Well that isn't according to plan

Vermont is known for ice cream but NYC is known for Italian Ices. There are plenty of great local companies. The Lemon Ice King of Queens, Rita's of NJ and being a Staten Islander my favorite is Ralph's.
The clods in Vermont can have stupid hippie ice cream made by pot heads, but smarter types take the NYC product.

My parents like pistaschio and I keep them happy with a few servings. I get whatever suits my fancy and toss it way deep in the freezer for a rainy day or post fast dessert. Well I found the chocolatte mousse which is excellent and considered by locals to be their best. I had a bit put it back in the freezer to find the senior citizens had discovered it. Obviously, I will have to order more as it seems to be a big hit. The local branch was out of Key Lime.

The fast was easy.

Strange but true

I am trying to remember way back to my HS and College days. I honestly never ate in the hs cafeteria or bought a meal. I think as school ended at 2 I merely picked up a sandwich on my way home. I college I think I might have had a slice of pizza or a Blimpie Tuna sandwich. I would read in the cafeteria, but never buy the food there.

One thing to remember is that lost in the Obama's food fascism is children eat what they wish. Many will skip meals because they are unfamiliar. The notion that children will suddenly eat veggies because the junk food is taken out is mistaken.

The answer may be to make junk food healthier instead of scrapping it. I was reminded of this when my daughter stole my spinach roll and I gave her an odd look. Actually the spinach roll isn't too bad and the waitress  told me just order more cheapo.  What is the world comming to when kids steal spinach rolls and spinach pie. The secret is the stuff tastes darn good and isn't so bad.


Maybe we need to be realistic and practical instead of food bullies.

Demand Obama state no release for Sheik Rahman

The media is quite selective in the bizzare stories it runs. We have had an act of brutal terrorism against our country oddly blamed on a film maker. The Obama administration has made wishy washy apologies for the film that had zero to do with a brutal act of terror rationalized as outrage over the film.

A strong leader gets up and defends our values of free speech. The film was an abomination, but Muslims like everyone else need to grasp that a bad film is not a rationalization for violence. If this were so the Ducks bizzare Marxist art films should have created a score of beheadings for poor production values.

There are those within the government who have been kicking around the lousy idea of freeing the convicted criminal Sheik Rahman. This is exactly the wrong idea and even mulling appeasing terrorism is typical mindless state dept logic at its worst.

Keyboard Warriors rise up and photoshop Sheik Rahman into crazy places to support free speech. Place him in the Back Street Boys or Village People for a good laugh. Sub him in as your store Santa in the name of freedom. Even replace Bubba from Sanford and Son with images of the Blind Sheik. Do remember that the point of this is to place his image in silly places, not offensive. Thus a photo of him with Spongebob or
replacing Ross on Friends is on target. Placing him in the Pillsbury Dough boy spot would also be funny. Illustrate the point with creativity, wit and good taste.

Obama needs to be directly asked and confronted with his views on this subject. It will not prevent him from twisting his words later, but it needs be done

Old Car Show Frummie Free

I am off to the local Old Car show in search of retro food, retro music and a glimpse of the dreaded Dodge Dart. There are those who swear by that car, but it is a bad memory from times gone by.

As the Jewish holidays are impending there will be no frummies to kill the fun.

The latest frummie obsession is attempting to get me to go to Israel. This is not happening as I would be stuck on a plane with more annoying frummies. Up until these idiots stayed over they were a quaint annoyance. I can endure them for a few days and not get too angry. Now the anger and disgust is seething and I am annoyed by talk of midah, derech or any other religious garbage.  I would sooner go back to Guyana, which does not have a Chabad House, than potentally deal with more frummies.

Old cars, classic retro music, retro food loaded with pork and not a frummie in sight. Now if only I could get the BBQ going out back and some Ice Cold Diet Mountain Dew life would be excellent.

Perhaps, I will need to hang out at biker bars which are also frummie free. Frummies are creepier than goths and can only be killed with Pork products. Silver bullets, wooden stakes and even religious symbols don't work, I tried. They merely take the garlic and cook with it. 

Newest excuses for Arab Outrage

Arabs have just discovered that there are no Arabs in the Village People. The radical followers demand that in all future concerns a new dancer dressed like Sheik Rahman be allowed to sing YMCA. In the spirit of mmulticulturalism they demand Obama release Shiek Rahman and he be given a job as a Muslim alternative to Santa at Macys for the holidays.

If this sounds absurd so does sodomizing and lynching diplomatic personnel over a lousy film.

Sorry but freedom of expression is an American birthright and those who want to intimidate me into silence are mistaken. Actual Muslims look like crap every time one of these loons filled with hate make idiotic excuses for crimes against humanity.

Muslims upset about blog post riot at noon. Muslims upset at lack of Charmin Ultra in toilets riot at 2pm lynching and sodomizing diplomats as a bonus feature,

The Return of the Planets Worst Houseguests

One would think that after driving your relatives into near homicidal anger by staying all summer this relative would take their time before returning. They are well aware of the anger their last visit caused. A normal person would probably wait about six months before even attempting another visit.

In the spirit of Jason from Friday the 13th THEY'RE BAAAAAACK AGAIN


At least they must leave on Sunday to lead services in Brooklyn for Monday. Why they feel the need to annoy me with yet another visit is unknown.

This is the mentality of the Frummies who really don't give a crap about anyone else. Their sick and depraved lifestyle of sloth, cultural backwardness and ignorance disgusts me. Glad you can pick up a religious book and do whatever ritual. Now how about returning at a normal hour, showing vestiges of a work ethic or competence and at least shutting your mouth so the entire world doesn't know you are a cultural zero.

In related news the Jewish New Year is upon us Monday. My seat will remain empty by choice. I usually offer it to a poor family and we have plenty of candidates this year. For whatever reasons, long ago I decided to stop going through the motions. The truth is I never wanted to do this and hated Yeshiva. I wanted to go to school with the kids up the block. People who know me from that time period think I just vanished. It took me many years to return to secular life where I found happiness. I remember sitting in the Principals office and getting a lecture about my grades. I hated being there so much I refused to answer test questions in Hebrew or do any homework for religious classes. I returned for one semester in HS and they were baffled by my intransigence to anything religious.

I guess I relate to gay people who have to step out of the closet and tell people who they are. It is not that I deny who I am or my heritage. I just want nothing to do with the community. I made a choice to stop going through the motions and faking beliefs long ago. I live an honest life and am more virtuous than many of the fakes that feel similarly but lack the courage to stop pretending. I am always polite and courteous to the folks at Chabad who pester me. I am not a lost soul. I chose to leave and seek my freedom and live apart. I have no nostalgia for the days when I lived a more traditional life.

I will take off the Jewish holidays for family peace. If my parents were not involved it would be another work day. I did take off Yom Kippur in VT, but that was it. I asked for the holidays yesterday and was granted them off. This supervisor gives me no headaches, but she knows I would rather be at my desk serving the public. The top boss stated my leave totals are well above maximums and I am in use or lose territory. In fact the only time I ever take off is when they send me on the annoying customer service details
that every officer must endure.

There are those who find identity through the rituals and I respect that so long as they are gainfully employed and not bothering those who don't. I respect the religious guy up the block who has lost his job in the Obama economy. His daily trips to learn the Talmud with other unemployed peers and retirees are punctuated by the rare job interview or short term job. The studying basically gives him something to do while looking for work. He would likely be better off sharpening his skills, but that is another story.

I am just tired of dealing with cultural baboons. God doesn't always provide and there is no solid reason to
not hive your best at work each and every day. Even if your boss is a jerk, the customers deserve your best every time. There is no excuse for ever returning home after 2AM with regularity on a work night. There is no excuse for demonstrating you are a cultural baboon. If you are clueless about the arts or popular culture just keep it to yourself.

Another 9-11

I am thinking about how much the world has changed. Osama is swimming with the fishes. It would be better if he was packed in a 55 gallon drum filled with cement, but style points don't matter when a touchdown is scored.

9-11 was the beginning of the end. America is in decline led by an incompetent media selected University Marxist drone. There are those who say those who voted against Obama based on race were evil. Those who voted for him based on race or white guilt were just as wrong and were more numerous.

After 9-11 there was a spirit of we can do this in the land. The Obama years are faced with despair if you are looking for work and depression with the abuse you have to put up with to keep one. EEO complaints are through the roof where I work. If this was Bush we would hear crap about "they just don't get it". As it is Obama and an election day it is whatever.

We aren't safer by any means. The new terrorists will be home grown and I am not saying all Muslims are terrorists. However, I look at the way the buck was passed in the Ft Hood shooter case and it seems we are more afraid of being called a bigot than public safety. Of course it would help if we cleaned out cronyism at the Federal agencies, but that is a task for a Greek God.

Maybe the candidates can do us a favor and prohibit direct relatives, spouses and in laws working in the same agency. There are plenty of agencies that relatives can choose, so that we can have better management.

On 9-11 a great nation was attacked. Brave men joined history attempting to save others. The attack was done in the name of religious dogmatism and while America was down Marxists and other freaks blamed the Jews and everyone other than Osama. Osama was screaming I did it, but those political nuts on cue blamed the Jooooos. Of course when I state that a genuine Jew sees a Marxist in the same manner that a Black man views the KKK some of you think this is poetic verbiage. The 9-11 Truther movement is a modern "Blood Libel" with some theories almost taken from the Protocols.

