RUTHFULLY YOURS

FROM IRVING BERLIN: Music: Irving Berlin
Lyrics: Irving Berlin
This Is the Army & Call Me Mister CD [1942]

We all have been selected from city and from farm
They asked us lots of questions, they jabbed us in the arm
We stood there at attention, our faces turning red
The sergeant looked us over and this is what he said:

This is the Army, Mister Jones
No private rooms or telephones
You had your breakfast in bed before
But you won’t have it there any more

This is the Army, Mrs. Green
We like the barracks nice and clean
You had a housemaid to clean your floor
But she won’t help you out any more

Do what the buglers command
They’re in the Army and not in a band

This is the Army, Ms. Brown
You and your baby went to town
She had you worried but this is war
And she won’t worry you anymore

A bunch of frightened rookies were list’ning filled with awe
They listened while a sergeant was laying down the law
They stood there at attention, their faces turning red
The sergeant looked them over and this is what he said:

THIS IS THE ARMY MS. JONES

http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/saturday-people-sunday-people/ Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived in Israel […]

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/01/26/the-line-of-the-day-from-andrew-mccarthy/ I think Andrew McCarthy wins the line of the day contest this morning with the opening of his National Review essay “Apes, Pigs, and F-16s [1].” The F16s, as anyone following the news knows, are the advanced U.S. fighter jets that we’re crating up and sending to our good friend Mohammed Morsi, the president […]

http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/human-rights-violations-in-north-korea/?print=1 Let us credit the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, that earlier this month she urged more attention to the hideous human rights abuses in North Korea. Expressing her concern that North Korea’s nuclear ventures and missile-testing projects might steal the spotlight from the “deplorable human rights situation” in the Democratic […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3324 An international delegation of parliamentarians went to Budapest this week to express concern and offer help to combat rising anti-Semitism. The distinguished historian Professor Robert Wistrich has described anti-Semitism as “a kind of barometer to us and to the nations, both of what is wrong — because it is often a symptom of major […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Sending women into combat, like the end of the ban on official homosexuality, has been met with worried remarks about its impact on the “warrior culture”. But the new military that the left has been building for some time now is not interested in warriors; it wants peacekeepers. The old army fought for a […]

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain announces he is suspending his campaign as his wife, Gloria (left), looks on, on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis)
Herman Cain says Nein-Nein-Nein to Georgia GOP Senate run

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/26/despite-pressure-cain-not-running-senate/

By David Eldridge – The Washington Times

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, reacting to the news Friday that Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss plans to retire at the end of his current term, said he won’t seek the open seat — despite polls that show the Atlanta businessman the overwhelming favorite in 2014.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/26/sen-cruz-house-gop-stop-reading-new-york-times/

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has some advice for fellow Republicans in the House: Stop reading The New York Times.

Sparking applause from the crowd gathered at the National Review Institute’s summit, Mr. Cruz said he is confident that the nation is “on the verge of a rebirth of conservatism” and that the first step in that direction is for members of House GOP to cancel their subscription to the Old Gray Lady.

“The next two years of headlines from The New York Times: ‘The Democrats are right, abandoned conservative principles,” Mr. Cruz said.

Mr. Cruz said the GOP-controlled House over the next two years will serve as the “last bastion standing between us and oblivion” and said conservatives must stand together to stop President Obama and Senate Democrats from pushing through tighter gun laws, new spending and new regulations.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/26/sen-cruz-house-gop-stop-reading-new-york-times/

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
The Jewish State in its true light.
In the 27th Jan 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· Israeli innovative treatment improves the health of stroke victims long after the original attack.
· An Israeli hospital has cured a genetic disease causing paralysis in children.
· An Israeli company has developed a device to eliminate noise in public places.
· India’s eighth largest city has a new Israeli security system to monitor roads and detect crime.
· Israel had a record date harvest and provides 50% of the world’s Medjool dates.
· Israel’s elections confirm a US report that Israel remains the only free country in the Middle East.

