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Happy Thanksgiving.

GEORGE WASHINGTON's THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go. Washington

The American Persecution Test

CAN Factor Religion.

    The Politico writers agree with me. Asylum law in this country allows a persecution test to factor religious persecution in granting Asylum preferences into the US. Christian refugees have a prima facie claim for Asylum so should be granted in quicker access to refugee placement- because we don't know if the Muslim ones are militant ISIS or not until more comprehensive vetting is involved.
No Christians are joining ISIS. ISIS has proclaimed itself an Islamic organization that is persecuting Christians. This is well documented and incontrovertible. So for any President to say we don't have a "religious test" and can't consider religion in refugee issues is just wrong.
See, http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/11/yes-we-should-consider-refugees-religion-000325

It's VERY American.

"La Marseillaise" - France National anthem French & English lyrics

James Taylor Performs "La Marseillaise"

Refugee Priority

For Christians.

Should the US have let in Jews before, during and after WWII from Germany and Nazi occupied lands as a priority and precedent over non-Jews? If you said yes, then Christians should be let into America now from ISIS occupied lands because they are specifically targeted for persecution. Like the gold star of David sewn on jackets, a black "N" is scrawled on the homes of Christians standing for Nazarene meaning Jesus from Nazareth follower, and those houses are confiscated -stolen--if the people won't convert to Islam, with the people driven from their homes or killed. All those people would be legally eligible for asylum in America. ISIS was not doing that to Muslims. So, Yes, its Right, Good, Fair, Legal and the only decent thing to do to give refugee priority to Christians coming from ISIS controlled lands.

Just Pray

Christian GENOCIDE

And the Asylum Argument.

    Christians under ISIS controlled territory experienced and are experiencing Genocide. They appear to have prima facie claims for Asylum because of the well founded fear of persecution. CHRISTIANS have been beheaded, kidnapped, shot, imprisoned, hung, crucified, told to leave, convert or be shot and their heads have been decapitated and kicked around like soccer balls- for no other reason than that they are CHRISTIANS. CHRISTIANS are experiencing the worst persecution since NERO by ISIS. There is an Islamic Genocide of Christians going on now by ISIL.

That is why CHRISTIANS should be allowed in as refugees without much question as to whether they are terrorists. Christians are not terrorizing anyone in the Middle East, they are victims of Terror.

So listen Barach. It is highly offensive that you don't get that Christians are being persecuted and are subject to a genocide. It is offensive that you think that protecting them and providing immediate refuge for them isn't something that should be the absolute top of your agenda. It is offensive that you would criticize anyone for one minute wanting Christians to be able to come without delay from ISIS controlled territory. There is an argument for stricter scrutiny on the Muslim ones because ISIS is infiltrating Muslim refugees.

Barach, Sir, Mr. President - what is your problem?  Why are you not getting that this is an intense genocidal slaughter and persecution of CHRISTIANS not Muslims that ISIS is engaged in.

It is absolutely consistent with our Asyum laws and policies to provide immediate refuge for people under imminent threat and fear of bodily harm and genocidal persecution.
Where did you go to law school again?  Clearly you didn't take Immigration Law.

CONGRATULATIONS! BRAVO DELATTRE.

The French-

   Love Them.

France's Ambassador to the UN (formerly France's Ambassador to the US) FRANCOIS DELATTRE  (a career diplomat who may one day find himself running for President of France) has succeeded in passing a UN resolution at the Security Counsel rallying the entire world against DAECH (Isil).

After a period of silence reflecting on the massacres in Paris, the vote was unanimous at the UN to 

crush Daech. 

Understanding Your Enemy

To Undermine Your Enemy

     Hillary on the trail is parroting an approach, that she in fact may have authored originally, to not call the Islamic State In the Levant (ISIL) "Islamic" radicals or "Islamic" terrorists or "Islamic" extremists because she doesn't want to offend all Muslims. Not only is this nuts, it is counterproductive to learning how to undermine them.

    Calling them Islamic radical extremists jihadist terrorists is exactly what they are. Yes, they are also criminal, but understanding why they self-identify how they do is a step necessary toward understanding how to undermine their thinking which is a necessary component on the War against them. You shouldn't call them ISIS or ISIL not because they are Islamic but because they don't merit ever being called a "state."

   Daech or ISIL is a deeply misguided geo-politically imperialist purification fundamentalist strain and vein of Islam. It is a movement that believes it is purifying the earth of the non-islamic non-believing infidels or Kafar and all their vices.  It sees itself as in service of their God (Allah) against vice infected westerners. It is rooted in a misguided theological emphasis on the Koranic versus calling for "Killing" and "fighting" infidels (Jews and Christians mostly) of which there are literally hundreds in the Koran. Pick up a copy, Hillary, and read it. They are translated in English. Anyone who reads it past the first chapter will immediately see all the calls to kill or fight the non believer.

  The other Muslims who are "moderate" or peace-loving, who do not subscribe to the barbarity of taking literally the "Kill" verses of the Koran but adhere to the peaceful pillars of Islam (prayer, service, tithing, etc) know that ISIL is a strain, a version of terrorist criminal Islam that believes it is a purification movement. Those moderate peaceable Muslims are needed to combat the perverse ideology of Daech, to undermine their legitimacy in the religion. It is incorrect to say that Daech has nothing to do with Islam. The fact that their recruits believe that they are God's Army indicates that their motivation is religious. The fact that their texts are the texts of organizing religion through all Islam in the Koran, means they are Islamic. The fact that they shout God Rules (Allah Akbar) while committing heinous criminal atrocities means they are Islamic, the fact that they say on video "Allah commands it" means they are Islamic. They are a brutal, fundamentalist, jihadist, extremist strain or version of Islam, but it is Islam. To quote someone running for President "Do you think they are all from Denmark?" Of course, they are Islamic and it is necessary to understand that this is a religious purification movement under Islam that has its attractiveness to recruits because it is an Islamic purification movement.

