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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Vanity & Venality
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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HIS DIGNITY WAS OFFENDED, NO DOUBT
A Tampa Bay-area man says he feels he is being discriminated against because a local movie theater will not allow him to bring in his Cookie Monster-emblazoned messenger bag while women are allowed to bring in purses. Zac Adams told Bay News 9, “I feel discriminated against, because…the only reason that they stopped me was because I was a guy with a bag.” Adams filmed the exchange with a theater staffer told him, “ladies carry big bags, that’s the normal thing for ladies to do.” When Adams asked the staffer if he were a lady would he be allowed in, the manager replied, “yes.” The theater’s manager went on to say, “You could be holding onto recording devices, but ladies, it’s normal for them. Every lady carries a purse. Not every man carries a purse.” Indignant, Adams defended his “Sesame Street” accessory: “It’s not a purse, it’s a bag. I have my glasses in there, my credit card.” According to Adams, he takes the bag everywhere and that it contains, “just general accessories any guy would have.” -Fox News
A Tampa Bay-area man says he feels he is being discriminated against because a local movie theater will not allow him to bring in his Cookie Monster-emblazoned messenger bag while women are allowed to bring in purses. Zac Adams told Bay News 9, “I feel discriminated against, because…the only reason that they stopped me was because I was a guy with a bag.” Adams filmed the exchange with a theater staffer told him, “ladies carry big bags, that’s the normal thing for ladies to do.” When Adams asked the staffer if he were a lady would he be allowed in, the manager replied, “yes.” The theater’s manager went on to say, “You could be holding onto recording devices, but ladies, it’s normal for them. Every lady carries a purse. Not every man carries a purse.” Indignant, Adams defended his “Sesame Street” accessory: “It’s not a purse, it’s a bag. I have my glasses in there, my credit card.” According to Adams, he takes the bag everywhere and that it contains, “just general accessories any guy would have.” -Fox News
Empty Boasts About Bad Iran Deal
Barack nObama can't help but boast about his terrible deal with Iran, even if his boasts are empty. He called it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to stop nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Wrong -- the Saudis will see to that. Furthermore, nObama insisted, for Israel it means "we've got their backs." How so? "This is our best bet by far to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon," nObama said. "What we will be doing even as we enter into this deal is sending a very clear message to the Iranians and to the entire region that if anybody messes with Israel, America will be there." Somehow we doubt his sincerity, even if he complains it's "personally difficult" for him to hear people don't believe he loves Israel. He also said, "I would consider it a failure on my part, a fundamental failure of my presidency, if on my watch, or as a consequence of work that I had done, Israel was rendered more vulnerable." Well, it's a failure. "There is no formula, there is no option," he added, "to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon that will be more effective than the diplomatic initiative and framework that we put forward -- and that's demonstrable." Actually, the experts say the deal is not verifiable. But nothing will burst nObama's fantasy bubble.
nObama also defined the "nObama Doctrine": "The doctrine is we will engage but we preserve all our capabilities. I've been very clear that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon on my watch." What does that mean? Well, this "deal" ensures that Iran will have the capability to develop a nuclear weapon under the next administration. Even nObama later admitted as much.
As for Congress, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said, "If the president feels like this is something that's good for the nation, surely he can sell this to the United States Senate and the House." No wonder nObama doesn't want to even try.
