There are no Jews in Israel

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday July 01, 2010 · 5:51 AM PDT

2010/07/01 · 05:51

Why did God let Hitler kill the Jews? It is a question that has troubled rabbinical scholars for decades. Since God had supposedly intervened to protect and nurture Jews in ancient times, e.g. the Exodus, why had He forsaken them in the 20th century?

One possibility was offered by a Sephardic rabbi, Ovadia Yosef of Jerusalem, who suggested in 2000 that sinful Jews had been reincarnated during the Third Reich so that they could atone for their sins by suffering through the Holocaust. His theory presumed a kind of ethnic/religious purity: Only Jews can be reincarnated as Jews.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday May 30, 2010 · 8:04 PM PDT

2010/05/30 · 20:04

BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster resembles the 1997 science fiction movie Event Horizon.

Deepwater Horizon unleashed death and chaos when it created a hole in the depths of the ocean. The spaceship Event Horizon returned from a realm of chaos with a dead crew after creating an artificial black hole to probe the depths of space.

The US Coast Guard responded to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. In the movie Event Horizon, the crew of the rescue ship wear uniforms with modified US Coast Guard insignia.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday April 20, 2010 · 11:37 AM PDT

2010/04/20 · 11:37

For $15 per month I get about 65 TV channels, including seven or eight high definition stations. Is this a special, limited-time offer? No, although it may be temporary if Comcast eventually closes what seems to be a technological loophole.

My original subscription with Comcast was for Standard Basic, which included about the same number of stations I have now. I had a tube TV which was connected directly to the cable without a cable box. When I switched to an HDTV set, I simply reconnected the cable and got the same service, but now with a handful of HD channels.

Last year, Comcast warned me that I would lose channels 35-82 and be relegated to Limited Basic service and price if I did not get a cable box. Since I am a retired person on a limited income, I decided to save some money and forego the box.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday April 05, 2010 · 12:09 PM PDT

2010/04/05 · 12:09

A few weeks ago I stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast. As I enjoyed my meal while reading a newspaper, an elderly couple sat down in the next booth. The husband plugged a laptop computer into a wall socket then apologized in advance: "I hope we aren’t disturbing you. We’re using McDonald’s as our motel."

I replied, "No problem. So long as you don’t do anything that prompts me to say, ‘Get a room.’" They laughed.

The man explained that they had just driven up from their polygamy compound in Mexico. He complained that the media distorted their lifestyle. The group was living in Mexico in anticipation of the collapse of the United States and its invasion by China and Russia.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday March 28, 2010 · 12:12 PM PDT

2010/03/28 · 12:12

After Alien (1979) appeared in theaters, a coworker observed that every compassionate decision made by crew members was the wrong decision.

That signal isn’t a warning beacon. It’s an SOS. We need to help. Wrong decision. We can’t leave Kane outside to die. We need to ignore the quarantine protocol and bring him in. Wrong decision. It’s just the poor little pussycat caught in our trap. I’ll let it go. Wrong decision. I can’t use the flame thrower on the monster. I’ll kill Lambert. Wrong decision.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday March 21, 2010 · 6:46 PM PDT

2010/03/21 · 18:46

On March 15, HGTV announced that Dr. Myra M. Lewis of New Orleans, Louisiana was the winner of its 2010 Dream Home Giveaway, which included a home in Sandia Park, New Mexico, a GMC Terrain and $500,000 in cash.

Dr. Lewis, an African-American, had lost a home in Hurricane Katrina and, as an educator, helps students engage in "green projects." She has an autistic son whose artistic talents could be nurtured in the artist colonies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She seemed the perfect person to win the sweepstakes. Perhaps too perfect.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 4:29 PM PST

2010/02/02 · 16:29

In his January 27 response to the President’s State of the Union message, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell offered a website, solutions.gop.gov, where the Republican Party offered its policy alternatives.

