When there's so much poison in the air

 

You wonder why I'm not blogging much? Maybe it's because the Obamanomic Debt Star is bearing down hard on my immediate family and I can't help anyone because it's bearing down on me too... and has been for the last four years.  

Maybe I'm not blogging because no sooner does the 21st century Churchill of Janesville knock one out of the park at the GOP convention than I see that one of the Enemedia stated on air that Republicans are "happy to have a party when black people drown."

Care for a little salt in that wound? Not a problem.

The bigot-in-Obama's-pocket who voiced that obscenity was immediately supported by Gwen Ifil, who called him "God's gift to political journalism."

You remember Gwen...

 

 

Why blog when FOX News actually pays good money to the vile Sally Kohn for writing about "the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan's mouth" during his speech last night?

Why blog when the prostitutes of the Enemedia who call themselves "fact-checkers" check the facts like Obama's "truth team" tells the truth?

 

Who wants to blog that the networks didn't air the speeches of Mia Love or Artur Davis? Who wants to blog when the headlines all point to Romney's lack of support among women, but no one ever mentions that Romney wins among MEN?

 

And last but certainly not least, who wants to blog that Jewish kids -our kids - are being assaulted for being Jews, right here in America? That would be East Lansing, Michigan... but I heard about it only from a Jew in Jerusalem.

Zachary Tennen said two college-aged males asked if he was Jewish and when he answered yes, the two men assaulted him. Zachary told police the two men then “stapled me in the back side of my bottom teeth, starting in my gums and going upwards.”

 

There are not enough cheer-me-up antidotes in the whole world to compensate for that, so you will have to pardon me if I take time out to work on my "ein davar."

 

"In Hebrew his favorite expression was en davar (Never mind); and they say it was with these words on his lips that he died, five years later, at Tel-Hai. There was a complete philosophy contained in this en davar: do not exaggerate; do not see danger where none exists; do not regard a man who does his duty as a hero -- for history is long, the Jewish people everlasting, and truth is sacred, but everything else, trouble and care and pain and death, en davar."

-- Jabotinsky on Trumpeldor, in The Story of Jewish Legion

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Yael -- you've reminded me of Koheleth's lament that "all" -- by which he presumably meant the world -- is "a twisted thing that cannot be made straight." I keep that line in the back of my mind as a useful reminder that there really is -- as history more than amply attests -- no end to human vileness and depravity. We simply cannot make the twisted thing straight. Having said that, I must say that we can still make the twisted thing a little less contorted, a little less deformed, a little less misshapen -- and I think there are some compelling signs at this week's convention that that may be happening right now. One of these was Ryan's superb speech -- which may well portend better days for our country. Another is the remarkably large number of thoughtful and energetic young people who are moving into leadership positions in the Republican party; Ryan is hardly alone as an omen of better days ahead. But one of the things at the convention that cheered me the most was the surprisingly warm reception accorded to Rabbi Soloveichik. I say "surprisingly" because crowds rarely erupt into spontaneous appaluse during an invocation -- yet that happened twice during the Rabbi's presentation -- and one of those outbursts came when he mentioned Israel. Bill Kristol reported that after the invocation, large numbers of conventioneers came up to the Rabbi to "thank him and bless him." That simple fact could, of course, be interpreted as a mere straw in the wind; I prefer to see it as a sure sign that -- at least on the Right -- the support of the American people for Israel remains strong and will prove enduring. The "twisted thing" to which Koheleth referred is one of literature's most honest metaphors for the reality in which we live. The best we can hope for in our lifetimes is to straighten out a few of the twists. I think some of that straightening -- limited though it may be -- has already begun.