Meanwhile, don't miss what Charles Krauthammer calls the fundamental problem with the deal. -The Patriot Post
nObama Won't Say Murdered Kenyans Were Christians
Last week, Islamic militants murdered 150 Christians in Kenya, explicitly because of their faith. According to the Associated Press, "The attackers separated Christian students from Muslim ones and massacred the Christians." But Barack nObama couldn't be bothered to mention faith at all. The White House statement denounced "terrorist atrocities" against "men and women" and "students," but there was nary a peep about "Muslims" or "Christians." Likewise, nObama neglected to mention the 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded by ISIL earlier this year were anything but "citizens." It would seem the only time nObama doesn't mind mentioning Christians is when he's lecturing them about the Crusades. -The Patriot Post
Rand Paul Brings Grassroots Network to Presidential Race
"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government," Rand Paul announced on his website this morning. For days, Paul has dropped heavy hints to his 1.8 million fans on Facebook. And at noon today in Louisville, the Kentucky Republican will make a speech announcing his candidacy for president. For years, a devoted group of conservatives backed his father, Ron Paul, when he ran for the White House. Now the son is here, and with him is an already established grassroots network -- Paul supporters were in the crowd as Sen. Ted Cruz announced his own presidential candidacy. Already, Paul has begun to reach out to constituencies not normally attracted to the Republican Party -- namely, college students and blacks -- making him a good person to grow the Republican base and setting him apart from other candidates. A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll asking about primary voters' opinions on GOP candidates placed Paul in the top five potential candidates. It's still a wide-open field, and the primaries are a year away. More... -The Patriot Post
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Nazi Jerry Brown Cannot Come Inside Your House With A Stopwatch
(rickwells.us) - Judge Napolitano addresses the actions taken by the California Governor in response to the current drought situation by making a couple of observations...He first notes that anytime the government rations anything, there is immediately less of it, with distribution being based upon a political rather than an economic model. Secondly, he asks, “Who does this thug, who calls himself the Governor of California think he is? He can’t make up rules and impose punishments on his own. Only the legislature can do that. Napolitano says it could be done legally by the legislature provided there is a uniform measurement which applies everywhere that is objective in nature. They can limit the water coming into the household, says the judge, but they cannot tell the occupants how to use that water. They cannot decree how long to brush your teeth or the duration of your shower. http://www.rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-california-shower-nazi-jerry-brown-cannot-come-inside-your-house-with-a-stopwatch/
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nObama rejects Netanyahu’s Call for Iran to Recognize Israel
(gopthedailydose.com) - On Monday, President Barack nObama casually rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to force Iran to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as part of any agreement on the country’s nuclear program...In an interview with NPR, nObama stated loftily, “The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won’t sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.” On Friday, one day after the announcement from the P5+1 powers that the had reached a preliminary “framework” agreement with the terrorist state, Netanyahu said, “Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons, period. In addition, Israel demands that any final agreement with Iran will include a clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel’s right to exist.” http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/07/obama-rejects-netanyahus-call-for-iran-to-recognize-israel/#
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Revived Questions about Huma Abedin
(Matthew Vadum) - Republican lawmakers are probing why Hilly Clinton’s longtime Islamist aide Huma Abedin was allowed to work at the State Department under a special, part-time status while simultaneously working at a politically-connected consulting firm...Demands for information are coming from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) after the public learned both women used Clinton’s private Internet server and email accounts for Department of State correspondence. But that’s only part of the endless sleaze and intrigue surrounding Clinton. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/revived-questions-about-huma-abedin
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Why Is nObama's Fact Sheet Different From Iran's Fact Sheet?
