Robert, what happened to Robert Loves Karen? All of this political stuff is making my babke spin. Yikes!

Tax Payers Gone Wild!

JIASF
You'd better calm down, Jake

Randi: This babke's for you!

If I Only Had ... A Babke

I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head, I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a babke

I'd unravel ev'ry riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln,
If you only had a babke.

Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean's near the shore,
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more.

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a babke--Whoa...!

Randi:

Working on the next, "How I Married Karen." Look for it next week.

Thank you Pearl, I love it!

Dorothy to Scarecrow: "I think I'll miss you most of all." That line still melts me.

(are you comparing my brain to a babke, by the way?)

Well, Randi, if you want to put a new "spin" on things, then the answer is a resounding YES!

Wow, Robert, ask and ye shall receive. (I guess my babke bribes do pay off).

Sorry Robert...yesterday you missed me and wondered where I was...today you can't get rid of me.

Randi:

Glad to have you back.

Robert,

I am sure alot of lefties...commie types...and the hate America/Israel types will just love this sort of event.

Some of these are the naive....but you have the professional demonstration crowd who have nothing better to do than chant catchy slogans and parade around.....instead of being productive and having a job instead of sponging off the society they loathe so much.

Lance:

I'm sure you're right. But I like the way Jeremiah pulls the wings off the vile insect.

"But I like the way Jeremiah pulls the wings off the vile insect."

Well put Robert.

Thank you.

Hope y'all enjoyed it, it was fun to come up with! Thanks, Robert - a good way to end the week.

A few years back I got on the ADC's email list (maybe soon to be removed :-)), sincerely thinking that "Palestine" was a just and viable "cause", instead of a tragic, enigmatic fiction. But a string of revelations - mostly on the "micro" (personal) level - sobered me up to this. So I'd just like say that however pointed may be my barbs, there's no personal animosity whatsoever in them. None at all.

Often I think about Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address -- "with malice toward none - with charity for all..." -- and how to make that apply here and now.

Peaceful Shabbos to all.

This is perhaps too simplified, but it kind of of boils down how understand the "Israeli-Palestinian 'conflict'":

When the world gave the Jews a lemon, what did the Jews do? They made lemonade.

Then the Jews gave some lemonade to the Palestinians. And what did the Palestinians do? They made molotov cocktails.

Sarah Silverman, are you reading this (sigh)?

Jeremiah:

The Land of Israel is: Eretz Chalav u'dvash. "The land of milk and honey." There is more to the land than just material, resources. There is the soul of it that we love, and in return, it loves us.

Will look it up this evening after the candles are lit in my bilingual Torah.

shalom,
i am jeramiah's yidasha, left wing [without being a "commie type, lance- although j will disagree-]. i am a zionist, with no solution to the world's problems. that said, there's an expression that holds true. "if it ain't broke , don't fix it"...well it IS broke and fixing it means change-not a conservative 'long suit', i might add [subtraction a possibility, long division? maybe]...as long as the three of the four largest religions/mythologies [two of which are barbaric] hold the same strip of land holy, peace will never happen... rehashing our differences becomes verbal masterbation. robert,i'm so very sorry for your loss.

Zig:

Thank you for your comment.

1. Jeremiah is, thank G-d no longer a leftie. He is a registered Republican. And on his way to becoming a Torah Jew, Baruch HaShem.

2. Israel has offered peace to the Arabs on numerous occassions, and the Arabs have countered with war, Jihad, and the most vile antiSemitism the world has ever seen,

3. This blog does not rehash differences. We have offered solutions many times: a) complete disengagement from the Arab population, and if this fails and the Arabs continue to make genocidal war, b) a Carthaginian Peace.

4. I thank you for your kind words about Ariel, ZT'L.

Not sure what to say, except, first, I'm not into arguing about what's broken and what's not.

And, second: Leftwing Yidashas Gone Wild!!!

robert, jeramiah's convertion[s] have been, indeed, miraculous [for lack of a better word]. i try to seperate them, in my mind. this helps me to keep food down...good shabbas..., z

on "conversions": There's very little I can or want to say about steps toward the religious one. Curious to note is that an old slogan comes to mind, from the big Berkeley anarchist house I lived in when I was 19: "Those who talk don't know, those who know don't talk."

As for the change in party affiliation and political convictions, "conversion" does a disservice to everyone involved - except to my liberal and leftwing opponents, preparing their ad hominem attacks, who will mistakenly characterize my change as a collapse of intellectual and moral judgment - when it's just the opposite. Instead of "conversion", it's more like "a maturing patriotism".

Here's a web site, http://www.bitterlemons.org, dedicated to you know what.

we need not be opponents, jeremiah...as i've told you, i support your quest for spirituality[in whatever form it takes]...patriotism? patriotism, my tuchos...supporting an administration that spits on the constitution by ILLEGALLY spying on it's people, participating in a war on terrorism that is misdirected to the oil fields of iraq[haliboiton], stealing both elections[remember florida and ohio]and outing a c.i.a. agent whose husband wrote a collumn calling this to our attention, is NOT patriotic...by your definition, patriotism may better expressed by going out and killing an american indian or 50 of 'em...i remain, 'the voice of reason'..., z

We ARE opponents. But this is NOT the place to have the fight, and besides, you know where to find me.

Lovely blog.

Re: Tax day protest in San Francisco. There will be a pro- Israel presence there. Lets meet at 11:15. I'll bring flags and signs- but I need people to show up and help. Please come, and be prepared to speak about the special relationship we, as Jews and Americans, have with Israel.

Much thanks.