anyone who comes of the best will get 5 stars and 10 points
ok so i was fixing my myspace and i always have a picture on the left side
so i was going through pictures from texas when my family went in august
so i found one picture that my brother took of me. its black and white and its on a boardwalk by the gulf of mexico. there is water on the right side and tables by the water with umbrellas and on the left side there are flowers and plants.. and me in the middle my back in the picture with my head down and my thumbs hanging in my back pockets... its sorta like an emo picture [ BUT IM NOT FRIKKEN EMO ]
anyway i wanted to use paint and write a qoute on it but i don't know what to come up with
i came up with this qoute but its kinda weird
turn your back on love... and you'll see
or something like
never turn your back on love, because you'll never know the outcome
please help mee
i really need a qoute!!
[ better than the ones i came up with ]
Can anyone make a qoute for me?
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one"
Simone De Beauvoir
Reply:When you we do good things for others We do good things for GOD
Reply:It could say this it was in my friends.
Relize
Real Eyes
Real Lies
Reply:i would like to give a list of quotes if its ok...
1.) Make Fantasy a Reality and Reality a Fantasy...
2.) Paradise doesn't mean peace and harmony around you but within yourself...
3.) Love...so mysterious, so deep...is this weird??
4.) I rock!!! Only the ones who are worthy can look into my eyes...
5.) If you want to see me...be with me...
6.) Self-control
Self-discipline
Inner Strength
Inner Power...
All of these are inside of you, waiting to come out...
7.) Dont turn your back at me...You will surely regret it...
hope you like it!
its cool ryt? hehehe
Reply:"I'm lame"
Reply:Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
Its not what i feel for you.. its what i don't feel for any one else
Reply:Don't turn your back on life.
It can be swept away like sand castles along the shore.
Friday, November 13, 2009
25 SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE GROWN UP true or nunny?
1. Your potted plants are alive. And you can't smoke a one of them.
2. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up.'
10. You're the one calling the police because those darn kids next door don't know how to turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
13. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
17. Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good stuff.'
21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces "I'm never going to drink like that again"!
23. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You don't drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking for one sign that doesn't apply to you!
25 SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE GROWN UP true or nunny?
Now Chris. I am not that old hehehe
Reply:There isn't one sign that applies to me. There are 25 signs that apply to me! Have a star!
Reply:cool
Reply:you just made me feel really old!!
not all apply!!
Reply:I must be ancient!!
Reply:Number 23 doesn't apply to me so I can't be grown up yet! Good one.
Reply:Funny! 100!
Reply:What did u say i cant hear u
Reply:ha ha ha funny
thanks for a laugh
10/10
Reply:sh*t am i that old*
Reply:soo true hun, and scary, pmsl
star time
xxxxxxxxxxx
Reply:L O L sh*t i'm getting old x
Reply:Yep most of those for me now ha ha ha ,,,,
Reply:numbbers 4 and 11 apply to me!
thats only 2 !!
i;m not old!
but hey..i'm only 12 (going on 13!))
Reply:Some of these are true.. Does that mean im half old??
But very funny!
2. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up.'
10. You're the one calling the police because those darn kids next door don't know how to turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
13. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
17. Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good stuff.'
21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces "I'm never going to drink like that again"!
23. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You don't drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking for one sign that doesn't apply to you!
25 SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE GROWN UP true or nunny?
Now Chris. I am not that old hehehe
Reply:There isn't one sign that applies to me. There are 25 signs that apply to me! Have a star!
Reply:cool
Reply:you just made me feel really old!!
not all apply!!
Reply:I must be ancient!!
Reply:Number 23 doesn't apply to me so I can't be grown up yet! Good one.
Reply:Funny! 100!
Reply:What did u say i cant hear u
Reply:ha ha ha funny
thanks for a laugh
10/10
Reply:sh*t am i that old*
Reply:soo true hun, and scary, pmsl
star time
xxxxxxxxxxx
Reply:L O L sh*t i'm getting old x
Reply:Yep most of those for me now ha ha ha ,,,,
Reply:numbbers 4 and 11 apply to me!
thats only 2 !!
i;m not old!
but hey..i'm only 12 (going on 13!))
Reply:Some of these are true.. Does that mean im half old??
But very funny!
Monday, May 11, 2009
How do You Know You've Been Out Of college for tooo long?
-Your potted plants stay alive.