While most of us get that the Truther movement is as low as Holocaust deniers there are some amazing
lapses. There is a person whom I call Rabbi Snaglepuss. He screams I am a Rabbi at the top of his voice and threatens to sue anyone who says he doesn't act like one. Rabbi Snagglepuss and Howard Zinn signed onto a Truther petition and Lerner comically claimed he was duped. Truthers are my generations Holocaust Deniers and we know who is mocking the dead by attempting to shift blame from the actual
perpetrators.

Remember the dead and the great nation we were. Four more years of whatever and demolition derby style economics is a bit much. We survived 9-11, but another four years of malfeasance will certainly deliver hope to our enemies and change everything from bad to worse.

Ground Hogs Day With The Frummies

It has now become painfully apparent that the frummies will return yet again tonight. I did enjoy a two day break from sloth, ignorance and jokes that have not been funny long ago. They left the kid here so they have an excuse to return in force again and make yet another failed attempt to place one teen on an airplane. Naturally, the attempt will take place at 3AM on a Monaday morning to prolong my agony.

Then they will be so exausted they will go 40 miles out of their way and return here.

I have read the emails about converting. In my community when this happens it causes parents to mourn as if their child is deceased. I have zero inclination to cause my parents any further annoyance. Life has not been easy to either and I have no desire to make things worse.

What bothers me is the total lack of consideration for others. They are the center of the universe and we must bow to their whims. This same relative was annoyed because I didn't want to deal with him on Thanksgiving or any other time. They have other family meembers who don't get annoyed at their antics so the point of this is unknown.

I have grown to hate these obnoxious boors. They show no consideration for others and zero responsability. It used to be merely annoyance, but now it is hatred. I am glad you walk another path, but spare me lectures. I have no interest in returning in life or death. I chafe at enduring endless rituals and have no desire to sit in a Temple.

I find these relatives to be an embarassment.

If you want something done do it yourself

Having waited for weeks for thefrummies to accomplish a mundane task my patience is at wits end. Getting one teen on a plane and into school should not take a month. The latest story is Sunday the task will be done. Why this relative insists his kid remains here while his family is in Long Island is unknown. The kid is not annoying his parrents are.

Should this plan fail I will do this personally.  I will get the kid on the plane go to Israel get a cab deposit 1 teen in a yeshiva and return asap. Upon my return I will make his parents life so miserable they will never do this again.

The kid is not college material and deranged dreams of him earning a degree are insane. The kid can't read a simple work of Dickens but somehow with grasp advanced readings.

New Movie Attack of the Chronologically Impaired Lazy Frummy Vampires

In our last episode after umpteenth attemps to get the religious irritants to go home the religious vampires managed to screw up a fool proof plan.

Yesterday as I pondered how a simple task of buying one teen a plane ticket could get messed up for weeks I decided what was needed was John Madden. Madden takes out the chalkboard and diagrams how complicated football plays develop for mass audiences.

I delivered the folowing half time speech

You folks are losers. Entire wars have been fought and won in less time than it takes you idiots to buy a single plane ticket. Well we are going to the blackboard to get to the basics.

First we take out the credit card. Then we head to the travel agent and book the next available flight. We pack our bags. Load the car. We leave home four hours before the flight. You check in and do not say anything stupid to the armed folks at El Al. On second thought having your mother annoy armed guards would solve many problems, but my luck is lousy. Board the plane. Go to Israel marry a local and emigrate, but forget my phone number. Stay in Israel.

Tonight we are down to one. My nephew is still here. Why one leaves a kid on standby three times further away from JFK is unknown.

Surely there must be some village that needs official idiots.

God Hates Me

Just when you think the hose guests from Hell are gone they are back again.  Even though they were supposed to leave last week and went to the airport yesterday THEY ARE BAAAAAAACK. I have been praying to get hit by a bolt of lightning since they arrived. I can't take this anymore. The madness, the stupidity, the self centerdness never ends. At least when the Dr takers out the white glove eventually the annoyance ends and their is a purpose to the agony.

I wake up 1AM to enjoy this new found peace and THEY ARE BAAAAAACK.  How does one &%*^(^& up a simple task light getting on a *^(&(*UOU plane. Here is how to mess up a mundane task. 99% of humanity buys a ticket with a definite date and time. The task becomes quite simple you arrive three hours before the flight and take your pre assigned flight.

The Adams family insists on an open ticket. This takes two weeks longer and they insist upon further annoying relatives who are at wits end. They arrive a mere one hour before the flight. Then amazingly there is no room on the flight.

This would not be an annoyance if they went to their home a mere ten miles from the airport. Instead they turn right around and are back here yet again 40 miles from the airport.

I don't ask for much from God. At this point I would like a nice lightning bolt to kill me so I can be spared the stupidity, the excuses, the ignorance and sloth that these religious slackers inflict on me daily. For crying out loud how $%^%tA% difficult is this task that even developmentally disabled folks do each and every day. The process is quite simple moron buys plane ticket, moron shows up on time, moron gets on plane.

I am past hate and am now into suicide to get away from these uncouth barbarians whose sloth, ignorance and incompetence in simple tasks is beyond belief. I hate these religious slackers. These are life's rejects who can't even complete a simple task. Of course they could have gone home as it is closer to the airport.
All of this precludes that a basic responsible imbecile performs a task.

The new story is we promise it will be tomorrow. Funny I was promised that last week. How the %s6a56
does one 3765%^%5 a simple basic task like buying a ticket and getting on a plane. Of course they act perplexed that I am angry and have no %^A%E^aW% clue.

I can't believe this. It is humid so I go down to get some sleep in an air conditioned room. I find them camped out once again.

WHEN DOES THIS MADNESS END

Tune in again tomorrow for the house guests from hell part infinity.

If I actually am lucky and get hit by a well placed bolt of lightning and manage to get away from these religious barbarians they will inter me in the family plot where I will not even get away from these idiots in death.

I am on my way to arrange for a burial in Guyana. At least in death I can get away from these idiots and rest in peace in the after life away from these barbarians,

The House Guests are gone

It was not without dramabut it appears the house guests have returned after three months. I am beyond angry and the relative inadvertently reinjured my ankle. I had been pain free for 48 hours but relapsed. Long story but with these barbarians back home I can sleep.

My anger at the series of impositions and waiting an extra week just to add further irritation has gotten worse. This relative and I no longer speak. A mutual friend inquired and I stated that I have no such relative.

I am really bothered by the nasty attitude towards people that work. Glad you are destined for a life of religious mendicancy. Don't knock those who work hard and never ask for help, they are your betters. You should see the exasperated looks when I let the religious slackers have it.

Barbarians

I am annoyed at the low class ignorance that comes from the mouths of religious students. I am reminded of why I decided to walk away and find my own path. I am just floored by the disrespect for actual working people, by the religious slackers. My uncultured and ignorant nephew made a snide remark about the cleaning woman. I reminded him that the woman works very hard to support her family and it is an outrage that he would disrespect hard working people. I got the lecture how hard it is to study in yeshiva. Sorry, but the cleaning woman works very hard without her hand out, unlike the professional students.

Similarly, my eyes got bloodshot by the levels of cultural ignorance. Glad you can study obscure religious texts but we live in a wider world and should be culturally literate. If you don't know the basics about art, music, theatre and antiques kindly grasp that others do not share your values. Sorry, but I have no desire to recreate a ghetto in Europe.

I got the lecture about my soul. If heaven is being with these religious slackers please ship me to the other place. I would sooner end up next to Junglemom or whomever serves the poor, rather than mindlessly reading obscure religious texts in a fog.

One can not discuss the real world with buffoons and insular baboons. When I was the age of this student I understood the value of hard work. I made a deliberate point to cross that line away from the segregated college table to the bimmi cafeteria where the transients ate. Only the verbal beat down of a beautiful blond daughter of a famous writer got me to return to the college table from time to time. She wanted company and did not care about my small scale social protest.

I guess I was always part of the larger community and thinking on different levels. I have no patience for religious slackers who are still not home on a work night at 2AM.

The world's worst house guests are still here

This has gone on since July 4 and was supposed to be over. I have spent the summer without AC while this house guest crashes. There has been excuse after excuse and at this point I am past angry. Their daughter is supposed to go back to school on Thursday and the son was supposed to be on a plane last week. I am exasperated and angry. This goes beyond a normal provocation to where there will be non violent payback for this.

Had this relative the decency of warning ahead of time I would have taken a month or so off. This relatives stupidity and procrastination have impacted the rest of us. Sorry, but when your stupidity and self centeredness impacts me this relationship is over.

Another equally dumb relative decided to hold a wedding in FLA on a yacht. I prepaid $250. to spare myself a nautical disaster. As neither family is in Florida the need to hold this event in a strange locale on a yacht is odd. This marriage of diva and dullard has lasted a year. There is no way this ill suited couple of clowns lasts three.

I really wish these annoying relatives would stop inviting me to their functions. I have no desire to attend these parties and would rather be left out. I really don't bother with cousins who could not pick me out of a police line up.

I am really starting to despise these religious slackers who loaf and come in at all hours of the night and then feign poverty. Hey morons how about sending your moronic wife to work 20 years ago. They come in an out don't keep normal hours and cry poverty. Hey dumbass get your wife to work. If this moron were not religious a wife that is unemployable because she is always late and is on the phone all day while doing nothing would be a welfare queen. I seriously would like to send her to the vocational boot camp show because I am at wits end. On top of this, the idiot lectures others on careers. Excuse me moron someone who hasn't worked in 20 years should STFU.

This is outrageous. Why are they still here?

Resting

I have been resting the ankle and watching TV. There was a turkey in the front yard. I did not posses the speed or stealth to get close. The ankle is somewhat better and the pain

Eating in NYC

Many of the old time restaurants are disappearing, When they go we lose some of history and individuality.  I really did not know about Eisenberg's Sandwich shop. This is shocking because I went to school nearby and lived up  the block.

