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-Biden calls Israel's response in Gaza "Over the top"
- Trump: Biden took the Documents in his “mental primetime.” He shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this, and he wasn’t protected by the Presidential Records Act. I was cooperative with the Investigators. Crooked Joe Biden didn’t - Just the opposite, following the usual, corrupt Democrat Playbook. He “willfully retained” documents. This is Scam Justice - Deranged Jack Smith and his Thugs should immediately drop the totally discredited Documents Hoax against me. A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND SELECTIVE PROSECUTION!
- U.S. House Speaker: "A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office."
- US Justice Department’s special council exonerated Biden in a classified documents case. In some of the transcripts it said Biden us an elderly man with a poor memory.
- Biden said “I was pleased to see they reached the conclusion I believed all along they would reach – that there would be no charges brought in this case and the matter is now closed,” he says.
- Erev Rosh chodesh Adar I Rosh chodesh is Friday and Shabbos
Those who are makpid onu the Tzavoas Rav Yehuda Hachasid should cut their hair and nails today
- BDE: Petirah of R" Yanky Kogel Z"L following an illness he was 36. Leaves behind a wife Mrs.Gitty (Nee Gottleib) and children
He lived in the Linden Ave araa. the levaya will take place 10:30am in Lakewood at the chapel of 7th st with Kevirah at the Bais Olam in Lakewood.
- A wedding took place at the new banquet hall in the former Ramada hotel at Route 9 & 70 on the Toms River/Lakewood border
- Tucker Xarlson will release his interview with putin today at 6pm. Hillary Clinton said Tucker is repeating Putins lies and called him a puppy dog.
- A popular New Jersey pizzeria Jerusalem Pizza in Higland Park on Raritan Ave will be closed temporarily closed after the business and two apartments above it were damaged in a fire on Tuesday night, authorities said.
- A Lakewood Youngerman R' Dovid Pinter lost his tefillin as he arrived back in Newark Airport from Florida. In an interview with Kol Mevasef he said that after reaching out to United employees at the airport he was able to track where it was left and it was returned to him but only with the exceptional help of a worker who went out of her way determined to return the religious object. He sent an email to upper management notifying them of their exceptional employee. United officials were thankful and acknowledged the good deed thanking him for the great feedback.
- Household median income for Lakewood is $59,054 ranking at 531 out of 564 in New Jersey according to newly released U.S. Census data. New Jersey’s statewide median household income is $96,346. Jackson is $107,909 ranking at 270th, Toms River $91,403 374th, Howell $128,177, 165th, Manchester $53,442 544th.
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- Jackson: A 3rd lane will be added to South New Prospect Rd with one lane northbound and two southbound lanes to accommodate the increased traffic.
- A “very tricky” storm system could bring rain or a wintry mix of rain, snow and sleet to the New Jersey region early next week, according to several weather forecasters. They stress, however, it’s too early to determine how much rain or snow will fall because of uncertainties over the storm track and how much cold air will be locked in when the storm arrives.
-Adirei Hatorah held a Parlor meeting yesterday raising funds from Bnei Hayeshiva who wanted to contribute to support fellow youngeleit. The Roshei Yeshiva were in attendance and delivered divrei chizuk
https://truth613.substack.com/p/four-years-in-a-survivors-reflections
ReplyDeleteThis is not becoming of my intellect, but it makes sense that Trump loves Putin, not the least of reasons that the Russian were big tenants of his in NYC. Putin has his hand in every criminal enterprise and, not that Trump is a criminal, he has not yet been convicted, his will be, and I hope before the election, Trump's role model was Roy Cohen (the mafia lawyer). Nasty person who sent the almost innocent Ethal Rosenberg to the chair. OK this is not smart so let's not start argument about this. Hillary, who I rarely agree with, is absolutely right. What kind of American would support Putin? Maybe John Gotti. LOL
ReplyDeleteI'd a lot rather Trump loving Putin and no wars than Obama and Biden hating him with Putin starting wars under both of them. You can hate Trump all you want (I hate him too) His presidency was still a major success when it came to foreign policy.
DeleteAnd domestic policy as well
DeleteWould you say that Clinton's presidency was also a major success regarding foreign policy?
DeleteAnd did you know about the many military operations that took place under Trump in Yemen, syria, etc.?
Some times you have to fight today to have peace tomorrow. Once Putin is gone the Soviets will rebuild. He is too weak and disgraced but his successor will do it.
