Reminder about your invitation from Chloe Ross August 22, 2011
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What I like About Jews August 18, 2011
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If you notice the Jesus Loves Me band of angels on the GOP side of the 2012 race you will not see a single Jew. I am certain there are plenty of Jews who are Republicans and even some who would consider at a run at the Big Job. But they don’t do it. I like this about Jews. I don’t count Joe Lieberman because I think he was ” a disappointment to the Jews”. He disappointed me anyway.
Before the mid 1800’s there was pretty much only two ways to be a Jew – the everyday – I’m a Jew, I go to shul, I eat kosher and for Chinese food I pretend pork chow mein is something else. The other way was to be Chassidic or Ultra Orthodox- stricter, more observant and insular. In the mid 1800’s Jewishness started to branch out into other ways to be Jewish – reform, conservative, secular and of course old style. But all the time this went on – the conversation stayed in the Jewish community. There were Zionists who wanted a Jewish Homeland way before the turn of the last century and those who said “Feh” to the whole idea . Jews, however, when in a group – were always Jewish. The rules – observed or not were there, the Torah (5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures) set them down and whether or not modern Jews believed each one or even that G-d had sent them – they stood basically united on the concept. Prophets came along and fleshed out the story, but very little changed over 5000 years or so. We still wait for the precise conditions for Moshiach to arrive and sort out the problems and we don’t get voices that tell us to tweak the story simply to go with the times. I like this about Jews. No revelations, no pale horses, and especially no Jesus. We like the concept of one G-d who is who he is and is only who he is and only one as well (that was a little Jewish dance with words). You will not see a Trinity Shul. The point is that our G-d; as far as we are concerned – THE G-d – didn’t have relatives or kids or wives or personal saviors and he could be a nasty piece of work and made no excuses for it. He set it up so you played by the rules and every once in a while you got some joy from it but he also let it be known that life was not and would not be an easy road. This worked out for the Jews for about 3000 years until the Romans hit the Middle East and it hit the skids right about then. The basic fact was and is – Jewishness may sound strict but the rules stay the same. You atone for your own sins, you honor the ten commandments and then you are on your own. I like this about the Jews. I don’t think they – as a group – speak to many Americans as political people. Just as well. In my book they are far too pragmatic for the job and frankly they are pretty useless in Israel – politically speaking.
So it is with trepidation and a sense of fear I listen to the Holy Runners for the GOP tickets who are straight out of Cults and Consequences. And they hate everyone who isn’t one of them. Not a smart idea for running a country based on equality and freedom. They love Jesus. Okay and he loves them back – something they got from a song in Sunday school. They don’t want to pay taxes for services because they are afraid “others” will get some money of theirs. (Yet they tithe – 10% to the church of their choice and get what in return?) A couple believe in a planet called Kobol where they will go at some point after death. Their cult says that gays are bad people so they get together and seek to make them more or less non grata. (Prop 8). A few more – so far – are certifiable in their denial of anyone’s right to believe as they please and insist the country was founded on Christian beliefs and values. Jesus did not like the Gay, the women, the dark skinned or the Democrats. They believe this and say so. The framers were primarily deists who were also Masons. They had no use for state religion and said so at the jump. Tell that to the band of idiots who believe in someone who is not G-d but an ordinary, charismatic Jew that too many people took far to seriously. They have many, many rule changes to suit their agendas – G-d came to them and said so is a favorite. I doubt this wholeheartedly.. They are largely on the side of big business and have some confusion about what is and isn’t a people vs a corporation. I would personally expect to a lot richer if I was an Inc. They won’t admit it but they are FLOORED by the dark skinned Harvard lawyer who lives in the White House with his black wife, mother in law and children. They have spent 4 years making this clear. I suspect they would feel just about the same if it were a Jew.
So in closing – I am a great supporter of Obama, a Jew and what I like about the Jews is that they don’t mix politics and religion. Obama doesn’t either.
Invitation to connect on LinkedIn August 15, 2011
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For the Bereaved of Borough Park July 14, 2011
Posted by voolavex in chasids, despicable, Jews, Politics & Religion, Social Issues.Tags: Caylee, death, dying, families, grief, Jews, Leiby Kletzky, murder, Orthodox, Religion, sisters, yarmulke
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I have been lazy and busy for the last few month – wasting perhaps valuable and pithy thoughts on FB. But today my heart is broken and I am in mourning for a little boy I do not know. His name is Leiby Kletzky and he would have been 9 years old next week. Now he is dead. Like most of this country I paid some attention to the trial of Casey Anthony – an ordeal almost 6 years old and one that resulted in an acquittal based on lack of a case. The DA in Orlando screwed up. Whatever we learn now about this matter will always be fraught with doubts but Casey Anthony is protected by double jeopardy so she may be a pariah – but she will go on her way. I don’t much care to be very honest.