    I think sometimes the people thinking through these Foreign Policy strategies think they are a bit more clever than they are. The refusal to call a strain of Islamic fundamentalism for what it is does not help.

   The fact that it is a purification anti-vice movement that uses that as a recruiting tool should tell you that it is not a good strategy to promote things globally that they consider pure vice-like homosexual marriage-and doing that actually inflames them and creates more recruitment. For them its like promoting drunkenness when they are against alcohol. Western society is viewed by them as profoundly vice-ridden, profoundly decadent, and for them Paris the capital of EuroTrash vice. So note to foreign policy crafters: don't flaunt vice like it is a national past-time with a constitutional right in America. If you don't understand that jihadism is an islamic purification movement you don't get that vice matters in foreign policy. Its time to  connect the dots people.

 

   

 

Andrew Neil's message to Paris attackers - BBC News

Happy Thanksgiving

"I would maintain that Thanks are the Highest Form of Thought,  and that Happiness is Gratitude Doubled by Wonder." G.K. Chesterton

The Right to TRAVEL

is a Constitutional Right.

   It is as fundamental as the Right to Marriage well established by the Supreme Court. Revoking passports for tax debts is deeply wrong and a very bad idea.

Any attempt to restrict that Constitutional Right would be likely unconstitutional if based on someone's tax debt.

There is a a bill to revoke passports or not issue US passports if people owe taxes.
This should not pass- and would likely be viewed as Unconstitutional if it passed.

The IRS is a body functioning under the Executive Branch that acts outside Congressional oversight for the most part. It has a political agenda often and we recently have seen political enemies targeted by the IRS. People and organizations that have been hostile to the Democratic Agenda have been targeted by the IRS. See, Louis Lerner

The amount of IRS error is reflected in litigation against the IRS. They make mistakes. They can double or triple a tax debt with penalties, interest and fees.

We live in a Global Economy where it is just as likely that people's business enterprises require they go overseas as much as they go across State lines (or more depending on their business).

People need passports to travel to meet family, or conduct business as well as more frivolous holidays. This penalizes people who have family out of the country potentially. It potentially also impacts the poorest of the citizenry- who might be disputing tax debts or interest and penalties that double or triple the actual debt.

We do not in this country deny rights of citizenship in this country because people are poor or have a hard time paying their taxes.
There is already an enforcement mechanism in place to prosecute tax avoidance and evasion.  Denying a fundamental right to Travel (which people need to make money to pay their debts in some cases) is not only Unconstitutional, its counterproductive.

That is UnAmerican.


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Without doing any legal research I quickly found this on Wikipedia which you can follow up on-

The U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them. In United States v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281 (1920), the Supreme Court reiterated its position that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to protect freedom of movement. However, Wheeler had a significant impact in other ways. For many years, the roots of the Constitution's "privileges and immunities" clause had only vaguely been determined.^[5] In 1823, the circuit court in Corfield had provided a list of the rights (some fundamental, some not) which the clause could cover.^[6][7] The Wheeler court dramatically changed this. It was the first to locate the right to travel in the privileges and immunities clause, providing the right with a specific guarantee of constitutional protection.^[8] By reasoning that the clause derived from Article IV of the Articles of Confederation, the decision suggested a narrower set of rights than those enumerated in Corfield, but also more clearly defined those rights as absolutely fundamental.^[9]

Please Watch this- Senators

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/okeefe-video-syrian-refugees-claim-syrians-using-fake-passports-get-europe/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Safety

FIRST

    The President often says his job is FIRST the Safety of the American People..

There is a bill that passed in the House that the Senate should pass also on refugee policy which places a security check in between unfettered admittance to refugees from countries where ISIS operates. This House bill seems measured, smart, and limited to those countries in which ISIS is operating and aggressively recruiting.

   There are wierd objections that miss the point, of the 'we should be nice and welcoming to refugees' vein. I can't tell you how many times I have been reminded on social media that "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." None of these platitudes are here appropriate because we are not denying refugees admittance with this bill proposal. We are letting them in- once they have been effectively vetted as safe.

  The other objection you hear is that we don't have the manpower at the FBI to effectively clear everyone. Then HIRE MORE FBI. If there is no money to hire more FBI then attach a rider or amendment to the bill that appropriates a huge budgetary allotment to hire more FBI. That is a ridiculous objection.


If the President is really serious about his duty and obligation to FIRST keep American people safe, then he should not Veto this bill.

Because WE NOW KNOW that part of ISIS strategy is to infiltrate the refugee populations. WE NOW KNOW that some people posing as refugees travel on forged passports and have false travel documents created for them in Europe and elsewhere. WE NOW KNOW that ISIS is determined to get to America and do harm.

To not address these serious concerns and just call people calling for better safety measures "UnAmerican" or worse, "UnChristian" is, frankly, disgusting.

copy cats

“It’s quite severe in Europe now, and I also believe that copycats in America will do their best to do what their brothers have done in Europe.”ICYMI: Morten Storm, a former member of Al Qaeda who later became a CIA double agent, said last night that another attack is likely to occur within the next two weeks. http://bit.ly/1MTlgRv     http://bit.ly/1MTlgRv
Posted by The Kelly File on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Sticks and Stones

And Names do Hurt Me.


       There should be no place in the political dialogue of debating policy calling people "UnAmerican" or "shameful" or other slanders because they, upon reasoned judgment disagree with a strategy, policy or government position. Of course it is compassionate to be immigrant friendly and in the American character, but there are sound reasons to make exceptions.

Currently there is a reasoned debate on whether allegedly Syrian refugees should be admitted in the tens of thousands in American States and over half the States are having some pause and saying in light of the Paris attacks, perhaps we might rethink this.