Eating at a 1920 style lunch counter is worth the trip. Despite claims otherwise the food is not as good as one would find in Ben's on 38th. However as Ben's is Kosher one can not eat a cheese burger there or get the excellent Manhattan Clam chowder  once Tabasco sauce is added.  I had a decent to above average Corned Beef on rye with a Cell Ray Soda. In my case I was imagining this is what my grandfather might have experienced when he passed through on his way home from the furniture factory he owned nearby.

I miss my my grandfather he was a gentle man who loved his craft and great food. He was a man of peace who hated war. He hated the Communists who he considered imbeciles and verbose gangsters who endangered the world. He fought in the war of 1920 for Poland and was a skilled marksman. He displayed this skill after a stroke and amazingly after Parkinsons. On a couple of occasions in the Catskills he beat amazed State Troopers. He made me give back the money but never turned down the beer that the amazed State Troopers would insist he take. My grandfather would chide me give back the money and ask for a beer. The stunned State Troopers would insist he take a six pack. He would then return to reading a Yiddish newspaper. He was much more literate in his aboriginal language than in English. This may have also been why he appeared much more simple than he was in reality.

Many of the Old places are gone but will live on in my memories and in these pages.

To Nostalgia

I am bummed out

I was going home yesterday the pain in my ankle has spread to my knee. A woman with a cane called my name. It took me a few moments to recognize a beloved friend I sorely miss every day. To me she was always the loveable hippie chick forever eating whatever health food was in at the moment. She raidiated a rare type of beauty in that she was stunning and clueless about it at the same time.

She was very private about what ailed her and many took her absences as her being a nut. She came in yesterday to officially retire in her 40's. Inside I was crying that I would miss a valued friend and likely will never see her again. She laughed because I was floored and pointed out that typically I would get on her nerves for trying to cheer her up. The sound of her laughter had a musical quality. Somehow, people either loved her or hated her.

She let me in on a little secret that she always knew I was a Republican. How she figured this out is not clear. Attorneys from various communities assume I am a Democrat and an Obama man because I believe in fair treatment. I also despise cronyism and nepotism which is rampant at work.

I had no idea what this ailment is, but I miss my friend. I miss riding to work with her and her subtle beauty and grace. I miss laughing together with her. I can't say there was a minute that I never felt anything less than blessed by her friendship.

Good Lord

Every now and then I am reminded that I am surrounded by people unfamiliar with the local culture. Someone born in the West Indies asked me what language Dion and the Belmonts were singing. I responded that Doo Wop is basically mostly local NYC English. At times it is comedic when another asked if Ramalama Ding Dong was the family name of my girlfriend's Guyanese family. As Ramalama Ding Dong is local slang for nasty alcoholic the answer is yes.

Sometimes, I am floored by the ignorance of Rav Roov. He apparently fell asleep when the subject of art came up. Likewise his children are complete and utter zeros when art or culture are discussed. Apparently, these areas are sorely neglected in the religious education. Then again any of AOW's students is miles ahead of these kids. Apparently, the stringent dual education of my youth has given way to sloth. I see zero value imparted by wasting a childhood with hours of religious education. Given the price of private schools one would think that a more streamlined religious studies would evolve. I find spending any length of time with Rav Roov to be an annoyance. He has gone from well balanced to a cartoon.

The disgusting abortion tirades

As a person who has never been pro life, I frequently find the behavior of those who agree with me to be an embarrassment. Those who support abortion are are overly emotional, condescending, obtuse and  absurdly hypocritical in exchanges. Abortion is not and is not a divine right and the same people who talk about rights seem to jump through hoops with every other aspect of governmental intrusion into the lives of people. Abortion is a divine right but your right to smoke or kick back a beer must be examined by the nanny state.

The number of people seeking abortions for classic stranger rape is not statistically significant in the overall discussion of abortion.Abortion is most often a mater of economic choice and just as rape is an extreme example that is rare so are those who decide to abort for such reasons as wrong gender of the child. Abortion for gender selection does happen but it is not the norm. No doubt one could likely write a book about the vacuous reasons some make this serious decision. Of course you can get pregnant from being raped. You also can get pregnant from an affair with a married man with a wife dying of cancer or a consensual relationship with Mr Disgusting I Can't Believe I Did That Jerk. Getting pregnant via consensual poor partner choice is likely more probable than getting pregnant from being raped because these poor partner selections as in the case of John Edwards involve multiple encounters.

What did these same jerks say about investigating the rape accusation against Bill Clinton? The same people screaming about poor adjectives lionized Ted "Chapaquidick" Kennedy and stood by as the legal rights of a maid were violated to free a French Socialist Baboon.

I have always supported abortion, but the antics of those who agree with me are vile.

Monica Crowley What the $^$^& Hppened

I am a huge fan of Monica Crowley. I used to listen to her and correspond with her when she was a local NYC radio host. After a scare with a creep she stopped communicating with the public. The person I knew over the years is what you see on TV witty, brilliant and she has a great sense of humor. She chided me over enduring chick flicks and having to buy a pashmina several girlfriends ago. Probably 1% of all guys know what a pashmina is and that it has to bee 100% cashmere for NYC style authenticity.

When I was stationed in VT, I was unable to follow her show. I do not recall why, but it was a combination of working Saturdays to avoid a coworker who was worse than the ten plagues. She was the one who complained that guys talking about motor oil and car parts makes an uncomfortable atmosphere and the rather idiotic complaint about mistaking a word from a Mitchner book for a Yiddish racial epithet. Mitchner was not Jewish and the term was in Afrikaans.

I am in the early stages of reading her latest book. It seems as if she has dialed up the comedy in a manner one does not normally associate the elegant and brilliant Crowley from listening to her in regular media. In fact her skill at comedy in a pleasant way was one of the most endearing manner. The best women can laugh at the sometimes clueless way men go about mundane tasks. I am prepared to risk my life in times of danger but if you want to see me in terror make me go to a greeting card store to pick out a Valentines day card. I can solve complex legal matters in a way respected by the best attorneys in my area, but ask me to pick out a pashmina and I am lost.

The last few years have been rough on us as the Obama administration's ineptness or malfeasance has run amok. Often I look at empty storefronts and aliens self deporting for lack of jobs and wonder what were we thinking when America elected an arrogant neophyte endlessly droning on about hope and change. Crowley states what many of us feel in our hearts, but in a witty stylish way.

If this should read Monica could you send a copy to Patrick Kelly aka The Pagan Temple who is in the hospital with heart difficulties.

Relapse

The pain in my ankle is mind numbing. In spite of the pain I guided a small party of NYC Tourists between stations durring the Subway problems. I do not grasp why but in times when locals are nervous I become a natural leader.

I guess having a plan and being confident inspires others. I should have rested but the situation required I lead the party onwards, cracking jokes all the way.

I am paying for my excess.

Breaking a Vow for now

Those of you who are long term readers are aware of my revulsion of racial garbage. In truth sometimes our friends have disgusting views. Patriotism and Americanism are central values in what makes me who I am.

I am a Jew and this is part of my identity. Funny, but when the subject of the Satmar come up I find myself echoing some of the things Ducky has said. These should be the Duck's favorite Jews because they reject Israel and badmouth the community they demand alms from.

My criticism of the Satmar comes from a different place. They are a sick and twisted cult of sloth that has embraced evil in many forms. They bad mouth Zionists and Jews in general but when you fight back they try the religious bit.

Let me start by saying that after Marxists/Anarchists the Satmar are the most despised people in the Jewish community. Their community members are well aware of this hatred and they frequently resort to dishonest tactics. Tactic number one is denying they are Satmar. When caught they state they privately disagree with their leaders, but remain in the group for family reasons. They will collect for charities and carefully avoid mentioning it is a Satmar institution.

Many religious groups have been rocked by child abuse scandals. Only the Satmar try to bully the victims into silence, try to bribe victims and hold rallies for perpetrators. This is a sick cult led by morons and in a totalitarian community the question is what did the leadership know about the sexual predators and are they involved in attempting to silence victims.

The rates of welfare and creating hordes of unemployable kids are not a divine right. The taxpayers should not be burdened with families who clearly produce more children then they can afford. The Satmar hate the Zionists but have no problem demanding aid from the Israeli government they betray and the larger American community they insult with their bombastic arrogance.

Whenever, there is criminal behavior in the Chasidic community the Satmar are front and center. A Yeshiva is involved in money laundering invariably it is those all moral Satmar. A ring of benefits fraud is discovered and it leads back to the same people.

The Satmar are a sick cult with Jewish pretensions that really deserve scorn by other members of the Jewish community.

Very Odd

I have always been known as a fast healer. The swelling is way down and I am close to pain free. Unfortunately, I had to go in because of that situation with the particular case. Two cases in a row with a particular practitioner whose cases are difficult and she is always late is vey hard.

This may sound funny but punctuality drives me up a wall. Hey can you possibly be any later. I am waiting for someone to say two hours isn't late enough.

I was very angry at the peer who did this to me. There are certain practitioners who drive me up the wall. This one is probably near the top because she means well and takes on some of the most difficult cases. This is not a problem if you are a legal star and there are many in NYC. It is funny but even the very good can handle some difficult cases.

A great attorney said Beaky what will it take to get this case done. I told her a very simple but crazy idea. Provide a one page memo on why this section of the law doesn't apply to your client. In short mere possesion of that item does not violate that section of the law it requires an affirmative act. I was floored that this information was on my desk in hours and her client approved pronto.

