This should have happened years ago, in my estimation
Dana Mathewson
Hillary Clinton had her security clearance removed
over the summer "at her request,†the Senate Judiciary Committee, who
received confirmation from the State Department, revealed Friday.
The
news comes as part of an update from the State Department of "its
ongoing review of the mishandling of classified information related to
the use of Clinton’s non-government email server,†a news release from
the committee said.
Five other people labeled by the former secretary of state as being
researchers, "including close aide Cheryl Mills,†also lost their
clearance, the news release said.
The Judiciary Committee released a letter,
dated Sept. 21 from the State Department to Chairman Chuck Grassley,
detailing their progress in the investigation and the status of
Clinton’s clearance, which was "administratively withdrawn†on Aug. 30.
Mills and the other four individuals, whose name were redacted from the
letter, had their clearance removed on Sept. 20, the letter said.
"As
we previously informed the committee, these individuals had been
granted access to classified information through a request made by
Secretary Clinton designating them as researchers, per E.O. 13526, Sec.
4.4(a)(2),†the letter said.
"At her request," eh? That's the part that has me scratching my head. How does this do her any political good? And we all know that woman never does anything without a political motive. Never! Could it be to stop the chorus of conservatives who have been howling for her clearance to be revoked? Possibly, but I doubt it. She discounts us as "deplorables," thinks we have no reason for being.
If you believe you know why she'd want this, PLEASE leave a comment below!
My only question is, why did it take so long to revoke that clearance? It should have been yanked the day after she stepped down as Secretary of State, never to be reinstated.
"Illinois Department of Health officials were investigating this week after nine "sporadic†cases of children diagnosed with a new polio-like illness were reported and confirmed within the state.
Acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, is a rare, but potentially severe condition that has been on the rise, a recent report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevent stated."
[...]
"From August 2014 to August 2018, the CDC reported receiving information that there had been a total of 362 cases, most of which affected children. This year, there have been 38 confirmed cases in 16 states across the U.S.
The infection is similar to viruses like polio and West Nile that affect the nervous system — especially the spinal cord — causing muscles and reflexes to become weak. Those who contract AFM face paralysis, long-term health problems and even death."
End excerpt.
So, another new illness has come on the scene, this one similar to polio and West Nile. What I found interesting, other than the fact that we seem up to our eyeballs in new illnesses. is the following:
"While officials said the cases occurred in northern Illinois, more specific locations were not publicly available."
End quote.
Northern Illinois is home to a huge immigrant population, and the Chicago area is more likely to answer the telephone with "Ola" rather than "hello". It seems probable to me that this new illness was brought by our immigrant friends. Even if that is not the case the mixture of peoples up there, with all manner of compromised immune systems from a lack of childhood immunizations to intravenous drug use and whatnot is an ideal incubation chamber for new diseases trying to break out into the general public. There is a problem with "diversity" that the Left will never tell you about; it is a breeding ground for disease, in many cases, as well as strife.
Illinois is a sanctuary state.
This is just one more reason why the Chicago area and much of northern Illinois should be walled off and domed over.
Here's a classmate of Miller's from third grade talking about
him a few months ago. The question we have to ask is what is behind this and
why now, or is it just a slow news period and Stephen Miller's name was next on
the list of people to attack?
Democrat Witches to Hex Justice Kavanaugh in Occult Ritual on Saturday
Witches plan to place a public hex on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh through an occult ritual on Oct. 20 in New York City, an event sponsored by Catland Books, which describes itself as "Brooklyn's premiere occult bookshop & spiritual community space."Â The planned ritual has been advertised on Facebook.
"Please join us for a public hex on Brett Kavanaugh, upon all rapists and the patriarchy at large which emboldens, rewards and protects them,"Â reads the description for the event, "Ritual to Hex Brett Kavanaugh."Â
"We are embracing witchcraft's true roots as the magik of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it's history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him,"Â reads the description.
"Å“He will be the focal point, but by no means the only target, so bring your rage and all of the axes you've got to grind"Â states Catland.
1
"Looking for donation." Of what? Blood? Eye of Newt? But I'm sure Rep. Gingrich won't be within hundreds of miles of the event.
This is what happens when people have too much time on their hands.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 13, 2018 11:41 AM (Grtv4)
Greg Walcher commentary: More misplaced environmentalist outrage
Paul Driessen
Greg Walcher has written another
perceptive column addressing US environmental laws and regulations. As he notes,
these rules can be applied in evenhanded, commonsense ways – or as weapons
against disfavored industries and activities. His case in point is the Obama era
Department of the Interior’s re-interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act,
to make all killing of all migratory birds in all places at all times illegal,
with possible fines or even jail.
The Obama Interior Department
tried to apply migratory bird rules against oil and gas companies whose
activities inadvertently killed birds – while ignoring countless more bird
deaths by wind turbines. In the final days of the Obama administration, the
Department tried to formalize this approach, through a legal opinion by its
Solicitor General. The incoming Trump-Zinke Interior Department reversed that
opinion – and environmentalists, the Washington Post and a few other folks went
ballistic. Greg tells the rest of the story in this entertaining and informative
article.
Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein should leave their top Justice Department jobs soon
Dana Mathewson
As Shakespeare would have said, "'Tis a consummation greatly to be wish'd!" A Fox News article by Gregg Jarrett goes on to say:
Fortunately for our country, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions doesn’t have much more time left in his job. Once the Nov. 6
midterm elections are over, President Trump is widely expected to
belatedly accept the letter of resignation tendered by Sessions in May
2017.
Hopefully, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will also leave the Justice Department when Sessions heads out the door.
Both
Sessions and Rosenstein have done enormous damage to the Trump
presidency, our nation and our system of justice. We will all be better
off with them out of their jobs. As the old saying goes, "good riddance
to bad rubbish!â€
The Washington Postis
reporting that Trump recently spoke with Sessions’ Chief of Staff
Matthew G. Whitaker about replacing Sessions as attorney general. It is
unclear whether Whitaker would take the helm temporarily or permanently.
There
are others who should be considered to replace Sessions. Rep. John
Ratcliffe, R-Texas, would be an excellent choice. So would Solicitor
General Noel Francisco.
In a recent interview, President Trump remarked that "I don’t have an attorney general.†He is absolutely right.
On
his first day in office, Sessions recused himself from any involvement
in the investigation of possible "collusion†between the Trump
presidential campaign or Donald Trump and Russia to win the 2016
presidential election. This was like a fire chief running away from the
scene of a major blaze.
Sessions made it official three weeks
later, shirking his duty to supervise a critically important
investigation and instead relegating himself to become a meaningless
bystander as events threatened to overtake the new administration.
The
attorney general deliberately concealed his intent to disregard his
responsibility and duty from President Trump, betraying the president’s
trust and poisoning their relationship from the outset.
If not for
Sessions’ deceit, it is unlikely that a special counsel – Robert
Mueller or anyone else – would have ever been appointed.
Chew that last paragraph over a few times, dear readers! And think of how much time would not have been wasted!
In fact – and this is critically important – the attorney general was not required to bow out of the Russia probe.
Sessions
was either duped by holdovers from the Obama Justice Department, or
simply failed to comprehend the plain meaning of the regulations. If
Sessions knew what he was doing, he would have ended the Russia
investigation at its outset, saving our nation millions of dollars and
the continued national discord the probe has spawned.
The American
people elected Donald Trump as our president to revive our economy,
oversee our relations with foreign friends and foes alike, defend our
nation, work with Congress to pass legislation, appoint judges, and
carry out other enormously important work. They didn’t elect Trump to
spend a big chunk of his time dealing with an investigation that goes on
and on and on, desperately seeking something – anything – to pin on the
president.
After Sessions unnecessarily and improperly recused
himself from supervising the Russia probe – and failed to halt the
unwarranted investigation entirely – Rosenstein took it upon himself to
oversee the operation and appointed Mueller as special counsel.
This
played neatly into the anti-Trump scheme admittedly devised by fired
FBI director James Comey, who was Mueller’s close friend and long-time
professional ally.
Rosenstein misconstrued – and thereby misused –
the special counsel regulation authorizing Mueller’s appointment. The
case at that point was a counterintelligence probe, not a criminal investigation.
My Father’s Brother and his Japanese Keeper in WWII
Jack Kemp
This story is stranger than fiction – but true.
However, when I first heard as a teenager that my uncle Avram spent WWII in
Kobe, Japan, I didn’t believe my parents. How could a poor Jew (and my father’s
family was very poor) both get a visa and pay for a trip from Poland to Japan,
of all places, an ally of Germany? It sounded absurd, a fictional delusion. It
took decades – and both the internet and documentaries I found on Amazon.com -
to explain how this actually was true.
The first issue, not well covered in my high
school WWII history (as best I can recall it), is that when Germany invaded
Poland in September of 1939 to start WWII in Europe, they "only†took the
Western part of the country. Secret pre-war deals between Joseph Stalin and
Hitler left the eastern part of Poland to the Soviet Union which invaded that
area three weeks after the German Army invaded from the west. But with the
chaos of war, people were able to flee to the east and on into the Baltic
states such as Latvia and Lithuania. Later, of course, Hitler double crossed
Stalin and invaded eastward into Russia itself, but that’s another matter.
Word spread quickly that a Japanese diplomat in
Lithuania was writing transit visas enabling Jews to travel across Russia on
the Trans-Siberian Railroad and on to Japan and Japanese held Shanghai, China. He
did this in defiance of instructions from his own government. This diplomat,
Chiune Sugihara, saved the lives of roughly six thousand Jews, one of them
being my father’s brother, my uncle Avram.
Now Avram had no money for a ticket on the Trans-Siberian
Railroad and there is the question of why would Stalin honor those visas? My
uncle wasn’t the only poor person who fled first to Lithuania, yet he got
financial aid from an American Jewish charity. As for why autocratic Joseph
Stalin honored those visas, that was a question of hardnosed realpolitik. Stalin
was facing an upcoming war with Germany on his Western Front. Japan was not
then at war with the Soviet Union but had a large army in Manchuria (occupied
China) facing a large Soviet army just across the border from them in Siberia.