   Sound Reasons to not allow in allegedly Syrian refugees include:

1. High level FBI people have said the sort of usual vetting is either not possible or unreliable because the sort of records and documents that are used to establish identity don't exist. Travel documents from people without passports were created in Greece for large numbers of them, who may or may not have given real information and there is no way to tell.

2. There have been large numbers of immigrant refugees who have in fact been arrested by the FBI in connection with previous ISIS terror plots or aiding and abetting.

3. We don't have effective gun control measures to stop people who are suspected terrorists or even those on terror watch lists from getting weapons in this country. Kids in a candy store.

4. ISIS has said they are coming to Washington to inflict more terroristic attacks in DC. Take them at their word. Do we want to give them a red carpet and food stamps?

So people who don't want refugees from allegedly Syria coming should not be demonized for being "safe not sorry" when dealing with mass casualty possibilities even if perhaps too safe.

Let me say a word about tone.
These are sensitive emotion laden debates. When emotion runs hot facts tend to run out the door.
It serves no legitimate purpose to demonize people who are trying their best to think through solutions given evolving facts.

National Security should not be a partisan issue. Refugee relocation isn't just about "widows and orphans" when we know the majority of refugees are the fit males who survived the passage across the Med. Further, if anyone thought widows were incapable of being terrorists, they didn't read about the woman strapped to a suicide vest who just today died in St. Denis.

National Security is serious business. It shouldn't devolve into Partisan PR epithet-throwing from either side. Our current vetting procedures and current gun restriction legislation look dangerously, lethally even, insufficient to tell us which refugees are ISIS affiliated and would shoot up the Capital given the first gun show they can get to. No Syrian birth, marriage, tax, residency, ID records or any personal identification exists for most of them and documentation was created for them once they got to Europe.

ISIS would not disguise themselves as Christians and it would be too easy to detect them as such. So Christians would be definitionally safer than Muslims to enter the country. That sort of "religious test" is not unAmerican-it is smart strategy. Christians are not terrorists, they are victims of terror in that part of the world. No Christian is strapping a suicide vest to themselves, using their theology to yell "Jesus Rules" and gunning down a concert hall. A national policy that allows in Christians and puts a hold on Muslim ones is a smart strategy because ISIS disguises themselves as moderate Muslims, not cross wearing Christians. This is not "islamaphobic' or "bigoted" or any other epithet the slander happy party wants to throw at people with whom they disagree (note the same strategy was used on people opposing gay marriage-just slander them into the ground with aspersions of "bigot" and the like.)

Slander is not an effective debate tool. It makes the person using it look small. It's not leadership-it has a bullying tone to it. Lets all start acting like grown ups and look intelligently at all the facts.
Please.

Here are some facts. Note-NONE of the below people are Christian.

An immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at a young age, and who was later approved for U.S. citizenship, carried out the Islamist attack that recently killed 4 military personnel in Chattanooga. (July 2015)

- An Uzbek refugee living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. (July 2015)

- An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. (June 2015)

- An immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men, was charged with conspiracy to travel to Syria and provide material support to ISIS. (April 2015)

- A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun to shoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. (February 2015)

- A Bosnian refugee, along with his wife and five relatives, donated money and supplies, and smuggled arms, to terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. (February 2015)

- A college student who immigrated from Somalia who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. (October 2014)

- A Moroccan national who came tot he U.S. on a student Visa was arrested for plotting to blow up a university and federal court house. (April 2014)

- The Boston bombers were invited in as refugees. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on September 11th, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship. (April 2013)

- Two immigrants form Pakistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, were sentenced to decades-long prison sentences for plotting to detonate a bomb in New York City. (2012)

Read more: http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-war-on-terror-487284/heres-the-long-list-of-foreignborn-14135861/#ixzz3rrlkrdpS

And what might these characters be up to: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/260628-honduras-police-arrest-five-syrians-heading-to-us-with-fake

The fantastique, indominable, indefatigable, formidable French

Vive La France

  and all who love her.

After three official days of national mourning the French are getting their mojo back and defiantly eating in outdoor cafes and living life as usual.

Its about LIFE declared L'Alliance in DC insisting that the Beaujolais festival at the Embassy will go on as usual.

France's export of Joie de Vivre to America is a great blessing- and the Embassy in DC dispenses boatloads of it.  Last night was no exception to the kind hospitality of the Embassy in hosting yet another climate conference, this time where an undersecretary of USDA spoke on carbon sequestration of effective agricultural policies.

Merci Mill Fois (thanks a Million) again for the kind hospitality. The COP21 conference will go on as planned and the French are building a state of art facility to accommodate some 20,000 anticipated visitors. Paris' Mayor is brilliant and making the city safe, beautiful and welcoming.

The French know how to live-which is why so many people want to live there with them. In their hour of struggle against these threats we should be standing shoulder to shoulder assisting them in the defense of all that is sacred. Countez sur moi.

Long Live France- Vive La France- and all who love her.

#PrayforParis

nous sommes tous parisians

I am shocked and saddened beyond belief at the horrific carnage in Paris, from where I just returned a mere week ago.

My thoughts and prayers are with all my compatriots and friends in France. 

In solidarity with the three days of morning this blog will be silent and showing only black space for posts for three days. 

Because there really are no words.

#PrayForParis

Praying

For the People of Paris.

No Words.

Just Pray.