DeleteYes. Clinton was good. George W. was terrible because it was that Wilsonian make everyone a democracy stuff. His father was great. Obama, maybe not Iran, but he was right to switch to targeted operations rather than invasions. Don't you think Trump followed Obama's policy? As for Iran, I am not sure. The Carter Doctrine (when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, the Ayatoiyet Kakamaini took over Iran, and Congress reinstated the selective service) is that if Russia invades Iran, we would go to war. Now, it is the opposite. Russia is allied with Iran. That is messed up, but Russia is still our enemy in Europe and it makes no sense to let Putin to dupe our presidents, as he did with every one since Clinton, and in the end, they all caught onto the con game, except Trump. So history will show he is wrong for buddying up with our enemy. It is one thing to have arms limitations and detente, another to cozy up with the Commies.
Also Roy Cohen was Joe McCarthy's right hand man. Trump liked him because he was a winner at all cost until the McCarthy took on the generals. (Not that Trump is not reasonably good at golf, but what do you expect from someone who cheats at that game, supposedly even when playing alone?!
DeleteYour wife probably wears pants suites
ReplyDeleteA real rebetzin.
DeleteHow pathetic to watch the sidewalks being poured on route 9 by oak Street thereby cementing the Lost opportunity to widen the street. With only a couple houses built within 12 ft of the curb..
ReplyDeleteEven worse the nightly detours on the 9, all we are getting are some improvements - painful
DeleteEvery war except the Civil War and Spanish America until the Bushes was a Democrat war. Even 1812. I like the Bush Republicans for beating Iraq out of Kuwait but it takes a real Democrat to whip the English, Mexicans, Yankees (Robert E. Lee), Germans, Germans, and Japanese, Koreans, let's leave out the Vietnamese. BTW That was the only war England did not join with us. The Queen's other governments, Canada, Australian and New Zealand joined in. I guess there is a point about Republicans and peace, but Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan PREVENTED war. I don't think Trump is preventing war by not being tough on the Russians. We need NATO and we have enough for the next century on our plate with China. We don't need a restored Soviet Union.
ReplyDeleteSo? A sign of poor reactive statesmanship.
ReplyDeleteIt was Republicans TR & Eisenhower/Dulles' brinkmanship that kept the (cold) peace with
Honor.
Grant,too, primarily for internal affairs.
Sew buttons. True. We don't even need brinkmanship anymore. That is how much the world has changed. We just need to keep to our international commitments. We need to bolster the Ukraine. If the Soviets retake it, we might be right back at the brinkmanship Dulles. The Soviets at least then welded some kind of control over their satellites. Today, they chaos Russia thrives upon has no brakes.
DeleteI want to add, as far as I am concerned, Eisenhower was a so-called near great president (I am a Democrat BTW). He keeps on going up in the eyes of historians as the years pass. We used to think all he did was play golf. Besides the interstate highway system, besides his famous farewell warnings against wars (like Washington), he put country above party when Kennedy credibly (because Sputnik and their early lead in space) accused him of letting the Russians get ahead in nukes, while privately Eisenhower knew they were not even a close second place; but it was not in our interest to let the Russia know what we had. A real patriot. He was man who saw events and had such awesome responsibilities before becoming president and had the confidence to discharge his duties with unique competence.
DeleteI don’t understand, because he is old (and he will be even older by a trial) and his memory is failing he won’t be convicted by a jury? What does his memory today have to do with a crime he committed 10 years ago? Why would a jury look at the person’s mental state today to determine if there was an intent 10 years ago?
ReplyDeleteThe rotting decay nowadays is within,with progessive Democrats the saboteurs more dangerous than any foreign interlocutor.That is were front is.
ReplyDeleteAll their foreign hawkishnes is just a superficial attempt to appear tough on the cheap for the old empty folk.Go ahead let them might as well show you're also a hawk on Mozambique. Some of us we're indeed rather concerned a half decade ago with the potential weakening of NATO.Until we later discovered that NATO has become a feminist trash promoter organization that deserves the fate.Some of us we're concerned also with weakening the Hapsburgs,Victor Emmanuel,& the Commonwealth,but hey move on
I don't care about the stupid Progressives. They are just as much a fringe as the MAGA, but the MAGA fringe is much more dangerous and has taken control of your party. Yes, if not for the Progressives, I would l like to see Biden pick a Republican as VP, especially due to his age, he needs to abandon Harris, he should pick someone like Langford, who has shown his patriotism, but he needs those wackos in the party to stand behind him right now.
