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BREAKING NEWS: Terrorist strike at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav.
Six dead, three dozen wounded. Ambulances and Zaka are on the scene.
Please consider contributing to the Yeshiva:
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Of course there was public celebration in the territories - a feu de joie in Gaza, cheering, and candies to passersby. This attack comes one day after some American official "persuaded" the Palestinians to re-commit to the path of peace.
Enough said.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
FITNA - GEERT WILDERS - DUTCH GOVERNMENT
Dutch provocateur and parliamentarian Geert Wilders will be releasing his anti-Quran film at a press-conference in the Hague on March 28.
Unless the television stations do actually decide to broadcast it, or the press-centre (Nieuwpoort) backs out of being the 'host' to that event.
I'm dying to see it, read about rabid reactions, and spew my gall towards the Muslim-world on my blog.
Geert cannot back down now. He has nothing to loose - the fatwa calling for his assassination, from a year or two ago, is still in force, the most recent fatwa merely adds to that, and there have been plots to kill him for years. If he backed down, he would be in no less danger than he is now.
For those who wish to view the movie, it will be available soon at this site:
http://fitnathemovie.com/
At the moment, there is merely a 'coming soon' notice there.
Meanwhile, I am disgusted at the Dutch government.
Instead of unsubtly trying to put pressure on Geert Wilders out of fear of what the Muslims might do, and apologizing in advance to the Islamic world and whimpering that he does not represent them or the Dutch attitude towards Islam, they should've told the Muslim world in no uncertain terms that any and all anti-Dutch actions because of that film would be held against the governments and religious authorities of those countries, that damage would be recouped from those governments and religious authorities, and that dead Dutchmen would inevitably have to mean open trials, and appropriate penalties, or else legal measures would be taken to recoup bloodmoney from companies in those nations doing business elsewhere as well as assets held abroad by those governments, organizations, and individuals.
It would also have been appropriate to remind the Muslims that they have relatives in the Netherlands, many of whom are very much beholden to the generosity of Dutch taxpayers - generosity that might soon be questioned, along with foreign aid contributions to such stinking hell-holes as the Sudan, Afghanistan, Banglabuggerydesh, and Indonesia.
The Turks in particular, as well as the Moroccans, should also be reminded that their relations with the EU might be held hostage for years to come by even so small a country as the Netherlands.
Dammit, I hope the current Dutch government falls and this bunch of quislings and panderers are voted out!
-------B.O.T.H.
==========================
Apparently there have been more protests in Afghanistan, with the predictable burning of Dutch and Danish flags.
[Careful boys, those might be the only bedsheets you can afford this year. You could also have simply eaten them (with lots of beano - you know why). ]
The Pakistanis have also complained to the Dutch government about the movie, and are bringing it up at the next conference of failed states and gangster regimes - the matter has been placed at the top of the agenda at next week's summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Senegal.
[Brothers, they only listen to you lot because everything sounds so much more funny with those goofy accents. Especially when you hop up and down shaking your paws and throwing your furry little fits. For craps' sake, just don't lose control of your bowels. ]
Iran is also upset. Perhaps they should change the national diet over there, as they seem to have dyspepsia at a near-constant level.
[Kaopectate and lots of bumwad, fast! But wait, who cares? You're over there, and we aren't. So go ahead, have some more shurbat-adas! You weren't planning to sleep with your wife tonight anyway, were you?]
The Egyptians are also angry.
[Not surprising - when none of you lot does any work, and everybody sits around waiting for the next foreign tourist to rob (when you're not actually shooting bus loads of them), there is plenty of free time to develop gastric upset and Cairo-tummy over imagined slights. As if mlookhiya and elbisara weren't enough. ]
There have been rumblings of anti-Dutch peeve from other corners of the Muslim world. Those people have nothing better to do.
[Don't you have sisters you could violate, or cans of ham you could shoot? Danish butter to boycott? Horrid sportscoats with extremely wide lapels to mend? Fezzes to send off to the shop for re-steaming? Variations on beandip to invent? Ulcers? ]
Better you lot should spend some time on fond reminiscences of the slaughter of Theo van Gogh or chanting praise-songs for Mouhammad Bouyeri. Good accompaniment to two days old foul m'dammes.
Don't fuss about us, boys, we don't care beans about you.
==========================
This post is dedicated to Aboudjahid in Germany, who recently sent me a vituperative screed in reaction to some previous posts. I believe he might have threatened me, but as his Dutch was frightful, and rather more than average illiterate, it is hard to tell. He may have simply done a cut-and-paste from hate-sites such as Marok.nl.
I will assume that in addition to being his mother's pet (as the youngest and dumbest of the litter), and fairly 'special' besides, he probably cannot find the San Francisco Bay Area on a map of Europe, and cannot steal enough money to assay a train-trip over here.
But I do wish he would write more - I enjoyed reading about his tantrum. Or was it indigestion? He probably ate elbisara recently. Lay off of the fat-tail-sheep grease and filfil, ya akhee. It really turns that beanlard-mulch into an offensive weapon.
Unless the television stations do actually decide to broadcast it, or the press-centre (Nieuwpoort) backs out of being the 'host' to that event.
I'm dying to see it, read about rabid reactions, and spew my gall towards the Muslim-world on my blog.
Geert cannot back down now. He has nothing to loose - the fatwa calling for his assassination, from a year or two ago, is still in force, the most recent fatwa merely adds to that, and there have been plots to kill him for years. If he backed down, he would be in no less danger than he is now.
For those who wish to view the movie, it will be available soon at this site:
http://fitnathemovie.com/
At the moment, there is merely a 'coming soon' notice there.
Meanwhile, I am disgusted at the Dutch government.
Instead of unsubtly trying to put pressure on Geert Wilders out of fear of what the Muslims might do, and apologizing in advance to the Islamic world and whimpering that he does not represent them or the Dutch attitude towards Islam, they should've told the Muslim world in no uncertain terms that any and all anti-Dutch actions because of that film would be held against the governments and religious authorities of those countries, that damage would be recouped from those governments and religious authorities, and that dead Dutchmen would inevitably have to mean open trials, and appropriate penalties, or else legal measures would be taken to recoup bloodmoney from companies in those nations doing business elsewhere as well as assets held abroad by those governments, organizations, and individuals.
It would also have been appropriate to remind the Muslims that they have relatives in the Netherlands, many of whom are very much beholden to the generosity of Dutch taxpayers - generosity that might soon be questioned, along with foreign aid contributions to such stinking hell-holes as the Sudan, Afghanistan, Banglabuggerydesh, and Indonesia.
The Turks in particular, as well as the Moroccans, should also be reminded that their relations with the EU might be held hostage for years to come by even so small a country as the Netherlands.
Dammit, I hope the current Dutch government falls and this bunch of quislings and panderers are voted out!
-------B.O.T.H.
==========================
Apparently there have been more protests in Afghanistan, with the predictable burning of Dutch and Danish flags.
[Careful boys, those might be the only bedsheets you can afford this year. You could also have simply eaten them (with lots of beano - you know why). ]
The Pakistanis have also complained to the Dutch government about the movie, and are bringing it up at the next conference of failed states and gangster regimes - the matter has been placed at the top of the agenda at next week's summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Senegal.
[Brothers, they only listen to you lot because everything sounds so much more funny with those goofy accents. Especially when you hop up and down shaking your paws and throwing your furry little fits. For craps' sake, just don't lose control of your bowels. ]
Iran is also upset. Perhaps they should change the national diet over there, as they seem to have dyspepsia at a near-constant level.
[Kaopectate and lots of bumwad, fast! But wait, who cares? You're over there, and we aren't. So go ahead, have some more shurbat-adas! You weren't planning to sleep with your wife tonight anyway, were you?]
The Egyptians are also angry.
[Not surprising - when none of you lot does any work, and everybody sits around waiting for the next foreign tourist to rob (when you're not actually shooting bus loads of them), there is plenty of free time to develop gastric upset and Cairo-tummy over imagined slights. As if mlookhiya and elbisara weren't enough. ]
There have been rumblings of anti-Dutch peeve from other corners of the Muslim world. Those people have nothing better to do.
[Don't you have sisters you could violate, or cans of ham you could shoot? Danish butter to boycott? Horrid sportscoats with extremely wide lapels to mend? Fezzes to send off to the shop for re-steaming? Variations on beandip to invent? Ulcers? ]
Better you lot should spend some time on fond reminiscences of the slaughter of Theo van Gogh or chanting praise-songs for Mouhammad Bouyeri. Good accompaniment to two days old foul m'dammes.
Don't fuss about us, boys, we don't care beans about you.
==========================
This post is dedicated to Aboudjahid in Germany, who recently sent me a vituperative screed in reaction to some previous posts. I believe he might have threatened me, but as his Dutch was frightful, and rather more than average illiterate, it is hard to tell. He may have simply done a cut-and-paste from hate-sites such as Marok.nl.
I will assume that in addition to being his mother's pet (as the youngest and dumbest of the litter), and fairly 'special' besides, he probably cannot find the San Francisco Bay Area on a map of Europe, and cannot steal enough money to assay a train-trip over here.
But I do wish he would write more - I enjoyed reading about his tantrum. Or was it indigestion? He probably ate elbisara recently. Lay off of the fat-tail-sheep grease and filfil, ya akhee. It really turns that beanlard-mulch into an offensive weapon.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
WORDS THAT GLOW
Pursuant Geert Wilder's little movie, and the unholy fuss that is being stirred up by Dutch politicians quaking in their klompen over the prospect of angry Muslims in distant hell-holes rioting, and trashing tulips and chocolate, and also as a fine example of Dutchness from a time when there weren't quite so many testicularly-impaired weasels leading the nation, I wish to present three quotes. Taken together, they present an uncommon word-portrait of the Dutch people - one which has far more resonance than the bleating and moans currently coming from The Hague.
1. A. E. J. Modderman:
"Ik meen dat het sedert lang vast staat, dat God zijn regten zelf wel weet te handhaven; daartoe zijn geen menschelijke wetten noodig; daartoe is de strafwetgever niet geroepen."
[Translation: 'I believe that it has long been established that God knows how to protect his own rights; no human rules are required to that end; the formulator of criminal-law is not thus tasked.']
Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman (born in Winschoten, 27 september 1838 - died in 's-Gravenhage, 7 augustus 1885) was the minister of Justice in the cabinet of baron (Constantijn Theodoor) van Lynden van Sandenburg (governing from 20 augustus 1879 to 23 april 1883). He was the formulator of the current corpus of criminal law. This was Modderman's dry response to the demand (in 1881) that the law should protect the Christian religion.
