DANIEL GREENFIELD: WEEKLY ROUNDUP PART 2….PLEASE SEE NOTE
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I ALMOST NEVER DISAGREE WITH MY FRIEND DANIEL GREENFIELD…BUT BACHMANN DESERVES THE OPPROBRIUM SHE GOT FOR THE NONSENSE ABOUT GARDASIL….LITTLE GIRLS WERE NOT BOUND AND GAGGED AND FORCED TO HAVE INJECTIONS ON A GURNEY….AND, FURTHERMORE….ACCORDING TO PHYSICIANS GARDASIL IS SHOWN TO BE SAFE, EFFECTIVE AND SIDE EFFECTS ARE MINIMAL…..AS IN ALL VACCINES THERE IS A RISK OF ONE IN A MILLION CHANCES OF DEATH….BUT WITH CERVICAL CANCER THE RISK IS A WHOLE LOT HIGHER. AND BTW WHEN BACHMANN WAS IN THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE SHE DID NOT OPPOSED THE NO PARENTAL OPT-OUT OF THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE….
NOW, HIS ATTACK ON PERRY WHO HAS ALWAYS STOOD UP FOR ISRAEL….LONG BEFORE BECOMING A CONTENDER FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND WITHOUT THE NASTY TIES TO THE SAUDIS OF THE BUSH DYNASTY…..BUT MOST APPALLING IS THIS:
“Anyway as we’re told over and over again, this stuff is just a distraction from the important issue that there is a photo of Rick Perry firing a gun into the air, and we really need to focus on that photo and nothing else. Also if we don’t talk about Gardasil, it’ll never come up in the general election. Or we can just look at his Gardasil press conference, which looks a lot like Blagojevich’s “These are all the people I fight for” press conference.” BLAGOJEVICH? NOW REALLY….THAT ONE IS BEYOND THE PALE….. RSK
THE CLINTONIZATION OF BACHMANN
The Hillary Clintonization of Bachmann is well underway. Bachmann is suddenly now the crazy lady who needs to be moved off stage so we can avoid the formality of primaries and just select the front runner. If they sound like liberals, well that can’t be so, even if they sound exactly like every attack made on Bachmann by liberals to this date.
Attacking Perry on Gardasil is demagoguery. Perry suggesting that critics of his illegal immigration pandering are racists who hate Latinos on the other hand is the kind of true red and white blue rhetoric that should make us all stand up and salute.
Well if your name is President Vincente Fox anyway. http://www.youtube.com/v/-KYLf2AJFPg
The bottom line is it doesn’t make any difference what the sound of your last name is. That is the American way. I’m proud that we are having those individuals be contributing members of our society rather than telling them, you go be on the government dole.
Clearly the sound of the last name is the issue here, you filthy racists.
Anyway as we’re told over and over again, this stuff is just a distraction from the important issue that there is a photo of Rick Perry firing a gun into the air, and we really need to focus on that photo and nothing else. Also if we don’t talk about Gardasil, it’ll never come up in the general election. Or we can just look at his Gardasil press conference, which looks a lot like Blagojevich’s “These are all the people I fight for” press conference.
While no one seems to care much that Perry basically suggested that critics of his proposal are racist, rather than against illegal immigration, we’re supposed to be furious because Bachmann relayed a woman’s story that Gardasil caused her daughter’s mental retardation.
Allahpundit at Hotair wants Bachmann to “apologize” for linking Gardasil to mental retardation. Whom should she be apologizing to? Merck.
Ah hell let me apologize on her behalf. Mental retardation is not on the list of Gardasil side effects. Death is. Please don’t worry about Gardasil making your daughter retarded, when it can kill her instead.
Of course all vaccines have potential negative side effects, but Gardasil had a higher incidence of negative side effects than the problem it was supposed to address. Perry may have had the highest and cleanest motives in doing so, but criticism of him for the way he did it cannot be treated as illegitimate.
People who treat Bachmann reciting an anecdotal story she heard from a parent, without stating it as a medical fact, for a vaccine with notorious and fatal side effects as some sort of crime– while acting as if Perry’s actions in trying to make a vaccine with a troubling rate of side effects mandatory through an executive order as some minor thing that we needn’t get worked up over are showing a bias.
KVELLING FOR PERRY
Jews are kvelling over stuff because Perry is saying most of the right things on Israel.
