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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 12:47 pm |
If I seem a little fuzzy to you...
It's most probably the fact that my life is comprised almost solely of loose-ends which is makiing me appear fuzzy, not my hair. I don't even think I number any neat types among my acquaintances, let alone my intimates. Messiness is the name of the game as far as I'm concerned. Never trust anyone whose life is neat and tidy; they're part of the problem. Avoid someone whose heart was never broken, they've never loved. | | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | | 11:51 am |
Poor Madoff Victims...
...And the greed has not stopped. A while back a woman filed a claim, asserting that Madoff had stolen two million dollars from her. A closer look at the claim revealed that she invested a million dollars with Madoff ten years ago. She received a return of 10% per year, which she drew out annually. Her totally bogus financial statement revealed that, even after receiving a million dollars in payouts, she had a balance of two million. When she discovered that the statement was phony, she claimed a two million dollar loss. Of course, by normal math, she lost nothing except the return she would have realized had she invested with someone legitimate--she put in a million and took out a million over a decade. It is through math like this that we arrive at the $50 billion dollars in loss figure. And when people say they lost "everything" to Madoff, they often have a very different view of "everything" than most of us. I know a couple who lost "everything" as part of the Madoff scam. "Everything" except a $7,000,000 townhouse in one Manhattan's most expensive neighborhoods. Most of Madoff's victims still have more money than you, my dear reader, will ever see in your life. Insert small violin music. Read the whole illuminating article here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-kuby/bernie-madoff-the-man-we_b_218023.html | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 6:40 pm |
Dear Iranians...
For every " Marg Bar Israeel" - 'Death to Israel' you shouted in the past, you will have to scream 600,000 times, " Marg Bar Diktator" from rooftops in the future. ...payback's a bitch, ain't it? | | 11:57 am |
| | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 1:20 pm |
Poor Iranians
Last I checked with Interpol a Red Notice (international warrant) for Hashemi Rafsanjani's arrest is still in force, for plotting and arranging the murder of 80 Jews and injuring more than 300 others in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of all places. This is the same Ayatolla Rafsanjani the Iranians trust is going to help liberate them from Supreme Leader - Ayatolla Khamenei and give them back their freedoms. These are the very same holy men the poor, downtrodden Iranians overthrew their Shah to empower. And the benighted Iranian people out there on those very same streets, are still shouting the same shouts, "Oh, Ali, Save me! Oh Holy Imam, rescue us." Dear Iranians, You had unprecedented freedoms under the Shah, you could worship any damned thing, person or deity you damn well wanted to in public, private or nowhere at all. You could go out for a smoke and a beer with your boyfriend, spoon on the grass in the park, and if you were careful, fork, as well. You could feel the wind in your hair without having someone give you a ticket or worse for shameless, public immodesty. You could travel anywhere in the world without being a pariah or suspected of terrorism, and if you got too sick at home you could even fly to Tel-Aviv and have one of those Mossad doctors treat you safely... But you fought bravely like a lion for the right to an Islamic Republic under Shariah Law, to smash every bottle of wine in the Teheran Hilton cellars and cage your daughters like vermin. I'm repeating myself, I know. But I just gotta say it. Check what it is you ordered from the menu before complaining about being forced to eat shit. | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 6:22 pm |
Dear Iranians
When you find yourself eating a shit-sandwich, check and make sure it isn't what you ordered from the menu... | | Friday, June 12th, 2009 | | 7:28 pm |
Blessings
I bless all my enemies, you should have such a week as this last one I had.... Good Shabbes | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 2:55 pm |
Correction:
Yesterday's post should have read MacroBiotic and not necrotic. Apologies are duly tendered. | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 11:08 am |
our new diet
Sal has put us all on this lastest MacroNecrotic Diet.... lucky us | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 8:57 am |
| | Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | | 5:35 am |
Salome's doing the cooking...
