Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Chometz between the Straits and In The Pinch
So, my first Rosh Chodesh Av being frum began quietly as most typical Mondays...discord. The day ushers in the nine days of deep thought and outright mourning for the fall of the beit hamikdash not once but twice and all of the many dark nights that seem to have found their inception on that fateful day Tisha B'Av - "9th of Av".
...the spies returned from the new land on the 8th of Av and insist they'd rather go back to Egypt instead of facing the Canaanites, the next day, the 9th of Av, G-d made it clear that generation would not enter the land of Yisroel, only their children. The First Temple was destroyed in 423BCE on the same date. The Second Temple was destroyed five centuries later on the same date. Bar Kochba and his rebels were slaughtered by the boys from Rome on the same day in 133CE. The Jews were explelled from England on, yeah, the same day in 1290CE. March 31, 1492 Isabella and Ferdinand gave the Jews four months before they would be banished from their "kingdom", right again, the exact day fell on Tisha B'Av. WWI began the fire of the Holocaust in the Second World War and it began on.......yep, 9th of Av.
I awoke this morning around 4:45 to rain and wanted so badly to stay under the covers as my dogs chose to do. I rinsed my hands, gargled some water, relieved my organs, armed myself for holy battle with tefillin and began the morning Shacharit as Abraham did centuries ago. A few minutes into reciting the words to the pitch black raining and thundering sky outside the window where I was standing was this loud explosion and light sparkling. I thought, "damn way for Meshiach to enter the world during the nine days"! I soon realized it was a transformer in my neighbors backyard and continued praying but noticed something a tad eery in the small light I was using to scan the Siddur given to us by the hands of Shneur Zalman from the heart of the Arizal, Isaac Luria...the light was abnormally brighter than it usually was. Then I heard the oven making a weird noise, then the refrigerator and noticed most of my electricity was gone. But these weird lights were confusing me. Meshiach? You there? oh, utility issue.
I came to my senses and thought it might be wise to walked outside in the pouring rain and flip the main breaker. I then called our local utility company, MLGW, and explained that I was for the most part out of power but there was a weird voltage "thing" going on. "We'll have somebody come check it." An hour later my utilities returned to the odd behavior and I went back to my breaker box and the crap had been turned back on. I walked to the front yard and saw a service truck driving off. I called the utility company again and told them they had a problem more than breakers being tripped and they said they'd have somebody come back out in a tone that made me feel like I had awakened them. About half an hour later I heard someone hollering out front and thought it was again another sign of "strangeness" and stepped out on the porch and saw some guy in running shoes, no shirt, jogging in the rain with his cell phone but simply thought: "those runners are all the same...a bunch of vegan fanatics." As I walked back in the door I smelled it...
...I looked to the right and dark gray smoke was billowing out of my neighbors roof and realized why the "fanatic" was running in the rain with his cell phone. I ran to the house also and found my neighbor frantically trying to get a hose into his attic but by this time it was not possible to ward off the one hundred year old dried wood cracking in tandem with the rain and thunder.
I took the day off becasue I wished to stay close to the house until the power was back on and offer any assistance to my neighbor that might be needed. Teh power returned mid-afternoon and I soon realized my refrigerator had fallen victim to meshiachs sparkling entry earlier in the morning. I took a prepackaged container of vegetable pasta and set it in the microwave and...uh oh, another victim; it was gone. Then I sliced a tomatoe and sprinkled it with salt and pepper and turned on my IPod station and UH OH, another victim. OK, that's three, "no more hashem" I said. I had two slices of pizza in the "fridge" which was approaching 48 degrees and figured they were still alright to eat. I made my way to the den and picked up the remote and, you guessed it..."FRIED". Huh. Self pity is so consuming and then I remembered...
May we move in health and usher the coming days of the Temple's rebuilding with speed.
...the spies returned from the new land on the 8th of Av and insist they'd rather go back to Egypt instead of facing the Canaanites, the next day, the 9th of Av, G-d made it clear that generation would not enter the land of Yisroel, only their children. The First Temple was destroyed in 423BCE on the same date. The Second Temple was destroyed five centuries later on the same date. Bar Kochba and his rebels were slaughtered by the boys from Rome on the same day in 133CE. The Jews were explelled from England on, yeah, the same day in 1290CE. March 31, 1492 Isabella and Ferdinand gave the Jews four months before they would be banished from their "kingdom", right again, the exact day fell on Tisha B'Av. WWI began the fire of the Holocaust in the Second World War and it began on.......yep, 9th of Av.