Uncle Al

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Truth

In the Boudoir

    Some people subscribe to a view that being gay is like being left handed. Sometimes they can write with a right hand but its awkward and doesn't work as well and they know its off and not 'natural.' It just feels more natural and really good to write left handed. A small minority of people are left handed and so should be treated no differently than right handed people. (Where are the left handed scissors?) Other people subscribe to a view that a gay inclination or attraction is a reflection of a totally debased debauched mind perhaps coupled with an adjustable hormonal rebalancing perhaps brought on by family trauma or mental illness regardless of how many gays think that they cannot or won't change, and there are plenty of examples of people who came out of a gay lifestyle and live heterosexual lives with families so it is not an "immutable" or "unchangeable" phenotypical or genotypical characteristic but a choice of action and conduct. There is no proof regarding which one  is scientifically valid regardless of how many people feel either way. But to insist that everyone embrace gay sex for life in marriage, against the teaching of three major religions, because you view or adopt the first theory is not sound policy, because the first theory is just a theory. Its the way some people feel about themselves. It is the way a political movement of aggressive gays insist all gays and everyone must view being gay. That doesn't make it true for everyone gay or not. It is not true in fact for everyone-for all those who once were but are not now gay- a population Obama wishes did not exist and ignores because he wants to delude himself into thinking the theory is true. It might be his truth, but that does not make it true for all gays or any gays.

If a private limo driver or cab driver had a pregnant woman jump in their cab with a huge belly and said "take me to the abortion clinic on x street" and driver was against abortion, can the driver refuse service and tell the woman he won't do that as a private business serving the public? Of course- a cabbie can refuse service and tell you they don't want to take you to a bad part of town if he doesn't want to--or the airport--or anywhere he doesn't want to -he reserves the right to not serve people he doesn't want to. Recently a case involving two Muslim truck drivers found the drivers were discriminated against because they would not take a load of alcohol and were fired. It was discrimination against them based on clear religious conviction and belief that its wrong to drink alcohol so they were not going to drive it anywhere. Neither was being asked to drink it. No one shouted if you don't like alcohol then don't be an alcoholic. They were requesting that they not be made to do something against their conscience by participating in something their religion said was immoral and the court found they didn't have to or lose his job. The EEOC brought this action initially.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/30/muslim-truckers-who-refused-to-deliver-alcohol-awarded-240000/

The EEOC's press release HERE: http://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/10-22-15b.cfm

This is no different than Kim Davis or any flower provider or cake baker or anyone else who thinks gay marriage is immoral and they do not want any part of it. No one should shout-if you don't like gay marriage don't get gay married to them. They are perfectly happy baking a birthday cake, just like the cabbie above might have been fine with taking the pregnant woman to her sister's house just not an abortion clinic. If a Muslim truck driver doesn't have to ship liquor or lose his job Kim Davis doesn't have to sign gay marriage licenses. Its her constitutional right not to have to do that if she finds it immoral according to the tenets of her religion- however whacky you may feel about that religion.
No Christian, Muslim or Jew or anyone should have to be discriminated against on the basis of their clear religious conviction that gay sex is immoral- and it does not matter what the state of that Christian's morality is or how many times they were married or divorced or if they are sinfully casting stones- it is a question of allowing that person to live their life according to their conscience. That is their constitutional right. It should be firmly protected.
The view that being gay is nothing different than being left handed, or that it has no moral implication such that it is illegitimate to attribute morality at all to sexual acts, and so should be treated no differently than heterosexual, as opposed to someone plagued with inappropriate sexualization of same sex people immorally as a product of a debased mind, is a value judgment simply made up without foundation in fact or science- even if there are more gays coming out there insisting that they are just left handed. More people sinning doesn't make more morality. More people subscribing to a wrong theory doesn't make the theory right.Gay people being talented, beautiful, funny or "loving" also does not make the theory right-it is irrelevant. Shoving the theory down everyone's throat as if it were universal fact demanding legal respect is just piss poor policy.
The African nations are correct to rebuff the President in his gayification of discrimination laws.
What is completely unacceptable is anyone slandering anyone with labels of "hater", "homophobe" or "bigot" because they subscribe to their religious teachings and have a conscientious objection to actions they find immoral. That is ignorant and unacceptable and it needs to stop.
No one would think to call the Muslim above a WinoPhobe, or a hater of drinkers. He just find the actions immoral. I am sure the cabbie above doesn't hate the woman he is refusing to take to the abortions -to the contrary- he doesn't want to participate in her butchery for her own good as well.

     Whenever accommodations can reasonably be made to accommodate religious views they should be made so long as rights of others are not infringed upon. The Muslim truck drivers schedule could perhaps have been changed so he drove the next load of anything but alcohol (and bacon) and the pregnant girl can catch the next cab. The gay couple wanting a cake doesn't get to insist that everyone in the world will want to facilitate or participate in their celebration while there is a gay baker down the street who needs the business. The Constitution does not demand all Americans must approve of everyone else's conduct. Were that the case the laws which prohibit service of alcohol to clearly drunk people in bars with keys in their hands would all have to be voided.  Were that the case then judges couldn't examine adultery in divorce or custody cases ever.

   The people currently being discriminated against the most are the people who hold true the second theory: that there is a permissible morality assessment regarding gay behavior and they would be violating conscience to participate in something they view as debased or debauched. Those people are the new persecuted in the Western Church. They are losing jobs, clients, having their businesses boarded up, fined and blasted all over the media and social media as "haters" "homophobes" and "bigots" in pure defamation.

    This has to stop and right itself with the next President.

  

The Dog Ate My Emails

Hillary, Hillary, oh Hillary.

Hillary personally assessed security in Tripoli, Cairo and Tunisia and pulled Embassy personnel out and home there-She did pull Embassy personnel out and home in those places-she knew security intel review was her job especially in conflict regions, so why not Benghazi after 600 written frantic requests for security. The answer lies in what the mission in Benghazi was really about and what was her payoff. You heard her say Paris a number of times, meetings were held there about the mission and it was driven by the French who did most of the heavy lifting on the invasion. The French, Sarkozy in particular, followed George Bush's lead in invading countries when there was a clear business interest at stake and in this case it was French Water, notably the international water and waste company Veolia, not an oil company driving an invasion. Veolia is a global leader in desalination plants, they had one in Benghazi which is on the coast. See, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916405006065 click here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916405006065 and HERE http://www.veolia.com/en/veolia-group/media/news/veolia-global-leader-desalination and HERE https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjDuFipWTf4AVNQPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Veolia+Desalination+Plant+Benghazi&fr=yhs-iry-fullyhosted_011&hspart=iry&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_011   AND GET THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF VEOLIA FROM 2010-2014.