90% of being a great lawyer is listening to your client and being prepared when you have to present your case. The first part is what is going on here. Even the greatest lawyers have clients that lie.  Did your client talk to you about his arrests.  No Beaky can I have 15 minutes. Certainly it is a reasonable request. Lawyers can't help clients who don't tell the whole truth. In many cases the failure to tell the truth is a greater problem than the crime itself. Only a handful of times did the information make the case impossible. Having a client that killed someone and then jumped bail in a foreign country is an almost impossible case. Note, I do not say impossible for maybe there is some legal star who can deal with this and turn defeat into victory. However, the legal stars I know would not touch  this.

If you are well prepared a good officer can look at the presentation and say if it passes the grade. The case of the attorney who needed a short memo was an excellent example. She was well prepared knew the case inside and out and got her client very close to their goal. If I write the memo it may be two weeks or more.

Applicants frequently cry in my office especially after going through years of paper. I joke don't cry until you see your lawyers bill. Everyone laughs but I add without a dedicated professional you definately would not have made it.

Racial Supremacistsa are A$$wipes

Those of you who read this blog comprehend that I take the nature of racial arson to be so offensive that I parted ways with a friend who had never wronged me for having a blogsite known as Stormfront Lite. I have no patience for racial arsonists of any color. Nor are repeated descriptions of any citizen as nego multiple times acceptable. In reality Obama is 50% white and was raised by an upper middle class white Marxist family. He had next to no contact with the African community save mentor Communist Frank Marshall Davis. Barak Sr. looms as the mythical son of an African Post Colonial Marxist Eden.
In reality Obama was a pothead preppie nerd that could have played in Save by the Bell Along With Screetch.

Early in the campaign there were gripes from Jessie Jackson about authenticity. When we talk about the African American Experience one is usually talking about inner citties, poor rural enclaves of hard working God fearing rural folks, middle class suburban professionals who are the backbone of their jobs and communities or people educated at historically Black schools. This description does not describe Obama who is the mythical son of Africa raised by his far left white family in almost a cartoon like reality.

It is okay to hate Obama and his policies. It is never okay to hate him on racial or to a limited extent religious grounds. The bombastic rhetoric of Pastor Wright is not far removed from a Black version of Stormfront.

This attack on a Sikh Temple was an attack on America and its values. Furthermore Sikhs are a wonderful people who work hard and are great members of their communities. Those of you who know the Great Gasmasked Patriot have witnesssed his disgust for this type of hateful unamerican mindless pointless violence.

Just as 9-11 was an attack on America so is this crime. There is no rationalization or excuses for pointless acts of violence aimed at our fellow American citizens based on skin color or clothing.

POINTLESS Hatred of people on RACIAL, RELIGIOUS or Individual Legal Choices is UNAMERICAN

America and its great traditions are too important for political losers to steal our patriotism and nationalism in the name of IGNORANT hatred.

USA USA USA Our values and historical birthright belong to each and every American Citizen. We don't have second class citizens in my country. Jail is earned after inappropriate behavior after a trial.

USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!Our Country!!!!! Our People!!!!!! Our Traditions and Values!!!!!!!!
A birthright to some and hard earned birthright  to others who legally joined us.

Oh my .....%^&^%^&

If matters with these religious slackers weren't bad enough now I have a sprained ankle. The pain was so bad I had to crawl up the steps. I can't sleep because of the pain and unless I die I must make it in early. One of the junior officers stuck me with two cases with an attorney who drives me up the wall. She takes cases over her skill level and I have to do triple work.

I explained to the junior officer who cried to my boss. You may no longer socialize with me and do not ask me any questions. You can win a battle but lose the war. My boss was shocked to see me so annoyed, but I just spent two hours with this same attorney who took yet another case over her skill level.

The junior officer was upset and said Beaky if I knew this would end our friendship... I did not respond and pointed her to the door. People are well aware that when someone annoys me I don't talk to them for years.

My boss asked me do you think that is a bit extreeme. I told her dealing with that attorney for four hours is that annoying. The attorney is a good person who means well, but not all of us are stars. If an attorney is prepared I am really nice.

I can't even put my shoe on.

Watching the Informer

I was visiting a good friend and the subject of old films came up. There are certain films that only film heads recall. One of the films we discussed was the Beast. That is likely the best film ever shot about the subject of Afghanistan. We discussed older films I intended to watch but never did. As soon as I discussed the Informer his eyes lit up.

When watching the movie it is likely best viewed with the frame that you ultilize when going to a play. A basic familiarity with the story of Judas and redemption are helpful.

I sat rapt in awe of what is in many ways an art film. The use of lighting and scarce dialouge makes careful viewing necessary. It is a great film and the lead actor is more familiar to modern viewers as the brother of Maureen Ohara in the Quiet Man.

Gypo plays a dimwitted giant who is more functional than the one portrayed in Mice and Men. Like in Mice and Men he needs the help of a more clever pal to get by. He sells this friend out and is plauged by guilt. He spends the money foolishly and is killed for his actions. After being shot he stubles into a Church confesses his crime to the mother of his friend rises and dies.

Later on no doubt the Duck will talk about the charachter Gypo in class terms. The theme of the movie is about redemption and the consequences of ones actions. Gypo does get another person to think for him in the form of a groupie who is there for King Gypo as long as the money is there.

I would rather shelve the cleansed depiction of the IRA. The IRA is treated  almost nobly and in reality the matter would be solved with a bullet in the head.

Bad Satire Pirates of the Carribeakerkin

They ply the water between the keys and Guyana. Woe onto thee whose ship sees the dreaded Black and white Gasmask flag. Shoulod your ship contain vegan fare and Lite beer you might be keel hauled or made to watch Ducky's art films.

The Anti Semitic Duck and Welfare Queens

The Duck has zero problem using the generic welfare Queen bit on Jews in Kiryas Joel but if you extend this to housing projects you are a racist.

The problem of religious slackers is deeply personal. My family is not Chasidic but Modern Orthodox. The troubles do indeed have a mental health component that mimics many inner city problems minus the broken families, drug use and promiscuity.

The inability to plan long term is a key annoyance. My family thinks it is no great deal to make plans at the last second. They drop in at the last second and stay for weeks annoying the rest of the world. You can't ever get an answer from them when you need to plan. The reality is they don't give a shit about your time and respect others.

Chronic tardiness and disrespect for the clock save the Sabbath. I am at wits end with the lack of punctuality. I get BS we make the worship on time but goof off the rest of the time. I live in a time conscious world. I rise head to work racing the clock meeting impossible deadlines each and every day. I am floored how this relative has allowed his wife to ignore the clock save the sabbath. They talk and make no plans and the kids have zero structure. My relative complains he works three jobs. My response is ass wipe you have allegedly worked three jobs because your wife refuses to work one. Her lack of punctuality is really a tool for controlling others. The religious bit ensures that most of us bite our tongues.

Being on the phone all day. The idiotic relative uses her cell phone so much a surgeon would need to remove it. It is not normal to call your kids multiple times at 2 AM. Then when the kid sleeps absurd hours its Epstein Barr and off to a series of doctors. Telling the moronic mother to have structure like the rest of us and get a job and a life is not happening.

Paranoia and viciousness. Despite feigned devotion they are nasty people who push your buttons. This relative honestly thinks he is the center of the universe and gets upset if he thinks you joke about him. If I died tomorrow my desk would be filled the next day. Maybe a few people I came into contact with would remember an anecdote or two and that is it. It is the nature of the world rivers cut mountains over time. This is why I could care less what other people think and worry about doing the right thing for its own sake. This relative is quite vicious and lives in a fantasy world where I even discussed my life with him. In reality, I would never do so because he is useless and mean spiritted. He will say the most hateful things about your personal life and want you to feel sorry for his lot.

A long time ago I faced a similar challenge. The woman I loved was a slacker. I probably would have gone to law school but I chose marriage. I worked a series of jobs for family and broke my tail. My wife stayed at home did nothing while I worked like a dog often 15 hours a day. I did not come home to a meal and got lectures about going out. She played games with going back to relatives and ultimately I had to change the locks. I lost the woman I loved with all my heart, but I was not going to be made into a donkey.  I made this tough choice and despite the pain it was the correct choice. Had I made the error of having children I would never be free. Some people wonder what became of so and so. I really am not like that and prefer not to know about lost loves and old friends. Her picture does sit tucked in the corner, but I never regretted that choice. This relative made a different choice and fears being alone.

People who know me seldom see me curse. This spouse and her annoying ways have gotten under my skin. I actually told this religious nut we are like Jacob and Esau. I want nothing to do with you  and our relationship is over.

Were this a single mother in a housing project many racists would use the pejorative welfare queen. This family is not on welfare and teeters near debt because of Yeshiva bills and sloth. Had this person been gainfully employed over the last 20 years life would not be so tough.

There is a place for psychotherapy but there will be no help here. This is not sloth in their eyes it is devotion to God. Having been on a cellphone all day and the Internet figures in ways beyond my
grasp.

Richard Cohen moron and Harrys Place Failures

The NY Daily News is an amusing paper in that it allows two of the greatest morons to foul its pages with idiocy on the op-ed section. The king of morons is Richard Cohen whose classic" the founding of Israel was a well intentioned mistake". writes of Romney the Tea Party Parrot.

Romney's comments about culture were factual and long overdue. Cohen is unable to find a factual error so like a drunken Beltway Bon Vivant he uses a hack writers cliche about Tea Party Parrots. Comparing the imbecile Cohen to a hack is an insult to hack writers everywhere. Cohen is the Gold Standard of idiocy.

