March 19, 2010

Friday Footwear

Patriotic heels by Zanotti.

Offspring #2 writes:

I'm obsessed with my new shoes, they make me see almost eye-to-eye with Husband.

Besides attractively elongating the calf and improving posture, high heels are a girl's best friend if said girl is diminutive.

Offspring #2, like her sister and mother, is modestly scaled.

Look, my girlses might be short—in relative inches—but they assert themselves with supreme, um, tallness.

Which is to say that even when I'm looking down at the girlses I feel like I'm looking waaay up. If that makes any sense at all.

I query:

Really cute. Who makes them, how much did they cost, and where did you buy them? Seraphic Secret readers want to know.

Offspring #2 fires back:

Banana Republic. they were originally $120.00 but there was a six-hour online sale so I got them for $70.00.

That's my girl, always on the lookout for a bargain.

Offspring #2 explains:

The weird photo with the dollar bill is Husband's way of showing how high they are.

For the post-modern geisha who wants to stand tall, by the late
Alexander McQueen.

I'm tempted to purchase these Alexander McQueen platforms for Offspring #2. She'd positively tower over Husband. But walking might be something of a problem. At a recent Paris fashion show several models refused to don hyper-platforms for fear of stumbling on the runway and breaking an ankle. Hey, the models are revolting!

Karen and I wish all or friends and relatives a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.

Today's must-read: Charles Krauthammer explains How Obama Created the Biden Incident.

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March 18, 2010

Obamacare: The New American Tyranny

Update: The Dems have just voted to Slaughter democracy.

Yesterday, Bret Baier of Fox News conducted an actual interview with Barack Hussein Obama.

Baier asked real questions with relevant follow-up.

In short, he was doing the job of an actual journalist.

Something quite unique considering the slobbering Obama press corps.

Obama—on the defensive the entire time—ducked, weaved and filibustered. Really, it was pathetic.

Of all the nonsense Obama spouted—including a defense of the Louisiana kickback that is positivley Chavezian—perhaps the most revealing and chilling is the following:

“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,” Obama said. “What I can tell you is that the vote that’s taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don’t, if they vote against it, then they’re going to be voting against health care reform and they’re going to be voting in favor of the status quo.

“So Washington gets very concerned with these procedures in Congress, whether Republicans are in charge or Democrats are in charge,” he said.

Via Hot Air.

Full transcript of Baier-Obama interview here.

The founders of this nation came to these shores to escape rulers like Barack Hussein Obama. Tyrants with no regard for procedure. Tyrants who paid no heed to the voice of the people.

That's why The Constitution is such an important document.

It is a series of procedures.

If you are an observant Jew, think of The Constitution as a halachic framework.

Well, Barack Hussein Obama has no interest in mere procedure.

He's only interested in increasing the power of government and making you the citizen a drone in his utopian machine.

Mark my words, if Obamacare becomes the law of the land, we are witness to the birth of a new American tyranny.

Lest you think I'm being an alarmist, the fine lawyer/blogger Bookworm Room labels Obama The New Sun King: “Louis XIV, a despotic monarch, famously said L’etat c’est moi — I am the state.”

And in today's WSJ, Fred Barnes predicts that Obamacare will turn into a multi-generational malignancy:

America will be in a constant health-care war if ObamaCare is enacted. Passage wouldn't end the health-care debate. Rather, it would perpetuate ObamaCare as the dominant issue for decades to come, reshape politics, create an annual funding crisis in Congress, and generate a spate of angry lawsuits. Yet few in Washington seem aware of what lies ahead.

We only have to look at Great Britain to get a glimpse of the future. The National Health Service—socialized medicine—was created in 1946 and touted as the envy of the world. It's been a contentious issue ever since. Its cost and coverage are perennial subjects of debate. The press, especially England's most popular newspaper, The Daily Mail, feasts on reports of long waiting periods, dirty hospitals, botched care and denied access to treatments.

More here.

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March 17, 2010

Sarah Palin Rips Obama on Israel

Notice Sarah Palin's lapel pin. I wear the same one on my suit.

