kvetch \KVECH\, intransitive verb: To complain habitually. noun: 1. A complaint 2. A habitual complainer.
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Posts from — March 2006

Spymaster of the Elders of Zion Party Positioned for Cabinet Post

At first, I was happy to hear that the Pensioners’ Party had done so surprisingly well. I thought this indicated the respect young Israelis had for the elderly, even if their support was motivated as a protest vote, and even a joke.

But I had no idea how treacherous the leader of these alterkackers was.

The Forward reports,

Rafi Eitan, a legendary former Mossad agent who was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1986 case that ended with Pollard’s pleading guilty to espionage, led the new party to an impressive showing in Tuesday’s elections. With seven seats, the party is almost certain to become a key partner in Israel’s incoming coalition, making Eitan a candidate to be in Ehud Olmert’s next Cabinet….As a co-conspirator in the Pollard affair, Eitan cannot enter the United States. That causes him “very little damage,” he dismissively said in a recent interview with the local Tel Aviv weekly Tsfon Ha’Ir.

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March 31, 2006   2 Comments

Failed Messiah Makes the Forward

“Consistently sour but readable.” — David Klinghoffer, the Forward

Even those few bloggers who are lucky enough to receive print attention (about their blogs) receive it only in a story about blogs. But when you spend decades attacking a specific Haredi group, your voice echoes further than a blog about the usual “thoughts and random musings” of some basically sort of frum, Zionist guy that dominates the Jrants menu.

Congrats, Shmarya, you are an inspiration to us all. “All” being the skeptics, that is. Bitterness and bile are good. Very good. But they must be focused.

Forward article.

March 29, 2006   No Comments

Mass Transit Flex Time

The Times reports that,

For people like Mr. Hoyer, the limits of the workday have been redefined. Forget 9 to 5, some New Yorkers are pulling 6-to-5 shifts, while others are working 9 to 9. To fit them in, some transit systems that were conceived in a less-flexible era are revamping their service and rewriting their schedules.

Now, I am not a big fan of privatization, but isn’t it possible that if a commuter rail made money on each passenger that purchased a ride, service would have been augmented a decade ago?

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March 26, 2006   No Comments

Not Resting (Enough) Til the Seventh Day

We all know that lack of sleep can affect us in a debilitating way not unlike alcohol. But tests reported on CNN’s 360° begin to quantify the ration of sleep debt into the level of drunkenness.

If you have been up for more than 20 hours, your reflexes are roughly comparable to those of someone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08, which in many states is enough to be considered legally drunk[….]Sleeping only six hours a night for a week makes you as tired on the seventh night as if you had had no sleep at all.

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March 20, 2006   2 Comments

The NY Times Backs the Oppressive Father

I am one of those who firmly believes that we as a society have every good reason to recreate the concept of a family in anyway we see fit to do so. Since for thousands of years some civilizations have been polygamous while others have been monogamous, why not just declare that gay and lesbian marriages are really the same thing? Hey, who is to say that a single parent situation isn’t just as good as a so-called “normal� two parent situation? What if in this classic supposedly superior two parent family the father is a completely psychotic abusive heroin addict prone to cannibalism? Would you want that? No? So you see? Don’t assume that two parents are better for everyone, and stop pushing your nuclear family bullshit on the rest of us, you fundamentalist fascist pricks.

But just as I was about to write fathers off completely, since they are probably the major culprits in continuing white male hegemony (which as we know, is the worst option possible for any society on planet earth), I read this quote in a story in the NY Times about the continued deterioration of black men in this country.

Joseph T. Jones, director of the fatherhood and work skills center here, puts the breakdown of families at the core.

“Many of these men grew up fatherless, and they never had good role models,” said Mr. Jones, who overcame addiction and prison time. “No one around them knows how to navigate the mainstream society.”

Who would have guessed! I mean, sure -among my buddies, most of us really look up to our fathers, and we find the contempt for fathers and the idea that their role specifically in the Jewish community has been oppressive to be a bit foreign on a personal level, and yeah, we find the anger and resentment hurled at them as a group (in the guise of “Jewish communal leaders� or women as “second class citizens�) nothing short of bizarre, but go figure – overall, children of all peoples apparently do better with fathers.

Well, I’ll be.

Maybe we can find a way to blame this situation on racism alone? Cause I’d sure hate to lose any momentum for reinventing the American family!

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March 19, 2006   No Comments

Partying with the Zionists

I don’t usually discuss my private life in detail, but this week, fittingly including Purim, it all turned around. I risked life and limb to try to understand the Canadian ZOG mindset, and became an undisputed hero in the process. This is my shocking story.

I have long been wary of Zionist manipulation and cabals, and certainly fight them at every turn, but while ISM and few other organizations that are (relatively) ZOG-free have outlined and detailed the nefarious strategies of these demonic Certain Persons, they failed to warn me of one critical and devastatingly successful approach towards achieving their hegemonic New World Order.

