OBAMA’S INAUGURAL BALL WILL SOON BE OVER
After the ball
is over, after the election of Shame,
After the dancers’ leaving, after the stars are gone,
MANY a Heart is ACHING, IF You Could READ them All,
Many the Hopes that Shall Be Vanished AFTER the Ball.
AFTER The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party IS PICTURED As Over
Things Will Never Again be stated to be QUITE the Same
After The Trillions Of Dollars DO TEMPORARILY PROP UP All
But hopes will end forever as ONCE AGAIN Wall Street Falls
In 2010 – We WILL THINK recovery worries are ALMOST Over
In 2010 – We’ll THINK PEACE AND SAFETY IS NAME of the Game
But twixt 2010 and 2015 the FINAL WAR starts and hope is Gone
Until the true Messiah’s Inaugural ball begins and true peace is On!
January 14, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The 1890s w itn
essed the emergence of a commercial popular music industry in the United States. Sales of sheet music, enabling consumers to play and sing songs in their own parlors, skyrocketed during the “Gay Nineties,” led by Tin Pan Alley, the narrow street in midtown Manhattan that housed the country’s major music publishers and producers. Although Tin Pan Alley was established in the 1880s, it only achieved national prominence with the first “platinum” song hit in American music history—Charles K. Harris’s “After the Ball”—that sold two million pieces of sheet music in 1892 alone. “After the Ball’s” sentimentality ultimately helped sell over five million copies of sheet music, making it the biggest hit in Tin Pan Alley’s long history. Typical of most popular 1890s tunes, the song was a tearjerker, a melodramatic evocation of lost love.
AFTER THE BALL IS OVER
Number 1 of Obama’s Top 10 Official Inaugural Balls
The long-awaited list of official presidential inaugural balls — the only ones where President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are guaranteed to make an appearance — has been released. And if you’ve already bought a gown or rented a tux, bear in mind that almost all of these Jan. 20 bashes are by invitation only.
Youth Inaugural Ball: Aimed at the 18- to 35-year-old crowd (nice to think 35 can still be considered youthful). Ticket cost: $75. Venue: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave.
N.W.
Obama Home States Inaugural Ball: You have to be from Illinois or Hawaii and you have to be invited to get into this ball. Ticket cost: $150. Venue: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W.
Biden Home States Inaugural Ball: Yup, you have to be from Delaware or Pennsylvania to be invited to this bash. Same price and venue as Obama’s home states bash.
And don’t forget there will also be the biggest Inaugural Parade in History
Tickets for the inaugural parade are on sale right now (Jan. 9) but bear in mind that you don’t need a ticket to see about 80% of the route that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will take after their swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol on Jan.
20.
These tickets guarantee you a seat along the parade route — but you’ll need to be in your seat no later than 1 p.m.
Begin Series of Excerpts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
Excerpt Number 1 from Washington Institute for Near East Policy
When the Gaza Dust Settles
Robert Satloff
Once the immediate crisis comes to an end, the Obama-Clinton team will face a choice in how to fulfill the new president’s commitment to invest heavily and early in the Arab-Israeli peace process. On the Israeli-Palestinian track, there are two principal schools of thought, reflected in two sets of studies produced by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a joint effort by the Council on Foreign Relations/Brookings Institution. The Washington Institute studies call for a combined top-down/bottom-up approach toward strengthening the Palestinian Authority and enhancing prospects for Israeli-PA negotiations; the relevant chapter in the CFR/Brookings study calls for findings ways the U.S. can engage Hamas.
It is important to recognize that these are “either/or” options. It is not possible to engage Hamas
and build up the PA at the same time.
Engaging Hamas would undermine whatever popular support remains for the Mahmoud Abbas-Salam Fayad government, bring an abrupt end to the Dayton (U.S. security coordinator, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton) effort to “train and equip” PA security forces, compel Egypt and Jordan to change course in terms of their own approach toward the PA, and buoy radical actors from Gaza to Beirut to Tehran. Given both personnel choices and strategic imperatives, it is unlikely that the Obama-Clinton team will choose to engage Hamas.
The writer is executive director of The Washington Institute. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Excerpt 2 from Haaretz
To Deter or to Defeat Hamas
Moshe Arens
It does not seem likely that a terrorist organization could be deterred
from pursuing its aims. Terrorist organizations do not generally own substantial assets that are vulnerable to attack, and striking them seems to increase their support from their fanatical fans. Their leaders, if killed, are quickly replaced by others. Al-Qaeda cannot be deterred; it has to be defeated.
Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel, cannot be deterred. It attaches no value to life, whether Muslim or Jewish. Israel is concerned over the loss of life in Gaza during the current round of fighting, but Hamas is not. If a cease-fire is established before Hamas’ rocket capability has been eliminated, the group will be seen as the victor.
If rockets cease falling, it will be clear who won this conflict. The writer served as Israel’s Minister of Defense three times. (Ha’aretz)
Excerpt 3 from New York Times
Why Israel Can’t Make Peace with Hamas
Jeffrey Goldberg
In the summer of 2006, Nizar Rayyan, a member of the Hamas ruling elite and an unblushing executioner, who was killed two weeks ago, told this journalist, “First we must deal with the Muslims who speak of a peace process and then we will deal with you.” As the Gaza war moves to a cease-fire, a crucial question will inevitably arise: Should Israel (and by extension, the U.S.) try to engage Hamas? But the question is unmoored from certain political and theological realities.
Advocates of negotiation suggest that the hostility toward Jews expressed by Hamas is somehow mutable. But in years of listening, I haven’t heard much to suggest that its anti-Semitism is insincere. Like Hizbullah, Hamas believes that God is opposed to a Jewish state in Palestine.
I asked Rayyan: Could you agree to anything more than a tactical cease-fire with Israel? I felt slightly ridiculous asking: A man who believes that God every now and again transforms Jews into pigs and apes might not be the most obvious candidate for peace talks at Camp David.
Rayyan answered that a long-term cease-fire would be unnecessary, because it will not take long for the forces of Islam to eradicate Israel. (New York Times)
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