On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin scolds Barack Hussein Obama and his radical anti-Israel administration for embracing third world tyrants and communists while attacking America's democratic and dependable ally, Israel.

It's all the rage among leftists—especially liberal Jews—to make fun of Sarah Palin.

These sophisticates espouse trendy post-Zionism, code for Jew-hatred, social justice, code for Socialism, and, naturally, tikkun olam, code for the dummies don't even know the true meaning of this very specific Kabbalistic term.

Instead, Jewish liberals—almost always secular, 85% of observant Jews vote Republican—choose to worship (G-d's so retro) the radical leftist Barack Hussein Obama who spent 20 years as a proud and faithful member of Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, Jew-hating, Marxist church.

I learned at a very young age that the greatest enemies of the Jewish people almost always spring from Jewish wombs.

In a few weeks we will celebrate Passover where we will chant this phrase from the Haggadah:

“In every generation they rise up to annihilate us.”

The 78% of American Jews who voted for this malignant enemy of Israel have helped elevate a modern day Pharaoh to a position of supreme power.

The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba. Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran. Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons. The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation’s capital. The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands with Venezuela’s tyrannical leader. In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.

Last October, Secretary of State Clinton recognized Israel’s desire for peace in the Middle East and praised Israel’s “unprecedented” concessions for agreeing to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, a concession that did NOT include halting construction of apartments for Jews in Jerusalem. Even last week after planned construction was announced, Vice President Biden still expressed “appreciation” for the “significant” steps taken by the Israeli government to address this minor issue. Now, however, we see the Obama Administration has decided to escalate, make unilateral demands of Israel, and threaten the very foundation of the US-Israel relationship. This is quickly leading to the worst crisis in US-Israel relations in decades, and yet this did not have to happen. More importantly, it needs to stop before it spirals out of control. Vice President Biden should rein in the overheated Obama Administration rhetoric and chill the political spin masters’ fire as they visit the Sunday media shows to criticize Israel.

Once again, the Obama Administration is missing the boat on a very, very important issue. They need to go back to the basics and acknowledge Palestinian leaders have not progressed any peace process since President Obama was elected. As Israel makes concessions (and is still criticized by the Obama Administration), Arab leaders are just sitting back waiting for the White House to further pressure Israel. The Obama Administration needs to open its eyes and recognize that it is only Iran and her terrorist allies that benefit from this manufactured Israeli controversy.

The ancient Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, rebuilt, at last.

At this very moment, Arabs are rioting en masse in Israel.

You see, we just rebuilt the ancient and beloved Hurva Synagogue, founded in the 1700's, and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Muslims in 1948.

In the Jew-hating Muslim world, a synagogue is, y'know, a provocation.

The Arabs have deliberately unleashed a tsunami of violence because of the rupture—engineered by Barack Hussein Obama—between America and Israel. The Arabs understand that no matter how Israel responds to Muslim Jew-hatred, the Obama administration will blame Israel.

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March 16, 2010

The 2010 Census: Nuremberg, American Style

“I actually feel sick.”

Karen is at her desk studying the 2010 U.S. Census form that just arrived in the mail.

“What's happening to this country?” Karen murmurs, “this obsession with race and color.”

Indeed, the 2010 Census overflows with grim little boxes that demand to know your race, color, ethnicity, and tribe.

The federal government has a dizzying array of racial programs that need to be fed. There are laws, there are grants, there are endless entitlement programs for your every racial/ethnic/gender category.

In 1935, the Germans created the Nuremberg Laws in order to “scientifically” categorize Jews.

I was brought up to believe that only Nazis—and vampires—are obsessed with blood.

I thought we were Americans.

Apparently not.

Bravo for Michele Bachman who refuses to fill out the entire form.

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March 15, 2010

The World Made Judenrein

Fatah just held a ceremony in Ramallah, naming a central square in honor of a terrorist. Keep in mind that Fatah are viewed as “moderates.”

Also keep in mind that Barack Hussein Obama has created a major crisis with Israel over Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish neighborhood in Jewish Jerusalem in the Jewish State.

Not a word from Obama, Biden, Clinton, or Axelrod about Fatah's glorification of Jew-killing.