-You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
-6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
-You hear your favorite song on the elevator at work.
-You carry an umbrella.
-You watch the Weather Channel.
-Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook-up and break-up.
-You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
-Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up'.
-You're the one calling the police because those damn kids next door don't know how to turn down the stereo.
-Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
-You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
-Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
-You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds.
-Sleeping on the couch is a no-no.
How do You Know You've Been Out Of college for tooo long?
SADLY, I must admit to getting "old" (relative term of course) because I can relate to almost everything there. All very true and funny. Thanks for pointing them out.
One more for the road?
- You stand in your garage and look at children getting into mischief in your neighbourhood and say "Where are their parents?"
Reply:ah hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh... deep breath hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
deep breath
yeah thats good
Reply:Agree! I am NEVER going to drink that much again.
Anyway not til next time. lol
Reply:really good and extremely true!!!
xxkimxx
Reply:Hmmm....
Reply:So true ha hahaha lol
Reply:sounds just about rite
Reply:too good star 4 u
How to keep curls in
-You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
-6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
-You hear your favorite song on the elevator at work.
-You carry an umbrella.
-You watch the Weather Channel.
-Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook-up and break-up.
-You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
-Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up'.
-You're the one calling the police because those damn kids next door don't know how to turn down the stereo.
-Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
-You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
-Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
-You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds.
-Sleeping on the couch is a no-no.
How do You Know You've Been Out Of college for tooo long?
SADLY, I must admit to getting "old" (relative term of course) because I can relate to almost everything there. All very true and funny. Thanks for pointing them out.
One more for the road?
- You stand in your garage and look at children getting into mischief in your neighbourhood and say "Where are their parents?"
Reply:ah hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh... deep breath hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
deep breath
yeah thats good
Reply:Agree! I am NEVER going to drink that much again.
Anyway not til next time. lol
Reply:really good and extremely true!!!
xxkimxx
Reply:Hmmm....
Reply:So true ha hahaha lol
Reply:sounds just about rite
Reply:too good star 4 u
How to keep curls in
Dog has shredded bark of keepsake tree. Help!?
My husband and I have a huge umbrella tree about 15 years old. It is a keepsake of his mother who has passed on.
Recently, we noticed that the tree looked sick. Droopy branches, dehydrated leaves.
On closer inspected we noticed that the bark is all tattered, a good sized gash about 4 inches long. The white wood is showing, it has plainly been chewed at. Midway up the tree.
Our Brittany spaniel, has been using it for a chewing toy. The little rascal.
I have heard that you can graft sections of trees on certain species. Is there anything I can use to cover the wound? Any suggestions or websites would be appreciated. I know a fair bit about plants but I am baffled at what to do. Thanks.
Dog has shredded bark of keepsake tree. Help!?
You need someone to do a "bridge graft", it's like a heart transplant for trees. Not many people attempt it even tree surgeons. I've tried it three times on trees damaged by dog chains and only one survived it's first Dakota winter, an apple. It had a 6" trunk that was girdled 50% and I used three 1" grafts and pruned out 50% of it's branches. I had never seen it done before but I have done other grafting and had nothing to lose. It will never be normal looking, the trunk will always look very odd but it still produces apples. RScott
Reply:I'd definitely call a nursery or a tree surgeon to have a look at it. This sounds like it needs considerably more care than I am able to give it online, unfortunately. Clearly, you need to find a way to keep the dog away from the tree, of course.
Reply:You might see if you can find a substance called pruning sealer. It is in a jar with a screw on brush top or can also be found as a spray. Put it on the wound and see if you can seal it. Wrap the trunk with tree wrap - you can get it at the local nursery. You can also buy a short section of black plastic corrugated pipe and split it, then wrap around the trunk. This would prevent the dog from doing further damage and give the tree a chance to heal. You will most likely see some branches die because of the injuries. Just like we have arteries and veins to distribute nutrients throughout our bodies, plants have a layer just below the bark that carries water to the branches and leaves. The core carries the food to the branches and leaves. The deeper the damage, the more likely some branches will be affected.
Reply:Try calling a tree nursery or tree farm in your area and they can probably help with your question.
I live in Portland Oregon and call Drake's seven dees. They are very helpful.
I hope this helps you.
Hope
Reply:If you live in town you might call your conservation department and ask them to send out their urban tree specialist to have a look at it. In the meantime, I would fence it off!
