Dear Starbucks,
12 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Humanitarian Effort, Society and Culture, Torah Tags: Facebook, Israel, Middle East, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Starbucks
This letter is in reference to your ad which I saw on Facebook ™. Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) urges its members to respond.
What is wrong with the map? This is rather disturbing, and perhaps someone had the notion that in the end, Israel would become an Arabic/Palestinian metropolis — far from that! Israel is an Eternal Jewish State that tolerates citizens of all three of the major religious backgrounds and more. Can we keep the idea of coffee served in the Middle East and not get into would-be political maps depicting Israel not existing — please? If you are as religious as I am, you would know better that Israel is an Eternal nation. Apparently, however, someone must be on the side of hatred of Israel because of Jews, a Palestinian viewpoint, spread through every means possible for propagating baseless hatred. This will only hurt both sides, and you know that. Please show your care of both sides by not delving into the issues.
What is wrong with this idea? How about if you feast your eyes on an image of people of many backgrounds not going back for your coffee and goods? Yes, just think about it: Surely, you will have few people, those with ignorance of the stunt almost pulled off — thank G_d, some people had the notion to talk straight with the staff at the SWC to tell of this. Such an influence from Starbucks Coffee Company does, after all, construes responsibility for how it affects the communities far and wide.
Please understand that without intent to hurt anyone, I state in a few words the way I feel at the moment.
Thanks so much for your valued time. Please act responsibly, and speed up judiciously.
Sincerely,
dov2
~ ‘The 4th’ Time ~
04 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Family, Society and Culture Tags: Independence Day, United States Declaration of Independence
It is our day of independence.
It is our United States of America.
We declared independence this day.
And, we wave Old Glory high.
Happy red, white and blue, everyone!
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Fourth!
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Disputed, not Occupied
01 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Education, Health, Society and Culture Tags: Israel
“Occupied territory” is not politically correct
Upon loading this Youtubetm video, you will want to add the English subtitles, for the video presentation is in Hebrew. I decided that this article should have nothing alongside – even a photo – because the sooner that people see this, the better, as this can become an edifying moment. Thank you.
Why Palestinians want a Video Removed
19 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Education, Environment, Family, Politics, Society and Culture Tags: Government, Israel, Jews, Middle East, Muslims
Based on the Youtube presentation of “Why Arabs want this Video Removed,” authored by Redemption1948, April 6, 2011
The following are from a slide presentation by the author, who graciously permits readers and viewers to spread this so that others might know:
The Arabs who occupy the land of Israel want this video removed.
Feel free to copy this video and help spread the truth the Palestinians seek to deny.
Jerusalem: Muslims and Jews
or:
How and why Palestinians desecrate the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.One of the most important videos on Youtube [] sheds light on the Jewish-Arab conflict (address available at the end).
Jerusalem has been a Jewish holy city since the days of King David. 3000 years ago.
At that time the Arabs were still pagans who used to worship idols such as Al Uzza, Al Lat and Al Mannat at the Kaaba. (Jahiliyya period)
In the year 638 CE the Muslims captured Jerusalem from the Byzantines and built a mosque on the site of the Jewish holy Temple.While Jews pray facing Jerusalem and the Temple mount, Muslims pray towards Mecca.
When Muslims pray in Jerusalem they point their behind to the Dome of the rock and the temple mount.An Islamic holy site?
Palestinians use the temple mount as a playground where they have picnics and play soccer.Sary Nusseibeh, Palestinian professor and the president of the Al Quds University had to go underground after admitting that the temple mount is a Jewish holy site.
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328), whose writings influenced the Wahhabi movement in Arabia ruled that sacred Islamic sites are only in the Arabian Peninsula and that “in Jerusalem, there is not a place one calls sacred , and the same holds true for the tombs of Hebron”
You may already know:
The name Jerusalem (a derogatory Arabic “Al Quds”) is in the Bible, mentioned 667 times, while in the Quran zero (0) times.
