RUTHFULLY YOURS

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/friedman-why-not-in-vegas.html?_r=1

“I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi Netanyahu, American Jewish casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, why didn’t they just do the whole thing in Las Vegas? I mean, it was all about money anyway — how much Romney would abase himself by saying whatever the Israeli right wanted to hear and how big a jackpot of donations Adelson would shower on the Romney campaign in return. Really, Vegas would have been so much more appropriate than Jerusalem. They could have constructed a plastic Wailing Wall and saved so much on gas.”

http://www.halloran2012.com/the-issues/

Who is Dan Halloran? He is running for Congress in Queens against Grace Meng who will be just another Pelosi rubber stamp. He has a great record on national security issues, Israel and was the solitary voice in the city council against the ground zero mosque.We need Dan Halloran in Congress!!!

Create Jobs

We’re in the grips of the greatest job crisis since the Great Depression. And President Obama and the Democrats have failed miserably at creating jobs and getting our economy back on its feet.

Small businesses are the engine that drives our economy. I’m a former small business owner. I know what it takes to get people back to work. We need to cut taxes on middle-class people and cut the regulations that make it so difficult to start a business and make payroll. From fees to overticketing, the federal and local governments have stymied the efforts of countless Americans to get our economy back on track.

In Washington, I will fight for the small business owners and job creators by cutting taxes and fees, balancing our budget, and promoting the pro-growth policies that made America the world’s leading economy.
Cut Gas Prices

Gas costs over $4 per gallon right now in New York City. We’re heading toward the summer of $5 gasoline, and that will crush our already-overburdened middle class families and small businesses. It’s time for a new direction.

President Obama and the Democrats are married to the old way of doing things that has gotten us into this mess. I want to wean our country of the oil that funds dictators in the Middle East and expand domestic and alternative energy production. I want to build the Keystone Pipeline so that we’re buying gas from Americans, not from the leaders of countries that hate us. Until we lower the price of gas, the American middle class will continue to feel the pinch at the pump.
Defend America and Israel

September 11, 2001 was just eleven years ago. New York City remains the principle target of terrorists who wish to attack our country. They’re still out there – and they still hate our freedom and our way of life. Sadly, many politicians in Washington have forgotten this.

I lost my cousin, FDNY Lt. Vincent Halloran, in the Towers on 9/11. Like all New Yorkers, I will never forget. When I am in Congress, I will prioritize our national defense.

The American military is the world’s greatest force for peace. We must wield our influence in a way that spreads freedom and democracy. If, for example, the Afghan people can choose between free markets on one hand and growing poppy for warlords on the other, I know they will choose freedom, and this in turn will make for a safer world.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

The transformation of Chick Fil A from a fast food place that most liberals had never even heard of into the “Enemy of the People” is a reminder of the speed at which progressivism travels forward and backward in time. A few months ago the CEO of Chick Fil A would have done nothing worse than echo a consensus so mainstream that it was adopted as a campaign position by the leftiest Democrat to sit in the White House. A few months later that same position is so outrageous that it leads to mass boycotts, threats of violence and mayors of dysfunctional urban centers threatening to drive the reactionary chicken franchise out of their cities.
One of the wonderful things about progressivism is that it defies the laws of physics and history. When the Democratic Party, a once notable national party that has been turned into a red shill for the sort of people who used to hang out in cafes and plot to blow things up in between free verse recitals, adopts a progressive position, that position instantly travels backward in time to alter history and create an entirely new past.

For example when the Democratic Party decided that its future lay not with racist white gerrymandered districts but racist black gerrymandered districts, its adoption of civil rights, formerly a Republican position that good Democrats had fought tooth and nail, actually traveled back in time transforming our nation’s history.

When the Democrats belatedly decided that black people were human beings, or at least a better bet for votes than Southern white men who were in danger of deciding that they didn’t have much in common with a party of corrupt Northern elites being painted by a corrupt Northern media as saints, the energy from this decision transformed Lincoln into a Democrat, segregation into an idea that Ike and Dick came up with in between dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the Trail of Tears, and turned the Community Organizers who had been busy torching black orphanages and Republican newspapers in New York City and Boston as part of an organized wartime campaign to defeat the Union, into a lost page of history.

