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The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

Wonderfully described

CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco
rolled in paper
with fire at one end
and a fool at the other!

MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement
wherein
a man loses his bachelor degree
and a woman gains her master

LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information
from the notes of the lecturer
to the notes of students
without passing through the minds
of either

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man
multiplied by the
number present

COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing
a cake in such a way that
everybody believes
he got the biggest piece

TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which
masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!

CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on

ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel
you are going to feel
a feeling
you have never felt before

CLASSIC:
A book
which people praise,
but never read

SMILE:
A curve
that can set
a lot of things straight!

OFFICE:
A place
where you can relax
after your strenuous
home life

YAWN:
The only time
when some married men
ever get to open
their mouth

EXPERIENCE:
The name
men give
to their
Mistakes

DIPLOMAT:
A person
who tells you
to go to hell
in such a way
that you actually look forward
to the trip

OPTIMIST:
A person
who while falling
from EIFFEL TOWER
says in midway
"SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

MISER:
A person
who lives poor
so that
he can die RICH!

FATHER:
A banker
provided by
nature

BOSS:
Someone
who is early
when you are late
and late
when you are early

POLITICIAN:
One who
shakes your hand before elections
and your Confidence later

DOCTOR:
A person who kills
your ills by pills,
and kills you
by his bills!

Where is compassion for the millions who have suffered harm from lockdowns?

By Bill Rice, Jr., AM THINKER

I'm sure many Americans are growing tired of being labeled "insensitive" or "uncaring" or lacking compassion because we are perceived as not caring about "at-risk" people who might contract the coronavirus. Let's talk about "compassion for our fellow man."

Where's the compassion for the single mom who is increasingly struggling to purchase diapers or baby formula for her children? Where's the compassion for the victims of child abuse, which is no doubt spiking due to the economic slowdown?

Where's the compassion for those who have committed suicide, or attempted suicide or will do either in coming months and years?

Where's the compassion for the tens of thousands of business owners who have permanently closed their businesses, or for the tens of millions of unemployed former employees? Where's the compassion for those who have been forced to declare bankruptcy, or are agonizing over doing this?

Where's the compassion for the millions of college students who are experiencing increased levels of anxiety and depression over draconian campus policies that keep them isolated and prevents them from receiving a real education?

Where's the compassion for the younger school children who are unnecessarily living in fear? Where's the compassion for the same children who can't even play or socialize with other children anymore?

Where's the compassion for the hundreds of millions of people in impoverished nations who will suffer famine, misery, or death because food logistic systems are falling apart?

Where's the compassion for those who spent weeks or months in a hospital – for every health reason — and could not spend a minute with their loved ones, many dying alone by themselves?

Where's the compassion for family members who received no comfort from neighbors and friends after their loved one died because these people were not allowed to attend their funeral?

I'm not even mentioning the terrifying disappearance of fundamental rights and liberties that are being forfeited at a mindboggling pace, or the growth of authoritarian governments. Or our "new normal," which now censors and bullies those who happen to hold opposing views.

Do most Americans now believe that less freedom and more government control will benefit mankind?

Has anyone else noticed the surge in violent crimes around occurring in practically every city in this country?

One would be hard-pressed to find individuals who lack compassion for those who have died due to COVID. However, common sense tells us that "higher risk" citizens are smart enough to take their own precautions.

The argument that we should essentially lock down the world — and everyone should live in constant fear even if their own risks are minuscule — has transformed our country into a grim, unrecognizable place.

COVID has and will continue to claim lives, but 99.9 percent of the country's population will not die from this virus.

By now practically every family in the country has already experienced negative consequences or obvious harm… not from the virus, but from the policy responses to the virus. If normal activities continue to be prohibited, the number of Americans who will suffer life-altering hardships will approach 100 percent of our population.

My question: Where's the compassion for these hundreds of millions of people?

Bill Rice, Jr. is a freelance writer in Troy, Alabama. He can be reached by email at: wjricejunior@gmail.co

Black Lives Matter Leaders Support Violent Riots, Biden Won't Condemn Them

By Daniel Greenfield

After the recent toll of mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter rioting wrecked cities and tilted the polls toward Trump, Joe Biden and even Kamala Harris began condemning "violence".

