Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Gotcha! That sneak Michelle Obama almost pulled a fast one on the American people. Luckily, true American hero Bill O'Reilly was able to set the record straight.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Horrendous Hasbarah
Here's what might be the worst example of Hasbarah I've ever seen
Aside from the flip and cavalier tone and the feel-good message at the expense of terrorist victims the logic doesn't add up:
1) Europe didn't just discover terrorism this year. Europe already knows plenty about terrorism, as the following chart indicates:
2) Europe is a big place. Believe it or not, it is possible for European security experts to be firmly focused on stopping terrorists while AT THE SAME TIME other Europeans are putting stickers on products.
3) The meme suggests Europe has been sitting around picking its nails, and allowing terrorists to roam free, despite Israel's concerned warnings. However as the following chart makes clear, Europol and Interpol are not soft on terror:
Anyway, imagine if "Europe" reacted to the Kiryat Arba attack with something like this:
Europe WARNED Israel about terrorism, but ISRAEL was too busy appropriating PALESTINIAN LAND and BULLDOZING ORCHARDS to listen. SHAME REALLY!
Obscene right? Well this horrendous example of hasbarah is no better
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Trump exposes conservative hypocrites
The right wing conservative hate machine has been out to get Clinton for years because she and her husband are opposed to everything Conservatives held dear. The Clintons honestly and truly believe government can be a force for good and for this heresy they were marked for destruction. The problem is the right's current standard bearer is also a believer in the power of government. He's not a small government conservative who believes in markets. He's an American Mussolini who has vowed to use the power of government to disrupt markets and to impose his ideas on the country. Honest conservatives have realized this and know that they are stuck choosing between a liberal Democrat and a liberal wanna-be strongman. The amusing mystery is why so many so-called principled conservatives aren't seeing this, too. (Answer: because they were never principled.)
Friday, July 22, 2016
In Trump we Trust
What follows is from the Atlantic, and it confirms my suspicion that Republicans are today mostly empty-headed, weak-willed, beta-males with daddy issues.
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‘I Alone Can Fix It’
‘I Alone Can Fix It’
Breaking with two centuries of political tradition, Donald Trump didn’t ask Americans to place their trust in each other or in God, but rather, in Trump.
Has any American political leader claimed so directly to embody the nation, to speak for it, to be its sole hope for redemption?
In 1968, Richard Nixon spoke of a nation torn apart by crime at home, and by wars abroad. But, he promised, better days were ahead. “Without God's help and your help, we will surely fail; but with God's help and your help, we shall surely succeed.”
In 1980, Ronald Reagan painted a similarly dark picture of a troubled nation, and offered a similar message of redemption. But his acceptance speech called on Americans to work together to solve their problems. “I ask you not simply to ‘Trust me,’” Reagan said, “but to trust your values—our values—and to hold me responsible for living up to them.”
In 2000, George W. Bush called a troubled nation to renewal, and ended with a note of humility. “I know the presidency is an office that turns pride into prayer,” he said, “But I am eager to start on the work ahead.”
In 2016, Donald J. Trump mounted the stage, and told America that the nation is in crisis. That attacks on police and terrorism threaten the American way of life. That the United States suffers from domestic disaster, and international humiliation. That it is full of shuttered factories and crushed communities. That it is beset by “poverty and violence at home” and “war and destruction abroad.”
And he offered them a solution.
I am your voice, said Trump. I alone can fix it. I will restore law and order. He did not appeal to prayer, or to God. He did not ask Americans to measure him against their values, or to hold him responsible for living up to them. He did not ask for their help. He asked them to place their faith in him.
When Trump said, “I am your voice,” the delegates on the convention floor roared their approval.
He broke with two centuries of American political tradition, in which candidates for office—and above all, for the nation’s highest office—acknowledge their fallibility and limitations, asking for the help of their fellow Americans, and of God, to accomplish what they cannot do on their own.
But when Trump said, “I am your voice,” the delegates on the convention floor roared their approval. When he said, “I alone can fix it,” they shouted their approbation. The crowd peppered his speech with chants of “USA!” and “Lock her up!” and “Build the wall!” and “Trump!” It booed on cue, and cheered when prompted. It seemed, in fact, to chafe—eager to turn a made-for-TV speech into an interactive rally, and frustrated by Trump’s determination to stay on script. Not every delegate cheered; some sat stiffly in their seats. But there was no question that the great bulk of the delegates on the floor were united behind Trump—and ready to trust him.
