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Venezuela is driving their Jews away
Ever notice how countries that lose all their Jews end up biting the big one? I'm not trying to be anti-Semitic or even pro-Semitic here. All my Jewish friends suck at managing their money, so I don't believe Jews are any better with money than anyone else.
I'm just saying that Egypt used to be the richest country in the world. Then the Jews left , and wham! there goes the empire. (That was a Moses joke). The Romans came up with the Diaspora, and wham! there goes the empire.
And of course, there's the Palestinians, and the rest of the Middle East for that matter. All the Jews move to Israel and the next thing you know, the Middle East, except for Israel, is a toilet.
I'm just saying...maybe Jews ARE the chosen people, like they keep telling us, and we shouldn't fuck with them. In fact, maybe we should actively recruit Jews, because it seems like countries with more Jews do better. Maybe Jews are lucky!
BTW, you should in no way take this blog post seriously.
Previously: What if the Tin Foil Hat Brigade is right?
Update: Here's a rebuttal
I like the fact that the rebuttal caught the original post in a lie, they're using Chef's Pride Aluminum foil instead of Reynold's as they state in their article. I also think its pretty funny that they tied the MIT Media lab into the whole mind control conspiracy thing:
Most relevant here, a Media Lab research group called “Society of the Mind” (secret societies have long been involved in mind control) is involved in the DARPA funded CHIP: Comprehensive Human Intelligence Project, which “aims to develop a 'Cognitive Architecture' inspired by the observed structure and dynamics of the human brain/mind system” and is part of a larger DARPA program called Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture. DARPA gave Media Lab US$1,032,627 for this black project, about which no information can be found.
Also interesting was this:
Aluminum was originally named “alumium” by Sir Humphry Davy, who later changed it to “aluminum” (perhaps in an attempt to make it more Latinized since alumen is Latin for alum, the aluminum compound that the name is derived from). The British (and allied English speakers) shortly thereafter changed the name once more, this time to “aluminium” so that it would again match the pattern of most other elements (helium, sodium, etc.), while the North Americans eventually decided to keep the second, slightly more traditional name. I predict that North Americans will adopt the more regular “-ium” spelling by the year 2050, prompting the British to start calling it “alumininium”. At that point debate can begin on changing “platinum” to “platinium”
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I had some problem with my email, so I was behind on blog comments, so I ended up reading a month’s worth of ernie the troll’s invective at one sitting. Then today, I read this piece.
Enough whining!
Bad enough when ernie the troll does it, now Peggy Noonan is whining too? Someone who was part of the Reagan administration’s message of optimism has just written one of the most depressing things I’ve read in years?
Gah.
Every person in America lives better then the Kings of the past lived. There is no better time to be alive then right now. Even the poorest person in the poorest country in the world lives better now then their king lived 200 years ago.
We’re now whining because a category 5 hurricane directly hit a city of 25 million people and 500 people died?
500 people used to die in a city of that size every time it got cold. A storm like that used to kill thousands of people. Ever hear of the Johnstown flood? Half the town died in that one.
We’re now whining because unemployment is whatever it is? There used to be slavery; unemployment meant you starved to death.
We’re now whining because the President’s choice might not have been from the top ten nominees? The Supreme Court started with people who now wouldn’t even qualify for being a clerk. When we started this country, someone like Harriet Meirs would have been a nominee for Chief Justice.
We’re now whining because someone might have the capability to blow us up. Sure, that’s bad, got me there. Meanwhile though, more of the world is at peace then every before in human history.
We’re now whining about a self-created tempest in a teapot about whether it was a “secret” that the wife of an ambassador was a spy. All ambassador’s wives are spies. It’s their job.
Perspective people. It’s all about perspective. I’m all for continuing the human race’s quest for perfection.
But lets not forget how good we have it really.
It used to be that every day, the best musicians in the world would come to my home and play music for me.
But that wasn’t good enough. So the best musicians in the world had to follow me wherever I went and play for me there. But I still wasn’t satisfied, I wanted more variety, there were plenty of mediocre musicians who had just one song that I liked. So they started following me too.
If I was Queen Elizabeth maybe once a day, 5 hacks from the local stews would come and bang on some instruments for me. They would probably suck, but it would be something to do while avoiding getting killed in my sleep by my “court”. President Bush only has to worry about members of his administration screwing up; Queen Elizabeth had to worry about members of her administration cutting off her head.
Throughout history, its always been optimists who’ve accomplished the great things. The glass isn’t half empty, its full nearly to the brim when we consider modern life, and its worth remembering that.
I know, I know, its supposed to be the reverse.
But they sent me the necessary paperwork to me for any sort of health care directive thing, with all their decisions spelled out.
I know it was hard for them, because it seems less remote then it does to me. But they did it.
I know, I know, its supposed to be the reverse.
But they sent me the necessary paperwork to me for any sort of health care directive thing, with all their decisions spelled out.
I know it was hard for them, because it seems less remote then it does to me. But they did it.
