Nothing seems to help

The liberal Jews seem to be steadfastly holding on to their democratic "beliefs", no matter what the realities are. How can people with any gray matter in their brains, not see the facts? I was stunned recently after a "relative" declared out of the blue: I would never vote for a Republican. When I asked her why she said: "because I don't believe in trickle down economy, because I don't believe in not allowing abortions, because I don't believe in not caring for the poor and I don't like the war on women".
What has to happen for them to see the light? I shudder to think about that.

What are we to believe?

It was said by our leader, that as far as the new health care law goes, you can keep your health insurance you have, if you like it and you can keep your doctor if you like him. He said that about 29 times, to be exact, over the 4 years in office. Well, that did not turn out to be quite true, as by now over 5 million people lost their health insurance, because it did not conform with what the new health care law mandates. At the same time it seems to be very difficult to sign up for a new plan, because the healthcare.gov site is not quite ready. And for those people, who were able to get on the site, they discovered that what is available, is more expensive and/or the co-pay is much larger, than what it had been previously. To top it off, the site is totally unsecured, and strangers seem to have access to the most personal matters of the suscribers.
This after the "Fast and Furious" debacle, our leader did not know about, the Benghazi scandal, he was uninformed about, the IRS targetting of conservatives, he was ignorant of, and the NSA snooping, he was unaware of.
So now what are we going to believe, when we hear that this "with-it" leader was able to persuade the Iranian Mulahs to become a peaceful nation, continuing to produce atomic power for peaceful purposes, while we give them tons of money, and have persuaded the West to discontinue the economic sanctions?

Something finally hit home

There have been no repercussions for the "Fast and Furious" debacle, where thousands of Mexicans were killed and some US border agents, by guns the administration sold to the Mexicans. No one got punished for it. The Benghazi scandal, where 4 good Americans were killed, while the administration did nothing, has been shoved under the rug. The IRS scandal, where the administration did nothing to punish the deliberate targeting of Tea Party members and religious groups seeking tax-exempt status, passed unnoticed by the main-stream media. The NSA scandal, where a reporter and his family were harassed for doing his job, was dismissed as a mere trifle. The fact that we are all spied upon, our phone calls monitored and e-mails read, that is just to keep us safe. What difference does it all make, the Liberals couldn't care less. When the Republican House tried to fund the government, except for that unaffordable, formidably bad healthcare law, the Republicans were called terrorists and other unsavory names, and the administration and liberal Senate refused to negotiate in any way.
But now, when 5 million people, Liberals included, simply lost their health insurance. because of the "affordable health care law"and there is no way out of this disaster at the moment, and the democratic Congressmen and women up for reelection are getting nervous, something finally hit home and a tempest is erupting in the tea pot.

The Chosen people

It is said that we are the chosen people. I have often wondered what that meant. We are certainly not chosen  because we are the smartest people. We definitely are not, although this idea has created  jealousy, yet it is totally unsubstantiated and has given us great grief. We are certainly not chosen because we are privileged people, because that too is not true. We are certainly not chosen because we are in any way better than other people, because we decidedly are not. I have come to the conclusion that we are chosen for only one thing and that is to follow our religion as much as we possibly can, not because it is the one true religion, but because that is what we were ordered to do. We were chosen to follow 613 commandments as much as we possibly can, and the summary of these are: "Do not do unto others, what you would not have them do unto you" and "be as good and gentle a person as you can possibly be". We were chosen to do just that and by it to set an example to the world for goodness and kindness and fairness and ethics, in other words to follow and share the"Ten Commandments".

What happened to us now?

I am broken-hearted over the state of our country more than ever. Imagine having a soldier coming home in a casket, after having given his all, his life, and the administration is refusing to pay for his interment. Imagine the heroes of WWII not allowed to see their Memorial. Imagine that we cannot go see the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, the Memorial in Europe of those troups that gave their all when they stormed overseas. These places are all roped off, yet the administration is paying people to guard them and it is paying to rope them off with iron gates. In addition, it has been decreed that the chaplains in the army are not allowed to perform services for the soldiers.  And why did this all happen?
The House of Representatives has managed to stand fast so far to have the government fully paid except for Obamacare, that unaffordable terrible law, that would put an agent of the IRS in between the doctor and his patient, us citizens. Since the House offer has not been accepted by the democratic Senate, we are now in a government shut-down. Although the House then agreed to give other offers, such as having at least everyone treated equally under the law, where big corporations, several unions and all of Congress is exempt from Obamacare, but all the rest of us are not, this too has not been accepted by the Senate and the Senate and the president refuse to even negotiate. So we are all punished in a most evil way: the dead soldier's families, and all the rest of us for having to witness this and the other punishments, as listed above. Hurrah for the democrats, they are really winning this battle and showing their true colors. They don't care for even the best of us, they only care about power, power and more power!

