Premature Talk of the Death of Harry's Place

Harry's Place has been off line for a few days. Those on the far left have been voicing approval of what isn't likely the end of a decent blog. The snide remarks come from European critics who think any American to the right of Fidel Castro is a Neanderthal.

My issues with the site are its cartoon like presentation of American issues by the planets laziest blogger Gene. The site selected an off the map Big Labor Socialist who is a dual Israeli American citizen. What % of Americans are dual nationals? What % of Americans are Socialist or are Big Labor types? The framing of American issues on HP were literally framed from a series of Cut and Paste articles from Huffington with the theme Republicans are Stupid Anti Science morons and Obama is the Messiah.

HP ran a series of disgraceful posts about the Tea Party. There is not one bit of evidence that the author ever  attended a single event. This would have been fairly easy as Gene lived in DC and moved to the suburbs. Rather then attend a function and see who is there. I reluctantly went with AOW and was shocked to find mostly decent working class folk who just wanted fiscal sanity and growth. I have made similar trips to NYC
events and found very decent tame folks engaging in Constitutionally Protected Free Speech behaving lawfully.

HP lifted its coverage of the Tea Party from folks at Huffington who similarly don't get beyond a wine and cheese party in a social science faculty lounge. The theme is that if a single person at the a Tea Party event says anything questionable it tars every single person at the event. This is amusing as the number of posts related to this mania about the Tea Party likely exceeded 50.

Meanwhile it remained silent on the entire topic of Occupy Wall Street. Basically it ignored the most rancid forms of Jew Hatred outside of the Middle East and Hugo's failed Workers Paradise. Having spent plenty of time at OWS events it takes no effort to find Jew Hatred, Truthers, people rationalizing violence and a section of lunatics that want to create this generations Haymarket. 

There have been multiple links of OWS members to planned terrorist activity. There have been serious crimes including murder, rapes and large scale property damage at OWS. OWS is neither lawful, nor does banging on a drum while smelling like a landfill qualify as freedom of speech and HP remained silent. The European correspondents do deal with abhorrent behavior from the left as seen in the examples of the London riots. Gene does not do any posts that might make the domestic left look bad. He might do a few anti Chavez posts but that is about it.

Now if a quirky jerk at the Tea Party makes anything that could be construed as a racial remark the folks at HP brand the entire bunch bigots. The same crew turns this logic on its head when discussing OWS. The presence of individuals linked to terrorism, murder, rapes and endorsed by David Duke in his own words means nothing as it is a mass movement made up of many people... Sorry, but these dangerous ignorant lunatics have plenty of links to big labor, big education, big media, trustfundistas and yes the Obama connected ACORN. Obama cronies Bill Ayers and Van Jones have been involved with OWS. Obama gave initial support for OWS and switched the subject as it became apparent that regular folks had grown annoyed at the collection of dangerous lunatics.

The left decries the commenters at HP. One classic imbecile is the hysterical Josh Scholar who pretty much chalks up all opposition to Obama as racist. Another so called expert calls himself Vildechaya who is a Canadian editor who knows more about America because he lived here for three years. I pointed out that Canada does have its own issues with Muslim radicals and terror plots. Salim Mansur and Tarek Fateh both write on the subject eloquently. I got a nasty remark saying "Muslims in Canada keep their heads down". I confronted this paternalistic bigotry to which this jerk used some sort of weasel word bit that it is not bigotry.
The truth is that many on the far left have been playing nasty games with the most unhinged parts of the planet. As Dershowitz pointed out Galloway tries to be more Palestinian then Palestinians themselves. A few backflips about Saddam and Assad and a diet of Bad Jooo er Zionist. Maxine Waters similarly transformed violent criminals in LA burning and stealing into revolutionaries. Amazingly the Canadian ponders what do I know about National Security.

Actually, the way Gene frames the issues there can be no discussion of American issues at HP. There are plenty of decent folks and we don't have to agree, but it boils down to integrity. Ignoring OWS which was a huge issue while running post after post on the Tea Party and Glenn Beck is typical  for Gene. One post hysterically called Beck an antisemite for accurately quoting George Soros. Ask a Jew that practices the actual religion if they would rather sit next to Glenn Beck or Soros. Soros is so despised in the Jewish community that a group that lied about receiving his money had a major scandal. This is rather obvious to someone who has spent time with people who practice the religion as opposed hanging out with bon vivants over fondue waxing about Gore Vidal novels. You don't generally hear Mendy pass the fondue and did you finish reading that book by Norman Mailer in the modern Orthodox or even Conservative community. I only know a handful of radicals in that community as opposed to Patriotic Israel Supporting liberals like Joe Leiberman whom those on the left frequently tar as having issues with dual loyalty. Those on the left whose history includes lies about spies, mindless terror with no links to the Vietnam War and organizers of riots who chanted get the Jews should be the last to question anyone's loyalties.

You can search HP for any trace of patriotism by Gene who seems to think it is rather quaint. In fact you can read plenty into his silence by frequent remarks by Euros claiming patriots are Bubbas of the set of Deliverance.

The truth is that many hard core leftists are completely clueless and we can make our own hysterical cartoon versions. Socialites talking about working class people while living in a world as racially segregated as a KKK event. Lefties practicing New Age religion trying to communicative with Eugene V Debs with a set of crystals. Cocaine and booze are very common at these gatherings of ultra left gadflies. Now I don't like to point to cartoons. However, my cartoons were based upon actual first hand encounters. Your average Christian ( not Liberation theology fakes and Pastor Wright) believes in helping the poor as a calling and is less inclined towards hate then Marxist drones.

I hope HP returns soon and it rethinks the errors of its ways on its coverage of American topics. It is better reading to discuss actual events rather than cartoon scraping cut and paste from Huffington.

Satmar on trial for Child Molestation

The Satmar are the lefts favorite Jews. They frequently point to this deranged cult as some sort of moral beacon in their obsession with Israel. The most bigoted also toss them into the gutter afterwards with accurate portrayals of welfare rates. Mainstream lefties who are part of the cult of Obama feign ignorance that this crew voted for Obama in droves for his anti Israel positions.

Sexual abuse scandals have hit many denominations. However only the Satmar appear to have first attempted to bully the victim into silence and when that failed bribe the victim to drop the charges and emigrate to ISRAEL. The Satmar are against the Jewish state but see no difficulty in trying to bribe a crime victim and sending them there when expedient.

The question of who directed these attempts to silence the victim of a crime will not be asked. As we are dealing with a deranged cult those on trial will never point their finger and do the jail time. When the scandal is forgotten some pardon or early release will be engineered by a cult friendly politician.

