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Happy ObamaHannukah to my Jew friends and readers!

To celebrate this first night of ObamaHannukah, I lit all 8 menorah candles then got together with a French buddy and cursed you behind your lying Jew backs over pitchers of Stella Artois.

Also, I told your neighbors that they can have all your property from your sliding rear door to the fence line, including your in-ground swimming pool.

And for Christmas? I’ll be giving out nukes.

Enjoy!

52 Replies to “Happy ObamaHannukah to my Jew friends and readers!”

  1. bh says:

    I don’t know if I like this ObamaHannukah thing.

  2. newrouter says:

    i like to see a bent nail version of the menorah

  3. JD says:

    This is a sucky holiday.

  4. leigh says:

    I just finished all of my Christmas shopping. Thank God we only have one day to buy gifts for, that’s exhausting enough.

  5. dicentra says:

    If you celebrate Obannukah, you only have one day to buy gifts for, too.

  6. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Obamukah is like Julianuary, isn’t it?

  7. Pablo says:

    The Juneteenth of Julianuary, Ernst.

  8. leigh says:

    One of my sons just emailed me a recipe for latkes. What’s going on here?

  9. JD says:

    Like a twisted Festivus.

  10. Swen says:

    Yeah, well fat lot of good that swimming pool will do them, with all their honeys lounging around it in their burquas. But I suppose there’s a certain dog-in-the-manger satisfaction in knowing that you’re not using it. Let it all go back to desert like Allah intended.

  11. geoffb says:

    Pools go quickly to swamp when uncared for. Mosquito heaven.

  12. SteveG says:

    huh

    they are letting you keep the front yard and the house?

    doubtful

  13. Now, come to the damned table.

  14. newrouter says:

    ronpaul’s views on blacks in america don’t bother me(keep the plantation going demonrats). ronpaul’s view on foreign policy are nome chumpsky.

  15. Alec Leamas says:

    To celebrate this first night of ObamaHannukah, I lit all 8 menorah candles

    Sounds more appropriate and regulatory-compliant to go with LED candles for a defined, twenty minute period of permitted religious observance.

  16. Slartibartfast says:

    “To celebrate this first night of ObamaHannukah, I lit all 8 menorah candles then got together with a French buddy and cursed you behind your lying Jew backs over pitchers of Stella Artois.”

    Not sure if I buy a Frenchman drinking a mass-market Belgian beer. Maybe Kasteel, or Chimay, but not Stella.

  17. sdferr says:

    It isn’t a small matter, because as we have learned the hard way with Walt and Mearsheimer, once the infection of anti-Semitism enters the mass media and the academy, it grows and grows. What begins as a “controversial statement” ends up on every reading list. Klein and Friedman, whatever their personal motivations for these statements, are helping popularize and make acceptable anti-Semitism in America. Their own publications will no doubt reward them for their advanced thinking. Will the rest of our society?

  18. RyanBacon says:

    Hai, guize, what’s going on here? Happyfeet, its good to see you again.

  19. Benedick says:

    Know what? I just had a massive fight with my (liberal) brother, who also happens to be my closest familial ally. The world can fuck off, and I hate the Left for what it did to him. FUCK YOU.

    Sorry. Proceed.

  20. Benedick says:

    Happy Fucking Hanukkah.

  21. RyanBacon says:

    I have conservative family members, but even we can put aside the hate for the holly-days.

  22. happyfeet says:

    Howdy Mr. Bacon!… holidays are my favorite!

    I been on a quest to find a Tom n Jerry – nobody knows what they are here

    including me, really

    but I have 4 more days to surmount the obstacles before I just go to BevMo and DIY

  23. Drumwaster says:

    I have conservative family members

    Please express my sympathy to them. Not because they are conservative, mind…

  24. Joe says:

    I ate some knish and salted herring today. Mazel Tov!

    And RyanBacon, perhaps you are right, although maybe Sarah Palin is no more enthused by the available choices than the rest of us.

  25. Joe says:

    happy, unless you are going to an exceptional bar, a drink best made at home. Get extra fresh eggs from a trusted egg purveyor.

  26. newrouter says:

    oh heck open thread. havel or bust.

    {6}Obviously the greengrocer . . . does not put the slogan in his window from any personal desire to acquaint the public with the ideal it expresses. This, of course, does not mean that his action has no motive or significance at all, or that the slogan communicates nothing to anyone. The slogan is really a sign, and as such it contains a subliminal but very definite message. Verbally, it might be expressed this way: “I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace.” This message, of course, has an addressee: it is directed above, to the greengrocer’s superior, and at the same time it is a shield that protects the greengrocer from potential informers. The slogan’s real meaning, therefore, is rooted firmly in the greengrocer’s existence. It reflects his vital interests. But what are those vital interests?