The culture of economic development

Poor ol’ George Romney! He forgot politicians are supposed to cater to the media. And when he spoke truth to power of the leftwing comme il faut Anglo-American journalist mob, they came down on him like the proverbial ton of bricks.

And so what were all those uncommon observations labeled “gaffes”– which might have been travel notes by a 19th century visitor — setting off another fusillade in the boisterous presidential campaign?

Romney said our British cousins seemed to be making a balls up of their Olympics preparations. By any criteria it was true — just as early stages of the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games which he allegedly “rescued”. And who else would the Salt Lake worthies have chosen for the clean-up other than a successful Mormon entrepreneur! Not that the Olympics in Montreal, Athens, and a half dozen other places over the last half century haven’t been total economic disasters. [You ain’t seen nothing yet – wait for the Russians’ Sochi winter Olympics 2014!]

Even less controversial – if equally uncomfortable for his critics – was Romney’s suggestion the Palestinians might look to their Israeli neighbors for notions on how to build the economy of their hoped for future state. That too was hardly earthshaking
In the early post-colonial days, before bilateral and multinational aid agency bureaucrats took over “development”, scholars assumed culture was indivisible from economic progress. Remember Max Weber’s iconic “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, required reading for an earlier generation?

Support for Jews, Israelites, all people translates into support for Obama

“If you trust my judgment, vote for President Obama. I look forward to voting for our president in November, and I hope you will, too.”

NO ED KOCH I DON’T TRUST YOUR JUDGEMENT AT ALL AND THIS COLUMN VITIATES ANYTHING GOOD YOU’VE EVER DONE…..SHAME ON YOU…BUT THEN AGAIN I REMEMBER YOUR STATEMENT IN 1980…” I AM GOING TO HOLD MY NOSE AND VOTE FOR CARTER”…..RSK

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/fl-guest-koch-wed0801-20120803,0,1235882.story

In an effort to establish his qualifications to be president of the United States, Gov. Mitt Romneyrecently visited England, Israel and Poland, and there is now an added interest in the views of the presidential candidates on Israel.

Last year, I criticized President Barack Obama after he urged the Palestinian Authority and Israel to resume negotiations and stated that Israel should use the 1967 boundaries, with mutually agreed-upon land swaps, as a template for drawing the lines for the new Palestinian state. Wanting to send the president a message of opposition to this stance, I supported a Republican candidate in a special congressional election, and he won.

I am now often asked why I am supporting the president’s reelection.

In his first presidential race, President Obama received 74 percent of the Jewish vote. Last year, it looked like those numbers might be significantly lower in 2012. However, as last Friday’s Gallup poll illustrates, the president’s numbers in the Jewish community have almost completely rebounded. Maybe other Jewish voters have seen in the president what I have seen.

I believe the president heard the Jewish community’s concerns. His actions, certainly for me, verify that fact. His speech at the United Nations supporting Israel was the strongest statement of its kind ever made by a U.S. president. Even more important was his personal, and successful, involvement at the Security Council preventing the Palestinian Authority from gaining entry to the United Nations as an independent state. That action was clear, unambiguous evidence of his commitment to the Jewish state. His urging of the Israelis and Palestinians to engage in negotiations without preconditions was extremely important, and his reiterating and demanding that Hamas give up violence, recognize the legality of the state of Israel and all prior agreements, showed real leadership.

The statement of Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak about the cooperation between Israel and the United States on intelligence gathering and military supplies provided by the United State to Israel was the best ever in the long relationship between the two countries. That, too, was clear evidence of President Obama’s commitment to Israel.

Further, President Obama’s leading the U.N. Security Council to take much harsher sanctions against Iran and make clear that the United States was committed to preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb – not simply to a policy of containment – made clear to me his absolute commitment to the security and defense of the State of Israel.

