The Shocking Inhumanity of a Liberal toward a kind Trump supporter

 

Let’s all get acquainted over what a liberal media figure assures us is the latest philosophical crisis:

If your driveway is buried under thick snow, and your Trump-supporting neighbor plows it, for free and without even asking, are you to speak to him? Acknowledge him? Would saying “Thank you” be a betrayal of all your superior and infallible political beliefs?

Such is the quandary explored by Virginia Heffernan in a column for the Los Angeles Times. “What to Do with the Nice-Guy Trump Voter Next Door” has quickly gone viral, and not for the reasons Heffernan surely hoped.

Let’s imagine for one moment a role reversal, a Trump supporter cawing like this in the public square over a liberal neighbor’s kindness. Imagine the smug, snide commentary sure to stream from late-night talk show hosts and MSNBC pundits. The New York Times op-ed page would have fodder for days. “Deranged” and “mentally ill” would be the most common appellations.

“When someone helps you when you’re down, or snowed in, it’s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world,” Heffernan writes.

But no. After asking, “What do you do with one kind act after years of support for a man who showed near-murderous contempt toward most Americans?,” Heffernan compares her neighbor to Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan and the Nazis — the latter while informing us that, as a teenager, she spent a year abroad with an “upper-middle class family” in France.

Oh, the classism disguised as virtue-signaling! It all reeks off the page or the screen or whatever may catch your falling tears of laughter.

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With acquittal a foregone conclusion, the real drama is what Trump does next

by Michael Goodwin

 Given that there have been only four presidential impeachments in American history, and given that only one man has twice suffered the indignity, viewers who tuned into the start of Donald Trump’s second Senate trial had a right to expect a buzz of excitement and a sense of drama.

What they got instead was buzz-kill and all the drama of watching paint dry. Who knew impeachment could be so lifeless and history so meaningless?

Certainly Chief Justice John Roberts knew. His refusal to preside reveals the exercise to be a cheap knockoff rather than the real thing.

And it’s impossible to believe the Founders would approve of Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont acting as both a juror and presiding officer, a conflict of interest so large that it alone renders the trial out of bounds, as Trump lawyer David Schoen effectively argued. His display of Leahy tweets calling for conviction sealed the argument that Leahy cannot be viewed as neutral.

For viewers, Day One was mostly a dud, in that they didn’t even get a trial, only a debate about whether there should be a trial. The dueling videos were the most interesting part, but they were also irrelevant to the threshold question of constitutionality.

Although it passed in a late-afternoon vote with six Republicans joining all 50 Dems, the impeachers’ victory will be temporary. Their fundamental problem is that there can be no tension about the proceedings because there is no tension about the outcome, and thus no logical reason for the trial.

Trump is a private citizen in Florida, Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office and acquittal is rightly a foregone conclusion. The smart idea would be to call the whole thing off, on both constitutional grounds and common sense.

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No Hakoras Hatoiv .... Mark Cuban’s Mavericks won’t play national anthem anymore

Society starts going down the tubes when we are ingrates! When there is no hakoras hatoiv. our world as we know it collapses. This Mark Cuban guy who is on the Shark Tank, and instead of being grateful to the USA for being successful he eliminates "“The Star-Spangled Banner” 

Haven’t heard about any national anthem protests at Mavericks games? There’s a good reason for that: Dallas isn’t and won’t be playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” anymore.

Mark Cuban told The Athletic it was his decision to eliminate the tradition of playing the anthem before games. The move went by unnoticed through the first 13 combined preseason and regular-season games at American Airlines Center because the Mavericks did not publicize it, either within the organization or through an announcement to media. Monday marked the first game in which the Mavericks allowed a limited number of fans into their arena.

Cuban has been vocal about his support of those who wish to kneel during the playing of the national anthem, the practice which former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016 and which became a lightning rod for partisan political debate.

The outspoken Mavericks owner told ESPN last July of the potential for his team’s players to kneel during the anthem: “If they were taking a knee, and they were being respectful, I’d be proud of them” and that he hoped he would “join them.” He later tweeted, in response to what he called “The National Anthem Police,” that if critics of the nonviolent protest of systemic racism in the United States took issue then they could “complain to your boss and ask why they don’t play the National Anthem every day before you start work.”