Recently, we noticed that the tree looked sick. Droopy branches, dehydrated leaves.
On closer inspected we noticed that the bark is all tattered, a good sized gash about 4 inches long. The white wood is showing, it has plainly been chewed at. Midway up the tree.
Our Brittany spaniel, has been using it for a chewing toy. The little rascal.
I have heard that you can graft sections of trees on certain species. Is there anything I can use to cover the wound? Any suggestions or websites would be appreciated. I know a fair bit about plants but I am baffled at what to do. Thanks.
Dog has shredded bark of keepsake tree. Help!?
You need someone to do a "bridge graft", it's like a heart transplant for trees. Not many people attempt it even tree surgeons. I've tried it three times on trees damaged by dog chains and only one survived it's first Dakota winter, an apple. It had a 6" trunk that was girdled 50% and I used three 1" grafts and pruned out 50% of it's branches. I had never seen it done before but I have done other grafting and had nothing to lose. It will never be normal looking, the trunk will always look very odd but it still produces apples. RScott
Reply:I'd definitely call a nursery or a tree surgeon to have a look at it. This sounds like it needs considerably more care than I am able to give it online, unfortunately. Clearly, you need to find a way to keep the dog away from the tree, of course.
Reply:You might see if you can find a substance called pruning sealer. It is in a jar with a screw on brush top or can also be found as a spray. Put it on the wound and see if you can seal it. Wrap the trunk with tree wrap - you can get it at the local nursery. You can also buy a short section of black plastic corrugated pipe and split it, then wrap around the trunk. This would prevent the dog from doing further damage and give the tree a chance to heal. You will most likely see some branches die because of the injuries. Just like we have arteries and veins to distribute nutrients throughout our bodies, plants have a layer just below the bark that carries water to the branches and leaves. The core carries the food to the branches and leaves. The deeper the damage, the more likely some branches will be affected.
Reply:Try calling a tree nursery or tree farm in your area and they can probably help with your question.
I live in Portland Oregon and call Drake's seven dees. They are very helpful.
I hope this helps you.
Hope
Reply:If you live in town you might call your conservation department and ask them to send out their urban tree specialist to have a look at it. In the meantime, I would fence it off!
Which plant species is more toxic to cats, Umbrella Tree or Ficus Tree?
We were given two potted indoor trees as a gift. One is an Umbrella Tree, and the other is a Ficus Tree. We want to keep at least one of them, as they are very pretty, but we are worried about our cats.
Our cats have never been known to chew any of our other house plants, but we don't want for one slip-up on their parts to be very toxic or even fatal!
I know some plants are more toxic than others, but maybe someone can shed more light on which (if either plant) is worse.
Which plant species is more toxic to cats, Umbrella Tree or Ficus Tree?
Neither of those plants are toxic to cats. They may chew the leaves and then throw up, but not because they've been poisoned. One of my cats never saw a plant she didn't want to nibble and shred.
Basically, all parts of any plant that grows from a bulb are poisonous.
Here is an illustrated list of toxic houseplants
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pag...
and an article on how to train your cat not to nibble plants
www.petcaretips.net/cat_eats_house_pla...
Reply:I don't know anything about an umbrella tree, but I can assure you from first hand experience, if you really like this Ficus tree (and I loved mine)---keep your cat/cats away from it! No, they are not toxic to cats, and mine ate my entire Ficus tree---I was left with an empty twig. Naturally, the tree died. The cat, however is just fine.
Reply:both can be toxic if the eat enough moth balls taped to pot or layed on soil will detour them also get a squrit bottle with water when u see them go for the plant give them a squirt will not hurt in any way but cats don't like water on them and the scare will tell them to stay away good luck
Our cats have never been known to chew any of our other house plants, but we don't want for one slip-up on their parts to be very toxic or even fatal!
I know some plants are more toxic than others, but maybe someone can shed more light on which (if either plant) is worse.
Which plant species is more toxic to cats, Umbrella Tree or Ficus Tree?
Neither of those plants are toxic to cats. They may chew the leaves and then throw up, but not because they've been poisoned. One of my cats never saw a plant she didn't want to nibble and shred.
Basically, all parts of any plant that grows from a bulb are poisonous.
Here is an illustrated list of toxic houseplants
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pag...
and an article on how to train your cat not to nibble plants
www.petcaretips.net/cat_eats_house_pla...