How liberals see republicans

It is an amazing feat to follow the logic of how liberals view Republicans. As soon as something bad happens in this country, it immediately is the Republicans' fault. Our government owes 17 trillion Dollars of borrowed money; that is President Bush's fault after over 4 years of the present president's reign! A terrible flood happens in Colorado, it is the Republicans fault, because they do not believe in global warming. There is a shooting at the Navy Yard in DC and 12 fatalities occur, it is the Republicans fault, because they agreed to approve the so-called sequester, which was the president's own idea, and he is the one who decides where to take the money from. The health care law is instituted, and signed by the president, without a single Republican present. It is a train wreck, according to the Democrat who championed it, 65% of the citizens (Democrats and Republicans) disapprove of it, and the money to institute it, is not available. Yet it's the Republicans fault, because they say they dislike it.  You can't make this stuff up.

What it's like to be a liberal

It is an interesting quest to observe a liberal. A liberal is a person who wants the best for absolutely everybody! He or she is convinced he is all for the very best for every person on earth and acts that way. A liberal wants everybody to have everything he/she needs, wants everybody to have a happy life, wants everybody to do what they want and wants everybody to have a share of the good of the land equally. A liberal wants the best for the globe, so he/she carefully recycles and uses those funny curlecue bulbs to make sure the polar bears continue to roam the earth. A liberal gives charity for good causes. A liberal watches "Dancing with the Stars", "Miss America", "The Oscars" and various romantic programs if a lady and if a man he also watches Science Fiction.  A liberal watches his/her one favorite station for the news and reads one favorite (local) newspaper. A liberal listens adoringly to the President, (cheering how wonderful it is that he/she has made history by electing and reelecting him) as they relish the fact that everybody is going to get free healthcare, that everybody who needs it will have gotten plenty of foodstamps, that every child is getting the same great education, that the economy is going gangbusters, that the housing market has recovered, that the Middle East is on its way to democracy (each land for sure) and that this president has put one over on our Russian friends to force them to resolve the matter of Syria in a peaceful way. In other words the liberal lives happily ever after in a Land of  Make-Believe.

How I got to write a book

In January of 2011, I found and joined a rare club in my neighborhood, a Republican Jewish group, which met from time to time to listen to conservative speakers. They were of all races and creeds, these speakers, and I enjoyed listening, and asking questions and having mini debates. I especially liked the couple, who were the local leaders, and devoted themselves to this club with much energy and their own financial support. At one point they confided to me that they were rather discouraged, because it was so hard to recruit new members; the liberal Jews were impossible to talk to, they simply would not listen. I said, well you have to try, there must be reasonable and smart people among them, and their answer was still "no, they simply will not listen, don't even try".
That evening I sat down in front of my computer and started my book. Every night from that day, and for the whole year, I sat in my room until the wee hours of the morning, and spilled my heart out.
I wanted to tell my story, of how difficult it was to grow up in the dire circumstances of the Nazi era, and how despite being able to survive, the stress and anxiety left me permanently wounded.  I wanted to shout out how unique and great this country of the United States of America was and that we have to try and preserve it with all our might and every breath that we take, because there is nowhere else to be free. There is nowhere else to be able to follow your dream, there is nowhere else to be secure, no matter who you are.

taking blessings for granted

On this eve of the Day of Atonment for the Jewish people, I would like to remind everyone that taking blessings for granted, such as the blessings of being a citizen of this greatest of nation, is to forget to value what you actually have. It is to forget that you are FREE to move about, FREE to follow your dream, FREE to work towards what you would like to achieve and FREE not to be harrassed by a government. Taking this for granted is to forget to value what our "Forefathers" have provided for us: that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. These gifts we have need to be cherished and we are responsible to see that we do our part to be worthy of them and hold on to them, as so many have given their very life to protect them. I pray that we all do the right thing to keep our blessings of freedom intact and not let them be destroyed by ideas, that are unamerican and falsehoods, which lead to that which our forefathers escaped from: subjugation and enslavement.

