Silly Rabbi, Tricks Are For Kids

What’s that? No, I’ll finish this glass of stale old Hell first, if you don’t…

Christian Newswire Media Advisory, February 3, 2010
1000 Rabbis Warn: Open Homosexuality in the Military is a Disaster and May Cause Further Natural Disasters

Fine, splendid, freshen it for me, then.

Uh, may cause further what, now?

Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America issued the following statement: “When Americans are suffering economically and millions need jobs, it’s shocking that the Administration is focused on its ultra-liberal militantly homosexualist agenda forcing the highlighting of homosexuals and homosexuality on an unwilling military.

At least they aren’t ‘ramming it down the throat’ of the military, like usually.1 No, but Rabbi Levin seems like a man often shocked. More specifically, he seems like the sort of bully who flaps his arms and backs into you and then cries that you pushed him. That’s one of the best kinds, and we’re preparing for an ongoing relationship by assigning him a facile nickname (Rabbi “Yehuda Hellcares” Levi) and sketching out a Photoshop piece in which the female figure in this Marc Chagall painting is bearded and wearing a hat and tallis. Oh yes, and this we say to you, Shletero:2 If their hair needs some highlights, and indeed if they’re being preferentially marked in attention-getting transparent yellow, these militant gays in the military,3 then azoy gay-it es.4 Yes, and furthermore:

…If you know what we’re saying, and we think that you farshtaist.5

This is the equivalent of the spiritual rape of our military to satisfy the most extreme and selfish cadre of President Obama’s kooky coalition.

It’s like the equivalent of raping the troops with the spiritual equivalent of a big hairy moose peen, while his black friends watch.

We agree with Eileen Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness that this will hurt the cohesiveness of the military, cause many to leave the army, and dramatically lower the number of recruits, perhaps leading to the reinstatement of a compulsory draft.

Because the Center for Military Readiness is certainly not one of those phony wingnut security foundations that sprang up after 9/11.

“Thirteen months before 9/11, on the day New York City passed homosexual domestic partnership regulations, I joined a group of Rabbis at a City Hall prayer service, pleading with G-d not to visit disaster on the city of N.Y.

That worked out great.

So no, basically, those hijacked airliners were like the egg beaters raining from the sky in the Far Side cartoon where the Indian is like, “Whoa, what kind of dance was I doing?” Because it was actually supposed to be a gay partnership G_d-mollifying dance, and instead it brought religious fanatics raining down in passenger aircraft? Like, um, really?

Because speaking just for myself, I personally would think it over before putting something on my rabbinical c.v. like “cockamamie prayers caused terror attacks of 9/11.” Because then the next thing is that everybody keeps looking at you funny every time something blows up nearby — as if nothing in the world ever blew up in a total spontaneous gaysplosion caused by G_d, as things so often do.

Example: June, 1999, when the Stonewall Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and JFK Jr.’s plane immediately crashed into the ocean off Gay Head, Massachusetts. Another example is the Krakatoa explosion in 1883, caused by something Walt Whitman did.

These are the things they start to blame you for, when all you’re doing is walking around minding your own business and decrying the spiritual something-like-rape of the equivalent of the American soldier, not to mention sailor. Because whoops, there goes G_d again with the blowing-up and the kaboom, when barely over a year earlier you’d asked him not to do that.

We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All this is in sync with a two thousand year old teaching in the Talmud that the practice of homosexuality is a spiritual cause of earthquakes.

“All this is in the sink!” said the 2,000-Year-Old who is still teaching in the Talmud after all these years, and we should all be so lucky. “I keep calling Moe the plumber, and all I hear is that he’s coming. ‘Mr. Shiach is coming any time now,’ they say. Well, I’m still wai…[doorbell rings] holy cats, it’s Menachem Schneerson.”6

Once a disaster is unleashed, innocents are also victims just like in Chernobyl.

