Therapy Miniature Horses

I'm off to a photo shoot, so enjoy this video. I am active in therapy animals, and animal rights. When I was in the hospital several weeks ago with asthma, a woman brought around two Labradors who had been trained for therapy. In a violation of hospital rules, I let them jump into my bed.

Photoshoot pictures to follow, and then back to politics.

Black on Beck

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Barack Obama?

Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas bears a striking resemblance to the U.S. President, making him a TV star and a potential target for Islamic fundamentalists.

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Glenn Beck Accidentally Not Put Down

Target and Rufus were brought to the US in July after the dogs thwarted a suicide bomber in Afghanistan
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Did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990? Click here to find out and comment. 

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Target, right, and Rufus

Glenn Beck was spared today at the Pinal County animal shelter in Florence, Arizona. An employee picked  Target  from  the pen  instead  of  Glenn  Beck, and  administered  a  lethal  injection.  

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“I am heartsick over this,” Ruth Stalter, the county’s animal care and control director, said in a statement. “I had to personally deliver the news to the dog’s owner, and then  Roger Ailes. Everyone is understandably distraught.”

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The organization that raised the several thousand dollars to bring Target to the United States, has expanded its mission to encourage installation of a microchip  in  Glenn Beck  so  he can be easily traced.  “We are not shying away from this,” said Heather Murphy, a county spokeswoman. “We screwed up, and we’re acknowledging that.” She continued, “but there is roadkill to pick up, and we recently had to pick up 154 cats from a trailer with no running water, in addition to Glenn Beck. These jobs are thankless even on a good day.”

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Already, one former employee has come forward to say that he almost euthanized the wrong animal on several occasions, instead of Glenn Beck. “They said, ‘Ah, don’t worry about it, mistakes happen,’ and we went on,” the former employee, Jason Melroy, told local television station KTAR.
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Glenn Beck said all of his lucky escapes are due to the special underwear Mormons wear. "Joseph Smith was right," said Beck. "When I get back on the air, I am going to do an exposé on how this shelter is funded by George Soros. I am convinced my incarceration was orchestrated by the International Jewish Conspiracy. They and Soros are pulling the strings."

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Glenn Beck still has not denied any involvement with an alleged rape and murder of a girl, in 1990. "If anything," Glenn Beck said, "the time spent in that shelter has hardened my resolve."

A Few Words From Mike Huckabee

"...what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards..."

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"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family."

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Video is at the link.

An Open Letter to Eric Cantor

Eric Cantor is a shondeh

Shondeh of the Week is here.

Mr. Cantor: Judaism revolves around three tenets:

- Judaism holds that to save one life, is to save the entire world.

- Judaism believes our duty is תיקון עולם, tikkun olam - literally "world repair."

- "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn." Rabbi Hillel (c.110BCE-10CE)

So what did Mr. Cantor say? Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in Congress. He believes the American-Jewish community is overwhelmingly Democratic because Jews “are prone to want to help the underdog.” He says it as if that is basically a character defect.

Now Cantor is threatening to repeat Gingrich's government shutdown, if he and his cronies don't get their way. Here is the real Judaism, from the New York Times:

Kindness of a Stranger That Still Resonates

"A donor using the pseudonym B. Virdot offered modest cash gifts to families in need. His only request: Letters from the struggling people describing their financial troubles and how they hoped to spend the money.

B. Virdot was...Samuel J. Stone, who escaped poverty and persecution as a Jew in Romania to build a successful chain of clothing stores in the United States.

Days before Christmas 1933, with Mr. Stone’s gift in hand, Edith May took her 4-year-old daughter Felice to a five-and-dime store and bought her a wooden horse. Seventy-seven years later, Felice May Dunn owns two farms and 17 Welsh ponies. “In my life it made a big difference,” Ms. Dunn, 80, recalled. “It was my favorite toy.”                                                     __________

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Several years ago, I drove a tractor-trailer long haul. While on the Interstate at night in Connecticut, it started bucketing rain; I slowed to 40mph. Just then, the car in front of me began fishtailing, turned perpendicular and stopped. I was able to stop the truck, which had ABS, literally three feet from the driver's door. All I could think was, 'I saved a life.'

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I suggest Mr. Cantor learn compassion, and learn to make the World a better place.