According to the Qur`an, the holy land was written by Allah to Israel (Qur`an: Sura 5:21) and that the Jews will return to their land (Qur`an: Sura 17:104)
The Jews are coming back home from the Diaspora. Each of the following verses is a translation from the Stone edition of the Tana’’kh (Jewish Bible):
Isaiah 62:1 –For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be still, until her righteousness emanates like bright light, and her salvation blazes like a torch.
Jeremiah 29:14 – I will make myself available to you – the word of G_d – and I will return your captivity and I will gather you in from all the nations and from all the places where I have dispersed you – the word of G_d – and I will return you to the place from which I exiled you.
Ezekiel 36:24 – I will take you from [among] the nations and gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you to your own soil.
ALEIKHEM SHALOM UVRACHA – Upon you peace and with a blessing
On Youtube TM:
| –> Featured Video: Why Palestinians want this video removed |
| –> Of Importance to Israel: Why Israel cannot withdraw its borders to its pre-1967 borders line |
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His Days Dwindle
04 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Education, Environment, Family, Government, Humanitarian Effort, Politics, Society and Culture, Torah Tags: Government, United States Declaration of Independence, United States of America
Has anyone thought about Alaska and Hawaii not to have been admitted to the Union in 1959, or perhaps, instead, be admitted as late as August 9, 1961? Were this to happen, we would not need to worry about Obama as President, as that would mean he would not be a U.S. citizen.
When is it that anyone has thought of the carrying out the goal of shutting down the public sector and making only the government work? I can tell of what a friend of mine from Serbia tells me of that very instance in his country; it is not pretty. When someone realizes that the current United States President, Obama, uses the Piven and Cloward strategy, which is a business strategy that sabotages everything from within, s/he realizes that we have someone trying to destroy the existing government from within, which then “transforms” our United States of America into his form of government, the governing a village. The way affairs are now, however, the States would become pillage.
Did we all further realize the Obama really never qualifed, though he entered Harvard, and became what he is today? Of course, the only way he might have entered the University is through bribery: money. Though this person has some formal education, he apparently does not follow procedure for behaving as President (as far as I can tell).
The problem is that if anyone else sees this consternation, and if anyone can provide solid proof of this ploy – evidence of the man’s tampering with bothering to make a “fundamental” change – we then have a case; it must be a solid case with solid evidence.
Once before entering this Third Millennium, I had an impasse thought. The thought did not behoove me because I believed it as true and already happened – yet what hid from me is what is to transpire, but one thing was clear: In my mind, there was no President serving for a term, and no Presidential pro tem acting, either. Whether this thought is complete, I do not know.
Now that our past President is no longer in Office, we can recover the principals of the Constitution. We are well aware of the President peevishly changing the words; safeguarded is the original, and it is easy to recover the words in origin. It is to our dismay that he did not follow procedure by requesting congress to approve the move to change the formal definition of a marriage. Should it be an Amendment, then so shall it be with the required voting process.
We now know that he used crude methods for deliberate methods of destroying the democratic process, the process we call Federalism. We return to the principles that our forefathers of the first congress left us.
I vaguely remember any words except for the fact that there was no President and that he bewildered many. One more thing to note: He was not to count as a U.S. President.
There will be some who will say that we did not even have a President for these past four years, circumspect of what he did while he still has the keys.
What happened with Serbia? An official from within the state closed farms and shut factories. What then followed was of no surprise to me; it was a dreadful ending for the official – a fatality.
Let the private sector flourish. Let hiring re-establish the work force. This is a freedom – as much as it is a freedom for women and African Americans to vote. You see, Mr. Obama: Unions and jobs under an ever watchful eye of the government is not at all an exercise of freedom. For the insidiousness you run and operate, you will perish and share a place with Yeshua Pandera, the one accused of worshipping a brick, ca. 150-100 BCE (Talbot, R., 2010-2012, Hoax of the Millenniums).
His days dwindle. (please say, “Ah-meyn.”). Let our freedom rein (Again, please say, “Ah-meyn.”).
