VALDOSTA — Temple Israel thanks everyone for their support

We at Temple Israel wish to thank everyone who supported our recent Kosher Corned Beef Sandwich Sale. It was our biggest success ever! We sold over 4,800 sandwiches, a number we are indeed proud of.

We have received many positive comments from the community about the quality of the meat and the manner the lunches were delivered. With each year our congregation seeks ways to improve, thus, comments received are most appreciated.

 We’re looking forward to next year’s sale and to insure your continued support of loyal friends.

 Thank you again for supporting Valdosta Hebrew Congregation’s sandwich sale and we hope to see y’all next year.

Shalom, with peace and good health.



Rabbi Moshe Elbaz

Nation needs to come together

This is probably going to be one unpopular letter but I do not care. We here in Georgia especially Valdosta are some of the most whining people it has ever been my misfortune to know. I have lived the majority of my adult life here and watch and I must say participated at times in this ongoing Democrats/Republicans blame game.

People, it is time for it to stop. We are in a sinking ship and we need to be working together instead of against each other; our main goal should be to save this great country of ours regardless of who is in the White House.

Come on people, get off your teapots and your soap boxes. Stop putting down everything you hear, saying how it is not going to work. How do you know? What is your plan? What is your solution other than to complain about what "they " are doing. Calling names and spewing racist hatred and ignorance and hiding behind God and the Bible pretending to be moral and forthright. What a bunch of liars and hypocrites! What a world we live in.

 Full of Rush and Bill and other fools whose mouths work a whole lot faster than their brains, and a bunch of blind fools eating up their every word like it was sent down from the mountain top. Wake up. Some of you Georgians fell prey to Sonny Perdue and his nonsense and look what he has done to our once great state. He has all but thrown our children back into the one-room school houses to learn by candlelight and you voted for him not once but twice all for the promise to change a stupid flag? Are you serious?

 Well as I said before we have got to come together for real not for some sentimental show like for the 9/11 crisis but for the good of the entire nation. Let’s all start today. Everybody make a choice today to take our future into our hands. Let's make our country great again.



Cynthia Perry Crawford

Valdosta

Change I can’t believe in

In their desperation to pass ObamaCare, Democrats are back to pursuing a parliamentary gimmick that appeared to be off the table last week. And they are doing it entirely for partisan political purposes. According to a front page story in the Washington Post, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she likes the so-called Slaughter rule, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill,” which Pelosi admits “isn’t too popular” in the House.

Guess what, Madame Speaker? It’s not too popular with the American people either! Recent polling conducted in 11 swing Democrat districts found that the health care “reform” bill had on average of just 34.5 people’s support. It was opposed on average by 54 percent of likely voters in these Democrat-held districts.

And jamming it down our throats by any means necessary makes it even less popular. Support for the reconciliation process was just 29 percent, while 58 percent of voters in these Democrat districts opposed reconciliation. But Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi won’t let popular opinion get in the way of socialized medicine, even if they have to "slaughter" the House rules!

The Slaughter rule is named after Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Rules Committee. The Rules Committee is so named because it sets the rules of debate for all legislation that reaches the House floor. But Pelosi knows that many House Democrats do not want to go on the record in support of the Senate bill.

In their attempt to nationalize nearly 20 percent of our economy, a president with a messianic complex and dictatorial liberals are making a mockery of our representative government. The reconciliation process is being used to effectively nullify the election results in Massachusetts, where ObamaCare was so unpopular that a Republican won Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat. That election denied the Democrats their 60-vote, filibuster-proof super majority in the Senate. So they want to change the rules.

Now House Democrats are going to "slaughter" the rules in order to pass a bill without actually voting on it! This is "change I can’t believe in" and it does not give me "hope" for the future of our republic. It may well be unconstitutional.



Bill Malone

Valdosta