Reply:I don't know anything about an umbrella tree, but I can assure you from first hand experience, if you really like this Ficus tree (and I loved mine)---keep your cat/cats away from it! No, they are not toxic to cats, and mine ate my entire Ficus tree---I was left with an empty twig. Naturally, the tree died. The cat, however is just fine.
Reply:both can be toxic if the eat enough moth balls taped to pot or layed on soil will detour them also get a squrit bottle with water when u see them go for the plant give them a squirt will not hurt in any way but cats don't like water on them and the scare will tell them to stay away good luck
Umbrella plant.....?
I have what is commonly called an Umbrella plant. (Don't know the real name of the plant), and a bunch of the leaves are falling off. I have never owned one of these plants before and don't know if this is normal. Could it be overwatered? Thanks in advance for any advice!!! ☺
Umbrella plant.....?
Yellow, falling leaves- This is often the result of too much water, or water that has been left in saucer below. It does NOT like "wet feet"! Let it dry out and water less in the future. Empty that saucer!!!
you can also look for new signs of growth (buds) chances are your plant might be dumping old growth to make way for new .Also it's called Cyperus or . Cyperus alternifolius (family Cyperaceae)
Good luck.
Reply:Someone I knew raised them and they were kept in water. Good luck.
Reply:The plant is scheffelera (spelling ?) commonly called the umbrella tree. Yes it is hard to care for until you get used to caring for house plants.
This a tropical plant the likes lots of light but not in the hot sun. Any plant will scorch if placed in the outdoors except in early Spring. I suggest measuring the water and the most common problem is over-watering. If this is what you think you did, let the plant dry out. They don't like their feet to be wet, so water only once a week and I would try one cup if it is a large plant. Good luck.
Umbrella plant.....?
Yellow, falling leaves- This is often the result of too much water, or water that has been left in saucer below. It does NOT like "wet feet"! Let it dry out and water less in the future. Empty that saucer!!!
you can also look for new signs of growth (buds) chances are your plant might be dumping old growth to make way for new .Also it's called Cyperus or . Cyperus alternifolius (family Cyperaceae)
Good luck.
Reply:Someone I knew raised them and they were kept in water. Good luck.
Reply:The plant is scheffelera (spelling ?) commonly called the umbrella tree. Yes it is hard to care for until you get used to caring for house plants.
This a tropical plant the likes lots of light but not in the hot sun. Any plant will scorch if placed in the outdoors except in early Spring. I suggest measuring the water and the most common problem is over-watering. If this is what you think you did, let the plant dry out. They don't like their feet to be wet, so water only once a week and I would try one cup if it is a large plant. Good luck.
Is MacCain running for presidency in the state of Israel?
I noted he is distresssed by comment made by Iranian president about Israel more than his vote for useless Iraq war that has killed patriotic American servicemen for no clear reason.
Who is behind all these failing American middle east policie?
Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951 to a Jewish family
in London, England, President Clinton’s ambassador to
Israel and now director of Brookings’s Saban Center
for Middle East Policy, foreign policy adviser………..
He served two stints as United States Ambassador to
Israel, from April 1995 to September 1997 and from
January 2000 to July 2001 [4] and was the first and so
far, the only, foreign-born US Ambassador to Israel.
In 1982, Indyk began working as a research director
for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington
------------------------
Major critiques of Jewish lobbying were published by controversial billionaire George Soros, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, the respected British newsmagazine The Economist and the popular Web site Salon.
The replies were furious. The New York Sun accused Kristof and Soros of spreading a “new blood libel.” The American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, wrote in a Jerusalem Post opinion article that Kristof had a “blind spot” and had “sanctimoniously lectured” Israel.
The editor of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, renewed an attack on Soros that he began a month ago when he called the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor a “cog in the Hitlerite wheel.”
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News reports are more even-handed, in part because reporters strive to be objective, but also because it is difficult to cover without acknowledging he Jewish actions. To discourage unfavourable reporting, the Lobby organises letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and boycotts of news outlets whose content it considers anti-Israel ( Rev. Wright ). One CNN executive has said that he sometimes gets 6000 email messages in a single day complaining about a story.
In May 2003, the pro-Israel Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) organised demonstrations outside National Public Radio stations in 33 cities; it also tried to persuade contributors to withhold support from NPR until its Middle East coverage becomes more sympathetic to Israel. Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, reportedly lost more than $1 million in contributions as a result of these efforts. Further pressure on NPR has come from Israel’s friends in Congress, who have asked for an internal audit of its Middle East coverage as well as more oversight.