2. H. M. van Randwijk:
"Een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen, dan dooft het licht."[Translation: 'A people that gives in to tyrants loses more than life and property; the light then (also) fades.']
Hendrik Mattheus (Henk) van Randwijk (born in Gorinchem, 9 november 1909 - died in Purmerend, 13 mei 1966) was a member of the resistance, journalist, and author (nomme de guerre during WWII: Sjoerd van Vliet). He was tortured for six weeks by the Germans in 1943, but did not betray his comrades. During the occupation, among other things, he edited and published an underground newspaper - Vrij Nederland.
This verse is engraved on the monument to the 33 resistance heroes gunned down by the Nazis in 1945 in the Wetering Park (Weteringplantsoen) in Amsterdam.
3. Geert Wilders:
"Ze kunnen de pot op."
[Translation: 'They can go screw themselves.']
Geert Wilders' comment regarding Dutch politicians and all others urging that he not produce his video-clip against the Quran and Islamic extremism.
1. A. E. J. Modderman:
"Ik meen dat het sedert lang vast staat, dat God zijn regten zelf wel weet te handhaven; daartoe zijn geen menschelijke wetten noodig; daartoe is de strafwetgever niet geroepen."
[Translation: 'I believe that it has long been established that God knows how to protect his own rights; no human rules are required to that end; the formulator of criminal-law is not thus tasked.']
Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman (born in Winschoten, 27 september 1838 - died in 's-Gravenhage, 7 augustus 1885) was the minister of Justice in the cabinet of baron (Constantijn Theodoor) van Lynden van Sandenburg (governing from 20 augustus 1879 to 23 april 1883). He was the formulator of the current corpus of criminal law. This was Modderman's dry response to the demand (in 1881) that the law should protect the Christian religion.
2. H. M. van Randwijk:
"Een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen, dan dooft het licht."[Translation: 'A people that gives in to tyrants loses more than life and property; the light then (also) fades.']
Hendrik Mattheus (Henk) van Randwijk (born in Gorinchem, 9 november 1909 - died in Purmerend, 13 mei 1966) was a member of the resistance, journalist, and author (nomme de guerre during WWII: Sjoerd van Vliet). He was tortured for six weeks by the Germans in 1943, but did not betray his comrades. During the occupation, among other things, he edited and published an underground newspaper - Vrij Nederland.
This verse is engraved on the monument to the 33 resistance heroes gunned down by the Nazis in 1945 in the Wetering Park (Weteringplantsoen) in Amsterdam.
3. Geert Wilders:
"Ze kunnen de pot op."
[Translation: 'They can go screw themselves.']
Geert Wilders' comment regarding Dutch politicians and all others urging that he not produce his video-clip against the Quran and Islamic extremism.
PROD PROD PROD
The following is an account of actual events. I'm pretty certain I saw something very (extremely) similar on Treppenwitz's blog, over a year ago (and this is a blatant derivative of his version) - can't quite remember the date or the post.
It's a different journey, but the same thing is happening in the back of the car. Damned kids. They never change.
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Don't!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Stop doing that!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "I'm serious, stop it!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas
Hamas to UN Security Council: "Mom! He hit me!"
UN Security council: "Stop belly-aching. I have other things to deal with."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Stop it!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas again
Hamas: "Do that once more and I'll, kick you, bitch. Mom always liked you best!"
Israel: "Oh yeah?!?"
Hamas: "He's threatening me! He's threatening me! Da-a-ad!!!"
Europe: "Stop fighting back there! Hamas, you're bothering your mother, please, please try to be nice. And you, Izzy, keep your damn' hands to yourself or else!"
Israel: "Yes dad."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas again
Hamas: "Mom! He did it again!"
UN Security council, dozing: "Mmmmm snore, urrk."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel punches Hamas in the face, drawing blood
Hamas, feeling his nose and then looking at the blood on his fingers: "Oh crap! What did you do that for?!?"
--------------------------
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
It's a different journey, but the same thing is happening in the back of the car. Damned kids. They never change.
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Don't!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Stop doing that!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "I'm serious, stop it!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas
Hamas to UN Security Council: "Mom! He hit me!"
UN Security council: "Stop belly-aching. I have other things to deal with."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel: "Stop it!"
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas again
Hamas: "Do that once more and I'll, kick you, bitch. Mom always liked you best!"
Israel: "Oh yeah?!?"
Hamas: "He's threatening me! He's threatening me! Da-a-ad!!!"
Europe: "Stop fighting back there! Hamas, you're bothering your mother, please, please try to be nice. And you, Izzy, keep your damn' hands to yourself or else!"
Israel: "Yes dad."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel hits Hamas again
Hamas: "Mom! He did it again!"
UN Security council, dozing: "Mmmmm snore, urrk."
Hamas: prod prod prod
Israel punches Hamas in the face, drawing blood
Hamas, feeling his nose and then looking at the blood on his fingers: "Oh crap! What did you do that for?!?"
--------------------------
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
CALENDAR
Communication from a company director:
"The calendar is supposed to be a general reference tool, not any kind of milestone list or process map or fix. If things are too vague or unclear in any way let me know."
Farkehrt!
The calendar is NOT a general reference tool, but is indeed a milestone list and process map.
As it says "This month shall be yours" ('hachodesh haze-lachem...' - Shmos 12:2) and it says "The Lord's seasons -- that you shall proclaim sacred" ('moadei Hashem asher-tikru otam mikraei kodesh Elehem moadai...' - Vayikra 23:2) and it says "And you shall keep this ordinance at its season from year to year" ('ve shamarta et-hachuka hazot l'moada miyamim yamima...' - Shmos 13:10).
Punkt. No disagreement possible.
Dissenters will be furiously excoriated.
-----B.O.T.H.
PS: The excoriation mentioned above should be performed by marketing interns. They are most suitable for flaying. That it may serve as an object lesson to them, as they are most in need of precisely such.
"The calendar is supposed to be a general reference tool, not any kind of milestone list or process map or fix. If things are too vague or unclear in any way let me know."
Farkehrt!
The calendar is NOT a general reference tool, but is indeed a milestone list and process map.
As it says "This month shall be yours" ('hachodesh haze-lachem...' - Shmos 12:2) and it says "The Lord's seasons -- that you shall proclaim sacred" ('moadei Hashem asher-tikru otam mikraei kodesh Elehem moadai...' - Vayikra 23:2) and it says "And you shall keep this ordinance at its season from year to year" ('ve shamarta et-hachuka hazot l'moada miyamim yamima...' - Shmos 13:10).
Punkt. No disagreement possible.
Dissenters will be furiously excoriated.
-----B.O.T.H.
PS: The excoriation mentioned above should be performed by marketing interns. They are most suitable for flaying. That it may serve as an object lesson to them, as they are most in need of precisely such.
Monday, March 03, 2008
HELLO ABOUDJAHID, YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
Warning: This is an unpleasant post. It is meant to be unpleasant. I am petty, and I wish to irritate the spit out of someone.
A reader sent me a an e-mail flaming me for supporting Geert Wilders' right to produce and broadcast a fifteen minute film which is critical of Islam.
It was a very angry e-mail, and needless to say I nearly bust a gut laughing. So it is mostly for the benefit of Aboudjahid somewhere in Germany that I write this next post, to thank him for reading me. And to encourage him to keep reading, while also gratuitously teasing him with an insulting tone.
[For those of you just tuning in to this channel, the previous two posts here were in favour of freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of the press. Expressed in a way which suggested approval of Geert Wilders and his message.]
To clarify:
I do indeed approve of Geert Wilders and his message. Absolutely. He is often referred to as an extremist far-right politician in English-language reportage, but that demonstrates both a failure to grasp his role in Dutch society (provocateur and XXXX-disturber), and the tendency on the part of the English-language press to swallow the socialist party line as well as the aggrieved whining of our Muslim fellow citizens.
Yes, he has pissed off the socialists and Islamics - what of it? There's a place for that.
When Geert Wilders asserts that certain "Muslim" values are not compatible with civilization, he is right. Honour killings, child-marriage, female circumcision, stoning of homosexuals, jihad, anti-Semitism, and mob-violence - all of these are reprehensible and barbaric.
It is often claimed that some of these are not, strictly speaking, Quran-advocated, or shariah-approved, practices..... Or, in some way, not reflective of real Muslim values. An immaterial argument. More effort is spent telling Westerners this than telling fellow-Muslims, and those disgusting practices merrily continue, unabated, unceasing, unopposed. We can know a Muslim society be these symptoms.
When Geert Wilders fulminates against the Quran, he is right. There are passages within that book which are brutal and extremely nasty. It may very well be worse than Mein Kampf as a hate-filled document that encourages violence and barbarism. That, certainly, is how a large number of Muslims understand it, as can be seen by their actions, their causes, and their utterances.
There are also some sheerly gorgeous poetic passages in it - these may not be enough to redeem the book, but they do prove that the prophet Muhammad was an inspired poet, greatly gifted, despite being illiterate, a brigand, and a nasty piece of work.
[I refuse to speculate on the likelihood that Muhammad had syphilis. Even though I suspect that Arabia must have already been awash with venereal disease in that time, probably affecting well over half the population, my ability to read classical Arabic is too limited to see evidence of syphilitic brain-rot in the Quran, entirely aside from which, that text is far too second-hand to be a reliable indicator of Muhammad's mental state or physical ailments. But if you, dear reader, wish to take it for granted that he had dementia caused by tertiary syphilis, please do so. There is naught to disprove that assumption either.]
It is a sad fact that most of the people who hold the Quran holy are not capable of critical reading or nuanced thinking, and incline towards violence to resolve their intellectual disputes. They certainly are not an example for the rest of us.
When Geert Wilders says that Muslim immigrants should adapt to their host-countries and strive to be upstanding citizens, he is right. He may be overlooking the fact that many of them already have. The ones who haven't, however, stick out like sore-thumbs. They are the ones whose names fill the crime reports of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. They are a cause of shame to their co-religionists, and an embarrassment to their communities. And it must to be mentioned that the officers who arrest them may be from those same communities. It would benefit all parties if they were encouraged to repatriate to their countries of origin - our societies would benefit, their communities in our societies would benefit. And they themselves would benefit, by returning to environments more primitive and more violent, where they would feel more at home.
