https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:jbgusa/ en-us Tue, 4 Mar 2014 03:39:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3129249/posts This post is about the rank hypocrisy we see in the West. And self-destructive hypocrisy. We don't criticize our enemies. Instead, we try to force the surrender of our allies. Thus the title, Chicken Kiev. The immediate setting is of course the Ukraine but this has happened before. During the 1970's through 1990's college campuses and other fashionable places were full of anti-apartheid movements. Since 2005 this has been replaced by anti-Israel "BDS" movement. At various times similar groups have championed more obscure causes such as rights of American Indians. The facts in these various situations are confusing and somewhat... My Own Writing https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3129249/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2014 03:39:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2845759/posts On February 8, 2012 Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, a famous and notable Toronto rabbi died. He was Senior Rabbi at Toronto's Holy Blossom Synagogue from 1961 to 1977 and remained active as a commentator on the Torah since. He in fact wrote what is now the standard Reform commentary on the Torah, that is in use in most Reform synagogues. This is the link to his obituary. This interview is both stirring and stunning (link to original) from another tribute: “We are not a bomb-throwing group,” Plaut intoned in that crisp lightly tinged German-Jewish accent, “but I want everyone to... Toronto Star https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2845759/posts#comment Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:47:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2776625/posts Ten years ago tomorrow, some incredibly evil people made a senseless attack on the United States, killing approximately 3000 people, for no good reason. In the past I have attributed some of this evil to Islam and have been taken to task for it. I have concluded that the problem is not primarily Islam. It is the wanton and savage tribal cultures that predated Islam. The cultures have persisted despite, not because of, the advent of Islam. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 states: 17] Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt- 18] how, undeterred by fear of... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2776625/posts#comment Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:00:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2723220/posts This post is a search for the knowledge of the community. Since December 2000 one of my friends has had pain in the lower left quadrant of my mouth always in one particular tooth. The pain is a dull, deep, gnawing, crushing pain that he describes as being with him 24 hours a day. Its intensity varies, but it is always there. It is completely ruling his life. The pain started with a crown preparation of tooth #20 in December of 2000. After tooth #20 was extracted (July 2003) the pain immediately jumped to tooth #19. Two years later (July... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2723220/posts#comment Sun, 22 May 2011 02:18:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2701724/posts Dear Mssrs. Obama, Cameron and Harper: I am writing about some serious developments recently reported in the news media that both seem to seriously undermine U.S. and Western foreign policy and pose a serious existential threat to Israel. In a New York Times article dated April 2, 2011 and published in print April 3, 2011, entitled Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out (link to article) the following appeared: JERUSALEM — With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the... New York Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2701724/posts#comment Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:18:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697900/posts Everyone agrees that schools should report incidences of serious child abuse. When abuse is reported to State authorities, typically, a social worker is sent to investigate the household. There are some serious incidences of abuse out there; parents who lash wish belts, parents who tie their children to beds, even parents that starve their children to death. Some abuse reporting is highly questionable. There is a well-run, tightly family, in an affluent, mostly Jewish suburb of New York, one of whose children is special needs, that has been the subject of three (3) reports in the last six years: 1)... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697900/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:40:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2638873/posts A long time ago, the New York Times announced that it intended to charge for access to its news archives. The announcement said that the archives access would continue to be free for paid subscribers. In October, my subscription renewed and I paid over $300. So far, so good. Today, I went to use the archives and the system tried to charge me $3.95 for the article. I called up Customer Service, and was told, after being instructed five (5) times to "log in" (which I had already done, myself not being a blithering idiot), that they were switching me... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2638873/posts#comment Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:59:31 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575588/posts Our country deserves a President who thinks his country is the best country in the world. Obama does not fit this bill. He is not an "American exceptionalist". Our country is a big, beautiful country with a varied population. It's probably the only couintry that could elect a minority such as Barak Obama. He patently does not appreciate this, and is ingrateful. He does not deserve to be President; we do not deserve him. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575588/posts#comment Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:09:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2486782/posts I took my wife and kids to Washington DC for the Spring break week. Normally, I take great pride in anything patriotic. I still found the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial inspiring. Our family boat ride in the Tidal Basin, with the backdrop of flowering cherry trees, couldn't be beaten for both family unity and scenery. And the one bright spot of the major museum exhibitions was the original Star Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian. There the admiration ends. The tourist museums such as the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum and Museum of the American Indian, and the Holocaust Museum were... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2486782/posts#comment Mon, 5 Apr 2010 05:33:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416692/posts The response to the recent attempt to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight is what I have seen referred to as "security theatre". Steps are taken to make everyone feel nice, warm, cuddly and safe. The actions don't involve any kind of profiling, and thus are politically correct. The actions also involve huge amounts of cost and inconvenience, and accomplish nothing. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416692/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:41:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406885/posts Excerpt from Article Port Chester police have been turned away by Westchester County officials after detectives asked for a lab test on what they believe is a bottle of acid, while the county blames budget cuts for refusing a service relied upon by police departments throughout Westchester. ******************* Detectives in Port Chester sent a bottle labeled “ACID” to the county after a bizarre Thanksgiving-day incident in which 63-year-old Jeffrey Borsk of Greenwich showed up at a Regent Street home with the bottle and threatened to throw it on a young girl who answered the door unless she gave him a... Westmore News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406885/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:28:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258154/posts BEIJING – "City of Life and Death" might sound like your average escapist action film helping to usher in the summer movie season. But it’s not. The 2-hour black and white epic recounts the early days of Japan’s occupation of Nanking (now known as Nanjing) in 1937. Over six weeks, Japanese troops committed brutal atrocities against hundreds of thousands of residents of the wartime Chinese capital. Estimates of those killed vary wildly, but historians say around 200,000 to 300,000 people were slaughtered. It’s a dark episode of World War Two that doesn’t get much mention in the West, but here... MSNBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258154/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 03:54:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222869/posts Source was anonymous e-mail so I cannot vouch for accuracy. If anyone has any knowledge I'd like to know. This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside it's hangar in Toulouse, France , without a single hour of airtime on the clock.... Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with... E-mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222869/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:44:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198743/posts Pakistan stunned by Lahore attack (link) By Simon Cameron-Moore ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for gunmen who mounted the bold attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and officials scrambled to figure out who was behind it. The attack that killed eight people, six of them Pakistani police, plunged Pakistan into a "state of war," Rehman Malik, the prime minister's interior adviser, said. ***************** Six members of the Sri Lankan team and a British coach were wounded in the daylight attack as their bus approached the cricket stadium. None was so seriously hurt they had to... Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198743/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:23:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038803/posts TORONTO - The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint filed by the Canadian Islamic Congress against Maclean's magazine. The Congress claimed an article written by Mark Steyn, entitled "The Future Belongs to Islam" and posted on the Maclean's website in October 2006, made a number of statements and assertions that were likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt. In its ruling, posted on Maclean's website, the commission acknowledges "the writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike." But the commission also says that,... CBC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038803/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:41:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017859/posts For two and a half days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of a darkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified. Militiamen loyal to Hezbollah had kidnapped him at a checkpoint after killing his nephew right in front of him. Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals.... ******************* Those feelings are being echoed throughout Lebanon. After almost a week of street battles that left scores dead and threatened to push the country into open war, long-simmering Sunni-Shiite tensions here have sharply worsened, in an ominous echo of the... New York Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017859/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 00:29:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945734/posts The material from this Pravda article does not reflect my views. Excerpts below in red: The basic truth is that Al Qaeda does not exist and never has. Al Qaeda is a manufactured enemy who was created by the Bush Administration in order to have an excuse to wage a war for the control of the world’s oil resources. ***** If “Al Qaeda” was such an organized group terrorists as we are being told then why weren’t we the people notified of this evil threat when the US Cole was bombed a few months before 9-11? “Al Qaeda” is nothing... Pravda https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945734/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:23:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930460/posts