Obama layoffs and under employment

A direct consequence of Obamacare is the rise of the part time worker. There will be fewer full time jobs as Obama opens the flood gates with another impending amnesty. The breadline will be longer and those college grads will be at Starbucks.

It is ironic that two of the groups directly responsible for putting the incompetent Obama will suffer from his deranged policies. Blacks and College Students will pay for their poor choices. Unemployment and crime will plague the inner city and students will not be able to pay off their loans.

Amazingly, the frummies are still here. They take their kid to a doctor for "Epstein Barr" because the kid is sleepy. A real doctor would diagnose this as jackassicus fumoron parenticus. If the leave now the kid might get home at 1:30 on a school night. Of course I could not enjoy this game as the frummies wait until the last second to extend my agony. The kid has deduced I refuse to eat with them.

On Thanksgiving it is the time for hope. There is no hope in a nation governed by a man who can not lead and does not have a clue. Our hope is that after yet more failures the GOP delivers another spanking and he is rendered an afterthought. Look for Hillary to spill the beans when she is gone.

Why you should read Stephen Schwartz

Once again some in the Muslim community don't get it. Complaining about sentencing terrorists to death for crimes which make Muslims look barbaric is dumb.

The latest article about the plight of the Rohingya issue in Burma. It is interesting and informative reading that is well worth a trip to the CIP Website. There are excellent articles about persecution of Sufis in Pakistan.

Count on Frummies to mess up everything

When we last left the planets most inconsiderate religious zombies messed up another holiday. My parents are home this year and I arranged for my daughter to spend it with the in laws. I made arrangements for a caterer so I would not have to do industrial cooking. Last second the religious mendicants decide to come here.

I have to cancel the caterer because if the food is not perfectly Kosher the usual hell breaks out. The caterer made a Kosher turkey and sent it over. My folks and I ate it for lunch while I went into the kitchen to create something from my memory

I did not find my usual ingredients. I like to cook a turkey over a bed of barley, mushrooms, cut Texas white onions and Maine potatoes. I stuff the inside with citrus fruit and paint the turkey with Honey from Poland add crushed garlic, cajuin powder and an Italian seasoning and a mesquite based bbq sauce. I only had limited supplies and had to improvise. I had a bed of Texas White Onions, Sweet Potatoes, some small non Maine potatoes ( less than Maine is an insult). I brushed the Turkey with Vermont Maple syrup ( the stuff is powerful and needs to be lightly applied) used plenty of garlic powder and pepper. I stuffed the center with local pears peeled and added lime juice. Came out pretty good but I had to eat the catered food before the jerks arrived. 

They arrived at 7:30 at night late as usual and ruined an excellent meal. The excuses never change and I am done listening to them. All the effort wasted because these clowns have zero consideration for anyone else.

Of course he arrives late has a bad attitude and is in brain impaired form.

The latest complaint is I eat at the Greek Diner when these relatives are home. The Greek Diner in many ways is my sanctuary from these inconsiderate jerks. Fortunately, I have work and have never been so glad to go in even if there was another Sandy and 9-11 combined I would find my way in. I can not stand spending any time with these clowns who show no consideration for anyone. I never hated this crew until the summer when they dropped in for twelve agonizing weeks. There was excuse after excuse to prolong the agony. 

On Saturday I will spend the day with my daughter. I will be spared more time with these jerks. They only excel in excuses and more ways to annoy people. If you wish to be religious don't inflict this on other people.

If you make demands on other people due to your quirks try to be brief. 

On a personal level lateness and excuses drive me batty. Two decades of lateness and these impositions are enough. As stated I might have been annoyed but this summer was too much. I am stuck with this relative at family gatherings and the mix of self centered lateness, sixth grade level corny jokes and religious dogmatism is under my skin. He feigns that he is soooo concerned but it isn't even a good act.

This relative is not a particularly nice person. I keep wondering why his wife keeps trying to talk to me when I make it clear that this is finished. In her mind this will pass, but she doesn't grasp how this anger has built up over years. She asked "How come we haven't met your daughter". My response is "I love the kid and you guys are my problem not hers". A normal person would grasp that it should be left alone but not these clowns.  

The Greek place is a place that I can be free of these demands. I can enjoy a bowl of soup and have wacky sandwiches and tell jokes. The TV is set to ESPN sports so I can enjoy the sports with the guys. They always have a nice bowl of jello and green tea. In a way the Greek Diner is timeless and I merely age across a sea of faces. 

What are you telling a person when you are always late? What are you telling a person when you alter their plans at the last second? What are you telling someone when you force your religious practices on others? Quite simply you are walking around like everyone else is your servant and you have a divine sense of entitlement. In small doses I am generally fine. After this summer I am not. I tried to warn this relative that the damage is likely permanent but he did not yield. I even offered to pay the private school costs closer to home but again he did not yield.

It would go a long way if he would apologize for this summer and not talk to me for a while. Unfortunately, this is not in his makeup and he just lives in a clueless fog of religious texts and delusions of relevance. As we speak he is off on another tantrum. This one because I walked away and will not fight with him and eat at the diner when he is home. Run and hide he yelled at me. In reality it is walk away disgusted to a happier place.

There is a reader who rants about gays. A gay relative would not create this much mayhem even if they were the stereotypical drama Queen. I could eat as I wished and live my life free from rules that mean little to me. I might get a few fashion lectures and told what wine goes with what at worst. I am tired of the impositions, the 

perpetual lateness, changing plans last second and running around like he is a victim. 

It looks like Twinkies may rise again

I had no doubt some buyer would produce twinkies. However at work I had what I thought were my last Devil Dogs. My mother always put these in my lunch. I actually liked the fruit pies as a kid. Part of the fun of being a father is sharing things with your kid. Somehow my odd love of barley has been picked up by my daughter who looks for it in soup and served as a side.

Similarly my fathers love of Pistachio ice cream got passed to me and onto my daughter who was curious as to what that strange green ice cream is. Hostess and Drake's products were always in my home and around my desk. Sharing a twinkie with my daughter is a good memory.

I was watching my daughter and preparing to pass her a bag of Sour Patch candy. Without warning her two year old niece ripped the bag from my hand. Do note the two year old does not do that with other packages.
I guess I will have to switch brands. The kids messed me up by eating an entire jar of barrel pickles as I left popcorn and pretzels around. I enjoy the B &G brand but will buy others on occasion.

On the brighter side my daughter has started to love reading. She is not at my level or that of Rav Roov, but she does it on her own. It is not important that she is not reading the financial page or even the heavy books
that I read at her age. This will come in time and the love of the printed word comes first.

It is a safe bet that on Christmas morning my daughter will have Swiss Miss and Twinkies with her Nook reader.