    {7}Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;’ he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, “What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?” Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology.

    link

  27. newrouter says:

    #occupy whatever

    “{8}Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a very pragmatic but, at the same time, an apparently dignified way of legitimizing what is above, below, and on either side. It is directed toward people and toward God. It is a veil behind which human beings can hide their own fallen existence, their trivialization, and their adaptation to the status quo. It is an excuse that everyone can use, from the greengrocer, who conceals his fear of losing his job behind an alleged interest in the unification of the workers of the world, to the highest functionary, whose interest in staying in power can be cloaked in phrases about service to the working class. The primary excusatory function of ideology, therefore, is to provide people, both as victims and pillars of the post-totalitarian system, with the illusion that the system is in harmony with the human order and the order of the universe. “

  28. happyfeet says:

    i think I’ll end up doing them here probably on Saturday cause I have a brazilian coming over

    Sarah Palin. What was that about? I bet the memorabilia is already getting scarce on eBay.

  29. RyanBacon says:

    Sarah said she would run in there ‘was no true conservative in the race.’ Since there’s no one she can endorse, she needs to put up or shut up. Sh can’t continue on doing whatever she’s doing now because people are beginning to stop paying attention to her.

  30. newrouter says:

    {9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

    {10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

    link

  31. happyfeet says:

    yup she needs to buck up or stay in the truck

  32. leigh says:

    She was showing a reality teevee show about Todd and his snowmobile to less than enthusiastic reviews, I heard.

  33. happyfeet says:

    wow it almost tivos itself

  34. leigh says:

    Right? After she went camping with Kate plus Eight, it was pretty much into the drain.

  35. newrouter says:

    yes because an aa dude is the way to go. eff you progg defenders.

  36. newrouter says:

    its fun to laugh at frauds. you go multiple kathy parkers: sux some spitzer. clowns all.

  37. leigh says:

    Who’s AA? That’s supposed to be on the downlow.

  38. newrouter says:

    {11}Why in fact did our greengrocer have to put his loyalty on display in the shop window? Had he not already displayed it sufficiently in various internal or semipublic ways? At trade union meetings, after all, he had always voted as he should. He had always taken part in various competitions. He voted in elections like a good citizen. He had even signed the “antiCharter.” Why, on top of all that, should he have to declare his loyalty publicly? After all, the people who walk past his window will certainly not stop to read that, in the greengrocer’s opinion, the workers of the world ought to unite. The fact of the matter is, they don’t read the slogan at all, and it can be fairly assumed they don’t even see it. If you were to ask a woman who had stopped in front of his shop what she saw in the window, she could certainly tell whether or not they had tomatoes today, but it is highly unlikely that she noticed the slogan at all, let alone what it said.

    {12}It seems senseless to require the greengrocer to declare his loyalty publicly. But it makes sense nevertheless. People ignore his slogan, but they do so because such slogans are also found in other shop windows, on lampposts, bulletin boards, in apartment windows, and on buildings; they are everywhere, in fact. They form part of the panorama of everyday life. Of course, while they ignore the details, people are very aware of that panorama as a whole. And what else is the greengrocer’s slogan but a small component in that huge backdrop to daily life?

    {13}The greengrocer had to put the slogan in his window, therefore, not in the hope that someone might read it or be persuaded by it, but to contribute, along with thousands of other slogans, to the panorama that everyone is very much aware of. This panorama, of course, has a subliminal meaning as well: it reminds people where they are living and what is expected of them. It tells them what everyone else is doing, and indicates to them what they must do as well, if they don’t want to be excluded, to fall into isolation, alienate themselves from society, break the rules of the game, and risk the loss of their peace and tranquility and security. . . .

    {14}Let us now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth. . . .

    {15}The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children’s access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself. The executors, therefore, behave essentially like everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree: as components of the post-totalitarian system, as agents of its automatism, as petty instruments of the social auto-totality.

    {16}Thus the power structure, through the agency of those who carry out the sanctions, those anonymous components of the system, will spew the greengrocer from its mouth. The system, through its alienating presence in people, will punish him for his rebellion. It must do so because the logic of its automatism and self-defense dictate it. The greengrocer has not committed a simple, individual offense, isolated in its own uniqueness, but something incomparably more serious. By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety. . . .

    link

  39. geoffb says:

    Working link for #40.

  40. geoffb says:

    There is one thing which stands out in that quote nr.

    In the world that has been created in the minds of those we would call OWS and their supporters, they see themselves as that greengrocer, heroic, embattled, crying out for us to put on the Roddy Piper shades if even for just a second to see the “real” world. It is a powerful piece of writing but it will not work on those lost souls of the left.

  41. newrouter says:

    thanks geoffb for the link. despair of current conditions.

  42. newrouter says:

    “{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing. “

  43. B. Moe says:

    His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate.

    That might be just too much to ask.

  44. McGehee says:

    I don’t think RyanB is kosher.

  45. Silver Whistle says:

    Happy ObamaHannukah to my Jew friends and readers!

    Does “Jew” modify “friends and readers”, or just “friends”? Should I be reading this?

  46. leigh says:

    Think of it as an ecumenical wish, Siver Whistle. Happy Christmas to you!

  47. batboy says:

    I stopped at Goldberg’s Deli on the way into work this morning. Got a toasted sesame-seed bagel with chive cream cheese *and* chocolate croissant, with French roast coffee, lots o’ cream.

    They had this electric candle thing going, but I think it’s broken, as only two of the lights were on.

  48. batboy says:

    Hey, B’Moe! Check it!

  49. Silver Whistle says:

    And blessings of the season to you and yours, leigh.

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