ReplyDeleteIs always like that. The Democrats always had these groups and so did the Republicans, but the Republicans, being the smaller party, was so much easier to sabotage with radical leftists like MAGA and others.
So what we need is to focus on NATAO Trump has to be pinned down about what are his plans. He cannot evade the issue by saying he can end the war in a day. Sure, by licking up to the Russia while being outsmarted thinking he got the better of them. We saw last night that Putin always is making his play and saying he will take his soldiers out (if Trump wins). Putin is a sly, mafioso, conman, secretive, KGB, you name every adjective from the Cold War, duping every president for 20 years. We cannot allow our next president to fall for him. Once he gets what he wants, he will have the Black Sea secured and when his successor rebuilds the Soviet Navy, it will be a challenge, especially with the problems we are having with Turkey. BTW I don''t think anyone in the US was ever concerned with those you mention. Anyway, what was wrong with Victor Emmanuel (Piedmont Sardinia) unless you mean the wimp in the 1930s who could not tame Mussolini? Could you imagine Queen Elizabeth cowing to a piece of garbage prime minister like that? Hapsburgs were done. Commonwealth is still great and the English King is still one of most important heads of state. But the Russians are not the old man of Europe like the Ottomans. They are at our necks everywhere from computer hacking, mafia, crime, Iranians, disinformation, Chinese, nukes, poisoning people. Name something bad in the world and see if the Russians don't have their hand in it. They are not the Chinese. Two different characters.
Get off it.Move into the 2020s
DeleteCompared with omnivorous China,the Russians relatively are a marginal force buffered from us by lackadaisical pampered europeans.Have the Europeans deal with them & the situation as per their interest
"progressive Democrats" & fellow travelers.Of both parties..
DeleteSo you think we should let the Russians have their way in Europe, and I guess the Black Sea and Dardanelles, which England lost 100,000 men in WWI to secure? The whole Metternich system and beyond was to prevent them from taking the sea lanes into the Mediterranean. If you look at a map of Russia, all their rivers go into either another country or the Arctic Sea except one in the Pacific. They have wanted the sea route through Turkey for centuries and France and England prevented it as well as they can. Why do you think Turkey is in NATO?
ReplyDeleteIt's fine. I won't be around during WWIII in Europe and my prediction is that China will appear neutral but quietly help the Russians. Do you think for a second if a major world power like England, France, or even the panzi (I know I spelled it wrong) Germans knucklehead savages, became rogue again, America would be secure. Russia is rogue and was a superpower. They did not all of a sudden forget how to make MIGs, Sputniks, computers, battleships, or whatever. They still have the colleges, the workers (although fewer, and the knowhow). This is an usual period in history in which they have become extremely weak. I don't think they have been so isolated without a major ally for a millennium (China will NOT go to war with us even if Russia does, at least not now).
European nations are not Iraqis, Iranians, North Korean, or other primitive powers without airplane, car, shipbuilding or even space industries. Sure, it might be wise to make the Europeans take more responsible, and they are. Didn't they just commit $50 billion to fight the Soviets? My gosh, can't we learn from history, from the mistakes of the isolationist Senators Lodge and Borah, that we cannot keep the lunatic Europeans off the radar?
Look at China's tactics at region domination. They announce in the international waters of the South China Sea, "Welcome to China. You are now on Chinese territory." China (they say about themselves) is pretty, it is wise, it is old, enlightened, it is enchanting. We just don't want the bully America telling everyone that it is the American Way or the highway. They want the world to love them. Then before you bat an eye lid, they control international shipping and the British-America system of trade for the last 500 years comes to an end. China is subtle and must be dealt with long term strategy that constantly should be reevaluated. The Russians are like hammers. You know what they want all the time, and it is not what they say they want. If you can imagine something nefarious, that is it. Chaos. Kind of like the old show Get Smart, with Control (the US) and CHAOS (Russians and former Nazis). Now I am getting into funny wild stuff rather than balanced foreign policy facts.
Bottom line, yes, Russia is NOT a peer anymore. China is. But Russia will continue to cause chaos and once it rebuilds the Soviet Union, Russian Empire, or whatever new form of Communism they become, they may shift the balance of world power away from the US.
Rabbi Y Cohen is right. Both parties have their fringes. America historically keeps them on the sidelines, but when the numbers are so close, like now, they have a lot more power. Look at how the nuts in the House toppled the almost-normal Speaker McCarthy. (like any patriot, he was angered by attack upon our Sovereign Congress on Jan 6 but then caved in the next week). Look at the extremist in the Democrats that probably held Biden back on the border issue for so long (not sure though). I always held that Biden was Clinton, Kennedy, or good ole Senator Sam Nunn, mainstream Democrat of old, and would hold the progressives in check but the numbers are too close to completely sideline them. And that might be why he probably won't abandon Harris. Kind of crazy but that is always been the case with the VP, taking one just for political purposes but not for competence (LBJ of course was both).