To Kill A Campaign

It is becoming apparent that President Obama lied about Bengazi. How much if any help could summoned to assist remains unclear. Maybe the people making the choice thought they could be ransomed or we would lose more men with no probability of rescue.

I have serious ethical issues with an administration who would lie about an act of terror merely to get elected.
The truth is the voters would not have held a terrorist attack against Obama. Perhaps limited damage would be caused by the requests for security but these types of things do unfortunately happen. Claiming this attack had anything to do with a You Tube video was a direct lie.

The far left cries about Fox News but it was the only outlet that said a word. The media sat on this story as well as the potential layoff wave that would follow an Obama victory. The layoff Tsunami following the election of the messiah materialized. Those of you who lost your jobs can comfort yourself that Obama and his University Marxist and Limousine Radicals friends are toasting champagne while you wonder about your future.

The stupid Obama inspired OWS never quite grasps that their debts come from Big Academia selling costly worthless degrees so political hacks like Bill Ayers and Angela Davis can get well paid for no work. The brain impaired students blame the bankers while holding hands with their lazy professors who with rare exception publish worthless scholarship. President Obama is a classic example of this politicization of Big Academia. We can't see his transcripts so the specter that he was a classic affirmative action or nepotism hire remains. How he was allowed to remain on the job for 12 years with zero published articles is unknown.
Also the books assigned to his political class have remained beyond discussion in the media.

Ultimately,  telling the truth about terrorism would not have cost many votes. You have to wonder about the priorities of a person who would shift the blame for a well planned attack to an obscure film. Even if the later
were true Muslims need to grasp that this does not justify violence. If this type of activity does justify violence every time a group of nuts burns an American flag the USA should respond with a well placed missile.The apology tours are unusual as Muslims have an extensive history of colonialism and Jim Crow abuses  of their own that exceed their Marxist stoked preposterous victim claims. Note to Bill Clinton any apology for slavery should have been said in America to the descendants of slaves, not in Africa.

As bad as Clinton was nobody could call him stupid or tone deaf. The American people cry out for jobs and Obama responds with a job killing health care plan and food stamps. Obama will push some sort of legalization so that people who knowingly broke the laws can stand next to you on the unemployment and bread lines.

The media is guilty of complicity in allowing Obama to lie. Obama has tried to shift the blame to Hilary and the CIA and the media still protects the Dear Leader. Ultimately, if Hillary were smart she would resign now and start criticizing the tone deaf Obama and position herself in 2016. However, one needs to wonder how much damage four more years of arrogance, stupidity and incompetence can create.

 

Goodbye Twinkies

The goons of big labor have killed a piece of Americana. The last Twinkies and Wonderbread will be off store shelves soon. I can remember many good moments with a Drake cake nearby. On a lark I took two twinkies with me on the flight from LA. The legend of the cream being forced outside at higher altitudes was false.

Big labor backed Obama and his job killing healthcare debacle. The workers will join the ranks of Obama induced layoffs. The union was warned this would happen and pressed on with a strike.

Hopefully, some company will buy the Twinkie name and produce something similar.

Out of the closet

I am and remain Jewish and respect the rights of others to practice their faith. I do object and get annoyed at any attempts to inflict these lifestyle choices on me. What annoys me is the utter disrespect for the rights of other people. An odd visit or two well announced is not a big deal. Dropping over at the last second and staying for the whole summer is a big deal. 

Many of us talk about behaviors that are maladaptive in terms of inner city residents. Those that are familiar with people unemployed for decades who live on the phone and have no concept of time are familiar to any resident of a large city. Basically, many of  the same inner city pathologies are found in the lives of the ultra orthodox minus the promiscuity and drugs. There is no excuse for a person with an accounting degree to be unemployed for 25 years. I want to be sympathetic, but I notice their equally pious relatives never seem to be troubled by these annoying visits.

Far too often the religious use this piousness as a crutch for abnormal behaviors. When you point out that mendicant relative A has been unemployed for two decades you get a lecture. When they drop in at the last second and stay for the whole summer you get a lecture. When they intrude into your personal life you get more lectures. 

Now it may be true that these are just annoying people who happen to be religious. However, years of boorish behavior are just too much. I have never cared for these relatives, but this summer it turned to hate.

Better Gay then Frum

Over years, I have grown less patient with the bombastic religious zaniness and cultural backwardness of frum relatives. These religious mendicants inflict their lifestyle on others and just drop in at the last second.  A gay relative would not cause so much disruption and would not be as embarrassing.

A gay relative would have the class to call well in advance before they drop in. A gay relative would not disrupt any aspect of my life. A gay relative would respect that others live differently and leave others alone.
A gay relative would also not be a cultural ignoramus and understand things beyond religious texts.

I have made my choice to be buried in Guyana away from these relatives known. There is to be no prayer no marker and my ashes are to be placed in the local river.

I was merely annoyed with these visits until the summer. After week after week of this I will not deal with this any more. I am still culturally Jewish, but there will be no more services, rituals or community functions. I was never religiously inclined and I resented it being forced upon me. I spent my formative years yearning to be free from being something I was not. For years I pretended to be someone I was not. I didn't do it well and my disdain and departure comes as no great shock.

The Hindu relatives cause far less disruption and are less annoying. Pretty much it is take your shoes off don't eat beef and pork and that is it. The alcoholic binges and having relatives that are simple can be a pain, but nowhere near as annoying as the frummies. What makes frummies annoying is you must cater to their demands, lack of consideration and class.

Too all those people that complain about having gay family, you have it easy. Dealing with dogmatic backwards people who just don't respect others and cause you to cater to their lifestyle quirks is much worse.

The other side of the Borscht Belt

While reading many of the familiar works about the history of the Catskills there was a missing part discussed
succinctly. We remember the grand hotels and bungalow colony communities of that era. We remember the great entertainment and food. Even in far away Guyana the movie Dirty Dancing provides a vantage point to those too young or culturally removed from the era.

There were caste systems in the hotels that were unspoken. At the very bottom rung were the bimmies. They were poorly paid ( sometimes interesting) men who were marking time and usually addicted to something. They did all the menial work and were kept out of view. They spent their days in dangerous housing in the Concord was described as the "snakepit".

The question of what happened to the workers in those Hotels never gets answered.

To be called a bimmy as a college student was kind of cool. It was akin to being called a screw up. Hence the chain with the name goes back to that era. To those who were at the bottom it was label applied to very broken men racing towards doom. As most of these people were hardcore addicts most of them should be long gone.

An older niece interpreted my life totally wrong. At an earlier time I made a decision to eat with the Bimmies and cross into areas that college students seldom ventured into. This was not social activism in the traditional sense. I did not believe in a caste system and thought students should grasp the world of those who worked across the counter.


