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MY SAY: THE FIFTH AND SIXTH QUESTION

Tonight is the first night of Passover and unlike all previous years my family is celebrating it with high tech. I hate it. I miss the hugs, the arms around my shoulder, the political bickering and the faces of my kids and grand kids in vivo.

However, life has its twists and turns. For decades the youngest of my grand-children has always asked the traditional four questions regarding the history and mandates of Passover. In breaking with that tradition, I, the oldest member of our family has a fifth and sixth very serious question:

How is it that on this day in history which commemorates freedom and justice the world is rife with hypocritical and virulent anti-Semitism, sometimes in overt attacks and more often disguised as academic and media hatred of Israel?

How is it that the Democrat party whose past leaders and staunch convention resolutions of support for Israel and the rights of the Jewish people to live in peace, which gave me confidence as a Jewish American, now tolerates and even promotes this ancient hatred in the corridors of power?

To all who observe, my best wishes for a happy and sweet Passover.  rsk

MY SAY: WHO’S INSANE BY RUTH KING

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/whos_insane.html

Psychologically Sound: The Mind of Donald J. Trump

by Sheldon Roth M.D.

 

The media and the leftist body politic have coopted psychiatric diagnoses without any real understanding of neurology, psychology, and normal human behavior. They bandy words like sociopath, unstable, unfit, and crazy to vent their unmitigated hatred of Present Trump.

Dr. Sheldon Roth, a physician with decades of practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and a professor at Harvard Medical School, as well as past member of highly acclaimed Psychoanalytic Institutes, is highly qualified to make a diagnosis of sanity in his book The Mind of Donald Trump — Psychologically Sound.

In a grim coincidence of events, Dr. Roth’s analyses are borne out by the President’s nightly press conferences occasioned by the COVID-19 virus.

As Dr. Roth informs us in his 2008 book Never Give Up, co-written with Meredith McIver, Donald Trump outlined “A Top 10 List for Success “virtually a script for his current role as captain during a time of crisis and pandemic. Three examples that highlight his present strategy:

“See yourself as victorious! That will focus you in the right direction.”

“Ask yourself: What am I pretending not to see? There may be some great opportunities right around you, even if things are not looking so great. Great adversity can turn into a great victory.”

“Look at the solution, not the problem. Never give up! Never, never, never give up.”

He is flamboyant, narcissistic, and hardly a great orator, and Dr. Roth includes the warts, but see how masterful is his handling of the present danger.

He has seen himself as victorious, and he has seen opportunity in great adversity, and he can never just give up.

He has engaged the private sector where more than fifty companies — manufacturing, big pharma, tech giants, fashion, food and home goods production, and the automobile industry — are retooling to manufacture and distribute and donate essential medical technology and equipment. 

He has made capitalism a force for the public good.

“When the President graciously introduced some of the CEOs he said: “Joining us this afternoon are CEOs of the great American companies that are fulfilling their patriotic duty by producing or donating medical equipment to help meet our most urgent needs. What they’re doing is incredible. And these are great companies.”

He has brought giant Navy hospital ships to New York and Los Angeles harbors to free hospital beds for treatment of coronavirus and provide beds for critical surgeries and treatments for non-infected patients.

He pressured the National Guard to build a 1000-bed facility in the Javits Center in New York in record time and others are planned for myriad sites.

He has helped distribute masks, testing supplies, and most important, he defied the skepticism of his task force in promoting medications which now show great promise for those who are critically ill, as well as in prevention.

Not since FDR has any president been so successful in galvanizing American pride and patriotism.

How sane can you get?

Read the book. It is persuasive, meticulously documented and researched. As Dr. Roth documents, the “deranged” are those who will use libel, and bias to further a vile political agenda fueled by an irrational hatred of our President.

MY SAY: A CAMPAIGN SPEECH IN NEW YORK

Lately I have admired Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic in New York. He has serious flaws personally and as governor, but his predecessors Eliot Spitzer and George Pataki were no better.

The Dems are desperate for a candidate that is coherent and Governor Cuomo is clearly positioning himself.