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Oxygen enrichment helps treat strokes. Dr. Shai Efrati, of Tel Aviv University tested his theory on 72 stroke victims. Even those treated 3 years after their strokes showed significantly increased neuronal activity following a two-month course of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17851
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=0&item=164538
Israel welcomes the “father of fertility”. Britain’s Lord Professor Robert Winston gave a lecture entitled ‘Manipulating Reproduction’ at Haifa University’s January conference on regenerative medicine. Attendees included British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, plus leading British and Israeli scientists.
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6366
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6381#more-6381
Israeli fertility treatment for New Delhi IVF center. Cytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI), developed by Benjamin Bartoov of Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, is bringing a hope to childless couples in India’s capital city.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Fresh-hope-for-childless-couples/articleshow/17672928.cms
UK-Israel partner stem cell research. British Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) will grant NIS 25 million over five years for seven joint Israel-UK stem cell research programs. Stem cells have unique reproductive, renewal, and regenerative capabilities for organs.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000815796
US doctors get automatic Israeli license. US physicians who have passed American MD exams (USMLE) in the past ten years, and who want to settle and work in Israel, will receive exemption from the local licensing exam. This is the first time that Israeli health authorities have accepted foreign test results for an MD license.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=299859
Hadassah breakthrough saves 4 children. Doctors at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem have discovered the reason for, and a medication to cure, Peripheral neuropathy – a genetic brain disease that causes paralysis in children. Three infants suffering from the disease are already showing signs of improvement.
http://www.hadassah-med.com/about/news/new-cure-found-for-rare-genetic-disease-causing-paralysis-in-infants.aspx
Cyclist healed by Israeli cartilage regeneration. An Agili-C implant from Israel’s CartiHeal has repaired the cartilage of a 47-year-old Slovenian former athlete whose knee cartilage was damaged due to a volleyball injury over seven years ago. Six months after receiving the Agili-C implant, the patient was on the ski slopes. A year from his surgery, he completed a 180 km cycling marathon.
http://israel21c.org/health/good-news-for-knees/
Genetic causes of mental retardation. Researchers at Israel’s Schneider Children’s hospital and in Germany have identified mutations in genes EIF2S3 and UBE3B as responsible for the development of genetic mental retardation. The discovery improves the pre-natal diagnostic tool for prevention of genetic diseases.
http://www.schneider.org.il/Eng/Index.asp?ArticleID=835&CategoryID=119&Page=1
Israel hosts international IBD conference. Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital was the venue for a conference of 300 Israeli and international experts in the field of diagnosis and treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). “Challenges in IBD Across Ages” brought together experts from the USA, Canada and Scotland.
http://www.szmc.org.il/NewsHighlights/NewsHighlights2013/InternationalIBDConference/tabid/2450/Default.aspx

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/hillary-clinton-redux

She’s good. She’s really good. I had forgotten how really good she was. What a brilliant, masterful, shameless, liar she really was–Hillary. Remember Whitewater? Remember those billing records that conveniently disappeared from her law firm when the investigators asked for them? And wasn’t there a fishy smelling commodities trading account lying around somewhere?

She’s even better now than she was then, a mere slip of an idealistic lawyer. She’s put on a few pounds, her voice is deeper and heartier, giving her more heft, more authority. So that when she raises her voice and lifts her arms like a black-belt fighter you are apt to step back and lower your eyes deferring to her force like Senator Johnson did yesterday when she put him in his place. She’s really good!

It is understandable that he did not respond to her threatening maneuver–an action that was a wee bit inappropriate for a venue in which reasoned discourse is supposed to prevail–most gentlemen would have done the same. And maybe that’s the trouble–the GOP doesn’t have any big, strong, tough-guy political leaders who can stand up to shameless liars and obfuscators of the left.

Someone who might have answered her shameless challenge:”We had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Who might have unflinchingly answered: I am sorry, Madame Secretary, that my question has ruffled your feathers. But it does matter. There is a difference between fact and fiction. And we too have responsibilities–I have a responsibility to the people who elected me to tell them the truth about what happened in Benghazi.

Another Tack: That unwitting indecency I wish more Israelis were with me in outlying County Kerry, Ireland, just recently. There, in the tiny town of Cahersiveen, my doubting compatriots would have been reminded of what we face in the international community and why it has nothing much to do with how liberally we conduct ourselves, how […]