In the next post I will discuss how traces of the Catskill era filters into my daily life.
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Spent the day with my daughter

I spent the day with my daughter. She wanted to remain close to home so we visited area stores. I have been thinking about how much fun being a father is. It is odd that I just naturally fell into the role. She is a good kid
who really is full of surprises. Yesterday, I took her to the Greek Diner and the Italian place for lunch. She never had a grilled cheese sandwich so I gave her half of mine.

Today is the Hindu holiday of Diwali. Having Hindu family is far easier then dealing with modern Orthodox Judaism. In general I am not religious in temperament and chafe when it is imposed upon me. This was an issue with a former relationship. I am seriously grateful that I was spared having to be pulled back into the community. The sad part was that my respect was not enough. Unfortunately, I can not fake something I do not feel in my heart. Over time the anger at having to make a show for others would have gone primal. I am happy this person found someone more amenable as she is not suited to single life.

At this point in my life I have made peace with that aspect. I remain Jewish and have elected a self imposed exile. I will go to funerals and participate in rituals according to my status as a family member. For reasons that are evident I chafe at the restrictions on my freedom. I never appreciated religion being forced upon me and wanted to stop living a lie. After college I just became the flavor next door, something I always wanted.

This does not infer an anger at the community. I just want the freedom to walk my own path away. I want to
spend my remaining  years as an officer, father, spouse and good neighbor. The Hindu community has accepted that I respect the traditions that are not mine. They are wise enough to refrain from forcing my hand
or conversion. I am clear I respect heart felt faith, but rituals are not for me as I am just a good neighbor.

I want to point out that I am not an aethiest. I accept there is a power above me and spend the rest of my day leading a normal life. Religion is not something central to my life and I refuse to place on a show for others. I have grown to love being free and will not accept being forced into rituals or community involvement.

When I forgot the papers at the time it was to shut another door. I didn't want matchmakers and relatives pushing me back into the community. Unfortunately, times have changed and people still inquire and having a relationship with the Tranquil Sea is often not a deterrent to aggressive types. Oddly, most of these people ended up there by their own hands. Most thought single life after a divorce was easy. Little did they grasp the game is different after 40. Options are limited and finding a husband is a real chore. They find they are stuck with a model ten years older, loaded with baggage and the easy pickings were just marital therapist lies.  Of course none of these types is ever candid enough to blame themselves or their therapist for their situation.

Listening to the Oldies

While I do listen to surf music I also do listen to classic oldies from the 1970's. Surf Music was a response to work place bullying. An ignorant supervisor objected to some seventies song for unknown reasons. It was played in my office behind closed doors. As a result of this abuse I chose a music type with few words. Some of the exchanges reveal how painfully stupid the person making the noise was. A woodie in surf music terms is not a sexual term. If you can place surfboards on that other thing you are likely not human or should be working with Ducky's students in Van Nuys. A woodie was a type of car seen in most car shows and I am fairly certain as a young child I likely rode in one. A Church Key has nothing to do with Church it is a bottle opener. The funny part of the song is the opening  "who it is" is almost Guyana type broken English. The song is about friends opening a beer.

As my current boss is functional I can listen to Roy Orbison, Jay Black and whatever whims pop up. I was listening to a collection with the Hippy Hippy Shake and some Donovan on it. I found a best of Jackie DeShannon but no Gene Pitney.

I also do like the hysterical Chutney Music of Guyana. Any songs about social problems caused by way too much alcohol and getting messed up in love. Now one is familiar with the songs of Del Shannon or Orbison to know they have a few broken relationship songs. There is one hysterical one about a guy giving a Trinidadian woman a green card and she ran off with another man. I can't listen to that one at work for obvious reasons. In Guyana the locals love to hear me sing these Chutney Classics with a Brooklyn Accent.

Also singing Country and Western Tunes and Doo Wop in Indian accents usually gets everyone laughing. I introduce myself as Glenn Cammel from Karachi. I also did some stand up routines about NY, Vermont and Guyana. Oddly, the part that is most hysterical was when I describe living with Northwind. Some friends in Vermont pointed out that some of the punch lines are not exaggerated. A chain saw is not an item commonly found in homes in NYC. However, it is found commonly in Vermont and some really smoking hot women and even grannies know how to use them.

If we ever get to waterboard Ducky I have a copy of Exodus sung by Pat Boone. Nothing drives communist Jew haters up a wall more then a Mormon Conservative singing about Zionism. The Henry Mancini Instrumental was so common I forgot that this song has words.

We will survive as a nation. There is a slim chance the business cycle can save Obama from himself. Our job is to keep pointing out the misery caused by the Obama policies and Socialist perversion of our ideas.

 

Heading to Applebees

I am personally going out of my way to eat at Applebees. If the left wants to boycott fine, but I will put my money in business that are being annoyed by lefties. If commercial pizza were not inferior to local offerings I would head to Papa Johns. I will devote blog space to Applebees and give a nice report. Other then the dreadful Subway and hit or miss Aubon Pan my reviews are usually good.

Lefties want to boycott and I want to be 100% behind those that are being harassed by the deranged left.

I would go tomorrow but my daughter wants the Greek place. She loves the family type of atmosphere where the staff and owner know me for twenty years. Sometimes he even knows my order before I walk in.
It isn't too difficult to know what your customer likes after 20 years. Funny how the spot was special to me got passed down to my daughter. Then again when I walk in Coney Island I remember the shooting arcade near the cyclone. I used to head there and remember him until they tore it down. Most of the places I used to go in the mountains are gone. Even my local pizza place and Chinese place did not survive Obama. Its tough when places you have gone to for three decades are gone. I have a better relationship with the Chinese place up the road, but the pizza place was a loss. There is a new family there and the site means something, but I don't know.

Didn't take long

The employers of many service industries did a lousy job explaining what Obama II  would do to actual working poor employees. Thank you for cutting my hours and I might have to work two part time jobs rather then one. Unfortunately, employers will opt to get the person with no job. They join the ranks of the underemployed.

The media allowed Obama to hide a horror show class warfare agenda out of Mad Magazine. There will be an amnesty for people who knowingly and purposely broke the law. These new immigrants will petition for relatives in a time when jobs and social service dollars are scare. Of course Obama spelled out no actual plans including Mickey Marxist Affirmative actions scams demanding equal outcomes.

There will be four years of agony and the damage done by Obama will be worse than any natural disaster.

Those who cry about the Tea Party will be watching as freaks from OWS and Soros fronts end up in the Cabinet.