for tonight and tomorrow. I'm doing the cooking for Friday night Shabbes. I'll be doing the usual Gefillte fish Broiled Salome (er, I think I meant broiled salmon) A roast chicken a small piece of Brisket an Ox Tongue YOu can tell I'm working a 12 step prgram around this, can't you | | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 6:56 pm |
Friday Afternoon
Can't remember when I last didn't have to do any cooking at all on a Friday... Salome is making a Persian Shabbes. She's an amazing cook, and her baking is always a pretty solid surprise, as well. Feeling pretty serene since the debacle at the doctor's yesterday. Cool breeze blowing onto me through the mosquito netting in the bedroom, pinkish stucco shining in the waning daylight on the building behind ours, dappled shredded sunlight on the ceiling reflected up from the swimming pool in the yard. I believe the Venetians have a special word for the play of reflected-off-the-water light on a bedroom ceiling... It's all magic to me. Wish you were here all the time. Shabbes | | Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | | 2:21 pm |
Dedicated to www.theawarenesscenter.org
It's 5:00am the rumbling of the homeless trundling shopping carts on LaBrea is now drowned by swisssshing cars and louder blatting buses. My dumpster no longer rustles alive with competition for scraps; the many-legged will wait for dark, rats have all morning, and the homeless will be waiting at Ralph's soon to turn in their aluminum cans and bottles for deposits in exchange for the crystalmeth sold off the back of the pickup from Barstow in the parking lot. It was a busy night in the dumpster, my friend, for the pock-skinned lady in the XXXtra large flowered housecoat from Kmart. That bit makes sense to me, the $25 on a rag worn once and then, rustpocked and cumsplotted, abandoned for the morning crew. All the rest of it is a mystery, the sex, the smell, the slurring of voices, the glasspipe, the cooling ardor and pale feet in back-alley droppings, she has a thing for tramps, my vicki. Nothing furtive, mind you, nothing left to chance. Still, after the understandings, the murmured susurration of money, pantyhose and black garbage bags prolapsing impedimenta, it makes perfect sense. She gets hers, he gets his, they both get what's coming. Like sex everywhere else in hollywood, the dumpster behind my garage has paparrazi. Wife wants to know why I stand transfixed at the window in the night, what should I tell her, I'm moved by vicki polin? That her coupling in the gravel in sticky spoor I'd gag-reflex just scraping off the bottom of my shoe is turning me on? That there's more honesty, spirituality and love in that there rutting lust than in all the romance on TV? That I serve who only stand and watch? That when vicki polin totters away, slipping into sneakers and long coat with his used condom clutched in her hand for keepsakes, when I count the cost of sterility and sanity I feel cheated? get away. | | Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | | 5:15 pm |
Today's Offering
she is never going to give up. Salome tells me I should think of Vicki as one of those homeless people who rummage around in the garbage-dumpster behind my house. She's a necessary evil. Just a fact of life. Ignore her and pretend she doesn't exist... Date: May 17, 2009 7:37:59 AM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: CALL TO ACTION: Rabbi Hershy Worch - Speaking at an Upcoming Conference in Mesa, AZ
CALL TO ACTION: Rabbi Hershy Worch (AKA: The BDSM Rabbi) - Speaking at an Upcoming Conference in Mesa, AZ It has just been brought to the attention of The Awareness Center that Rabbi Hershy Worch will be a presenter at a conference September 10 -13, 2009 in Mesa, AZ. The sponsor of this event is ASEP, Inc. (Association of Sexual Energy Professionals). The Awareness Center is asking that everyone contact EveLynn Maurine and warn her about Worch. Please be sure to let her know if he meets another potential victim at the workshop after being warned that both she and the organization could be held liable in a potential civil suit. We are also asking that you contact theat the Dobson Ranch Inn where the workshop is being held and make them aware of the situation. They too can be held liable if another woman is assaulted. The Awareness Center is also asking that the Orthodox Union, Rabbinical Council of America, Agudath Israel of America, Alliance for Jewish Renewal and all other rabbinical organizations to post a public statement on their web page regarding Rabbi Hershy Worch's past behavior. If these organizations really care about ending sexual violence in Jewish communities they will do everything in their power to warn potential victims of this alleged serial rapist, who calls himself a rabbi. Please read the information below if you are not familiar with the case of Rabbi Hershy Worch. You can learn more about the case of "rabbi" Hershy Worch on The Awareness Center's web page: http://theawarenesscenter.org/worch_hershy.html Contact information forASEP, Inc.(Association of Sexual Energy Professionals): EveLynn Maurine,4702 Roundview Ct.,Land O Lakes, FL 34639 Phone: 813-406-9975 E-Mail:http://www.goasep.org/contact http://www.goasep.org/
