A Blog of Wrath


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
--John Stuart Mill

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
--Gen. George S. Patton

If we don't want the world's wealth to be controlled by people with money then the alternative is to have the world's wealth controlled by people with guns. Governments have plenty of guns.
--P.J. O'Rourke

Beer is evidence that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Ben Franklin

 
Wow. An Orthodox Jewish convert to Islam...
posted by Dafydd at 1:53 PM

 
Bubble gum and Klan tattoos... together at last.

Chairman: "We need to come up with a good gimmick to help sell more of our bubble gum Anyone have a good ideas?"

Intern: "Hey, why don't we give kids a tattoo of a Klansman?"

Chairman: "Um, anyone else?" (long pause) Ok, Klansman it is."

[Excerpted from Jewsweek.]
posted by Dafydd at 1:46 PM

 
This is incredible - a recreation of a Lithuanian shtetl is being built in rishon l'tsiyon - a theme park, with restauarants and evertything!
posted by Dafydd at 1:35 PM

 
60% of Jews (at least in the U.S.) are lactose intolerant. So this explains all my friends...
posted by Dafydd at 1:32 PM

 
In Jewish Law, paying someone to study tora is not allowed, but what about paying them to pray? And for AOL stock?
posted by Dafydd at 1:22 PM

 
Apparently there's a new term for the intended victims of a terror attack - "bystanders." The latest in doublespeak from the masters of perversion in the media: "In 93 suicide attacks since the current violence erupted in September 2000, 357 bystanders have been killed." (AP) The AP used the same term in speaking about Morocco and Saudi Arabia, and The ever-on-the-dark-side NY Times has taken up this usage as well.
posted by Dafydd at 11:35 AM

 
Is Verhofstadt finally smelling his own stench?
posted by Dafydd at 11:27 AM

 
Karzai as the Fonz... He knows how to get those hot Afghan women.
posted by Dafydd at 10:21 AM

 
Aren't those baby nukes, the just the cutest little nukes you ever did see?

The American Senate voted to permit research on “mini-nukes”, but required it to get the approval of Congress before developing them. Such research had previously been banned but Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, argued that little nukes might now be useful here and there. - The Economist

And whatever happened to neutron bombs?
posted by Dafydd at 10:17 AM

 
I, too, am Entish.
posted by Dafydd at 4:22 PM

 
A spoof on a largely hypocritical movement that rarely asks What Would Jesus Do when encountering a Jew?
posted by Dafydd at 7:58 AM

 
A Connectitutian-cum-New Yorker with some really interesting videos to share:
"It took three weeks for the media to declare the Afghan war to a quagmire, but it took them only a week to make the same proclamation about the Iraq war. Although the media can't claim credit for accuracy, they at least deserve a pat on the back for increasing the speed at which they're wrong by a whopping 200%." - Evan Coyne Maloney.
posted by Dafydd at 12:10 PM

 
Warms the cockles of the heart. What a good idea, using our nation's mentally disabled to fight our wars... Much better than euthanasia.
posted by Dafydd at 1:42 PM

 
Those Germans really know how to warn people about using heavy equipment.
posted by Dafydd at 10:44 PM

 
A good German-Australian friend of mine with a Welsh name inadvertently brought up what I think may be very considerable evidence against human evolution. How can it be that we have developed the instincts for reproduction, and this is what governs us, when we are attracted to women who do not have "child-bearing hips" and who are slender enough that it hurts their chances of progenation? I understand that this goes through cycles and that plumper women used to be en vogue (which I attribute largely to the fact that it showed status, just as being fit and tan shows status now, being plump and pale used to show status in the days of outdoor manual labor before office buildings); but doesn't it seem that the majority should be attracted to plump, hearty, wide-hipped women, and that the rate of homosexuality should be well under 10% (just threw that in)? Perhaps there are other factors at work here...
posted by Dafydd at 5:54 PM

 
Unbelievably enough Pravda still exists!! Good Communist Party organs never die...
posted by Dafydd at 5:29 PM

 
Is it true that police came across the sniper suspects 11 times and let them go each time?! What is wrong with our society?
posted by Anonymous at 9:54 AM

 
joe, would you mind changing my address on your template from what it is to the following: ThisIsAFakeEmailAddress@StopSendingMeSpam.com or some other gibberish?
posted by Anonymous at 8:50 AM

 
I would like to formally welcome Mr Avi Zarmi as a contributor to this blog - may our humble blog continue to be a wellspring of thought and intellect.
posted by Dafydd at 4:51 PM

 
This gentleman, in referring to The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (get your very own copy of this best-selling work), speaks of a Grand Sanhedrin (during the 15th-17th century) - any idea what this tortured mind could be speaking of, if anything? Napolean's Sanhedrin, was of course much later...
posted by Dafydd at 4:45 PM

