Two rednecks are sitting on a porch. One says, "Did you know that elks have sex 10 to 15 times a night?"
"Aw crap..," says his friend, "and I just joined the VFW!"
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Tolerance
Tolerance
I am truly perplexed that so many people are against a mosque being built at Ground Zero.
I think it should be the goal of everyone to be tolerant.
Thus the Mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why two nightclubs should be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque.
One of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot .."
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbeque pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs".
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage the Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of everyone else, so the mosque problem would be solved.
If you agree with promoting tolerance, and you think this is a good plan, please pass it on.Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Girl With the Apple
August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland
The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously.
All the men, women and children of Piotrkow's Jewish ghetto
had been herded into a square.
Word had gotten around that we were being moved. My father had only recently died from typhus, which had run rampant through the crowded ghetto. My greatest fear was that our family would be separated.
'Whatever you do,' Isidore, my eldest brother, whispered to me, 'don't tell them your age. Say you're sixteen.
'I was tall for a boy of 11, so I could pull it off. That way I might be deemed valuable as a worker.
An SS man approached me, boots clicking against the cobblestones. He looked me up and down, and then asked my age.
'Sixteen,' I said. He directed me to the left, where my three brothers and other healthy young men already stood.
My mother was motioned to the right with the other women, children, sick and elderly people.
I whispered to Isidore, 'Why?'
He didn't answer.
I ran to Mama's side and said I wanted to stay with her.
'No, 'she said sternly.
'Get away. Don't be a nuisance. Go with your brothers.'
She had never spoken so harshly before. But I understood: She was protecting me. She loved me so much that, just this once,
she pretended not to. It was the last I ever saw of her.
My brothers and I were transported in a cattle car to Germany.
We arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp one night later and were led into a crowded barrack. The next day, we were issued uniforms and identification numbers.
'Don't call me Herman anymore.' I said to my brothers. 'Call me 94983.'
I was put to work in the camp's crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-cranked elevator.
I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become a number.
Soon, my brothers and I were sent to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald 's sub-camps near Berlin ...
One morning I thought I heard my mother's voice.
'Son,' she said softly but clearly, I am going to send you an angel.'
Then I woke up. Just a dream. A beautiful dream.
But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.
A couple of days later, I was walking around the camp, around the barracks, near the barbed-wire fence where the guards could not easily see. I was alone.
On the other side of the fence, I spotted someone: a little girl with light, almost luminous curls. She was half-hidden behind a birch tree.
I glanced around to make sure no one saw me. I called to her softly in German. 'Do you have something to eat?'
She didn't understand.
I inched closer to the fence and repeated the question in Polish. She stepped forward. I was thin and gaunt, with rags wrapped around my feet, but the girl looked unafraid. In her eyes, I saw life.
She pulled an apple from her woolen jacket and threw it over the fence.
I grabbed the fruit and, as I started to run away, I heard her say faintly, 'I'll see you tomorrow.'
I returned to the same spot by the fence at the same time every day. She was always there with something for me to eat - a hunk of bread or, better yet, an apple.
We didn't dare speak or linger. To be caught would mean death for us both.
I didn't know anything about her, just a kind farm girl, except that she understood Polish. What was her name? Why was she risking her life for me?
Hope was in such short supply, and this girl on the other side of the fence gave me some, as nourishing in its way as the bread and apples.
Nearly seven months later, my brothers and I were crammed into a coal car and shipped to Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia .
'Don't return,' I told the girl that day. 'We're leaving.'
I turned toward the barracks and didn't look back, didn't even say good-bye to the little girl whose name I'd ever learned, the girl with the apples.
We were in Theresienstadt for three months. The war was winding down and Allied forces were closing in, yet my fate seemed sealed.
On May 10, 1945, I was scheduled to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 AM.
In the quiet of dawn, I tried to prepare myself. So many times death seemed ready to claim me, but somehow I'd survived. Now, it was over.
I thought of my parents. At least, I thought, we will be reunited.
But at 8 a.m. there was a commotion. I heard shouts, and saw people running every which way through camp. I caught up with my brothers.
Russian troops had liberated the camp! The gates swung open. Everyone was running, so I did too. Amazingly, all of my brothers had survived;
I'm not sure how. But I knew that the girl with the apples had been the key to my survival.
In a place where evil seemed triumphant, one person's goodness had saved my life, had given me hope in a place where there was none.
My mother had promised to send me an angel, and the angel had come.
Eventually I made my way to England where I was sponsored by a Jewish charity, put up in a hostel with other boys who had survived the Holocaust and trained in electronics. Then I came to America, where my brother Sam had already moved. I served in the U. S.. Army during the Korean War, and returned to New York City after two years..
By August 1957 I'd opened my own electronics repair shop. I was starting to settle in.
One day, my friend Sid who I knew from England called me.
'I've got a date. She's got a Polish friend. Let's double date.'
A blind date? Nah, that wasn't for me.
But Sid kept pestering me, and a few days later we headed up to the Bronx to pick up his date and her friend Roma.
I had to admit, for a blind date this wasn't so bad. Roma was a nurse at a Bronx hospital. She was kind and smart. Beautiful, too, with swirling brown curls and green, almond-shaped eyes that sparkled with life.
The four of us drove out to Coney Island . Roma was easy to talk to, easy to be with.
Turned out she was wary of blind dates too!
