Same old Song, different town

Shavuot was nice in Seward Park. I didn't make it through the night, but was able to study and get the essence of the holiday.

One thing that I have to harp on is the fact that very few Synagogues and Temples cater to single people, particularly working ones. What I saw recently on Facebook is a credit to one community and a black eye to another one. There is a synagogue on the West Coast that had a program designed for recent college grads and working professionals. This is the kind of thing that a lot more communities need. Single religious people don't necessarily feel comfortable at the larger synagogues with lots of families. There's only so much one has in common with the married guy with three kids, no matter how tight you were in high school or yeshiva.
I am deliberately withholding the name of the synagogue and the city because I feel it would reflect poorly on some other places that I have lived in , and don't wish to burn bridges. Just want to be constructive, not destructive, unless it's hardened criminals at Guantanamo Bay, where as my buddy Curtis Sliwa says, we should stick the juice in their caboose.

Lousy Governor

Can people in Seattle and the rest of Washington State tell me why Christine Gregoire is the governor? What has she done to merit this position? Support gay marriage? She signed some bill giving rights to same-sex couples. I don't get why this state is air headed enough to elect her. For all of the crap that George Bush took for 7-8 years, the governors of blue states get a free pass, unless they patronize hookers.

Let's find a new governor and leader of the Washington State GOP. Someone who's a Washington version of Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal.

Why the Miss California Controversy matters

Why is this Miss California thing such a big deal? Because the Political Left and the Democratic Party Establishment want to deny conservatives or traditionalists a platform to reach the public. They have ruined Miss Prejean but when they remove her crown, they will be sending a message to future contestants, toe the line on Homosexuality and other cultural issues or else you will be punished and not permitted to enter. This is very sad and we traditionalists need to wake the hell up (pardon my language) and stop this from happening. The Miss California committee is interested in setting a precedent and message to all traditionalists, you have no place in popular culture. We have to resist this. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be locked away in a religious or traditional setting. Television, movies and music are accessed by more than 85% of the American population and for us to ignore this is foolish.

Sports Thoughts

1) It's very interesting that the no-name teams in the NHL win, but not in the NBA. How much of a chance to the Atlanta Hawks, LA Clippers or Golden State Warriors have to win the title? Do their fans kvetch to Stern? They should. Look at the NFL, even the Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals can make the Super Bowl. Not in Stern's league.

2) Read an interesting story on Puck Daddy, Yahoo sports blog on hockey, someone wants to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Southern Ontario (aka Hamilton/Toronto) area. Proves my point. In the Sun Belt, hockey isn't a big deal. Yes that includes Raleigh and Anaheim.

3) Clemens and Alex Rodriguez should sue Pearlman and Selena Roberts for defamation of character. What is the point of including stuff on steroids in a book? Please explain to me.

heaven on earth

Heaven on earth, IMHO is watching Megyn Kelly interview Miss California.

Here's the video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZFg1C0eNj8

If you are FRUM and or married, I strongly suggest that you NOT watch this video.

Proper way to commemorate Earth Day

In addition to the heterophobes ruining our culture, we have the Enviro-marxists or as Rush Limbaugh refers to them as the Watermelons, green on the outside, red (angry) on the inside. Earth Day is another excuse for GWL's (Guilty White Liberals) to show how much they care about the environment, hybrid cars, they do things ABC to reduce their carbon footprint, etc. Here's the Master's opening monolgue on Earth Day and how we should have hakaras hatov to Thomas Edison and Ludwig and Robert Nobel, who founded the first oil company. I know that it's a shock to you libs out there who thought that it was Cheney and Halliburton.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042209/content/01125107.guest.html

Paegeant Controversy

I don't pay attention to beauty pageants, but this Miss USA one caught my attention. To summarize, the contestant from California was asked a gotcha question about gay marriage which she answered in the "unacceptable" fashion today and lost to Miss North Carolina. The creep who asked her the gotcha question has a history of outing celebrities and he has involvement with the gay movement. He graduated from NYU and worked for Instinct Magazine a gay men's magazine and also worked for GLAAD, a LGBT group. All of this comes from his wikipedia page. While Wikipedia isn't Halacha L'Moshe Misinai (law of Moses from Sinai) it does give a window into the soul of the guy who asked the gotcha question.

Here's the link on Perez Hilton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Hilton

Let's see him ask Ozzie Guillen that question about gay marriage and see what the Blizzard of Oz would say.