(Jeff Dunetz) - On Friday Iran's foreign ministry released a fact sheet entitled "Summary of the Package of Joint Solutions for Reaching a Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action" it is Iran's version of the Fact Sheet published by the nObama Administration...The Strange part about it is that Iran's fact sheet is much different than the plan nObama is selling. Below is the Iranian version of the talking points translated from the Farsi by Payam Mohseni. (Note: Bolded text is from original): http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-is-obamas-fact-sheet-different-from.html
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French Document Shows Troubling Discrepancies With US on Iran Deal
(investigativeproject.org) - U.S. and Iranian officials have described last week's framework for a deal to slow Iran's nuclear weapons program with disturbingly different details. According to a Times of Israel report Tuesday, the U.S. account also differs significantly with a key ally – France...The proposed deal lets Iran continue to develop use advanced centrifuges which could allow for uranium enrichment as much as 20 times faster than the Islamic Republic's current technology. After 12 years, Iran can actually resume enriching uranium, which the newspaper reported "would enable Iran to more rapidly accumulate the highly enriched uranium needed to build nuclear weapons, accelerating its breakout time to the bomb." The source is an internal French government fact-sheet which the newspaper was able to review, but which has not been released publicly. That timeline, however, dovetails with an acknowledgment President nObama made this week in an interview with National Public Radio. Iran's "break-out" time to make a bomb could shrink "almost down to zero" by year 13 after any final deal is negotiated, nObama said. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4817/report-internal-french-document-shows-troubling
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nObama Admin Wins Immigration Court Battle – Miss VS DHS
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - The Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against an nObama administration DACA program – delaying deportations of illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as children...This is a different case than the challenge as to whether President nObama’s expanded immigration executive actions can proceed. In today’s decision the court ruled plaintiffs’, the state of Mississippi and agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), did not provide enough evidence to prove they were harmed by the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allows qualifying illegal immigrants to apply for work permits. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/07/obama-administration-wins-immigration-court-battle-mississippi-vs-u-s-dept-of-homeland-security/
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nObama Criticize Christians At Easter Prayer Breakfast
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - A very interesting exchange during the White House prayer breakfast. President nObama veers off prepared remarks and begins to malign Christians....Someone in the audience notices and quickly says something catching the President’s attention and interrupting his delivery. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/07/saved-by-a-handler-president-obama-begins-attacking-christians-during-prayer-breakfast-stops-pauses-rethinks-and-pulls-back/
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U.K. May Fire 100 Islamist Educators in "Trojan Horse" Scandal
(John Rossomando) - At least 100 Islamist teachers and teaching assistants implicated in last year's "Trojan Horse" teaching scandal in Birmingham, England may face lifetime teaching bans...Last June, the U.K.'s Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) found evidence that hardline Islamists had attempted to take control of some state schools. The report found that staff and headteachers felt "intimidated," "undermined" or bullied into making changes they opposed. Some headteachers with records of improving classroom standards were either marginalized or forced out of their jobs. In some cases, teachers faced unfair treatment due to their gender or religious beliefs. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4818/uk-may-fire-100-islamist-educators-in-Trojan
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Qaddafi of Libya, an nObama success story?
Decoding the nObama Doctrine
(Daniel Pipes) - James Jeffrey, Barack nObama's former ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Iraq, has this to say about the administration's current record in the Middle East: "We're in a goddamn free fall."...Count the mistakes: Helping overthrow Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, leading to anarchy and civil war. Pressuring Husni Mubarak of Egypt to resign, then backing the Muslim Brotherhood, leading now-president Sisi to turn toward Moscow. Alienating Washington's most stalwart ally in the region, the Government of Israel. Dismissing ISIS as "junior varsity" just before it seized major cities. Hailing Yemen as a counterterrorism success just before its government was overthrown. Alarming the Saudi authorities to the point that they put together a military alliance against Iran. Coddling Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, encouraging his dictatorial tendencies. Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan prematurely, dooming the vast American investment in those two countries. And, most of all: Making dangerously flawed deals with the nuclear-ambitious mullahs of Iran. http://www.danielpipes.org/15722/decoding-the-obama-doctrine
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It’s ‘Victory Over America Day’ in Iran
(Thomas Donnelly) - The nObama administration’s actions have shown the Iranians that they can continue their gradual march toward regional hegemony and save their nukes for another day...As a result, Sunni states are likely to feel threatened and go nuclear. What would the Shah do? “The Shah,” as in Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the Imperial State of Iran and occupant of the Peacock Throne, the ruler overthrown by the Iranian Revolution of 1979, but also a man possessed — as the mullahs who replaced him are — by dreams of Persian greatness. That is to ask, is there an enduring strategic logic behind Iran accepting a deal that temporarily “blocks every pathway” to a nuclear weapon,” as President nObama declared? http://www.aei.org/publication/its-victory-over-america-day-in-iran/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=040715
Vanity & Venality
(burtprelutsky.com) - Recently, there was an event held in Washington, D.C., for the purpose of honoring excellence in American journalism. (Stop laughing, I’m being serious.) And what’s more, the keynote address was delivered by Hilly Clinton, who was clearly looking to curry favor by saying – with a straight face, apparently – “We need more than ever smart, fair-minded journalists to challenge our assumptions, push us towards new solutions, and hold all of us accountable.”