The last thing Stalin wanted was a two front war. He did not want to give the
Imperial Japanese government any excuse, such as an insult to their diplomat or
his official visas, to become a cause for a war on Siberian soil. So Stalin’s
travel agents (they were all secret police members) honored those visas issued
by Mr. Sugihara with great respect. Refugees got to ride the Trans-Siberian
Railroad to the Pacific Port of Vladivostok. There they boarded ships to Japan
and a large number of them were also transported to the international city of
Shanghai, one of the very few places one could go in the world without a formal
entry visa. For some reason, my uncle Avram went to Kobe, Japan, along with
some of the other fleeing refugees. He spent not only all the rest of WWII
there, but the next few years until Israel became an independent country which
took in all Jewish refugees. The British, before, during and after WWII,
severely limited the number of Jews allowed to enter what was then officially called
The British Mandate of Palestine because of British politics and their related
economic interests in the oil business in the Middle Eastern Moslem countries.
So in May of 1948, my uncle was able to go to
Israel – where he promptly entered the fledgling Israeli Army. He married a
woman born in Israel and he later passed away in the 1960s. In 1970, I visited
his widow one day. And in the 1990s, I and my father visited uncle Avram’s
grave in a cemetery located in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Uncle Avram’s life story reads like the outline
to a thriller novel but he was no writer, but the man who lived his story. As I
said before, my parents couldn’t even explain how and why his travels happened
in a few or more words to me as they didn’t know enough general background
historical details to make it sound plausible. Had Avram gone to a Western
publisher with the outline of a story (he could not speak English, French or
German), it might well have been rejected as a totally absurd phony biography by
some strange man they couldn’t understand. Or they might have seen it as a not
well written fictional story. Had Avram gone to an Israeli publisher, his story
would have been similar to thousands of other people’s personal European escape
autobiographies of people who fled to Israel after or before WWII and would have been seen as nothing unique. After
all, Israel had a Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, who had started WWII in the
Polish Army and fled east to Russia with his unit and then south through Iran
and on to British controlled Palestine. His Christian commanding officer liked
him and urged Begin to resign and stay in the country and fight for Israel’s
independence while the rest of his unit joined the Free Polish Army under the
command of Great Britain. These other Polish soldiers would go on to fight
valiantly in battles such as Monte Cassino in Italy and Arnhem in Holland. So
my uncle’s story was just that of another refugee who now lived an ordinary
quiet life in Israel. But it still, to someone from America, such as myself, was
all quite amazing – and true.
As for the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, he
received many honors both later in his life and after his death. I’ve spoken to
people who grew up in Japan who were told about him in school and were familiar
with what he did. That includes the wife of couple living a few doors away from
my apartment.
Below is the detailed Wikipedia biography of
Mr. Sugiahara’s life.
Chiune Sugihara, also called Sempo Sugihara[1] (æ‰åŽŸåƒç•Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986)[2] was a Japanese government official who
served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped some six thousand Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel
through Japanese
territory, risking his
job and his family's lives.[3] The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied
Western Poland and Soviet-occupied
Eastern Poland, as well as
residents of Lithuania. A few decades after the war, in 1985, the State of Israel honored Sugihara as one of the Righteous
Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי ×ומות העול×) for his actions. He is the only
Japanese national to have been so honored.
Sugihara told
the refugees to call him "Sempo" – the Sino-Japanese reading of the Japanese characters of his given name – as it was
easier for non-Japanese persons to pronounce.[4]
From 18 July to 28 August 1940,
aware that applicants were in danger if they stayed behind, Sugihara decided to
grant visas on his own. He ignored the requirements and issued ten-day visas to
Jews for transit through Japan, in violation of his orders. Given his inferior
post and the culture of the Japanese Foreign Service bureaucracy, this was an
unusual act of disobedience. He spoke to Soviet officials who agreed to let the
Jews travel through the country via the Trans-Siberian Railwayat five times the standard ticket price.
Sugihara himself wondered about
official reaction to the thousands of visas he issued. Many years later, he
recalled, "No one ever said anything about it. I remember thinking that
they probably didn't realize how many I actually issued."[13]
SECTION
OMITTED
Sugihara's widow and eldest son
estimate that he saved 10,000 Jews from certain death, whereas Boston
University professor and author, Hillel Levine, also estimates that he helped
"as many as 10,000 people", but that far fewer people ultimately
survived.[15] Indeed, some Jews who received
Sugihara's visas failed to leave Lithuania in time, were later captured by the
Germans who invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, and perished in the
Holocaust.
SECTION OMITTED
Legacy
and honors
Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan
contains a Sugihara Chiune Corner.
Sugihara Street in Vilnius,
Lithuania, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Street in Jaffa, Israel, and the asteroid25893 Sugihara are named after him.
When Sugihara's widow Yukiko
traveled to Jerusalem in 1998, she was met by tearful survivors who showed her
the yellowing visas that her husband had signed. A park in Jerusalem is named
after him. The Japanese government honored him on the 2000 centennial of his
birth.[2]
Now Avram had no money for a ticket on the Trans-Siberian
Railroad and there is the question of why would Stalin honor those visas? My
uncle wasn’t the only poor person who fled first to Lithuania, yet he got
financial aid from an American Jewish charity. As for why autocratic Joseph
Stalin honored those visas, that was a question of hardnosed realpolitik. Stalin
was facing an upcoming war with Germany on his Western Front. Japan was not
then at war with the Soviet Union but had a large army in Manchuria (occupied
China) facing a large Soviet army just across the border from them in Siberia.