Funny,republican presidents always only receive grudging accolades once it's way beyond too late for it too matter anymore
ReplyDeleteEveryone in America, grandpas, and grandchildren, should see Putin and the Presidents FRONTLINE:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJI8XTa_DII
As you watch note Putins face and his smirks every time he stands next to, and dupes, our last five presidents. It is now time to stand up to him.
Hillary Clinton & Obama sent Putin a "Reset button" to reset a better relationship.Even his taking over of Crimea wouldn't change the much.
ReplyDeleteThe past administrations managed with him.On the contrary McCain was mocked for being too hawkish vs Putin.
What changed?Ahh,Putin has now stood up for gender family values. & white males.So he now must be destroyed,& we will misle you GOP hawks to do the dirty work!
Not sure if you want to help Ukraine or not. Why are you discussing Hillary Clinton, Obama (watch the Frontline line I gave you. Yes Obama messed up.) or McCain? The point is that we cannot allow the Soviet Union to rebuild. Do we let Russia take Ukraine or cut off funds? That is the question. Not how did we get here. What do we do now? I am with the President on this. Not because the slippery slope or appeasement argument, but simply because Russia is a threat, and will become a bigger threat if it expands, to the United States and our international interests.
ReplyDeleteFamily values? Like I said, I am not from the Wilsonian/Wolfowitz school of exporting American ideology. Our foreign policy, while I would not go as far as Kissinger bombing Cambodia, has to be pragmatic and focused on Monroe Doctrine, Atlantic, Pacific and Persian Gulf sea lanes. We need our alliances (Wilson was the first, by making a security treaty with France that the Senate rejected, he was right on the League also) even though America since Washington until WWII did not form any alliance. This whole talk about international order was after my days of study but it sounds correct. We were more focused on George Kennan and containment.
ReplyDeleteBTW. Do you think history is repeating itself? At the end of WWI, the isolationists had no chance of killing the League. But slowly and surely by holding lengthy Senate hearings, knowing that the American people would get tired of it, killed it off. Is that what is going on now in Congress with the Soviets? I blame Wilson because the whole matter of the Lodge Reservation was superfluous. Of course the League, like the UN, could not get America into a way without Congress. Who is going to pay for it? It was pure arrogance. Why didn't Wilson bring a Republic to Europe with him so it would be bi-partisan. It was his way or the highway.
I just found an article in "Foreign Affairs," "Russia’s War on Woke, Putin Is Trying to Unite the Far Right and Undermine the West." From your comment, Putin's strategy is working. My gosh, Russia will undermine us from within. See the Frontline documentary. n.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if all the liberal domcrat progressive on this chat who have time to write long megilos full of nonsense live in Lakewood.
ReplyDeleteThen again, maybe they do and never learned real history and that's why they are so painfully ignorant.
It is all the same single person, and I must say, educated, perhaps an "elite" that Roosevelt's Howe, Nixon, and most of all, MAGA does not like, advocating containing the Russians, except an intermittent, and respectful reply, either agreeing or disagreeing, or just wondering, from another commentator, without labeling or name calling. Why don't you stick to substance? I think you might be intrigued if you are returning here after four days.
ReplyDeleteTo me, real history is what is in the textbooks. I have learned from professional historians and people who have served. Believe it or not, there is a field of study called "government." And there is such a thing as facts, traditions, and forming your own opinion. Sorry, that some have criticized scholarship but historians that teach are patriots. And even from nutty historians, which rarely make the textbooks, you can still learn from them. Yes, I have read popular books by. Nixon and Kissinger, but they often try to push a point and usually fall into an area of non expertise.
I want to point out that the two parties are election oriented, not issue oriented, like the Yankees and Mets. I can be a Yankee fan and like Tom Seaver. The Mets fan has to acknowledge Babe Ruth. Winning the game, hitting a home run, is winning the election, but ultimately, the World Series is America winning, in foreign affairs or domestic. It is an apt analogy, but limited, since each inning is four years. Two different teams with the same goal, winning, and the ultimate goal of serving their country. They both are patriotic.