How to distract good citizens

In the past few months several big scandals have come to the attention of the American public, courtesy of this administration. There is the killing of 4 great Americans in Benghazi. Noone has been punished for it and the truth of how it happened and why, even though there were appeals to help and protect the American consulate, have not been divulged by the State Department, the UN ambassador or the commander-in-chief. There is the scandal by the IRS, who targeted conservative groups and certain religious groups by denying them tax free status and harrassing them with inappropriate questions. There is the scandal by the NSA, who collects telephone conversations and Internet conversations of ordinary American citizens, supposedly to keep us safe, but this endeavor could not prevent the Boston marathon bombings, even though they were warned by the 2 perpetrators' e-mails and by Russian telephone calls. The citizens and Congress want answers to all these scandals and want to clean up this mess in all seriousness and with great efforts, so what happens, Syria happens. Syria has been waging a civil war and thousands of Syrians, women and children have been killed for the past two years. Nothing much was done about it by our administration, except a few speeches were given of how terrible this is, but now that the above scandals are preoccupying the citizens and Congress, the commander-in-chief wants to attack Syria. Everybody is "up in arms" at this proposal, about 90% of We The People do not want any part of it, but the commander-in-chief declares that whether Congress approves or not, he will go ahead and attack Syria. All the newspapers, the radio and the TV news are now preoccupied with the topic of Syria, and the mess of scandals in our country is forgotten by the real distraction and anxiety over Syria. Did anyone see the movie "Wag the Dog"?

Why vote Democrat?

My question to the Jewish people, on this eve of the Jewish New Year, is why vote Democrat? Don't you see, first of all, what is happening in the Middle East? The whole place is on fire and Israel is surrounded by bitter enemies, with noone to help her. Is that what you wanted when you voted?
You have been reading newspapers and listening to politicians who do not, and I repeat, do not tell the truth. Do you enjoy being lied to? Is it more fun than looking at what the facts are? The facts are many many people are out of work; many many people are on food stamps; food and gas, health care and drugs cost more almost every day. Your paychecks are shrinking, your jobs are teettering, you are not sure if you will be employed tomorrow. Is that why you voted democrat?
So you are afraid of the conservatives. Why exactly are you afraid? According to the Democrats, conservatives want to push grandma over the cliff, they do not want to give health care to many poor people and they only care about rich people. Is that in any way, shape or form true? Did you have any problem you are having now under a Republican President????
And, coming back to Israel, was it not safer before 2009?
I wish all of you a Happy New Year and I pray that you think hard and open your eyes and look at the facts.

I am baffled by the Jewish people voting consistently democrat. President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. He freed those who were enslaved. President Richard Nixon passed the Civil Rights laws. He was a Republican. President Ronald Reagan brought back the hostages from Iran and allowed us to be proud of our country again. He was a Republican. The conservative Republicans are mainly good upstanding citizens, who obey the laws and try their best to get along, help those in need and endeavor to show how hard work is the way to earn one's keep and put pride in one's soul.
What is there to fear from conservatives, who by definition do what is right and proper for all people.

I have written a book

My book is about escaping from the Holocaust in the 1930's. It describes the Kristallnight on November 9, 1938, the wanderings through Belgium, France and Switzerland with my parents and our final admittance to the golden land of America after 10 years of stress and anxiety. Not long after our arrival my mother passed away and I took care of my father's house and went to my last year of High School, College and graduate school, impeded by post traumatic stress, yet working steadely in a laboratory to earn my keep.
My proudest moment was becoming an American citizen and being able to be free to move about, earn my keep and go to school all at the same time. I love this country with all my heart and soul.
After earning a PhD and becoming a scientist, I married, had a daughter and worked in my husband's lab, enjoying the work, going to scientific meetings and watching our daughter grow. This dream come true could have never happened anywhere else and I am fully aware of the gift of "Our Forefathers" to all of us, despite having to struggle with the former stress-induced problem.
The ultimate goal of my writing this book is to show what has been accomplished since 2009 by the liberal progressives, how our beloved country is being destroyed and our cherished Constitution is being trampled on for the sake of dictatorial power, which now makes me fearful and anxious all over again, as if I had been transported back to Nazi Germany. I fear for America, I fear for Israel and all the people who love this country and still look for the American dream, which will be no more. I pray for a miracle from God and the coming together of "We The People" to get our precious freedom back. The title of the book is "Confessions of a Touretter" by Isabel Cohen. Please do not be put off by the title.