Boehner to Hold House Hoedown

WASHINGTON, DC - John Boehner, following in the esteemed footsteps of Sam Rayburn, is going to be elevated to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives with the victory of a Republican majority. He will celebrate by holding a hoedown in the House rotunda.

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"This is the best way of celebrating my humble roots," he remarked. "I also will invite my 11 siblings" Mr. Boehner said, as he took a drag on a Camel, his favorite brand. "I worked in my father's tavern, so I will be running the open bar in the rotunda," he confirmed. "We'll only be serving American beer. If you want Heineken, you're out of luck. Same for wine. None of that French stuff. We got California jug wine."

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Mr. Boehner, perpetually tanned or jaundiced, is relishing the prospect of finally attaining Speaker, after years of being a gofer for senior House members.

Still up in the air is an alleged affair with Lisbeth Lyons, a lobbyist. Mr. Boehner has refused to comment when asked, as has Ms. Lyons. She has not confirmed if she will be invited to the rotunda hoedown. "I bought cowboy boots, just in case," she said. "Do you think his wife will be there?"

O'Donnell in 'The Aristocrats'?

NEW CASTLE - Fresh on the rebound from her defeat by Chris Coons, Christine O'Donnell may be appearing in the Delaware Mountain Community Theatre's production of The Aristocrats.

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"I know I have spoken out in the past against pre-marital sex and masturbation, but I really need the money" she said, explaining the complete reversal of her fervently held and well known religious beliefs. Christine O'Donnell has gone from Catholic to Wiccan to fundamentalist, back to Catholic, and now Rastafarian. "God always provides a way out," Ms. O'Donnell said.

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O'Donnell's physical attributes have been well publicized, having been graphically described and read about, by over 1,216,553 people. "If just a teeny fraction of those one million readers buy tickets, it will be a success, and worth it," Ms. O'Donnell said.

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The remainder of the cast is still being auditioned. Casting calls are being held at Biker Joe's Lounge, in Newark.

Separated at Birth?

"God told me to invade Iraq."

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It's For You

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Patience while I work on an article.

One Last Dig at Christine O'Donnell

IZZARD: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, ‘do you have any Jewish people in your house?’ and you do have them. That would be a lie.
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O’DONNELL: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
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MAHER: God is not there. Hitler’s there and you’re there.
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O’DONNELL: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.

Willkommen in Amerika

I had a run-in with a Philadelphia officer. I was riding my Honda Rebel on Chestnut Street in the lane next to the parked cars, looking for a parking space. An officer, about six inches from my rear wheel, turned on her siren. I literally jumped, and then put my feet on the ground. She yelled at me, "have you made up your mind what you want to do?" I explained I was looking for a place to park, and then said "I apologize if I caused you to be delayed." She yelled, "hurry up," and drove around me.

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Weather Penises Improved

US says 'screw you' to Mexico, world.
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Asshole of the Year - II

Part one is here.

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The man stomping on the girl's head is Tim Profitt. Tim Profitt lives at 591 Redmon Rd., Paris, KY 40361. Call him at 859-987-6015 and politely tell him what you think of his actions.

"Nurse, Mr. Berg got out of his restraints again."

About a dozen people showed up.

Jewish Humor

Enjoy while I'm writing a column.

I've Been Off the Air

I've been off the air the past three days, with severe asthma. In fact, an ambulance was called, and was taken to Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's oldest. I was released this morning.

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I'll be back tomorrow, with a column about class warfare.

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Stay tuned.

Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag

Before NBC had SNL, the network had something similar with That Was The Week That Was, which aired from 1964–65, and featured a mathematics professor, Tom Lehrer. This is my favorite - enjoy.

Sharron Angle - Christofascist and Batshit Crazy

Right now, the Nevada Senate race between Harry Reid (D - Nevada), and Sharron Angle (Z - Venus) is 50/50.
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If you thought Christine O'Donnell is certifiable, meet Sharron Angle. Angle was one of the founders of the Independent American Party. You can see her signature on the party petition. Here are actual quotes; her signature is on page 2:

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- our American Forefathers, steeped in the traditions, values and discipline of Christianity

- a government of law, under God

- That many Americans have ignored the Laws of God

- That our governments sanction abortion - the killing of our posterity

- That these tyrannies are undermining traditional family values

- Article VII of the United States Constitution recognizes Jesus Christ as our Lord

- We support the Liberty Amendment. The Liberty Amendment will compel the Federal Government to halt its unconstitutional programs such as foreign aid and welfare. It will prohibit the financing of the New World Order with American taxes. It will abolish the Marxist graduated income tax, and the fearful IRS. It will transfer public lands in the West to State ownership and control.