I have no intention of attacking Gov. Romney or the Republican Party for their support of the State of Israel. In fact, I commend them for it. I believe both presidential candidates and parties are committed to standing with Israel if it were to be attacked by Iran. As a Jew and a supporter of that state, I am grateful.

NO NATION THREATENED ON EVERY SIDE BY IMPLACABLE ENEMIES CONTINUES TO MAKE THESE INCREDIBLE, SCIENTIFIC, LIFE ALTERING AND HUMANITARIAN ADVANCES….BRAVO TO MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN WHO KEEPS ME PROUD AND OPTIMISTIC…..RSK

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
In the 5th August edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

· An Israeli surgeon restored the use of the hand of a young boy from Latvia.
· A young Israeli suffering from cerebral palsy has qualified as an IDF officer.
· Future computers can get much smaller thanks to an Israeli transistor made of 60 carbon atoms.
· An amazing Israeli material soaks up oil spills in eight minutes.
· A big scandal in Lebanon as they realise that they like Israeli cosmetic products.
· Tel Aviv is to be the first free “Wi-Fi” city and Israel is to have the first free “Social Wi-Fi”.
· This newsletter of Israel’s positive news makes news in San Diego.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Any cell you need. Scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have identified the processes that turn human embryonic stem cells into any type of body cell. It could eventually lead to their use to implant healthy new cells into humans suffering from degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=278068

Why good cells go bad. A team led by scientists at the Weizmann Institute have discovered a link between cancer and changes external to the genetic code. Known as epigenetics, this little explored area of study could answer questions about how the body works, grows, gets sick, and cures itself.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/cancer-could-be-caused-by-bad-labels-researchers-say/

A nano-sized drug delivery system. Israel is investing $11 million to develop nanometer-sized drug delivery systems for the treatment of a wide range of diseases. Eleven labs at several universities will try and create an “inter-body robot” – nano-sized particles that can direct medicine and imaging systems to any part of the body.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000768752&fid=1725

Israeli surgeon fixes hand of Latvian boy. 12-year-old Kyril suffered from brachial plexus palsy, a rare congenital defect making his right hand useless. Dr. Eidelman, of Rambam hospital in Haifa, rotated the boy’s wrist 65 degrees, moved his shoulder bone and applied an innovative locking plate. (See also next article.)
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=279362

33 operations in 4 days. Rambam’s Dr Eidelman has just returned from performing a marathon series of orthopaedic operations in Ecuador, mostly on children, as organised by the voluntary California-based ‘Operation Rainbow’. At Rambam, surgeons perform a maximum of ten similar operations a week.
http://www.rambam.org.il/Home+Page/About+Us/News+and+Events/News+2012/Thirty-three+Operations+in+Four+Days.htm

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/Home.aspx

‘Iran strike talk legitimate, airing details is not’ Former Mossad chief Yatom concerned by former senior security officials’ statements over strike on Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

Public detailed discussion by former senior security officials over a strike on Iran harms state security, former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said Sunday morning in an interview with Army Radio.

Yatom expressed concern about statements released by former security officials recently, saying, “It is legitimate to discuss whether or not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, but going into detail, harms state security.”

His comments came a day after former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy told Channel 2 that Israel should not, and likely will not, act against Tehran’s nuclear program without the consent of the Unites States.

“It would not be wise for Israel to operate on its own, and I believe it won’t,” Halevy said. “I didn’t say [Israel] won’t act alone, but I think it won’t do something that is against American interests.”

A further problem, he explained, is that there is no telling how far back a military strike will set the program.

Within 10 years of Israel’s attack on Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981, Saddam Hussein rebooted the program in triplicate, he said. If there were a guarantee of stopping Tehran’s nuclear effort altogether, a military strike would be more attractive.

While emphasizing that he was “convinced we must do everything to prevent Iran from the ability or desire to develop such a weapon,” Halevy also said that the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran would not be existential. “It is a serious threat, perhaps the most serious that we’ve ever seen,” he said. “It’s not existential.”