Archive for December 30th, 2008
Blago Tries to Name Crony; Reid and Dems Won’t Seat Him
December 30th, 2008
Blagojevich needs to give it up. This afternoon he plans to name one of his cronies, Roland Burris, a seventy-one year old former Attorney General of Illinois.
The hangup is that Harry Reid and the Democratic Caucus in the Senate will not seat him.
Blago needs to resign, let the Lt. Gov. appoint a successor to Obama’s seat or hold a special election, which would be the fairest thing to do to insure no special favors are involved.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said in a statement this afternoon that the Senate will not seat anyone Gov. Rod Blagojevich chooses to fill Illinois’ vacant Senate post, amid word that the governor is set to name former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris.
The statement also is signed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who has repeatedly urged Blagojevich not to name a replacement for the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. The statement specifically names Burris, but applies to any choice the governor might make.
“This is not about Mr. Burris; it is about the integrity of a governor accused of attempting to sell this United States Senate seat,” the statement read. “Anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich cannot be an effective representative of the people of Illinois and, as we have said, will not be seated by the Democratic Caucus.”
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Israel Against the World….Again
December 30th, 2008
Once again Israel finds itself in the midst of a war it didn’t start and no one in the world is defending her.
The United States is giving lip service, but in the end it is up to Israelis to save their own country from being “wiped off the map”.
A so-called cease-fire was in effect for the past six months, during which Hamas built up weaponry and started lobbing missiles deeper into Israel than ever before.
Hamas has all their military targets and government targets in the midst of residential areas. This is done so they can use the protection of civilians and cry about the deaths of said civilians when Israel attacks these military targets.
For over sixty years now Israel has never had a day of real peace.
Some people claim Israel was given land not theirs. Archaeology has shown the Jewish people lived in that part of the world thousands of years ago. The Bible says God gave the deed to Israel to the Israelites and scattered them in 70 A.D.
It also says Israel would be reunited and it was after World War II when the Jews figured out living in other countries was not in their best interests. Being killed for being a Jew has been in style in the world for quite some time.
The Bible also tells us Jerusalem will be a contentious place for the rest of time as we know it.
When the land was carved up after the second world war, Jordan and other countries were also created. Jordan was also the ancestral home of the Palestinians but we don’t see them making war to get that land back.
Israel offered every Palestinian living in the new Israel the opportunity to stay where they were, keep their belongings and become a part of the new country—even to the point of being able to participate in the new government, which some Palestinian Arabs do.
Most found the thought of co-existing with the Jews so repulsive they decided to be the nomads they really always were.
Israel developed land Palestinians had neglected and allowed to be piles of dirt and rock. Pretty soon there was agriculture in this so-called barren land.
Israelis built homes in this barren land and thrived and the Palestinians and Arabs could not stand that Israel had done so well on land they thought was theirs, when in fact, they were the interlopers.
Every president since Carter has tried to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but every time the Palestinians have never lost an opportunity to lose an opportunity.
Ehud Barack lost an election because he offered Arafat 90% of what he wanted during the waning days of the Clinton administration, but Arafat didn’t even want that. What he wanted was the complete annihilation of the Jews in Israel so they could turn it into a pile of dirt and rocks again.
What he forgot is after the Holocaust the Jews vowed “never again” and they meant it.
This tiny nation is fighting all of the Arab world and Iran, which is Persian, in order to survive on that small strip of land given to them by God Himself ages ago.
I pray our new president will be friendly to Israel during his term in office, as that is about the only place we still get a blessing from God.
We have, as a nation, mostly turned away from God ourselves, but still He has granted us grace. He will bless those who bless Israel. You can figure out what He’ll do to those who do not. The Palestinians are finding that out at the moment…again.
