No-Thing is different than nothing. Nothing is something. No-thing permits the spirit of the way to reveal itself to you.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Pope Scumbag the Next
A New Day in Israel?
Devil in the details
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Iran Cries
US, Israel accused of assassinating nuke scientist
Get Well
Eye for an Eye
Court Reinstates Death Penalty In Neo-Nazi Case
Sunday, January 10, 2010
The California Kid Returns
Friday, January 8, 2010
Is Mark Kirk a Pedophile?
Mark Kirk is a Republican in Illinois. Kirk is running for another office. A rival of his has taken out ads claiming :
a) Mark Kirk is Gay
b) Mark Kirk helped cover up former Rep. Foley's dalliances with congressional pages. These boy pages were around 16 years old and therefore Kirk is a pedophile by default.
Political speech is the most protected form of speech. Therefore there are few rules limiting political speech. And, if any television or other ad producer runs and ad for a candidate, they are bound by law to run all ads by any candidate regardless of content.
Once again we have people who want to lead scapegoating homosexuals to further their agendas.
The recently divorced Mark Kirk denies that he is gay. He should not have to.
As for the second claim, that Kirk is a pedophile by default for covering up Foley's gay affairs with congressional pages: There are really three separate claims:
1) That Kirk's alleged homosexuality makes him more likely to be or assist pedophilia.
2) That Kirk helped Foley cover up his behavior.
3) That Foley's actions constituted pedophilia
Not to argue the "wrongness" or legality of what Foley did, but to label it pedophilia is inaccurate. And it demeans the claim of pedophilia. And to imply that homosexuality equals gay or that homosexuality is on its own a valid reason to disqualify a candidate echoes millenia of verbal hatred towards minority groups. After all, if homosexuality is reason enough to make someone "bad" why not the Jew as well?
Its time voters everywhere sent their candidates a message: we are tired of campaigns run on scapegoating and fluff and lies and rhetoric.
But it isn't really. After all, you can't argue with success. Apparentlypeople like being bamboozled.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Now for the Yang
A charedi friend of mine told me a story of someone thinking about moving to Israel. When asked what he would do for a living he said he had the greatest idea ever. He said, "I'm going to open a pushcart, or a small stand. I will sell fries (chips). I will sell all kind of fries with dips and toppings. They will come in a bag. People will love 'em. I'll have sheet metal put on the outside of my pushcart. I'll make it look all prison-like and I'll have a big sign just like the origional that says ARBEIT MACHT FRIES."
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Holocaust Book
By Abraham Bidermann, "The World of My Past"
Brilliant.
I strongly urge everyone to read this book.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Quarter Pounder with Steroids, Please
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Homosexuality is an Abomination
A recent public forum at Yeshiva University that took on the question of homosexuality in the Orthodox Jewish world has prompted a backlash from students and teachers, who fired back with petitions and public lectures condemning the event.
Critics of the event, held December 22, say it lent legitimacy to those who are trying to water down aspects of Jewishlaw, which explicitly bans homosexuality. With some students and rabbis calling the event a desecration of God's name, YU President Richard Joel and Rabbi Yona Reiss, dean of the rabbinical school, circulated a statement in the days after the forum reiterating the "absolute prohibition of homosexual relationships according toJewish law."
In a lecture at YU on December 28, Rabbi Mayer Twersky sharply criticizedthe event, while acknowledging that its organizers probably had good intentions. "Not only in my lifetime, but I think in your lifetimes, there was a point in which such a shmooze [discussion] would have been unimaginable, inconceivable. Not only unnecessary, but inappropriate. Wrong," he said.
"If the Torah says something is a toevah [abomination], it is that," he said. "And there's no need and, more importantly, no justification for being politically correct in terms of what it is. The Torah says it, the Torah's value judgments are eternally true."
Who ever is for baby killers to god.
Baby Fruma Anshin, 8-months-old, was discovered in her parents' apartment suffering from serious physical trauma late Thursday. The infant girl was rushed to hospital, where she died of her injuries.
Authorities were summoned to the Anshins' apartment in the Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood in Jerusalem after his wife reported to police that she feared for her daughter's life.
Upon entering the apartment, police discovered the infant girl in serious condition. Investigators also noticed strangulation marks on the girl's neck.
Police suspect that Anshin assaulted the child after an argument with his wife.
Shortly after the infant's hospitalization, dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews descended on the hospital and assaulted the policemen who were securing the perimeter of the building. Two of the assailants were arrested