Servant Song

Thanks, everyone!

Christian side hug.

I hope that this is not real, but merely a frightening parody. But I just don’t know.

With Friends Like Sarah Palin....

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Sarah Palin, in an interview with Barbara Walters, talks about settlements:
"I disagree with the Obama administration on that. I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand."
"More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel"? Who, exactly? Is this her analysis of Jewish demography? Is there a sudden upsurge in Zionist sentiment among American Jews, the only sizable Jewish community left outside of Israel? Or is this an indication that Palin buys into creepy End-Times thinking, in which the ingathering of the Jews, and their mass death, presage the return of Christ? Inquiring minds want to know.

In my recent genealogical studies I found this tidbit in a book about Rozwadow, Poland, where some of my people were from. Moshe Reich was my grandfather Sam’s brother.

In 1905 the town was overrun by a wave of refugees from Russia- on their way to Western Europe. Though they stayed for only a short time, some of them with their brilliant personalities and revolutionaries past, left their imprint on the perennial Talmud students of the town. Under their influence they started learning the Bible, Hebrew grammar, languages and history. Among the younger generation there were three outstanding talents: H. G. Wisen, the well-known philologist and grammarian; Ajzyk Mandel, the great Talmud scholar – both deceased – and Rabbi Mosze Reich, the present editor of the Rabbi Kook Institute in Jerusalem, and M. Mohr, who has won a prominent place in modern Hebrew literature with his fine felt poems and beautiful translations. The members of this circle imbued the town with their Zionist ideas and love for the Hebrew language, their personal rectitude and upright national spirit, and their influence continued even after they had left Rozwadow to seek their personal future.

I love that he turned people towards Bible and Hebrew- that’s my thing!

A high school in Danvers will suspend students for saying 'meep.'

I am on the side of any student who gets in trouble for this. Part of education is knowing when people are being stupid, and maybe standing up to some piece of crap idiot drunk on authority to make you do useless things.

Stefanie surprised me by making sushi for dinner! The gesture is some kind of thing that Brooklynites do.

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Jerome Corsi, of World Net Daily, is reporting that the Fort Hood shooter was an adviser to the Obama transition team. In case this needs to be said, he wasn’t. What he did do was show up at a completely unofficial forum on the transition at George Washington University, and wrote down his name as being in attendance. Not really the same thing. Some people need a good shaming.

As sometimes happens with me, my cold last weekend turned into an asthma attack this week, which isn’t going away. I finally went to the doctor this morning, who put me on a short (5-day) course of Prednisone, which is apparently the treatment du jour for this type of thing when albuterol isn’t cutting it. I am feeling a bit better, but I am also up at 4:00 doing last night’s dishes. I expect to be a few inches taller soon, and I think that Stefanie is really going to appreciate these extra limbs.

Unexpectedly, at least for me, Israel has become the largest exporter of hippopotami to zoos!

Of course, the headline had to be Israel feeds hungry, hungry hippo market.

Just a little something for a Monday...

A nice, if low key Halloween night. Plus, we get an extra hour of sleep because of Daylight Savings ending. So yay!

Arrrrr, mateys!!!



Who wants candy when there is tasty, tasty human flesh??



Eeeek!
And might I add that Meret did her makeup pretty much on her own! Talented!

I remember this from childhood. They should show these more!

Fun with alcoholism! There are many brilliant remixes on youtube.

Two South Carolina Republican party chairmen praised Senator DeMint recently, by saying that he was watching all the pennies... just like a Jew would.

Oy vey.

And yes, I am sure that there are racist Jew-hating Democrats. The Reverends Jackson and Wright come to mind. But they generally have the good sense to not write editorials about it.

Today, Stefanie and I were walking in Lexington and passed a guy at a LaRouche table, with a big picture of Obama-as-Hitler and a bunch of nonsensical slogans. As I passed, he asked how I was doing, and if I thought “we could get Obama some adult supervision.” Although I am often up for dealing with those people, today I was in no mood. The best course of action was clearly to just walk by him and say “Wooooo, I’m a Zionist, OOGA BOOGA BOOGA” while wiggling my fingers at him. He didn’t really have a response. What do you guys do in that situation?

Oh right- because I find the whole thing incredibly stupid and offensive. Still, maybe if the paycheck was big enough...

Conservative Bible Project removes 'liberal' verses

The last one worked pretty well, so...

Can someone explain to me why Roman Polanski should not be arrested and sentenced for his previous crimes, as well as for his unlawful flight?

Stefanie and I went to see the Butthole Surfers last night- the best show I have seen in a very long time. They played their old stuff, only one song later than Widowermaker, and their lineup was complete with two drummers for the total wall of percussion treatment. Gibby played his voice modulator a lot, and their background lighting and visual show was brilliant. Plus I got to see it with Stefanie, which was extra cool. Here is the obligatory bad cell phone picture, which actually does capture some of the spirit of the show.

Can someone explain, really explain, the arguments against the public health care option?

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Stefanie and Lucy, aka Team Chicken Butt, just finished the 30 mile Hub on Wheels bike race!!

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