THE LIBERAL MEDIA | posted March 6, 2008 (March 24, 2008 issue)
(Some) Jews Against Obama
ERIC ALTERMAN
During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo. I noticed this trend when Debra Feuer, a counsel for the American Jewish Committee, sent a confidential memo to her counterparts at other organizations criticizing Obama's views on the Middle East, Iran and Syria and attacking him for having once appeared at a fundraiser headlined by the late Edward Said. The memo, reported by the Forward, was immediately disowned, but not denied, by AJC executive director David Harris.
Also throwing his hatchet into the ring was Morton Klein, who heads up the Likud-loving Zionist Organization of America, complaining that "Barack Obama doesn't understand the continuing Arab war against Israel" and terming the notion of an Obama presidency "frightening." He was joined by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group that professes to speak for all American Jews. Hoenlein told the Israeli daily Ha'aretz that Obama's talk of "change" could prove "an opening for all kinds of mischief" and gave voice to what he termed "a legitimate concern over the zeitgeist around the campaign." The Tennessee Republican Party issued a news release noting what it claimed was "a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States."
March 18, 2008
Apparently Without Irony, Washington Post Says Jewish Advocates Demand that Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel'
The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today's Washington Post reports on a debate yesterday arranged by United Jewish Committees in D.C. among Jewish advocates for Hillary, Obama, and McCain. The debate became a rout, the Post columnist averred, in which the advocates for Hillary and McCain "used their time to raise doubts about Obama's fealty to Israel."
Fealty to Israel? They portrayed Obama as a dangerous leftwinger, and when the Illinois senator's surrogate defended Obama's statement that the U.S. does not have to cleave to Likud policies, Ann Lewis, Hillary's advocate, responded:
"The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties."
Yup, sounds like fealty to me! What is there to say about such a statement? Horrifying. Likud has been against the peace process, against a Palestinian state, for the colonization of the West Bank. Do we have a foreign policy? Do we take sides on such matters? Do we take sides on minority rights in foreign countries? Are we the strongest country in the world, or do we get dragged around by racist biblical colonialists half a world away? What did we just do in Serbia and Kosovo--exercise our power to establish a Muslim state. But in this part of the world we have had no independent power to say what is right and wrong, for 60 years...
The columnist who wrote the piece is Dana Milbank, who in 2006 suggested that Walt and Mearsheimer are Nazis for talking about something called "the Israel lobby." When Milbank cites "fealty to Israel" and describes security guards with Israeli accents, it's hard to tell how ironic he is being. I think he is impish; and is trying himself to marginalize Obama without coming out and saying so.
22 hours ago
Choose as Best Answer
Is MacCain running for presidency in the state of Israel?
Nope, the USA.
Reply:Wouldn't it be nice to have as politician, any politician, vie for the presidency for the good of OUR country, not Israel.. or anyone else.
How about the first priority being to please the citizens of America first. They all get up on the stump and lie to us about how they are so concerned over the poor and needy and jobless in our country.. then get elected and spend most of their time nation building in Iraq.. appeasing Israel.. sucking up to other countries. When was the last time they actually put any effort into just getting our own country in shape and keeping our noses out of everywhere else.
We will only be stronger if we are strong... not if we keep forcing our poor to go fight wars for a paycheck.
Politicians are so far removed from real people it is sickening. and I don't need to hear one more say' I feel your pain".. How could they,, they have never had it, never will.. they are all safe in their Ivory towers looking down at the rest of us.
sandals church
Who is behind all these failing American middle east policie?
Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951 to a Jewish family
in London, England, President Clinton’s ambassador to
Israel and now director of Brookings’s Saban Center
for Middle East Policy, foreign policy adviser………..
He served two stints as United States Ambassador to
Israel, from April 1995 to September 1997 and from
January 2000 to July 2001 [4] and was the first and so
far, the only, foreign-born US Ambassador to Israel.
In 1982, Indyk began working as a research director
for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington
------------------------
Major critiques of Jewish lobbying were published by controversial billionaire George Soros, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, the respected British newsmagazine The Economist and the popular Web site Salon.
The replies were furious. The New York Sun accused Kristof and Soros of spreading a “new blood libel.” The American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, wrote in a Jerusalem Post opinion article that Kristof had a “blind spot” and had “sanctimoniously lectured” Israel.