Biden has said meaningless things like "we condemn the violence", and "I condemn this violence unequivocally" as if violence were an independent entity. Condemning violence, like condemning war, is either pacifism or evasion. Since Biden isn't a pacifist, he's evading.

Violence is a concept. You don't condemn a concept: you condemn its perpetrators.

The Democrats embraced Black Lives Matter, they even fundraised on behalf of the rioters and looters. Senator Kamala Harris tweeted out a link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund which bailed out rioters and looters, and Jaleel Stallings, who was accused of shooting at police officers.

According to police officers, Stallings had crouched near a car during the riots and opened fire on them. He faced two counts of attempted second-degree murder and the bail fund backed by Kamala Harris and several Biden staffers still bailed out the alleged wannabe cop-killer.

Once Biden goes into details, then his condemnation of "violence" actually turns out to be a condemnation of cops and conservatives. Or, as he put it, "I have condemned all forms of violence – police violence, lawless violence and violence perpetrated by extreme, right-wing militia groups." When he condemns "violence", he really means he's condemning the police.

The closest that Biden comes to condemning the violence by Black Lives Matter, a racist domestic terrorist group which has devastated entire cities, is condemning the "lawless". And he does it so vaguely as not to offend BLM and its supporters while giving the shopkeepers whose lifetime of work, his supporters burned to the ground, the false impression he stands with them.

Biden's toothless condemnations of "violence" are a meaningless cowardly evasion of moral responsibility. He'll even occasionally condemn "looting or destroying property or burning churches" without naming who's going around looting, destroying, and burning churches.

Burning churches is a bad thing. But not so bad that Biden will name the church burners. And when Biden fails to condemn Black Lives Matter, he supports its violent riots.

Even while the media falsely claims that the riots are peaceful, the hate group's co-founders, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, have not been asked to condemn it. On the rare occasions when they've been asked about it, they're deflected or dismissed the violence.

Ask BLM's co-founders about the hate group's violent riots and they'll typically reframe the question by dismissing it as a mere issue of property and claim that they value life more. That's despite the fact that hundreds of first responders and civilians have been wounded in the riots.

Speaking at a Penn State virtual event, Cullors described rioters as "expressing righteous rage" and suggested that society needs to avoid situations where "people feel like they have to be so desperate that they disrupt people's businesses." Not only didn't the Black Lives Matter co-founder condemn her movement's violence, she justified it, while denouncing capitalism.

Cullors, who has in the past been paid $10,000 to appear at virtual college events, is represented by CAA, the top talent agency in the country which was accused of complicity in Harvey Weinstein's abuses, and whose clients include Tom Cruise and Robert De Niro.

She's also the author of "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir", with an introduction by Angela Davis, a domestic terrorist who endorsed Biden, and an opening quote from Assata Shakur, a black nationalist cop-killer listed by the FBI as a most wanted terrorist.

That quote from the fugitive cop killer, "It is our duty to fight for our freedom" has become a BLM chant It appears in Shakur's biography just after she indirectly mentions the shootout that killed Trooper Werner Foerster and hails the "guerrillas" of her Black Liberation Army terrorist group.

The phrase just before the chant is, "We must gain our liberation by any means necessary".

After the chant is a dedication to, among other black nationalist terrorists, Mark Essex, a racist killer who opened fire on New Year's Eve in New Orleans killing, among others, a honeymooning couple. Betty Steagall was shot in the back of her head while embracing her murdered husband. Essex left a Black Liberation flag lying near the corpses of the doctor and his wife.

This is not the chant of a peaceful movement, but of a violently racist terrorist organization. And it's been utilized by Democrats, including the Arizona Senate Democrat caucus.

"I just don't equate the loss of life and the loss of property," Alicia Garza, another BLM co-founder, replied, when asked about the violence. "We want to value our love of people over property."