Harry's Place is usually interesting reading and its coverage of subjects in the UK is usually good. The writers  tend to be fair across the board and will discuss excesses of the left such as criminal rioting.
In fact when leftist riots were responsible for vandalism the authors of Harry's Place addressed the subject promptly.

The problem with Harry's Place is its American coverage is run by a poorly selected political extremist who is the laziest blogger on the planet. He writes post after post critical of the Tea Party lifted from Huffington and ignored the criminal mayhem and Jew hatred at OWS.

Gene is an open socialist who yearns for the days of "big labor". He is critical of Chavez and Castro and wants to see the USA become EU lite. He views Americans who prefer smaller government as quaint talk radio junkies. He has a Greek chorus of flunkies the Maytag repairman Josh Scholar who screams Obama critics are all racist and ponders about critics of Obama's penile functions. The mindless sophomoric Sophia who spouts cliche anti American drivel and stupidity. She does not trust a video of David Duke voicing his support for OWS because it came from a right wing source. The video shows Duke in his own words. There is the foul tempered Vildechaya who claims to be against Marxism and the far left but constantly rails at every Michael Ezra post incoherently. He sees no Marxist link to anti Zionism.

A recent illustration of the stupidity of Gene who claims Palestinians are similar to Jews because they respect education and have a tradition of business ownership. Gene fall back on repeating  the standard Cuban cliche about literacy rates. Cuba has a high literacy rate and the people are not given the freedom to read what they wish. Cuba remains a basket case because its people are held back by a Marxist thugocracy that has zero respect for property rights and is a leftist kleptocracy.

The claim the Palestinians value education is amusing. One sees plenty of honors accorded criminal terrorists who target civilians. Their state controlled media is frequently on the level of Der Shturmer.
The GDP is largely transfer payments from abroad as kleptocracy stifles any attempts to build a normal society with a functioning economy.

While Gene wrote post after post about imagined Tea Party racism, he failed to write any posts about actual OWS Jew hatred and criminality. He could not find a single factual error in anything Romney stated but clings to the myth that Obama supports Israel. Actually Romney seems to get along with Israeli leaders quite well.

HP needs a more mainstream American correspondent to be taken seriously. Gene's off the wall views and his Americans are backwards attitude has left many pondering if he is American. His off the wall views are typical of Beltway Bon Vivant airheads waxing off about working class folks they never see save the odd domestic they exploit and Gore Vidal novels. His intellectual sloth and shallowness have made an otherwise fine resource into a joke.

There Comes a Time to Close the Book

I have effectively ended the relationship with the annoying relative.  One can not divorce a blood relative but I was quite explicit in my instructions. Do not talk to me ever again.

For years I have dealt with a series of slights. The game is that this clod relative or his boorish spouse step on my toes and when I snap knock it off they do the victim act. I am tired of the victim act which I have endured for decades. Sorry, but I am tired of the bullshit and arrogant religious delusions of granduer. I live my own life and will not tollerate airheaded intrusions into my zone of privacy. Quite frankly I am embarassed by this relative and his ass backwards ways.

I live a secular life. I have no desire to be more religious and want my wishes respected. Live your life, but leave me alone. I grow weary of intrusions on my space and time.

Sorry, your life is rough. I have zero pity for you. You have allowed your wife to gold brick for two decades. She does not work and has zero inclination to return to work. You cry about three jobs because your wife works zero jobs. This does not prevent her from giving career advice or lecturing others. Hey moron if its been 20 years since you were gainfully employed stuff it. Of course this person could see a shrink and deal with her time management issues but then its just me being cranky. You allowed this, so either tell her to shape up or quit crying.

I have one more month of this bull shit. Had I been warned in advance I would have traveled to get away from these jerks. Of course I get a series of excuses my life is not stable I can't plan blah blah

The old excuse was the air conditioners broke. Now the new excuse is there are special classes that can only be offered here and not in his more religious community. No big deal the child in question is pleasant and not a jerk, Unfortunately, his mother misses him and needs to be here all week and that where my patience ends.

Sometimes it takes more strength to tell a relative to get lost than continue on this way. I have a month where I will be lucky if I get three hours sleep a night, This I can endure and will survive because I am tough and meaner than the next man.

Long ago this relative should have told his wife to shape up or ship out. Instead he permitted her to become a walking labotomy. This labotomy has no clue about time. She is late for everything and does not grasp leave me alone means leave me alone. People that know me for thirty years state they have never seen me curse but this jerk takes the cake. He is too weak to divorce this clown and wants pity. There is no pity as twenty years of sloth and tardiness is too much.

In some ways we would be luckier if this were an addict. All of us could stage an intervention and get these annoying behaviors into the open. As this person is a religious slacker that is out of the question.

What Romney Said is true

Romney has stated a basic truth that dives politically correct people up a wall. Basically, the greatest resource a country has is its people. A country that invests in an educated work force will have a greater economy than one with natural resources.

The truth is that allowing the population to utilize its talents entrepreneurially  creates more wealth and freedom than imagined workers paradises. An engineer must be free to seek the employer of his choice or form his own company. Armies of engineers and doctors without freedoms to invest and change employers produces zero.

There is a marked difference between Israel and its adjacent states. You have a Capitalist democracy, with an independent judiciary based in civil law, with guaranteed rights and respect for private property vs less free totalitarian states with more corruption.

A society that fails to educate women is starting from a handicap. The talents of women are essential to a modern economy.

It takes no skill to raise a gun and say death to whatever. You are not a hero when you slaughter in hate. It takes a greater person to build an economy and peace. It is time the Arabs accepted Israel is not going away and end this madness.

Of course having bug eyed zealots (Marxists) rationalize the most extreeme depraved acts of criminal violence and claims has not helped peace or Arab refugees.

And the sick keep coming back for more

The deranged lunatic from Chicago has called threatening to report me to google. These are the relevant facts.

1) This deranged nut did knowingly pass on my identity to a sick anti-Semitic blogger from the UK. I had a series of threats to my family which I do not find amusing.

2) Mr. Divinsky was very aware of the threats to my family and the blog made by a person his friend contacted that depicts me as a pedophile.

3) Being that my privacy was invaded deliberately and maliciously by this moron he is crying because I returned his favor. Sorry but as you can not undue the threats to my family the posts will remain as is. I encourage the folks at google to contact me directly for a series of witnesses that will verify every word.

Word to the wise extortion only works when your victim has fear. You played your trump card and it was stupid and unforgivable. You were asked to walk away multiple times and never return. Having had my family threatened and having a blog call me a pedophile based upon your treachery you get zero sympathy here.

You made your bed. Kindly lie in it. Sometimes in life you have to live with your actions. Your stupidity caused my family to be threatened. In turn I described you accurately and you are crying.
When you blackmail people don't expect forgiveness and don't blame Myers. Freedomnow and others told him to stop but he swore you said you don't care.

Cry me a river.

The Correct Way to Remember Munich

In the 1970's your friendly neighborhood death cultists Marxists trained a bunch of criminals. In many cases the criminals would stage war crimes for cameras to raise brand awareness of a recently coined ethnicity. Judenfrei land had an obvious odious linneage and didn't play well with traditional far left Jooo haters. Thus came the birth of the religion of Palestinianism.

Rather than have responsible existing governments negotiate land deals the war was pushed on by competing unaccountable factions with plausible deniability. The aim of judenfrei real estate never changed just the marketing strategy.

Of course none of the discussion of terrorism get around to looking at the role of the far left.

Apologies to Paul Harvey now you know the rest of the story.

American Jews being exploited by the GOP? Say What

The incredibly dense Nancy Pelosi has not deduced how arrogant her comments are. The Jewish vote is not a monolith and those that practice the actual religion as opposed to a fake touchy feely variation
tend to vote more conservatively. Thus your guys at Chabad are more apt to vote for the GOP than the Rabbi "Snagglepuss  Lerner or Arthur Waksow.

Jews like the rest of the population are impacted by the economy. If you have family that is looking for work and given up hope your religion does not matter. If you walk past main street and see business after business boarded up your religion doesn't matter. The corner pizzeria that I went to for thirty years is gone. My usual Chinese place is gone. My dry cleaner is here for now and the little grocer struggles. These are parts of my weekly life. Now a certain argument is small businesses rise and fall. However, seeing store after store boarded up and wondering what happened to the lovely waitress who brought me me Mongolian Beef takes a toll. It is as if a bomb has torn the edges of the fabric of my community. The bomb is the Obama economy where everyone other than the clowns in the faculty lounges of higher ed have to tighten their belt.

All of us know people who have lost their jobs and have given up. Some of these people are family and close friends. They are shells of their former selves. Those of us who remain are working live zombified slaves and all types of abuse and bullying are the norm. Those of us who remain tolerate this abuse because saying a peep would end our careers and we would join the ranks of the unemployed.  The level of abuse would frighten and shock even the most jaded minds. In a normal economy people would get up and leave, but where to Obama in an economy with no jobs and no hope.

We go onto Israel which trails the economy in the minds of most. The claim that Obama is more pro-Israel than any member of the GOP not named Ron Paul is hysterical. Romney as an unknown is not burdened by supporting the antisemitic OWS, Romney did not sit in an antisemitic racist church for two decades. Have you even read the statements of Obama buddy Bill Ayers on Israel. Sorry, but Obama has made zero demands on Arabs while holding Israel to the fire.

Ultimately in the words of Bill Clintoooon

" ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID"

I don't want stupid social programs. I want jobs that can support a family. I don't care about green Eden, I want jobs.

Obama kept his change promise by making everything worse. Our only hope is that he loses.