References
Talbot, R. (2010-2012). Hoax of the Millenniums, Retrieved June 5, 2011. Retrieved from http://millenniahoax.wordpress.com/
Wikipedia. (n.d.). United States Declaration of Independence. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
Addendum
From the Declaration of Independence:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.… When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces [evidences] a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Obama’s Birth Cert Ostensible
22 Apr 2011 2 Comments
in Education, Government, Society and Culture Tags: Identity document, United States, US
I hear of a controversy over the current President and the availability of his birth certificate. We have Article II Section 1 para 5.
If this were the issue for determining U.S. Pres. Obama’s eligibility, we may need only concern ourselves with the time he became a resident of the United States of America and the amount of time he remained a U.S. resident. With this in mind, I have the following for readers who take interest in his birth place.
General Hospital , Mombasa , Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961 []. “Four days later[,] his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth[,] which omitted the place and hospital of birth” (Freedomtalk Forum, n.d., Alert:: Obama’s Birth Certificate has been Found, para. 5).
However, we still cannot be certain of the ostensible facts about these statements about the certification of Obama’s birth.
References
Baltzell, G. (2005). United States Constitution. http://constitutionus.com/
Freedomtalk Forum. (n.d.). Alert:: Obama’s Birth Certificate has been Found. Retrieved April 22, 2011, from http://freedomtalk.lefora.com/2011/02/07/alert-obamas-birth-certificate-is-found/#post0
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Passover
18 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Family, Society and Culture, Torah Tags: Jewish holiday, Judaism, Temple in Jerusalem
Shalom to all my Jewish brothers and sisters:
Happy Passover!
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PI or Hamentashen?
14 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Education, Family, Humor, Society and Culture Tags: hamantashen, math humor, Purim
First, I offer the dessert:
Sqrt(10) was probably the first approximation
Following that approximation is likely 22/7; there are others.
Did anyone realize that someone derived another rational approximation for PI? From somewhere in 1 Kings, where there is a discussion by Elya (Elijah) about an apparent body of water 10 cubits across, giving 30 cubits around (according to the author), someone adapts it to:
PI ~ 3 /106 * 111.
The latter two numbers have to do with a Hebrew word Kav — wide.
The exact value for PI is 4 * Atan(1), by the way (Use radians, please.)
Hamantashen, what’s that? It is a Purim goodie, and it a lot better than PI — or should I say pie? My favorite fruit fillings are peach and apricot. Do I make you hungry yet?
Be ready to squish a few ears.
Bon apetit!
Copyright © R. L. Talbot and dov2, 2009-2011. Strictly prohibited is unauthorized use, duplication, or both, of this material without express permission from the blog’s author and/or owner. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to R. L. Talbot and dov2 with proper and specific direction to the original content.
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Estival or Hibernal Clock?
12 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Education, Family, Government, Society and Culture Tags: Clock, Daylight Saving Time, Standard Time, United States
If you are in a U.S. State where the time changes around the Vernal and Autumnal equinoxes, then you will want to remember these two rules.
- Towards Spring, the local Standard Time changes from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Daylight Saving Time. Remember to roll your clocks and timepieces ahead one hour. We stretch our loins and estivate.
- Towards the middle of Autumn, the local Daylight Time changes from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. Standard Time. Remember to roll your clocks and timepieces back an hour. We relax and hibernate — or at least lie about and rest.
Only the time of the season can tell you which of these are of need; how immediate depends on the day of rolling the time back or forth. DST begins on the second Sunday of March, or DST begins Sunday, 13 March 2011. Standard Time begins on the first Sunday of November, or Standard Time begins Sunday 6 November 2011. In essence, we lose an hour at the beginning of DST, and we gain an hour back at the beginning of Standard Time.
These are future dates to refer to:
- DST, 2012: 11 March
ST, 2012: 4 November- DST, 2013: 10 March
ST, 2013: 3 November
Will we eventually name these times as estival and hibernal clocks?
Copyright © R. L. Talbot and dov2, 2009-2011. Strictly prohibited is unauthorized use, duplication, or both, of this material without express permission from the blog’s author and/or owner. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to R. L. Talbot and dov2 with proper and specific direction to the original content.
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