I awoke this morning around 4:45 to rain and wanted so badly to stay under the covers as my dogs chose to do. I rinsed my hands, gargled some water, relieved my organs, armed myself for holy battle with tefillin and began the morning Shacharit as Abraham did centuries ago. A few minutes into reciting the words to the pitch black raining and thundering sky outside the window where I was standing was this loud explosion and light sparkling. I thought, "damn way for Meshiach to enter the world during the nine days"! I soon realized it was a transformer in my neighbors backyard and continued praying but noticed something a tad eery in the small light I was using to scan the Siddur given to us by the hands of Shneur Zalman from the heart of the Arizal, Isaac Luria...the light was abnormally brighter than it usually was. Then I heard the oven making a weird noise, then the refrigerator and noticed most of my electricity was gone. But these weird lights were confusing me. Meshiach? You there? oh, utility issue.
I came to my senses and thought it might be wise to walked outside in the pouring rain and flip the main breaker. I then called our local utility company, MLGW, and explained that I was for the most part out of power but there was a weird voltage "thing" going on. "We'll have somebody come check it." An hour later my utilities returned to the odd behavior and I went back to my breaker box and the crap had been turned back on. I walked to the front yard and saw a service truck driving off. I called the utility company again and told them they had a problem more than breakers being tripped and they said they'd have somebody come back out in a tone that made me feel like I had awakened them. About half an hour later I heard someone hollering out front and thought it was again another sign of "strangeness" and stepped out on the porch and saw some guy in running shoes, no shirt, jogging in the rain with his cell phone but simply thought: "those runners are all the same...a bunch of vegan fanatics." As I walked back in the door I smelled it...
...I looked to the right and dark gray smoke was billowing out of my neighbors roof and realized why the "fanatic" was running in the rain with his cell phone. I ran to the house also and found my neighbor frantically trying to get a hose into his attic but by this time it was not possible to ward off the one hundred year old dried wood cracking in tandem with the rain and thunder.
I took the day off becasue I wished to stay close to the house until the power was back on and offer any assistance to my neighbor that might be needed. Teh power returned mid-afternoon and I soon realized my refrigerator had fallen victim to meshiachs sparkling entry earlier in the morning. I took a prepackaged container of vegetable pasta and set it in the microwave and...uh oh, another victim; it was gone. Then I sliced a tomatoe and sprinkled it with salt and pepper and turned on my IPod station and UH OH, another victim. OK, that's three, "no more hashem" I said. I had two slices of pizza in the "fridge" which was approaching 48 degrees and figured they were still alright to eat. I made my way to the den and picked up the remote and, you guessed it..."FRIED". Huh. Self pity is so consuming and then I remembered...
...the first thing my neighbor came running out his house with was his guitar and it broke my heart. He had already secured his dogs but of all other things the strings to joy were his next most important belonging.
I sat back and munched on my tomatoe and thought about the nine days leading up to Tisha B'Av and thanked hashem for my cozy chair, job that I can call-in without repercussions, three dogs, good food, and the emerging sunshine.
May we move in health and usher the coming days of the Temple's rebuilding with speed.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Abiotic Gulf Coast Evacuation?
Rumors are that there are "quiet" discussions about evacuating millions from the US Gulf Coast due to the existence of the famed abiogenic petroleum that might inevitably collapse the ocean floor in that area due to the continued spewing of petro from BP's hands...
...earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis in the near future for margaritaville? Some say look for the worst in 80 days.
The spill began a day after the the US pissed on Israel and the 80 days puts us around the time the Israeli government is supposed to lift the freeze on "settlements" that our president will surely try his best at redirecting Israeli PM Netanyahu tomorrow in Washington.
Maybe it is time for the old retired yids in Florida to be good Zionists and make aliyah (to Eretz Yisroel) soon.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Three Eagles
I am going to use a phrase from my favorite female Muslim cousin (BO AKA Hussein Obama)... "mark my words" enjoy gas prices as they are for now! If you read the standard print or electronic media I am sure you aren't aware that the US has massed troops on the northern Iranian border in southern Azerbaijan, recently increased naval presence in in the Suez Canal and around the Strait of Hormuz, and the Israelis have "built" a small base in north eastern Sa'udi Arabia...not too far from the Strait.