Khadaffi, who was just as bad a brutal dictator for about 50 years without anyone wanting to take him out was on the cusp of nationalizing all the water and implementing a huge water program that kept water and waste management in the hands of Khadaffi's people which would have kicked out the French interests and billions of dollars in revenue for Veolia's Desalination efforts. The libyan "water wars" were well written about. Congress should look at the French government interest in Veolia because it is believed to be partially owned by the French government. Congress should also look at how much money the French government and/or Veolia and/or their executives contributed to the Clinton Foundation (that Hillary's daughter runs and husband and she own) from 2011 to 2015. They should subpoena her husband and/or any custodian of records of the Foundation to determine whether she was in fact paid for keeping on the ground an intelligence gathering operation in Benghazi for the purpose of averting a nationalization of Libyan water interests. Congress should be looking at whether Sid Blumenthal got any contracts or payments from the French government or Veolia around this time. The real question is - did Hillary jeopardize the lives of Americans by leaving them unsecured in a war zone when she should have brought them home because a foreign government was pledging to her money through her foundation and other financial personal support. Its all about the water. Are you getting disgusted yet? If not, you are not awake.

     The email situation reflects every lawyer trick in the book to hide what they were really up to- through a secret server in which she alone could determine what was "personal" e.g. anything having to do with payments to the Foundation from the French government or proxies. She could run emails through foreign off shore servers as in Paris or through Oscar de la Renta's house in the Dominican Republic and no one would be the wiser- its outside the subpoena power of the US courts. Unless, those emails are also captured on NSA servers. Congress should subpoena all Clinton emails in 2011, 2012 and 2013 from the NSA who has all her foreign email traffic archived. 

    This is about what let someone be so callous as to ignore about 600 urgent security requests she let four people die in the sand, then lie that it was unpredicted and unpredictable when it clearly was a planned attack that she had intel on, and refused to bring them home. What would make her so miscalculate on purpose the risk to insist they stay? There was  likely a massive payoff.  

    She should have insisted that the French provide private security if she couldn't get the marines in there. Marines usually do guard US Embassy installations but it wasn't a proper Embassy installation in Benghazi. We do put Embassies in war zones but not without the Marines guarding them. No one in their right mind would insist on putting a bunch of unprotected Americans in the middle of a war zone unless they had military security. If she couldn't get military security she should have insisted the French provide private security. Syd Blumenthal apparently even insisted on it. The compound in Benghazi was hit with two bombing attempts previously and the Ambassador was screaming for real military style security. Obviously she was involved evaluating whether Benghazi should be converted into a full Embassy or Consulate a full security review is an integral part of that assessment.

  Was it a "Hard Choice" to leave Americans vulnerable so the French could take out a water project to protect their commercial interests? Maybe Maybe not. But it sure was a dumb one. It will cost her the Presidency. Because she isn't running for President of France.

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Planned Parenthood Says it will stop collecting money for Fetal "Tissue" donations.

As reported in the Wall Street Journal- to take the heat off for human body part harvesting for sale, Planned Parenthood says it will stop collecting payment from people for Fetal "Tissue" (e.g. the baby)    

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Pennies for Planned Parenthood.

The Great Deception.

     Unless you live under a rock you know that Congress is holding hearings investigating Planned Parenthood.

Whether this organization is a sham shell game of government funding or not should not be a partisan issue, but it is- because it is a sham shell game of government funding. And it is laundering that blood money back into the coffers of only one party to perpetuate the mass deception and disinfo campaign. This is not about women's health. It is about corruption. It is about the ability of a special interest group to buy an entire party of politicians. It is about the role of mass disinformation campaigns to fund an unethical industry, and yes, it is certainly about exploitation of vulnerable women.

   There is currently a law on the books in which no federal money can be given for abortions. So the games played to circumvent that are legend.

Here is this abortion mill collecting half a billion taxpayer dollars in medicaid reimbursements under the ruse that no money is going toward abortions. Everyone knows it is an abortion mill. Everyone knows few people go there except for abortion. Everyone now should know that in spite of even the President of the org. putting the disinfo out there deliberately that they do mammograms to screen for breast cancer, they do none and don't even have the equipment. This is a deliberate lie-a disinfo campaign to legitimate the existence of this abortion mill.

Congressional hearings have uncovered that it is involved in over-billing medicaid by hundreds of percents of actual costs, by what can only be considered Medicaid fraud. The Justice Department has an entire department of civil litigators devoted to prosecution of Medicaid Fraud but will they investigate Planned Parenthood? Not likely under a Democratic Administration. (cue that photo of Obama hugging Cecile Richards.)

Planned Parenthood has been found to be engaged in such sub-medical quality standard procedures that they risk the lives of women and girls who seek abortions. They have been found to cover up underage statutory rape by not reporting pregnancies from abuse. They have been found to tell hemorrhaging girls with punctured uteruses or other organs to go home, where they then had to be rushed to an ER. People have in fact died at the hands of Planned Parenthood abortionists.

The clinics are not regulated the way hospitals are and the abortionists currently do not have to even have admitting privileges in any hospital. When people try to restrict the practices in any way in the interest of health the abortion industry screams that they are restricting women's rights. Its over the top and unconscionable.

They are engaged in "fuzzy math" suspect reporting of abortion stats to suggest that only a tiny percent of their business is abortion when we know that not to be true now. They do that by almost counting every condom and contraceptive pill they dispense against a one abortion to suppress the figure. A huge percentage of their revenue comes from abortion.

