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Hump Day Happenings ·          Former Iceland Prime Minister Geir Haarde is facing a possible 2 year prison sentence for negligence connected with the global financial crisis that included the complete crash of the Icelandic financial system.   A head of government facing negligence charges?   Oh my bring that kind of rule of law over here for the entire Bush Administration. ·          Marine Cpl. Alexander Degenhardt agreed to donate bone marrow to a stranger.   Two days later, he hit a $2.9Million slots jackpot in Vegas.   That is some serious My Name is Earl shit there. ·          Conservative Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions on food stamps: “No program in our government has surged out of control more dramatically than food stamps.   Do you think there are four times as many people who need food stamps today as 2001?”   The answer is si...

As many of you know, I have dedicated many postings to the State of Israel on a range of topics including: it’s history, the present day government, the Jewish-Palestinian question, and the region in general.   Growing up in a liberal conservative Jewish household (the oxymoron is quite common as American Jews were almost exclusively political liberals and the conservative branch of Judaism the most common) and attending Hebrew school as a kid you obviously build an affinity for the State of Israel.   I do not remember the Six-Day War of 1967, but I have vivid memories of celebrating Israel’s 25 th anniversary in 1973 and the Yom Kippur War later that year.   As a ten year old attending Yom Kippur services I saw the worried looks on my parents and the other adults at the shul as members of the congregation would periodically step outside to get news reports from car radios and transistor radios (We still drove and used electrical appliances during the high holidays, thou...

New Plotlines for Television Shows Shameless: The life and times of Rush Limbaugh House of Lies: The Chronicles of the 112 th Republican controlled Congress Once Upon a Time: Rick Santorum’s One Hour Docudrama About Woman’s Rights the 14 th century Grimm: The U.S. Outlook under a Romney Administration Missing: The story of whatever happened to moderate Republicans Happy Endings: The Glenn Beck Show Last Man Standing: The Poor SOB who wins the GOP Nomination 2 Broke Girls: Patricia Heaton and Ann Coulter are Sent to Live in Pakistan Latest NBC/Marist Poll Results: Ohio and Virginia State Obama-Romney Obama-Santorum Obama-Gingrich Obama-Paul Ohio 50-38 (12% Und) 50-36 (14% Und) 51-36 (14% Und) 48-38 (14%Und) Virginia 52-35 (12%Und) 54-32 (14%Und) 57-31 (12% Und) 53-32 (15%Und) The most noticeable observation is the large margin of advantage for the President   over ea...

Weekend Thoughts ·          The Republican Party continues with its fight against the Affordable Care Act specifically allowing private employers to ‘opt out’ of providing care that it finds to be morally objectionable.   If the private sector starts cutting certain coverage such as contraception does it not open the door for the government to offer a public option? ·          While foreign policy is not on top of voters’ lists of concerns, has there been a President in recent memory that has been more effective in his 1 st term than President Obama?   His national security team consisting of Brennan, Clinton, Panetta, and Biden have had their hands full with issues in Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia, South America, and the results are impressive.   This Obama Doctrine of reversing the Bush unilateral war mongering in favor of selective counter-terrorism, coalition building, and diplo...

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In 2008, while on the campaign trail, then candidate Barack Obama made the following statement: But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustratio ns. The reaction was swift and furious from then rival Hillary Clinton and soon to be rival John McCain.   Mr. Obama was called an elitist, pundits claimed ...

·          "I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely. The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country." ·          "That's why he (Obama) wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image." ·          “President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob” ·          “I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military” What we're doing is playing social experimentation with our military right now. And that's tragic." ·          “I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute.” ·          “I think it's harmful to our society to have a society th...