The letter-writer (Aboudjahid) who objected to my support for Geert Wilders exemplifies all that is wrong with the Muslim world most admirably. He writes that I deserve to die for disrespecting Islam (an odious and gnostic fetish-cult), that a good Muslim should kill me for denigrating the prophet (bah, that syphilitic pig thief!), that I am wrong for speaking ill of good Islamic countries (every one of which is a despotism and a failed society), that I have insulted Arabs (who are richly deserving of it - they have achieved little since independence but bloodshed, terrorism, syphilis, and suit-jackets of an unfashionable cut).
Given that the author of the e-mail writes in horrible Dutch, from an address that appears to be in Germany, and does not grasp that I am not walking around somewhere in the Netherlands with a large sign on my person advertising who I am, I am not taking his little hate-screed seriously. He is a moron. An idiot. A defective human, possible a pig or a dog. And he is a Muslim.
But I do commend him on being able to figure out my e-mail address from my profile - NorthbeachXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzdotcom. That was brilliant. It must have taken him hours. Or maybe he had help from his family members - collectively, they surely have enough brain cells. It is probably a very large family.
A reader sent me a an e-mail flaming me for supporting Geert Wilders' right to produce and broadcast a fifteen minute film which is critical of Islam.
It was a very angry e-mail, and needless to say I nearly bust a gut laughing. So it is mostly for the benefit of Aboudjahid somewhere in Germany that I write this next post, to thank him for reading me. And to encourage him to keep reading, while also gratuitously teasing him with an insulting tone.
[For those of you just tuning in to this channel, the previous two posts here were in favour of freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of the press. Expressed in a way which suggested approval of Geert Wilders and his message.]
To clarify:
I do indeed approve of Geert Wilders and his message. Absolutely. He is often referred to as an extremist far-right politician in English-language reportage, but that demonstrates both a failure to grasp his role in Dutch society (provocateur and XXXX-disturber), and the tendency on the part of the English-language press to swallow the socialist party line as well as the aggrieved whining of our Muslim fellow citizens.
Yes, he has pissed off the socialists and Islamics - what of it? There's a place for that.
When Geert Wilders asserts that certain "Muslim" values are not compatible with civilization, he is right. Honour killings, child-marriage, female circumcision, stoning of homosexuals, jihad, anti-Semitism, and mob-violence - all of these are reprehensible and barbaric.
It is often claimed that some of these are not, strictly speaking, Quran-advocated, or shariah-approved, practices..... Or, in some way, not reflective of real Muslim values. An immaterial argument. More effort is spent telling Westerners this than telling fellow-Muslims, and those disgusting practices merrily continue, unabated, unceasing, unopposed. We can know a Muslim society be these symptoms.
When Geert Wilders fulminates against the Quran, he is right. There are passages within that book which are brutal and extremely nasty. It may very well be worse than Mein Kampf as a hate-filled document that encourages violence and barbarism. That, certainly, is how a large number of Muslims understand it, as can be seen by their actions, their causes, and their utterances.
There are also some sheerly gorgeous poetic passages in it - these may not be enough to redeem the book, but they do prove that the prophet Muhammad was an inspired poet, greatly gifted, despite being illiterate, a brigand, and a nasty piece of work.
[I refuse to speculate on the likelihood that Muhammad had syphilis. Even though I suspect that Arabia must have already been awash with venereal disease in that time, probably affecting well over half the population, my ability to read classical Arabic is too limited to see evidence of syphilitic brain-rot in the Quran, entirely aside from which, that text is far too second-hand to be a reliable indicator of Muhammad's mental state or physical ailments. But if you, dear reader, wish to take it for granted that he had dementia caused by tertiary syphilis, please do so. There is naught to disprove that assumption either.]
It is a sad fact that most of the people who hold the Quran holy are not capable of critical reading or nuanced thinking, and incline towards violence to resolve their intellectual disputes. They certainly are not an example for the rest of us.
When Geert Wilders says that Muslim immigrants should adapt to their host-countries and strive to be upstanding citizens, he is right. He may be overlooking the fact that many of them already have. The ones who haven't, however, stick out like sore-thumbs. They are the ones whose names fill the crime reports of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. They are a cause of shame to their co-religionists, and an embarrassment to their communities. And it must to be mentioned that the officers who arrest them may be from those same communities. It would benefit all parties if they were encouraged to repatriate to their countries of origin - our societies would benefit, their communities in our societies would benefit. And they themselves would benefit, by returning to environments more primitive and more violent, where they would feel more at home.
The letter-writer (Aboudjahid) who objected to my support for Geert Wilders exemplifies all that is wrong with the Muslim world most admirably. He writes that I deserve to die for disrespecting Islam (an odious and gnostic fetish-cult), that a good Muslim should kill me for denigrating the prophet (bah, that syphilitic pig thief!), that I am wrong for speaking ill of good Islamic countries (every one of which is a despotism and a failed society), that I have insulted Arabs (who are richly deserving of it - they have achieved little since independence but bloodshed, terrorism, syphilis, and suit-jackets of an unfashionable cut).
Given that the author of the e-mail writes in horrible Dutch, from an address that appears to be in Germany, and does not grasp that I am not walking around somewhere in the Netherlands with a large sign on my person advertising who I am, I am not taking his little hate-screed seriously. He is a moron. An idiot. A defective human, possible a pig or a dog. And he is a Muslim.
But I do commend him on being able to figure out my e-mail address from my profile - NorthbeachXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzXzdotcom. That was brilliant. It must have taken him hours. Or maybe he had help from his family members - collectively, they surely have enough brain cells. It is probably a very large family.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
GEERT WILDERS' ANTI-QURAN FILM: DUTCH QUISLINGS BEG GEERT TO NOT PRODUCE IT
According to an article in the Algemeen Dagblad, the parliamentary fraction leader of the CDA (Christian-Democratic Appeal) in the Hague is begging Geert Wilders to not go through with his plans to publish a movie critical of the Quran and of Islam.
http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/2092382/CDA_Wilders_stop_met_antiKoranfilm.html
[Article in Dutch]
Pieter van Geel is worried that showing the film will have serious consequences in certain parts of the world.
[Both Hamas and the Taliban have already threatened to target Dutch entities outside the Netherlands, and Muslims in Europe have already spoken in terms of rioting.]
Pieter van Geel is a traitor.
Mr. Pieter van Geel is also a coward and opportunist. I would have thought that the Dutch had had enough of cowardice and opportunism during World War II, when almost their entire governmental bureaucracy co-operated with the Germans (as did also millions of private citizens). But cowardice and opportunism seem to have survived quite well in the Dutch psyche (as demonstrated, for instance, at Srebrenica), and must positively thrive among their politicians. The CDA, it will be remembered, consists of rival religious factions who have put aside their deep-seated need to burn each other at the stake in order to grab a share of governmental pie. Showing how much they have thrown their beliefs out of the door, they have also vetted Muslims and Hindus as their reps in the parliament, and in local councils - thus establishing that even the Christian part of their party's name is a sham.
Think of the CDA as being a bunch of poltroons who believe in religion as a mechanism, though they may not actually be capable of believing in a deity.
[Plus, of course, many good old fashioned anti-Semites, and quite a number of collaborators.]
In a previous post I mentioned that I am in a near-permanent state of fury at the Dutch and their idiotic opinions. Let me codicilize that by saying that while I do not agree with Geert Wilders on the whole, I have no problem with him saying what he thinks, and I wholeheartedly applaud his plan to show his movie - whether the Quran is a fascistoid book as reprehensible as Mein Kampf, inspiration for violence and terrorism, and a dangerous influence on weak minds, as he avers, is a point that certainly ought to be discussed. And what better venue for such a discussion than one of the world's most liberal democracies? The Netherlands is rightly proud of their tolerant, progressive, and pragmatic society, and looks back on several centuries of having been better than the rest of the world. How sad it would be if all that is to be proven a sham by their caving in to Muslim blackmail.
Having seen much of the intellectual inheritance of the Western World dealt with ungently by both our own extremists and the whackjobs in the Islamic ummah, I see no reason to hold-off on either Das Kapital (a nearly-unreadable tract by a profoundly disturbed intellectual-manqué) or the Quran (a series of dubious revelations and diktats by a manipulative driveller of questionable morals and ethics). Or anybody else's sacred writings.
Either stuff like this gets hashed out in the marketplace of ideas, or, in the interests of preserving our own intellectual inheritance, we will have to fight the barbarians back from the doorstep of Rome.
Putting pressure on Geert Wilders, as Mr. van Geel and many other Dutch politicals are doing, proves that the barbarians already have sympathizers within the gates - or that some citizens are willing to allow the forces of intolerance and fanaticism to dictate terms. It does not speak of a nation confident in its own culture or willing to defend its own values.
Muslims may not like what Wilders says about Islam. What they have said about Christianity and Judaism is worse than comparable. How odd that more of them choose to live among us than we among them.
http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/2092382/CDA_Wilders_stop_met_antiKoranfilm.html
[Article in Dutch]
Pieter van Geel is worried that showing the film will have serious consequences in certain parts of the world.
[Both Hamas and the Taliban have already threatened to target Dutch entities outside the Netherlands, and Muslims in Europe have already spoken in terms of rioting.]
Pieter van Geel is a traitor.
Mr. Pieter van Geel is also a coward and opportunist. I would have thought that the Dutch had had enough of cowardice and opportunism during World War II, when almost their entire governmental bureaucracy co-operated with the Germans (as did also millions of private citizens). But cowardice and opportunism seem to have survived quite well in the Dutch psyche (as demonstrated, for instance, at Srebrenica), and must positively thrive among their politicians. The CDA, it will be remembered, consists of rival religious factions who have put aside their deep-seated need to burn each other at the stake in order to grab a share of governmental pie. Showing how much they have thrown their beliefs out of the door, they have also vetted Muslims and Hindus as their reps in the parliament, and in local councils - thus establishing that even the Christian part of their party's name is a sham.
Think of the CDA as being a bunch of poltroons who believe in religion as a mechanism, though they may not actually be capable of believing in a deity.
[Plus, of course, many good old fashioned anti-Semites, and quite a number of collaborators.]
In a previous post I mentioned that I am in a near-permanent state of fury at the Dutch and their idiotic opinions. Let me codicilize that by saying that while I do not agree with Geert Wilders on the whole, I have no problem with him saying what he thinks, and I wholeheartedly applaud his plan to show his movie - whether the Quran is a fascistoid book as reprehensible as Mein Kampf, inspiration for violence and terrorism, and a dangerous influence on weak minds, as he avers, is a point that certainly ought to be discussed. And what better venue for such a discussion than one of the world's most liberal democracies? The Netherlands is rightly proud of their tolerant, progressive, and pragmatic society, and looks back on several centuries of having been better than the rest of the world. How sad it would be if all that is to be proven a sham by their caving in to Muslim blackmail.