     I am not writing the Congressional report referring this for defunding, but if I were there is plenty of material already and the hearings continue.  I have heard enough for a Justice Department referral for criminal investigation of the routine practices of Planned Parenthood.

What do they do? They engage in mass slaughter of pre-born infants. In some cases they do this by dismemberment inside a woman, they sometimes inject a toxic solution into a womb to kill an infant, they sometimes force labor so a woman delivers a still born-which they then chop up for 'fetal research.'

    The lies told by Cecile Richards are legend. The "Mammosham" one is but one. She peddled the fiction that fetal research cured polio with the Polio vaccine in a Maddow interview when that is a lie (Jonas Salk 1952 didn't use fetal tissue as any basic research reveals.) The "abortion is only 3% of our business" is a lie. The whole-we care about women's health- is also fiction as a former director of one Planned Parenthood affiliate explained.  They care about the bottom line. They care about Manhattan expensive apartments and lambourghinis. They care about extracting from wombs in tact cavalariums to get the best price on baby brains.

   This should not be a Partisan issue. It should be a basic human decency issue. When it isn't and when no democrat will challenge the organization, you know the party is corrupt, bought by this hideous organization.

  Who in their right mind could fight giving the money instead to real health clinics that really do tend to women's health?




 

Bridge Builders

Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation-HCEF.

    When you hear the word "Palestinian" what comes to mind? Rock throwing, suicide bombing
crazies murdering settlers, screaming behind a wall?

   Did you know that Palestinians are also Christians? In fact they are the Christians whose ancestors likely followed Jesus from the time he first walked the earth.

   These Christians are bridge builders of Peace.
Many live in Bethlehem, the place of Jesus' birth. Many live in the West Bank.
They are culturally Arab, and Christian by faith and profession worshipping the Jewish Messiah, the Prince of Peace.

  There is an organization, headquartered in Washington, DC, the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation that works in these communities developing projects to sustain that community, considered the "living stones" of the ancient church. They run programs such as a jobs creation one where they rehab houses for people whose houses need help, they support schooling programs, they support the industry of Palestinians involved in the olive wood craft trade for which they are famous. You can find in the old city these beautiful olive wood craft carvings of biblical characters and scenes in the Old City of Jerusalem and the HCEF now brings them to America for special days at American churches.

   HCEF is having its annual fundraiser gala dinner and conference this week. They are a very worthwhile organization founded initially by a Palestinian Christian Catholic (married to a latin american woman) whose brother was killed in the conflict. Instead of becoming bitter and vengeful he decided to devote his life toward bettering the condition of his fellow Palestinian Christians. His is a remarkable life story in itself.

  You can come to the gala, or other parts of the conference and please do buy some olive wood hand made crafts.

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Extremists

Extreme Women

   Extreme Women in America are taking children from pregnant women and turning them into lab rats, selling organs and tissue piecemeal.

   Extreme Women in America are demanding the right to be paid BY THE GOVERNMENT for burning alive children in a womb in saline so mothers deliver dead burned babies and they can harvest their organs.--because everybody should have to pay for that-

   Extreme Women in America think it  is health care for women to turn mothers into breeding factories for lab rat babies who are used for fetal research and their personal profit.

  Extreme Women think its remotely feminist to encourage women to kill their offspring for their profit.

  Extreme Women are Planned Parenthood executives and their Democratic women supporters.

These are not health care providers. There is not one doctor among them. Cecile Richards on her close to 600k salary and benefits is not a doctor.  No Democratic woman Senator or House member is a doctor. Not Pelosi, Not Feinstein, Not Boxer.

These are extreme positions and women. When they take a position that absolutely no recognition of the humanity of a viable child can be recognized such that they can be born alive and vivisected-that is an extreme position. These positions demean women lower than animals and insist you treat them like that by giving every sexually depraved man in America the option to tell anyone "Just Get Rid of It at Planned Parenthood."

These are the extreme women. And history will not be kind to them.
The lies will catch up to them. The Mammosham lie that Cecile Richards shamelessly promoted around the country to convince people that Planned Parenthood actually does do mammagrams when later admitting they do not under oath is but one example.

This is not "Feminism"
This is Mengele on Steroids Fascist FemiNazi Takeover of Government Funding.
In fact here is a fun fact- Mengele actually became an abortionist after the war. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/11/world/mengele-an-abortionist-argentine-files-suggest.html

No one is buying that the federal money isn't going toward abortion when they have no chinese walls. No one buys their "you pay only shipping and handling" late night infomercials about not profitting from sale of fetal tissue.

How do you give a despairing pregnant woman who just lost her baby a form saying- lets chop the thing up to use for science now? How do you do that?

How do you all sleep?

Carly Fiorina was right-warning-extremely graphic and murderous-NSFW

Pass the Creamer

Would you like some dead baby with your Coffee?

    Shocking right? Now google Fetal Cells and Fetal Tissue Nestle. Do you know who makes International Delight and Coffee Creamer Cancer in a Can?

  They use Fetal Cells in production. So you are eating your neighbors dead aborted baby. Isn't that a lovely wake up call.

  Now google Fetal with words like "Vaccine" "Vitamin" "Food" and see what else it is all in. And we wonder why Americans have cancer at astronomical rates?

 Why is the US government subsidizing an industry that puts potentially carcinogenic cell material from dead babies in our food?

Why are we eating our Young?

Look deeper at the Industry propelling planned parenthood's fetal tissue harvesting. I guarantee you will lose your lunch.

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Exploitation Is Not Choice

The Senate Should Defund Planned Parenthood.  Seriously have you all lost your minds.

    The abortion mill called Planned Parenthood exploits vulnerable poor women to serve fetal part harvesting profiteering industry.

   If you divide up half a BILLION dollars to give to the 300,000 women who walked in any Planned Parenthood any given year see how many would keep their babies.
Do not tell me this organization is about women's health. What a pathetic joke.