The last thing Stalin wanted was a two front war. He did not want to give the
Imperial Japanese government any excuse, such as an insult to their diplomat or
his official visas, to become a cause for a war on Siberian soil. So Stalin’s
travel agents (they were all secret police members) honored those visas issued
by Mr. Sugihara with great respect. Refugees got to ride the Trans-Siberian
Railroad to the Pacific Port of Vladivostok. There they boarded ships to Japan
and a large number of them were also transported to the international city of
Shanghai, one of the very few places one could go in the world without a formal
entry visa. For some reason, my uncle Avram went to Kobe, Japan, along with
some of the other fleeing refugees. He spent not only all the rest of WWII
there, but the next few years until Israel became an independent country which
took in all Jewish refugees. The British, before, during and after WWII,
severely limited the number of Jews allowed to enter what was then officially called
The British Mandate of Palestine because of British politics and their related
economic interests in the oil business in the Middle Eastern Moslem countries.
So in May of 1948, my uncle was able to go to
Israel – where he promptly entered the fledgling Israeli Army. He married a
woman born in Israel and he later passed away in the 1960s. In 1970, I visited
his widow one day. And in the 1990s, I and my father visited uncle Avram’s
grave in a cemetery located in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Uncle Avram’s life story reads like the outline
to a thriller novel but he was no writer, but the man who lived his story. As I
said before, my parents couldn’t even explain how and why his travels happened
in a few or more words to me as they didn’t know enough general background
historical details to make it sound plausible. Had Avram gone to a Western
publisher with the outline of a story (he could not speak English, French or
German), it might well have been rejected as a totally absurd phony biography by
some strange man they couldn’t understand. Or they might have seen it as a not
well written fictional story. Had Avram gone to an Israeli publisher, his story
would have been similar to thousands of other people’s personal European escape
autobiographies of people who fled to Israel after or before WWII and would have been seen as nothing unique. After
all, Israel had a Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, who had started WWII in the
Polish Army and fled east to Russia with his unit and then south through Iran
and on to British controlled Palestine. His Christian commanding officer liked
him and urged Begin to resign and stay in the country and fight for Israel’s
independence while the rest of his unit joined the Free Polish Army under the
command of Great Britain. These other Polish soldiers would go on to fight
valiantly in battles such as Monte Cassino in Italy and Arnhem in Holland. So
my uncle’s story was just that of another refugee who now lived an ordinary
quiet life in Israel. But it still, to someone from America, such as myself, was
all quite amazing – and true.
As for the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, he
received many honors both later in his life and after his death. I’ve spoken to
people who grew up in Japan who were told about him in school and were familiar
with what he did. That includes the wife of couple living a few doors away from
my apartment.
Below is the detailed Wikipedia biography of
Mr. Sugiahara’s life.
Chiune Sugihara, also called Sempo Sugihara[1] (æ‰åŽŸåƒç•Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986)[2] was a Japanese government official who
served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped some six thousand Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel
through Japanese
territory, risking his
job and his family's lives.[3] The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied
Western Poland and Soviet-occupied
Eastern Poland, as well as
residents of Lithuania. A few decades after the war, in 1985, the State of Israel honored Sugihara as one of the Righteous
Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי ×ומות העול×) for his actions. He is the only
Japanese national to have been so honored.
Sugihara told
the refugees to call him "Sempo" – the Sino-Japanese reading of the Japanese characters of his given name – as it was
easier for non-Japanese persons to pronounce.[4]
From 18 July to 28 August 1940,
aware that applicants were in danger if they stayed behind, Sugihara decided to
grant visas on his own. He ignored the requirements and issued ten-day visas to
Jews for transit through Japan, in violation of his orders. Given his inferior
post and the culture of the Japanese Foreign Service bureaucracy, this was an
unusual act of disobedience. He spoke to Soviet officials who agreed to let the
Jews travel through the country via the Trans-Siberian Railwayat five times the standard ticket price.
Sugihara himself wondered about
official reaction to the thousands of visas he issued. Many years later, he
recalled, "No one ever said anything about it. I remember thinking that
they probably didn't realize how many I actually issued."[13]
SECTION
OMITTED
Sugihara's widow and eldest son
estimate that he saved 10,000 Jews from certain death, whereas Boston
University professor and author, Hillel Levine, also estimates that he helped
"as many as 10,000 people", but that far fewer people ultimately
survived.[15] Indeed, some Jews who received
Sugihara's visas failed to leave Lithuania in time, were later captured by the
Germans who invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, and perished in the
Holocaust.
SECTION OMITTED
Legacy
and honors
Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan
contains a Sugihara Chiune Corner.
Sugihara Street in Vilnius,
Lithuania, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Street in Jaffa, Israel, and the asteroid25893 Sugihara are named after him.