Having seen much of the intellectual inheritance of the Western World dealt with ungently by both our own extremists and the whackjobs in the Islamic ummah, I see no reason to hold-off on either Das Kapital (a nearly-unreadable tract by a profoundly disturbed intellectual-manqué) or the Quran (a series of dubious revelations and diktats by a manipulative driveller of questionable morals and ethics). Or anybody else's sacred writings.
Either stuff like this gets hashed out in the marketplace of ideas, or, in the interests of preserving our own intellectual inheritance, we will have to fight the barbarians back from the doorstep of Rome.
Putting pressure on Geert Wilders, as Mr. van Geel and many other Dutch politicals are doing, proves that the barbarians already have sympathizers within the gates - or that some citizens are willing to allow the forces of intolerance and fanaticism to dictate terms. It does not speak of a nation confident in its own culture or willing to defend its own values.
Muslims may not like what Wilders says about Islam. What they have said about Christianity and Judaism is worse than comparable. How odd that more of them choose to live among us than we among them.
READY FOR MARCH NINETEENTH, AND FEELING MIGHTY FEISTY!
Probably way too much coffee so early in the morning, but.....
What with Sudanese and Paki protests against Denmark, the Taliban threatening to "get" the Dutch because of Geert Wilders' as yet unfinished and unshown film, an Egyptian children's international film festival rejecting Dutch entries because of Geert Wilders, Hamas television spouting murderous drivel against the Danes specifically and everyone else in general, Pakistan hijacking youtube out of fear that someone might see the (as yet unfinished and unshown) Geert Wilders anti-Quran film, anonymous death-threats to Dutch institutions overseas...... and, not least, the cowardly sniveling attitude of several mainstream Dutch politicians and public figures....... Plus the intemperate statements by certain Muslim public figures who live in Europe.......
I just might make a sign saying "Geert Wilders is right - you lot ARE assholes". Perhaps as a talk-balloon coming out the mouth of a prophet-cartoon. Or, if I regain some of my sanity before then, superimposed on a Dutch flag.
As part of a counterprotest to the extremist fringe and Muslim whackjobs during their planned demonstrations on March 19th. here in SF.
Grrrrrr!
-----B.O.T.H.
PS. I: My tolerance for my Islamic fellow citizens is falling to an all-time low...... Must try to remember that they're not all like that, not all of them are stark-raving loopy, many are actually fine people, some of them are saner than myself........ this is hard.
PS. II: Normally I'm not pleased with the Dutch, being in a near-permanent state of fury at them and their idiotic opinions. But presently I am very appreciative of the snarky Bronx-cheering coming from the Dutch peanut-gallery in the face of all the bluster and outrage from, among others, Pakistanis (a pox upon them), Pallies (may they be eternally despised), Sudanese (starve naked in the heat, you morons), Egyptians (may you all die of the clap you got from your sisters, you effete swine), and other fervent Islamic types (stop honouring that child-molesting pig, you dunderheads). Betcha the Malays (pirates, rapists, degenerates, and syphilitics) and the Saudis (overdressed, overfed, overindulged, and given to humping camels) and the Iranians (largely unwashed and depraved devil-worshippers) are going to weigh in too. So screw them and their sensitivities, and a plague upon all of them, their primitive retro-grade cults, and their leaders. Bugger the lot, and the camels they rode in on.
PS. III: I have not mentioned the Turks and Moroccans yet....... I am counting on them to keep quiet, seeing as far too many of them live in the Netherlands and Flanders (as is proven by the crime statistics), and many more live off of Tourism. I'm sure they'll understand.......
PS. IV: Feel the love, baby, feel the love.
What with Sudanese and Paki protests against Denmark, the Taliban threatening to "get" the Dutch because of Geert Wilders' as yet unfinished and unshown film, an Egyptian children's international film festival rejecting Dutch entries because of Geert Wilders, Hamas television spouting murderous drivel against the Danes specifically and everyone else in general, Pakistan hijacking youtube out of fear that someone might see the (as yet unfinished and unshown) Geert Wilders anti-Quran film, anonymous death-threats to Dutch institutions overseas...... and, not least, the cowardly sniveling attitude of several mainstream Dutch politicians and public figures....... Plus the intemperate statements by certain Muslim public figures who live in Europe.......
I just might make a sign saying "Geert Wilders is right - you lot ARE assholes". Perhaps as a talk-balloon coming out the mouth of a prophet-cartoon. Or, if I regain some of my sanity before then, superimposed on a Dutch flag.
As part of a counterprotest to the extremist fringe and Muslim whackjobs during their planned demonstrations on March 19th. here in SF.
Grrrrrr!
-----B.O.T.H.
PS. I: My tolerance for my Islamic fellow citizens is falling to an all-time low...... Must try to remember that they're not all like that, not all of them are stark-raving loopy, many are actually fine people, some of them are saner than myself........ this is hard.
PS. II: Normally I'm not pleased with the Dutch, being in a near-permanent state of fury at them and their idiotic opinions. But presently I am very appreciative of the snarky Bronx-cheering coming from the Dutch peanut-gallery in the face of all the bluster and outrage from, among others, Pakistanis (a pox upon them), Pallies (may they be eternally despised), Sudanese (starve naked in the heat, you morons), Egyptians (may you all die of the clap you got from your sisters, you effete swine), and other fervent Islamic types (stop honouring that child-molesting pig, you dunderheads). Betcha the Malays (pirates, rapists, degenerates, and syphilitics) and the Saudis (overdressed, overfed, overindulged, and given to humping camels) and the Iranians (largely unwashed and depraved devil-worshippers) are going to weigh in too. So screw them and their sensitivities, and a plague upon all of them, their primitive retro-grade cults, and their leaders. Bugger the lot, and the camels they rode in on.
PS. III: I have not mentioned the Turks and Moroccans yet....... I am counting on them to keep quiet, seeing as far too many of them live in the Netherlands and Flanders (as is proven by the crime statistics), and many more live off of Tourism. I'm sure they'll understand.......
PS. IV: Feel the love, baby, feel the love.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
VANCOUVER - SHORT VACATION NOTES
Avoid Starbucks, and drink your coffee at Blenz instead. The staff is friendly and capable, the drink menu is intelligible and unpretentious, the store-environment is mercifully attitude-free.
I can't wait for them to open up in SF.
There do not seem to be any trained bartenders in Vancouver. No one pours by count, mixed drinks are an utter mystery, as are terms like 'Scotch', 'Water', 'No ice', and 'That's Bourbon'.
Closing times are based on Vedic math. Liquor prices are a wild guess.
Tobacco costs over three times as much. Cuban cigars are sold all over the place. There is outdoor seating for smokers everywhere.
Vancouverites are extremely polite, especially compared to San-Franciscans. This is refreshing. Even the street people are a better class than ours.
The maitre d at the nearest Indian restaurant was an elderly white gentleman wearing an old-lady turban and a Chinese brocade coat. I am so very very glad Mrs. K had never seen such a thing - she would've insisted I do likewise during my years as khazanchi.
There are Japanese people everywhere. They can be divided into three groups: long timers who have lived there for years, short timers who are there for several months, and brief timers who are there for only a week or so. The brief timers are tourists, the short timers are taking English classes, the long timers have opened sushi bars. The majority appear to be women in their early twenties, all avid shoppers.
A goat of my acquaintance would've been in hog heaven with so many young Japanese ladies.
There are far fewer liquor stores there than here. Consequently, there are many more lingerie stores. Read into that what you will. Liquor is heavily regulated, lingerie not at all.
Vancouver has a newspaper. We have the Chronicle.
The streets are clean. The transit system works. The buses do not smell of stale urine.
On the one day that it rained we walked across the bridge to Granville Island.
I can't wait for them to open up in SF.
There do not seem to be any trained bartenders in Vancouver. No one pours by count, mixed drinks are an utter mystery, as are terms like 'Scotch', 'Water', 'No ice', and 'That's Bourbon'.
Closing times are based on Vedic math. Liquor prices are a wild guess.
Tobacco costs over three times as much. Cuban cigars are sold all over the place. There is outdoor seating for smokers everywhere.
Vancouverites are extremely polite, especially compared to San-Franciscans. This is refreshing. Even the street people are a better class than ours.
The maitre d at the nearest Indian restaurant was an elderly white gentleman wearing an old-lady turban and a Chinese brocade coat. I am so very very glad Mrs. K had never seen such a thing - she would've insisted I do likewise during my years as khazanchi.
There are Japanese people everywhere. They can be divided into three groups: long timers who have lived there for years, short timers who are there for several months, and brief timers who are there for only a week or so. The brief timers are tourists, the short timers are taking English classes, the long timers have opened sushi bars. The majority appear to be women in their early twenties, all avid shoppers.
A goat of my acquaintance would've been in hog heaven with so many young Japanese ladies.
There are far fewer liquor stores there than here. Consequently, there are many more lingerie stores. Read into that what you will. Liquor is heavily regulated, lingerie not at all.
Vancouver has a newspaper. We have the Chronicle.
The streets are clean. The transit system works. The buses do not smell of stale urine.
On the one day that it rained we walked across the bridge to Granville Island.
WHAT IS A JEW?
On Dovbear's site there is a list of possible slogans for Orthodox Judaism.
This post:
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-to-vote-again.html
Please visit and vote - remember, you have a voice but not a veto.
It is a reduction, in that it represents the finalists. As you would expect from a group known for vociferous opinions and finely split hairs, there were many more. Probably far too many to mention.