Not only did Garza fail to condemn the violence, she reduced it to a question of property, while reframing the violent riots as a love of people over property. Property, like violence, is an abstraction, a way to avoid confronting what happens when people are terrorized, when the small shop they've poured their life and dreams into goes up in flames, while BLM's founders get tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to condemn capitalism and defend the looting.

When the National Guard was sent to Baltimore, Garza complained that the soldiers were "standing between Black people and access to resources, they are protecting property".

"I'll be really honest: I'm not really concerned about broken glass," Opal Tometi, the third BLM co-founder, argued. "Property can be replaced, people cannot."

Not only do all of Black Lives Matter' co-founders find ways to justify the violent riots, but some local chapters, which have more control, have been more direct about supporting the violence.

After the massive outbreak of looting in Chicago, Black Lives Matter Chicago issued a press release describing looters as protesters, and claimed that the products in the stores were "hoarded" wealth. The official press release ranted that "black lives are and always will be more important than downtown corporations" and claimed that, "when protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not 'our' city."

Black Lives Matter Chicago organizer Ariel Atkins called the looting, "reparations", claimed that, "winning has come through riots," and declared, "I will support the looters."

"Anything they want to take, take it," she said.

Hawk Newsome, the Greater New York Chair of BLM, refused to condemn looting and instead claimed that America is based on looting.

"People just manifested it in different ways. Some people there just raised their fists and said 'I stand with the masses.' Other people were there to destroy things," Newsome had said earlier of the Minneapolis BLM riots.

Melina Abdullah, the lead organizer of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, whose chapter has collaborated with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, had its rally lead to multiple attacks on Jewish synagogues and businesses complete with antisemitic chants and graffiti.

Before the rioting began, her daughter, and the co-founder of the BLM Youth Vanguard, ranted, "I know you want to tear some s___ up… if you want to set some corporations on fire, you know what? I don't care about Target burning. I don't care that capitalism burns. I don't care that white people in their f____ office buildings are upset."

Abdullah, like her hate group's co-founders, dismissed the rioting. "The looting is not as violent as the police violence that is the source of the protesting. Focusing on broken windows is a deliberate decision."

Much like Kristalnacht.

The media has repeatedly mischaracterized Black Lives Matter riots as "mostly peaceful" as long as there is a prologue during which the racists at the rally chant slogans before the violence begins. This is a fundamental distortion of the truth. A peaceful march ends peacefully. A violent rally ends violently. A mostly peaceful march is really a violent riot.

Would you go out and meet someone if they told you it would be a mostly peaceful encounter?

A peaceful event has to be peaceful all the time. Or it's violent. A mostly peaceful event is like a mostly non-toxic toothpaste, a mostly safe ladder, or a mostly solid bridge. Mostly counts when it comes to statistics, not when it comes to harm and danger. Most serial killers were mostly peaceful. They spent less than 1% of their time hunting and killing their victims.

That's not what peaceful means. Like Biden's condemnations of violence, it's an evasion.

Nobody in the media bothers to ask or discuss whether the Black Lives Matter philosophy and ideology is peaceful. That's because there's a large body of evidence that shows it isn't. Instead the media nods along as BLM leaders pull the same tired old trick of reframing their movement's violence as an affirmation of the value of black lives and reduce their victims to "property".

Black Lives Matter violence springs directly from the violent ideology of black nationalism. The movement's leaders make no secret of drawing their inspiration from domestic terrorists like Assata Shakur and Angela Davis. Democrats and their media choose to ignore these facts.

After the poll numbers turned against both Black Lives Matter violence and the movement, Joe Biden began condemning the violence, as if it exists apart from its perpetrators, without condemning the violent movement whose rioters were carrying out the violence.

Anyone can condemn an abstract evil. The challenge is condemning the perpetrators.

Joe Biden refuses to condemn Black Lives Matter. He can't. They're part of his base. While Americans are increasingly turning against the racist hate group, Democrats still back it. After months of rioting, support for Black Lives Matter has dropped 12% among Americans, but only 4% among Democrats, 92% of whom still support the violent black nationalist movement.