The three eagles...Russia, United States, Iran. Hussein Obama is a passive little girl who's father is the King of Sa'udi Arabia (remember his bow to the King of Sa'udi Arabi last year at the G20 summit - picture included if you don't), the Russian people are an offspring of the lineage of Esav and Ismail, and the Iranians are a bunch of illegitimate indo-european-Ali-loving freaks.
All three use the eagle as a national symbol in one way or another. The double-headed eagle (very dear to the Ruskies) historically represents the East AND the West. The American dollar is practically worthless becasue our gold (what is left of it - do any of us really know how much gold we have in reserve?) is owned by the Chinese (and Russians quietly), and the Soviets have tons of Gold reserves.
We will soon bomb Iran using Israel as the "point-man" and the world of petroleum reserves and refining will be in chaos a while. Russian oil will flow freely and like any good wife the US will ask if we can "purchase" from them or one of their Wahabi children and they will demand payment in GOLD. "Uh oh" are the inventory books from Levinworth correct? Israel will be blamed for the mayhem due to their "insolence" toward the "poor little Arabs in Yesha (Yehuda-Shomron-Azza, also known as Yehuda/Judah, Shomron/Samaria/includes the fantasy home West Bank, and Azza/Gaza) and the three eagles will join together in a flight of commaraderie...but that Israel/Jewish issue will become their new world order anthem of libations for "peace".
Question: Would a faithful Baptist or Methodist (well, I guess we have to excuse some Methodists) bow tho the Pope? Would a non-Muslim BOW to the King of Sa'udi Arabia much less the President of the United States? That is treason!...and I know, old news.
BHO, Barakh, Hussein...whatever he is, continues asking for if not answering to the Russian's approval and his husband in Moscow loves it because the bluebirds over the whitecliffs of the Caspian are coming home plated in gold with greetings from MESHIACH.
Jerusalem, if I forget thee let my right hand forget it's cunning.
Make (Teshuvah) תשובה T'shuvah...Meshiach is around the corner.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Hey Helen Thomas - KAHANE WAS RIGHT!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Regretful Democrat Seeking T'Shuvah
BHO - Designed (by Microsoft) with the best of intentions, (BHO's or 'Browser Helper Objects') are intended to be a feature of the Internet Explorer web browser which can be used to add functionality. Unfortunately, malware authors have also exploited the power of BHO's for other purposes such as spreading spyware.
BHO's, in and of themselves, are not bad. But, like a lot of other features and functionality, if the BHO can be used to install additional features or functions that are useful, it can also be exploited to install features or functions that are malicious. But, there are also many examples of BHO's which are used to hijack your Web browser home page, spy on your Internet activities and other malicious actions.
“Ooops”, wrong BHO.
BHO – Barakh Hussein Obama.
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch will be speaking at a rally today, Sunday 25 April, in a taped message outside the Israel Consulate in New York City, where thousands of Americans are preparing to protest against the Obama administration's increasing hostility towards Israel. Ed Koch has been a long time Democrat but has “crossed the aisle” at times before but this time he says he is “getting off the train”…the Obama train.
The rift with Obama and Israel lies solely in a complete perversion, not misrepresentation, of binding historical laws and decisions called The Balfour Declaration, League of Nations Palestine Mandate, Geneva Convention (Article 49) and especially the often cited UN Resolution 242. The perversion is an attempt by Hussein Obama to not only “strong-arm” and manipulate the world into further legitimizing Arab attempts to “judenrein” all of Israel but to also “break-down” Israelis and Jews in the galut (exile) into delegitimizing their own connection and right to Palestine.
What is a Palestinian?
Until the mid-fifties Jews who lived in Israel were known as Palestinians. The Romans changed the name of Judea to “Palestina” after the second Jewish Revolt, 132-135 CE, and dispersed many of the survivors as an attempt at psychological warfare.
What is Palestinian culture?
There is no distinct food, music, ethnic make-up, religion, language etc. It is all borrowed. Zahir Muhsein, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee said in a Dutch paper in 1977 “The Palestinian people do not exist…The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”
The Fatah wing of the PLO (the “moderate” wing founded by Yasser Arafat and controlled today by Abu Mazen, aka Mahmoud Abbas) has as its official emblem the entire state of Israel covered by two rifles and a hand grenade. Faisal al-Husseini, the deceased former leading “Palestinian” spokesman, declared in 2001 that the West Bank and Gaza represented only 22 percent of “Palestine” and called the 93’ Oslo process a “Trojan Horse.” He said “we are asking all Palestinian forces and factions to look at the Oslo Agreement…as temporary procedures, or phased goals, this means we are ambushing the Israelis and cheating them.” He stated that the goal was “the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,” the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, obviously ALL of Israel.