OJ SLOGAN LIST
I list all of them here in order of consensual weight (meaning how they rank in terms of support):
1 Think Inside the Box. (Tzipporah)
2 Answering questions with questions since 1348 BCE (yoni)
3 The chosen sub-sect, of the chosen sect of the chosen religion of the chosen people. (Apple)
4 Two Jews, Three Opinions, All Wrong. (Cousin Oliver)
5 We Used To Eat Strawberries (S.)
6 We're not biased. We're just right. (The Hedyot)
7 Lo BaShamayim Hi (NoPeanutz)
8 A mind is a terrible thing. (Nisht Emes)
9 Leave the thinking to us. (Baal Habos)
10 A burqa is just around the corner (Rebbetzin Keren)
11 Now with extra long sleeves! (Emes)
12 Change we can't believe in. (Barak)
13 We answer to a higher authority. Gedolim. (Shoshana)
14 A million questions - A million answers. (Baal Habos)
15 At least our women can vote. (Blue)
16 Finger pointin' good. (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
17 Join now, we're only selective with sources! (Nisht Emes)
18 Keeping the stench of the shtetl alive. (Blue)
19 Too traditional for your tanna (Rikky)
20 Built for the road behind. (Tzipporah)
21 OJ: Since 1864. (Nisht Emes)
22 Because there are no happy gentiles (Aish Hatorah)
23 Not your grandaddy's religion (klein)
24 Don't let the name fool you, we're against anything Greek. (Nisht Emes)
25 Our men tend to be fat (Qwerty)
26 Some gedolim are more equal than other gedolim. (Apple)
27 What happens in Kollel stays in Kollel. (Baal Habos)
28 Islam Lite- whiskey instead of bombs! (Woodrow)
29 You had me at Good Shabbos (NS)
30 OJ: Or the terrorist, liberal, jihadi, femminist, homosexual elite will win. (Emes)
31 Where everybody knows your name and they always try to shame. (Frum From Booth)
32 The few. The loud. (NS)
33 We're triumphalist because we're right (Emes)
34 Are you thinking what we're thinking? (NS)
35 Age before beauty. (Baal Habos)
36 Transforming Khilul to Hilul since 1948 (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
37 We love to lie - and it shows (Emes)
38 We're here, we're fear, get abused to it. (Nisht Emes)
39 A raccoon club for the rest of us. (Lurker)
40 Home of the whopper. (Emes)
I think this list is as good a formulation of a belief system as any, and certainly I intend to treat it as such - after all, who am I to disagree with the gedolei ha bloggim - in public?
But, if you want to delve in to the matter in further depth, please first visit this post: http://boroparkpyro.blogspot.com/2008/02/left-wing-modern-orthodoxy.html , then start reading Rabbi Yosh Yuter here: http://yutopia.yucs.org/archives/2005/07/yutopias_hashka.html , browse at length through Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (http://www.jeremyrosen.com/blog/index.html), and also visit AddeRabbi (http://adderabbi.blogspot.com/) and R. Joshua Maroof (http://vesomsechel.blogspot.com/) for some shterke insights.
If after doing all this, you still do not know what to think, read some Rabbi Pinky (http://www.geocities.com/npoj8/index.html). For perspective. And to shake your mind loose (Judaism is not only left brain, it is also deeply othersided).
Then start all over again.
Do not forget to stay tuned to my blog in the meantime, of course, as here alone all truth will eventually be revealed. Trust me.
This post:
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-to-vote-again.html
Please visit and vote - remember, you have a voice but not a veto.
It is a reduction, in that it represents the finalists. As you would expect from a group known for vociferous opinions and finely split hairs, there were many more. Probably far too many to mention.
OJ SLOGAN LIST
I list all of them here in order of consensual weight (meaning how they rank in terms of support):
1 Think Inside the Box. (Tzipporah)
2 Answering questions with questions since 1348 BCE (yoni)
3 The chosen sub-sect, of the chosen sect of the chosen religion of the chosen people. (Apple)
4 Two Jews, Three Opinions, All Wrong. (Cousin Oliver)
5 We Used To Eat Strawberries (S.)
6 We're not biased. We're just right. (The Hedyot)
7 Lo BaShamayim Hi (NoPeanutz)
8 A mind is a terrible thing. (Nisht Emes)
9 Leave the thinking to us. (Baal Habos)
10 A burqa is just around the corner (Rebbetzin Keren)
11 Now with extra long sleeves! (Emes)
12 Change we can't believe in. (Barak)
13 We answer to a higher authority. Gedolim. (Shoshana)
14 A million questions - A million answers. (Baal Habos)
15 At least our women can vote. (Blue)
16 Finger pointin' good. (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
17 Join now, we're only selective with sources! (Nisht Emes)
18 Keeping the stench of the shtetl alive. (Blue)
19 Too traditional for your tanna (Rikky)
20 Built for the road behind. (Tzipporah)
21 OJ: Since 1864. (Nisht Emes)
22 Because there are no happy gentiles (Aish Hatorah)
23 Not your grandaddy's religion (klein)
24 Don't let the name fool you, we're against anything Greek. (Nisht Emes)
25 Our men tend to be fat (Qwerty)
26 Some gedolim are more equal than other gedolim. (Apple)
27 What happens in Kollel stays in Kollel. (Baal Habos)
28 Islam Lite- whiskey instead of bombs! (Woodrow)
29 You had me at Good Shabbos (NS)
30 OJ: Or the terrorist, liberal, jihadi, femminist, homosexual elite will win. (Emes)
31 Where everybody knows your name and they always try to shame. (Frum From Booth)
32 The few. The loud. (NS)
33 We're triumphalist because we're right (Emes)
34 Are you thinking what we're thinking? (NS)
35 Age before beauty. (Baal Habos)
36 Transforming Khilul to Hilul since 1948 (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
37 We love to lie - and it shows (Emes)
38 We're here, we're fear, get abused to it. (Nisht Emes)
39 A raccoon club for the rest of us. (Lurker)
40 Home of the whopper. (Emes)
I think this list is as good a formulation of a belief system as any, and certainly I intend to treat it as such - after all, who am I to disagree with the gedolei ha bloggim - in public?
But, if you want to delve in to the matter in further depth, please first visit this post: http://boroparkpyro.blogspot.com/2008/02/left-wing-modern-orthodoxy.html , then start reading Rabbi Yosh Yuter here: http://yutopia.yucs.org/archives/2005/07/yutopias_hashka.html , browse at length through Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (http://www.jeremyrosen.com/blog/index.html), and also visit AddeRabbi (http://adderabbi.blogspot.com/) and R. Joshua Maroof (http://vesomsechel.blogspot.com/) for some shterke insights.
If after doing all this, you still do not know what to think, read some Rabbi Pinky (http://www.geocities.com/npoj8/index.html). For perspective. And to shake your mind loose (Judaism is not only left brain, it is also deeply othersided).
Then start all over again.
Do not forget to stay tuned to my blog in the meantime, of course, as here alone all truth will eventually be revealed. Trust me.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
VINDALOO EVERYTHING
As I write this, I'm eating lunch. Curry and rice, fish fritters, seethed zucchini.
The best Chinese food we had in Vancouver was when I ate lunch by myself in Chinatown. Two little pastries and a bowl of fish-slice jook at the Boss Bakery and Restaurant on Main Street near East Pender.
[Jook is rice-porridge (congee). It is easy on the digestion, light, and if properly made, very tasty.]
I've always been a sucker for fish-slice jook (魚片粥). Made velvety and smooth, thick slivers of very fresh fish added to poach in the heat of the porridge, a drizzle of sesame oil and some minced chive or scallion over - there is little in this world to compare. It is a very simple dish.
It is also a hell of a lot better than the food we had together at other Chinese restaurants in Vancouver.
Memo to self: do NOT take recommendations from white people about Chinese food. Just remember what the white folk did to tofu - the Chinese had it for over two thousand years, and everything was fine no problem; whitey had it for less than a generation and invented tofurky. QED.
In case you're wondering, SHE took the recommendations from white people. Sometimes Savage Kitten is far too trusting (which explains why she is with me, but let us not go into detail about that). I would never listen to my fellow honkies when it comes to Chinese food. Based on bitter experience.
I also do not go into Chinatown for eaties with most other Caucasians, because for some reason they can't resist ordering sweet and sour pork. Or cashew chicken. It's some kind of atavistic addiction. They're twisted.
One of these days I'll probably be flabbergasted when some glow-in-the-dark of the same bleachy hue as myself orders the claypot eggplant with haahm-yu (salt-fish 鹹 魚).
[Haahm-yu is even more of a cultural determinant than bitter-melon, because even though bitter melon (fu-gwa, Momocordia charantia 苦瓜) upsets most non-Asians, it isn't anywhere near as universally appealing as something salty-fishy-funky-stinko. Most occidentals shy away from either. ]
I did not see bitter-melon in Vancouver, in case you are wondering. But, surprisingly, I did see fresh rambutan (hairy fruit; Nephelium lappaceum) and long-ngaan (dragon eye, dimocarpus longan 龍眼). To the best of my knowledge fresh hairy fruit is not available here. Nor do I believe I've seen fresh long-ngaan often enough. So consequently I am rather jealous.
SOMEONE ELSE'S TRIP
Having returned from my vacation, one of my coworkers is going on hers. This is the season for jaunting.
Pursuant her departure, I asked her: "how many days after you land will it take for you to dig your chompers into some dansak and pattice? Wafer per eida?"
She answered: "Dhansak the first Sunday I’m there. Wafer per Eeda, not sure. Haven’t had that in a while. My first priority however, is Suterfeni. I’ve instructed my brother and sister-in-law to have some in the car when they come to Bombay airport to pick me up."
Sounds divine. She's leaving at the end of this week. I hope she has a wonderful time.
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About the title of this post:
Savage Kitten and myself were remembering the most frightful thing we ate while in England a few years ago. Which, hands down, was spam fritter (a thick slice of spam, battered, deep-fried, served still soaking with oil). It was stomach-churning. Far worse than the mahogany-coloured burrito (filled with chipped beef and baked beans) served at a pub. Which was inedible.
One should always be willing to try something new. It is educational.
Most English people, and many Americans, are familiar with the clichéed sweet-and-sour sauce composed of sugar, vinegar, and red food colouring. We first thought that if the spam fritter were treated with sweet-and-sour sauce, in the manner of horrid Chinese restaurants out in the provinces, sales would go through the roof - Anglos just purely love sweet-and-sour sauce (see atavistic addiction mentioned earlier). But it would be probably be far more profitable to serve it as Vindaloo. Anything and everything can be cooked vindaloo.
Vindaloo is a cultural paradigm.
The best Chinese food we had in Vancouver was when I ate lunch by myself in Chinatown. Two little pastries and a bowl of fish-slice jook at the Boss Bakery and Restaurant on Main Street near East Pender.
[Jook is rice-porridge (congee). It is easy on the digestion, light, and if properly made, very tasty.]
I've always been a sucker for fish-slice jook (魚片粥). Made velvety and smooth, thick slivers of very fresh fish added to poach in the heat of the porridge, a drizzle of sesame oil and some minced chive or scallion over - there is little in this world to compare. It is a very simple dish.
It is also a hell of a lot better than the food we had together at other Chinese restaurants in Vancouver.
Memo to self: do NOT take recommendations from white people about Chinese food. Just remember what the white folk did to tofu - the Chinese had it for over two thousand years, and everything was fine no problem; whitey had it for less than a generation and invented tofurky. QED.
