RUTHFULLY YOURS

To begin with that accusation is false. I live in an upscale liberal neighborhood that just helped Jerry Nadler trounce Carolyn Maloney. In their campaign outings both trashed rich Republicans for ignoring the working class. The unvarnished truth is that well off liberals discuss the working class more than anyone else.

Exhibit A: in the coastal and suburban playgrounds of the liberals the working class are mainstays in the conversation:

It is so hard to get good help now. They go on to blame Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

2.We have to build better housing for immigrants who work here. We must become a sanctuary city to avoid these shortages in domestic and commercial help. Donald Trump’ fault.

3.The electricians and the plumbers take weeks to get here and now charge even more. Trump’s fault.

The restaurants are so shorthanded now and the service is getting poor while the prices go way up for us. Trump’s fault.
My car took a week to service they are so shorthanded with mechanical help. Trump’s fault.

They really care.   rsk

J.Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI from 1935, where he remained for 37 years until his death in 1972. He built the FBI into a crime-fighting agency and instituted  modern  police technology such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

Although the FBI is housed in a stately building named for him, evidence of his secretive abuse of power surfaced and tarred his legacy. He routinely violated the very laws the FBI was charged with enforcing; used the FBI to harass political dissidents; amassed secret files for blackmailing high level politicians with illegally obtained evidence.

 More recent FBI directors are purveyors of lies and hoaxes:

 Robert S. Mueller, III, September 4, 2001- September 4, 2013

James B. Comey, September 4, 2013 – May 9, 2017

Andrew McCabe (Acting), May 9, 2017 – August 2, 2017

Christopher Wray, August 2, 2017 – Present

 Like the Hoover vacuum cleaner, they all suck! rsk

Hmmm. Just as we are nearing the November 8, 2022 Elections there are new polls, harbingers of GOP losses and possible Dem retaining majorities in the Senate and Congress.

Many questions are designed to elicit answers the pollsters want.

Here is an example from a political pollster who called me:

The first question had me identify myself as a conservative Republican.

Then the question: ” If it were proven beyond a doubt that Governor Ron de Santis is corrupt would you support him in 2024? ”

No doubt they would list “no” as a signal that conservative Republicans would not support Florida’s governor.

When I challenged the question and asked if its exact text would be revealed I got a dial tone.

So take those ominous results with a grain of salt.

rsk

What is Senator Manchin’s game plan? After giving reasonable dissent on most policies and appointments, he caves and gives in to Democrat progressive demands. Is he lining himself up for higher office in the White House by pretending to be the “moderate” choice?

At least Liz Cheney, however vile, sticks to her beliefs.

Just asking…..rsk

The lamentable unvarnished truth about our magnificent first president is that he owned slaves. That barbaric custom was prevalent then, enabled by Black African and Caribbean slave traders.

That was then and the custom was terminated by war, abolition, and laws set by Congress and courts.

Slavery, in its most brutal forms exists today in Africa and China, but that fact does not seem to ruffle the feathers of the cancel-culture groupies.

While Western nations had public, picnic like public executions and reigns of chaos and terror, our founding fathers crafted a democracy like no other. And our freedoms envisioned by George Washington still hold, however shaken by leftist intentions.

Happy Independence Day! God bless America! rsk

Today there are women in every corridor of significance- the Supreme Court; the academies; in finance; in Congress; in high level Cabinet as well as government appointments; in the professions; in science and medicine; in the military; in entertainment and journalism.
This is the real laudable success of feminism, not abortion a subject of serious debate, as the street theater and protests would leave one to think. rsk

Regardless of where you stand on abortion is this justifiable “pro-choice’ activity? rsk

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-attacks-on-crisis-pregnancy-centers-janes-revenge-abortion-roe-v-wade-violence-destroyed-11655653644

First Image, established in 1984, is one of dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers and churches vandalized or attacked since the May 2 leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a nonprofit advocacy group, issued a report last week detailing more than 40 “incidents of violence, vandalism and intimidation” since the leak.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-touts-abortion-groups-report-warning-rise-violence-ignores-attacks-pro-life-clinics

ABC touts abortion group’s report warning about rise in violence, ignores attacks against pro-life clinics Another report found over 40 incidents of violence against pro-life supporters since the Supreme Court abortion case leak
https://nypost.com/2022/06/24/scotus-roe-v-wade-abortion-reversal-could-le

Pro-choice groups call for ‘Summer of Rage’ after Roe v. Wade abortion reversal

Quotes:

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.”

– Sandra Day O’ Connor.