As violence declines in Baghdad, the leading Democratic presidential candidates are undertaking a new and challenging balancing act on Iraq: acknowledging that success, trying to shift the focus to the lack of political progress there, and highlighting more domestic concerns like health care and the economy. Advisers to Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama say that the candidates have watched security conditions improve after the troop escalation in Iraq and concluded that it would be folly not to acknowledge those gains. At the same time, they are arguing that American casualties are still too high, that a quick withdrawal... New York Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930460/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:44:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876556/posts The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds. Recently, the leftist governor of New Jersey opposed New York City's imposing congestion pricing, saying there was simply no way for more New Jerseyites to ride mass transit to their jobs in New York City. What he's saying is the suburban voters would not favor huge parking garages built at train stations. The time savings are startling; travel time from Metro Park-Iselin by train is about 38 minutes; by car, about 100 minutes, during rush hour. Corzine is suppose to be a "green", very liberal Democrat. Contrast this article, where Corzine, in... Original writing https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876556/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2007 04:35:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876549/posts DailyKos is fast showing that it is indeed very illiberal when it comes to a great American freedom, freedom of speech. I posted a diary (link to DailyKos diary) on the installation of Muslim footbaths at University of Michigan, and a few other diaries, including my Primer on Muslim Anger Towards West (link). I was banned after both of them were posted. Oops, I forgot this one on Al Gore's daughter and endangered fish (link). In the latter, here are some of the comments: one of them praising the traitor Thomas "Amnesty, Abortion and Acid" Eagleton. Yeah, JBG is pure... Original material https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876549/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2007 04:10:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1871125/posts NEW CASTLE - It was 10 years ago that a group of highly educated, affluent Muslims who had been drawn to the comfortable lifestyle and top-ranked schools of northern Westchester began to pursue a vision of a new community. ***** Members of the UWMS already take part in several interfaith groups. *********** Most worshippers who come to the mosque are Sunni Muslims. But the Sunni-Shiite split that is so important in Iraq and much of the Muslim world is largely meaningless to a multiethnic, American start-up mosque. "We try not to make any distinctions between sects," said Anees Shaikh, 35,... The Journal News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1871125/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:53:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795081/posts Norwegian anti-immigration politicians in Bergen have promised to chase off Muslims with pigs feet and squealing noises if Bergen's central square is used for prayers. The leader of the Demokratene, an extreme populist party formed by outcasts of the populist Progress Party, Vidar Kleppe, said Wednesday that he backed the remarks of city council representative Kenneth Rasmussen. Rasmussen reacted with threats of porcine tactics after Labour Party politician Jerad Abdelmajid said that the city's Muslims could take their Friday prayers in Torgallmenningen, Bergen's central square, when they will be without a mosque from March 31. Building of a new mosque... Aftenposten https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795081/posts#comment Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:19:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752096/posts Mohammad Abd al-Hamid Srour moved missiles across southern Lebanon under cover of a white flag. Hussein Ali Mahmoud Suleiman used the porch of a private home to fire rockets. Maher Hassan Mahmoud Kourani dressed in civilian clothes, hid his Kalashnikov in a tote bag and stored anti-aircraft missiles in the back of a green unmarked Volvo. The three men, all members of Hezbollah, were captured by Israel during last summer's war. Now their videotaped interviews form part of a remarkable report by retired Lieutenant Colonel Reuven Erlich of Israel's Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Relying heavily on captured Hezbollah documents,... Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752096/posts#comment Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:55:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726040/posts The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. *snip* Europe is turning Muslim. As Broder is sixty years old he is not going to emigrate himself. “I am too old,” he said. However, he urged young people to get out and “move to Australia or New Zealand. That is the only option they have if they want to avoid the plagues that will turn the old continent uninhabitable.” Many Germans and Dutch,... The Brussels Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726040/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:36:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1711000/posts I was going to add this as a response to a thread on another thread. I decided it merited separate discussion. God, haven't you war mongers learned anything from Iraq? Bombing Iran for whatever reason would simply further inflame Islamacists and lead to even more terrorist attacks. Futhermore, when Iran eventually gets the bomb (it will eventually) the chances of them using it will be much higher. Negotiation is the only option available at this time. A bit of history about the Muslims is in order. During the pre-Muslim era, the wanton and vicious habits of the desert people of... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1711000/posts#comment Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:20:27 GMT