And so Joe's trying to have it both ways. He's condemning the violence while allying with the violent. He won't disavow BLM or his endorsement from Angela Davis, while claiming to oppose violence. He's refusing to condemn the perpetrators, while condemning the outcome.

That's as worthless as his career and his candidacy.

If you support the violent, you support the violence. If your campaign and your veep help fund bail for a group bailing out rioters and an attempted cop-killer, you can't claim, as Biden does, to oppose violence "across the board". Until Biden publicly breaks with the Black Lives Matter movement and condemns its violence by name, he's complicit in every burned store, every wounded cop, every terrorized child, every lost job, and every broken American city.

A Reminder To American Jews: Civilization Is Fragile

By Dennis Prager - 17 Tishri 5781 – October 5, 2020

Dennis Prager

The question I receive more than any other from non-Jews is: Why are so many Jews on the left?

Before addressing it, I should note that the same question could be asked of Christians and other non-Jews. Why have so many mainstream Protestants and Catholics (up to and including the pope) embraced the left? Why have nearly all blacks, the majority of Hispanics, and Asian Americans – the most successful ethnic group in America – embraced the left?

And, outside of the United States, why have most Germans, French, Canadians, Australians, and others in the West embraced the left? This question could be asked about almost every group in the world.

Nevertheless, it is valid to ask it about Jews because, if any group should be wary of dismantling a society – especially a decent one – it is the Jews. The moment civilization begins to disintegrate, the Jews are the first victims – never the only, but always the first.

That's why Jews have so often been likened to the proverbial canary in the mine. Miners take canaries down with them because when there are noxious fumes, canaries die, and when the miners see the dead canaries, they know there are toxic fumes they must fight, or they, too, will die.

That's why decent non-Jews who don't fight anti-Semitism are fools. They don't understand that anti-Semitism represents a mortal threat to them. Tens of millions of non-Jews were killed because decent non-Jews ignored Hitler early on, dismissing him and Nazism as a Jewish problem.

It is often asked how the most culturally advanced country in Europe, perhaps in the world, could produce Nazism and the Holocaust. Or, as it is often put, "How did the country that gave us Bach, Beethoven, Heine and, Schiller give us Auschwitz?"

One answer is that advanced culture and advanced morality are not the same.

The other, more important, the answer is that civilization is fragile. It is fragile because civilization consists of human beings, and human nature is profoundly flawed. Exceptional evil is as common as exceptional good. It takes a great deal of effort and a great deal of time to make a decent society. But it takes little effort and little time to destroy a society.

That most American Jews do not appreciate how extraordinarily decent America is – compared with other countries, not compared with some childish utopian vision – only proves the lack of relationship between education and wisdom and between intelligence and wisdom.

The left is tearing down America because the left in America is what the left has been everywhere: a purely destructive force. Conservatives and liberals build everything, and leftists destroy everything: music, art, universities, high schools, elementary schools, economies, late-night comedy (for that matter, all comedy), journalism, sports and, now, the sciences. In addition, everywhere the left gains power, it suppresses personal freedom, beginning with the most important freedom, freedom of speech.

Every violent demonstration (also known as "riots") over the past six months has been a left-wing riot.

Why, then, does this left-wing destruction not frighten America's Jews? Do they not know the more power the left has, the less freedom they and all other Americans will have? Do they not know how much Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the rest of the left loathe Israel? Or do they not care? (The answer is that, increasingly, many American Jews do not care – especially young Jews, who have been raised by left-wing teachers and left-wing media.)

How do they not recoil when statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are violently removed? Do American Jews not know that the unique esteem in which they (and Israel since 1948) have been held in American society has been entirely due to the Judeo-Christian roots of America's values and its Judeo-Christian identity?

Do they not know that in a post-Christian America, they will be just another minority and that, as the left gains influence, non-left Jews (specifically religious and pro-Israel Jews) will be singled out for opprobrium? (Just look at how Jewish students who publicly identify as Jews, let alone as pro-Israel Jews, are treated on many American campuses.)

We conservatives know the answer to the question, "How did the country that gave the world Beethoven give the world Nazism?" The answer: Civilization is fragile. That was true in Germany, and it's true in America.