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Archive for January 3rd, 2009

After 8 hard weeks of obedience classes and training at home our little Caylee received her certificate of completion of beginner’s obedience training today! Yay, Caylee!

Now we see when the right time for this 17 week old puppy to start intermediate training.

Sorry, but she’s so fast now we have a hard time getting photos of her, but will try soon.

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For over a year now I have been reading in publications I subscribe to online that if Obama won the election Israel would launch an attack on Hamas or Hezbolla by or before January, and if the republican candidate won the launch would be after January.

It seems those predictions are right and Israel is concerned the United States under President Obama will desert them.

Here’s a blurb from the NY Post that tells a bit about how Israel is trying to consider the civilians in this war:

Despite the frankly anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish reporting of this conflict in the global media, Israel’s military performance not only has been technically superb, but has been as humane as possible under such difficult circumstances.

From earlier briefings in Israel, I know the IDF takes an almost absurd degree of care in its targeting. The questioning doesn’t stop with “Is that the right building?” it then asks, “What should be our angle of attack to ensure any rubble falls into the street, not atop the primary school next door?” (Hamas consistently embeds terror facilities among innocent civilians.)

Hitting a terrorist hideout in an apartment building, for example, an F-16 would be armed with the smallest warhead that could do the job. If the terrorists are tucked into rooms on the fourth floor, targeting officers evaluate which window the guided missile should go through to kill the terrorists, while minimizing harm to civilians living below.

Any military veteran can tell that the Israelis are taking enormous care to spare civilians. Given the number of airstrikes thus far and the hundreds of tons of bombs dropped, it remains remarkable that so few innocents have been injured in such a dense urban environment.

While Obama has expressed support for Israel, we are not really sure where his loyalties lie, and without the help of the United States Israel will be doomed.

There are many Jewish Senators and Congressmen in our new Congress, including Herb Kohl and the powerful Chuck Schumer from New York.

With Republican sympathizers I would imagine and hope they could get the two-thirds vote needed to over-ride a possible Obama veto of help for Israel if that is needed. The next president’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is a big supporter of Israel.

Our incoming Secretary of State, though, was seen kissing Arafat’s wife in a public forum, so who knows what the official State Department position will be.

It’s time now for our new president to make decisions that he has somehow managed to avoid the majority of his political career, which is about 14 years old, including the two years he spent on the campaign trail.

I pray our country never deserts Israel in a time of need, since that is the one source of any blessing our country retains from God.

We’ve already pushed God out of our lives, but Israel is the apple of His eye and if we desert Israel we can count on failing as a nation in a very short time.

Just my opinion.

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