Women seek abortions often in the most financially and emotionally stressed times of their lives.

Instead of feeding an organization that exploits their needs by killing their offspring, why not pay the women themselves so they can feed their own children instead of kill them.

This monster called Planned Parenthood has the nerve to say that they are about women's health when they take fetuses from women without their consent to dismember, and sell piecemeal. They have the nerve to say they are about women's health when they conduct live vivisections on born alive infants to harvest their brains.

This is truly beyond sick- sicker than anything we have ever witnessed in our American history.

  Planned Parenthood is a campaign laundering organization that profits off sale of fetal body parts.

It engages in the mass slaughter of infants, some viable in a womb, often by burning with chemicals and suffocating in toxic solutions or by dismembering and puncturing their skull severing their spine.

This organization should not be getting one red cent from the government.

Now you know what is really going on- Now you know the real deal. So there is no excuse to keep this running. Anyone now who votes to keep this funded should be run out of office. It is a crime against Humanity, It is the greatest crime against Humanity America has ever witnessed. And its done on the taxpayer dime. Obscene. Just insane.

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     Anyone voting to give this disgusting Planned Parenthood immunity from criminal prosecution is not worthy of running any Justice Department.

Pay Up you Unpatriotic Slob-what you hate women?

      Your neighbors five doors down had a rough night. The teenager and the twenty year old who live there with their grandmother both just picked up a couple of guys from the club a few months ago drinking until two in the morning. Now they are both pregnant and "need" an abortion. They cost about $400. a piece at Planned Parenthood down the street. So please be home later today because they will be collecting $800 from you when you get home.

   In the other direction, three doors down lives the neighborhood Forker. Everybody knows he is a forker because he brags how many people he forks and gets the girl to pick up the restaurant tab. He is the biggest forker in his law school. Bill Clinton is his idol. He has a picture of him on his wall signed standing next to him. He lies to all of his "girlfriends" telling them they are the love of his life and he hates wearing condoms. So everyone he got pregnant (there are six and counting since he started law school) he told to "get rid of it." Six times $400 is $2,400. So have that handy also- K?

   None of those girls can afford it- they are living paycheck to paycheck and have to decide whether to buy a yogurt for lunch or bus fare. So who else do you think has to pay for it?

 

    What? You say- why should you have to pay for that? You don't even know those girls?

But that is what Planned Parenthood getting half a billion dollars from the federal government is doing. They are taking your money- tax payers hard earned income from them to give to those girls. Because they are Poor. And Dumb. And Sexually Irresponsible. Or Conned. Or Just never heard that choice begins when you calculate whether to unzip and strip.

   What? the government is actually doing that ?  you say.  Yes. What do you think the debate about defunding Planned Parenthood is about?

Oh, and did I mention that Planned Parenthood who gets about $400 from the abortions is also going to sell the aborted baby after chopping it up and spreading it around about another $100 an organ. So if they do it right and crush the right way with the brain in tact they can probably get another $1,000 off the dead baby.

Oh, and the CEO of Planned Parenthood gets a salary of half a million dollars annually.

So fork over your $800 now so Cecile Richards can live in style in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Because everyone has to have a "choice"- right?

It's Not Your Body Your Business When Its Not Your Body.

That River in Egypt

Called Denial.

     Those Planned Parenthood videos that MSNBC says don't exist are below for you to watch.

Will you people please wake the Eff up.

We have effectively in America a US Department of Baby Torture, Murder, Dismemberment and Chop Shop Sale. We fund with half a BILLION US Tax Dollars annually Planned Non Parenthood.

Do not tell me they only do 3 percent abortions. That is fuzzy math on steriods.

Do not tell me they do not "profit" off the sale of fetal "tissue" (e.g. suzie's heart, liver, and kidneys and little johnie's gonads) in their schlock house 'you pay shipping and handling' only schemes some starving lawyer told them they could get away with.

Do not tell me that they do not "harvest" fetal tissue because they confess to it on tape.

Do not tell me the videos are selectively edited or doctored. They have all been released in full.

We are at a moral crisis and crossroads in this country. Do we want a federal department of Baby Murder, Dismemberment and Chop Shop Body Part Sale to vitamin manufacturers, frankenscientists at Universities and BioTech firms and research labs that make Mengele look like Mary Poppins? Do not tell me this isn't going on because the industry admits it.

MSNBC actually ran a social media push back declaring Fiorina wrong in making the statements she did at the debate. No, MSNBC, you are wrong. Morally, Factually Spiritually and in terms of basic human decency.

This monstrosity must stop. This "company" Planned Non Parenthood isn't fooling anyone. They are a laundering middle man outfit for Democratic Campaigns. They are an abortion mill not a woman's health care facility.

They are surrounded by witches, wiccans and satanists offering dead babies for human sacrificial hex and curse purposes.

This is so hard core evil it harkens back to what the Lamentations and Baruch books described as total psychotic meltdowns where Jews at the time of the Babylonian invasion were eating their young, such were the economic deprivations. This must end.

Anyone with half a brain cell left should vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood should not be operating on a penny from any American, and yes, you all need to shut the whole effing government down until it is off the dole.

This IS a character of the country issue. This IS an issue where we as a nation have to ask ourselves whether we want everyone in the country subsidizing something so evil that they chop up, and dissect like your seventh grade formaldehyde frog, little people so Merc can put it (him and her)  in their MMR vaccines, and Kraft can put it (him and her)  in your processed foods, and the Mengele frankenscientists can pretend at Penn and Yale that it does one iota of good to combat disease.

HALF of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion. Half the residents of the last generation in New York City are dead. That's a lot of MMR vaccines with dead baby "tissue" in them. Do you want to know what the link between vaccines and 'autism' might be? How about the cells of a tortured in utero infant in the vaccine- who but for the amniotic fluid in their lungs would be screaming bloody murder- because they were murdered. How about that in your kid's mandatory vaccines? Could that cause autism?