Before Reading Unorthodox

The left has a history of foisting fraud and passing it on as fact.  The most celebrated fraud I Rigoberta is still is used in Universities despite being proven false more than a decade ago.  The Obama bio is chock full of exaggerations such as composite girlfriends.

The Satmar are easy to hate. Most Jews support the State of Israel the exceptions are Communists/Anarchists and their useless idiot allies the Satmar. Many people hate hasidic people because of their odd dress and at times condescending arrogance towards more secular types. In their effort to remain insular rumors and small exaggerations are rife.

Deborah Feldman is a serial liar and is no heroine. The Satmar with rare exceptions are not criminal . There have been serious issues with sexual abuse in many communities including many Christian ones. The media goes on a crusade when religious organizations are involved but summons no similar outrage when unionized educators commit similar acts.

Unlike those who leave Islam it is highly unlikely anyone will ever threaten her. In most instances members of the community will likely shun her. Given her mental problems and propensity for playing games with the truth avoidance of this dimwit is a true blessing. Any comparison between this mental defective and people fleeing Islam is misguided. When was the last time the folks at the View spoke with someone who wrote a similar book about leaving Islam and faced genuine threats?

Her true gift is to make a truly loathsome community seem sympathetic after her serial lies. I still can't stand the Satmar and make it a point to avoid them as much as possible. They are well aware that their idiotic Rabbi's political views have made them pariahs in the larger community. A few have said in private that they disagree with these positions.

I do enjoy my meetings with the Lubavitchers. They are well loved within the community for their charitable works. Unlike missionaries they do not seek converts. Rather they seek to get those who are Jews to be more Jewish. With great charm and zeal they engage secularists like myself who prefer to just live as the person in the next cube. The other orders are not held in contempt by the general public. Mostly they go about their business and enjoy cordial relations with other members of the community.

The clueless leaders of the Satmar have yet to deduce that their bonehead political views damage their reputation more than idiotic books authored by mental patients and irresponsibly published without basic fact checking.

Bettter for business to stay out of politics

There are those that complain about Chick Fil A's corporate policies and positions. If you don't like the policies don't go there. Many companies on the left make their policies known. I will not touch Ben and Jerry's even when it is offered for free. I prefer to get my ice cream from a rational company run by adults. This was a running gag in VT where I would not touch the stuff and bought Hagen Daz.



I remember when I was younger being subjected to dreadful Benetton Ads showing President Reagan with Aids sores. After seeing those ads I never set foot in one again. I will not give the niece a GAP gift certificate. Instead I will go out of my way to make sure the gift certificate is from some retailer with more traditional ads like Macys.


I used to shop at Men's Wearhouse about six times a year mostly for shirts and one or two suits. As they appear to have supported Occupy Wall Street I will never shop there again. All their good work and great products and customer loyalty is ruined by a really bad decision. Were they even thinking about their loyal customers feelings? A place that sells quality men's clothing should grasp that even appearing aligned with OWS is bad for business. Now this may indeed be a case of a rouge employee, but this should have dealt with long ago.

I have never set foot in a Chick Fil A's. However, I intend to do so in the near future. There are plenty of businesses that hurt their bottom line by catering to the barking mad moonbats.  I have supported Civil Unions for a long time and in truth gay marriage is not even near the top my thoughts the economy is up there. I am annoyed by shrieking ads as a rather needless intrusion into political activism.

Do I know the political views of the small store I buy my clothing from? No. I do know and that is my business. I will not be returning to a store I went to for years because of a poor decision. In the end it may be that an employees choice to place a sign has caused me to take my business elsewhere. This employee has seriously hurt the brand and it would take multiple advertisements to undo the damage.

This is post 3000.


We are still here and our critics are long gone.

Saved by Tisha B'Av

I feel a peverse guilt in looking forward to one of the saddest days on the Jewish calendar. My obnoxious invaders will be gone. Ten days of boorish behavior and crying victim when I react to provocations is enough. Glad you are religious but leave me alone.

A friend said that he has known me for thirty years and has never seen me curse before. They don't understand English when I say leave me alone. Sabbath and the holidays are the worst where I become a prisoner. Has this asshat deduced that by invading for ten days he has pushed me away from the AC. This is not a day or two but ten. It just never registers because for all their feigned concerns I roast while getting lectures about charity.

I can't even have a conversation without these jerks budding in. They do not grasp hey this is a private discussion when I snap then we get the religious victim bit. When I say my private matters are not your concern they press until I snap.

I am really starting to despise these people. They are annoying, irritating and obnoxious on their best day.
I want to say hey moron go to therapy and deal with your bs so you can get a %%^%^^ job. All I get is excuses and the $$%%$5 worked three years big %^^%%^ deal. Four years elite college to work three %6%^%%R years.

Well at least they will be away for the holiday. Let them bore someone else.

The Siege

The invaders have been here eight days and have no sign of departing. If I am lucky I get two hours sleep a night. I grow more angry and am tired with this bullshit "victim act". I offered to buy a new air conditioning unit for this relative who does not "want my charity". No it is better to keep me up day after day night after night with slacker bs. I am a tough customer and have really grown to hate this relative who thinks this is funny.

I work in a tough place with time sensitive items. This clown complains day after day how tough he has it. Yes moron you work three jobs and have a tough time because your asshole spouse hasn't worked in 20 years. I can't have a conversation without this asshole spouse interjecting and annoying me. Sorry, if you want to get something in NYC unlike me you have plenty of free time go to NYC and get it yourself.

I am annoyed by the level of pampering and bs. I get a series of easy books for the kid to read over the summer. Pardon me but a Tale of Two Cities was a book I read when I was roughly nine. If the kid can read obscure religious texts in aramaic then he does not have a problem with reading comprehension. The problem is work ethic.

I am basically being held hostage by a family of religious slackers. If you think this is an exageration try sleeping three hours or less a week covered in sweat while slacker family shows no sign of leaving. Of course when you say something the response is victim mode.

I love when mutual aquanainces ask why I despise this relative. When you visit someone and hold every detail of their lives hostage to your religious quirks, play victim and cry about imaginary hard work it is a bit much. I also loathe tardiness and sloth with a passion. When you are always late you are basically irritating the crap out of me.

Now sloth is a particular annoyance. I worked Hotels as a teen and in factories as a college grad. My no quit win at all costs work ethic is something anyone who is there knows. The bottles of Diet Mountain Dew are my version of coffee in a go go go world. Must I endure career advice from a nobody who hasn't been paid for an opinon in two decades. How much of this can a man endure?


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Here is my service Glad you came now everyone get the $^%*Y&(O out of here and get back to work.

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Jihadi: These guests for Dr Zawaheri have come from Western China. Nobody understands a work he says except his bodygaurd . Just who in the world is Abubeakerrambo.

Zawaheri: You idiot those are the greatest enemies of Al Quedah. Allah may have mercy, but someone forgot to tell the Great Gasmasked Patriot and the Steroid abusing mendicant with a speech impediment.

Jihadi: We had to evacuate the mosque when they took off their boots. The odor was so bad even the scorpions are looking for 72 virgins.

Zawaheri: Where has that idiotic Communist infidel who hates Joooooos more than we do? What was his name again ":Bird Brain  uhhhhh Rumsfeld Duck uhhhhhh Ducky.

Jihadi: You mean the smart guy who talks to dead people on NCIS. Jethro Gibbs is my favorite infidel.

Zawaheri: NCIS is haram. No I mean the Marxist Moron who talks about camera angles mumbling incoherently about Aunt Jemimah and Rabies Radio.

Jihadi: He went to the Paul Robeson film festival in Charlestown.

Mr. B: @%%$^^% Yeah death by wedgie. Prepare to meet 72 virgins that look like Janet Reno and Bea Artur

Book Review Growing Up Grossinger

The title of this book should be how not to write a memoir. In this case the subject of the memoir is really not that like able. She spends her pages ranting about her mother and a million other subjects. Those of us who work demanding jobs know we can be better parents. Unfortunately, keeping pace in competitive jobs takes a lot out of us. We hear whiny rant after rant about her mother and next to zero humility from the author who is not quite as brilliant as she would like the reader to assume.

The book is spared by the many wonderful people whose paths she crossed. This memoir would have been much better if a greater focus was on the loved Hotel than on the author. Obviously, the author had to have some redeeming qualities to maintain so many wonderful friends over the years.

Unless you are a celebrity a memoir should focus more on the period especially if you are a clod. This book serves a wonderful example of how to make a wonderful subject tedious.

How to annoy relatives

The most certian way to annoy relatives is to stay with them indefinately and subject them to a series of annoying quirks. In real life I am very punctual and am on a scripted schedule. These relatives are chronological labotomies and are driving me up a wall by never being on time and moving around at idiotic hours like 2 A.M. If this is not bad enough I am stuck with religious dogma for another month. I respect other people's right to be religious but leave me out. If I wanted to be religious I would have done so. The best I can do is sit respectfully when I am way laid into a religious function.

This will be a month of non stop aggrivation. When people ask me about these relatives I cringe.

Another way to irritate people is to give career advice when you haven't worked in 20 years. The person has skills to get a range of jobs but does zero except piss me off. If I walk away and state I take the 5th this should tell you my patience is wearing thin. After a week with these rellatives I would gladly welcome a trip to somewhere preaceful like Damascus, Mogidishu or anyplace where I can just be hit by a bullet and not deal with this idiocy. Tardiness drives me up the wall. Moving around early in the morning when I sleep at home is dangerous. I wake up with adrenaline charged prepared to beat the intruder to a pulp and after being filled with adrenaline I can not sleep.

