The Madman Theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory?wprov=sfla1

BANNON

http://politi.co/2fTws5f

FFCG

http://dan-zwicker.blogspot,ca/

Daniel H Zwicker CFP

http://dzwicker.blogspot.ca/?m=1

STEPHEN HARPER: How Shimon Peres transcended politics

STEPHEN HARPER:

How Shimon Peres transcended politics

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CJN

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09 29 2016

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Shimon Peres was not a man who thought small. His ambitions were not resigned to a four-, eight- or even 20-year term, but a lifetime.

 His legacy is a nation.

Few world leaders can claim a presence at the moment of their country’s birth, but Peres could, and it was this remarkable beginning that infused his long subsequent career with such depth and wisdom. To speak to him was to be humbled, for it was to sit in the presence of a man who had not only lived through his nation’s war of independence, but done reconnaissance for it. A man who had not merely served as head of the defense ministry, but overseen the very creation of his nation’s armed forces. A man who had not just met the leading statesmen of the last century – Ben-Gurion, Churchill, DeGaulle, Adenauer, Reagan – but worked first-hand with them.

Peres’ ability to serve in so many different capacities over the course of so many different decades under so many different administrations  – negotiating a peace agreement one moment only to be tasked with curbing inflation the next – was

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A testament to his ability to transcend the myopic world of politics for a life of genuine public service.

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No matter his title, a deep moral constancy lay beneath, born from an incorrigible faith in the Zionist dream and a vision of a confident, Jewish state that was successful at home and at peace with the world.

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He was Israel’s indispensable man, a leader whose participation in the political arena was driven not by what would bring personal glory, but what his country needed to be done.

And to be sure, glory was often not forthcoming. To speak of the career of Shimon Peres is to speak of a life in which defeat and setback consistently accompanied success and progress. There were lost arguments, lost battles and lost elections, but never lost hope. He was handed endless opportunity for a quiet and dignified exit from public life and declined every time, knowing his cause, which was nothing less than the survival of a nation, was one for which no holiday could be justified. Even in his final years as president, an office Israeli political culture traditionally expects to be more seen than heard, he remained an activist, refusing to accept that even his nation’s highest honour could be anything but a platform from which to continue his life’s labour.

I had the privilege of meeting Peres several times during my own career in public service. In addition to his immense worldliness and invaluable historic perspectives,

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I was always struck by his personal dignity and depth of character.

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He was wise without being arrogant, stoic without being grim, and witty without being frivolous. He radiated the rare, quiet confidence of a person who has explored life in all its complexities and challenges and located its reservoirs of hope.

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For those who dwell beyond its borders, Israel itself is a reservoir of hope  – a promise, however contested, that peace and liberty can survive under even the most inhospitable of circumstances, so long as there are those willing to defend it. Peres’ biography is an essential chapter in this inspiring story of human achievement.

Stephen Harper was the 22nd prime minister of Canada.

http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/stephen-harper-how-shimon-peres-transcended-politics

LOVE AND MARRIAGE

LOVE AND MARRIAGE

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Mishpacha Magazine featured a cover story on the growing phenomenon of couples getting divorced after 25, 30, 35 years of marriage. 

 

Such midlife divorces are an alarming, growing trend. 

  

The article quotes Rav Moishe Blum, head of a New York rabbinic court that deals with gittin [halachic divorce]: 

 

"People don't want to work at learning what it is to live with each other, to give in, to struggle, to be patient. …  

 

The reason we see so many midlife divorces today is that although many couples are not ready to work on their marriage, they are willing to push through, to keep the act going, until the kids are out of the house.  

 

 Sadly, this 'waiting it out' policy, as opposed to really investing in work and change, is very prevalent." 

 

The article goes on to say: "What makes a couple, after raising a family together for two dozen years, decide to finally divorce?  

 

Perhaps it's because couples spend all their years focused on their kids instead of on their marriage … 

 

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...Our motto, on the contrary, is:  

 

"MY MARRIAGE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN MY LIFE." 

 

There's no reason to suffer in a bad marriage... 

 

Make your marriage great by working on it. 

 

Stop feeling disrespected and unheard by actively listening and effectively communicating. 

 

Rearrange the letters! Not W-H-O, but H-O-W 

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Having a great marriage depends not on WHO you're married to, but HOW much you work on your marriage. 

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Sara Yoheved 

THE "ANTI SELF DESTRUCTION ACT" - ALAN GRAYSON - U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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113TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 3213
Making appropriations for all departments and agencies of the Federal Government for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Mr. GRAYSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL
Making appropriations for all departments and agencies of the Federal Government for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Self-Destruction Act’’ or the ‘‘Fiscal Sanity Act of 2013’’.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014.
There is hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2014—

(1) for each project or activity for which budget authority was provided in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public 4 Law 113–6), an amount equal to the budget authority provided in such Act, as reduced pursuant to the Presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 2013, to remain available for a comparable period of availability; and

(2) for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2013, and for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, such amounts as may be necessary to maintain program levels under current law.

SEC. 3. NONAPPLICABILITY OF DEBT CEILING THROUGH CALENDAR YEAR 2014.
Section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code, shall not apply for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2014.