When Sugihara's widow Yukiko
traveled to Jerusalem in 1998, she was met by tearful survivors who showed her
the yellowing visas that her husband had signed. A park in Jerusalem is named
after him. The Japanese government honored him on the 2000 centennial of his
birth.[2]
This story is stranger than fiction – but true.
However, when I first heard as a teenager that my uncle Avram spent WWII in
Kobe, Japan, I didn’t believe my parents. How could a poor Jew (and my father’s
family was very poor) both get a visa and pay for a trip from Poland to Japan,
of all places, an ally of Germany? It sounded absurd, a fictional delusion. It
took decades – and both the internet and documentaries I found on Amazon.com -
to explain how this actually was true.
The first issue, not well covered in my high
school WWII history (as best I can recall it), is that when Germany invaded
Poland in September of 1939 to start WWII in Europe, they "only†took the
Western part of the country. Secret pre-war deals between Joseph Stalin and
Hitler left the eastern part of Poland to the Soviet Union which invaded that
area three weeks after the German Army invaded from the west. But with the
chaos of war, people were able to flee to the east and on into the Baltic
states such as Latvia and Lithuania. Later, of course, Hitler double crossed
Stalin and invaded eastward into Russia itself, but that’s another matter.
Word spread quickly that a Japanese diplomat in
Lithuania was writing transit visas enabling Jews to travel across Russia on
the Trans-Siberian Railroad and on to Japan and Japanese held Shanghai, China. He
did this in defiance of instructions from his own government. This diplomat,
Chiune Sugihara, saved the lives of roughly six thousand Jews, one of them
being my father’s brother, my uncle Avram.
Now Avram had no money for a ticket on the Trans-Siberian
Railroad and there is the question of why would Stalin honor those visas? My
uncle wasn’t the only poor person who fled first to Lithuania, yet he got
financial aid from an American Jewish charity. As for why autocratic Joseph
Stalin honored those visas, that was a question of hardnosed realpolitik. Stalin
was facing an upcoming war with Germany on his Western Front. Japan was not
then at war with the Soviet Union but had a large army in Manchuria (occupied
China) facing a large Soviet army just across the border from them in Siberia.
The last thing Stalin wanted was a two front war. He did not want to give the
Imperial Japanese government any excuse, such as an insult to their diplomat or
his official visas, to become a cause for a war on Siberian soil. So Stalin’s
travel agents (they were all secret police members) honored those visas issued
by Mr. Sugihara with great respect. Refugees got to ride the Trans-Siberian
Railroad to the Pacific Port of Vladivostok. There they boarded ships to Japan
and a large number of them were also transported to the international city of
Shanghai, one of the very few places one could go in the world without a formal
entry visa. For some reason, my uncle Avram went to Kobe, Japan, along with
some of the other fleeing refugees. He spent not only all the rest of WWII
there, but the next few years until Israel became an independent country which
took in all Jewish refugees. The British, before, during and after WWII,
severely limited the number of Jews allowed to enter what was then officially called
The British Mandate of Palestine because of British politics and their related
economic interests in the oil business in the Middle Eastern Moslem countries.
So in May of 1948, my uncle was able to go to
Israel – where he promptly entered the fledgling Israeli Army. He married a
woman born in Israel and he later passed away in the 1960s. In 1970, I visited
his widow one day. And in the 1990s, I and my father visited uncle Avram’s
grave in a cemetery located in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Uncle Avram’s life story reads like the outline
to a thriller novel but he was no writer, but the man who lived his story. As I
said before, my parents couldn’t even explain how and why his travels happened
in a few or more words to me as they didn’t know enough general background
historical details to make it sound plausible. Had Avram gone to a Western
publisher with the outline of a story (he could not speak English, French or
German), it might well have been rejected as a totally absurd phony biography by
some strange man they couldn’t understand. Or they might have seen it as a not
well written fictional story. Had Avram gone to an Israeli publisher, his story
would have been similar to thousands of other people’s personal European escape
autobiographies of people who fled to Israel after or before WWII and would have been seen as nothing unique. After
all, Israel had a Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, who had started WWII in the
Polish Army and fled east to Russia with his unit and then south through Iran
and on to British controlled Palestine. His Christian commanding officer liked
him and urged Begin to resign and stay in the country and fight for Israel’s
independence while the rest of his unit joined the Free Polish Army under the
command of Great Britain. These other Polish soldiers would go on to fight
valiantly in battles such as Monte Cassino in Italy and Arnhem in Holland. So
my uncle’s story was just that of another refugee who now lived an ordinary
quiet life in Israel. But it still, to someone from America, such as myself, was
all quite amazing – and true.
As for the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, he
received many honors both later in his life and after his death. I’ve spoken to
people who grew up in Japan who were told about him in school and were familiar
with what he did. That includes the wife of couple living a few doors away from
my apartment.
.
, Israel was named for Sugihara in
the presence of his son Nobuki, as a number of Netanya's current residents are
descendants of the Lithuanian Jews who had been given a means of escaping the
Third Reich.[26] There is also a street named Consul
Chiune Sugihara in Londrina Brazil.