Yesterday, in a cool and moderate and soothing tone he gave his first campaign speech. He was calm, sober and reassuring about New York’s grim statistics.  Then he wandered off into a homey “I am just like you” speechlet invoking his Italian Sunday meals- you know- spaghetti with meatballs and sausages in a redolent sauce.

He’s got the White House on his radar while Biden sputters and mutters inanities….rsk

MY SAY-LIFE AT THE EPICENTER

Life at the epicenter goes on. The intrepid go to markets and stroll politely giving each other a wide berth. Food and sundries remain plentiful. The essential workers bravely come and go. The new Javits Center hospital built and furnished  by our magnificent Army Corps of Engineers is ready with 1,000 available beds and a Navy hospital ship is on the way. As the song goes : ” If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere ….It’s up to you, New York, New York…..rsk 

MY SAY- A DOSE OF HUMOR

DAVE PELL REVISED SOME POEMS FOR THE AGE OF COVID

Here are just a few…..”Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled. Duh.”

“- I wandered lonely as a cloud, as the CDC advised.”

“- -Hope springs eternal in the human breast .Just avoid the face.”

“Do not go gentle into that good night without first Purelling.”

And my friend Rich Baehr ponders:

 “Now the big question- with all the sheltering in place and social distancing, and given the history of big city blackouts, I expect the birth rate to increase 9 months to a year from now. What shall we call this new class of babies- coronials or covidians?  In Waco, I assume they would be branch covidians. “

MY SAY: MOVIES IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC

In an abundance of caution and affection I am confined to “house arrest” by my family. Movies and TV shows and potato chips make everything tolerable.

A great old movie to watch during lockdown is “Two for the Road” with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn….no gratuitous obscenity and nudity and a magnificent score by Henry Mancini.

Incidentally the screenwriter Frederic Raphael who has several screenplays and books to his credits, wrote a book that we read in our book club “A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus.

It is a remarkable undertaking, painfully researched and painfully read. See the movie!  rsk

MY SAY: W.H.O. DO YOU TRUST?

Pardon the grammatical lapse, but the World Health Organization  is an agency of the United Nations headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group. WHO statistics and recommendations have stoked corona virus panic through their press releases.

The United Nations is the most politicized, anti Western organization in the world.

They have two primary sources of revenue: assessed contributions (set amounts expected to be paid by member-state governments, scaled by income and population) and, voluntary contributions (other funds provided by member states, plus contributions from private organizations and individuals.)

Who are these private organizations and individuals?  Just asking. rsk

MY SAY- FAKE CANDIDATE

The candidacy of Joseph Biden, and the effort to make him credible  is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. The lavish endorsements from other candidates and legislators and the media’s airbrushing of his gaffes and memory loss and, at times, incomprehensible babble make me a tad suspicious.

I think a scheme is afoot. At some point when he is the established candidate of the Democrat party, and he has chosen a politically correct and able and nationally acceptable candidate for Vice President, he  will be forced to withdraw and all will hail the new top of the ticket.

How awful to deliberately bring such an ignoble end to the reputation and legislative career of a long serving Senator and former Vice President. And, how callous of his wife and handlers to abet this humiliation.

But then, it’s the party that hailed John Kerry and John Edwards as the best they could do.

MY SAY: ISRAELI DIPLOMATS SHOULD NOT CRITICIZE AMERICAN CANDIDATES!

My e-mails overflow with news that Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon has harshly criticized Bernie Sanders calling him a liar and ignorant fool. To be fair Sanders started the volley by calling Israel’s Prime Minister a “racist.” Danon said these things at a public forum that guaranteed media coverage.
Israeli diplomats should not butt into American elections just as American diplomats and legislators should not butt into Israeli elections….rsk

MY SAY- BERNIE, ISRAEL AND CUBA

Bernie Sanders forays into foreign policy display hatred of Israel and admiration and respect for Cuba. He spent some time in a socialist kibbutz in Israel where no doubt they sang “Hava Nagila’ a popular Jewish song.

Could it be that he heard “Havana Gila?” What else could explain his cupidity? rsk