Although NBA rules require players to stand during the playing of the anthem, commissioner Adam Silver has opted to overlook the rule in view of supporting his players’ decisions to express themselves.

“I recognize that this is a very emotional issue on both sides of the equation in America right now,” Silver said during a press conference in December, “and I think it calls for real engagement rather than rule enforcement.”

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Why Trump lawyer David Schoen covered his head with every sip of water

 

David Schoen unwittingly gave Twitter a lesson in orthodox Jewish customs during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday.

Schoen, Trump’s attorney, rested his hand on top of his head each time he took a sip of water while making his opening argument that the case is unconstitutional.

Several viewers noted Schoen’s seemingly unusual drinking habit, with some even suggesting he was trying to keep a toupee from falling.

“Is anybody going to acknowledge the way David Schoen is drinking water?” one user wrote.

But the lawyer was  making the ritual move because he is religiously observant.

Rabbi Menchem Genack, CEO of the kosher division of the Orthodox Union, explained that since Schoen is an observant Jew, he must cover his head and say a blessing whenever he eats or drinks.

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Holocaust Scholars Ordered To Apologize In Polish Libel Case

 

Not only did the Polish bastards torture and murder innocent men, women and children but now you cannot call them out on it in Poland... 

and the stupid Chareidim keep going there to pray to the dead! 

A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work that suggested he helped kill Jews during World War II.

Lawyers for 81-year-old Filomena Leszczynska argued that her uncle was a Polish hero who had saved Jews, and that the scholars had harmed her good name and that of her family.

The District Court in Warsaw did not, however, rule that they should be forced to pay her 100,000 zlotys ($27,000), as her lawyers had demanded.

The case has been closely watched because it is expected to set an important precedent for independent Holocaust research. The ruling can be appealed, however.

At stake in the case was Polish national pride, according to the plaintiffs, and according to the defendants, the future independence of Holocaust research.

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NY Judge Blocks Cuomo’s Restrictions On Houses Of Worship

In a big win for the Jewish community on Tuesday, a New York district judge entered a permanent injunction that bars all executive orders from Gov. Cuomo on houses of worship.

The judge’s decision comes after Cuomo’s cap of 10 and later 25 people on synagogues were found by the supreme court to be discriminatory. Other lower level courts had also previously ruled against Cuomo in these cases.

Cuomo is also reeling from a recent New York Times exposé, which revealed that nine top New York State health officials resigned after Cuomo demanded that doctors come up with scientific justifications for his COVID rules.

“Earlier this morning, the district court issued a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the restrictions on attendance at houses of worship contained in Executive Order 202.68,” said Agudah lawyer Avi Schick. “This decision restores the protection of religious practice that is guaranteed by the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution and reminds those in government that religion is not less important than business and entertainment.”

“Another consequence of this decision is that all of the summonses issued to Shuls for violations of Executive Order 202.68 should now be dismissed by the City,” continued Schick.

“I am hopeful that the City will soon rescind or void all the summonses issued and penalties imposed. Any shul that still has an issue with a summons they received should contact me.”

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Chareidi Death Rate In Israel 3.5 Times Greater Than General Sector

One out of 100 Chareidim over 60 in Israel have died of the coronavirus, Prof. Eran Segal, a computational biologist at Weizmann Institute, told Israel’s coronavirus cabinet on Monday.

The number is staggering in comparison to the general population in Israel, in which one in 350 people over 60 have died of the coronavirus. In the Arab sector, one out of every 140 people over age 60 died of the coronavirus.

“If the infection rate in the general sector was similar to the rate in the Chareidi sector, there would have been a possible 7,600 additional fatalities in the over 60 age group,” Segal said.

Segal added that 93% of coronavirus fatalities in Israel occurred in the above 60 age group.

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Blinken "blinks" On Golan Heights ..Suggests That it's on the Table

 To those who were excited about having a Jewish Sec of State know that the Jews are the Jews worst enemy ... may he go to hell!

The Golan Heights will always be part of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walked back the Trump administration’s recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel.

“The Golan was and will remain part of Israel,” Netanyahu said while visiting a health clinic in Zarzir, near Nazareth. “With an agreement, without an agreement, we are not coming down from the Golan. It will remain a sovereign part of the State of Israel.”