Really, the GOP has a .gov suffix, the same as the IRS or the FBI? My first thought was that the GOP no longer recognized Barack Obama as the lawful head of this nation and had formed its own parallel government.

However, the Republicans are not alone is usurping the power of .gov. The Democratic Party has obtained the government suffix for their political sites Democrats.senate.gov and HouseDemocrats.gov, the latter still under construction.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 10:42 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 22:42

We can hear the rumblings of the next civil war. Barack Obama has imitated Abraham Lincoln, our Civil War president, at every opportunity. He nominated, like Lincoln, a "team of rivals" to serve in his cabinet. On Thanksgiving 2008, he quoted Lincoln in an address to the nation. The November 24, 2008 Newsweek cover proclaimed: "Obama’s Lincoln. The Strength of Humility: Channeling the 16th President."

Obama literally followed Lincoln’s tracks, taking the same preinaugural train trip from Pennsylvania to the nation’s capitol, but tempting fate by stopping in Baltimore to give a speech, a destination Lincoln avoided because of the threat of assassination. Finally, Obama took his oath of office on the same Bible Lincoln used.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 21, 2010 · 9:46 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 09:46

I have seen the future and it belongs to the couch potato. Those who are content to sit home and watch TV or read a book are best adapted to survive in a world of declining incomes, escalating travel costs and security hassles.

Homebodies will also enjoy greater protection from new strains of viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which will be more readily caught and transmitted by people who travel abroad and socialize a lot.

As couch potato culture takes root, "restless life syndrome" will be recognized as a mental disorder. People with this illness will be given medication and genetic counseling to discourage them from passing their deviant "go places and do things" trait to future generations.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 1:34 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 13:34

Pi (π) is both the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet and the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The difference between what is round and what is straight has no exact value. The calculation of pi begins at 3.14159 and stretches indefinitely.

Pi may provide a link between mathematics and sexuality. Since the straight line (diameter) is symbolic of the male and the circle (circumference) represents the female, one might conclude that pi signifies the unsolvable and infinite differences between men and women. The sexes will never be able to "figure" each other out. However, one can also see a positive aspect in the ratio: as the circumference increases, so does the diameter, and vice versa. Thus, whatever expands the horizons of the woman also expands the opportunities for the man.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday December 29, 2009 · 6:09 PM PST

2009/12/29 · 18:09

Free trade is like free love. If you have different sex partners, you need protection. If you have different trading partners, you need protectionism.

Failure to take this precaution will expose your nation to Acquired Industrial Deficiency Syndrome, in which manufacturing muscle is replaced by service sector fat and the body becomes vulnerable to such parasites as commodity speculators and hedge fund managers.

As young cells struggle on low wages, a greater proportion of the body’s energy (Social Security and Medicare payments) is used to sustain old and dying cells.

Robert Urbanek

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday December 21, 2009 · 11:57 AM PST

2009/12/21 · 11:57

We were not terribly far from the World Trade Center building, the south tower. As we were cutting across a, a quarantine zone actually, the building began disintegrating. And we heard it and looked up and started to see elements of the building come down and we ran, and honestly it was like a scene out of Independence Day. — Ron Insana, MSNBC reporter

Fire from the sky. Attacks on skyscrapers. Buildings collapse as thousands flee through the streets. If the terrorist attack on September 1, 2001 seemed strangely familiar, it is because we saw it before, in the 1996 movie Independence Day, in which aliens attacked our world.

To understand why al-Qaeda appeared, at least subconsciously, to follow the script of the movie, we need to understand the symbolism of the movie Independence Day and the phenomenon of alien abductions.

Newer
Older

RSS

There are no Jews in Israel

Deepwater Horizon and Event Horizon

Playing chicken with Comcast

Polygamist at McDonald's

When compassion kills

HGTV Dream Home and Nubian pharaohs

Misuse of .gov

America prepares for civil war

Couch potato power

Difference between men and women is 3.14159 . . .

Acquired Industrial Deficiency Syndrome

Alien abductions, abortions, al-Qaeda