Please God, Make Them Stop. Just.  Make.  Them.  Stop.

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Merch Madness

Popalooza in Philly

     Merch (as in Merchandise) madness hits full stride as everyone and their cousin's dog tries to profit off the Pope coming to America. There are T shirts, Pope waterbottles, even Pope bobbleheads.

   I'm getting emails daily on things like where to stand in parades in two cities, why not post a video welcoming him, where to sign up on line for Mass lotteries, where to donate on line to light candles and send in intentions that the Pope might actually look at.

    This etsy store has my fav. - the Philly Pope bobblehead holding a cheesesteak in one hand and pretzel in the other. Or is that a meatball sandwich and a hot dog? https://www.etsy.com/search?q=pope%20bobbleheads&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=pope+bobbleheads_exact&utm_campaign=Search_US_Bing-Other-Trending-Exact&utm_ag=Bobblehead|Papal%2BVisit%2BTo%2BPhilly&utm_custom1=7bf6d549-7cec-4b2c-a5bf-58eb2140a4cb

   All in good fun. This all has me thinking of Jesus flipping over money changers at the temple- but really I think Jesus would approve of Popalooza. The money changers were changing the sacrificial coins needed to pay tithes so the system was way more warped. This is all just amusement park fun and no one thinks buying a Bobbleheaded Pope is going to get them closer to heaven.  Unless of course they are crazy in which case it actually might.

  So knock yourself out buying Pope holy water, Pope vessels into which you put your Pope holy water, glow in the dark Pope nightlights, and your PopePouri of T shirts and papal hoodies. If you are lucky you might get him to sign one of them!

   I have never taken a video of myself and don't even have the equipment (and wouldn't pain anyone else having to take one of me) so let this suffice to say- Welcome Pope to America. I hope you have a great time and get around town more than Prince Charles got to. Try not to gum up the traffic too much or I will never hear the end of it from my coworkers who already think this is all a bit much. As for me, I am not big on crowds. If your motorcade runs by my office I will waive. Otherwise know you are in my prayers for safe travels and good friends, food and fun. P.S. the only cheese you should order on a Philly Cheesesteak is Provolone. Or just say "the works."

 

Merci Mille Fois Encore et Toujours

to the French Ambassador
     Gerard Araud.

    Once again the French Ambassador to the US kindly hosted a discussion, this time taking it on the chin a bit from a fellow compatriot, an attorney law professor, who seemed to want to blame anything he thought was wrong with France on the "political class", the August vacation recess and the stores being closed on Sunday. Ambassador Arnaud defended the Republic by noting one should not live to work but work to live and quality of life consists of Sunday family time together, worship and reading Proust.  The character of the Republic depends on the creativity spawned by the day of rest and a month repose to reconnect with one's humanity.  France is after all  historically Catholic and I was happy to hear the Ambassador affirm it in noting Sunday worship is a good thing. Bon Dimanche! He affirmed there are better things to do than go shopping on Sunday. Here Here.

     Along with the affable Steve Clemons, who discussed gay adventures of marriage of gay Tunisians in France assimilating meeting immigration obstacles, with the esteemed Stanford law professor bemoaning the backward "political class" the Ambassador held his own quite nicely fighting the false "France is sunk" paradigm, in stating that the politicians in most countries have to catch up to the vision of the people, this is not either especially a French phenomenon nor seriously the root of the issue. France, he explained, is fundamentally a welfare state with the best health care, child care, and education for children in the world. That requires people pay tax to subsidize the system and it is a challenge to keep industry and the people capable of and willing to support the system in the country. Shades of famous actors becoming inexplicably Russian as tax avoidance schemes comes to mind.  France is a fundamentally fantastic country but has its challenges duly noted by the Ambassador. Everything seems better over the French wine he serves at the reception complete with fois gras and brie and blue cheese. Can anyone seriously doubt the French menu is worth joining the Foreign Legion over? (On that note Le Grenier on H Street, the newest French Restaurant in town is fantastic and I highly recommend their champaign brunch.)

  Racial integration is a serious challenge now in France.  The Ambassador noted that when he went to public school it was all white, caucasian and that is not the case now.  The cohesion of the European Union is also a challenge. He described France as a country originally agrarian which didn't welcome much immigration. They stayed insular. The issue of the migrants poses a challenge to French people in terms of fighting fears and prejudice, real and/or imagined, especially in light of the radicalization of Islam and acts of violence such as they witnessed at the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier this year.

    The Ambassador noted that Germany is only now the leading power in Europe by virtue of the fact that it has economic power, but France is going to be catching up because France has a higher birth rate. France has babies, the Ambassador delighted in saying, reminding me that I wanted to have one even being in Abraham's Sarah territory of too old to dream.

  The subtly snarky critic of the French "political class" attorney Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, (who excused those of the political class who were lawyers (of course) in his book "What's Wrong With France" (I am only on page 20 but the trashing of the Political class theme continues), was a bi-continental Paris-New York big deal lawyer before starting his own firm and teaching at Stanford. He  bemoaned being the only one in his building in Paris in August to which I thought - why were you in the building in August? Shouldn't you be at the beach?

Merci Mille Fois again, for the supreme kindness of the French Ambassador who once again did his country proud not only with the fabulous french wines, cheese and fois gras but with a temperament so gracious in the face of those pesky murmurings of "why can't the French work harder."

Thanks for hosting this at the Sofitel- much easier to get there after work. I hope more Embassy events are hosted there.
My only criticism- i wish the whole discussion was in french. Je T'aime.

Happy

Jewish New Year.

      "not forgiving someone is like drinking poison hoping the other person will die."

May this year be more sweet, more loving and caring.
May all your dreams come true.

L'Shanah Tova.

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