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Anyone recognize the biggest errors? OK, OK - put your hands down. I can only call on one person at a time.

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- Article VII of the United States Constitution recognizes Jesus Christ as our Lord
Here is what the US Constitution actually states: "The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same."

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- That many Americans have ignored the Laws of God

Here is the 1st Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

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It gets better:
"I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
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"People ask me, 'What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?' Well, that's not my job as a U.S. senator."
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"The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level."
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"I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade." - explaining why she is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
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"You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things."

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"Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family"
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"I would tell you that I have the same feelings about legalizing marijuana, not medical marijuana, but just legalizing marijuana...I feel the same about legalizing alcohol. The effect on society is so great that I'm just not a real proponent of legalizing any drug or encouraging any drug abuse."
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She has embraced Oath Keepers, whose membership of uniformed soldiers and police take an oath to refuse orders they see as unconstitutional -- including enforcement of gun laws, violations of states' sovereignty, and "any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps."

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There are several Federal departments that are not covered by the Constitutional Federal enumerated powers clause and should be given back to the states per the Tenth amendment. Those cuts should include the Department of Education, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, IRS code, audit the FED leading to cuts, National Endowment of the Arts, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Planned Parenthood funding.

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Earlier in her career, she spoke out strongly against fluoride, the substance known alternately for improving dental health and as a Communist plot to undermine Western democracy.
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“And these programs that you mentioned — that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward — are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.”

Obama Will Be Impeached

No white man ever had to show his birth certificate.

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Jonathan Chait, of The New Republic, writes, "But if Obama wins a second term, the House will vote to impeach him before he leaves office."

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I disagree with Mr. Chait on only one issue: If Republicans control the House, which looks like they will, they will not wait until a possible second term. The Republicans believe he will be defeated in '12, and they will resort to dirty tricks, like Nixon did. Not one Republican has denounced the Birthers. Those who have in the past, were defeated: Mike Castle and John McCain.

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Republicans are winking at the Birthers, knowing they help in the long run.

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Sarah Palin: "...I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue...I think it’s a fair question..."

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Haley Barbour: "This is a president that we know less about than any other president in history." Does Barbour think the president is a natural-born citizen? "As far as I know."

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Conservapedia.com: Barack Hussein Obama II (aka Barry Soetoro), said to have born in Honolulu August 4, 1961. Obama reportedly was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham in 1961, however claims have been made he may have been born in Kenya.

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If Republicans cannot get any traction with Joe Sestak, they'll find something else: "the bribery statute cited by Congressman Issa is, for reasons explained in my previous post, difficult to envision applying to this situation." The right wing crank site Canada Free Press, has a list of 50 impeachable offenses, all of it regurgitated drivel. GOP Representative Darrell Issa will find something from that list.

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Here's Tom Tancredo, who pines for literacy tests: "Yes, Mr. Obama is a more serious threat to America than al Qaeda. We know that Osama bin Laden and followers want to kill us, but at least they are an outside force against whom we can offer our best defense. But when a dedicated enemy of the Constitution is working from the inside, we face a far more dangerous threat. Mr. Obama can accomplish with the stroke of his pen what bin Laden cannot accomplish with bombs and insurgents."

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Seriously.

Undocumented Workers

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You think unemployment is bad now?

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A Jewish Pogrom II

Part one is here.
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The central tenet of Judaism is Tikkun Olam - תיקון עולם : It literally means "world repair."

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Just as nihilists have given Islam a black eye, the Settlers and their politicians, funded by evangelicals, are giving Israel, Zionism and Judaism a black eye.

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Courts have ruled certain neighborhoods in Jerusalem are Jewish only, and Arabs have been evicted from homes, so a Jewish family can live there. Evangelicals are cheering them on, both physically and financially. Why would evangelicals support a policy that would exclude them too? Simply, for two reasons: all of biblical Israel has to be populated by Jews, so their lord returns. Then, the Jews will perish and Christians, the rightful heirs, will live there forever. The second reason is practical. Christians want developments here in the States to be exclusively Christian, and they feel if it is established in Israel, it can happen in the States.