I can't stand slkackers and slackers that are know it alls drive me up the wall. This idiotic slacker does not even pick up subtle hints. "Advice is worth what they pay you for it. When is the last time anyone paid you for your opinion 20 years ago????? I would be happier if I didn't ever see you seriously I am not joking get lost call me in twenty years. Don't even come to my funeral because by the time you get there it will be over anyway.

Its going on five days and I am going ballistic. 

Searching for Home

Those who read this space long term know my ties to the Catskills. The vanishing world of Jewish Hotels and Bungalow colonies with a unique style of comedy is almost gone. There will still be a few bungalow colonies. Mostly the Ultra Orthodox Hasidic crowd has kept this alive for now.

Recently the Kutshers family of Catskills NY fame has opened a resturant in the area I work in. I am familiar with the local establishment of cookie cutter fake Italian and latino establishments. Over priced too hip and food that doesn't deliver.

I went to Kutshers with an elegant companion. Like myself she had been to many of these hotels in her youth. Her connection was not as intimate and as deep as my ties to that era. If you are going to relive those years and the traditions you are going to be disappointed.

The positives are the staff is charming and grasps the customer is king element from the Catskills. The staff has no connection to those years but Mr Kutsher has really done this well. He is a charming host who knows how to work a room much like the Hotel impesarios. He is not Irving Cohen or Jenny Grossinger but he is really good in this smaller venue.

Despite nostalgic delusions the true secret of the Catskills was the food was above average not world class. They served alot of food ( mountains) and they really did not bother with the aesthetic part of the game. You mostly ate familiars and went into a food coma shortly before the wonderful shows. The truth is that Kutshers Tribeca out does the original in that the food is better than more hyped local establishments.
Every single item was outstanding even if halibut gefilte fish sounds like the person eating it should get zonked with a lightning bolt.

The question is what brings you to the door. If you are looking for original food not found anyhere else with the best staff in the area you are in the correct place. This place is an excellent establishment that puts those in the area to shame. Its high quality offerings are authentic yet presented in modern ways. This is a fine establishment that is well worth repeated visits.

If you are looking for those Catskills memories forget it. I was explaining to the person with me how it would take three hours for me to set the tables. I would inspect each piece of silverware before I placed ti down and sometimes I respun the pieces in the machine that didn't meet my standards. I would go through racks of glasses to get a few for my customers and a few times I rewashed a set twice rather than give a less than perfect glass. Folding the napkins alone took about 35 minutes.  The pomp of a hotel dinning room is not here and perhaps is lost forever in time. Then again if anyone was crazy enough to recreate that level of dedication today would cost $300.00 a person minimum in a resturant setting.

I have had several careers and my home away from home where I hang my hat remains Bens Best. I have been eating there when it was Lou G Siegels. The food is always good the service is always very good and more close to the traditional favorites. I wandered in after I left the mountains when I worked in the fashion industry and never left. In many ways it is a greater part of my life than the famed mountains. When I met an impossible deadline I had a meal at Bens. When a boss wanted to discuss my contract we went to Bens. When I would wander back from VT starved for a slice of Derma in a culinary wasteland I ended up at Bens.

I guess my trip to Kutshers was a great experience. I will be returning shortly with appopriate companionship who can appreciate excellence. However, when I celebrate something important or need that little zest of life I will return to Ben's.

The Atomic Bomb in Life

The media is full of nasty stories about men who go haywire. There is a whole channel devoted to movies about men abusing women stories. There is article after article about how women suffer after a divorce.

I went through my divorce about 20 years ago. I remember sitting in my attorneys office and reading the most absurd charges that were based on garbage. I looked at the lawyer who had a stack of files on his desk kid point to a file.  I did "accused of molesting his kids".  I pointed to the next one "accused of beating his wife". It went on and on .

I trully empathize with actual victims of abuse and harassment. However, there is a disturbing unspoken reality that is not discussed. The reality is that there are people who use and abuse this process for its own end and they are almost always female. This does not infer that all people who make absurd allegations are females or that all these claims are hot air.

There was an episode in a recent job where the same people competiting for jobs was intense. A few employees made up false sexual harassment complaints and I was targeted by this crew. Supposedly my crime was stating I think female sports is a bore. I don't watch womens basketball and gymnastics and Ice Skatting regardless of gender are a bore. I found myself up on sexual harassment charges for creating a hostile work attmosphere. Officially, we are not allowed to know who are accuser is but this was weak and underhanded.  I changed my routine and stopped talking to all my coworkers except for my boss and changed my route to avoid the accuser.  I shifted my work hours including ten hours every Saturday so I would not be near this person at all. I found long winded feminist tracts tapped to my desk and a stack of pennies glued together tapped to my desk.  The person who never worked Saturdays decided to suddenly work Saturdays. As soon as she arrived, I got up and left the building.

I was then accused of a different crime avoidance. Apparently, the rules state that this is not allowed as well. Moving my work space was not allowed as this would set off a range of people making similar requests.

A female coworker who was a close friend saw me eating alone and told me Beaky you are not yourself.
I told her what I was accused of and she said that is ridiculous. You help anyone who asks and I have never heard you say a bad word about anyone except the crazy senior citizens who hog all the shrimp in the buffet. She made a point of insisting I sit with close friends from work and they were supportive.

The real tragedy is that I have seen careers ruined by false allegations and several people rewarded for these false complaints. As a person who has dealt with this on the recieving end these people disgust me
as abuse claims are a serious matter that should be dealt with seriously. The accuser and accused should be held to standards and evidence and testimony should be evaluated.

A friend came to me just shaken and I knew.

Here is what you can do

1) Tell your friend emphatically you believe in them. In my case it is something from my heart.
2) If it is bad take a day off and go with this person away from the office. Parks, Museums and drives in the country work wonders
3) Be there for your friend
4) Explain that sometimes in these situations professional help may be needed.

The best thing you can do is explain that some people do lack ethics and personal integrity. They will make false allegations for personal advantage and attention.

Att: Muslims if you love America and its traditions you are a Suck up according to the bird brained Duck.

We do not call people like Mr. B, AOW or Z suck ups for loving our country. Patriotism and respect for the ethos of our country is a core part of our persona. Marxists like our friend Duncy think that as heirs to the divine wisdom according to Marx that they determine who is authentically Jewish, Black, Muslim and so forth. Of course those who reject Marxism are called slurs like Likudinik or Aunt Jemimah by those who reject their foul ideas.

Anyone who reads the writings of Stephen Schwartz grasps that he is a patriotic American who cares about his country and his faith. He understands and embraces our noblest traditions of intellectual freedom and respect for others. As a man of ideas and words he embraces our Western Tradition.

In essence as a person of wisdom and faith Schwartz and the CIP grasp that terrorism hurts Islam on many levels. There are no word games or equivocation for pointless acts of violence that are almost branding strategies.

It is insulting to insinuate that Muslims who respect our traditions and others are suck ups. Do we accuse others who have a love of these ideas of being suck ups.  This is typical mindless far left arrogance. In the mind of the Duck the Muslims who serve in our armed forces are misguided.

Are Muslims part of Big Table Americanism? All who respect others and private property are welcome so long as they share the common ethos our country was founded upon.

Exactly what you expected on Fort Hood Massacre

Anyone who works in government understands the fear of being called a racist or bigot. Officers take course after course on political correctness. The truth is that this does not infer that you toss common sense out the window.

Mainstream Muslims want their culture respected and we should strive to do so within reason. Providing a Halal meal or a break for prayer is okay. Ignoring that a person is in regular contact with well known terrorists and speaking approvingly of suicide bombings is not respect, it is lunacy.

All of us are guilty of being itimidated by the term racist. Checking the identity of someone under a burkha is not racist, it is doing your job. Checking out well established crime patterns especially when there is ample evidence is due dillegence.

This is why it is important that when the government discusses the training of professionals in ethnic sensitivity it should reach out to groups like the Center for Islamic Pluralism not CAIR. We have had years of superficial and incorrect training because political hacks and the wrong Muslims were asked.

Example there are reports person A is involved in money laundering to a country of interest. If we fail to investigate the matter we are not respecting Islam, we are failing to do our sworn duty. Respecting Islam, does not mean we fail to act on job number one which is public safety.

End Immigration Scams by big Education and Business

The time has come to end the scam of allowing the higher education mafia to skirt immigration law. The reality is many students do not attend classes and abuse the F1 visa to skirt immigration laws. Universities should be fined for each student that does not attend classes. Student X never attends classes and does not exit. The enforcement cost of locating X should be passed on to the University at $25,000 per year.

Entering students should be required to post a bond. If the student fails to attend classes the bond is forfiet. If the student marries and fails to attend classes the bond is still forfiet

Are we better of than our Grand Parents

I hate to fall into cynacism but the answer is no. The changes in the world are not going to be undone. Unfortunately, many people with good intentions just made things worse.

In my grandparents day you could work in the same job without retraining until retirement. The way technology is this is a thing of the past. The days where you had a crew of buddies that worked with you for years is finnished. Even in my current job maybe ten people are there when I started five years ago in NYC. Many have retired and we are working like dogs. What is a lunch break? Officers are supposed to be on three days and off two for clerical work. Haven't had that in a while.

Marriages lasted for lifetimes and communities remained unchanged. You knew your neighbor and had kids at the same time. Now everyone moves all over the place. Since there were three channels you watched similar shows as your friends. Now with cable you have channel after channel of shlock. Even the quality of video games has gone down because we don't spend as much time on story as we do on effects.

You walk your neighborhood and look for the familiar family Pizza Parlor or Chinese Resturant but they are gone casualties of the economy. I look at the places around me that have gone belly up. The Pizza place was here since 1964 and is kaput. The Chinese place with slave labor is finnished and that was here since 1970.  We replace them with chain stores that are all alike. Don't get me wrong but McDonald's are not unique enough to be a community icon.

