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Friday, June 10, 2016

One Small Step for a Man...

I saw this on television when I was a tiny child, but I remember it to this day.

My father and I were watching on an old black-and-white television with rabbit ears, while eating Triscuits with butter.

Walter Cronkite.

I can see it in my mind's eye.

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DoodadJune 10, 2016 at 9:47 PM
I was surfing at South Beach in Miami and saw a commotion over at the food stand. Went over just in time to catch the landing. Wow. What a memorable day.
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geoffffJune 11, 2016 at 4:30 AM
My High school principal called the whole school to assembly first thing in the morning and after an address that invited us to compare the event with other major milestones in human progress sent us all home to watch it on TV.

Kids who didn't have TV s he arranged to go to homes that did.
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Mike L.June 11, 2016 at 9:58 AM
I find it a tad depressing that we haven't been back by now. Really, we should be on Mars by this point. When I was at the Johnson Space Center in the summer of 2000 - Jeez, was it hot! - the mood around the place was not optimistic.

What ultimately provided funding for NASA was the Cold War and when the Cold War ended funding diminished.

What I did not understand at the time was how the private sector would take the reins, which is what we are seeing now.

I remain hopeful that we will see human beings on Mars within my lifetime.

It does not matter if the US does it via NASA or a private agency does it or some other government.

The Israeli space program has mainly focused on sending satelites into space.

I'd love to see them go after manned space flight.

Perhaps Israel could be the next country to a person on the moon.

Wouldn't that be terrific!

The very notion of it gives me a smile.
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JeffwithaJJune 11, 2016 at 6:55 PM
It was just amazing, and people knew how amazing it was. People were looking up at that thing in the sky ever since there were people. And compared to technology today, they did it with paper clips and rubber bands. (Actually they did by developing the technology which lead to today's technology.) I just don't think that people born after realize what an astonishing achievement this was.
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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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Friday, June 10, 2016

One Small Step for a Man...

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