Then, in spite of the fact that she refused to answer any questions, the assemblage gave her a standing ovation. Only in Washington could a candidate for president pretend to mean such utter hogwash and a group of 300 left-wing propagandists pretend to believe she meant it.
On her way out the door, Mrs. Clinton rubbed their little pink bellies and handed out doggy treats.
Although I am quick to criticize Mrs. Clinton, I am only too happy to acknowledge that she possesses more testosterone in her little finger than the GOP’s congressional leaders have in their entire bodies.
♦ One thing I would like to point out, however, is that when polls pit Mrs. Clinton against various potential 2016 opponents and shows her leading them by anywhere from 10-15%, it would be wise to keep in mind that whereas she has her party’s nomination all but sewn up, most of the Republicans haven’t even tossed their hats in the ring. Therefore, most Republican voters aren’t even sure at this point whether they favor Walker or Bush, Cruz or Paul, Rubio or Fiorina. The party is still more than a year away from selecting a nominee, but I can assure you that once that’s been decided, Hilly Clinton is unlikely to lead in the polls.
For one thing, nObama will leave the White House under a far darker cloud than did George W. Bush. That means Hilly will have to run against his policies, which will turn off nObama’s greatest admirers, especially among blacks. On the other hand, if she adopts his anti-Israel policies, she will turn off a sizable number of wealthy Jews. If she veers in the opposite direction, she will antagonize an even larger number of liberal Jews.
As a woman pushing 70, she will hardly be attractive to young voters. As someone who has already spent eight years in the White House, she won’t have the advantage of running as either a newcomer or a Washington outsider. And with all of that, she will also be toting more baggage than a team of bellhops.
♦ Speaking of Jewish voters, if there is one question readers ask me more than any other, it’s why do so many Jews insist on voting almost exactly like those with whom they seemingly have so little in common; namely blacks and Hispanics. The answer is both simple and complicated.
Being secular myself, I feel a little strange casting stones at those who are Jews in Name Only (JINOs), although it might be more appropriate to say in names only. After all, if they didn’t have names like Goldstein, Rosenberg and, well, Prelutsky, you’d have no other way of knowing they’re Jewish. A great many of them don’t even side with Israel in its endless conflict with those dedicated to completing the job begun 80 years ago by Adolf Hitler.
The sad fact is that a large percentage of these schmucks, particularly those to be found in the ranks of students or professors on our college campuses, regard Israel as a greater threat to world peace than Russia, China, North Korea or Iran.
Frankly, it would help clarify things if those who are JINOs only because their great-grandparents were religiously observant and refused to change the family name to Green, Perry or Burns, when they landed at Ellis Island, would simply call themselves liberals and stop modifying it with “Jewish.”
♦ Speaking of related matters, when Bernard Goldberg dumped me from his blog because he felt I sometimes went too far when being critical of gays, urban blacks and Muslims, I felt he was entirely within his rights. I still do. However, replacing me with a guy like Pat Buchanan, who hates Jews and Israel nearly as much as Barack nObama, really cuts me to the quick. I guess this must be how it feels to be a loyal wife of many years who wakes up one day to find she’s been abandoned for a gum-popping bimbo.
♦ Finally, I understand that vanity is supposed to be something of a character flaw, but if it is, it is obviously one that is shared by nearly every member of the human race. That is particularly true for those involved in the visual arts, the men and women whose faces and bodies are their key to fame and fortune.
That is why I am always so delighted when any of those who earn their keep in front of a camera can candidly and wittily sum up their own shortcomings. Two such that come to mind are Martin Clunes (star of the English TV series “Doc Martin”), who described himself as possessing “jug ears and child-bearing lips;” and the inimitable Joyce Grenfell, a toothy English actress and monologist, who owned up to being “about eight feet tall with a face that looks like a reflection in a spoon.”