In case you're wondering, SHE took the recommendations from white people. Sometimes Savage Kitten is far too trusting (which explains why she is with me, but let us not go into detail about that). I would never listen to my fellow honkies when it comes to Chinese food. Based on bitter experience.
I also do not go into Chinatown for eaties with most other Caucasians, because for some reason they can't resist ordering sweet and sour pork. Or cashew chicken. It's some kind of atavistic addiction. They're twisted.
One of these days I'll probably be flabbergasted when some glow-in-the-dark of the same bleachy hue as myself orders the claypot eggplant with haahm-yu (salt-fish 鹹 魚).
[Haahm-yu is even more of a cultural determinant than bitter-melon, because even though bitter melon (fu-gwa, Momocordia charantia 苦瓜) upsets most non-Asians, it isn't anywhere near as universally appealing as something salty-fishy-funky-stinko. Most occidentals shy away from either. ]
I did not see bitter-melon in Vancouver, in case you are wondering. But, surprisingly, I did see fresh rambutan (hairy fruit; Nephelium lappaceum) and long-ngaan (dragon eye, dimocarpus longan 龍眼). To the best of my knowledge fresh hairy fruit is not available here. Nor do I believe I've seen fresh long-ngaan often enough. So consequently I am rather jealous.
SOMEONE ELSE'S TRIP
Having returned from my vacation, one of my coworkers is going on hers. This is the season for jaunting.
Pursuant her departure, I asked her: "how many days after you land will it take for you to dig your chompers into some dansak and pattice? Wafer per eida?"
She answered: "Dhansak the first Sunday I’m there. Wafer per Eeda, not sure. Haven’t had that in a while. My first priority however, is Suterfeni. I’ve instructed my brother and sister-in-law to have some in the car when they come to Bombay airport to pick me up."
Sounds divine. She's leaving at the end of this week. I hope she has a wonderful time.
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About the title of this post:
Savage Kitten and myself were remembering the most frightful thing we ate while in England a few years ago. Which, hands down, was spam fritter (a thick slice of spam, battered, deep-fried, served still soaking with oil). It was stomach-churning. Far worse than the mahogany-coloured burrito (filled with chipped beef and baked beans) served at a pub. Which was inedible.
One should always be willing to try something new. It is educational.
Most English people, and many Americans, are familiar with the clichéed sweet-and-sour sauce composed of sugar, vinegar, and red food colouring. We first thought that if the spam fritter were treated with sweet-and-sour sauce, in the manner of horrid Chinese restaurants out in the provinces, sales would go through the roof - Anglos just purely love sweet-and-sour sauce (see atavistic addiction mentioned earlier). But it would be probably be far more profitable to serve it as Vindaloo. Anything and everything can be cooked vindaloo.
Vindaloo is a cultural paradigm.
Monday, February 25, 2008
NATIVE COSTUME
On the whole, we like people to respect their own ancestral traditions, and dress colourfully.
[We, in this case, is a collective - the American group thingy. Not the editorial we, nor the majestic voice we.]
That is what many of our American regional festivals are all about.
Dutch Americans in clogs during one of Michigan's Tulip festivals, sari-clad ladies at an Indian fair in the South Bay, hairy men in plaid skirts, slender Vietnamese girls in gracefull aodai during Tet - these are all zesty and geshmak.
At Chinese New Year parades, seeing the local community looking all exotic..... Who doesn't like the little maidens from the Saint Mary's Girl School Drum and Bell Corps dressed in T'ang Dynasty costumes, briskly tripping forth playing the Marine hymn or When The Caissons Go Rolling Along? They're just so darn cuuuute!
Iggerunt Rednecks dressed as.... iggerunt rednecks? Oh, we're fine with that, bichol.
Irish-Americans got up like drunken leprechauns? Begorrah, we do the same every three-seventeen.
Can't hardly get more American than that.
Not all ethnic garb is equal, however.
As is made clear in this news items from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7263783.stm
Barack Obama wearing African costume is, apparently, not something we like. No. Some of us find it offensive. Or problematic. Entirely. Probably because it suggests that Mr. Obama is not a nice middle-aged white male like the rest of us. I'm just guessing. Different. Maybe he's Irish.
It might even be evidence of a blot on his character. A black mark.
Ooh ick, and forsooth.
REASSURANCE
However, I have it on good authority that he IS a Protestant - that ought to still your worries somewhat.
I have not been told which country-club he belongs to, but I'm sure it is indeed a very fine one. And although he did go to Columbia University (which is just utterly awash with Jews!), he subsequently went to Harvard, where no doubt he absorbed many fine old-school waspish behaviours. So any suggestion that he might not be "one of us" has to be discarded as just pissy, and please desist.
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In the interests of fair reporting, I admit that I voted for Barack Hussein Obama during the primary - and I'll be doing it again in the election.
[If you now wish to jump to the conclusion that I am a wealthy African-American man with a college education living in Georgia, please do so.]
I should also mention, apropos of nothing much, that I do not entirely approve of how Mr. Obama's turban is tied in that photo. It looks too common. It is not nearly as imposing as a Sardarji's dastaar (pagri), nor as dashing as an Afghani double twist. If he wants a lesson on how to tie it properly, he knows where to find me.
[We, in this case, is a collective - the American group thingy. Not the editorial we, nor the majestic voice we.]
That is what many of our American regional festivals are all about.
Dutch Americans in clogs during one of Michigan's Tulip festivals, sari-clad ladies at an Indian fair in the South Bay, hairy men in plaid skirts, slender Vietnamese girls in gracefull aodai during Tet - these are all zesty and geshmak.
At Chinese New Year parades, seeing the local community looking all exotic..... Who doesn't like the little maidens from the Saint Mary's Girl School Drum and Bell Corps dressed in T'ang Dynasty costumes, briskly tripping forth playing the Marine hymn or When The Caissons Go Rolling Along? They're just so darn cuuuute!
Iggerunt Rednecks dressed as.... iggerunt rednecks? Oh, we're fine with that, bichol.
Irish-Americans got up like drunken leprechauns? Begorrah, we do the same every three-seventeen.
Can't hardly get more American than that.
Not all ethnic garb is equal, however.
As is made clear in this news items from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7263783.stm
Barack Obama wearing African costume is, apparently, not something we like. No. Some of us find it offensive. Or problematic. Entirely. Probably because it suggests that Mr. Obama is not a nice middle-aged white male like the rest of us. I'm just guessing. Different. Maybe he's Irish.
It might even be evidence of a blot on his character. A black mark.
Ooh ick, and forsooth.
REASSURANCE
However, I have it on good authority that he IS a Protestant - that ought to still your worries somewhat.
I have not been told which country-club he belongs to, but I'm sure it is indeed a very fine one. And although he did go to Columbia University (which is just utterly awash with Jews!), he subsequently went to Harvard, where no doubt he absorbed many fine old-school waspish behaviours. So any suggestion that he might not be "one of us" has to be discarded as just pissy, and please desist.
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In the interests of fair reporting, I admit that I voted for Barack Hussein Obama during the primary - and I'll be doing it again in the election.
[If you now wish to jump to the conclusion that I am a wealthy African-American man with a college education living in Georgia, please do so.]
I should also mention, apropos of nothing much, that I do not entirely approve of how Mr. Obama's turban is tied in that photo. It looks too common. It is not nearly as imposing as a Sardarji's dastaar (pagri), nor as dashing as an Afghani double twist. If he wants a lesson on how to tie it properly, he knows where to find me.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
For the first time in nearly seven years, I am going on a trip.
Savage Kitten and I are heading to Vancouver. We'll be back on the twenty-fifth of February. There will be no new posts here untill then.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'm sure that my coworkers, whom I distrust, will make a concerted effort to locate my red stapler and steal it. Good luck, boys, you'll never find it.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'll return and start posting again on the twenty-fifth.
In the meantime, read everyone on my blog roll. Avidly and repeatedly. Be sure to visit the Yeshiva and the Manga section. Eat some vegetables.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
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By the way, did I mention I'm going on vacation? So there won't be any new posts for a while..... sorry.
Savage Kitten and I are heading to Vancouver. We'll be back on the twenty-fifth of February. There will be no new posts here untill then.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'm sure that my coworkers, whom I distrust, will make a concerted effort to locate my red stapler and steal it. Good luck, boys, you'll never find it.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'll return and start posting again on the twenty-fifth.
In the meantime, read everyone on my blog roll. Avidly and repeatedly. Be sure to visit the Yeshiva and the Manga section. Eat some vegetables.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT: BRUGES PUSTULES
I also wish to mention a recent incident in Belgium.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old American academic, was chased out of restaurant Le Panier d'Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his kippah and yelled at him that they didn't serve Jews ("wij serveren hier geen Joden, ERUIT!"). Shaken, he went into a neighboring restaurant, where the staff was extremely upset to hear what had just happened, and called the police, who requested that he report the incident at the station.
When he got there the police functionary refused to believe him, and her colleague started screaming that he could only make his statement in Dutch, and that such a thing could not have happened in Belgium.
I shan't editorialize. The facts speak for themselves.
All I'll say is that it really doesn't matter that most people are decent individuals, or that there are protocols in place to discourage such incidents. All it takes is one s.o.b. to ruin your day.
There are more than just one or two s.o.b.s in the Benelux.
At least three of them are in Bruges.
I also wish to mention a recent incident in Belgium.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old American academic, was chased out of restaurant Le Panier d'Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his kippah and yelled at him that they didn't serve Jews ("wij serveren hier geen Joden, ERUIT!"). Shaken, he went into a neighboring restaurant, where the staff was extremely upset to hear what had just happened, and called the police, who requested that he report the incident at the station.
When he got there the police functionary refused to believe him, and her colleague started screaming that he could only make his statement in Dutch, and that such a thing could not have happened in Belgium.
I shan't editorialize. The facts speak for themselves.
All I'll say is that it really doesn't matter that most people are decent individuals, or that there are protocols in place to discourage such incidents. All it takes is one s.o.b. to ruin your day.
There are more than just one or two s.o.b.s in the Benelux.
At least three of them are in Bruges.
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By the way, did I mention I'm going on vacation? So there won't be any new posts for a while..... sorry.
Monday, February 11, 2008
CAN DO MEME
Tzipporah has cursed me with a meme. The "I can" meme. I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to boast, or admit to odd talents. It is an odd meme, and I do not quite understand it. But I think I have to complete the list, drop-of-hat-wise, in fifteen minutes. That seems to be the thing.
[Note: Tzipporah: http://www.midianitemanna.blogspot.com/ She says she obsesses about some things far too long. As one of the things she can do. What, pray tell, is wrong with obsession?]
What can I do?
I can read Chinese.