“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.”

– Sandra Day O’ Connor.

On Roe v. Wadehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/sandra-day-oconnor-and-reconsideration-roe-v-wade/

Her first public [Supreme Court] opinion on abortion came in the Akron case in 1983 [Akron v. Akron Center For Reproductive Health]. She had been on the court for two years. The Akron case served up to the court a series of abortion restrictions that really challenged Roe v. Wade [including requirements for: all abortions performed after the first trimester to be done in hospitals, parental consent before the procedure could be performed on an unmarried minor, doctors to counsel prospective patients, a 24 hour waiting period and that fetal remains be disposed of in a “humane and sanitary manner.”]. The court reaffirmed Roe, and O’Connor dissented, [saying, “I believe that the State’s interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout the pregnancy.”]

 There were four justices opposed to that, and there were four justices fully for that. And everybody assumed that O’Connor was going to be also fully for undercutting Roe. But she wouldn’t go along. She wrote a separate opinion, deciding the case very narrowly. She said there may be time in the future to deal with the bigger, deeper issue, but that time has not arrived.

The despair and grief energized the Jewish citizens of Palestine and world Jewry and concerned Christians to demand sovereignty in Israel. On May 4th 1948, a new link was added to the ancient and eternal chain of Jewish survival – namely, recognition of Israel as a Jewish national state.

In the 74 years of independence, Israel ranks as a gem of the decolonization movements in Africa and Asia. In spite of fractious and disputatious politics Israel remains a free-wheeling democracy; arts , theater, dance and social and philanthropic institutes grow and thrive; its contributions to global advances in medicine, science, technology, agronomy, and water purification are dazzling and outsize; its defense establishment is state -of -the -art in a citizen army with powerful ordnance; and most heartening of all is that despite wars and terrorism and human termites’ libels and bias, Israeli Jews are happy and now number well over 6 million.

On my first trip to Israel after the 1949 Armistice, my parents, my brother and I who had lost our entire family- never to know grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins -experienced indescribable emotion when we heard a roar overhead and saw a V formation of tiny military airplanes with the Star of David on the undersides.

This past March, while sitting in a plane waiting for takeoff, I saw a large jet land and taxi. Emblazoned on its gleaming steel tail fin was a giant Star of David.

You’ve come a long way, Israel! They even play your national anthem in Dubai!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  rsk

Tonight, on Passover we will recount the history of the escape from Pharaonic tyranny, and the sojourn to Israel which revealed the Ten Commandments for decency at a time of chaos and barbarism. We will recall the Passover of 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto when unarmed civilians rebelled and held off the Nazis for over a month- an epic rebellion during an epic time. Then we will pray for the souls of the innocent murdered civilians in Israel, Ukraine, and the persecuted Christians throughout the world.
Finally, we will retell the story of 1948, when once again the seas parted for the hulls of ships bringing the wretched survivors of the Holocaust as well as the refugees from Moslem states to the new/ancient homeland of the Jewish people. The Palestinian Jews who lived there from time immemorial welcomed them in a historic rescue with shelter, counseling, vocational training, immediate citizenship, and an army to protect them from the ensuing wars and terrorism.
Thanks to the Abraham Accords many former enemies have turned to accommodation and recognition of Israel and they too will reap the blessings of Israel’s amazing and outsize research and development of life enhancing technology and science.
However, breaking with tradition, four new questions hang in the air:
One: Why is it that in the United States, an exceptional and glorious corner of the Diaspora, the academies which should be citadels of learning and free speech permit hateful groups to libel and distort Israel’s legitimacy and history but censor the language and opinions of critics their faux narrative?
Two: Why does the mainstream media airbrush growing Anti-Semitism — including harassment and violence, and defacement of shrines, cemeteries, and synagogues — while treating every other minority victim claim as a “hate crime”? And why do they downplay the bloodcurdling threats toward America and Israel that emanate from Iran?
Three: Why are the legislators in the corridors of power so loath to criticize and censor the vile and virulent anti-Semitism of so many fellow Democrat members of Congress, bowing to partisan solidarity with these common bigots? They are political vultures whose support of all “progressive” policies borders on risible street theater.
Four: Why do too many of our brethren who trumpet every “woke” cult assiduously avoid supporting Israel and denouncing the murder of Israeli citizens going about their daily business? Is there a yet undiscovered commandment that invokes blind adherence to “progressive” policies that are inimical to Jewish survival?
We vowed “never again” to exactly what is happening once again, and the sound of silence is deafening!