Gov. Perry today accused the Obama administration of taking sides in last year’s Israeli election and of trying to make Israel conform to American ”plans and timetables” for peace. The governor said his own support for Israel was ”not conditional on the outcome of the peace process.”
Once again, he pledged that as president he would ”begin the process of moving the U.S. ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital,” a reference to Jerusalem.
My bad.. that was actually Bush in 2000 when he was running. This was Bush once he got into office.
As we make progress towards security, Israel forces need to withdraw fully to positions they held prior to September 28, 2000. And consistent with the recommendations of the Mitchell Committee, Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories must stop.
So pardon me if I don’t kvell, I’ve seen this game before. Support for Israel is as deep as the understanding of what Islamic terrorism is. Someone who doesn’t really get the latter will sell out the former in five seconds flat. We can’t after all discriminate against people because they have a different last name.
“By repeated public attacks only on Israel, this administration has damaged its ability to act as an honest broker, and has encouraged the Arabs to harden their positions in the mistaken belief that Washington can or should deliver Israeli concessions without Arab concessions in return.
That was Clinton in 1992. It’s not too different from Perry in 2011.
“Unfortunate errors by the Obama administration have encouraged the Palestinians to take steps backward away from peace. It was a mistake to inject an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem, as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement activity.
The point isn’t that the men are the same, but that the sentiments are basically generic. Even when Gore was running in 2000, he was pushing a fairly similar line. Everything Perry is saying is fine, but it’s been said over and over again by candidates running for office.
We should encourage Palestinians who are more interested in building a prosperous future than in fueling the grievances of the past. Our aid is, and must remain, predicated on the commitment of the Palestinian leadership to engage honestly and directly with the Israelis in negotiating a peace settlement.
This is from Perry in 2011. Sounds good, except just about every serious candidate has said the same thing. Does that translate into a real commitment? Seemingly Perry has said that he will cut off aid to the bad guys? At least it does until you read the preceding paragraph.
The United States has an interest in the development of Palestinian civil society and institutions.
Which means no we won’t be cutting off aid because we have an “interest” in funding those institutions.
Bush said most of the same things in 2000, new moderate leadership, development of palestinian civil institutions, find real partners for peace, etc. What that actually meant was declaring that Arafat was bad, but Abbas is good, and arming and training terrorists as “security forces”.
Is that the same thing it will mean under Perry? Who knows, but there’s little to celebrate about yet another call for the Palestinians to be nicer and reform their institutions. That game had been played for three administrations.
The long road to peace requires Palestinian partners committed to making the journey. We must isolate Hamas unless and until they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and abide by past agreements. There is no room at the negotiating table for terrorist organizations.
That was Obama in 2008. That’s how generic these sentiments are. Perry may turn out to be more pro-Israel than Bush. He will doubtlessly be less anti-Israel than Obama… but how much less so is an open question that will come down to his priorities and whom he ends up listening to.
The Cheney era in the Bush Administration was a pro-Israel one. The Condoleezza Rice era was an anti-Israel one. But pro and anti are relative. In the Cheney era, the Clinton policies mostly continued but without any real active intervention or involvement at the top. In the Rice era, attacks were constant and the pressure neverending.
If the Perry administration mostly ignores Israel, that would be ideal. And it’s a possibility. But how long that will hold up once he’s being told by the Saudis that high oil prices and terrorism are caused by regional instability which is caused by Israel is an open question.
The first step in any peaceful negotiation for a two-state solution for the Palestinians is to recognize the right of Israel’s existence. They have to denounce terrorism in both word and deed. And they have to sit down and negotiate with Israel directly. Anything short of that is a non-starter in my opinion.
Here Perry makes a clearer statement, unlike his more ambiguous editorial, but it’s still fairly vague between the lines. What does recognizing the right of Israel’s existence mean? Does it mean recognizing Israel’s right to exist, or its right to exist as a Jewish state? Denouncing terrorism in word sounds nice, but “denounce” is vague at best when it comes to deeds, and the issue isn’t denunciation it’s that the PA is operating terrorist groups. Negotiating directly is at least clear, though nothing to write home about.
Nothing wrong with any of it, but it’s all generic and open ended. He can’t really be held to it, because it doesn’t mean anything. There’s nothing wrong with it, even people like West and Bachmann have said similar things– but don’t confuse it with policy specific commitments.