We were both just doing our friends a favor. We took a stroll on the boardwalk, enjoying the salty Atlantic breeze, and then had dinner by the shore. I couldn't remember having a better time.
We piled back into Sid's car, Roma and I sharing the backseat.
As European Jews who had survived the war, we were aware that much had been left unsaid between us. She broached the subject, 'Where were you,' she asked softly, 'during the war?'
'The camps,' I said. The terrible memories still vivid, the irreparable loss..I had tried to forget. But you can never forget.
She nodded. 'My family was hiding on a farm in Germany, not far from Berlin ,' she told me. 'My father knew a priest, and he got us Aryan papers.'
I imagined how she must have suffered too, fear, a constant companion. And yet here we were both survivors, in a new world.
'There was a camp next to the farm.' Roma continued. 'I saw a boy there and I would throw him apples every day.'
What an amazing coincidence that she had helped some other boy. 'What did he look like? I asked.
'He was tall, skinny, and hungry. I must have seen him every day for six months.'
My heart was racing. I couldn't believe it.
This couldn't be.
'Did he tell you one day not to come back because he was leaving Schlieben?'
Roma looked at me in amazement. 'Yes!'
'That was me!'
I was ready to burst with joy and awe, flooded with emotions. I couldn't believe it! My angel.
'I'm not letting you go.' I said to Roma. And in the back of the car on that blind date, I proposed to her. I didn't want to wait.
'You're crazy!' she said. But she invited me to meet her parents for Shabbat dinner the following week.
There was so much I looked forward to learning about Roma, but the most important things I always knew: her steadfastness, her goodness. For many months, in the worst of circumstances, she had come to the fence and given me hope. Now that I'd found her again, I could never let her go.
That day, she said yes. And I kept my word. After nearly 50 years of marriage, two children and three grandchildren, I have never let her go.
Herman Rosenblat of Miami Beach , Florida
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Monday, August 22, 2011
BHO - Debt Ceiling Threats - he did not make!!!
BHO - Debt Ceiling Threat - he did not make!!!
I urge you to read this and to pass on...
From now thru November, 2012 this should be required weekly, or at least monthly, reading – BY ALL WHO VOTE!!!
Did you notice WHO Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling?
He threatened NOT to pay: Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees.
He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens
He did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates
He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired
He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around
He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff
He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients
He did not threaten the food stamp programs
He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid
He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters
The list could go on and on.
He is in full political re-election mode!
Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies?
His type of change is killing our country.
He needs to be stopped and only our votes can stop him.
Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time.
Vote Obama out of the Presidency in 2012.
2012 - THE END OF AN ERRORFriday, August 19, 2011
"JETMAN" over GRAND CANYON 5/2011
I guess the Grand Canyon was selected for the flight due to the great scenery. Seems risky though if he had any real problems. Great to watch.Tuesday, August 16, 2011
I WANT TO GET RE-ELECTED
An old West Virginia Hillbilly saying:
“You cannot get the water to clear upUntil you get the pigs out of the creek.”
*SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT.**I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR SENDING THIS BECAUSE OF IT'S TRUTH.*
*If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt,Which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year,Would you have approved?*
*If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt againWithin 10 years,Would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had criticized a state lawThat he admitted he never even read,Would you think that he is just anIgnorant hot head? *
*If any other of our presidents joined the country of MexicoAnd sued a state in the United States to force that stateTo continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotismAnd wonder who's side he was on? *
*If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine CorpsLike Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *
*If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of workBy arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drillingOn companies that have one of the best safety records of any industryBecause one foreign company had an accident,Would you have agreed? *
*If any other of our presidents had used a forged documentAs the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *
*If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference,Would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how ineptHe is on his own and is really controlled by smarter menBehind the scenes? *
*If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollarsTo take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdingsOf GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM,Would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had made a jokeAt the expense of the Special Olympics,Would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensiveAnd incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given himA thoughtful and historically significant gift,Would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of EnglandAn iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought itA proud moment for America ? *
*If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi ArabiaWould you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made referenceTo the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it offAs a minor slip? *
*If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisersWith people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes,
Would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 statesIn the United States, wouldn't you have had second thoughtsAbout his capabilities? *
*If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmarkto make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit himwalking out his front door in his home town,would you not have thought he was a self-important,conceited, egotistical jerk. *
*If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterateas to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassadorwhen it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub itwhen he tried again, wouldn't you have winced in embarrassment? *
*If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuelto go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concludedhe's a hypocrite?*
*If any other of our presidents' administrations had okayedAir Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighterin downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic,would you have wondered whether they actually get what happenedon 9-11? *
*If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aidto flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killedor made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it madeinto a major ongoing political issue with claims ofracism and incompetence? *
*If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czarswho report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senateon much of what is happening in America,would you have ever approved. **If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEOof a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authorityto do so, would you have approved? *
*So, tell me again,what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? *
*Can't think of anything?Don't worry.He's done all this in 24 months –so you have that much time to come up with an answer.**Every statement and action in this email is factualand directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama.Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. *AND NOW--HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO RE-ELECT HIM.WAKE UP AMERICA 2012 IS UPON US.*I WONDER HOW MANY OF YOUWILL FORWARD THIS ?*I AM BECAUSE I CAN NOT AFFORD TO TAKE A CHANCEON THIS GUY FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS . . .*"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."*Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)