This reminds us for some reason: What has ol’ Pastor Swank been up to since the last time we…

J. Grant Swank, Jr., Truth in Conviction
CHRISTIAN VS. VOODOO IN HAITI

[…]

Now voodoo priests are up in arms about the contest. But they should realize that there is plenty of need to go around. Why do any persons have the strength or time to whine about others helping others?

If voodoo spokespersons want to spill goats’ blood and see drum their incantations, go to it. But don’t slam Christians who are working night and day to bring relief.

Because hey, that’s what you call a voo-don’t. But since there’s nothing out of the ordinary here, let’s go back to the rabbi.

“We plead with saner heads in Congress and the Pentagon to stop sodomization of our military and our society. Enough is enough.”

No argument here. Most heads are saner than the Rabbi’s even in Congress and the Pentagon, and P.S., have you seen what they’ve done to Sodom lately?

Rabbi Levin will be available to talk to the media in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, in proximity of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings featuring Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Proximity just like in Chernobyl. No, seriously: It was an outstanding media availability in which Rabbi Levin really stood out, literally at the threshold of public hearing.

We miss him already and look forward to the next time he comes in the public’s eye, despite the mess and the stinging sensation.


1 Cf., and cf. This style reaches what you’d have to call a climax in the following passage from wingnut conspiracy nut Jackie Jura: “Even cartoons ooze with sex, and every show lately pounds with homosexuality. Recently a movie named KINSEY got rave reviews for telling the story of zoologist-cum-sex researcher Alfred Kinsey who brought homosexuality and other deviations mainstream.” Research on zoologist cum is often misunderstood.

2 Var. ‘Shlomo’ (cf.)

3 Cf. Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” and its treatment of ‘dead’ and ‘dying’ metaphors. The infelicity in which a root word modifies itself seems suddenly to be everywhere (like the ancient and unstoppable grocer’s apostrophe and written air quote). An especially good example can be seen on a current billboard for People’s Bank, apparently quoting a Barron’s review which called them “A BANK TO BANK ON.” As though to complete the chain of irony, the phrase also appears in this May, 2007 Business Week item citing Bank of America as “a good defensive stock that has lagged the rally.” Merely gratuitous is the comic association here.

4 Yidd.: Azoy gait es (“that’s how it goes”). (Cf. Ger.: We’re gayin’.)

5 I.e., Mayn prom (shveb-shif) iz ful mit veners. This is by way of saying that one’s aéroglisseur or Luftkissenfahrzeug is full of anguilles or Aale, or in other words that ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita.

6 The Lubavitchers now have a joke. When in the future they tell it, one can call out, “Number one!” and another can reply, “Feh.”

 

The honorable Miss Manners

Fox News’ Ken Klukowski has a very interesting vision of what makes a good Supreme Court justice:

Federal judges are classy and thoughtful people. Two things a president looks for in judicial nominees are temperament and character. These attributes also manifest themselves in social settings, where judges are typically poised and pleasant. When a president’s team vets candidates for our highest court, part of that vetting process is determining who will be able to handle hostile senators during confirmation, and a hostile segment of the public at all times — for the rest of their lives. Every president looks for someone who personifies “grace under fire.”

[…] While their personalities vary, all of them are very fine and gracious individuals who conduct themselves with the utmost of dignity and civility. [Emphasises added]

While Klukowski claims he’s spoken to four Supremes, he doesn’t say if Scalia was among them. Which makes sense, because even if you believe Scalia is a great justice, it’s going to be a tough sell arguing that Scalia is anything other than a pure, 100%, Grade A asshole. To wit:

Student Sarah Jeck stood in front of 750 people and asked Scalia why cameras are not allowed in the U.S. Supreme Court even though the court hearings are open, transcripts are available and the court’s justices are open enough to go “out on book tours.” Scalia was at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in part to do a book signing and wasn’t happy at the question.

“Read the next question,” Scalia replied. “That’s a nasty, impolite question.”

