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By Ted Belman

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April 16, 2020 | 7,783 Comments »

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  1. @Sebastien Zorn

    RE: Presbyterians

    Don’t let your blood pressure rise over this.

    There are almost 7 billion antisemites in the world – just ignore them and do something Jewish, ale sonim af tzu lakhes.

    You can’t make people like you, and you can’t punish them for hating you, so don’t even try.

  2. How about debying Presbyterians entry to Israel. How about boycott and divest from them. Ben and Jerry them.

  3. Presbyterian Church declares Israel an apartheid state and Nakba day. How bout stripping them of their nonprofit status?

  4. @peloni

    Peloni: a shortage, similar to the baby formula shortage, rather than an increase in demand

    I mentioned this in my response to Honeybee in Chit Chat

    Reader: And then there will be a “birth control pill crisis” and a “condom crisis”, all caused by Putin’s aggression, of course.

    It can be understood either way.

    Thanks for your appreciation of my “foresight”, it was really full of sarcasm at the time because I never thought something like this would just pop up almost immediately.

  5. Cool Victory: Unilever Grants Ben & Jerry’s Israel the Right to Continue Selling in Jewish Settlements

    https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/cool-victory-unilever-grants-ben-jerrys-israel-the-right-to-continue-selling-in-jewish-settlements/2022/06/29/

    “In the end, Unilever announced on Wednesday that it had sold its Ben & Jerry’s business interests in Israel to Zinger, owner of American Quality Products Ltd and the current Israeli licensee. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will continue to be sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel, including Judea and Samaria.”

  6. @Reader

    Told ya.

    You did reference this, but my recollection of what you told us was that there would be a shortage, similar to the baby formula shortage, rather than an increase in demand. I can’t find your original statement, so perhaps I am wrong. In any event, it was a good call on your part, even if you were only referencing a maniacal effort to affect the existing supply as I recall your prediction.

  7. A “temporary” birth control pill crisis.

    Amazon places purchase limit on emergency contraceptive pills
    The court’s ruling led to a temporary spike in demand for over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills, known as Plan B, which are taken within days of sexual intercourse
    .
    By REUTERS
    Published: JUNE 28, 2022 23:43

    https://www.jpost.com/international/article-710661

    Told ya.

    Waiting for further developments.

    Well, as long as the manufacturers of contraceptives get to make money on this.

    There will be a spike in anti-anxiety medications to accompany the court’s ruling, I suspect.

  8. WHY IS ISRAEL TURNING INTO A BRITISH MANDATE (enabled by the FAKE right-wing)?!

    They are limiting aliyah by any and all means and then whine that there are no workers, and they need to ship in the PA Arabs and Moroccans(!) [Shaked], and give more employment opportunities to the Arab women to fill in the vacancies!!!

    Israel’s problem: Lots of jobs, not enough workers to fill them – analysis
    Unemployment is at a two-year low of 3.6%, about the same as in the United States but less than the 6.8% average in the European Union countries and the 5% rate in the OECD.

    By HERB KEINON
    Published: JUNE 28, 2022 19:56
    Updated: JUNE 28, 2022 22:50

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-710636

  9. @Honeybee

    I have a large house with few rooms.

    That’s different. What do you want, a letter or a number? Are they going to add upper and lower case and punctuation marks like for passwords at some point? Are you going to be prompted to change your gender frequently for security purposes? Will we be getting letters saying we might be eligible for compensation in class action suits for security breeches leading to gender theft? Can unique genders be copyrighted? Or would they be patented? Can an unlawfully appropriated gender be cancelled by a judge? Can a person have 2 or more genders simultaneously? If so, how many?

  10. @Reader Yes, I except for those who identify as non-or anti gender. Those who call for the two gender solution are considered outdated now, having served their purpose.

  11. @ Honey The science says that one can choose a different gender for each room in one’s house so the number of genders a person can identify would depend on how big one’s house – or tent – Or it depends on one’s medication

  12. Reader: “And then there will be a “birth control pill crisis” and a “condom crisis”, all caused by Putin’s aggression, of course.”
    Then expect an instant and full-force war on Putin.

  13. Sebastian: Green chili sauce. Chopped and cooked in chicken broth or water. Anaheim chilis are not that hot.

  14. @Honeybee

    It is to have more responsibility for actions.

    Right.

