Sunday, January 17, 2010

Pope Scumbag the Next



At Rome synagogue, Pope defends Nazi-era Vatican

"Pope Benedict XVI used his first visit to Rome's synagouge on Sunday to defend the oft-criticized actions of the Vatican during the Holocaust, saying the Church had "acted in a discreet and hidden way."


When Catholic priests spewed their venom and drummed up Jew-killing, there was nothing discreet and hidden. The representatives of the Church were outspoken and vociferous in their hatred towards Jews. For over a thousand years before the Holocaust the Church openly and stridently helped destroy Jews.

But to help a Jew they had to be hidden and discreet.

Centuries ago, it was a pope that forced Jews into a Ghetto in Italy.

And rather than open the archives of the Holocaust Pope and prove that he was at all a decent human, they choose to keep their information as hidden and discreet as was their help.

I spit on the Pope and the Church and the whole lot of hypocritical offspring of genocidal mania.

A New Day in Israel?



Shin Bet: 2009 was first year in decade without suicide attacks


What a terribly sad reality.

On the other hand, it is better than not.

The question is, now that the Palestinians are no longer resorting to these terror tactics, will it lead to a resumption of peace talks?

For many years I have heard Israelis and others beg the Palestinians to stop using suicide bombers. They pleaded and demanded and they swore that if the Palestinians were not resorting to such tactics the Israelis would be able to make great concessions for peace.

So let's see what happens.

On the other hand, it makes no difference if they tried to use suicide bombers and were simply unsuccessful. The article does not reveal whether or not suicide bombings were attempted and thwarted.

Devil in the details

Pat Robertson asserts that Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake as a consequence of a pact with the devil they made over a century ago to chase out the French.

A few thoughts:

1. Why do you need a pact with the devil to chase out the French? Couldn't the Haitians have sent a telegram to the French telling them they would fight back? The French would have run away.

2. Why would God or the Devil, whomever sent the quake, wait generations to punish the Haitians?

3. Isn't it at all possible that the science of plate tectonics is not influenced by the devil? And that unlike a place like California, Haiti has such poor quality construction that an earthquake completely devastated the country?

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Iran Cries


US, Israel accused of assassinating nuke scientist


Maybe its true, maybe it isn't. We will never know. It is nice that the world respects/fears their capabilities.

Get Well

Here is to wishing Brock Lesnar gets well.

And I hope he can return to the cage at 100%.

If/When Frank Mir beats Shane Carwin in their upcoming battle, that puts Mir back in the batter's box for a title fight with Lesnar. A rubberneck fight, their third match up to break the tie.

So good luck and a speedy recovery.

Eye for an Eye


Court Reinstates Death Penalty In Neo-Nazi Case




I got no problem with it.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The California Kid Returns

Urijah Faber, returning from broken hand in a 5 round battle with Mike Brown, fights again.

The California Kid is pound for pound one of the top ten fighters in the world, in my opinion.

He is going to destroy Rafael Assuncao at WEC 46 tonight.

And Brown, who just lost the title he took from Faber, is also fighting on the card tonight.

Should be a great night of MMA. And it's free. What more could you possibly want?

Friday, January 8, 2010

Is Mark Kirk a Pedophile?

Politics.



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

Just to prove A. Biderman's point: that the Holecaust has already been reframed in our minds:

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

One of the most interesting and informative and starkly honest books I have ever read about the Holocaust.

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

People like to find causes for their reality. Assuming, for every effect there must be a cause. As ifthere is only one cause. As if they can comprehend all the causes that led to this particular effect.

My friend tell me that girls are developing earlier nowadays. Maybe that is true maybe it is not. I don't know. But he then goes on to explain why girls are developing/maturing physically earlier in life.

"It's all the steroids and hormones they put in the meat. That makes 10 yr. olds start puberty."

Maybe he is right. I don't know. Maybe the gov't agencies that set up the rules, and the science behind cattle growth is wrong or inaccurate or incomplete. Maybe the steroids in the beef is causing girls to mature sooner; if they actually are.

Or, perhaps there is another cause for this affect. Perhaps the availability of food, sheer quantity of food is the difference. Girls who are malnourished achieve puberty later and miss periods, etc. People are taller than they were two thousand years ago. People live longer. Infant mortality rate is down. People like to eat.

How rare it is that someone has a cause stated accurately before an effect.

But the math of randomness apparently demands that occasionally some people will state prophetic like causes. If 10,000 people make 10,000 predictions, some are bound to occur. Most people only remember the few times they were right.


Saturday, January 2, 2010

Homosexuality is an Abomination


The bible states that Homosexuality is an abomination:

I wonder what those Jews who profess to Ultra Orthodoxy would do to homosexuals if they were in their power?

Recently the Netuei Karta, a group of right wing ortho-jews, spent Sabbath in Gaza to show solidarity with the Palestinians. They are unequivocal in their belief that Israel should not be Jewish controlled untill the Messiah arrives.

At least they are honest. They don't hide their beliefs or water them down. They are not attempting to bridge the divide between a book written thousands of years ago and today. I surmise they believe that when the Messiah arrives and the third temple is built, convicted homosexuals will be put to death as the bible commands.

The rest of Jewry are shocked by the actions of the Neturei Karta. They distance themselves from this group because they recognize that they are totally out of step with the world. It is implied, that even the most stringent of right wing jews no longer accepts all the rules of the bible as written.

Ortho-Jews are not arguing to enforce the laws of the bible, rather, they want a biblical Israel with the belief that it will be like Disneyworld: a Jewish theme park. All will be well in this theme park. There will be no crime and no sin. They stridently avoid discussing what are the rules of the bible that are distasteful in today's world: rules that govern women, death penalty for a variety of issues, etc.

At least the Neturei Karta are honest in their belief. They are willing for every jew in Israel to be killed if that will bring the Messiah. But the fakers at YU, the ones who so easily call homosexuality an abomination, do they want to punish gays with death?

Are they willing to open up the books on their own lives and live by the punishments of the bible?


From the Jerusalem Post:

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.

Rabbi Mayer Twersky

Rabbi Mayer Twersky

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.

At the end of the article, when it says that the ortho jews attacked the hospital, It took a few readings for my wife to realize that these people were attacking the police and not trying to attack the baby murderer.

I wonder, all these protesters, what would an ortho jew have to do before they would allow the secular authorities to prosecute?

And would these people let this guy babysit their children?

But apparently, so long as he is not running a Ponzi scheme that affects other Jews, or trading conversions for sex, there is no reason to allow police to enter their closed and perfect society.




From Haaretz Newspaper:

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Friday extended by a week the remand of a 23-year-old man who allegedly strangled his baby daughter overnight.

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