, Israel was named for Sugihara in
the presence of his son Nobuki, as a number of Netanya's current residents are
descendants of the Lithuanian Jews who had been given a means of escaping the
Third Reich.[26] There is also a street named Consul
Chiune Sugihara in Londrina Brazil.
I never thought I would have kind words to say about Michelle Obama. Never in a million years. Well, the Lord has certainly given me a lesson today! (Maybe it's because this is Martha and my 30th Wedding Anniversary?)
Michelle Obama rebukes Holder, Clinton over calls for political warfare
Former first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday openly
challenged calls from Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder for Democrats to
eschew civility in favor of confrontational politics, saying she
"absolutely" stands by her famous slogan, "when they go low, we go
high."
"Fear is not ... a proper motivator,â€
Obama said during an interview on NBC's "Today.†"Hope wins out, and if
you think about how you want your kids to be raised, how you want them
to think about life and their opportunities, do you want them afraid of
their neighbors? Do you want them angry? Do you want them vengeful?â€
"Which motto do you want them to live by? And I have to think about that as a mother,â€she added.
[...]
Holder was captured on video speaking Sunday at a campaign event for
local Georgia Democratic candidates. In the clip, he tried to turn
Michelle Obama's political appeal on its head.
"It is time for us, as Democrats, to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are," Holder said over the weekend.
"Michelle always says -- I love her; she and my wife are like, really
tight, which always scares me and Barack -- but Michelle always says,
'When they go low, we go high.' No. When they go low, we kick 'em."
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Of course her husband was and is the biggest thug in politics, and likely is leading this whole "resist" operation. He was the guy who said "if they bring a knife we'll bring a gun" and he meant it. He is, after all, a product of the revolutionaries in Chicago, a true thug.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 13, 2018 08:15 AM (bheE+)
Brett Kavanaugh and the major media's worst moment
Man, this is great! Written by Becket Adams, of the Washington Examiner, it is LONG, but has to be. It's an involved subject.
For all the
recent talk about facts versus "fake news,†telling the truth, and
recapturing the public's trust in the era of President Trump, some of
our most important newsrooms blew it when it mattered most. Worse still,
some media organizations demonstrated an immediate willingness to trade
this industry's already badly battered reputation for a political
victory.
We are now at the unsuccessful conclusion of a
four-week-long effort by certain media organizations to prove Supreme
Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a violent sexual predator and a lying
alcoholic. The reckless and grossly irresponsible scramble by the New
Yorker, NBC News, the New York Times, and others to make Kavanaugh into a
monster produced some of the worst journalism of the Trump era to date –
and that's a pretty high bar.
There were plenty of minor fouls, including when the Times
assigned a news story on Kavanaugh to a magazine opinion writer who
openly opposed his nomination. Others were much greater, including when
NBC published an anonymously written letter alleging (with zero
corroboration) that Kavanaugh was observed by an anonymous woman in 1998
to have pushed another anonymous woman.
It was only a matter of time before failed presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in on President Donald Trump’s Supreme
Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and it appears to have been time she
spent working on a top notch critique: that Kavanaugh could return the
United States to the days of slavery.
Speaking to the American Federation of Teachers Friday night, Clinton
warned of "devastating consequences†if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the
bench.
"Let me say a word about the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the
Supreme Court,†Clinton said in her speech. "This nomination holds out
the threat of devastating consequences for workers rights, civil rights,
LGBT rights, women’s rights — including those to make our own health
decisions.â€â€¦.
And that’s where she landed on her new strategy of attack: warning of a return to the agrarian pre-Civil War America.
"I used to worry that they [the Republicans] wanted to turn the clock
back to the 1950s. Now I worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s,â€
Clinton said….
Is it just me, or do you think maybe Bill's been spiking her Chardonnay?
Dana Mathewson, with a hat tip to Eddie Engebretson
God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found Him, resting on the
seventh day..
He inquired, "Where have you been?"
God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, and I've put life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth. "For example,
northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while
southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent
of white people, and over there is a continent of
black people. Balance in all things."
God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be
extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"
"That will be the Commonwealth of Virginia, the most glorious place on
earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes,
forests, hills, and plains. The people from the Commonwealth of Virginia
are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and
humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be
extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and
producers of good things."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance..."
God smiled, "Right next to Virginia will be Washington DC. Wait till you see the idiots I put there."
Kavanaugh fight shows we have not yet plumbed the depths of Democratic ruthlessness
Dana Mathewson
I believe it was the late Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abba Eban who said that in the attempt to make peace in the Middle East, "the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
Well, these days, it seems that the Left never misses an opportunity to overreach. Here's an excellent Marc Thiessen article from Fox News.
President Trump apologized to Justice Brett
Kavanaugh and his family Monday for the "terrible pain and suffering"
they endured during his confirmation process, declaring that "what
happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness,
decency and due process."
Democrats seem to be
taking the opposite lesson from the Kavanaugh fight. As Politico
recently tweeted, "After failing to stop Kavanaugh's confirmation,
Democrats wonder if it's time to be more ruthless."
More ruthless? There are a lot of reasons the effort to stop Kavanaugh failed, but a lack of ruthlessness is not one of them.