Let's take a look at the bloodbath these savages choose to honor:

On the morning of March 11, 1978, [Dalai] Mughrabi and her Palestinian unit of eleven members, including one other woman, landed on an Israeli beach, killed an American photographer named Gail Rubin and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants. They proceeded along the coastal highway shooting at traffic along the way. They next hijacked a bus and later a second bus, from which the passengers were transferred to the first one. The bus was finally stopped at a police roadblock. A shooting battle ensued. Eventually, Mughrabi blew up the bus which became a large deathtrap of fire. Many of the passengers were killed. In total, Mughrabi and her team killed 37 people, including at least 10 children. Some 71 people were wounded. Mughrabi and several other attackers died.

Look, I have no illusions about the so-called Palestinians. They are a proudly Jew-hating group who have no desire to establish a state, only to destroy Israel.

The so-called peace process is a fool's errand.

For the forseeable future, Israel can only manage the crisis.

Peace will come, as it did to Japan and Germany, when the West—meaning America—gets fed up and utterly lays waste the Arab Muslim terrorist states.

Arab Muslim terrorists cannot be appeased.

The beast is always hungry.

Unconditional surrender is the only language barbarians comprehend.

Barack Hussein Obama spent over twenty years as a faithful member of Jeremiah Wright's openly anti-American, Jew-hating Church. Obama is a man of the hard left who has spent his entire life in the company of fashionable anti-Zionists and rabid Jew-haters. It's in his intellectual DNA.

The notion that he is a reliable ally to Israel is proof that the 78% of American Jews who voted for Barack Hussein Obama exist in a willfull state of cognitive dissoanance.

Here's the crux of the matter: Barack Hussein Obama cannot dictate where Jews can and cannot live.

Jews have the right to live anywhere and everywhere.

We have the right to live in Ramat Shlomo, Brooklyn, Paris, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, etc.

Once you accept the notion that one patch of earth is legitimately made Judenrein, than the Jewish people are doomed.

And then the Arab Muslims will come for you.

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March 12, 2010

Friday Fotos

I'm not feeling well. Probably a mild case of the flu. Can't really concentrate. But here are two photos from Hillsdale College that should give you an inkling of what a very special place it is.

An inspiring sculpture of George Washington on the Hillsdale Campus.

A belated happy birthday to Offspring #3. Her birthday was on Wednesday.

And happy 4th wedding anniversary to Offspring #2 and her husband.

Karen and I wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and peaceful Shabbat.

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March 11, 2010

Hillsdale College: The Films of 1939, Day Four

A bit more about the history of Hillsdale College.

A higher percentage of Hillsdale students enlisted during the Civil War than from any other western college. Of the more than 400 who fought for the Union, four won the Congressional Medal of Honor, three became generals and many more served as regimental commanders. Sixty gave their lives.

I'm back in Los Angeles now.

My trip to Hillsdale College was a life-changing experience. Spending time with staff, students and faculty left me with hope and optimism.

It's amazing, I've seen John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln at least a dozen times, but screening it here at Hillsdale made me see the film in an entirely new light.

Yong Abe, played by the young Henry Fonda, studies a book of law and comes to a revelation:

“By jing, that's all there is to it. Right and wrong.”

But his revelation is only complete when Ann Rutledge, Pauline Moore, appears on the scene.

John Ford was deeply rooted in Catholicism and Ann's appearance has an almost divine quality. The laws of man, Ford seems to be saying, can only be known when we recognize G-d.

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March 09, 2010

Hillsdale College: The Films of 1939, Day Three

Hillsdale has a fine athletics program, baseball, footbal, basketball, track and field, etc. But what grabs my heart is their shooting range.

At Hillsdale your practice the Second Amendment.

Here is your faithful screenwriter observing the range, getting ready to shoot trap.

I'm using a Beretta 12 gauge shotgun. The clay flies at about 40mph, and the range is approximately 50 yrds. You can see the shell ejecting from the gun. Of about 20 shots, I only hit the clay three times. It is very difficult.

Have to run to a screening of Ninotchka.

Movies and firearms; it's a wonderful life.

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