I can cook Indonesian food.
I can insult people in fluent literate Dutch.
I can speak bits and pieces of various languages, some well, some badly.
I can talk for hours on end. Or so I've heard.
I can't dance.
I can't sing.
I can't stomach chitlins.
I can't smoke pot.
I can't stand Fox News.
I haven't tried cocaine.
I haven't joined a gym.
I haven't smoked a Havana in ages.
I haven't a clue how to play football.
I haven't drunk bad beer in two decades.
I will not go to the dentist if I can help it.
I will not sign internet petitions.
I will not sing karaoke (unless I'm toasted).
I will not tolerate cherry-flavoured pipe-tobacco.
I will not add anymore specifics to this list.
I suppose I should infect someone with this meme, shouldn't I?
Hmmmmm.
The question is, would they do it? Would they actually list what they can do? Or cannot, will not, would not, should not?
Or would they not?
Let's do it differently this time. If you decide to do this meme on your own, just let me know. You can mention it in the comments. If you have NO intention of doing it, also feel free to wax lyrical ... in the comments. You have until February twenty-fifth (I'll be on vacation from the thirteenth till the 25th., and probably won't be paying any serious attention, being obsessed with food, and finding a place to smoke a pipe in Vancouver, in the meantime).
Oh, and after tomorrow there will be no posts here for a while. So make the most of those comments.
[Note: Tzipporah: http://www.midianitemanna.blogspot.com/ She says she obsesses about some things far too long. As one of the things she can do. What, pray tell, is wrong with obsession?]
What can I do?
I can read Chinese.
I can cook Indonesian food.
I can insult people in fluent literate Dutch.
I can speak bits and pieces of various languages, some well, some badly.
I can talk for hours on end. Or so I've heard.
I can't dance.
I can't sing.
I can't stomach chitlins.
I can't smoke pot.
I can't stand Fox News.
I haven't tried cocaine.
I haven't joined a gym.
I haven't smoked a Havana in ages.
I haven't a clue how to play football.
I haven't drunk bad beer in two decades.
I will not go to the dentist if I can help it.
I will not sign internet petitions.
I will not sing karaoke (unless I'm toasted).
I will not tolerate cherry-flavoured pipe-tobacco.
I will not add anymore specifics to this list.
I suppose I should infect someone with this meme, shouldn't I?
Hmmmmm.
The question is, would they do it? Would they actually list what they can do? Or cannot, will not, would not, should not?
Or would they not?
Let's do it differently this time. If you decide to do this meme on your own, just let me know. You can mention it in the comments. If you have NO intention of doing it, also feel free to wax lyrical ... in the comments. You have until February twenty-fifth (I'll be on vacation from the thirteenth till the 25th., and probably won't be paying any serious attention, being obsessed with food, and finding a place to smoke a pipe in Vancouver, in the meantime).
Oh, and after tomorrow there will be no posts here for a while. So make the most of those comments.
BLOWING SMOKE
The anti-tobacco crowd is getting out of hand. Nay, foaming at the mouth even, and baying for blood.
One cannot smoke in public anymore, offices and restaurants are now non-smoking environments (understandably so!), and even bars are now pristinely healthy environments where wheat-grass and protein shakes are common, but not tobacco.
I can understand non-smokers wanting most public places to be smoke-free. And, as a smoker, I will willingly segregate myself from them - those of them that I like are well worth a bit of self-control, those of them that I dislike I would naturally avoid anyhow.
But some non-smokers deserve to be attacked with broken bottles. Or have poo flung at them, along with mouse-cadavers and kitchen-waste.
[Rhetorically speaking, of course, as I do not advocate violence. I am merely expressing an opinion - if anyone ends up with faeces in their eyes, please remember that as an adult I advised against it.]
Some anti-smokers are in fact complete pustules.
Please see this article in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/nyregion/09ansonia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Suing the Smoker Next Door
[You might not be able to see it after clicking, because the NYT has some kind of registration thing.]
To quote:
"Galila Huff, a chain-smoking restaurateur from the Upper West Side, always thought that when it came to smoking, her apartment was her sanctuary."
"Her neighbors, Jonathan Selbin, a class-action lawyer who has honed his skills suing major corporations, and his wife, Jenny Selbin, also a lawyer, are irate..."
"In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, they are demanding that she "cease and desist from causing smoke to enter into the common hallway" "
"Ms. Huff, 57 (who has live in her apartment for fifteen years) -- considered selling her apartment and moving elsewhere because of pressure from the Selbins. She even offered, in writing, to sell it to them" "
In other words, two self-righteous blisters are trying to either make a fast buck OR chase someone out of her own home.
The problem, as these pampered puritan creeps have expressed it, as that smoke from her apartment enters the common hallway and then enters their apartment, where their whelp (4 year old Charlie) ends up breathing it.
At this point I should point out that the Ms. Huff keeps windows open for ventilation, has sealed the bottom of every door with rolled-up rugs, and has two "Oreck XL air purifiers, double the number the manufacturer recommends for her 635-square-foot apartment" cleaning the air. Additionally, building management has even sealed off ducts that could spread the smoke.
And yet, her reptilian neighbors insist that they are under siege.
Remember, the little smoke-whisp has to fight its way into the common hallway through closed doors and rolled up carpets (rather than simply going out the window to freedom), travel single-mindedly down a ventilated hallway, struggle into the apartment (roomy and no doubt well-ventilated) of her odious neighbors, and then, weakened and dilute, force itself by sheer will-power into the lungs of their precious little son-and-heir. An Olympic event, even for asbestos dust and paint-chips. So an epic victory for a tiny little whisp of smoke that had to battle against impossible odds. Truly inspiring. Great literature is made from material such as this. I need to wipe away a tear.
No, my sympathies are decidedly not with the Selbins and their brat. A pox on them, and a pox on everyone who takes their side. I wish them ill.
One cannot smoke in public anymore, offices and restaurants are now non-smoking environments (understandably so!), and even bars are now pristinely healthy environments where wheat-grass and protein shakes are common, but not tobacco.
I can understand non-smokers wanting most public places to be smoke-free. And, as a smoker, I will willingly segregate myself from them - those of them that I like are well worth a bit of self-control, those of them that I dislike I would naturally avoid anyhow.
But some non-smokers deserve to be attacked with broken bottles. Or have poo flung at them, along with mouse-cadavers and kitchen-waste.
[Rhetorically speaking, of course, as I do not advocate violence. I am merely expressing an opinion - if anyone ends up with faeces in their eyes, please remember that as an adult I advised against it.]
Some anti-smokers are in fact complete pustules.
Please see this article in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/nyregion/09ansonia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Suing the Smoker Next Door
[You might not be able to see it after clicking, because the NYT has some kind of registration thing.]
To quote:
"Galila Huff, a chain-smoking restaurateur from the Upper West Side, always thought that when it came to smoking, her apartment was her sanctuary."
"Her neighbors, Jonathan Selbin, a class-action lawyer who has honed his skills suing major corporations, and his wife, Jenny Selbin, also a lawyer, are irate..."
"In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, they are demanding that she "cease and desist from causing smoke to enter into the common hallway" "
"Ms. Huff, 57 (who has live in her apartment for fifteen years) -- considered selling her apartment and moving elsewhere because of pressure from the Selbins. She even offered, in writing, to sell it to them" "
In other words, two self-righteous blisters are trying to either make a fast buck OR chase someone out of her own home.
The problem, as these pampered puritan creeps have expressed it, as that smoke from her apartment enters the common hallway and then enters their apartment, where their whelp (4 year old Charlie) ends up breathing it.
At this point I should point out that the Ms. Huff keeps windows open for ventilation, has sealed the bottom of every door with rolled-up rugs, and has two "Oreck XL air purifiers, double the number the manufacturer recommends for her 635-square-foot apartment" cleaning the air. Additionally, building management has even sealed off ducts that could spread the smoke.
And yet, her reptilian neighbors insist that they are under siege.
Remember, the little smoke-whisp has to fight its way into the common hallway through closed doors and rolled up carpets (rather than simply going out the window to freedom), travel single-mindedly down a ventilated hallway, struggle into the apartment (roomy and no doubt well-ventilated) of her odious neighbors, and then, weakened and dilute, force itself by sheer will-power into the lungs of their precious little son-and-heir. An Olympic event, even for asbestos dust and paint-chips. So an epic victory for a tiny little whisp of smoke that had to battle against impossible odds. Truly inspiring. Great literature is made from material such as this. I need to wipe away a tear.
No, my sympathies are decidedly not with the Selbins and their brat. A pox on them, and a pox on everyone who takes their side. I wish them ill.
SURINAME-LIST ON THE FRITZ
Or maybe I'm in Dutch with the right-thinking list-administrators.
Even, perish the thought, on 'fully moderated status'. Which is not unlikely - I've managed to irritate quite a number of right-thinking members by taking the side of Israel. Not exactly a popular position in the Dutch-speaking world. Most right-thinking Dutch-speakers believe that Israel is a horrid, rotten little country inhabited by religious fanatics who obsessively wish to exterminate all those peacefull leftwing secularists, the Palestinians.
Around three-quarters of the Dutch believe this.
The figure is even more skewed in favour of 'furry Palestinian dolphins who must be saved' among the younger crowd - their piles bleed monumentally for the poor oppressed little Palestinian puppies, big time!
And cute fuzzy-wuzzy Palestinian bunny-wabbits.
And widdle Pally duckie-wuckies.
The Dutch may be right-thinking (and they certainly believe that they are), but they are not entirely attached to reality.
In short, an e-mail I sent to the list did not get to the rest of the members.
I think it got yanked. Too divisive. Happens a lot.
So I'll post it below.
Some of it is in Dutch, most of it is in English.
Beste luitjes,
Omdat het hoogst onwaarschijnlijk is dat de racistische pers in Nederland dit ooit aan het publiek daar te lees zal geven, en daar het toch door het ANP bestempeld zal zijn als "gerechtvaardigd (die lui hebben het verdiend) stuur ik het maar hier door.
Boy Loses Leg, Brother Wounded in Sderot Kassam Attack
By Hana Levi Julian and Gil Ronen
An eight-year-old boy and his 19-year-old brother were seriously wounded Saturday evening in a Kassam rocket attack on Sderot. The barrage sent 11 people into emotional shock in addition to the casualties.
Both boys were wounded in the lower limbs and were rushed into surgery after they were evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. The youngster reportedly lost part of his leg in the blast, according to media sources. His older brother suffered shrapnel wounds as well. The boys' 15-year-old brother and their mother were also sent to the hospital to be treated for emotional shock.