    And then there will be a “birth control pill crisis” and a “condom crisis”, all caused by Putin’s aggression, of course.

    BTW, during the Great Depression a condom cost $1.00 when people got paid $2.00/day when they were lucky enough to have a job.

  15. @peloni

    Why would you think this?

    I gave you a hint “Guess why the Fuehrer wanted the women to have more babies?”

    Answer: because he was planning a big war.

    Same here.

    I think the PTB would like to have another Good War but, personally, I don’t think it will be “good”.

    I am not saying that those babies will be turned into soldiers but in the case of a (non-nuclear, at least) war they will serve as a buffer for the losses of many young men (their fathers and uncles).

    BTW, have you heard about the “baby formula crisis”?

    How many pregnant women will now want to rely on baby formula rather than breastfeeding for their newborns?

    Only the ones who are really, really stupid.

  16. @Honeybee Personally, I would just eat the green chiles first and then, with my mouth on fire, cool it off with the potato – or cauliflower? latkes – drenched in sour cream to cool it off and engance the flavor of both.

  17. No Reader, it is not, ” have more babies for the Fuehrer”. It is to have more responsibility for actions.

  18. @Reader

    They are not going to bring back the draft.
    One of the reasons, Ukraine is losing is that their soldiers are untrained in using American military hardware. They had been trained in the Russian.

    They had a big army but it didn’t help them.

    It’s all very hi-tech now. They need mature, educated and motivated, and disciplined recruits.

    Regular army was not mostly sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. Not all volunteers have the education needed.

    It was mostly older reservists.

  19. @Reader Why, you think anybody wants to bring back the draft? The army realized that most people are unfit for modern warfare. That’s why Iraq and Afghanistan were fought mainly by educated reservists with families paying off student loans and career professionals.

    One of the reasons, Ukraine is losing is that their soldiers are untrained in using American military hardware. They had been trained in the Russian.

    It’s all very hi-tech now. They need mature, educated and motivated, and disciplined recruits.

  20. @Reader

    this thing to me resembles “Have more babies for the Fuehrer!”

    That is quite a suggestion, given you think it is a barbaric practice. Why would you think this?

  21. @Nobody in Particular If there are any men out there who sympathize with the cop who was about to be sentenced for the death of George Floyd, could they be described as male chauvinists? I mean if anything can be labeled racist, can anything be labeled anything especially if the name fits?

    Feds Want 25 Years for Chauvin for Violating Floyd’s Rights

    https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2099441/feds-want-25-years-for-chauvin-for-violating-floyds-rights.html

  22. I regard abortion as a barbaric form of birth control but this thing to me resembles “Have more babies for the Fuehrer!”

    Guess why the Fuehrer wanted the women to have more babies?

  23. @Michael

    God bless the six USSC justicies who made this happen, and Donald J. Trump

    Exactly so!

  24. Peloni,

    Roe v. Wade overturn has restored health rights to unborn babies. God bless the six USSC justicies who made this happen, and Donald J. Trump, whose efforts appointed three of them.

    I am especially glad to see that the crowds gathering right now in DC are overwhelmingly young people, mostly women. It’s an “in your face” moment for Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat mob in Congress, and for the hapless *president, Sleepy Joe Biden.

    America is now closer to protecting its GOD-GIVEN rights to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  25. @Honey Salsa goes with Mexican corn chips. I sometimes eat dinner in a Mexican restaurant that seves chips and salsa if you order a beer. They’re good. But, well.

  26. @Honey Not around here, other than in stores which have everything including many Israeli products as well as as a kaleidoscopic variety of ketchup brands and types of ketchup among other products from many places. I get the jo sugar added Heinz ketchup from home but coffee shops (which are traditionally Greek) have remained blissfully the same.

    Hunts is the perennial number 2 but coffee shops have always carried Heinz. I tried jalapeno ketchup the other day on my Daisy cottage cheese with bits of pineapple. Not the same.

    TRADITION (Fiddler)

    and, let’s not forget the Russian aviary influence.

    https://youtu.be/VHIcmoY3_lE

  27. @Honeybee On the other hand, Kerry’s wife is heir to the quintessential American legacy, however. I have been liberally – in this sense, I am still quite liberal -pouring Heinz Ketchup on my eggs and home fries my entire life like everyone else who eats breakfast in Manhattanite coffee shops – now, once again dubbed diners . To paraphrase Trump on borders, without Heinz, you can’t have a country!

