Unfortunately the champion of Palestinian murderers and world dictators generally has so little political credibility that his new coming out for an end to the drug war will have little influence. Pity that.
Although Dhimmi Carter (h/t Monkey In The Middle) is a great, alternative name for him.
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Posted in Israel, Obamalot, Scribbles, South of the Border, The War
Tagged end the war on drugs, Jimmy Carter
“A king’s daughter must be meek.” And if I hide in my abode, people will say, “You are why he left yeshiva.”
If my calling is to teach, how will I make ends meet? All that I earn from work so bitter will go straight to the babysitter.
“Do not misunderstand my intent,” they say. “You must work to pay the rent, to care for money and payment, but heaven forbid enlightenment.”
Though if I abandon education and deviate from expectation, sullied and disparaged will I appear for choosing the worst of all — a career.
From “Elegy to a Working Haredi Woman,” by Leah Meizel.
Meizel is “a mother of 17,” it says here. I hope that’s a misprint, but many of the Haredi—who have fascinated me since I visited Israel back in March-April—do have very large families.
Even the penguins (as some Israeli seculars call the males for their black suits, white shirts, and black fedoras), who used to be strictly on the dole, are going to work now.
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Tagged haredi, Israel, kosher breadwinners, Leah Meizel, penguins, ultra-orthodox
Can’t get enough of this gal? Me neither. Fortunately, that’s what Rule 5’s for.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Rule 5, Scribbles, Texana
Tagged Betty Brosmer, Rule 5
The rule, “Government failure always justifies more government,” certainly is counter-intuitive. But, when government fails to do its regulatory job, or to do it properly, the Left’s solution is always more government regulation.
For instance….
The second, third and fourth rules (as I see them) are lessons in how to kill an economy, which Lefty Obamalot has been diligently practicing since 2009: big tax spending programs, tax hikes for “the rich” who invest in business, and more, expensive regulations for those businesses.
Workin’ great so far. Unemployment has topped 9 percent. Officially. Probably higher. Why would they want to do this? To justify more government.
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Tagged government failure always justifies more government, the Left
Somehow, in all my other distractions, I managed to miss Joe Bastardi’s February departure from Accuweather. Part of it was letting my Pro subscription lapse last summer when I had to get a new credit card and forgot to update my account. When they finally got around to asking for the update, I decided to let it go.
Bastardi was fun to read (and to listen to his brief video forecasts) but his focus wandered and I could have a hard time understanding him. I also got a little tired (despite agreeing with him) of his anti-AGW rants. But I always figured I could resume my sub if I got to missing him.
Then I got busy with the three (yes!) books I’m writing, and my spring trip to Israel. Only noticed the other day that old JB had gone missing because I always liked to hear his latest hurricane forecast and we’re coming up on the active part of that season right now.
Well, turns out he’s the new chief meteor of a start-up called Weatherbell, frequently appears on Fox, does guest shots on WUWT, and still Tweets (though how he can compress his natural verbosity into a Tweet is beyond me). My only question is does he still end his forecasts with the famous (and funny) line that’s the title of this post? Or does Accuweather claim to own it? I may have to subscribe to his new gig to find out.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Weather/Climate
Tagged Accuweather, Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell
Just can’t get enough of this guy. I suppose the menorah’s a sort of fusion-cannon? And the shield, of course, stops bullets, shells and missiles? Just so.
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Posted in Israel, Library, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Captain Israel, superhero comic book
“I support Democrats and Republicans. And I’m telling you that the business community in this [country] is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.”
Yeah, people have noticed.
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Tagged Obamalot, pure socialist Obama, Wynn CEO
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