Boker tov, Boulder!

Afternoon Cheer-Us-Up

Today was the first day of school in Israel. 

 

Bibi visited the Avivit kindergarten and told the children to "learn and become wise."

Amen.

* * *

Also today, "following security consultations," the prime minister made this statement:

"The State of Israel is ready for any scenario. We are not part of the civil war in Syria but if we identify any attempt whatsoever to harm us, we will respond and we will respond in strength." 

 

Amen. Let it be so.

Oh, the nervous-making news (and I don't mean whats-her-name Cyrus)

 

In between checking the Drudge Report every few minutes, I am lamenting the fact that Mitt Romney is not commander-in-chief. Gd save us from this bozo and those who found him worthy of the power he now holds.

 

Sir Winston

While we wait for the next shoe to drop on Syria, we look for something else to think about for a minute or two...

 

Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot.  Others look on it as a cow they can milk.  Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong and willing horse that pulls the whole cart along."

 --Winston Churchill

 

Kudos to the employees of Delta Airlines

This is hardly a cheer-me-up but will go a long way to reaffirm your faith in the American people -- by way of Independent Journal Review: 

I simply did not know that Delta’s Honor Guard did this for fallen heroes. In a world of bad news, this is a bright spot. Thanks, Delta.

  

Read the book, beat the drum

 

You may have noticed I am "beating the drum" for Mark Levin's new book - or rather, for the information and ideas in it. After an extended bout of ennui, this has provided me with the first rung of a ladder that I hope can lead me out of my "deep, dark hole."

Apparently I'm not alone in this. The line at a recent book signing was, well ... LONG.

 

 

 

Jeffrey Lord notes at The American Spectator:

You can bet there are teeth grinding over at the New York Times.

Word leaks from sources in the world of books that come September 1, #1 in all 3 categories at the New York Times bestseller lists — hardcover, e-book and combined hardcover & ebook — will sit Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic.  

This does not include Amazon, where The Liberty Amendments shot to # 1 on the Amazon bestseller list the week of its release.

This does not include USA Today, where as of August 18 The Liberty Amendments sits atop the paper’s bestseller list of 150 titles — both non-fiction and fiction.

This does not include the Wall Street Journal, where The Liberty Amendments sits atop the paper’s non-fiction bestseller list....

 

Read the book, beat the drum.

 

  

"Enough here to establish a pattern"

 

I give you a brilliant "starter" list of The Won's broken promises, by Peter Wehner:

 

.... The sheer bandwidth of his broken promises and empty claims is quite extraordinary. For example, there was

• his promise not to allow lobbyists to work in his administration. (They have.)
• His commitment to slash earmarks. (He didn’t.)
• To be the most transparent presidency in history. (It’s not.)
• To put an end to “phony accounting.” (It started almost on day one and continues.)
• And to restore trust in government. (Trust in government is at near-historic lows.)
• Think, too, about his pledge to seek public financing in the general election. (He didn’t.)
• And to treat super-PACs as a “threat to democracy.” (He embraced them.)

Then there was

• his administration’s pledge to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent. (It remained above 8 percent for the longest stretch since the Great Depression.)
• To create five million new energy jobs alone. (The total number of jobs created in Obama’s first term was roughly one-tenth that figure.)
• To identify all those “shovel-ready” jobs. (Mr. Obama later chuckled that his much-hyped “shovel-ready projects” were “not as shovel-ready as we expected.”)
• And to lift two million Americans from poverty. (A record 46 million Americans are living in poverty during the Obama era.)

Let’s not forget the president’s promise[s] to

•  bring down health care premiums by $2,500 for the typical family (they went up)
• allow Americans to keep the health care coverage they currently have (many can’t)
• refuse to fund abortion via the Affordable Care Act (it did)
• respect religious liberties (he has violated them)
• and the insistence that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was not a tax (it is).

There was also

• Mr. Obama’s pledge to stop the rise of the oceans. (It hasn’t.)
• To “remake the world” and to “heal the planet.” (Hardly.)
• To usher in a “new beginning” based on “mutual respect” with the Arab and Islamic world and “help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East.” (Come again?)
• To punish Syria if it crossed the “red line” of using chemical weapons. (The “red line” was crossed earlier this year–and nothing of consequence happened.)
• That as president “I don’t bluff.” (See the previous sentence on Syria.)
• And of course the much-ballyhooed Russian reset. (Tensions between Russia and the United States are increasing and examples of Russia undermining U.S. interests are multiplying.)

And let’s not forget

• Mr. Obama’s promise to bring us together. (He is the most polarizing president in the history of Gallup polling.)
• Or his assurance to us that he would put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division and conflict and cynicism.” (All three have increased during the Obama presidency.)
• And his counsel to us to “resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.” (Remind me again whose campaign allies accused Mitt Romney of being responsible for the cancer death of a steelworker’s wife.)

I’m sure people could add to this list, but there’s enough here to establish a pattern. 

 

 

Please feel free to add your contribution(s) in the comments...

The American MATZAV (situation)

 

 .... What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force.

 

 

... [T]he federal government regulates most things in your bathroom, laundry room and kitchen, as well as the mortgage you hold on your house. It designs your automobile and dictates the kind of fuel it uses. It regulates your baby's toys, crib, and stroller; plans your children's school curriculum and lunch menu; and administers their student loans in college. At your place of employment, the federal government oversees everything from the racial, gender and age diversity of the workforce to the hours, wages and benefits paid....

 

It is the nation's largest

 creditor

debtor

lender

employer

consumer

contractor

grantor

property owner

tenant

insurer

health-care provider

and pension guarantor.

 

&  "There is not enough money on the planet to make good on [its] financial obligations."

 

~ From Mark Levin's excellent and highly recommended new book,

 

The Liberty Amendments:

Restoring the American Republic

 pp. 6-7

54 pct Disapprove

 

Everything has its limits, even darkness. As the Zohar says, 'When the world was made a limit was set on how long it will function in confusion.'"

--from the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

  

 Weasel Zippers: "MLK Event Attendees Wave American Flags... "

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance.

Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove (see trends).

The latest figures include 23% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. 

 

Speech! Speech!

The President's schedule today? He's giving a speech. Make that two speeches. in Buffalo and Syracuse, NY. 

Why he can't make these speeches from the White House remains a mystery. Maybe he just wants to ride in his $1.1 million made-in-Canada monster campaign bus, with the blacked out windows, so he can smoke without anyone seeing him.

 

Quote of the YEAR

For those of us living in reality in the heartland of America, this admission might come as something of a shock. Megan McArdle, columnist at Bloomberg:

"Those of us in Washington live in

an era of Democratic triumphalism."

 

It was the headline that piqued my interest - "How Democrats May Lose Their Media Edge" - but I never finished reading it all because the words ended up coming across in my mind as blah blah blah, etc., blah blah blah.

One would think their own arrogance would bring them down but as long as they lose their "edge" in the media, I don't really care how it happens, only that it DOES happen. For now, I have at least something to look forward to. Thanks to Megan Whatshername.

 ~

ALSO ENCOURAGING are the words of one federal judge, in describing a case brought by Obama administration (EEOC) against an American family-owned business:

“laughable,” “distorted,” “cherry-picked,” “worthless”

and “an egregious example of scientific dishonesty.”

 

You'll find the full story at World Net Daily.