I see the two of you have decided to ‘tag team’ this week. Nice work (wink wink).
Mike, as you know the Evil Democrats forever now known as the Demoncrats also do their version of Turkey in the Straw Dance as well as they gather for a sing-a-long:

You put your right hand out…
You put your left hand out…..
Your put your right foot out…
Your put your left foot out…..
Then, you suck all the money out ….

No doubt someone here can improve on the new lyrics.

suek: You are beginning to feel like Noah and I am beginning to feel like Jonah and I don’t think the whale is going to cough me up in 3 days.
They’re playing Global Monopoly with carbon credits using my ‘real money’.

NEWS FLASH:
Chicken Little was almost right – it wasn’t the sky.

Now _here_ we’re talking about some _real_ money….

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/06/cap-and-trade-was-never-about-climate/

I’m beginning to feel like Noah – I’m just not sure the rainbow is going to show up in 40 days…

To ruin your day today: It looks as though we’ve magically come up with another 500 billion buckos, this time for the FDIC. Your article link was prescient.

The iron laws of economics guarantee we are in for some dark, dreary times. Let’s magick up another one trillion bucks for something else! Why not? Is it any wonder the stock market continues to tank? There are plenty of clear-eyed people, with solid economic backgrounds, who can see the writing on this Obama graffiti wall.

Why am I certain that the entire Obama administration gathers in a circle each morning, hand in hand, and they chant, ten times, “There are no laws of economics. We can do whatever we want.” And then, as happy as little children that they’ve transformed their little fantasy world into reality, they start their little day.

As if today’s news wasn’t making me cranky enough. I know I can count on you to add fuel to my fire.

Things sure have changed (not really) since the days of Moses in the Bull Rushes to the Israelis being sold down the river on a barge of Billy Beer.

Mr. Habitat for Humanity is more than happy to take the millions to build his Ego Palace.

I’ll return the fire with fire.
I think I need a bigger mattress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090305/pl_afp/financeeconomyusbankinggovernment

Jimmy Carter Gets New Museum for his 85th Birthday

Link: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/carter_library_renovation/2009/03/05/188611.html?s=al&promo_code=7B91-1

Jimmy’s walking down the hallway with his admirers, toothy grin and all, describing each exhibit.

“And here is my favorite section of all in my museum”, he said, taking his acolytes around the corner into a dead-end alcove. He pauses before the first exhibit.

“Here is where I sold the Israelis onto the dock”, he said, grinning that toothy grin.

He walks over to the next stand. “And here is where I sold them into the rowboat.”

And he walks to the third and last exhibit. “And here is where I sold them down the river.”

You are correct in your summation and it can be applied across the board.

“Noble sentiments + naivete = catastrophic result.”

Maybe my lingering question should be a more emphatic statement:

DON’T TREAD ON MY TIKKUN OLAM

Sadie, I think those sentiments are correct. The problem, as always, is in the implementation.

My example:
“To repair the world, what did I do? I gave the fellow next to me a hammer. Unfortunately, he smashed me over the head with it, robbed me, and left me for dead. I did not stop to think: We were isolated we two, and I had never bothered to divine his intentions.”

Noble sentiments + naivete = catastrophic result.

Denial is denial, no matter who was foolish enough to believe that Obama was going to ‘deliver’ anything other than a well learned sermon from his mentor, Rev. Wright.

The greater problem with the Jewish community is that we have been raised with the ideal of ‘Tikkun Olam’ – to repair the world, to make things right. To lift the needy, to feed the hungry, to care for those that cannot care for themselves. I still subscribe to these values, but not at the expense of myself and family.

My great grandmother and grandfather, did indeed, leave Germany in 1937, but it took a lot of money and connections to do so. There were thousands that wanted to leave and could not. The sad tale of the S.S. St. Louis is one of many chapters in the history of trying to leave Europe and stands as an example of what did happen and can happen here, again.

To wrap it up with a lingering question mark – To Tikkun or not to Tikkun Olam?

Niemoller 1955

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

The Jewish Democrats should have thought long and hard before pulling the lever for Obama

They were thinking with their hearts. Fake libs have two standards. One for us, and one for them. They vote in politicians, of course, that will make sure “our” standards fit their expectations.

They think their own personal standards will always be kept up ship shape. They think, but they are just deluding themselves. Megalomaniacs never leave people’s personal standards alone. It is always their way or the high way. The Jews thought they could get Dems to hold the line against abortion and Christians and patriotic Americans and that this would secure their own personal status and wealth.

Well, German Jews also thought that nothing big was happening in German, and thus refused to move. Their personal standards will be modified come the Point of no Return.

The Jewish Democrats should have thought long and hard before pulling the lever for Obama. The signals and signs were as blatant as the caricature on the sunflower seed package. Most voters don’t do their due diligence by reading enough about their candidate and tend to rely on media visuals. I think this is why the package hit a sore spot. The owners/customers of the store may have bought the product blindly, but it is the exporters who are the real culprits.

I have seen this type of caricature used by the Arab media and hate groups here and elsewhere and I am surprised that you wife has not.

BTW..the shell spitting is an art also practiced in Israel. Must have been a result of Russian immigration years ago. I also tried mastering the shell spitting, with little success, in my youth.