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Which brings me to the latest: olive groves owned by Arabs have been destroyed again. The Washington Post, and the New York Times are reporting on the destruction. "...a few dozen trees had been chopped down, their branches hacked by vandals. In other groves belonging to this Palestinian village, there were scores of dead trees that had apparently been poisoned, with holes drilled in their trunks." As I wrote before, evangelicals egg on settlers, in the hope of sparking Armageddon. One of the worst is John Hagee, who is a closet anti-Semite.

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This is not Judaism, and this is not Zionism. Because of what was done to us, does not give us license to do it in turn to others. Israel was founded by eastern European socialists, and the foundation of Israel are the kibbutzim.

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Zionism is not a belief that Jewish people are superior to others, nor is it a belief that Arabs should be driven from Israel. It is not a belief that Israel should be exclusively populated by Jews. It does not mean non-Jews should not be welcomed in Israel.

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Zionism, which was proposed by Theodore Herzl, is simply the belief that the only solution to constant persecution is a Jewish refuge, a Jewish homeland. Most people do not know that Joseph Stalin was sympathetic to Zionism, and offered a part of the Soviet Union as the world Jewish homeland and refuge. Fun fact: Stalin helped birth Israel. Truman was the first head of state to recognize Israel; Stalin was the second.

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The latest in wrecking Ben Gurion's vision, is the loyalty oath. The majority of Israelis are secular, and the founders believed in a secular state. As the US has shown, what works best is separation of church and state, both for national character and economics.

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Judaism does not have to be guarded and protected. Despite the past, we are still here. By being a beacon of dignity, we will thrive and be here in the future.

Asshole of the Week

So many assholes, so little time.
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First clinical trial begins for stem cell therapy
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"Researchers announced Monday that they had injected stem cells into a patient with a spinal cord injury on Friday, kicking off the world's first clinical trial of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells."

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And, like clockwork, we have a winner for this week's Asshole award: Bishop Elio Sgreccia. The bishop, who thinks this is 1950 or 1590, told Vatican Radio that the trials are unacceptable. He said that regardless of whether the result of testing is positive or negative, "morally it remains a crime."

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"Looking at the results of embryonic stem cell testing, he said, it can be seen that, to date, the expected results have not been obtained. This, said Bishop Sgreccia, is due to the fact that embryonic stem cells are meant for the creation of a human being, not just other cells.
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"In any case," he added, "in the remote possibility that there was a positive result, morally it remains a crime."
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I just thought I would add this, from Martin Luther:

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“On the Jews and Their Lies” is a 65,000-word treatise written by German Reformation leader Martin Luther in 1543. In the treatise, Luther writes that the Jews are a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth." Luther wrote that they are "full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine," and the synagogue is an "incorrigible whore and an evil slut". He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection, and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time. He also advocates their murder, writing "we are at fault in not slaying them."

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The prevailing scholarly view since the Second World War is that the treatise exercised a major and persistent influence on Germany's attitude toward its Jewish citizens in the centuries between the Reformation and the Holocaust.

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Four hundred years after it was written, the Nazis displayed “On the Jews and Their Lies” during Nuremberg rallies, and the city of Nuremberg presented a first edition to Julius Streicher, editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer.

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Just sayin'.

Legal Blood Money - Updated

I'm a photographer. Since the digital age, and shutting down my darkroom, the question of making prints has become a central topic of discussion, not just for myself, but for photographers and the public in general.
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I bought a refurb HP 8750 on eBay, because HP claimed their Vivera dye inks had the longevity of pigments. Ha! The prints faded even in my portfolio case.

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So, I had to decide what to do. As long as I was researching inkjet printers, I decided to research the cost of ink. I'm still reeling.

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First, let's review conventional chemistry:

- One gallon of D-76 is $5.95

- One gallon of Kodak Fixer is $5.49

- 10 liters of C-41 developer is $27.50

- 5 gallons of C-41 fixer is $8.95

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Now, let's calculate the cost of ink per gallon. Be sure you are sitting down, and have a bottle of Xanax handy.

