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U N B E L I E V A B L E !
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of
various Arabic/Islamic States which are
recorded in both the U.S. State Department
and United Nations records:
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United
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U.S. Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt,
for example, after voting 79% of the
time against the United States,
still receives
$2,000,000,000 annually in
US Foreign Aid.
Jordan
votes 71% against the United States,
receives
$192,814,000 annually in
US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan
votes 75% against the United States,
receives
$6,721,000,000annually
in US Foreign Aid.
India votes
81% against the United States,
receives $143,699,000annually.
WHY?
WHO IN THE
HECK STARTED THIS AND WHY? THEY ACTUALLY
BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it's time to get out of the UN
and give the tax savings back to the
American workers who are having to skimp and
sacrifice to pay the taxes.
Pass this along to every taxpaying citizen
you know, party lines irrelevant!
GO GREEN- RECYCLE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE
IN 2012...!
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We give foreign aid
to keep our hand in countries that could really bite us if we didn't.
Remember how Reagan and Bush blocked aid to Afghanistan after pushing
the Russians out, because "Who cares about Afghanistan?"
9/11 was the result of our disengagement. Great bargain wasn't it? Saved
a few million there, didn't we?
Well, NO, that was not a bargain. 9/11 and two wars that followed cost
us trillions.
I know you reprint everything and try not to judge. But you really
should filter out the dangerous nonsense.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Frank Sweetie, you have just won the very first
Thanks for
Paying Attention Award!
From time to time (naughty
child that I am
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I grow a bit bored, and will deliberately post strange, unusual, and
downright outrageous items just to see if anyone is paying attention.
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Rarely
if ever does anyone call me on it; I often wonder if anyone is even
reading these Newsletters, or if I'm just writing them to amuse myself.... I appreciate your diligence!
I
mentioned yesterday that I thought that item was sufficiently outrageous
that I attempted to track the veracity of it. I was astonished
that Snopes.com pronounced it
True
- at least as of 03 Dec 2007:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/unvote.asp
In dealing just with the first
section of the piece - the voting records - what else do we know that
has not changed in the past five years?!?
The
jumped-to-conclusion is another matter altogether, involving a much
keener understanding of foreign relations than most of us apparently
possess.
For what it's worth,
I personally tend to agree with this statement:
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“Politicians are like diapers; they need to
be changed often and for the same reason.”
-
Mark Twain
(30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910)
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By the
way, I actually post only a fraction of what I receive. I try to
weed out the obviously political, inflammatory, vulgar, profane, and
outright lewd - although at times we've pushed the boundaries on all
these. Sometimes I choose to let them slip; more often I'm
slipping myself.
This last month
especially, most of my mail has been politically oriented, as one
might well imagine.
When we went back to
Missouri and Illinois in August, we were frequently astonished to learn
that many members of our family - our children, Paul's siblings and
cousins, and even his mother's 101-year old first cousin - did not think
and feel as we had somehow imagined they did.
This year, I think
more than any other, many of us have (to one degree or another) become
extremely passionate. I hope and pray we do not lose our cherished
friendships over political differences.
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I
am reminded of the sad case of
J.E.B. Stuart
(06 Feb 1833
- 12 May 1864)
and his family, which occurred in the early days of the War of Northern
Aggression. It seems Jeb's father-in-law,
Philip St. George Cooke,
USA
(13 June 1809 - 20 Mar 1895),
decided not to join the Confederacy but remain instead with the
Union. Jeb
wrote his beloved wife, Flora
Cooke Stuart
(03 Jan 1836 - 20 Mar 1923)
on 09 May 1861,
"The greatest anxiety is manifested for your Pa to arrive. He is
regarded as the ne plus ultra as a Cavalry officer - Why don't he
come?"
On 19 Nov 1861, Gen. Cooke
accepted the commission as Brigadier General, Volunteers; on 28 Nov 1861
he vacated the position of Brigadier General of Volunteers and was
commissioned as Brigadier General, U.S. Army.
As Jeb wrote his brother-in-law,
John Rogers Cooke, C.S.A
(09 June 1833 - 10 Apr 1891),
in January of 1862 , "I have felt great mortification at Col. Cooke's
course. He will regret it but once, and that will be continuously. Let
us so conduct ourselves as to have nothing in our course to be
regretted. Certainly thus far we have nothing that we may not be proud
of. It is a sad thing, but the responsibility of the present state of
the separation in the family rests entirely with the Colonel. Let us
bear our misfortunes in silence."
Gen. Cooke for his part despaired for his son and
son-in-law, "Those poor boys."
Jeb and Gen. Cooke never spoke to each
other again, and Stuart in his reports on the battles during the
Peninsular Campaign only referred to his clashes with the North - which
sometimes included Philip St. George Cooke - as "the enemy".
How very tragic for all concerned.
Thanks again,
Frank; I have always regarded your opinions with the deepest respect!
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