For my part, I recently received a photo of myself from a friend, and complained, “It’s a terrible picture…it looks just like me!”
Then, in spite of the fact that she refused to answer any questions, the assemblage gave her a standing ovation. Only in Washington could a candidate for president pretend to mean such utter hogwash and a group of 300 left-wing propagandists pretend to believe she meant it.
On her way out the door, Mrs. Clinton rubbed their little pink bellies and handed out doggy treats.
Although I am quick to criticize Mrs. Clinton, I am only too happy to acknowledge that she possesses more testosterone in her little finger than the GOP’s congressional leaders have in their entire bodies.
♦ One thing I would like to point out, however, is that when polls pit Mrs. Clinton against various potential 2016 opponents and shows her leading them by anywhere from 10-15%, it would be wise to keep in mind that whereas she has her party’s nomination all but sewn up, most of the Republicans haven’t even tossed their hats in the ring. Therefore, most Republican voters aren’t even sure at this point whether they favor Walker or Bush, Cruz or Paul, Rubio or Fiorina. The party is still more than a year away from selecting a nominee, but I can assure you that once that’s been decided, Hilly Clinton is unlikely to lead in the polls.
For one thing, nObama will leave the White House under a far darker cloud than did George W. Bush. That means Hilly will have to run against his policies, which will turn off nObama’s greatest admirers, especially among blacks. On the other hand, if she adopts his anti-Israel policies, she will turn off a sizable number of wealthy Jews. If she veers in the opposite direction, she will antagonize an even larger number of liberal Jews.
As a woman pushing 70, she will hardly be attractive to young voters. As someone who has already spent eight years in the White House, she won’t have the advantage of running as either a newcomer or a Washington outsider. And with all of that, she will also be toting more baggage than a team of bellhops.
♦ Speaking of Jewish voters, if there is one question readers ask me more than any other, it’s why do so many Jews insist on voting almost exactly like those with whom they seemingly have so little in common; namely blacks and Hispanics. The answer is both simple and complicated.
Being secular myself, I feel a little strange casting stones at those who are Jews in Name Only (JINOs), although it might be more appropriate to say in names only. After all, if they didn’t have names like Goldstein, Rosenberg and, well, Prelutsky, you’d have no other way of knowing they’re Jewish. A great many of them don’t even side with Israel in its endless conflict with those dedicated to completing the job begun 80 years ago by Adolf Hitler.
The sad fact is that a large percentage of these schmucks, particularly those to be found in the ranks of students or professors on our college campuses, regard Israel as a greater threat to world peace than Russia, China, North Korea or Iran.
Frankly, it would help clarify things if those who are JINOs only because their great-grandparents were religiously observant and refused to change the family name to Green, Perry or Burns, when they landed at Ellis Island, would simply call themselves liberals and stop modifying it with “Jewish.”
♦ Speaking of related matters, when Bernard Goldberg dumped me from his blog because he felt I sometimes went too far when being critical of gays, urban blacks and Muslims, I felt he was entirely within his rights. I still do. However, replacing me with a guy like Pat Buchanan, who hates Jews and Israel nearly as much as Barack nObama, really cuts me to the quick. I guess this must be how it feels to be a loyal wife of many years who wakes up one day to find she’s been abandoned for a gum-popping bimbo.
♦ Finally, I understand that vanity is supposed to be something of a character flaw, but if it is, it is obviously one that is shared by nearly every member of the human race. That is particularly true for those involved in the visual arts, the men and women whose faces and bodies are their key to fame and fortune.
That is why I am always so delighted when any of those who earn their keep in front of a camera can candidly and wittily sum up their own shortcomings. Two such that come to mind are Martin Clunes (star of the English TV series “Doc Martin”), who described himself as possessing “jug ears and child-bearing lips;” and the inimitable Joyce Grenfell, a toothy English actress and monologist, who owned up to being “about eight feet tall with a face that looks like a reflection in a spoon.”
For my part, I recently received a photo of myself from a friend, and complained, “It’s a terrible picture…it looks just like me!”
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