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Depending on the way calculations are made, that ink inside the plastic cartridge costs between $2,100 per gallon to $31,000 per gallon. Yes, you read that right. Here are some proportional costs:

- a $30 HP #45 black ink cartridge gives you 42ml, pricing out to $0.71/ml. Meanwhile, blood apparently costs $200 for 500ml from the Red Cross, pricing out to $0.40/ml.
- Which? stated that color HP cartridges cost over seven times more per milliliter than 1985 Dom Perignon
- the BBC made these calculations: the average cost of a color HP cartridge is £29. This works out to £1.70 per millilitre. 1985 Dom Perignon costs 23p per milliliter. There are 100 pence to one British pound. In other words, ink costs 7.4x more than Dom Perignon.

- from Mike Johnston's Online Photographer: makers essentially give you the printer and then charge you $3,785 per US gallon for ink (converted from the numbers provided by Ctein for the Epson 2880 ink price from Atlex at a price of $1 per ml). OPEC has got nothing over Epson. 2880 ink sells for approximately $159,000 per barrel (US petroleum).

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What's inside of that plastic shell that makes it more expensive than platinum? Primarily, water. Water makes up approximately 90 percent of the contents. Catalytic converters use platinum, palladium and rhodium, and are proportionately less expensive than ink.

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I googled an industry insider: "As an industry expert, I can tell you that the ink in a typical desktop printer cartridge costs the manufacturer from about one cent to a maximum of 25 cents. (Virtually all inkjet ink is purchased from independent ink manufacturers.)" The main article is, Why I've given up on the world's most expensive fluid.

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I have decided to buy enlargements from a lab. Kodak Endura and Ilford silver halide will last longer, and look better, than an inkjet. After test prints, ink and ink waste, they will also cost substantially less.

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You can take that to the bank.

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Update:

Mike Johnston has another column on inkjet ink costs. Highly recommended.

Lab Rat Has Chantix Psychosis

GREENWICH VILLAGE - R7511A, a lab rat at New York University, had Chantix psychosis. Before the clinical trials were brought to an end, the rat, renamed Snickers, committed suicide.

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The head of smoking cessation product testing, Dr. Josef Mengele, spoke about the rat in a hushed tone. "We noticed extreme mood swings, alternating between euphoria and bottomless depression," he said. "We of course, made the decision to continue the trial in the interest of science. No one here ever thought it would end so tragically."

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"Snickers would spend hours spinning his wheel after being given a proportional dose of Chantix. Then, he would curl up in a fetal position in a corner of the cage for almost 24 hours. He would get up, take a drink from his bottle, use the smoking machine, and go back to the fetal position for another 24 hours. Finally, he wandered aimlessly around the cage, looking confused."

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"This was repeated every time we gave him another Chantix dose. We truly thought the behavioral side effects of the drug would be quantified, then published, and Snickers could go to a wholesome home with one of the students. There was never any sign he would hang himself. We are as shocked and saddened as the animal rights people. Peta has already started picketing."

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"Pfizer has already called me, to ask that this suicide be kept quiet," Dr. Mengele continued. "I told him it would be unethical for me to do so, especially if this placed the general public at risk. In fact, I recommended this be placed on the list of side effects. The Pfizer rep hung up on me."

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Dr. Mengele then gestured to the marijuana plants lining his office. "We're getting much better results with cannabis," he said. "And the students and lab rats are finding the clinical trials are a blast. Peta should really look into this. I can tell you there is a two-year waiting list for my classes. I'm thinking of having a lottery to attend my lectures."

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"I've never seen happier animals in my life," he concluded.

Westboro and Phelps

First, let me state that Phelps and his inbred klan are vermin. They managed to become bipedal, but they are still vermin.

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I wish that someone terminal and impecunious would open fire with an AR15.

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In the meantime, I say fight fire with fire. They scream 1st Amendment. I say give them a good taste of that. Go to one of their demonstrations and drown them out. When Phelps drops dead, which he will soon, give his funeral a taste of the South Korean border. And I would keep it up in front of their church, like Ted Haggard drove non-Christians out of Colorado Springs.

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They carry signs cursing Jews. Go to their demonstration, take one of their bibles, tear it up in front of them, and then piss on it. And the angrier they get, the more of their bibles should be trashed. Same sex couples should make out in front of them, and drive them into a frenzy.

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That's a lot more satisfying than suing them, and the reaction is immediate instead of waiting for a court judgement. It's protected by the 1st Amendment, too.

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Something to consider: they are clearly inbred, and they are an example of institutional clinical insanity.

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What's the difference between Fred Phelps and a reptile?