The Facts
Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (Yehuda & Shomron) for a few thousand years…”Palestinians” have not.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 called for “the establishment in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people” and was endorsed by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. The mandate recognized “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” The mandate further guaranteed the right of “close settlement” throughout Palestine and geographically defined this area as comprising land both east and west of the Jordan River – which became Jordan, the West Bank, and Israel.
The Geneva Convention was adopted in the shadow of the atrocities of WWII in 1949 as an attempt to protect people from ever falling victim to such horror again. Article 49 of the convention states that “an occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into territory it occupies” to forever prevent repetition of the insidious Nazi forced transfers of civilian populations to slave labor and extermination camps.
The British government offered to split Israel down the middle in 1948, the 48’ Partition, half for the Jews half for the Arabs…the Arab Ameleks refused.
The Geneva Convention does not restrict Jewish settlement in the West Bank because the government of Israel has neither “deported” Palestinians nor transferred Israelis there. But the Jordanians have. Jordan controlled the West Bank between 1949 – 1967 after they along with Syria, Iraq, and Egypt attacked the Jews in the Israeli 48’ War of Independence and expelled all Jews, moved Arabs from Jordan into the area, and destroyed many ancient Jewish sites.
Resolution 242 was adopted in 1967 after Israel was again attacked by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria with assistance also from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Sudan, Morocco, and Algeria. At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Eugene Rostow, a contributing scholar to the decree states that “Resolution 242 calls on parties to make peace and allows Israel to administer the territories it occupied in 1967 until a just and lasting peace in the Middle East is achieved.” And even then Israel is only required to withdraw some of its troops because the Resolution says to withdraw its troops “from territories”…not from “the territories” nor “from all the territories.”
The state of Israel has given up more than 40% of its land in the last fifty years seeking peace.
The West Bank, Judea-Samaria, includes some of the holiest and most important sites in Jewish history…the Arabs claim the abominating al-Aqsa Mosque which isn’t even a mosque.
Arabs have full citizenship and the right to vote in Israel…Jews can’t step foot in Saudi Arabia and many other Arab countries, of which many were the long time home to a lot of Jews.
Over 400,000 Arabs have entered the West Bank and Gaza via Jordan since the 93’ Oslo Accords and built almost 300 settlements since 1967…Less than 200,00 Jews have entered the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem area and built a little over 100 settlements.
Ehud Barak offered almost all of the territories to Arafat at Camp David in 2000.
The media refers to all Israeli citizens in Judea and Samaria as “settler” as an attempt to justify the murderous behavior of the Arabs in the area and to legitimize their “fight” against the “occupying” Israelis by such statements like:
“The Israeli army has imposed severe restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron after a Jewish settler baby was shot dead.”
The TEN MONTH old child, Shalhevet Pass, was shot in the head and killed by a Palestinian sniper while seated in her stroller on the streets of Hebron, where she and her family lived. Shalhevet's father, Yitzchak Pass, who was pushing the stroller, was also wounded by the same bullet. It is believed the snipers were intentionally targeting the baby.
And when Erez and Elanit Shmuelin along with their six month old baby were ambushed and shot by Palestinians near the entrance of their Har Bracha neighborhood in Samaria, the BBC explained that: “most Palestinian militants continue to consider Jewish settlers to be legitimate targets.”
Hussein Obama and his stinky coos Secretary of State remain pissed at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for building in Jerusalem…the only building going on in Jerusalem right now is by Arabs and most of that is illegal because they have not requested permits.
American Jews are being far too quiet!
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu offered a withdrawal from 60% of the West Bank so the Palestinians could establish a state with temporary borders (while the parties established further foundations) to the Chairman of the PLO, Mahmoud Abbas a couple days ago…Abbas refused it Saturday.
Jerusalem and Israel shall remain UNDIVIDED! There is no option to the current one state solution that already exists. The Arabs need to continue paying their taxes, voting, sending members to the Knesset, or move to Detroit.
Healthcare reform, banking reform, don’t ask don’t tell, environmental policy, I don’t care…I regret that I voted for this klutz Obama!
Help me with my bag-gage Mr. Mayor, I’m right behind you!
“If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget it’s cunning.”
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