HERE AND THERE

       Another day, same eye problem. Tad better but not pleasant. Anyway, here is a piece touching upon several different topics and written not all at once.
     So been reading - or having them read to me -
the comments thread on MyVillage blog. It seems that some people still bluster about the same nonsense. The concern here is the reckless and in many cases non authorized use of our funds. We are close to $6 million in the hole in total for the roads and walkways and with no end in sight nor any organized method in which to amass the funds we do need - and sooner than later - to fix the roads in the manner that should have been done the first time around. But as usual, the know nothings went blundering on ahead and left us in the lurch once more.
     This reckless squandering of funds continues what with "beautification" of the parking lot under the title of safety changes. Uh huh. A bit overboard on that one. Do the safety stuff and leave out the rest. Lights on Duck Island - really - all the better for the bugs to bite and I just love all these night activities here in a place where we sometimes struggle to fill the Clubhouse for a show in the evening and most nites people are tucked away in bed or on the couch watching TV or some quiet activity.  so who the hell goes to Duck Island at nite other than the water moccasins and the alligators. I guess it will be the overflow of those who cannot find room at the handball courts. You know, all those people waiting in line with bated breath for the lights to be installed there for night games. C'mon!
      Then of course we have the mural on the wall of the indoor pool. Really? Will we also have an art appreciation class to discuss it. I am still trying to figure out the eave mural for which we paid $3,000 and it is ugly and now even uglier what with rocks and stuff being placed on it. No offense to the artist, but please, think in terms of another career.
     The outflow just keeps on in mighty torrents and meanwhile we have people who are watching their pennies. Yes, at times we might have to raise fees, but we must make sure that it is for a necessary purpose - NECESSARY, not silly and foolish and we must make sure we spend it wisely, with care, with research, with proper airtight contracts to protect ourselves. And anybody ever hear of a multi year contract where prices do not rise every single year? Yes, they do exist yet we cannot seem to write or sign any and our costs just keep on rising - more money for the same old inadequate, in many cases, performance. 
     So stop saying how you do not want a care facility. We will have no home or a shambles of one if we do not use our money wisely. That is what a new administration will ensure even as we work to find help for our long, long term residents  who have outlived their money - and not allow in deadbeats or placements of those who do not belong here. That is how one protects our home.
     We are tired of the Big Lie program here in the Village and we are tired of it in the world. The lie repeated is the lie that worms its way into supposed truth and yet people fall for it time and time again. Yesterday we had Abbas telling lies through his blasted teeth, screaming that an innocent 13 year old Palestinian child was dead, executed by Israel. Well, what was there to say when a picture of that very not innocent young murderer was shown being fed by hand by a nurse in Hadassah hospital, receiving all medical care necessary and looking just fine and oh, did I mention that innocence had no place there as he and his cousin stabbed to death a truly innocent 13 year old Israeli Jewish boy who made the error of stopping to buy candy after school. That boy is now in critical condition.
     And the rest of the world has gone back in time, back to the malicious and out in the open air season of hatred for Jews. This nonsense that it is because of settlements or status quo on Har Habayit, the site of the Temple - two of them and the site of the imminent sacrifice of Isaac - or lack of peace talks - and whose fault is that, huh? or indeed, peace talks taking place - all nonsense. When there was no land, were no settlements, when Israel was a truncated piece of land, mostly desert, that the world found satisfactory for the remnants of Jewry, when we did not have Har Habayit, when we were blocked by the very same people who so boldly scream now - when all this was the case, we were still, attacked, blown up, killed by missiles, kidnapped, tortured - and why? Because we are here! Simple. The Arabs do not want Israel to exist or for that matter any Jews, any Yahuds, to exist. The echoes of history are there again and again and the world acquiesces.
     The NY Times admitted yesterday that it is indeed biased against Israel. It admits that it has even called for the end of Israel, allowed people to state that. Has it allowed people to call for the end of Saudi Arabia where people are lashed, beheaded or Pakistan which backs the Taliban, or Afghanistan where women are battered, despised and abused or any other country in the world? The answer is no.
     Well, I have an answer to the State Department which goes along with this, which allows statements to be made by two idiots - John Kerry and John Kirby - to the effect that Israel has to moderate its violence. Truly, why do not Israelis learn not to get in the way of knives, huh? Why do they have the unrealistic hope of being able to walk down the street without being stabbed or hacked to death by a meat cleaver? Why? Why? Just exactly who is stabbing whom here and why are we not allowed to defend ourselves. As for shooting of the murderers? Well, what would one have us do - ask them if we should stand still for more or are they done and if they are indeed done for the day, tired of their hard work, do we invite them back, to kill some more when they are rested?
     No, the answer is we will do what we must. Notice that the civilian in the street runs toward the victim, to help. Notice that in the very few times of angry attacks on Arabs it has been the Jews, the Israeli Jews , who stand up for them, who defend them with their very bodies. Would we stand for being stabbed all day long wherever we go here in the USA and without defending ourselves, or curse the rescuers who wound or even shoot to death the perpetrator of violence and hate? Just look to our school shootings and then answer the question.
    Well, Am Yisroel Chai - Lanetzach. The people of Israel are alive and here - for all eternity. So those who want otherwise, if they have not yet learned so from history, have a new lesson for themselves. and the rest of the world had better take notice.