One is hatched from eggs, eats insects and sleeps under a rock.

The other is a reptile.

Asshole of the Week

"I don't use a dildo like my opponent's significant other. I'm you."

Now she's against witchcraft, against masturbation and against a good education. Is there anything she is not against?

Shondeh of the Week

An Open Letter  is here.

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This week's award goes to Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the entire Congress. Ever wonder why? Ever wonder why momzers like the neocons are a tiny minority? Ever wonder why conservatism and Judaism are mutually exclusive, despite the claims of the neocon momzers - who are mostly beneficiaries of affirmative action for the wealthy? Ever wonder why the neocons' biggest cheerleaders are evangelicals, and not Jews?
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Michelle Malkin and her neocon husband live in Colorado Springs, the evangelical Vatican. The Springs is where Ted Haggard - remember him? - and his New Life church harassed non-Christians so viciously that at least ten sold their homes, and moved away. They live among evangelicals, rather than Jews. Crazy, no?

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Speaking of Michelle Malkin, she is one of those conservatives who wants to nullify the 14th Amendment. She constantly uses the pejorative "anchor babies." Irony alert: she was an anchor baby, as was Piyush Amrit Bobby Jindal, who also speaks derisively about babies born here to non-citizens. Michelle and Bobby were born here to non-citizen students. This gets better: according to conservatives, Bobby Jindal can never be president or vice president. Neocons like that (oy!) meshuggener/shandeh/momzer/dentist/real-estate agent/lawyer (whew!) Orly Taitz have "discovered" that a president, and president only, must be born to two citizen parents. That's a complete fabrication, but conservatives' stock-in-trade is fabrication, like the straight face claim that slavery was the result of liberalism. You can't make this stuff up.

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Glenn Beck is the latest conservative to make this fatuous claim.
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Here's the icing on the cake: Eric Cantor said, in a Wall Street Journal interview, he believes the American-Jewish community is overwhelmingly Democratic because Jews "are prone to want to help the underdog." That's exactly correct.
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Cantor said it in a way that implies an intrinsic desire to help the underdog is naïve , and a waste of resources. That is the epitome of conservatism.
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Note to Cantor and the rest of the nogoodnik neocons: the central tenet of Judaism is Tikkun Olam - תיקון עולם. It literally means 'world repair' - social action and the pursuit of social justice, and it is the antithesis of conservatism.

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That's why Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in Congress. It may be a mystery to him, but not to progressives, both Jewish and non-Jewish.

Philadelphia Zoo

Some people have asked what equipment I use. My first camera was a Pentax Spotmatic. When I bought my first dSLR, Olympus had the only dustbuster in the entire marketplace, and so I switched systems. Remember though, if a photographer cannot nail it with a box camera, then it's not the camera.

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Just sayin'.

Christine - You Are Sooo Not Me

You are not me.

I am not a pathological liar.

I believe in evolution.

I believe there is a scientific explanation for everything.

I am not a grifter.

I do not believe in repression of any kind.

I believe in reproductive freedom.

I am not making America a laughingstock.

Pink Flamingos

When I was in college, I went camping in January with a college professor and several classmates. He actually put a pink lawn flamingo in front of his tent.

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Taken at the Philadelphia zoo, the nation's oldest.

O'Donnell - Turning Up the Crazy

Just when you think things could not get any crazier, O'Donnell proves everyone wrong. The first line of it? "I'm not a witch." Seriously!

OK Christine, repeat after me:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Once you have that part memorized, you can learn the rest of the spell. I'm not giving it to you all at once, because I don't want to overtax your ability to absorb. Oh, alright:

In the poison'd entrails throw -
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!

That's all for today, Christine. Come back tomorrow, for the next lesson. And don't masturbate tonight!

Philadelphia Zoo

Instead of my usual ultra left wing musings, I went to the zoo. The Philadelphia Zoo is the nation's oldest zoological garden. You can click on the photograph for a close-up. More to follow.

40 Acres and a Mule

Louie Gohmert (Z - Mars) is at it again. Taking a cue from 1865, Gohmert, a congressman from the Confederacy, has revived 40 acres and a mule from the Reconstruction Era. Notice how conservatives always want to regress? Usually, conservatives pine for 1950 or 1865, a time when America was a wholesome place.