The family was running for cover when one of the enemy rockets landed about two meters from them. Another rocket landed close to a residential building.
A total of five rockets were fired, three of which exploded in the center of Sderot. The other two slammed into areas just outside the city. Terrorists from Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ter verduidelijking:
Acht jaar oud jochie verliest deel van been door een raket afgevuurd door Palestijnen.
Sderot is in Israel - achter de 1948 grens - zelfs het merendeel van de Palestijnen geeft er geen klap om, en eist het niet op. Het is geen legitiem doelwit, tenzij men of 'n terrorist of 'n Europeesche Palestina supporteur is.
Wedde dus dat die venijnskoe Anja Meulenbelt deze raketaanval, zoals alle vorigen, aplaudiseert. Want een kleuter is, mits Joods, iemand die het grondig verdiend heeft. Ik weet dat sommigen van ulieden, waarschijnlijk een overgroot merendeel, het met haar eens zijn.
Gelieve dit door te sturen aan voormalig lijstlid mejufrouw Ghanie. Het zal haar verheugen, en wellicht een prettige week bezorgen.
Met groeten (peace and love, bitches, peace and love),
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The news report quoted above will never be printed in a Dutch newspaper. For one thing, it casts the Palestinians in an unfavourable light - not a wise thing for the commercial press to do in a country that denies its own anti-Semitism and long history of support for extremist causes. For another, studied neutrality is the dominant Dutch ideology. Which means that Israeli military superiority must necessarily mean that Israel is the aggressor, as otherwise the Palestinians would seem to be terrorists and insane.
Which they're not; they're fluffy little dolphins.
Even, perish the thought, on 'fully moderated status'. Which is not unlikely - I've managed to irritate quite a number of right-thinking members by taking the side of Israel. Not exactly a popular position in the Dutch-speaking world. Most right-thinking Dutch-speakers believe that Israel is a horrid, rotten little country inhabited by religious fanatics who obsessively wish to exterminate all those peacefull leftwing secularists, the Palestinians.
Around three-quarters of the Dutch believe this.
The figure is even more skewed in favour of 'furry Palestinian dolphins who must be saved' among the younger crowd - their piles bleed monumentally for the poor oppressed little Palestinian puppies, big time!
And cute fuzzy-wuzzy Palestinian bunny-wabbits.
And widdle Pally duckie-wuckies.
The Dutch may be right-thinking (and they certainly believe that they are), but they are not entirely attached to reality.
In short, an e-mail I sent to the list did not get to the rest of the members.
I think it got yanked. Too divisive. Happens a lot.
So I'll post it below.
Some of it is in Dutch, most of it is in English.
Beste luitjes,
Omdat het hoogst onwaarschijnlijk is dat de racistische pers in Nederland dit ooit aan het publiek daar te lees zal geven, en daar het toch door het ANP bestempeld zal zijn als "gerechtvaardigd (die lui hebben het verdiend) stuur ik het maar hier door.
Boy Loses Leg, Brother Wounded in Sderot Kassam Attack
By Hana Levi Julian and Gil Ronen
An eight-year-old boy and his 19-year-old brother were seriously wounded Saturday evening in a Kassam rocket attack on Sderot. The barrage sent 11 people into emotional shock in addition to the casualties.
Both boys were wounded in the lower limbs and were rushed into surgery after they were evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. The youngster reportedly lost part of his leg in the blast, according to media sources. His older brother suffered shrapnel wounds as well. The boys' 15-year-old brother and their mother were also sent to the hospital to be treated for emotional shock.
The family was running for cover when one of the enemy rockets landed about two meters from them. Another rocket landed close to a residential building.
A total of five rockets were fired, three of which exploded in the center of Sderot. The other two slammed into areas just outside the city. Terrorists from Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ter verduidelijking:
Acht jaar oud jochie verliest deel van been door een raket afgevuurd door Palestijnen.
Sderot is in Israel - achter de 1948 grens - zelfs het merendeel van de Palestijnen geeft er geen klap om, en eist het niet op. Het is geen legitiem doelwit, tenzij men of 'n terrorist of 'n Europeesche Palestina supporteur is.
Wedde dus dat die venijnskoe Anja Meulenbelt deze raketaanval, zoals alle vorigen, aplaudiseert. Want een kleuter is, mits Joods, iemand die het grondig verdiend heeft. Ik weet dat sommigen van ulieden, waarschijnlijk een overgroot merendeel, het met haar eens zijn.
Gelieve dit door te sturen aan voormalig lijstlid mejufrouw Ghanie. Het zal haar verheugen, en wellicht een prettige week bezorgen.
Met groeten (peace and love, bitches, peace and love),
------------------------------------------
The news report quoted above will never be printed in a Dutch newspaper. For one thing, it casts the Palestinians in an unfavourable light - not a wise thing for the commercial press to do in a country that denies its own anti-Semitism and long history of support for extremist causes. For another, studied neutrality is the dominant Dutch ideology. Which means that Israeli military superiority must necessarily mean that Israel is the aggressor, as otherwise the Palestinians would seem to be terrorists and insane.
Which they're not; they're fluffy little dolphins.
Friday, February 08, 2008
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX, BOYS AND GIRLS!
Was it good for you?
In the comment thread of a Dovbearian posting about abusing foreskins, Margavriel masquerading as 'Bartnish' (?) posts a link to a blog that advocated castration and complete abstinence. It brought back fond memories.
ABSOLUTE CELIBACY
http://absolutecelibacy.blogspot.com/
It also reminded me of some of my own heretical writings from two years ago. To which, as you may have forgotten about them entirely, and seeing as the Absolibator of the blog linked above quoted me ad nauseum and you might want to see the statements in context though heavens only knows why you want to do that (Context? Context? Feh to context!) given that context will only drag you in deeper, I post links below:
FEISTY I - ABSOLUTE CELIBACY
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/feisty-i-absolute-celibacy.html
In which I decide to give in to all my baser instincts, and play long and hard with a celibate person.
RETURN OF THE HERETIC!http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/return-of-heretic.html
In which I respond to terms of affection by purring, wriggling, and squeeeezing my shapely thighs together in rhetorical ecstasy.
PRU URVUhttp://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/pru-urvu.html
In which I write fondly of yeshive-bocherim and zesty bits, before dwelling at length on the procreative peculiarities of the tribe of Benjamin.
DISCLAIMER: There is NO sexual content to this post or the posts linked above, despite what you might think. What are you, some kind of sex fiend? People with dirty minds like you should stay off the internet - it's filthy enough all ready without you crawling all over it and abusing it.
[It will take years for the internet to recover from thesexual icky trauma you've given it, and you should at least consider giving it a good hard rub with a soft cloth.]
As a final note, I should mention that I got a fortune at a Chinese restaurant that said that animals and blind people like me. I think it was someone else's. Perhaps it was meant for the blogger known as Absolute Celibacy.
In the comment thread of a Dovbearian posting about abusing foreskins, Margavriel masquerading as 'Bartnish' (?) posts a link to a blog that advocated castration and complete abstinence. It brought back fond memories.
ABSOLUTE CELIBACY
http://absolutecelibacy.blogspot.com/
It also reminded me of some of my own heretical writings from two years ago. To which, as you may have forgotten about them entirely, and seeing as the Absolibator of the blog linked above quoted me ad nauseum and you might want to see the statements in context though heavens only knows why you want to do that (Context? Context? Feh to context!) given that context will only drag you in deeper, I post links below:
FEISTY I - ABSOLUTE CELIBACY
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/feisty-i-absolute-celibacy.html
In which I decide to give in to all my baser instincts, and play long and hard with a celibate person.
RETURN OF THE HERETIC!http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/return-of-heretic.html
In which I respond to terms of affection by purring, wriggling, and squeeeezing my shapely thighs together in rhetorical ecstasy.
PRU URVUhttp://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/01/pru-urvu.html
In which I write fondly of yeshive-bocherim and zesty bits, before dwelling at length on the procreative peculiarities of the tribe of Benjamin.
DISCLAIMER: There is NO sexual content to this post or the posts linked above, despite what you might think. What are you, some kind of sex fiend? People with dirty minds like you should stay off the internet - it's filthy enough all ready without you crawling all over it and abusing it.
[It will take years for the internet to recover from the
As a final note, I should mention that I got a fortune at a Chinese restaurant that said that animals and blind people like me. I think it was someone else's. Perhaps it was meant for the blogger known as Absolute Celibacy.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
SELF-HATING JEW AWARD
This blog thinks it would be a grand idea to propose candidates for the "gold star self-hating Jew" awards.
Heck, this blog thinks it would be a good idea if such an award were regularly given.
This blog does, regretfully, realize that going into excruciating detail on the nominees and why they deserve the award might constitute lashon hara. And we realize that you like this blog precisely because it is so remarkably lashon hara free. Opinionated, but lashon hara free.
So we'll just throw out the name of this week's nominee:
Anna Baltzer
Master (mistress?) of slanted reportage and mis-information, propagandist for evil causes, and by no means a well-willing dupe, as a few of her fans might claim in her defence if pressed on the issue. She's a tool, a willing and convinced tool. The type who would gladly wear a uniform.
http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/
Trust, me, she's a classic example. This blog has listened to her speak, and repressed the urge to gag and throw poo. Doing so was difficult. She's depraved. And probably ill.
This blog suggests that the readers either nominate their own candidates in the comments, or, if they also air their opinions on the internet, on their own blog.
Feel free to disagree with the opinions expressed above. This is America, and, as far as this blog knows, you still have the right to express your opinions. Even if your opinions are wrong.
Heck, this blog thinks it would be a good idea if such an award were regularly given.
This blog does, regretfully, realize that going into excruciating detail on the nominees and why they deserve the award might constitute lashon hara. And we realize that you like this blog precisely because it is so remarkably lashon hara free. Opinionated, but lashon hara free.
So we'll just throw out the name of this week's nominee:
Anna Baltzer
Master (mistress?) of slanted reportage and mis-information, propagandist for evil causes, and by no means a well-willing dupe, as a few of her fans might claim in her defence if pressed on the issue. She's a tool, a willing and convinced tool. The type who would gladly wear a uniform.
http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/
Trust, me, she's a classic example. This blog has listened to her speak, and repressed the urge to gag and throw poo. Doing so was difficult. She's depraved. And probably ill.
This blog suggests that the readers either nominate their own candidates in the comments, or, if they also air their opinions on the internet, on their own blog.
Feel free to disagree with the opinions expressed above. This is America, and, as far as this blog knows, you still have the right to express your opinions. Even if your opinions are wrong.
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