Today I got an email from a list I am on called Hatzolah – a volunteer Jewish ER service and this one caught my eye. It told of a little boy walking home from day camp in borough Park Brooklyn who was kidnapped, murdered and dismembered by a member of the same neighborhood. This happened yesterday – not three years ago. Leiby was a little Orthodox Jewish lad with glasses, a yarmulke and sidelocks and sneakers coming back from day camp. A little boy. The family’s only son. His mother was on her way to meet him but he got lost and a man with a similar look drove by and we imagine Leiby asked for directions. Leiby got into the car. We will never know what he said but tonight he will be mourned and buried.
The man presumed innocent until proven guilty Levi Aron is a quiet, religious loner who lived in his parent’s home. He was not married and he worked full time. He only known crime was pishing in public. I suspect most men have done this. One can only assume that there were very dark parts in his head and where his soul might have once been. He has supposedly admitted to what he did to Leiby. What he did was so heinous and ugly you can read the tabloids to get the details. A parent should never know such things can happen to children. Such things should never happen.
While I write this I am waiting for the real press to tell us about Leiby and his short but beloved life. The sisters who must have adored him, the mother who treasured him; the father who planned in his heart for the 13th birthday on which he would become a man. I am waiting for the outrage and the anger and the fury that accompanied the death of Caylee Anthony. A child no more or less precious than this little boy. I am waiting for the outcry, the keeners, the wailers, the sign carriers who will demonstrate for Leiby and I know I will be even sadder because none of that will happen. And I would ask you who have loved any child to make sure it does. Because it matters just as much.
Well, I’d Like To Go To Memphis* April 23, 2011
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I loved the movie Nashville – in its entirety and while I cannot sing a note I do know all the words to all the songs (Ronee Blakely is my favorite).
When the clue-challenged Governor of Tennesse decided to ban the words “gay” and “homosexual” from schools in that state and other instances where it might be used to refer to folks who are gay and homosexual I thought of Barbara Jean* in the movie Nashville. So I have taken some liberities with Karen Black’s wonderful song (copyrighted by her) – and composed this little ditty – to be sung, if you can – sort of, to the tune of “I’d Like to Go to Memphis”. It is dedicated to all the wonderful gay and homosexual people I know, the lousy and rotten gay and homosexuals that must be out there too and the Log Cabin Republicans – whom I don’t quite get:
Well, I’d like to go to Memphis but I can’t cause I’m gay
If they ask me and I tell ’em they’ll just send me away and I’d love to go to
Nashville but the same thing is true; the homo’s gone from
sexual so I will be too. And I’ll try to keep on going on.
I had a friend from Dover but he went away – I suppose
he told the teacher and the preacher that he’s gay.
Now that he can’t say it there’s no reason to stay
So I guess that he’ll just try to keep on going on.
Long distance information will not accept my
call, so I guess I ‘ll write a letter, I was gonna after all.
And I’ll stay out of the GOO-GOO – can’t risk it being there
On the last train to Clarksville I won’t even get a chair.
So I’d like to go to Memphis but they haven’t got a clue.
Today it’s homosexual; it could soon be Black and Jew
So I guess I’ll have to keep on keeping on – oo oo.
And then I guess I’ll just have to keep on keeping on.
Jim Crow Passes Muster in Akron, Ohio January 28, 2011
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- I’m gwine to sing a little song, My name’s Jim Crow.
- Chorus: Wheel about, an’ turn about, an’ do jis so;
- Eb’ry time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow.
- I went down to de river, I didn’t mean to stay,
- But there I see so many gals, I couldn’t get away.
- I’m rorer on de fiddle, an’ down in ole Virginny,
- Dey say I play de skientific, like massa Paganini.
- I cut so many munky shines, I dance de galloppade;
- An’ w’en I done, I res’ my head, on shubble, hoe or spade.
- I met Miss Dina Scrub one day, I gib her sich a buss;
- An’ den she turn an’ slap my face, an’ make a mighty fuss.
- De udder gals dey ‘gin to fight, I tel’d dem wait a bit;
- I’d hab dem all, jis one by one, as I tourt fit.
- I wip de lion ob de west, I eat de alligator;
- I put more water in my mouf, den boil ten load ob ‘tator.