"How 'bout if instead of the welfare, we give 'em an alternative. We'll give you so many acres that can provide land where you can live off of it, make a living and we'll give you seed money to start, but you have to sign an agreement that you'll never accept welfare again. How 'bout that? We got plenty of land."

I was joking about (Z - Mars). Gohmert is a Republican from Texas, which explains everything.

Bubbles Lectures Palin, O'Donnell

NATIONAL ZOO - Bubbles, a chimpanzee in Washington, DC, is holding regular lecture sessions on science and evolution.
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He has asked that Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell attend his lectures. He has assured them of gentlemen C grades, as they have become accustomed to.
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Bubbles first lecture is going to explain evolution, Darwin's observations, and how they apply to Palin, O'Donnell and other fundamentalists like John Hagee. His subsequent lectures will encompass scientific explanations for all phenomena.
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Bubbles is hoping his lectures make an impression on Ms. Palin and Ms. O'Donnell, although he has expressed skepticism.

Jews For Cheeses

I am announcing the formation of a new ministry to the Jewish people: Jews For Cheeses.
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Jewish peoples' lives are empty, because their stomachs are filled with Velveeta rather than Valdeon, or Vacherin Fribourgeois. Just think how physically and spiritually fulfilled Jewish people would be, if they were to partake of Affidelice instead of American.

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I know what you are thinking: how to witness to the Jewish people the joys of Chaource, or how to partake of Epoisses? How can we bring the message of Crottin, and give peace to their palates?

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The Jewish people are not complete, for they know not Gouda. Jewish people know the son of Kraft, but not the son of Gouda.

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So please, if you meet a Jewish person, press upon him a copy of La vache qui rit, and send him to heaven.

Dog Dancing the Merengue

I could not resist.

Onward Christian Soldiers

It's not just Muslims doing this. "Pastor" Terry Jones is an anti-Semite, too.

Is Lakin a Citizen?

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This Is Islam

First, let me state I am Jewish and have been a kibbutznik.

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Most readers know about the different branches of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism. However, most readers do not know the different interpretations of Islam are similar; Islam is not monolithic.

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You know where this is heading: the Islamic Cultural Center, two blocks from where the World Trade Center stood.

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The Center, similar to a YMCA or YMHA, is being built by a congregation of Sufi Muslims. The Sufi branch of Islam is what Judaism would look like if the Reform branch merged with Kabbalah - קַבָּלָה - adherents. I have a cousin who married a man from Senegal, and became a Sufi convert.

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The Sufi branch has as much to do with the carnage of 9/11, as the Quakers have with the Holocaust. And Islamophobia is handing Islamic nihilists a silent victory. Frank Rich of the New York Times put it best of all: "How do you win Muslim hearts and minds in Kandahar when you are calling Muslims every filthy name in the book in New York?" The Islamophobia is starting to look like Kristallnacht. Time has a more complete article. The New York Times has a story about attacks on a mosque and Muslims in upstate New York.

A Mosque Invisible to Many Is a Target

"Vandals have shattered car windows and thrown beer bottles on the lawn. One night about five years ago, the wooden fence in front of the mosque was set afire. And then, this week, a car filled with local teenagers sideswiped the 29-year-old son of one of the mosque’s founding members, said Joseph V. Cardone, the Orleans County district attorney. One teenager was charged with firing a shotgun into the air near the mosque a few days earlier, after driving by and shouting epithets."

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What really should concern everyone, is that this is an assault on the 1st Amendment. Don't bother writing me with a careful explanation of the lack of civil rights in other countries, or that churches or synagogues cannot be built in some countries. No one ever suggested that because there wasn't freedom of the press in the Soviet Union, Russians here should be muzzled or harassed.

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As long as we're on the subject of the Constitution, conservatives are making another assault on it: the rumor campaign to portray President Obama as a Muslim, rather than a Christian, which apparently is central to the presidency.

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I would like to quote what many do not know: "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." - United States Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3.

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The future is at stake.

Coincidence?

More on Sarah Palin here.

How Hitler Did It - II

Aimee Semple McPherson?

More on Sarah Palin here.

How Hitler Did It

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Lakin - Undocumented Worker?

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Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Girl in 1990?

Did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990? I don't know, but this is now a pertinent question. It has become so pertinent, because Glenn Beck has just accused all Jewish people of murdering the Christian lord:

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"Jesus would have come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did."

