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W

e used to be an 
agrarian society. 
We adjusted the 
school year to get students 
back to the farm to help with 
crops. We tried 
to create work 
that was like 
a day in the 
country. Even 
though we 
are now more 
industrial in 
our makeup, 
we still infuse our talk with 
references from down on the 
farm.
Puzzled as a result of an 
exhaustive search for some-
thing? It is like looking for a 
needle in a haystack, isn’
t it?
Remember that if your 
leisure time seems to be 
nothing more than horsing 
around, it does not mean you 

are ready to be put 
out to pasture.
Did your last 
vote make you 
feel as if you had 
backed the wrong 
horse? Well, just 
give a horse laugh to 
those who argue with 
you; tell them to get off 
their high horses and stop 
crowing about being so right. 
At least you did not duck 
your responsibility or chick-
en out on your beliefs.
If you enjoy performing, 
make sure you practice so 
that at your next perfor-
mance you do not lay an egg. 
Your audience may be cowed 
by your popularity, encour-
aging you to go whole hog.
You can really get some-
one’
s goat by appearing as 
gentle as a lamb and then 

eating like a pig. This is an 
especially good approach 
in a food contest and might 
encourage gamblers to bet 
the farm that you will not 
succeed. (“In a pig’
s eye, h 
e’
ll 
win.”).
Well, before I decide 
to hoof it, I would like to 
observe that those who say I 
play with words just to milk 
a laugh are merely spouting 
udder nonsense. 

Why Broadway?
Why would the JN spend 
three pages on New York the-
ater when the Detroit area is 
alive and well with extraordi-
nary theater?

— Ruby Kushner

Farmington Hills

Revisionist History
Jonathan Tobin’
s commentary 
column (“Why America Can’
t 
Escape the Middle East,
” Oct. 
31) engages in revisionist his-
tory in claiming that because 
the Iran nuclear deal was 
negotiated and put forward 
by a Democratic president, 
pro-Israel Democrats “fell into 
line” and supported the Iran 
nuclear deal “without batting 
an eye.
” 

The truth is that many 
congressional Democrats 
expressed serious concerns 
about the agreement. The 
Obama Administration 
worked very hard to allay 
those concerns by provid-
ing many detailed briefings 
and arguments in support 
of the deal. In the end, four 
high-profile, pro-Israel 
Senate Democrats — Chuck 
Schumer, Bob Menendez, 
Joe Manchin and Ben Cardin 
(the latter being the rank-
ing Democrat on the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee) 
— and a number of prominent 
pro-Israel House Democrats, 
including Eliot Engel (the lead-
ing Democrat on the House 
Foreign Affairs Committee), 

Nita Lowey and Ted Deutsch, 
opposed the deal despite 
intensive lobbying by the 
Obama Administration and its 
allies on Capitol Hill because 
(among other things) they felt 
it did not go far enough to 
allay concerns over the impact 
the agreement might have 
on the safety and security of 
Israel. Look it up if you don’
t 
believe me.
These leading pro-Israel 
congressional Democrats who 
opposed the deal in 2015 even-
tually came around to the posi-
tion, once the agreement was 
in place, that it would be better 
to keep it than to blow it up. 
Many experts in the American 
and Israeli military-defense 
establishments shared that 

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