Bonus points — according to Klukowski:

Presidential rhetoric against a nation’s courts is commonplace in oppressive regimes where an imperial leader wields absolute authority, where it fosters disrespect for the rule of law.

Just to clear this up:

THE VICE PRESIDENT (CHENEY): No, I don’t think we were wrong. We have to follow whatever the court determines. Sometimes, the court makes bad decisions, or decisions we disagree with.

 

Shorter David Brooks

The Geezers’ Crusade

  • [Takes hit from a bong] OK, OK, so, like, get this, man. I’ve so figured out how to solve our deficit problem. It’s gonna happen when old people start a mass movement based around slashing Medicare and Social Security payments. Du-huuu-huuuu-huuuude! How did I not think of this before??

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Steyn Brings On Teh Funny


ABOVE: Titian, Portrait of Doge Marco
Supremazia Bianca del Canada (ca. 1575)

Shorter Mark Steyn, America’s Shittiest Website™
Four Guys Named Mo

  • Isn’t it freaking hilarious that, just like all black guys are named Leroy, all Muslim guys are named Mohammed?

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Sometimes The Comedy Writes Itself

From Cynthia Yuckley, A Conserative Lesbian, aka Robert Stacy McCain’s butchest friend:

Updated, 1/29/2010, Fri.:

One of the most important things to understand about Obama is that he is a sociopath, in the clinical sense. People have caught on to his narcissism, but they do not understand his sociopathy. In a nutshell, he lives to control people, assert power and make people jump. All of the promises he makes are intended to get people to hand over their power and money to him voluntarily.

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We Have A Winner

The best backwards math so far on Obama’s Question Time comes from a commenter over at Gateway Pundit. C’mon down, Sandy:

How come I have not seen anything about Obama at the GOP Retreat on O’Reilly or Hannity tonight? Maybe Obama was so over the top that to comment on this would make him look unstable.

Yes, that must have been why.

 

Obama’s Best Week Ever

I don’t want to be as nutty as the MSNBC crew in their praise of Obama’s expedition into shitheel territory today, but really, he did very, very well.

At they very least, he put the teleprompter joke to rest forever.

I would absolutely like to see more of this, and not in a partisan way. I’d like to see the opposition get smarter for the next one, knowing as they do now that if they aren’t, they’ll get a well-deserved ass-kicking. Thoughts?

 

Search & Destroy

Shorter Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows

  • The Obama administration wishes to Mirandize terrorists and try them as petty criminals, when in fact the appropriate response is to invade their bodies, kill their spirit and convert them to Judeo-Christianity.

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The Chewbacca Defense Revisited


ABOVE: John Wollaston, Portrait of Erick Erickson (ca. 1756)

Shorter Bubba Bubbason, Red State
Han Solo Was a Cross Burning Racist

  • If a word was used in Star Wars, it can’t possibly be racist for me to use that word when referring to Jabama the Hutt.

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Lulz, Can’t Get Enough Of ‘Em

Okay, so plucking stuff from the HotAir.com comments is pretty bottom of the barrel, but you’ve got to love HondaV65’s contention that James O’Keefe is ‘a SAINT’ compared to Martin Luther King (!):

Hell … Martin Luther King was a ‘suspected felon’. Bill Ayers, close friend and confidant of ‘The One’ … was, by his own admission – a ‘felon’. Obama nominated a TSA director that violated privacy rights of others. Obama nominated a Treasury Secretary who’s guilty of lying on this tax returns. Nancy Pelosi relies on Charlie Rangel (a suspected TAX CHEAT) to write tax law. Chris Dodd gets sweetheard mortgage deals and undervalues Irish property …

And James O’Keefe is suspected of ‘playing with a phone handset’ and entering a federal building under ‘false pretenses’.

Hell yeah – I’ll cheer O’Keefe on! He’s a SAINT compared to the players on YOUR TEAM.

Oy.