What Perry has said is that he will expect the PA to meet certain commitments for the peace process to continue and for aid to keep coming. If he actually states and maintains firm commitments, then he’ll have done more than any other administration so far, with the possible exception of Bush II, which temporarily did take that line.
The question is once in office, will he pressure Israel to keep negotiating when those commitments aren’t met and will he adopt flexible definitions of meeting those commitments the way every single administration before him ultimately did. History suggests the answer is yes.
If words are the issue, how about these words.
Both nations decided the risks were worth taking because neither Israel nor America tolerates the terrorism that stains our past. We don’t give in to fear. We stand up for the honor of our nations and our people. When we are attacked, we always remember. We always fight back, and – though it may take some time – we follow through.
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That means the Palestinians cannot bring to the negotiating table a terrorist organization that rejects Israel’s right to exist. Nowhere else in the world, at no other time, is one party expected to compromise with a partner who denies its very existence. A peace process can happen only when both sides seek peace. And two partners cannot build a bridge when one party refuses even to admit there is something on the other side of the span.
And who is this bold and courageous speaker? It’s Harry Reid. Words, they only mean so much. Most politicians know what to say around election time– it’s their overall attitudes on an issue that determines what they will do.
THE ROUNDUP
If only we spent more money on schools… our kids would be completely illiterate. See the charts before enough teachers in schools insure that charts are the only thing kids will be able to read.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that charter schools level the educational playing field for both white and black students, Obama and the Democrat Party leadership have crushed and suppressed school choice programs like that in Washington, DC. Thanks to the all-powerful Democrat constituency — teachers’ unions like the AFT and the NEA — freeing kids from the slavery of failed public school systems is forbidden.
Forget about reading, if the school unions continue to run things, will kids even be able to speak English?
Public school teachers with unacceptable English pronunciation and grammar are being protected by the Obama Administration, which has forced one state to eliminate a fluency monitoring program created to comply with a 2002 federal education law.
Singling out teachers who can’t speak proper English in American schools—funded by taxpayers, no less—discriminates against Hispanics and others who are not native English speakers, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). As a result it violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the teachers must remain in their current position.
With only a small proportion of low-English proficiency students (reading between the lines they are referring to illegal immigrants) passing the state’s standardized reading test, Arizona education officials started to look at the teachers in those classrooms. They found a common thread in dozens of districts throughout the state; many instructors don’t speak proper English and, in fact, teach in Spanish, using Spanish-language materials. Some have “unacceptably heavy accents” that causes them to mispronounce words. Others use poor English grammar.
So the definition of civil rights has been broadened to mean that it’s racist to hire teachers who actually speak English. Technically it isn’t too broadened, as Grigg vs Duke Power Co that requiring employees to have a High School diploma was racist. But that was 1971 when the Supreme Court was as sane as squirrels on acid.
The good news though is that teachers no longer have to teach, but we’re obligated to hire more and more of them so our kids can compete with China.
Compete with them in what? I guess in the maintenance of a vast unwieldy Party bureaucracy that no one needs.
PIGS AND DOGS AND PIGDOGS
What we want is to end the occupation and tend legitimacy for, occupation and practices is the nightmare that is holding our hearts, as reflected these practices continued raids and arrests and the building of walls and demolition of houses, and the intensification of settlement activities, and attacks the settlers of Bakla trees and burning of mosques and the latest training dogs to attack us and send the wild pigs to wreak land corrupt, three things which the settlers will confront us: When any person Siatdon find it, well its streets and dogs, and pigs for the uprooting of trees, in addition of course to the tanks.
The once and future President of Palestine, partner in Peace, defender against wild pigs wreaking corruption on the land.
THE ROUNDUP
China to liquidate US treasuries
Israel and Greece have invoked a mutual defense pact. Turkey has suspended defense and trade ties with Israel. Debka lays out some possibilities.
Erdogan rattled the sabers in Egypt and is scaling up threats to Israel. It’s a cheap way to turn himself into a leader in a leaderless Muslim world. But Turkey also has heavy debts and if the whole thing falls down, it will need the oil reserves it is fighting over and an external enemy more than ever.
The ADL once again stands up against Jews and for the terrorists.
SS a Ponzi Scheme says Paul Krugman
Anti-Israel Demo in Jordan Fail
He was 5’10″, brown eyes, wearing an Obama ’08 bumper sticker
Compassionate Conservatism 2.0
First Amendment vs Second Amendment
Erdogan claims Instant Navy
War for peace, peace for war and peace for peace
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