, and the Jewish people will live in the Land of Israel, for generations and generations, and there will be no horror. These were acts of salvation, for the sake of our nation, and most important, for the sake of our children…
As we’ve noted before, the Prime Minister had created what is now known as “the Begin Doctrine”: no enemy of Israel would ever be permitted to obtain a weapon of mass destruction. Preemption as an Israeli policy had already surfaced in June 1967, when Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground before Nasser could unleash what became the Six Day War. But then the issue became nuclear weapons. Begin leveled Osirak in 1981. Olmert took out a Syrian reactor under construction near Damascus in 2007.
Just over a week ago, Brigadier-General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, stated during an interview, "We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter. We want to destroy Zionism in the world.”
At least publicly, Israel is taking him seriously. Naftali Bennett’s government, unlike our previous administration, is trying to keep the deep divisions between Washington and Jerusalem under wraps. The prevailing assumption here is that America is too weak and too tired to stop Iran—the US will sign a bad deal with Iran if it can get one, or no deal at all if it can’t, but either way, Iran is going to continue enriching uranium at levels much higher than any domestic, peaceful purpose would require.
The agonizing question that Naftali Bennett faces when he tries to fall asleep at night is what needs to be done to save Zionism. Or more accurately, if one believes, as he and many Israelis clearly do, that the future of the Jewish is almost certainly going to unfold in Israel and nowhere else, what must be done to save the Jewish people?
Some very thoughtful and responsible thinkers, like the poetic Yossi Klein Halevi, advocate attacking Iran. Obviously, whether Israel has the capacity to do that none of us civilians has any idea. Nor do we know whether Iran is bluffing. But Klein Halevi is not willing to take that chance: “I’m very wary of Holocaust analogies. But for me, this is a ‘never again’ moment.”
Yet everyone knows that a surgical strike of the Osirak sort is not going to happen with Iran. Should Israel decide to attack, Iran will order Hezbollah to unleash its arsenal of some 130,0001 rockets, many of which have pinpoint accuracy and can hit anywhere in Israel. As Klein Halevi said to me in a conversation last week, if Israel does strike Iran, Israel will be a very different country afterwards, in numerous ways, including geographically. We simply have to be prepared for Iran to hit our hospitals, our airport, the water and electric grids, Tel Aviv and Haifa and much more.
Hence these preparations by the Home Front Command over the past month.
The maps are from the Hebrew paper Maariv, showing the areas of air-raid siren tests, to which the English headline from the Jerusalem Post is referring.
If no surgical strike is possible, and if Israel is thus likely to take a horrific beating in the process, why in the world would Israel do it? How does one do the moral calculus? How many Israelis deaths does a mere delay of Iran’s nuclear capacity merit? Should one trigger almost certain widespread devastation to forestall a threat that might never be carried out?
How does one justify even thinking about that?
The answer, for those who are in favor of the attack, lies in my (now) son-in-law’s comments some fifteen years ago. Jewish life in Israel is as vibrant as it is because here, Jews do not live in fear. Israel ranks high in the 2021 World Happiness Report (it’s #11, while the US is #14, for example), while according to the World Bank, its birthrate is the highest of any developed country in the world.
(And it’s not because of Israeli Arabs (who now have a birthrate lower than do the Jews) or the Haredim. According to the Taub Center, “even among Jewish women who self-identify as secular and traditional but not religious, the combined TFR exceeds 2.2, making it higher than the TFR in all other OECD countries.”)
With stress high, compulsory military service, armed conflagrations regular, and challenges aplenty, why are Israelis happier than most and having more kids than the rest of the developed world? Because they feel safe, and they have a sense of purpose. The purpose, whether or not they articulate it to themselves this way, is being part of one of the greatest stories of human rebirth in all of history. It’s the story of bringing a nation back from the precipice, the story of sowing hope where despair should have reigned, of embracing the future even while remembering a tear-rinsed past. It’s the story of taking a broken, shattered people that had lived in fear and with weakness for centuries, and in the space of a few decades, transforming that people completely.
Give people that, and they’ll feel happy. Give them happiness, and they have lots of kids. (Interesting to compare that to recent reports that in the US, “some would-be parents see the future as too dark to procreate.”)
Those numbers alone are the most profound indication of Zionism’s success.
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By Abraham H. Miller, AM THINKER
In a vulgar act denying not only established history but the foundational characteristics of the two major Western faiths, the United Nations believed it could rewrite the past. It voted to change the Temple Mount to a Muslim Holy Site and deny the historic relationship, found in both the Pentateuch and the Gospels, between Jews and Jerusalem. Jerusalem appears by name 806 times in the Jewish and Christian Bibles and additional times by reference. It appears not once in the Koran.
Jews had been living in Jerusalem for thousands of years and Christians for six centuries before the first horseman rode out of the Arabian desert and placed it under Islamic rule. But what is history compared to a vote in an international body dominated by tyrants and kleptomaniacal dictators? Their perfidy is not surprising. There are more Muslims in the world than Jews. Tyrants and dictators might not understand history, but they do know how to count.
Read more...Prime Minister Bennett has 44% job approval rating in new poll, with plurality of Israelis favoring Netanyahu as PM.
By David Rosenberg, INN
Six months after the formation of the new Bennett-Lapid government, a new poll shows a plurality of Israelis prefer former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.
On Sunday night, Channel 12 published a new poll conducted by the Midgam polling agency which found that 43% of Israelis would rather have a government headed by Netanyahu than the current ‘change’ coalition, compared to 36% who favor the current government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.
Nearly half (45%) of respondents preferred Netanyahu as premier over Bennett, with just 25% favoring Bennett.
Read more...If I owned a restaurant I would gladly offer them a free lunch if that was acceptable:
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Headline: "They Were In Uniform With Multiple Weapons": San Francisco Restaurant Defends Booting Cops The First take: It's only Monday, but we've nominated this woke restaurant for the "Most Short-Sighted" idea of the week. What could be dumber than to prohibit armed law enforcement in your business during a massive, violent crime spree? | |
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