Two-thirds of Americans root for the party of their parents. It is almost like criticizing a person for how they are born. We witnessed a huge shift during Clinton, when the South became Republican in their state houses. Roosevelt also caused a shift. Other than that, it is rare that a person switches parties on his own.
Every political faction claims themselves to be patriotic.How else would they get support?!The CPUSA claims it.Emphatically!
DeleteMy gosh. The two parties are not factions. They are not what Madison meant in Federalist 52. They are yes and no alternatives. They have no sheetahs. They are simply election oriented. They are as patriotic as their candidates. Their purpose is to recruit candidates, help each other get elected, keep America moderate, guaranteeing good behavior of elected officials. We can argue if someone is a patriot but it has nothing to do with party. Party is just a team. Nothing more in the two-party system. Even though each party might have a base in national elections, in each state, it might be different. There are 100 parties in America. People focus too much on what they see on television. The Republicans in Congress today can be for states' right, but tomorrow take the opposite position. On some issues, the Democrats of today will mostly agree but that changes. Platform at the national convention, everyone knows is nonsense. It all depends on governing and what policy they want to get through Congress and the executive branch (unfortunately also the Courts, in that way, NJ is better because it balances Rep. and Dem. on the Court). BTW Lifetime tenure of federal judges (NJ judges mandatory retire at 70) was one of the most important clauses in the Constitution and probably will give us an extra century or two of freedom and rule of law than the republic would have had otherwise. Of course, a dictator can just kill the judges just Octavian and Antony killed the Senators to bring the Roman republic to an end, but we are not there yet, not by a longshot.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about the two parties. The CPUSA is a third party. Third parties are issue oriented. Just like the Tories and Whigs. A government and opposition. That is all our two parties are. Third parties are more like in the multi-party countries in which people are elected at-large, or seats are awarded to the second place. Here, it is winner take all, so there can only be two parties.
ReplyDeleteEven the Republicans did not start as a third party but were Northern Whigs. The problem was that before that, the Whigs and Democrats were national parties, and did not take a stance on slavery. The Republicans, representing only the Northern interests, their election lead to the Civil War. Had the Democrats not split in 1960 into Northern and Southern factions, the war would have been delayed because the Democrats would have won. Whether it was inevitable or not (perhaps slavery would have ended with mechanization of agriculture? Or perhaps it was not morally worth waiting 20 or 30 years for slavery to end a natural death, this is not the issue I write about. Lincoln certainly thought slavery would not end, but its advocates would want to conquer foreign lands like Cuba to expand the peculiar institution), the republic dissolved because the two party system collapse.
Massive distinction between main parties all but ignored-while both have wackos & lighter collar mainstream,it's who dominates the key ideological issues that matters underneath all else.
ReplyDeleteThe media puts the shine naturally-almost to exclusion of all others-on Republican wackos though for the most important issues [immigration aside belatedly] they don't really drive the ship..On the Democratic side, for all the emphasis on solid multi ethnicities,etc., it's a foregone conclusion that well nigh exclusively puffed ideological deviants are always in control of the keys to the polity
No they are not. They have been calling for humanitarian conditions to funding for months. It will happen, but Biden, mainstream Democrats and Republicans want to avoid them as long as possible. However, the MAGA Republicans held up the border deal and WWIII prevention and Israel funding. Same thing with the border.
ReplyDeleteDems just agreed to most conservative border bill since 1920s. Remember, elkection oriented. The progressives have no say whatsoever.
What is your purpose in making the parties different? Do you want a one-party state? That is why Democrats think Trump is so bad because his statements against the American Way of government, and he sounds like someone who is either a commie or a commie-lover with is views on Russia. I am sure is not. No party would put forth a commie. Just he is so dumb when it comes to national security.
There are NO ideological issues. Proof, the acceptance of the border bill. It is all about governing and opposing. Even though individuals may take a position, the party as a whole ONLY cares about governing.That is all. Why is that so hard to understand? That is how it always was except the election of 1860. That is how it is in England also. What are you going to say, "Well the Democrats get elected differently?" It is same electorate. This is so pashut and I hoped you learned something. We live in a world where American political norms and traditions are not important. And the chaos is ABSOLUTELY falling into the hands of the Soviets. YOU CANNOT ARGUE WITH THAT. Tell me how the chaos in America does not help Russia? Like Kissinger said before he died, "Today they don't believe in the whole American Experience. " America is not Exceptional. I bet most kids, including unz, today will say that. American Exceptionalism is not dead. It is what build the Panama Canal, win WWII, develop the A-bomb, even develop a vaccine, and put a man on the moon.
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