The most striking aspect of his speech wasn’t his delivery, even though his tone often strayed over the line, from emphatic to strident. It wasn’t the specific policies he outlined, long fixtures of his stump speech. It was the extraordinary spectacle of a man standing on a podium, elevated above the surrounding crowd, telling the millions of Americans who were watching that he, alone, could solve their problems.
And the crowd cheered.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Two cheers for Ted
I find it really surprising that normal people, as opposed to GOP delegates, are also criticizing Cruz for failing to bow down and kiss the toes of the man who repeatedly called him "Lyin' Ted" while also suggesting his father murdered JFK. Are you people insane? Was he supposed to disavow everything he said about Trump during the primary? Wouldn't that make him a real "Lyin' Ted"
Anyway, exactly what does Cruz owe Trump? Much as I despise Cruz and his Jesus-adoring, I think the world would be a far better place if all of us took a cue from Ted and stopped mindlessly following the leader.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Look what the Jews did now
#1 Trump-supporter David Duke says mean Jewish speechwriters are to blame for sabotaging nice Mrs. Trump's speech,. He also says the Jewish media made it look like it was all nice Mrs. Trump's fault.
That's a fun theory, except the speech was written by two guys called Matthew Scully and John McConnell.
That's a fun theory, except the speech was written by two guys called Matthew Scully and John McConnell.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
My new great idea
I'm totally asking all the cute women I know if they also would like to teach that mean Mister Trump a lesson by standing around naked while I snap pictures.
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Monday, July 18, 2016
GOP convention - Yawn
Nope, won't be watching the GOP convention tonight. The best and most interesting bits will be available at my convenience on the Internet within minutes. Besides, I prefer to watch my Trump news as filtered through Comedy Central.
While you're here, please enjoy the Ryan selfie featuring His Own Good Self and the entire population of Whitebread, North Dakota.
For some reason Speaker Ryan is claiming that all those white faces belong to GOP Capital Hill Interns, but that's an obvious lie. The GOP is all about Diversity, and Ladders to Opportunity and Looking Just Like America. Surely, they must have at least one black, Hispanic or Asian Intern?
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Why does Cholov Yisroel spoil so quickly
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Not Nice
Someone needs to please tell poor, old Lazer Brody that it makes zero sense to say that 84 people were killed in Nice because 772 years ago someone in Paris was mean to the Jews.
God only holds a grudge for three generations and He directs that grudge at literal descendants not at random strangers who reside within a political entity that coincidentally encompasses some of the same geographic space encompassed by a different political entity over seven centuries ago.
Friday, July 15, 2016
Thursday, July 14, 2016
MIKE PENCE WINS THE TRUMP VP REALITY SHOW.
Ok evangelical Republicans, time to play along and pretend that picking a gaybasher proves Trump is really one of you.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Why I am a non-Zionist
I'm a Zionist, but only in the sense of "liberating Jews from being oppressed by the Gentiles” I think the Zionist mission was swell for places like Czarist Russia and Catholic-crazed places like 19th century France, but isn't really relevant to the post war West. Its a perfectly noble, if dated, political pursuit, but Zionism has no religious value or significance. Also, I detest some of the things that have, purely by accident and quite unfortunately become associated with Zionism, such as jingoism, ethnic supremacy, mistreatment of minorities, and the eroding of the church/state wall, so I don't count myself among them and consider myself a non-Zionist.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
YIDDIN not kushin!
Nothing like being lectured by the fake composer of Yiddun on how to infuse your music with spirituality:
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Friday, July 08, 2016
BOO @NYUSJP
This is the sort of weak, shady reasoning and fake dot-connecting that gives liberalism and social justice movements a bad name.
The fact that some police departments train with the IDF doesn't make the IDF culpable partners in everything cops do.
Dallas
Of course, there's no justification for the Dallas sniper attacks just like there is no justification for terrorist attacks but to say that the criminals in Dallas acted from pure evil, racism, or whatever, and nothing else, is just a way of avoiding the difficult work of discussing and solving the black community's legitimate grievances. The fact that the Dallas snipers were criminals who committed a despicable act doesn't let us off the hook for police brutality, etc.
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