Blogsite comments are the lifeblood of a blog.  They can also be entertaining.  The following are a few received recently, printed verbatim with editorial commentary in brackets and italics where visible.    

From “lonsberg” comes a very dubious accolade in reference to “What’s With All the Jew-Bashing?”  (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3756)

   “I like your site–a lot.  Still, I think you too are a kook when it comes to Israel and the Jews.  You betray yourself with the Versaille bit.  [Pardonnez-moi?  Hitler rose to power by railing against the Treaty of Versailles and linking the ascendancy of Jews with Germany's economic catastrophe.]  Versaille … Read the rest

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There’s a certain undercurrent out there which seems more and more to be bubbling up to surface current status and it’s not good news for those of the Jewish extraction. 

In Europe, where anti-Semitism reached its apogee in Germany and Austria following the punitive features of the Treaty of Versailles and the rise of Naziism, England has now become a hotbed of violence against Jews and the ADL is reporting significant anti-Semitism in France, Poland, and Hungary, as well as in Germany and Austria. 

   Here at home, Mel Gibson’s drunken tirade against a Jewish cop in Malibu in 2006 in … Read the rest

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   We should all treasure the United Nations.  As its website proclaims, “It’s your world!”  According to that website, “The U.N. has 4 main purposes

• To keep peace throughout the world;
• To develop friendly relations among nations;
• To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms;
• To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.”

What rational being, what American, what Zambizean or Moldavian or  Kazakhstanian could take issue with that lofty dedication to peace, friendliness, respect, … Read the rest

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   As a former, retired, teacher union member whose father was a member of a company union, I don’t in the least feel hypocritical in opposing the actions of Wisconsin teachers.  Bottom line is, they’re wrong, in the extreme. 

When I began as a public school English teacher in the early 70′s in suburban Long Island, I had no intention of joining either the local or state unions.  Even then, the state union was decidedly liberal and, in fact, there was a movement afoot to expunge the word, “union,” in favor of “association” in order to preserve a sense of teacher … Read the rest

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    Some people are just slow learners. 

The New York Republican Party establishment, in which “Rockefeller Republicans” still hold sway, falls into that category.  Someone should remind them of what happened nationwide on November 2nd when a resurgent conservative movement gave notice that there was a resurgent conservative movement. 

You may recall that old brand of liberal, pseudo-Republicanism dating back to the late fifties which included such illuminati as Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, and Louis Lefkowitz who were all confirmed RINOs long before the term was created.  To a man, they opposed Barry Goldwater for president in 1964 and managed over … Read the rest

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   Nothing riles the Reverend Alfred Charles “Al” Sharpton more than an attack on his people, you know, those people who who throw money his way and enable him to avoid doing an honest day’s work, unless you consider 24/7 racial agitating work.  That is, nothing raises his hackles as much as hard truth. 

Reverend Al got into a royal snit over a billboard erected in New York City’s posh SoHo district which depicted a pretty, young black girl under the caption, “THE MOST Dangerous Place For An African-American IS IN THE WOMB.”

Sponsored and paid for by the anti-abortion group, … Read the rest

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The lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1963 ambiguous anti-war song of protest, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” conclude with the lines, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind/The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”  Regrettably, although Dylan posed some questions, he never provided any answers to the satisfaction of my obtuse mind. 

It’s all the more regrettable since, if Dylan’s mind hadn’t been boiled in drugs, he would still be rambling on today and could tell us the answer when there are more winds blowing than ever before in American history. 

Those winds are blowing everywhere in 2011, winds of … Read the rest

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   “Segregation” is one of those buzzwords employed by social engineers and meant to stir up agita in white people who are led to believe they are complicit in some sort of crime and angst in blacks who are convinced they have been victims of discrimination.  The term amounts to a shibboleth comparable to “McCarthyism” which is tossed around whenever some disloyal individual or group is caught acting disloyally.  

In fact, as used today, “segregation” is less a crime of discrimination as it is a societal and geographical anomoly misused to suggest racial inequities.  Those inequities exist, but not because of … Read the rest

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   The teen fad of texting–if it is just a fad–has been proven to be deadly.

As I’ve written before, “Let’s face it, as any parent or teacher knows, teenagers can be a delight, and they can be horror.  It all comes with the territory, the maturation process, as teens test the limits, push the envelopes, and drive parents to drink and distraction.”  In their natural lack of discretion, young people have all too often exceeded those limits and brought embarrassing and sometimes much worse unintended consequences on themselves. 

One of the earliest testimonials to the deadliness of teenagers posting nude … Read the rest

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In our morally ambivalent age, morality is often considered a subjective concept by which one man’s sense of immorality may be another’s lifestyle but nevertheless, even today, there are certain objective standards on which the vast majority should agree.

AllAboutPhilosophy.org explains that morality relates to a system of standards of right or wrong behavior which, in turn, incorporate moral standards, moral responsibility, or sense of conscience, and a moral identity and can be termed synonymous with ethics, principles, virtue, and goodness. 

The only problem there involves the chicken or the egg dilemma, i.e., what comes first, morality or the conscience … Read the rest

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