Truth in Humor

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The rabbi calls men up for aliyahs,”Jack Goldstein, Yakov Fineman,and Norman Israel”. “He’s dead,” my father says in a loud stage whisper. A young woman in the row in front of us hears and starts laughing Pretty soon the whole row was giggling.My father’s comment was funny because there was more than a grain of truth in it. All you had to do was look around the geriatric center where services were being held.
Comedy is funny when it is based in truth. Sarah Silverman saying I love my vagina or Lena Dunham walking around naked is not funny. Personally it’s just pathetic. A riff on how the Obama White House came up with the made up name Khorason could end with some one saying, ” It sounds, a little Spanish. With that name we’ll be able to get the Hispanic voters.” What happened to comedy in this country? Political correctness.

When I was growing up comedy was king. Ed Sullivan always had on a comedian like Rodney Dangerfield, Henny Youngman, or Jackie Mason. Johnny Carson gave Joan Rivers her big break as well as George Carlin. Mr Carlin had a classic riff on “the 7 words not allowed to say on television”. Now we have almost seven topics that are not allowed to be touched. Race, homosexuality (of any gender),Muslims,women,global warming, Obama and his minions. Once political correctness takes hold humour disappears. Even in private converstions people watch what they say, afraid that something could be misconstrued and they could be labeled “haters.” or the kiss of death, “racists.” Political correctness is an anathema to freedom.

Our Muslim “friends” are always kvetching about being insulted. We are to believe that after raping and murdering thousands of Christians it is a “religion of peace.” It appears that one of the most verboten truths is saying that a Muslim convert cutting off someone’s head is an act of terrorism. It’s just more “workplace violence” and whole families of illegals are “children” that were welcomed by our government. When new definitions are given to words like marriage,which happens to have a long and successful history, we are supposed to accept the new social engineering and not even make fun of it. Laughing is good for our souls. In a statist government we’re not supposed to have one.

Truth isn’t necessarily pretty, but humor is a healthy way to look at it. Even in the terrible times of Nazi Germany Jews made jokes. In order to make someone laugh, a grain of truth has to be mined. ( not mimed) I’ve always said I’d rather laugh than cry. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of crying. I say the hell with political correctness. I’d rather laugh.


George Carlin

Remember


As the news becomes more and rmore appalling, many people find comfort in their religions’ Scriptures. For Jews it’s Torah. During this time before Rosh Ha Shana, Deverim, or Deuteronomy is read in synagogues all over the world. It retells Moses’ farewell to the Hebrews admonishing them to remember.         Throughout Devarim, Moses warns the people – no less than fourteen times – not to forget.

If they forget the past they will lose their identity and
sense of direction and disaster will follow. Moreover, not only are the people commanded to remember, they are also commanded to hand that memory on to their children.

Think about that. Why would Moses have to tell his people to remember? Isn’t memory natural? Maybe, for human beings, it’s too easy to forget. Maybe, we want to forget disastrous actions or choices. Maybe, he wanted to remind the Hebrews that we will keep making the same kind of mistakes if we don’t remember what happened before.

I listen to radio pundits and read many different websites and  everyone appears to be missing some salient facts that we should remember. One of those is that our president Barack Hussein Obama had a Muslim biological father and spent his formative years in a Muslim country with a Muslim stepfather. These are facts that are written in his autobiography. We know that at one time his name was Barry Soetoro. We don’t know when he changed it. We know that he thinks that the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds he ever heard.” and that during his first inaugeration speech he said that this is “a nation of Christians and Musliims, Jewish  and Hindus and non- believers.” I remember hearing that and almost fell off my chair because this was after 9/11, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Yemin, Rwanda, the massacre of our marines in Lebanon, and on and on.Even conservative pundits are on the band wagon singing that our president’s bored or incompetant.

Every excuse is made except the FACTS. The facts are these, just as Judaism is transmitted through the mother, Islam is transmitted through the father. There is no personal choice. If a person chooses to leave the religion of one’s father he is an apostate and sentenced to die, just like Miriam Ibrahim. These are facts we must remember when our president makes decisions that appear to be against the welfare of the United States. Just as Moses admonished his people we must remember or disaster will follow.

A Country of Eunuchs

castration_of_urausThe Middle East is noted for its  labyrinth of intrigue, deception and cruelty. All  of the terror networks, the oil rich sheiks and the compliant media can scream Islamophobia  all day long, but the histories of the Ottoman Empire and Islam are rife with slavery and included castrating kidnapped boys, These eunuchs, if they lived, became, guardians of harems or household slaves who were powereless to reproduce, and were trusted to do their master’s bidding. America has become a country of eunuchs. Continue reading

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

245px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S72707,_Heinrich_HimmlerWe are living in a society where truth and justice are no longer the hallmarks of America. It’s more like lies and corruption.

Those advocating for the United States to become more like other countries can declare victory. When our president has the audacity to lie to his country AND THE PRESS QUIBBLES WHETHER ITS A LIE OR NOT we’re in big trouble.The mendacity and collusion of the press cannot be underestimated.

This administration could not have transformed this country into something unrecognizable without a compliant media.

My husband calls the mainstream media “the epoxy” I’m a Jewish girl so I, of course, know nothing about what he’s talking about. He patiently explained to me that epoxy works because of the chemistry of the resin and the hardener. The way he sees it, Obama and his minions (the resin) tell the media (the hardener) whatever they want in order to get public support for whatever they need. Just like the hardener works together with the resin to form a bond so do the media and the administration. The administration couldn’t get away with all the scandals, lies, and corruption without the media backing them up.
I listened to Jackie Mason’s excellent riff about our Liar in Chief president. Comedy isn’t funny unless it’s based in truth and what he said couldn’t be said any better. If this man weren’t president he would either be in jail or in a mental institution. Maybe it’s time to take those humorous words seriously. Otherwise we are headed for an America that resembles the totalitarian nightmare of Orwell’s classic 1984.

In that visionary work we find our protagonist works for The Ministry of Truth in a department that changes newspapers and magazines so that all articles and headlines match the new pronouncement, declaration, or legality that the government orders. The slogan of the Ministry was “Whoever controls the past controls the present…” How is that any different from our media accepting the lies from our esteemed officials about Fast and Furious, the Arab Spring, Benghazi, Seal Team Six, the IRS and on and on? Now our epoxy media wants us to believe that our Liar– Commander-in Chief “misspoke” and of course we, the unwashed masses, just didn’t understand because it’s our “right” to pay more or lose our healthcare so that illegal immigrants can enjoy the freedom of this country. By the way epoxy media, here’s another quote from George Orwell. ” If you want a vision of the future, picture a bootjack stomping on a human face-forever.” But as the compassionate and wise Hillary once said, ” What difference, at this point, does it make?”