My dad’s side is Scot/Irish, so I like your stories and everybody likes Rabbi stories. I think a certain portion of my support for Isreal is based on the humor of jews. If all these so-called oppressed groups would have a sense of humor they could pull themselves up. Rejection of Bill Cosby is a bad sign.
Thanks

John O’Reilly hoisted his beer and said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me
life between the legs of me wife!”

That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, “I won the prize for the Best toast
of the night”

She said, “Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?”

John said,”Here’s to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me
wife.” “Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!” Mary said.

The next day, Mary ran into one of John’s drinking buddies on the street
corner.The man chuckled leeringly and said, “John won the prize the other
night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary.”

She said, “Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he’s only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come.

Curious on your take on Putin. My grandparents came over when the czars were still there. Heres a joke:

A lady approaches her rabbi and tells him, “Rabbi, I have
a problem. I have two female talking parrots, but they only
know how to say one thing.”

“What do they say?” the rabbi inquired.

“They only know how to say, ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Want
to have some fun?’”

“That’s terrible!” the rabbi exclaimed, “but I have a
solution to your problem. Bring your two female parrots
over to my house and I will put them with my two male
talking parrots whom I taught to pray and read Hebrew.
My parrots will teach your parrots to stop saying that
terrible phrase and your female parrots will learn to praise
and worship.”

“Thank you!” the woman responded.

The next day the woman brings her female parrots to the rabbi’s house.
His two male parrots are wearing tiny yamulkes and praying in
their cage. The lady puts her two female parrots in with the male parrots
and the female parrots say, “Hi, we’re prostitutes, want to have some fun?”

One male parrot looks over at the other male parrot and
exclaims, “Put away the prayer books! Our prayers have been answered!”

Jane Austen wrote about the Audacity of Early 19th century English Society!

And she wrote about the mendacity of such society, and how bad it was to be poor. (Newsflash: in America no one of sound mind & body who applies him/her self need stay poor.) Anyway, Jane’s genteel poverty doesn’t resonate with today’s welfare kids, male or female. And further, Jane had good genes & her characters did too so that they were able to get Col. Brandon & Mr. Darcy. Just like AmeriKKKa of the 1950s. Statistics prove that. Today’s wymyn identify more with (avoiding)the plight of, say, Dreiser’s heroines or those of other oppressed pre-Betty-Freidan women. But Jane did not go & get an education & become a lawyer engaged in “poverty” programs like Michelle, so Jane probably doesn’t resonate with Michelle either.

The author of the article you linked to said, “What fascinated me was how a reporter could believe–let alone write–that black Americans have the same life expectancy as people in Swaziland …”

What a silly boy. Where has he been? Hasn’t he ever heard of Dan Rather?

That C-Span story is funny, but alas too true. Except that such stories will be forbidden when Obamessiah is elected.

Anyway, Michelle will explain that the US was a miserable hell hole until the Obamessiah got elected & made her feel good. Of course she had to give up that $300M “job”, but she’ll make that up when she contracts to write her memoirs after her 8 years as President following his 8 years.

Take care, Phil

Here’s a U.K. news report laughing at another U.K. media “report” about stats which “prove” how Bad & Racist America is, but which report, unfortunately, gets the stats all mixed up! Other than that….

It’s a reverse Lake Woebegone effect where all the Southerners are below average.

The headline reads “American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy”

The report itself explains that this 30-year gap is “between Mississippi, in the Deep South, and Connecticut, in prosperous New England.” And, that there is “a staggering 50-year life expectancy gap” between Asian-American men and Black Americans.

See
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/20/brian-kalt-no-african-americans-don-t-have-a-life-expectancy-in-the-30s.aspx.

There’s this old tale about the Irish biddy who was a real gossip monger, repeating anything bad she heard. Once when challenged about the truth of what she was peddling, she replied “well, it’s true enough”. SOP for the MSM.

Anyway, how can the media be expected to fact check when it’s all mixed up in addition to operating from a pre-ordained assumption: AmeriKKKa is evil? Until, that is, when Obamessiah gets elected & then all such stories will disappear. There will be no hunger, no thirst, no poverty genes….