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Down On The Farm
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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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