In 2016 many Blacks who are working class will deduce Obama threw them under the bus to promote himself. Adding scores of immigrants to a job market where Blacks are more apt to be unemployed was a slap in the face. Congrats to gays who can marry, only these Obama policies will mean you might hold your reception in a soup kitchen. Congrats College grads you voted for Obama so his fat cat University Clown friends can make 6 figure salaries for 15 hour work weeks with sabbaticals and you get worthless paper, mountains of debt and if your lucky a job in Starbucks. You voted for Obama and will get immigration reform and may have to work three bad jobs that don't exist to survive.

The media let Obama campaign on forward. I am certain that as lemmings go off the cliff they will remember that slogan.

Get off the Canvas, Stop Crying and Fight

I am dismayed as the next person over the election of Obama. Obama can't lead and he hasn't got a clue or a plan. Obama is a classic example of the social promotion of mediocrity and insider cronyism. Every time he ventures from a teleprompter we find the truth about Obama he not quite as intelligent as his groupies think. Basically, he ran on no plans, stupid slogans, Pepsi logo and a diet of MSM stories designed to panic Blacks, Women, Gays, Young people, Immigrants into voting for a savior. White people who opposed Obama are merely part of the bed sheet brigade.

We are in for a horror movie with Obama and his brain damaged band of zombified rebranded fossils at the door. Doorbell rings and an Obama Zombie is at the door asking to drain your life savings for more big government. You are out of work and the Obama Zombie pats you on the head and hands you a welfare check. You see your pay check getting smaller to fund useless unemployable Obama Zombies with gender studies or sociology degrees in alphabet soup agencies regulate every facet of your life..

The Obama disaster movie started right after the election mass layoffs announced and Obama picks up the golf clubs while America suffers.

It is time to get off the canvas look at the person next to you and say we are in this together. Good luck finding work in this economy unless you are connected to an insiders network. If you still have a job your pay check will get smaller and conditions grow hell like. We are all in this together as Americans regardless of race, religion, gender, orientation, region, vocation. All who want fiscal sanity, jobs and sound governance join the big table.

If you are a communist, anarchist, green, racial arsonist, conspiracy freak or want to create a religious utopia there is no place for you at this table. Kindly follow the stench and join Occupy Wall Street.

Absurd

There was no reason for the CIA director to resign over his adultery. While it was not the smartest thing to do it was a private matter between a husband and wife. This action did not rise to Clintonian levels of pathological behavior of predation that clearly at times passed the definition of sexual harassment.

The sexual relationship was not with a subordinate.

In the era of Clintonian excess, some people still have the honor and class Bill Clinton lacked. Of course while actual women were complaining about gross behavior of Clinton the so called feminist movement gave him a free pass because of his support of abortion. 

The funny thing is sexual harassment is a serious issue for most women even in surprising places like the US government and the military. The Clintonian saga shows that in practice these laws are merely conveniences for government or media to pursue at its whims. Thus the same media that crucified Herman Cain made every excuse to rationalize far worse Clintonian behavior.

Bill Clinton was a better President then Obama, but lacks class and integrity. Unlike Obama he can never honestly be called clueless or stupid. The ultimate Clintonian joke is his best remembered quote is "I never had sex with that woman".

Faster then thought

Don't take my work for it kindly google the term layoff. If you are one of the people laid off thank an Obama voter. If you voted for Obama and you were laid off you got scammed.

We are embarking on 4 years of misery buckle up. The Obama horror show is starting. Be sure to watch Obame shift blame

Let the layoffs and misery begin

Many people will be hurting soon and if you voted for Obama you will get the misery you asked for. Most Americans would rather have jobs than a welfare check. If you are employed in domestic energy production you may be out of work to appease the bon vivant Green mafia that lives far from the green Edens it fetishises. If you are a college grad good luck finding jobs that won't exist unless people read their stock portfolios and decreasing home values and kill themselves. If you are saddled with huge debts and worthless degrees thank Obama for doing nothing but protecting jobs of lazy political hacks in social science faculty lounges. Funny, I can name many Wall Street types that work more in one day then University Professors work in a week. The student loan bubble will burst in this term. 

If you are gay you will likely see the end of Doma but continue to work on jobs were gays endure abuse that 

is amazing and the politically correct czars in HR see nothing. If you are gay and don't have a job join the conga line to oblivion. Congrats you can now marry and be just as miserable as your heterosexual friends who also can't find jobs. One of my gay friends assured me he understands my angst about having a lover who spends hours to buy a single clothing item and having a partner whose cell phone has to be surgically removed better than I do.

If you are a HS dropout and you can't find work and suffer from stagnant wages thank Obama for opening the immigration floodgates at a time when jobs are scarce. The economic policies of Obama hurt exponentially more Black families than the KKK, but don't tell that to the folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center. What has Obama done to reduce unemployment among Black families? He's done the same thing that he has done it to help all other families, Nothing? We can all sing and do the limbo on a series of endless lines for various social services. Once there we can watch cronyism and mismanagement in action and be treated like cattle. 

So thank you Obama voters for four more years of misery, cronyism, incompetence and arrogance. He is probably laughing at your stupidity on his way to the nearest golf course.

You get what you deserve

Once again the media has anointed the President. No doubt a series of layoffs will follow this news. As a lame duck Obama will push a series of disastrous policies. If you thought the economy was bad before it will get worse. The administration will attempt an immigration bill early on. Recognizing gay marriages is not something that bothers me. Amnesty for people that have deliberately violated the law does bother me and extending TPS for countries over a decade after a hurricane does.

In the next few days there will be more about the malfeasance in Bengazi. There will be four more years of misery for those under employed and looking for work. We will view the Obama years as the great recession. It will be a time when ;those who want to work can't find work.

America will be a laughing stock with a socially promoted university stooge president who is incompetent. The criticism of GW Bush was his eloquence. Actually, he did well when not reading from a teleprompter.
When Obama has no teleprompter the world sees a Muppet that got lost from Sesame Street.

Expect the layoffs next week.

Saved by Supply Side Economics and consumer stupidity

 A crew from Mississippi came in and fixed our transformer.  That took all of 30 minutes. A crew is now cutting the tree that caused all the mayhem. I have been in touch with AOW and am now trying to figure out how to revive the turtle who went into hibernation. Somehow he knew to come out must have smelled the poached salmon.

Oddly buying big lots at Costco probably allowed me to ride out in ease. I had 72 rolls of toilet paper. enough canned goods for a year or more. I never lost water or gas but the house was 61 degrees. I will do a laundry later. You still can't drive here as the massive tree remains and three more must be cut.

Community leaders are trying to divert Con Ed into an area where a 93 year old is in an area that has power precariously.

I need to do a laundry.

