Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Op-Ed Columnist - Oy Vey, Obama - NYTimes.com Is President Obama good for the Jews? For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no. Earl Wilson/The New York Times Charles M. Blow Go to Columnist Page » Related Times Topic: Barack Obama Readers' Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (261) » In a Pew Research Center report issued on Thursday and entitled “Growing Number of Americans Say Obama Is a Muslim” (tragic in its own right), there was another bit of bad news for Obama: the number of Jews who identify as Republican or as independents who lean Republican has increased by more than half since the year he was elected. At 33 percent it now stands at the highest level since the data have been kept. In 2008, the ratio of Democratic Jews to Republican Jews was far more than three to one. Now it’s less than two to one. Entir...

Polygamy is a term that describes a marriage of more than one spouse.  Most people and cultures use the term polygamy when they mean polygyny.  Polygyny is the term for having more than one wife.  Today we have Muslims who are allowed up to four wives.  The practice of Islam is a topic for another blog yet to be written so I will not opine about that cult here and now. :-)  Most cultures are traditionally patriarchal, which of course means that males are more dominant and determine the laws/rules.  In the TaNaKh(Torah, Neviim and Kethuvim-the Law, Prophets and Writing, which is termed the 'Old' Testament or Covenant by the Christian faith) we do see instances of polygyny which seemed to be the exception rather than the norm and seemed to be practiced more for political alliances by royalty more than anything else.  There are also rules spelled out if a man is to take more than one wife~for example, he cannot marry the sister of the first wife while t...

By George F. Will Thursday, August 19, 2010 JERUSALEM In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America's eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught, which began 10 Septembers ago, Israeli parents sending two children to a school would put them on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner. Surely most Americans can imagine, even if their tone-deaf leaders cannot, how grating it is when those leaders lecture Israel on the need to take "risks for peace." During Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's July visit to Washington, Barack Obama praised him as " willing to take risks for peace ." There was a time when that meant swapping "land for peace" -- Israel sacrificing something tangible and irrecoverable, strategic depth, in exchange for something intangible and perisha...

So much to do today and this week!  Oy! :-)

Hope to update the blog later!

Many blessings to you and your families!

Caroline B. Glick: Are you aware that HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF TAX-PAYER DOLLARS are going toward training armies that don't hide their goal of destroying Israel? What you need to know about Israel's American-made foes http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It wasn't a US Army sniper who killed IDF Lt. Col. Dov Harari and seriously wounded Capt. Ezra Lakia on Tuesday. But the Lebanese Armed Forces sniper who shot them owes a great deal to the generous support the LAF has received from America. For the past five years, the LAF has been the second largest recipient of US military assistance per capita after Israel. A State Department press release from late 2008 noted that between 2006 and 2008, the LAF received ten million rounds of ammunition, Humvees, spare parts for Lebanese attack helicopters, vehicles for its internal security forces "and the same frontline weapons that US military troops are currently using, including assault rifles, au...