Kavanaugh's
opponents just tried to destroy a man without a shred of corroborating
evidence. No tactic, no unfounded accusation, was too extreme.
Democrats
demanded that the FBI investigate not just Christine Blasey Ford's
uncorroborated accusations, but also the charge in the New Yorker's hit
piece that Kavanaugh had exposed himself to a college classmate, Deborah
Ramirez, as well as the scurrilous accusation by Michael Avenatti
client Julie Swetnick that Kavanaugh participated in gang rapes at high
school parties. How can you get any more ruthless than unfounded
accusations of gang rape?
Democrats did not lose the Kavanaugh
fight because they were not ruthless enough. They lost because, as
always, the left overreached. Their increasingly brazen and unsupported
charges against Kavanaugh backfired, strengthening the GOP's case that
Kavanaugh was the victim of a political hit job, and actually helping to
secure his confirmation.
They also lost because of their
disastrous decision last year to filibuster the nomination of Neil
Gorsuch, a justice of impeccable qualification and temperament. If
Democrats had kept their powder dry then, they would still have had the
filibuster in place when Kavanaugh was nominated. As it stands,
Republicans were barely able to confirm Kavanaugh; they likely would
never have been able to muster the votes to invoke the nuclear option to
get him onto the court.
In the case of Gorsuch, at least there
was no attempt at character assassination. That was because he was a
conservative justice replacing a conservative justice, the late Antonin
Scalia. His confirmation simply restored the status quo ante.
Kavanaugh,
by contrast, was replacing Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court's key
swing vote. His confirmation could swing the court's ideological balance
for a generation, so he had to be destroyed.
If they did this to
Kennedy's replacement, think of what Democrats will do if, at some
point in his presidency, Trump ends up nominating someone to replace a
liberal Supreme Court justice. It's hard to imagine anything worse than
charges of gang rape, but I doubt we have yet plumbed the depths of the
ruthlessness of which Democrats are capable.
Democrats have no one
but themselves to blame for Kavanaugh's confirmation. Their strategic
miscalculations, and embrace of what they once decried as the "politics
of personal destruction," backfired. And the reverberations may not yet
be over.
Now, I know that it's hard to believe the donkey party thinks it needs to become more ruthless, but it's true. Here's an article from Breitbart by John Nolte, if you have the stomach for it -- and you should. Sun Tzu admonished us to "know your enemy," and these days the Left is a formidable enemy. There are no more political opponents. Only enemies. The problem is that the Republicans haven't figured that out yet. https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/09/democrats-consider-becoming-more-ruthless-losing-kavanaugh-battle/
Pat's that wonderful British commentator who skewers the British Left. I happened on the link to this video tonight. It takes about ten minutes, but if you're a Condell fan it'll go by quickly. The subject is the British "intellectuals" who were not and still are not in favor of Brexit, and look down their noses at those who are. An American parallel is our Left and everyone else who cannot stand Donald Trump. I swear that while I was listening to it I was almost hearing a Trump rally, minus the main star.
I received this following email today because I made a small donation to help fund the documentary film "The Gosnell Movie," about the outrageous abortionist in Philadelphia:
Hi
Superman needs your help. It's very upsetting but we wanted you to
be the first to know that Dean Cain is being attacked by Hollywood
bullies and Twitter mobs for acting in the Gosnell Movie and daring to say out loud that he is proud to be part of this great film.
And the Hollywood bullies are relentless. Watch this video to see Tom Arnold, Roseanne's ex-husband who has just made an eight
part anti-Trump documentary, attacking Dean for daring to promote the Gosnell Movie. (WARNING: explicit language)
Dean really is a great guy and he was a joy to work with on the
film. He has been tireless in promoting the film. But Hollywood and the
mainstream media don't want the truth to get out. That's why they are
trying to shut us down.
They refused to cover the trial, they wouldn't let us crowdfund on
Kickstarter, taxpayer funded NPR banned our advertisements and then FACEBOOK has censored 30 of our ads. They hate the truth and they hate the fact that the film is getting real praise from real critics.
So now they want to intimidate the actors from promoting the film.
Listen to the hate and invective from Tom Arnold. It's shocking.
We need you to help us fight back. We are now in over 600 theaters across the US. The Gosnell Movie is a truly national release and we need to show Hollywood and the mainstream media that there is an appetite for the truth.
They want Gosnell to fail so we need you
to ensure it is a success. It is crucial that the opening weekend is big
- Hollywood really pays attention to the opening numbers, so we need
you to turn out. Go to www.GosnellMovie.com/theaters and check where the film is playing near you. Keep checking the site
because even more theaters are going to be added over the next few days.
On the individual theaters websites, showtimes and tickets will be
posted by tomorrow (Wed). If there is no theater near you we need you to
buy tickets anyway. It would be a way to show Hollywood that censorship
and bullying don't work. If we get a big opening weekend it means they
have to pay attention and discuss the reality of Gosnell and what he
means for America.
Thank you and with your help this weekend we will end the coverup.
Phelim
Ann
Magdalena
PS. To see a good side of Hollywood watch the music video and listen to this beautiful song written specially for the Gosnell Movie by pop star, singer/songwriter John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting, called Song for the Innocents...