- De way dey bake de hoe cake, Virginny nebber tire;
- Dey put de doe upon de foot, an’ stick ’em in de fire.[1] “
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Number Two With A Bullet January 10, 2011
Posted by voolavex in common sense, despicable, illegal, peasants, Politics & Religion, Scalia, Social Issues.Tags: 2nd amendment, bear arms, choix du roi, framers, guns
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Twelve years ago my husband was pistol whipped where he worked. The assailant hit him several time on the left side of his head leaving him with a closed head trauma, permanent disability, severe headaches and laundry lists of ongoing side effects that have gotten worse instead of better. For many years we thought this injury was caused by a closed fist until an eyewitness mentioned it had been a gun butt that was used. The men were armed. That is the full disclosure part.
When the framers wrote our constitution the second amendment was logical to me. A war had just been fought, trespass and killings still were a part of the landscape of 1776. Added to that many Americans shot for food. Disallowing guns to me seemed like a bad idea. I often think today we confuse the framers with the store front fortune tellers who can see all and tell all for a price. The men who wrote the constitution were not seers. They did not appear to have divine vision neither did they claim to have insider future info that guided them. I think they wrote a damn fine outline for a new and revolutionary country. An untried experiment. Until the American and French revolted royalty pretty much called the shots and it was an iffy business. In France (pre-1789), the birth of prince and then a princess was called the “choix du roi”. First you have an heir and then you marry off your daughter to another crown prince and gain more of everything. Marie Antoinette was an arch duchess of Austria. So one of the jobs of the framers was to abolish this entitlement of one ruling class and make everyone equal (sort of). What I’m not sure of is how long they expected this country to last or grow. Certain inalienable rights however were declared and bearing arms was one of them. You did not have to be a soldier of the king to strike fear into people who threatened your sovereignty.
Sadly the folks who like to shoot guns and desire to own and wear them are not always the good citizens. The bad guys too are equally entitled to have them. The 2nd amendment said nothing about shooting nor did it specify under what circumstances the arms could be used. Talk about your open to interpretation clause. The framers simply (I think) did not want Mr. John Q. American to be invaded by gun-toting foreigners who were going to steal their land and freedom. And I agree.
I am confused today about guns and gun laws and killers (well – not the killers). I do not own a gun for one reason only. I fear I would use it and I do not want that responsibility. Like the bell, once the bullet leaves the chamber it has its own path and once it’s on it, people can get hurt or killed. Like yesterday. So while I respect the second amendment for its desire to protect Americans from all enemies, foreign and domestic – I am not sure enough people really understand and truly respect the amendment and how profound it is. We live in confusing times. And as an aside – I think it is time for SCOTUS member Scalia to have at least the Minnesota Multiphasic
2010 in review January 2, 2011
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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 10 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 81 posts.
The busiest day of the year was January 7th with 109 views. The most popular post that day was America: Going Out of Business.
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America: Going Out of Business July 2008
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Arrogance of Empire in the Land of the Free December 1, 2010
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Each fabulous empire had it peak and then fell like the ones before it. Without this shit we would not have archaeology. Basic fact.
It is audacious, therefore, for this country to imagine it will last forever as the bright shining symbol of all that is good and great on this planet. We refuse or simply fail to see ourselves reflected in the mirror of history. Other countries learn far better from their pasts and accept truths we think were made true at Disney Studios.
As mentioned today in the media: If the only reason for the GOP is to destroy the Dems – a word of warning; they will also fall on their swords and we will have some kind of new and very scary government. Our vaudeville Congress and “partiers” have made us a joke worldwide for our retro revivalist politics, bigotry and narrow views. Step back a little – We are no longer a great nation of hopes and promises kept – we are a nation of angry, obsolete petty snake oil salesmen – promises are made and the Loyal Opp makes it its job to see they cannot be fulfilled.
This is no longer a country I recognize. One party systems fast become one man systems and in this country we hold our politics in such high esteem we barely pay attention to how many rotten apples sit in the halls of Congress waiting for job. It must smell like hard cider by now. I would advise those southwest of our country – those who think they can achieve the American Dream to pack warmer clothes and keep moving until they hit Canada.
It is hard to continue loving a land that gave so much to so many only to have shot itself in the foot over bigotry and imaginary fears. Those who fear the “Nanny” state are the ones who need supervision and limits the most. People who know what their limits are have no reason to fear anything in terms of grift, graft and greed. It’s not the crime that brings regrets to the political thieves – it’s the getting caught. The United States is out of control. And it scares me to death.
The Right Stuff: 13 Reasons “WE” Won Back the House November 6, 2010
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