Sunday, August 4, 2019

John Ratcliffe (R-Loser) Gets the Full Trump Treatment


https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-ratcliffe-r-loser-get-the-full-trump-treatment

Trump announced Ratcliffe’s decision Friday afternoon.

“Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media. Rather than going through months of slander and libel, I explained to John how miserable it would be for him and his family to deal with these people,” Trump said in a tweet. “John has therefore decided to stay in Congress where he has done such an outstanding job representing the people of Texas, and our Country. I will be announcing my nomination for DNI shortly.”

As of Friday night, Trump had not announced his nomination and his team was still actively considering multiple different individuals for the DNI posting. One of those individuals is U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra, according to two individuals with knowledge of the Trump administration's search. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on Hoekstra’s consideration on Friday.

הסערה בישיבת 'אור ישראל': התלמידים שסולקו - התאגדו

https://www.kikar.co.il/326069.html

לאחר סילוק שמונים תלמידי שיעור ב' בישיבת 'אור ישראל', הורים שהבהירו כי בנם אינו מחזיק בטלפון סלולרי הורשה לבנם לחזור, אך כל תלמידי השיעור התאגדו והתלמידים מסרבים לחזור לישיבה (בארץ)
בקללות ואיומים: כך הגר"י רוזן צעק על בחורים וסילק אותם
ראש ישיבת "אור ישראל", שסילק 80 מתלמידיו בעקבות פרשת החזקת הטלפונים הסלולריים - בניגוד לכללי הישיבה - איים עליהם כי סירובם להוראותיו ימיט עליהם קללה בהמשך חייהם • האזינו (חרדים)

Cooper: Trump used the oldest, lamest game in the book



Friday, August 2, 2019

Donald Trump said he's done more for African Americans than any president. Historians disagree

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/aug/01/donald-trump-said-hes-done-more-african-americans-/

President Donald Trump has often claimed credit for African American economic success, such as touting the African American unemployment rate on his watch. But amid swirling controversies over his tweets attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings and his heavily African American district in Maryland, he took it to a new level during July 30 remarks to reporters at the White House.
"What I've done for African Americans in two and a half years, no president has been able to do anything like it," Trump said. "Unemployment at the lowest level in the history of our country for African Americans — nobody can beat that. You look at poverty levels, they’re doing better than they’ve ever done before. So many things. Opportunity zones. Criminal justice reform — President Obama couldn’t get it done."
When we took a closer look, we found that Trump does have a point about some of the economic and policy details he mentioned. His campaign also pointed to a double-digit funding increase he sought and signed for historically black colleges and universities.
However, Trump overstated his own standing within history. It’s exceedingly difficult for Trump to top the landmark efforts by his predecessors in the White House, including Abraham Lincoln, who fought the Civil War and pushed the constitutional amendments that ended slavery, and Lyndon B. Johnson, who fought for and signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act


Pelosi hits back at Trump's attacks on Cummings, calls Kushner a 'slumlord'


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455803-pelosi-hits-back-at-trumps-attacks-on-cummings-calls-kushner-a-slumlord

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday fiercely defended Rep. Elijah Cummings in the wake of President Trump's attacks on the Maryland Democrat and the Baltimore-area district he represents.
Pelosi, who was born in Baltimore and whose father and brother were both mayors of the city, accused the president of projecting his own "insecurity" on Cummings. She also hammered Jared Kushner — Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, whose family operates a real estate empire — as a "slumlord."
"To see the president demean a great leader like Elijah Cummings shows his own insecurity and his own lack of understanding about what progress really is," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
"You really have to consider the source," she continued.
"The president without — and this comes as no surprise — really doesn't know what he's talking about. But maybe he could ask his son-in-law, who's a slumlord."

Thursday, August 1, 2019

IRAN CLAIMS SAUDI ARABIA KILLED OVER '3000 AMERICANS' AND STILL GETS TO 'HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS


https://www.newsweek.com/iran-saudi-kill-americans-nuclear-1451951

Trump acknowledged in January that "Iran is killing ISIS," also known as the Islamic State militant group, and back in 2011 called Saudi Arabia "the world's biggest funder of terrorism." The president argued that the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom "funnels our petro dollars, our very own money, to fund the terrorists that seek to destroy our people while the Saudis rely on us to protect them." He was also a vocal supporter of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) that would allow those affected by 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia.
The so-called "28 pages" of the 9/11 Commission report indicated potential, yet unconfirmed links between two of the hijackers and the Saudi government, but some counterterrorism officials have alleged a deeper, joint effort to cover up these ties. Former President Barack Obama attempted to veto JASTA in 2016, a move Trump called "shameful" the same year he began instead describing revolutionary Shiite Muslim Iran as "the world's top state sponsor of terrorism" and ultimately won the presidency.