Contact information for the Best Western Dobson Ranch Inn Ask for the Manager
1666 S. Dobson Road,Mesa, AZ 85202-5699 Phone Number:480-831-7000
Toll-Free:800-528-1356
Fax:480-831-7000
E-Mail:info@dobsonranchinn.com
http://www.dobsonranchinn.com
The Awareness Center is DEMANDING theOrthodox Union (OU), theRabbinic Council of America (RCA) andAlliance for Jewish Renewal (ALEPH) make a public statements denouncing the actions and behavior of Rabbi Hershy Worch. By not doing so is condoning his behavior, and advocating for hto continue luring in nonobservant women into learning about his "Torah of Desire." Hershy Worch received his rabbinic ordination fromRabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who was considered to be an orthodox rabbi. A few years ago Worch created hisown Yeshiva,which included plans on giving his students his own Rabbinic Ordination. According to rabbinic resources, the only way to revoke an ordination is for the rabbi who granted the title to revoke it. Since Shlomo Carlebach passed way, it is said there is no way to have his rabbinic title removed. I've also been informed that once individual becomes a rabbi, halachicly he/she can ordain another individual. In the past the alleged survivors of Rabbi Hershy Worch have spoken to rabbis at both theRCA (Rabbinical Council of America)and also to Rabbis at theCRC (Chicago Rabbinical Council). Unfortunately because Rabbi Hershy Worch is not a member of either rabbinical organization , the survivors were told that nothing could be done. Since Shlomo Carlebach gave Hershy Worch a rabbinic ordination, he is consider to be an orthodox rabbi, The Awareness Center is asking that theOrthodox Union, Rabbinical Council of America and Alliance for Jewish Renewal hire an agency suggested by The Awareness Center to do an investigation of the claims. Once the investigation is completed, The Awareness Center is demanding that a public statement on their web pages. The allegations against Rabbi Hershy Worch include Rabbinical Sexual Misconduct and also the claims of his rewriting and misuse of Torah. These claims have been following Hershy Worch around the world for several years. Last year a book was published regarding the complaints made about him in Australia. It is time for all Jewish rabbinical organizations to stop passing the buck and do the right thing!
------------------------------------------- Bio on Hershy Worch Jeremy Hershy Worch was born in Manchester, England, on May 20, 1954. He recieved his smicha (ordaination) fromRabbi Shlomo Carlebachin 1992. There have been several serious allegations made claiming Reb Hershy's behavior as being predatory, manipulative and sexually abusive. Allegations have been made in while residing in Chicago; from a group from the Hamakom Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia; and from other locations. Rabbi Worch has been accused of utilizing a mixture of kabbalah, hypno-eroticism and other manipulative techniques to enagage his potential victims prior to sexually assaulting them. There have been allegations that Reb Hershy creates a cult-like devotion to himself utilizing trance-like-states, guided meditation, hypnosis; all under the guise of kabbalah teachings. Allegedly his MO (modus operandi) has been to use such techniques on women with histories of childhood abuse, so that he can lead them into BDSM(Bondage, Domination, Sadism, Masochism). activities with him. Rabbi Worch has allegedly written a "BDSM-Kabbalah" and finds his "students" over the internet, primarily through his Livejournal "Kabbalah_101" community.
------------------------- Bio on Worch for the new workshop series Rabbi J. Hershy Worch
Rabbi Worch, one of thecontroversial teachingrabbis of this age, is amystic, scholar, artist,poet, writer, andmusician. Ordained bythe late Rabbi ShlomoCarlebach, Hershy hastaught and practiced hisspecial synthesis ofkabbalistic shamanism inAustralia, Africa, andNorth America. Born andeducated in England,Rabbi Worch is heir to anancient kabbalist traditionreceived directly from his ancestors, who were revered practitioners ofthe magical arts.Among his published works areSacred Fire: Torah from the Yearsof Fury 1939-1942, (Jason Aronson, 2000) andThe KabbalistHaggadah: A Handbook of the Seder, (S.O.D., 2004),My Soul Thirsts,a collection of Hasidic Songs and Nigunim on CD (Qorq 2002).
| | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 10:13 am |
| | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | | 9:53 pm |
Seder Night
For the first time in my life I've begun preparing food, cooking, if you'd credit it, on the night before the Seder. | | Monday, March 16th, 2009 | | 6:46 am |
Life is a test!