I don't want to talk much about my trip to the flood zone on the other side of the Island. It was bad to see good people cold and hungry. Oddly, I want to give a big middle finger to the useless Christine Quinn. While Bloomberg, Molinaro, Oddo and Vallone Jr were out and about the anointed future Mayor was invisible. I hope those in Staten Island, Queens, the Bronx and most of Brooklyn who are tired of the Manhattan first in everything vote for anyone else.

It was nice to hear Curtis Sliwa on the air just as he was in the days after 9-11. Curtis provided a mix of information humor and nostalgia for the old WABC. To the current WABC please ditch Geraldo who is useless and find Steve Malzberg. It was painful to listen to Geraldo who is a disgrace to the airwaves and knows nothing about NYC. Listening to John Batchelor was a real treat and if I ever get an IPAD is something I will do again.

There is a fallen tree out my window. The branches form a huge middle finger about 20 feet in the air. It is real NYC attitude from mother nature after years of dog salutes and squirells stealing its nuts.

The joke when you go to Costo is when are you going to ever use this junk. I finally have room in the freezer  but for how long freezing rain or snow is headed this way on Wed and we could see round two of blackouts although not by me. this transformer is clear.

No Rain Yet

The winds have picked up but no rain in Staten Island. My boss and a few friends called to remind me to stay home. Usually in bad weather I find a way in. In the last blizzard I made it with ease. However, in this case I think the building is closed so there would be no place to go to.

In praise of Grandma or extended family

Once again we have a tale of a nanny misbehaving in this case killing the kids she was paid to watch. Of course the presence of nannies in ubber rich enclaves is a constant. Of course I don't like to point the finger at anyone but perhaps we need to rethink the role of extended families and career priorities.

The truth is many people are too caught up in their careers to remember taking care of their kids is job number one. The kids are being raised and cared for by people you don't know.

Now Grandma and extended family may not be perfect but you know exactly who they are. Of course this would mean that the parents could not treat the actual child care provider like a peasant. Children would actually know their families much better.

Obama will win

 The media has done its usual protect Obama from scrutiny routine. While we despise Donald Trump, the amount of secrecy about almost every aspect of the anointed one's life is a bit much.

In fairness, Obama should not be blamed for terrorist attacks. We live in a nasty world where there are religious nuts who are intent on killing us and will make up excuses after the fact. My problem is with the administrations refusal to address the problem by name. His Cairo speech was a disgrace.

This is the speech he needed to give


The United States has core values and the right to worship freely is one of our guaranteed rights. However, our rights also guarantee the next man the same right. This arrangement for the most part has allowed our country to be free of the strife and totalitarian abuses familiar in this region.

There are those who blame the West for colonialism. However, Muslims have their own history of colonialism and abuses of ethnic and religious minorities. History does not start in 1948 because you deem it expedient.  It is time for Muslims to respect the rights of others and live peaceably.

There are shrill voices who seek to provoke a clash between Muslims and everyone else. The days of terrorism are over. Allowing war criminals in your midst can be hazardous to your health. Even if we don't bomb you to smithereens history has shown them to be abuse vectors.

The choice is up to you.  If you wish to live in peace welcome, if you raise the sword you will die by it.

Lack of ethics in publishing BS bios

It is no secret that I have a disdain for the Satmar. That being said the BS Feldman memoir was scandalously not even topically fact checked. From any basic reading Feldman is a mentally disturbed attention hog. She pretty much told her publisher and the media the story they wanted to hear. It didn't matter that the messenger lied and was mentally ill because the media wanted a face to push its agenda.

The Satmar are easy to hate even if you are Jewish. They are arrogant, uncouth and beyond religious books ignorant on scores of subjects. Now if you wish to live an alternative lifestyle be my guest just not on my dime. The gay guy up the block works hard pays his taxes and is a good neighbor. The Satmar clod seldom works while voicing toxic opinions parroted from a North Korean Dear Leader Styled Rabbi.

Now I don't mind helping hard working poor families. However, the work ethic is severely lacking amongst men who are unemployable. Sorry, but reading religious texts all day while castigating the rest of the community while begging for alms is not a good strategy for public relations.

In a similar manner the shallow Greg Smith is spinning a sanctimonious tale that is only believable by air headed publishing wonks. Anyone can spill the dirt on an employer. This is not novel or ethical unless serious malfeasance is involved.  In the case of Smith you are dealing with a shallow act who is starved for attention. Basically like a spoiled brat he felt he deserved a seven figure bonus but got a mere $500,000. Sorry, a jerk like Smith doesn't deserve to be employed in Wall Street. Had he experienced the brutal and often humiliating experiences of regular working people he ignored in his daily fog he would count his blessings. I am perplexed how such a shallow and unintelligent clown like Smith managed to be employed at Goldman in the first place.

Of course we are waiting for the Greg Smith book from higher ed. How we conned thousands into mountains of debt for worthless college degrees by a insider in higher ed. Don't hold your breath for that book.

There is a stench in the land

One of our Presidential candidates was a University Professor. He toiled for a dozen years without so much as a single published article. His class added nothing to those who took it. If he had the slightest ability he would have been teaching a core course. Don't hold your breath waiting for a review of the books and course work assigned by the nutty Prof.

You can't see Obama's transcripts or applications. The truth is amusing in that he was a political hire and in a time where we have fewer resources we need to cut back on cronyism.

There is a stench in the land that says if you work for business you are morally depraved. Those on the left rant about exploited aliens. Of course they are factually correct, that many businesses do flout immigration law. The left feigns amnesia about the student visa scams. Many students do not attend a single class and many of those who do attend for a year or less. The universities charge high fees for lazy professors who get paid six figure salaries for 15 hours a week of work. There is a myth that Professors spend time researching. What did Obama's research produce and why was he allowed to continue.

The students vanish into society until they find a spouse or encounter law enforcement. Those who don't even attend classes take entry level jobs badly needed in a tough economy.

I know plenty of business owners who pour their soul into work. I never saw one that worked 15 hours a week and accomplished zero.

The professors jack up their salaries and place the burden on families. The students leave with mountains of debt and worthless paper. Meanwhile the Professors sit around doing nothing except concocting more ways to do less work. The hiring practices in higher ed are dens of nepotism and political connections and bean counting count more then scholarship.

Surprise a very marginal student was given a visa attended a few class, took a menial job and plotted a crime. You can find scores of people who did the first two.

The student visa program needs reform and Obama represents everything that is wrong with higher education.

Death of the dream

You live and grow up with certain expectations. Over the years you think of children being abused as something foreign. There was a time that it was viewed as something that happens to poor people. We see the nasty headlines, but every now and then a case like the Lisa Steinberg case changes the perception.

Communities and organizations we thought were safe turned out not to be safe. Who would have thought that in the ultra religious community this would be a problem. It turns out the problem is huge and the leadership of one vulgar sect has been harassing victims into silence. Of course the solution is obvious, but we lack the determination to fix it. As that community depends on charity turning off the spigot until molesters are turned in would work.