We look at gadgets like a cell phone or an I Pad. These are not replacements for a community and stability.
Psychology is more apt to damage relationships and create bigger problems.

Are we better off than our grandparents? If measured by gadgets yes. If measured by happiness no. There is almost a sense of daily alienation as nothing is permanent. Families, friends, jobs, communities all seem disposable and it is our loss.

The Return of the Great Gasmasked Patriot

I want to point out that while we don't always agree with the Great Gasmasked Patriot he is an All American Classic.

I do not see the Tea Party as left wing. I see the Tea Party as a sometimes corrosive influence largely due for its propensity to place poor candidates on the ballot. I would also be happier if they tossed out the Paulites yesterday. The claim that Paul or his less wacky son are some sort of rallying point is sheer deception. William F Buckley made conservatism respectable by tossing out the John Birch elements. Ron Paul and his freak show followers are pretty much John Birchers with better PR.

In short it is acceptable to oppose Obama's policies and detest Obama. When we start ranting about race, Obama is a Muslim and to a lesser extent birtherism we sound unhinged like members of the JBS. There is frankly no place in anything Republican for evil Abe Lincoln crap, racial supremacists and Joooo haters. The Jooooo haters in the GOP are Paulists and who make a mockery of everything the party stands for. While Paul feigns he is the true Conservative he left the GOP in protest of Regans policies. Paul now feigns that he was a Reagan supporter all along.

While Mr. B may not be right about the Tea Party why are the Paulists there in the first place. If there is a person who is heir to the throne of Reaganism and Conservatism it is not Paul who ran against far leftist Russel Means. Paul's talk about spending is not matched by his record of pork in congress. In short the actual Ron Paul is not conservative in any way. He is a few fruit loops short of a box.

I did point out that none of Romneys supporters actually are voting for Romney. They are voting against Obama and the rant of Kid at Z's site proves my point better than my original point. Romney ran on two points I am not Obama and I am electable. Romney is basically Obama Light and has not been out there
highlighting anything other than I am not Obama.

Those of us who look around at the Obama Socialist demolition derby economy and are wondering what
will Romney do differently are scratching our heads. We wait for ideas and vision and Romey states "I am not Obama". Well in actuality the Obama we elected was not Obama the President either. He was a media annointed symbol of post racial politics droning on mindlessly about hope and change behind a Pepsi Knock off logo. When he got into office he delivered change by making everything worse. Oddly in the train wreck economy Blacks have suffered worse than any other group.

I took the other bus and was floored by all the empty store fronts. The one that hit hardest was a local Chinese resturant that had been there for at least 37 years. Even small family owned businesses using cheap often illegal labor can't survive the Obama demolition derby economy.

Has Romney stated what he intends to do to help small companies and start up businesses? Has Romney stated what is his plan to cut the explosive growth in educational and health care costs? Exactly, what are the ideas that are supposed to get Americans working again other than I am not as inept and clueless as Obama?

I am fed up with politcs we are now pitching politicians like junk food ads. We have gone from discussing ideas and vision to packaging. Gee Obama is infront of a Pepsi logo so Romney should adopt a logo based upon a Tide Logo.

Where are the ideas? Where is the vision ?

Dr Obama my @$#^&^*I(

There is a poll out there that shows a large number of doctors are thinking about giving up the practice of medicine because of  Obama care. The media has burried this poll because mission number one is to save Obama and this abomination of a bill. This is the one bill favored by elitist snobs who don't do actual work. They sit around and BS themselves that they want to be more European.

I am amused at the Obama camp who are focusing on Romney's money. Romney was born into a family of wealth and has proven he is adept at earning it. This is compared to Gomer Kerry who marries it or Obama whose wealth comes from where????

Fact Obama has been to more Prep Schools than Al Gore. Unlike Al Gore he mainly ran around in a pot induced stupor and mindlessly repeated every idiotic cliche his teachers tossed at him. He is so brilliant that his grades are a tighter secret than Coca Cola. How one gets into elite Universities after doing poorly is a mystery. The truth is that he likely used and abused affirmative action and the Old Bolshevik network connections of his grandparents and spaced out hippie mother. Obama's grades did not prevent him from getting into elite Law Schools and as an educator. Most likely this is an area where he expeditiously contrived some interesting accounts of his birth when it was advantageous.

Would you accept someone who has blatantly lied on their resume and messed up royally on the job to go for a second round.

Fire Obama and elect anyone.

Hope and change starts with sending Obama out of DC and onto a golf course where he can not damage the economy and merely bore everyone with his feigned brilliance. I may not have like Bill Clinton but he was not stupid or dangerous. Obama is a disaster and the joke is on the American people. It has ceased to be funny about two years ago.

Not supposed to happen this way

I have been wandering the internet and am floored where some people ended up. Now I worked with dangerous types in some jobs and it is no shock when they end up in a police blotter. Some of the coworkers in various jobs were in the criminal justice system long before they met me. It is no great shock
when a truckman who did time goes back.

The world of fashion sales is a disgusting vile place. The most honest of the lot is the old mafia truckmen. It is a morally perverse place where throats are cut, drug use  is not too secret, all types of sexual hijinks and bribery are well known. One of the best moves I did for my soul was to get as far away from these types as possible. At least in the distribution end the workers were a higher class version of the transients I knew at the hotels. The drug abuse wasn't bad but gamblers and thieves were common. The folks were okay in spite of their ethical lapses. In my area I created a type of family attmosphere charged with my never say die attitude.

I had many salesmen and women I worked with. They are like butterfies in that they live beautiful short lives and die in their 40's. Their youth is used up and they are no longer cool and they can't sell a thing.  One salesmen was like a brother to me. He was a partner but things didn't go well. His marriage was long busted and he has drifted from company to company in irrelevancy. I offer to treat him for lunch as it helps him remember the days when he was it.

Another salesman I knew was real good. He slept with anything that moved to make a sale. He was almost a cartoon of your ethically challenged salesman and he made top dollar at least 250000 back in the 90s. He founded his own line that failed, his marriage failed. This is just the way of that industry. Unfortunately he was convicted of some type of sex crime with someone under the legal age. Perhaps, I shouldn't be as surprised that he has fallen down and now sells insurance in FLA.

It is a greater curse to have it all and lose it than to never have it at all. I am content serving the public and reading a series of never ending books. I might year for the buddies from  my days in the Catskills or the Fashion Industry but I am in a better place. I pen happy endings for the most part. There are times I miss being "the man" but it an odd journey we take through life.

Tarek Fatah's the Jew is Not My Enemy

In general it is good to read books that challenge your assumptions, unless they are written by Marxists whose views are worthless. While it is important to learn from Spenser it is more valuable to read the thoughts of Muslims who care about their faith and share our concerns. I have learned very much from regularly read Stephen Schwartz and the articles at the CIP.

Fatah does decry the pro Arabic racism that is directed at non Arabs as part and parcel of the Saudi variant. Arabs muslims tend to look down on non Arab muslims who make up a majority of the faith.  The primacy of this faith and the mindless conspiratorial Jewish obsessions are traced to Saudi malfeasence.

What is new is the authors questioning if a certain massacre assumed to be true actually happend or it got added later. The author makes a convincing argument it did not happen quite the way the haddith conveys it. The author questions why Muslims themselves are so willing to embrace the story of a vengeful prophet
who butchered people who were basically bystanders in the events. As with the building of the Dome of the Rock there appears to be political reasoning behind the fable. The author points out that there is zero confirmation of these events in Jewish sources who wrote about events in great detail. The massacre of 900 people should have created ruins that would have been dug up in Medina multiple times in construction.

The author points out that if this haddith is rejected then inevitably we would end up wondering what else is false or exagerated.

Are we ready to challenge out assumptions? While I grant that the author may be factually correct, Muslims themselves believe these legends. Of course clinging to represive theocracy is not in anyones interest as it is not the basis of a modern state. The problem is the author leaves out the damage of the Marxists who inane strongmen like Saddam and Assad have been just as disasterous. Of course the notion of getting a Muslim Capitalist reformer has just not happened. I have learned to never say never but don't hold your breath.

Movies and you

When a well crafted movie is made there is but so much that can be conveyed in 90 minutes. Most of this is directed at plot and charachter develpoment. Thus a movie about the Catskills Hotels or set there is unlikely to ever touch upon the troubled transients who washed the dishes and cleaned the floors. Cleaning the flo ors in the kitchen was done by a series of water hoses and wasnt so bad. Running the silverware spinners was bad and clapping plates in the huge dishwasher was the worst.

In film it is just easier and more interesting to portray the owners child or spoiled wealthy kid having a forbidden romance. There likely were many of these between the young college students who were passing through on their way to somewhere else. In general most of these students were from upper middle class families. The parents did not necessarily frown on these relationships so long as everything went well. If it didn't then can expect the worst.

A dance instructor was not a great candidate. They were considered on a lower plane than the entertainers or even the musicians. Yes there was the celebrated marriage of the late Lou Goldstein to a dance instructor. Goldstein was the brilliant activities director and an upper level employee, not a guest or an owners family.

A TV series about the Catskills Era would be a blast. You could have cameos of actual entertainers who played there playing cranky guests while a younger person plays Jackie Mason or Don Rickles. Even in an hour format 15 minutes could be devoted to the show. I doubt this type of series would ever hit paper or come to the attention of studio heads. However, given the bad cop shows and dreadful shows on HBO it would be worth a try. In a TV series the world of the long term employees and the transients can be discussed in passing.