Blinken said in an interview on CNN on Monday night: “As a practical matter, the control of the Golan in that situation I think remains of real importance to Israel’s security.”

“Legal questions are something else, and over time if the situation were to change in Syria, that’s something we look at, but we are nowhere near that,” he stated.

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Mother makes ultra-realistic Amazon parcel cake for her son's birthday

 

A mother treated her son to a special delivery for his birthday after she baked him a cake that looked exactly like an Amazon cardboard box.

Nina Evans Williams, 54, from Anglesey, Wales, sculpted the highly-detailed cake for her son Kane Evans' 24th birthday on February 2.

Her son had been receiving weekly deliveries from the online retailer throughout lockdown and she used this as inspiration for the cake which her son thought was a 'boring parcel' at first.

The cake itself is even sat on an intricately crafted "concrete porch" which is yet another layer of sponge cake.

The Amazon delivery cake took Nina two days to complete - including spending an entire day baking the four tiers of the cake itself. 

Nina, who works as a cake designer, said: 'He actually thought it was a package delivered for him!

'He gets deliveries quite often, almost weekly - and he's known for that especially during lockdown - so I thought that would be a fantastic!

'This year he didn't want a Liverpool Football Club cake, so I told him it was a surprise,

'The day before, I banned him from the cake cabin so he didn't see it until his actual birthday.'

Nina, who runs Nina's Cake Cabin, added: 'He came into the cabin and I said there was a boring parcel for him on the table and when he got closer he was like 'oh my god!''

The 15 x 10 x 5 inch cake took a whole day to bake in the oven, and another day to ice it and add finishing touches. 

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Roman Soldier That Fought the Jews in Masada Was Left Broke After the Military Deducted the Price of his Uniform and Food.... 1900 year old Pay stub Found

 A payslip made from a sheet of papyrus shows a Roman soldier was left penniless 1,900 years ago after the military took out fees for certain items.

The document was made out to a Gaius Messius, who participated in the Siege of Masada that was one of the last battles during the First Jewish-Roman War.

The receipt shows Messius received 50 denarri as his stipend, but fees for barley money, food and military equipment were taken out that totaled to the amount of his full pay.

Because part of the deductions taken were for fodder, food for livestock, experts believe he was a legionary cavalryman and had to feed his horse and mule.

The pay slip was found were the Romans may have set up camp during the Siege of Masada and is dated for after the war – suggesting it was payment for participation.

The document’s translation is available in the Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine, as first reported on by Task & Purpose.

‘I received my stipendium of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii. […]rnius: food expenses 20(?) denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.’

And the total of deductions is 50 denarri – Messius’ entire pay check.

‘It is interesting to observe how much of his pay went to mandatory expenses: clothing, food, etc. He seems effectively penniless after payday,’ reads the notes left by the team involved with the database.

Masada is located 12 miles east of Arad and is Israel’s most popular paid tourist attraction.

It was once an ancient fortification atop an isolated rock plateau, overlooking the Dead Sea.

Herod the Great built the massive structure between 37 and 31 BCE.

During the First Jewish-Roman War, which started in 66 AD through 73 AD, rebellions sparked by the Jews against the Roman Empire that had taken over Israel, according to the History Channel.

Also known as ‘The Great Revolt,’ the battle resulted in the destruction of Jewish towns, displacement of people and the appropriation of land for Roman Military use.

When Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD, the remaining rebels relocated to Herod’s fortress in Masada.

The Romans followed shortly after and surrounded Masada with about 8,000 soldiers at the base of the mountain.

When it became clear the Romans were going to take the fortress, the 960 Jews, excluding two women and five children, took their lives rather than become slaves of their enemy.

Flavius Josephus was a Roman-Jewish historian in the first century and born in Jerusalem. Josephus wrote down accounts of what he called ‘The Jewish War,’ including what he saw at the Siege of Masada: ‘They had died in the belief that they had left not a soul of them alive to fall into Roman hands; The Romans advanced to the assault … seeing none of the enemy but on all sides the awful solitude, and flames within and silence, they were at al loss to conjecture what had happened here encountering the mass of slain, instead of exulting as over enemies, they admired the nobility of their resolve.’

Masada had laid hidden from the world until it was rediscovered in 1828.

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