Churches, Boyscouts were among the places kids who had troubled lives could count on. Of course the question of homosexuality comes up but the abuser is not the openly gay male. Usually, like Sandusky they live otherwise normal lives. You wonder how well we know some people at times.

Of course we can't live in shells. The answer is to spend more time with your own kids and be there when they interact with community events. The days of blindly trusting philanthropic organizations to do the right thing are over.

Obama skating through life with no actual work

Most of us go through life perplexed by the ability of some to abuse family connections to get jobs and promotions they did not qualify for. You sit amd wonder how some relative gets a job promotion despite repeated examples of pathological behavior. They take credit for things that they had almost zero to do with.

Barak Obama gets into an elite prep school that his family's social position nor grades warranted. While there he belongs to a group of stoners. Most of us like Shaggy from Scooby Doo, but we would never dream of placing him in Elite Universities. In  between classes Obama was probably solving mysteries with Fred and Daphne. He was probably so stoned that what he thought was a talking dog was actually a classmate named Biff.

How a Stoner gets into Occidental and has admitedly bad grades and then gets into Columbia is a genuine mystery. We know zero about Obama's grades because his transcripts are a more closely guarded secret than the recipie for Coca Cola. The most proble reasons for this improbable admission is some combination of affirmative action and family connections. Obama then goes to an even more elite law school between Scooby snacks and bong hits and mysteriously gets a job on the faculty of the University of Chicago. How he qualified or maintained a job without publishing any scholarly articles is another mystery.

Obama mysteriously hangs out with two others with bizarre resumes who were hired in academia Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. Usually criminal activity disqualifies applicants from most jobs, but former 60's terrorists seem to have an Odessa connection into higher ed.  After 12 years of not publishing anything and teaching hacktivist elective courses Obama goes into politics. Only the multiply fired Norman Finklestein exceeded Obama's sloth in failing to produce peer reviewed articles.

Meanwhile Obama attends a racist church led by a crack pot.  Somehow he missed sermon after sermon of crackpot classics like the US Government created Aids, race baiting  and God Damn America for 20 years
and suddenly dismisses his preacher as a "nutty Uncle".

Obama does absolutely nothing to distinguish himself. His buddies in the media release sealed divorce papers from a foe at the last minute and derails his opponent. He gives an Okay speech that is over hyped by the same media friends and is turned into a Presidential candidate. His media and academic friends conspire to slant coverage during an election. Obama does little more than blather hope and change behind a Pepsi logo and stand next to a really stupid person making himself look smart in comparison to Joe Biden. Biden in a rare lucid moment asked Obama to please stop wearing the I'm with stupid T shirts in public.

The media examined every aspect of Gov Palins life while ignoring Obama's life. Palin was actually more qualified to be President than Obama, Biden or McCain. The media never discussed Biden's stupidity that is only exceeded by Bernie Sanders. I may not like Charles Schumer or Bill Clinton but neither can be called stupid.

Obama without doing an actual thing gets awarded a Nobel Prize. How one lives a life of sloth and does this is unknown. Perhaps the life benefits of standing next to really stupid people can perform miracles. If Hillary had walked around with Charlie Rangel and offered him the VP job she might be in the White House today.

How this race is even close given the train wreck economy is unknown.  If Romney gains in the polls Obama will start wearing the I'm with stupid shirts again.

Barak Obama is the Ultimate Slacker.

Talk of a freer time but was it really so

My daughter asked what it was like to spend summers in the mountains. It was a different time as there were no computers or cell phones. The children would walk the woods with no fear as Bears were gone. It was before the era of the Eastern Coyote.

On our trips the eight year olds traveled with Rusty. Rusty was mostly Shepperd with some collie mixed in. I never saw a dog that loved kids so much. We would walk through the woods like it was a  mini Eden. Look at Waterfalls and visit tiny caves, but Rusty was always there watching the group never far.

The children walked into a meadow and gentle Rusty looked different. There was a huge Black dog snarling at the frightened children. Rusty ran forward and chased the much larger dog. The larger dog ran, but Rusty returned to us as soon as it was safe. He was far better than any baby sitter. We never had to put a leash on him as it may sound funny but Rusty was guiding the kids like a flock of sheep.

I told my daughter that we never had a little dog like the Maltese, but even at home Rusty was special and never far from the children. Even as an old dog he would play like one of the toy breeds. I remember being so sad the summer he passed.
Chico was a good dog a black lab- cocker spaniel mix. The kids were older and the walks longer. He would venture off bring a woodchuck back. He was there when you needed him, but not much more. Maybe if he didn't follow such a great dog we would have appreciated him more. Chico would get mischievous
and steal the baseball and we would chase him.

There wasn't much there just a few baseball a great dog clean swimming holes, warm camp fires and gooey marshmallows. The night time had CBS radio mystery theatre that we could get on a huge tube radio.
My uncles would talk of WW1, WW2 and Korea. My grandfather would come up and fell huge trees and make items with the wood. He would talk of his lost relatives and his time in the cavalry and how he hated horses.

The food was all home cooked from scratch and plentiful. We would sneak steaks to Rusty.

May sound funny, but there wasn't many items and if my daughter looked at us she would think we were poor. People just lived differently. Listening to your Uncle describe WW1 was more entertaining than watching a silly kids show. It was a different time a freer time when parents didn't worry as much. You went away with your extended family and enjoyed the open spaces.

Different time and for me a better time. Sometimes, I look around and wonder if I imagined those days.
It was a better time to be a kid in the twilight of the dusk of the Borscht Belt days of the Catskills. I would get to be an early 20 something in the last moments the resorts were healthy. I would see them as guest and worker. Its sad to see empty lots where hotels thrived and abandoned buildings.

Nothing lasts forever and I am sorry my daughter will never know the land or magesty of the hotels. The place is a shambles and only the woods have survived. The Black Bear and Coyote roam the woods and poor people dwell in the vacation homes.

My dream is to retire to Western Maine along the Kennebec and winer in Berbice Guyana away from the coast. I could travel both rivers with a simple craft. Grow Mulberries and Make Maple Syrup in ME and have fruit and rubber trees in Guyana.

I no longer dream of the big car or the big home. I dream of the hamock and open sky. I dream of a campfire and soft music and seeing the stars at night. I dream of the freedom to read great epics and perhaps a chance to pen one of my own.

I think of stronger families and friendships of those days. Marriages lasted and people didn't look over their shoulder for impending pinkslips. We have computers and gadgets, but I wouldn't trade one day of those warm memories for the progress.