Apparently, the Zionists know how to party.

CK (who had previously threatened to kill me for calling him a “Hellenist�) and Laya were on a business trip to find CK a pair of socks, which not surprisingly, he had failed to find in the Zionist Entity, because of their preference for dressing like shepherds.

At Toy Co, they weren’t going to let him in the club, because they have an antiquated shoes AND socks policy for men. “But I’m a Zionist,� warned CK. The bouncer nodded. An exception was made. The club that was formerly known as the Lansky Lounge and Ratner’s was certainly not going to dare turn away one of THEM. Even in the hipster underworld, such words open restrictive doors closed to anyone else less “connected.�

On Shushan Purim, I met them at Madame X on W. Houston Street. This was probably one of the most dangerous nights I have spent in the company of the Zionists. They must have slipped something seriously illegal into one of poor Eli Valley of Jewschool’s eight vodka shots or three other drinks, because he was acting really drunk, which is most unfitting for a Jewschool contributor. Most Jewschool contributors get stoned, not drunk. Drunk is for the less progressive types, who prefer the vices of the white male corporate culture we all reject. But I guess it’s hard (for some like EV) to completely escape the influence of the hegemonic culture.

They (the Zionists) had a specially trained femme fatale present; known for wreaking havoc and undermining much of the non-Zionist Jewish world. I was absolutely terrified she was going to try to sleep with me in order to extract confidential information about the non-Zionist underground, but fortunately, the Grand Mufti warned her that I was on to her. At least, that’s the best reason I can imagine for that close call, and the fact that it didn’t transpire. I have so many close calls like that whenever I go out, but thank goodness, I somehow consistently manage to extricate myself from these dangerous situations. I don’t even realize I am doing it. Only after the fact do I understand I must have signaled that I didn’t want to hook up. At all. It’s nothing short of miraculous, really, but so may of my friends fail at this, leave a happening party too early, ending up in a bed not their own, and not getting a good night’s sleep. It must be awful.

So last night we were hanging out again at Jesse Oxfeld’s birthday party on East Broadway, and then CK, Laya, and Esther left. I left a few minutes later, and it was damned good thing I did, because they had failed to find an open subway station. I walked with them to find one, but we ended up by the projects, because Esther insisted that there was an open stop at the end of the earth. They are very fortunate that I was there to protect them, because though CK is slightly taller and has a bit more girth than I do, the bad guys could easily mistake his confidence and calm for a sign of weakness and a reluctance to engage in conflict. But with my classic uber-ashkenazi animal-like shtetl machismo and glaring nervous hostility, street punks know I will not hesitate to press charges, hurl a sardonic and racially motivated insult, or scream. Scream very loudly – ear piercingly loud. Most of them are too pussy to face that.

It felt good protecting them. And I would have done so even without mind altering substances. I hope they appreciate it, though they didn’t say anything about it afterwards. But they were probably in shock. They live in more tranquil areas; a different part of Manhattan…the Middle East.

Most strangers are too embarrassed to ask me directly for protection on the mean streets, and do so slyly, like tourists, who frequently ask me for directions, when they are probably signaling to stalker predators that they have powerful friends looking out for their welfare. But these Zionists are my friends. They didn’t ask me to protect them, because they didn’t need to ask.

March 19, 2006   4 Comments

All in the Family

So my brother is now a fourth generation shul president. But his ancestors weren’t always Orthodox shul presidents. Read the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle article about him and my thoughts on his achievement here.

March 15, 2006   1 Comment

JBloggers Purim Spiel

Busy helping out on with senatorial fundraising and partying with JDUB/HeeB and then these guys, I didn’t note this. So check it out. It’s still Shushan Purim.

March 15, 2006   No Comments

No Correction, No Update from JPOST or Kesher Talk

I recently posted an article on Jewschool that I think strongly suggests that the recent articles in the Jerusalem Post and Keshertalk claiming statements were made in support of Iranian Holocaust Denial by the infamous Neturei Karta as was reported in IRNA,the Mullah’s offical news agency, were fabricated.

Memo to Jerusalem and Kesher Talk: The media in Iran, as well as the media in a couple of other regimes in the Middle East, have been known to exaggerate and even lie about Jewish issues.

NK denied all such statements about the Holocaust attributed to them, as was reported in a more responsible Muslim news site.

So why have the Jerusalem Post and Kesher Talk declined to update their stories with this not so new information?

I am no fan of NK, and consider them all sorts of terrible things.

But how does it help the Jewish State or the Jewish people to falsely attribute Holocaust Denial to this group because some in Iran would like to do so?

Do you just not bother to attempt to maintain accuracy when it is your anti-Zionist enemy you are reporting on?

March 12, 2006   No Comments