Someone just told me this truism over the phone, and even as she was saying it some voice in my head as saying, "Crocka shit!" The idea that life is a test, challenge, an obstacle course is so much hoooey. isn't it? Life may be difficult and challenging, extremely daunting at times, but the object is not to see it as something that has to be overcome; something to be met with fortitude and resolve. That's such a waste. Life ends up being a duty you have to perform between being born and being buried. Life isn't a test, it's a gift. How much living can you fit into a day, today? It's not a duty, a burden; that's sacrilege. I've been raised as an Orthodox Jew, taught to believe the greatest achievement is to live my every minute in Fear of Heaven. For fifty years I thought it meant to live in fear. But I was wrong; living in Fearof Heaven means living fearlessly, living truthfully every minute of the day. It means laughing at your enemies, in the face of death at every turn... | | Monday, March 9th, 2009 | | 12:29 pm |
After looking at some of my friends posts
It's amazing how much I don't miss the snow, ice, frost, cold shoveling, dressing, shivering, gloves, boots, layers and other treats of nature's winter wonderland... Forgot to shut the window last night before going to bed? No problemo, the net kept the mosquitoes out... nyeh nyeh nyeh.... thhhhhhhhhhhhbth | | Friday, March 6th, 2009 | | 4:28 pm |
recovering from a cold - sinus - chest - ugh...
Shabbes is almost here. Received a commission this week for a painting from a small photograph (4" X 5"); wants me to turn it into a large 30" X 25" painting. This will be my first painting in Los Angeles. The worst sort of challenge, making 80 year old people photographed in a snapshot 15 years ago into Hollywood-ready subjects glamorous enough for major portraiture. Sometimes I hate my talent and my job. Talent is the cheapest commodity in the world. Have a little money? You can buy as much talent as you can use, , , more than you could ever want. I'm going to put the ribs into the oven. The fish is done, the steak and the chicken, the sesame-ginger vegetables are done, the beets are all cooked and sliced. The urn is filled to the brim, the tea is brewed. The kishka is in the chulent with the broccoli kugel. Wife is seen to but the table still needs laying, shabbes is almost here. Seeya... | | Friday, February 27th, 2009 | | 2:46 pm |
Finally
The Bernard Madoff $50,000,000,000 begins to make sense to me. "Accused swindler Bernard Madoff should be locked up and forced to look at pictures of his victims," Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was quoted as saying Friday.
"Psychopath is too nice a word for him," Wiesel said in New York, the New York Post reported.
"He should be put in a solitary cell with a screen and on the screen, for at least five years of his life, (there would be) pictures of his victims."
Wiesel, whose Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity lost 15 million dollars with Madoff, said ordinary punishment was insufficient, the Post reported.
"Whatever (there) is to hurt him should be invented.... He should go before a group of judges who would imagine a punishment for him."
The Nobel Peace Prize winner admitted that he fell totally for Madoff's charm some 20 years ago and decided to invest heavily with the Wall Street money manager, the Post reported.
"There was a myth he created around him.... He gave the impression maybe 100 people were part of his club. Now we know there are thousands." I'm a little ashamed to say I have always been offended by Elie Weisel and his assumption of the mantle of spokeseman for all Shoah victims. The German goverment wants to set up a memorial to the 6,000,000 in Berlin, OK, so let's run the plans by Prof. Weisel for his approval. The US government wants to build a Museum of the Holocaust on the Mall in Washington DC, who will we have sitting on the Board of Directors... I imagine Mr Weisel is top of the list, right? Prince of Shoah is how I think of him, albeit shamedly. Along comes Mr. Madoff and screws him and his Foundation out of all its money. Elie Weisel is now broke. Mr. Madoff has reduced him to rage. What's the lesson? For me it's just beginning to make some sense. But the denoument is predicated on them/someone/the judge finding Mr Madoff legally INSANE, which I think he clearly is. The verse states: (Deut 28:34) et stupens ad terrorem eorum quae videbunt oculi tui "You are going to go mad with terror from seeing all the things your eyes will see." I believe we, Jews, are about as mad as a people can get and still remember their name and address. Nuts. To my way of thinking, which admittedly is more than a couple of Mishnayos short of a Masechte, Madoff's response to the stimuli make much more internal sense, are more appropriate than Weisel's academic evasions. Berserker is much more in tune with the Zeitgeist than Doctor of Theology, as though any theology could be more/other than an abomination in the aftermath of a Shoah. Weisel makes sense, but sense should be outlawed in the smoking charnel cornucopia of German/Polish crematoria. The way the IDF punched through the houses in Gaza, with that same wanton violence and overkill, so the Wermacht punched holes through my people, my family, their flesh, not their property, their bones. Stones, bricks and mortar - VS - Babies, mothers and fathers. You can be a Catholic Bishop, a man of the cloth, a man of God, and quietly deny it ever happened. I think God is more offended by Elie Weisel and less appalled by Bernie Madoff. Madoff's insanity has a madly logical congruence. Weisel's thoughtfully worded theses have only insane conclusions. For a Jew to be sane makes no sense. It's as simple as that. My personal belief is that God is so far from sanity (as humans define it) He can see the curvature of the universe from there.... |
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