Lost art of the mini series

I don't know why but all of the sudden I am nostalgic for the sweeping miniseries. Maybe it is a lost art form but after watching most of Centenial I kind of miss the sweeping generational epic. We have channels for everything else, but I would love a channel dedicated just to epics. Maybe they would produce new ones as well. We could watch Centenial, the Winds of War, Shogun, Roots and so forth.

I am thinking how it would be good to see faithful reproductioms of the entire Northwest Passage and Arundel books. There could even be an after show segment where readers can discuss the book with English and history proffessors.


Some day.

Movies On Line

I watched a couple of old Tony Curtis films. They really don't stand the test of time but remain enjoyable. The great pretender in its day was likely hysterical. Sadly, as identity theft is far more odious this film doesn't translate well. It is a wholesome reminder of another era with loveable scoundrels and rouges. I think that type of film is passe.

Onto 40 lbs of trouble.

This film has been made before and since. It is familiar yet looking at the inner workings of a big hotel and early Disneyland are well worth it. It is good to see Larry Storch, Phil Silvers and other small screen stars in an earlier time. Not really special just strangely fun.

Maybe they did make them better in the 60's.

Back to 1984

I want to express my understanding on a small scale with the abuse that Stacey Dash has been subjected to. In 1984 when  I registered as a Republican some people in the community did hurl garbage at me for what was then very rare. Now Jewish Republicans are not so rare especially amongst the young.

It is wrong to vote for or against Obama on the basis of race. While much attention was paid to creeps that sum Obama into every Black stereotype, zero attention was paid to the messiah nuts.

All of us should have the freedom of choice to decide our own political identities.

Been away with my daughter

I have been spending time with my daughter as she just celebrated birthday number nine. Being a father is my favorite role and I love the kid. On my own birthday, I take the day off and spend time at an amusement park or museum. In general the time I spend with her is the most fun time in my life.

I don't talk much about those matters because they are so ordinary. I don't grasp the fun part but on the rare occaision I cook it is a big deal to the daughter.  She sees her mother cook each and every day and the results are predictable. I go in and create a Roast Turkey or lasagna and she wants to know how I did it. Making a lasagna with Turkey products wasn't easy and it was superior to the resturant up the block.

The family has come to expect a Thanksgiving feast, but in reality only the little dog and I eat much of the turkey. I keep promising this will be the year I make two chickens but it never happens. I also do not like to make a second one on Christmas. The poor Maltese had his paws around a massive drumstick that was almost his size. I didnt see him for a few hours and anyone who went near the drumstick got a nip.

There isn't much to say about politics. Obama is a joke, but the joke is on us. When he falls on his face in a debate it becomes the moderators fault. The truth is Obama is not even in the same galaxy with Bill Clinton or even GW Bush. He has been socially promoted on the basis of family connections and race. We hear about his days as a Professor but he taught a political class and published nothing of note. In relations to his peers he underperformed.

Does Obama come with a laugh trak

I am floored that his comments at the debate are not comedic. He has done zero to decrease the cost of Health Care or higher education. What jobs has he created ???

Four more years and the jokes on us.

I want to thank the Red Sox for hirring Bobby V. Bobby V is interesting but probably has the worst people skills of any manager in recent memory. Hopefully, he gets a gig in radio and stays there.

RIP Irving Cohen

I want to take a moment to mourn the passing of a giant of a man Mr. Irving Cohen. He was one of the first bosses I ever worked for and a visionary. He turned boys into men in summers. He made more matches and repaired more family fueds than anyone I ever met.

I remember I was despondent about a real lost first love. Hey kid life is long and you never know what is around the corner. First one's the worst, and no it doesn't get to be old hat after a while. In your case better now than later. You won't ever do worse.

The truth is that Cohen's words were true. The girl I fell in love with was on her way to a life that was interesting but predictable. At the time I had naive notions about class snobbery. The truth was Cohen was right. My life took me to many wonderful adventures and intersting chapters.  The person I fell in love with did not belong in my world nor could I be a townie.

Many years later I returned as a guest. I thought he had forgotten me in a sea of names. We spoke and he recalled the conversation. I had to thank him for telling me what I did not want to hear. 

In our lives we never stop and say thanks. Those that met Mr. Cohen never forgot him. Those that knew him professionally and on a personal level were blessed.

Mr. Cohen thanks for everything.

Happy Birthday Sprite

The Sprite turns nine next week on Tuesday. I haven't been able to go out much because the pain in my ankle is bad. I can walk but running or doing my usual routine is not happening. My daughter loves to watch me interact with the merchants. The Greek Place is far away and I don't like deliveries,

The Owner of the Greek place made a special waffle sunday for the sprite who loves Ice cream with loads of fruit. They added strawberries and sang happy birthday. The owner joked about my fall and that they would have delivered. The pain is manageable. Oddly when I wear no shoes I can walk around the house pain free. Unfortunately, I can not do this at work.

What is the difference between Yeagley and the Duck

I want to point out that we disagree with the toxic racism of Dr. Yeagley. All of us come with some garbage. Unfortunately, an otherwise interesting fellow has some foul views on race. In his heart he believes himself a patriot. He is very mistaken about our country and in his case it is tragic. If he were a true Reaganite you would see him everywhere.

The Duck has said some odious racial things. He calls Obama "the Black Messiah". Now in fairness to the Duck he does not denigrate Blacks as a community and it is clear Yeagley has.

How we view Obama is really a reflection of ourselves. He is about as White as Yeagley 50%. Obama has never lived in a Black Community. He has not suffered because of his race and arguably may have gained admission to schools he did not qualify for and got his job through affirmative action and Old Left family connections.

I view Obama as the ultimate product of nepotism. We need to talk about ideas and merit. Obama has never had an original thought  in his life. He basically threw a suit on failed ideas and mumbled platitudes.
The American people elected him in part because we believed the nonsense about post racial America. Instead we got the mindless drone who is merely an opportunist.

The Duck is usually more bigoted then the next man.

Time to hold Bill Clintoon responsible for pardoning terrorists.

After reading the violent and disgusting crimes of the freaks and Communist clowns commuted by Bill Clintoon it is time to hold him directly responsible. The next time you see Bill Clintoon ask why he commuted the sentence of unrepentant violent human garbage like Susan Rosenberg.

The absurd part is Bill Clintoon feigns that he was tough on terrorism.

The truth is the actions of Bill Clinton show why the death penalty should be mandatory for terrorists. Had Timothy McViegh feigned alliegence to Marx he would likely be teaching at MIT. McViegh unlike Communists was not an incompetent and knew how to commit crimes without blowing himself up.

Those on the left can not be trusted to keep traitorous violent thugs who rationalize their crimes with lobotomized excuses in jail.

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.