The editor of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, renewed an attack on Soros that he began a month ago when he called the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor a “cog in the Hitlerite wheel.”
----------------------------------
News reports are more even-handed, in part because reporters strive to be objective, but also because it is difficult to cover without acknowledging he Jewish actions. To discourage unfavourable reporting, the Lobby organises letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and boycotts of news outlets whose content it considers anti-Israel ( Rev. Wright ). One CNN executive has said that he sometimes gets 6000 email messages in a single day complaining about a story.
In May 2003, the pro-Israel Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) organised demonstrations outside National Public Radio stations in 33 cities; it also tried to persuade contributors to withhold support from NPR until its Middle East coverage becomes more sympathetic to Israel. Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, reportedly lost more than $1 million in contributions as a result of these efforts. Further pressure on NPR has come from Israel’s friends in Congress, who have asked for an internal audit of its Middle East coverage as well as more oversight.
THE LIBERAL MEDIA | posted March 6, 2008 (March 24, 2008 issue)
(Some) Jews Against Obama
ERIC ALTERMAN
During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo. I noticed this trend when Debra Feuer, a counsel for the American Jewish Committee, sent a confidential memo to her counterparts at other organizations criticizing Obama's views on the Middle East, Iran and Syria and attacking him for having once appeared at a fundraiser headlined by the late Edward Said. The memo, reported by the Forward, was immediately disowned, but not denied, by AJC executive director David Harris.
Also throwing his hatchet into the ring was Morton Klein, who heads up the Likud-loving Zionist Organization of America, complaining that "Barack Obama doesn't understand the continuing Arab war against Israel" and terming the notion of an Obama presidency "frightening." He was joined by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group that professes to speak for all American Jews. Hoenlein told the Israeli daily Ha'aretz that Obama's talk of "change" could prove "an opening for all kinds of mischief" and gave voice to what he termed "a legitimate concern over the zeitgeist around the campaign." The Tennessee Republican Party issued a news release noting what it claimed was "a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States."
March 18, 2008
Apparently Without Irony, Washington Post Says Jewish Advocates Demand that Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel'
The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today's Washington Post reports on a debate yesterday arranged by United Jewish Committees in D.C. among Jewish advocates for Hillary, Obama, and McCain. The debate became a rout, the Post columnist averred, in which the advocates for Hillary and McCain "used their time to raise doubts about Obama's fealty to Israel."
Fealty to Israel? They portrayed Obama as a dangerous leftwinger, and when the Illinois senator's surrogate defended Obama's statement that the U.S. does not have to cleave to Likud policies, Ann Lewis, Hillary's advocate, responded:
"The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties."
Yup, sounds like fealty to me! What is there to say about such a statement? Horrifying. Likud has been against the peace process, against a Palestinian state, for the colonization of the West Bank. Do we have a foreign policy? Do we take sides on such matters? Do we take sides on minority rights in foreign countries? Are we the strongest country in the world, or do we get dragged around by racist biblical colonialists half a world away? What did we just do in Serbia and Kosovo--exercise our power to establish a Muslim state. But in this part of the world we have had no independent power to say what is right and wrong, for 60 years...
The columnist who wrote the piece is Dana Milbank, who in 2006 suggested that Walt and Mearsheimer are Nazis for talking about something called "the Israel lobby." When Milbank cites "fealty to Israel" and describes security guards with Israeli accents, it's hard to tell how ironic he is being. I think he is impish; and is trying himself to marginalize Obama without coming out and saying so.
22 hours ago
Choose as Best Answer
Is MacCain running for presidency in the state of Israel?
Nope, the USA.
Reply:Wouldn't it be nice to have as politician, any politician, vie for the presidency for the good of OUR country, not Israel.. or anyone else.
How about the first priority being to please the citizens of America first. They all get up on the stump and lie to us about how they are so concerned over the poor and needy and jobless in our country.. then get elected and spend most of their time nation building in Iraq.. appeasing Israel.. sucking up to other countries. When was the last time they actually put any effort into just getting our own country in shape and keeping our noses out of everywhere else.
We will only be stronger if we are strong... not if we keep forcing our poor to go fight wars for a paycheck.
Politicians are so far removed from real people it is sickening. and I don't need to hear one more say' I feel your pain".. How could they,, they have never had it, never will.. they are all safe in their Ivory towers looking down at the rest of us.
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