You know who else accused the Jews of murdering Jesus? Hitler. We know how that turned out.

Gawker has an even better story on this.

Incredibly, Glenn Beck has never denied raping and murdering that poor girl in 1990. And he has refused to release his criminal record abstract showing that it is stamped "SUBJECT HAS CLEAR RECORD TO DATE."

Please note: I am NOT accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a girl in 1990, or any other time period. I am simply asking a question that now must be asked, since I have been accused by Glenn Beck of participating in a gruesome murder - spiritually, at the very least.

As Lenny Bruce put it so well:

"You and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime.

Alright, I’ll clear the air once and for all, and confess. Yes, we did it. I did it, my family. I found a note in my basement. It said: “We killed him, signed, Morty.”

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

Since Glenn Beck has accused me of acquiescing - if not more - in a premeditated murder, I think it is only fair to ask him if he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

I'm waiting to hear from you, Glenn.

Asshole Of The Year

Part two is here.
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This year's Asshole award goes to Rand Paul, a Kentucky ophthalmologist running for the Senate.

Paul gets most of his ideas from Ayn Rand, a Jewish author from Russia who changed her name from Rosenbaum. Having a Jewish name was not a good idea, considering the crowd she liked to hang with. Rand Paul and his father (Dr.)Ron Paul, hang with ardent supporters Don Black and Derek Black, who are the nation's neo-Nazi/KKK ringleaders.

Don Black received a three-year prison sentence for his role in Operation Red Dog - a plan by mercenaries to overthrow the government of Dominica, and set up a criminal enterprise.

Rand Paul got his start in politics with his keynote address to the Constitution Party, which wants to replace the Constitution with biblical law, among other Eighth Century beliefs, like stoning. This is nothing new: John Anderson, an Illinois Congressman, actually introduced a Constitutional amendment which would "recognize the law and authority of Jesus Christ" over the United States. Page One is now reporting that Rand Paul's campaign is anti-Semitic.

Rand Paul is most famous for his defense of Jim Crow. When asked by Rachel Maddow if a private business had the right to refuse service to black people, Rand Paul replied "yes." Here are more gems from Rand Paul's mouth:

-"The Civil Rights and Americans With Disability Acts might not have been necessary..."
-"We could clean up the environment by suing our neighbors in court."
-"The Sun causes global warming."
-"Each state should make its own guns." That way, firearms could not be regulated by the Commerce Clause.
-"If college students attended class armed with guns, it would deter campus violence."
-"President Obama has apologized for both America's greatness and the Industrial Revolution."
-"Massachusetts' universal health care law has been a disaster," and is somehow related to Octomom Nadya Suleman.
-"Recruiting high school students for military service is like Nazi Germany."
-"Death panels are real."
-"If the national debt gets bad enough, the American people could end up voting a person like Adolf Hitler into office."

Rand Paul made the same racial comments in 2002: "A free society will abide...discrimination - even when that means allowing hate filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin." He made the same statements to the Courier-Journal: "In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people who have abhorrent behavior." Paul wrote to the Bowling Green Daily News, complaining that the federal fair housing law ignores "the distinction between private and public property." Paul continued, "decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered. As a consequence, some associations will discriminate."

Here's a black woman attempting to integrate a lunch counter, and the boorish behavior of throwing food at her being tolerated:

Perhaps Rand Paul regards the KKK's murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi merely boorish behavior. Ronald Reagan announced his first presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Wink, wink.

In that Courier-Journal article, Colmon Elridge - a black man - said, "I call on Mr. Paul to answer the question of whether or not my wife and I should have the right to eat at any establishment in our great commonwealth or this great nation, free of racial discrimination."

Dr. Paul was asked by the paper, "under your philosophy, it would be okay for Dr. King to not be served at the counter at Woolworths?" Rand Paul evaded the question. Paul told the Courier-Journal, opposing the Civil Rights Act is "the hard part about believing in freedom." 

Without qualification, the Right tolerates Rand Paul's civil rights stance, as his belief in dismantling the departments of Commerce, Education, and possibly Agriculture. Rand Paul has opposed anti-racial discrimination measures well before 2002, when he first started writing to newspapers.

Finally, the true face of the Republican Party and conservatives, is being shown to the public in all its glory. Thank you, Dr. Rand Paul. I made a career as a licensed optician, and I would not want either Dr. Paul, to come near me.