 
Was Esau a vampire? While claiming that a red lentil soup refers to blood, is ridiculous, there are still some interesting points to ponder. What was Esau doing trying to bite Jacob's neck, anyway?
posted by Dafydd at 12:06 PM

 
Here's the original text - much better, I think:

In the latest of a series of OPCS seminars on finding jobs in the current market, Arthur Bieber arranged for Judah Kaplan, Vice President of Sales and Trading at J.P. Morgan-Chase, to come and speak. “He’s been coming here for about 6 or 7 years,” Bieber said. As an SSSB alum, Kaplan has an inside knowledge of the SSSB student’s skills and needs, and as a high-ranking employee at a large financial firm, he knows what companies are looking for.
Titled, “How to Find a Job,” Kaplan launched his interactive lecture with a bit of humor aimed at disarming the audience. This worked very effectively, creating an informal atmosphere to mach that of the audience, in dress ranging from suits to polo shirts and sweaters. Using the analogy of a wedding buffet, he described the game plan at a buffet based on comments from the audience – planning what food you’re going to eat and arriving early. Contrasting that with how little time students put into career planning, Kaplan spoke of the need to start early, “…even as a freshmen or sophomores.” He was encouraged to see at least a few juniors in the audience, but stressed that even lower-classmen should be involved in career planning.
The most important factor in making a choice of career, Kaplan stressed, is to go into something you like. You shouldn’t choose a career based on what looks hot at the moment.
While most of the audience consisted of Finance majors, there were many others, including Economics, Accounting, and MIS. The turnout of SCW students was very small. In one exchange between Kaplan and an SCW student, when he remarked that if he didn’t know better, it would seem from the turnout that Stern students aren’t interested in finding jobs. She replied, “But that’s just it; they aren’t!”
Most of the audience blamed the current market for the difficulties OPCS has had in finding positions for Yeshiva students, even after Kaplan had Bieber leave the room, leaving OPCS open for harsher criticism. It was in this light that Kaplan laid out what he saw as a game plan for finding a job.
Kaplan began by focusing on social networking: “There isn’t an alumnus or alumna [YC/SSSB/SCW] I know who won’t accept a phone call from a student asking for some of their time to discuss the field they’re interested in.” He urged students to use the Jewish community and their synagogues to their advantage, even asking rabbis for help.
He moved on to discuss résumés, explaining that they should be viewed as marketing documents, which should be marketed toward each potential employer. “Everything on the résumé should add value,” he emphasized. If possible, show results of previous jobs in dollars and percentages – show what you can add to the company’s bottom line. “I love seeing dollars on a résumé.” He also encouraged putting down a hobby or interest that you are proficient in and being prepared to discuss it. He clearly showed proficiency in his own personal résumé hobby – “single-malt scotch enthusiast.”
One difference Kaplan saw between Yeshiva students in contrast to other college seniors was that they don’t generally live the life of a person in their field of interest. One student was unable to answer educated questions in his purported field of interest – equity research in the gold market. Living the life of a person in your field of interest is especially important in the current market. Moving back to his buffet analogy, Kaplan observed, “We’re looking at a smorgasbord with some vegetables, stale sponge cake, and gefilte fish balls with the slime still on them.”
posted by Dafydd at 7:46 PM

 
One of our own bloggers published in the Commie!
posted by Dafydd at 7:44 PM

 
"After years of studies linking increasing carbon dioxide levels to global warming and rising sea levels, scientists have abruptly changed course and now claim 'The Greenhouse Effect' does not, in fact, exist.
posted by Anonymous at 9:41 AM

 
By the way, you have to fix the italics problem.
posted by Anonymous at 10:00 AM

 
That's an interesting post. One thing i'll mention, is that a lot of ppl believe the misconception that Freud discovered the unconscious, repressed true nature of stuff etc. But the fact is that if you think about it just a tad you see that all these ideas were anticipated way before him. You already mentioned that it could even be traced all the way back to the idea of Original Sin.
Additionally, you can see that these ideas could be found more immediately in what was going on at the time. The so-called Victorian age was repressing all this stuff that everyone knew was really there. And in literature the Gothic tradition can be traced back as far as Shakespeare and even the Bible; more immediatley to the plenty of Gothic novels being produced in the almost century and-a-half leading up to Freud. All of these stories deal with the dark, true, repressed, desires and sides to human nature way before Freud was born. If you read these novels (like Matthew Lewis's The Monk) it is apparent that everyone really knew all about the unconscious already.
posted by Anonymous at 9:59 AM