Boker tov, Boulder!tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-560812009-07-13T11:13:05-04:00"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." -- Patrick Henry 1775TypePadPity party for Team Obama (they're tired)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2011571fd3402970b2009-07-13T11:13:05-04:002009-07-13T11:27:55-04:00You have to read this in the Washington Post, about how tired Team Obama has become: In West Wing: Grueling Schedules, Bleary Eyes I only hope it slows them down. The WaPo has no idea how tired the whole country is, from having been on the receiving end of all the West Wing's efforts. But before you rejoice that Obama, Czars & Co. may start taking time off to sleep, there's a down side to all this for the populace as well: One study conducted for the British Parliament found that "mental fatigue affects cognitive performance, leading to errors of...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/pity-party-for-team-obama-theyre-tired.htmlObama to meet with the Jooooostag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2011571fceb14970b2009-07-13T09:37:18-04:002009-07-13T10:00:49-04:00October 6, 1943 Three days before Yom Kippur... more than four hundred rabbis came to Washington to plead for U.S. government action to save Jews from Hitler. I haven't seen this in Omerican enemedia, have you? US President Barack Obama will meet on Monday with over a dozen heads of influential American Jewish organizations and is expected to respond to concerns that the White House is pressuring Israel over West Bank settlements while it is soft-pedaling with some of Israel's worst enemies. .... The meeting, under the aegis of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will include...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/hushhush-obama-to-meet-with-israel-lobby-today.htmlDate this quote: "Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine."tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2011571081261970c2009-07-13T08:54:07-04:002009-07-13T10:02:37-04:00IMRA The PA will resume violence and terror against Israel when Fatah is "capable," and "according to what seems right," Fatah activist Kifah Radaydeh says in a PA TV interview. She states openly that peace is not a goal for Fatah: "It has been said that we are negotiating for peace, but our goal has never been peace. Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine." Radaydeh says that "armed struggle" has not been ruled out and will continue, depending on how "capable" the PA forces are. The ability of the Arabs in the terror-tories to resist Change is truly...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/date-this-quote-peace-is-a-means-the-goal-is-palestine.htmlScapegoating Israeltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20115710803f2970c2009-07-13T08:23:27-04:002009-07-13T10:05:17-04:00Anne Bayefsky: President Obama in Ghana In a rare tongue-lashing for Africans from any American president, he chastised: "It's easy to point fingers and to pin the blame of these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict ... But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy ... or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants ... tribalism and patronage and nepotism ... and ... corruption." He might equally have said to the Arab and Muslim world: "It's easy to scapegoat Israel and blame your problems on...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/scapegoating-israel.htmlAnd you thought there wasn't any good newstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e201157107f2c9970c2009-07-13T07:38:46-04:002009-07-13T07:43:11-04:00Rasmussen 14% of adults say their personal finances are getting better.Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/and-you-thought-there-wasnt-any-good-news.htmlJustice in the life and conduct of the Statetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2011571fca869970b2009-07-13T07:03:15-04:002009-07-13T07:47:54-04:00Remember the Attorney General who said that we are a nation of cowards? Attorney General Eric Holder said [in February] that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department. “Even as we fight a war...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/justice-in-the-life-and-conduct-of-the-state.htmlWho was the first known American suicide bomber?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e201157104c516970c2009-07-12T16:31:11-04:002009-07-12T16:32:50-04:00OR... What's Wrong with the New York Times? - Part Two MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if lifting the aspirations of its students. The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here.” For a group of students who often met at the school, on the University of Minnesota campus, those words seemed especially fitting. They had fled Somalia as small boys, escaping a catastrophic civil war. They came of age as refugees...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/who-was-the-first-known-american-suicide-bomber.htmlIsraelis turn traffic into electricitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e201157103becc970c2009-07-12T08:36:31-04:002009-07-12T09:11:17-04:00Scientists in Israel say they have invented a way of turning traffic into electricity. The bright sparks at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a road that generates power when vehicles pass over it. And they hope the technology will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. In a university car park, Haim Abramovich and his team run a heavy truck repeatedly over a special stretch of tarmac. "The name of the game is harvesting," he told Sky News. "Harvesting means energy which is available but is going to waste. "So what I want to is to harvest...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/israelis-invent-way-of-turning-traffic-into-electricity.htmlO-merica issues its own threat against Israeltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2011571f87926970b2009-07-12T07:36:26-04:002009-07-12T08:21:48-04:00It used to be that threats against Israel's existence came from various Arab and Muslim terrorist communities around the world. Now it's the adopted country of American Jews that is threatening Israel. Walt, Mearsheimer, Carter and other American antisemites must be ecstatic. But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. What's the threat? Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA summarizes: .... President Obama wants Israel to withdraw to fundamentally indefensible {"Auschwitz"] borders and that includes an end to Israeli control of the Old City and other areas in Jerusalem. But if we refuse to halt settlement construction he threatens that he won't...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/07/us-issues-its-own-threat-to-israel.html