Israel Thrives: 10 Years and the Beautiful Upper Sacramento

Thursday, August 16, 2012

10 Years and the Beautiful Upper Sacramento

Mike L.

Tomorrow is our ten year wedding anniversary.

Laurie and I are having friends stay at the house this weekend as we head up to the village of Dunsmuir in beautiful Northern California along the Upper Sacramento River near Mount Shasta. We are not exactly rugged outdoorsmen, but we like to get out there when we can. We will be in pursuit, fly rod in hand, of the hard-fighting native rainbow trout in the Upper Sacramento and the McCloud rivers.

I truly feel blessed.

I mean, really, how many men can claim that their wives want to go trout fishing for their 10th anniversary?

I love her with all my heart.

And I will not be around much this weekend.

7 comments:

JayinPhiladelphiaAugust 16, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Congrats, youze two!

Enjoy...
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DoodadAugust 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Congratulations!
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Shirl in OzAugust 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM
Mazal tov.
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Shirl in OzAugust 16, 2012 at 3:46 PM
"I mean, really, how many men can claim that their wives want to go trout fishing for their 10th anniversary?"

Mike I need to have serious talk with Laurie. She's letting the side down!!
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geoffffAugust 16, 2012 at 7:11 PM
Muzeltov Mike to both of you.
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puzzledAugust 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Congratulations to you. And my sympathies to Laurie. :-)

Seriously, I am very happy for both of you, and hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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10 Years and the Beautiful Upper Sacramento

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