  28. Driver in 2017 Times Square rampage found not responsible due to mental illness
    Jury finds Richard Rojas was not responsible for his actions, which killed one and severely injured several others, due to mental illness.

    “…The prosecutor recounted that after the defendant crashed, the first words he spoke were, “I wanted to kill them all.”

    Defense attorney Enrico DeMarco argued that Rojas’s history of mental illness made it impossible for him to understand what he was doing that day.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355372

    That’s insane.

  29. @Sebastien

    The old Latma TV could have had fun with this

    Yes, they could have, but instead the IAF had their own fun with it. Rather a better choice I think.

  30. @Reader “The Trump peace plan, officially titled “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People”, was a proposal by the Trump administration to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Donald Trump formally unveiled the plan in a White House press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 28 January 2020.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_peace_plan

    Not exact but pretty close

    “Jan 21, 2020 First confirmed case of Covid–19 found in US

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus-found-in-us-washington-state

  31. @Reader

    Well, then how about all those countries that advocate the Two State Final Solution and finance the Arab settlement of the Jewish Biblical lands?

    “There have literally been dozens of instances in recent decades when the U.S. has been hit by some sort of immediate disaster when it has made a move toward the dividing of the land of Israel. The following are 10 of the most prominent examples that stand out to me:

    1. The last time the U.S. government refused to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. Security Council was in 1979. On March 22, 1979, the Carter administration chose not to veto U.N. Resolution 446. Four days after that on March 26, the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed in Washington. As a result of that treaty, Israel gave up a tremendous amount of territory. Two days later, on March 28, the worst nuclear power plant disaster in U.S. history made headlines all over the globe. The following comes from Wikipedia:

    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.[2] The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident With Wider Consequences.[3][4]

    2. On Oct. 30, 1991, President George H. W. Bush opened the Madrid Peace Conference, which brought Israelis and Palestinians together to negotiate for the very first time. In his opening speech, Bush told Israel that “territorial compromise is essential for peace.” At the exact same time, “the Perfect Storm” was brewing in the north Atlantic. This legendary storm traveled 1,000 miles the wrong direction and sent 35 foot waves slamming directly into President Bush’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

    3. On Aug. 23, 1992, the Madrid Peace Conference moved to Washington, D.C., and the very next day, Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida, causing $30 billion in damage. It was the worst natural disaster up to that time in U.S. history.

    4. On Jan. 16, 1994, President Clinton met with President Assad of Syria to discuss the possibility of Israel giving up the Golan Heights. Within 24 hours, the devastating Northridge earthquake hit southern California. It was the second worst natural disaster up to that time in U.S. history.

    5. On Jan. 21, 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House but received a very cold reception. In fact, President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright actually refused to have lunch with him. That exact same day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, sending the Clinton presidency into a tailspin from which it would never recover.

    6. On Sept. 28, 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was working on finalizing a plan which would have had Israel give up approximately 13 percent of Judea and Samaria. On that precise day, Hurricane George slammed into the Gulf Coast with wind gusts of up to 175 miles an hour.

    7. On May 3, 1999, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was supposed to hold a press conference to declare the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital. On that precise day, the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the U.S. ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas. At one point, one of the tornadoes actually had a recorded wind speed of 316 miles an hour.

    8. On April 30, 2003, “the Road Map to Peace” that had been developed by the so-called “Quartet” was presented to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer. Over the next seven days, the U.S. was hit by a staggering 412 tornadoes. It was the largest tornado cluster ever recorded up to that time.

    9. In 2005, President George W. Bush (the son of George H.W. Bush) convinced Israel that it was necessary to remove all of the Jewish settlers out of Gaza and turn it over entirely to the Palestinians. According to the New York Times, the very last of the settlers were evacuated on Aug. 23, 2005. On that precise day, a storm that would be given the name “Katrina” started forming over the Bahamas. The city of New Orleans still has not fully recovered from the damage that storm caused, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster in all of U.S. history up to that time.

    10. On May 19, 2011, Barack Obama told Israel that there must be a return to the pre-1967 borders. Three days later on May 22, a half-mile-wide EF-5 multiple-vortex tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri. According to Wikipedia, it was “the costliest single tornado in U.S. history.”

    https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/62044-10-times-god-has-hit-america-with-a-major-disaster-after-the-us-attempted-to-divide-the-land-of-israel