Weiner, 54, known for his online sexual exploits as "Carlos Danger,â€
has been a "model inmate" while imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center
in Devens, Massachusetts, the NY Post reported Monday, citing the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Accordingly,
prison records now have him scheduled to be released in May 2019, three
months earlier than the initial date of August 2019.
END OF QUOTE
You know what this means, a new Presidential ticket for 2020 with former Sen. Al from Minnesota - the Franken-Weiner ticket!
From PJ Media, "Ignored History: Columbus Sought to End Islamic Tyranny." There is an excerpt below and you can read the whole article here.
BEGIN QUOTE
As we celebrate Columbus Day -- for those of us still inoculated enough against cultural relativist depravity to do so -- it is also worth recapturing concretely the specific late
15th century religious motivations for Columbus’ voyage. Simply put,
Columbus sought "eastern (even far eastern) alliances†to end a millennium of Islam’s jihad-imposed tyranny against Christendom. Louis Bertrand’s scholarly 1934 tome, The History of Spain, elegantly -- and unapologetically -- characterized the now well-nigh forgotten, or ignored, historical context.
When the Spanish Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella recaptured Granada on January 2, 1492, they ended almost eight centuries of jihad ravages (described by Bertrand in 1934, and in 2016 here)
-- massacres, pillage, mass enslavement, and deportation -- and the
grinding imposition of Sharia by Spain’s various pious Muslim
conquerors, and rulers. Bertrand’s unsparing narrative describes the bitter, chronic fate of Spain’s Christians under Islam, both those
fully subjugated and the populations never entirely subdued in the
semi-autonomous northern regions:
The Christians of the interior were mastered. They had lost their
leaders and their principal centers of resistance. The armies of the
Caliph, the Arab and Berber chieftains, had massacred them, burned them
out and pillaged them to the best of their ability. Thus decimated and
humiliated, they nevertheless continued to exist, in a furtive and more
or less precarious way of life …
A special education teacher in Minnesota on Monday was put on paid
administrative leave following a controversial tweet about killing
now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Here's the tweet: (go to the hyperlink above).
The
teacher is question is Samantha Ness, who works at Alliance Education
Center in Rosemount, Minnesota. According to the staff directory, Ness
works the district’s Students With Unique Needs (SUN) program.
The program works with students with autism spectrum disorders,
developmental cognitive disabilities, and emotional behavior disorders, Alpha Newsreported.
According
to Superintendent Mark Zuzek of Intermediate School District 917, the
district received complaints about the teacher's tweet.
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Secret Service and FBI in Minnesota were contacted regarding the concerning tweets, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Ness deleted both her Facebook and Twitter accounts but Twitter
users screencapped her threats.
It remains unclear whether the teacher will be charged with a crime or what law enforcement agency will investigate the threat.
END OF QUOTE
Looks like the found Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, in the U.S. Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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One thing Feminists and Conservatives can agree on...
Jack Kemp
If Christine Blasey Ford had been partying with Democrats and Ted Kennedy drove her home, she wouldn't be telling anyone about any sexual abuse 36 years later. Or 36 hours later.
When
I logged into the Bing search engine this moring, I found a story about
a mini-controversy concerning U.S. Astronaut Scott Kelly quoting
Winston Churchill while being photographed in space flight. What caught
my eye in this BBC story was the article referring to Kelly as not
married to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a shooting victim,
but rather being her brother-in-law. This apparent fake news "fact"
contradicts every news account at the time of the shooting of Giffords
which stated Kelly and Giffords were husband and wife. What is going on
here?
Either
every news story I read in America was a lie or the BBC is either lying
now or did poor fact checking. Why would the BBC lie, if that were
indeed the case? Well, stating that Scott Kelly is not so closely
connected to a man who made a Churchill quote (and Churchill made some
quotes that would be considered racist in this century) literally
distances a liberal anti-gun shooting victim and icon, Gabrielle
Giffords, from this now politically incorrect and somewhat controversial
astronaut.
This
situation is starting to resemble The Ministry of Truth from Orwell's
"1984" novel - or the editorial policies of the Soviet era Pravda.
Here are the quote and opening lines of the BBC article:
Astronaut under fire for quoting Churchill
One of the unwritten rules of social media is avoid inspirational quotes.
American
astronaut Scott Kelly put that to the test on Sunday when his use of
Winston Churchill quotes landed him in hot water with people who oppose
the wartime British prime minister's views on empire and race.
But
when Kelly tried to apologise for the tweet and offered to educate
himself, Churchill fans attacked him for discrediting the politician's
record.
Kelly, whose sister-in-law is former Democrat
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, used the famous remark by the former
British prime minister to comment on deep divisions in American
politics.
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What's going on is that NASA jumped at the opportunity to recruit a couple of identical twins so they could do the usual sorts of experiments that allows. I find it much easier to believe that all of the US media got it wrong, probably following the lead of the AP or NYT, and that the BBC was more careful with the facts, our media is just that bad.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 09, 2018 08:40 AM (FPIRN)
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Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 13, 2018 10:47 AM (bheE+)