On Iran, Trump Is Shoving Israel Out Into the Cold


https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/.premium-on-iran-trump-is-shoving-israel-out-into-the-cold-1.7584048
But if Tehran has concluded that it must talk with Trump, it’s going to have to give him something in exchange for ending the sanctions. Trump would then tout any concessions as a triumph for his re-election campaign. And if the Iranians offer him something substantive, such as ending the sunset clauses, that would have to be considered a genuine achievement.

But even if Trump is able to substantially improve the nuclear deal, that wouldn’t come close to fulfilling the Iran wish list of Netanyahu and pro-Israel U.S. conservatives. That includes items like forcing them to end funding for terrorism, as well as ending their entire nuclear and missile development programs.

So any new Iran deal may turn out to be a bitter disappointment to Bolton and the Israelis, not to mention Trump’s Jewish and evangelical donors and supporters.

How Healing Works" with Dr. Wayne Jonas

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

This ultra-Orthodox rabbi just took a job at an LGBT synagogue

https://bshch.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post_9460.html
Here is interview of Rabbi Moskowitz.

Zev Brenner alludes in the interview to Rabbi Weinreb's position on where a transgender sits in Shul. And sure enough, this article indicates


that according to Rabbi Weinreb a man who thinks he's a woman sits in the women's section!




timesofisrael.

In many ways, Mike Moskowitz is a typical ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
He wears a black suit and black hat. He sports a thick, curly beard beneath a closely shaved head. He peppers his speech with liturgical Hebrew and Yiddish words. He quotes from Jewish legal texts.
Moskowitz sometimes closes his eyes when he talks, swaying back and forth and rubbing his fingers together as if he’s engaged in deep Talmud study. He spent years upon years studying at traditional haredi yeshivas. Today he lives in Lakewood, a New Jersey shore town of some 100,000 residents well known for its largely haredi population.
rabbi Moskowitz has three ultra-orthodox rabbinic ordinations. He spent a decade in the largest yeshivas in the world and studied the entire Babylonian Talmud. He founded and headed a kollel - a sacred think tank, served as a rabbi at Columbia University, and of a congregation in Harlem. Rabbi Moskowitz explored academic Talmud at Yale and at Jewish Theological Seminary, where he is currently completing a Doctorate in Hebrew Literature.  As one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of trans issues and Jewish thought, he is a sought after lecturer, educator, and researcher. 

Donald Trump says he spent a lot time with 9/11 responders. Here are the facts


https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/30/donald-trump-says-he-spent-lot-time-911-responders/

President Donald Trump suggested that he spent "a lot of time" with first responders after Sept. 11 as he signed an extension of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
"Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers, and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you," Trump said July 29 in the Rose Garden.
Trump’s comment, which appeared ad-libbed compared to the rest of his speech, didn’t go as far as some previous ones he made about his role in helping clear the rubble or supplying workers to help. But it still raised eyebrows. Some critics took his comment to mean Trump was taking credit for helping in the rescue and cleanup effort at Ground Zero (inspiring #LostTrumpHistory).
On the campaign trail in 2016 Trump said he helped with clearing the rubble.
"Everyone who helped clear the rubble — and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit — but I want to tell you: Those people were amazing," Trump said at a rally in Buffalo. "Clearing the rubble. Trying to find additional lives. You didn't know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it."
The Washington Post and the Associated Press sought information from the Trump campaign in 2016 about how he helped, and they didn’t receive responses. We also tried to verify his claim and could not.

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Don’t Get Mad if a Doctor Says They Need to Screen Your Child for Abuse

https://time.com/5637675/child-abuse-screening-doctor-office/

If a doctor notices bruising on your child, you might be surprised to find yourself accused of abuse. The real-life drama that ensues from such encounters is playing out in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms across the country. Here are some of the things we’ve heard from our patients:


TRUMP FRIEND AIMED TO PROFIT FROM MIDEAST NUCLEAR DEAL -DEMOCRATS

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Trump-friend-aimed-to-profit-from-Mideast-nuclear-deal-Democrats-597113


Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of US President Donald Trump, pursued a plan to buy Westinghouse Electric Corp even as he lobbied Trump to become a special envoy to promote the building by the firm of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, said a congressional report released on Monday.

While Barrack failed in both efforts, the report provides fresh evidence of the ease with which some corporate and foreign interests have gained access to Trump and other senior members of his administration.