The Eleanorian

up and at 'em

up and at 'em. time to get out of libya. time to get out of iraq. time to get out of afghanistan. up and at 'em. time to take care of the american public, especially those without health insurance. why are we funding wars while there are homeless? why are we funding wars while there are unemployed? come on tea party and koch bros, time to get up and out of here. don't put a drain stoppage on the american government. stop outsourcing, tax breaks for the rich. help the po. let joe the plummers get back to work.

A cultural embarrassment on the Internet--read on....

The below Website, Jews for Sarah, is the most insidious Website in years. A friend on Facebook said there were probably Jews who voted for Hitler. And reading Philip Roth's Operation Shylock these days--I know that "self-hating" can be ironic. The following Website has no irony:

http://jewsforsarah.com/

Sarah Palin--the Mayor of "B-I-N-G-O"

Sarah Palin is the brain to nowhere. Or maybe she's the cerebral hemorrhage that's been squished in the New York subway station by a large rat named Elma beween gum wrappers and Tootsie rolls.

When you listen to Sarah speak, she sounds like a character who escapted "B-I-N-G-O." Yes, do y'all remember that song about the dog we sang in Kindergarten? Well, Sarah's marbles in mouth sound as if she could have been Mayor of B-I-N-G-O and shot the dog and thus ended the world they lived in.

Sarah is hot in the sense that perhaps acid it hot.  She is fawned over by working-class thugs/red necks/ex-Lehman Brother workers who, like Alec Baldwin, believe that the world has changed drastically since Shirley Chisholm was running for president. 

If Sarah had been a victim of the panty raid in Phillip Roth's recent novel Indignation (frat boys at a 1950s midwest college threw female students' white panties into the snow), she would have assisted the young lads. But she's so duplicitous that she would not have likely inspired any of their erectile facilities.

Sarah's resources--such as her high school yearbook for choosing people for government jobs when she became governor of Alaska--or her helicopter that she understandably uses to shop at Wal-Mart--is beyond the Palin.

That she asked Biden if she could call him "Joe" at the debate, well, that was demeaning to women who want to be on more than the flirt level with their male contemporaries. Maybe she should have stopped the debate and said, "Joe, I'd like to kiss you but I'd be ridiculed more than Princess Elizabeth was during the Renaissance when she allowed a married admiral to touch her buttocks."

Sarah annoys women more than men because we live in a culture of extreme self-hatred as women; and when we see a woman such as Palin who truly embodies the beloved stereotypes of male chauvinists, well, it sends us to CVS in the hopes of ODing on Comet.

Sarah's a heart beat away from that burn victim McCain who is certain to press an atomic button or two, if given a chance.

If you read this, and have not made up your mind, vote for a brain that is not the bridge to nowhere. Or you can always get a lobotomy after they get elected and imagine that it never happened.

NJ is the Man!

Everyone is always complaining that the Garden State is the Toxic State, which it is. But it also has gorgeous horse farms, multifaceted malls, a history of award-winning poets and authors and singers and artists and yuppies and big-haired girls and hockey teams, and now--check it out--faygelahs and dykelahs can get some legal paperwork processed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/nyregion/19civil.html?em&ex=1172120400&en=bbddec40e7d91b26&ei=5087%0A

France & Hezbollah?

I find it strange but predictable that France is so eager to have its troops in charge and in front of the UN Force stationed between Lebanon and Israel---on their border. They feel a kinship because they used to be Lebanon's imperial power. They, France, have also stated that they would not disarm Hezbollah. That's kind of like--okay, we'll let the Nazis arm because it's their right. As they send Jews and Gypsies to the trains, we won't intervene. The entire point of Israel going into Lebanon was to disarm Hezbollah because it continuously shoots missiles into Israel. Ban France. Don't trust them. They are what we call "passive-aggressive." They've wanted to be America for the last 30 years or so but guess what France: you are not now, nor will you ever be, the imperial usurper of human rights you once were. For reference, please see the great movie, "The Battle of Algiers," in which the Algerian population launched an awesome revolt again the imperialistic and parasitic French rulers.

Hezbollah

Hezbollah is doing the same thing Hamas is but with more efficiency. They are funding schools, hospitals and an entire army in Lebanon. With a charismatic leader--another Osama.

I've seen newsreels or the Hezbollah army. It is an army and has thousands of missiles.

And these missiles are piercing souls in Israel.

Hezbollah plants its mobile missile launchers near children, mosques, hospitals, etc. In the middle of your everyday suburban neighborhood.

That'd be like if the PLO or Osama placed mobile missile launchers in Levittowns throughout Long Island.

Hezbollah is a Shi'ite movement and El Quaeda is a Sunni movement and ostensibly these groups hate each other. But they hate Israel more. They plan for the destruction of the State of Israel.

They claim not to be a terrorist movement and in reality, they are a formidable army in Lebanon and that is why Israel should obliterate Hezbollah's existence.

Israeli missiles destroy Hezbollah missiles which are planted in Lebanon--and Hezbollah's strategy works--the world hates Israel which is bombing civilian neighborhoods where Hezbollah has planted its mobile missile launchers.

Modigliani and Castro

I'd like to begin this blog saying that Modigliani is a depressing movie. Probably not as depressing as having lived in Cuba or having fled from Cuba if you were middle or upper middle class. Even the poor are not doing well these days.

I said to my good friend Jenny J, who is half Cuban, "Isn't Castro like Hitler because he is evil and helped the economy?"

And her reply was, "He was evil but the economy--." Yeah, the economy sucks.

In any case, I'm still watching Modigliani, about the Jewish-Italian artist and his alcoholism and wife and it's all very depressing--how he suffered, drank, got beat up, competed with Picasso. All that.

And he had a great heart, or so Andy Garcia's portrayal lets us believe.

I am going to put a Modigliani painting on this blog because he was so brilliant, whereas I, like many fellow Cubans, hope that the pain and suffering caused by Fidel will end soon.

Don't Blame the Muslims

It's easy during a wartime era to blame the Muslims, when it's really a contentious minority that wants to impede any sense of peace in their societies and ours. We agree with Thomas L. Friedman's piece that more moderate Muslim leaders and countries need to be condemnatory of Al Queada. But you can't point the finger at mosques or Muslims and make them the victims of what extremists are doing in their society and ours. For there are many working class Muslems who were affected by the subway and bus blasts last week.

London

Al Quaeda claims responsibility because they're a bunch of cowards who are perpetrating these crimes against humanity. Some liberals believe we will be bombed in the future because we invaded Iraq and that Al Quaeda is the enemy so why did we invade Iraq? Well we invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who killed thousands of innocent people and because there's oil there. In addition, there are lots of Al Quaeda terrorists in Iraq now. In London's permissive society there are lots of Al Quaeda (old and young recruits).

In America we have imprisoned some innocent Muslems. But many of those imprisoned are not so innocent. Similarly, there are lots of "hate" mosques in London where Al Quaeda-like people preach to the newly converted and disenfranchised youth. So it's no surprise, therefore, that this happened. London needs to be more extreme in arresting potential terrorists--especially those individuals who preach death and hatred to the West.

Al Quaeda is mostly threatened by our liberal values. Our liberal values, however, sometimes prevent them from being imprisoned.

Tom Cruise's Publicist (Scientologist Spokeswoman)

Seems like everyone, including Tom's sister Lee Anne (also his publicist) is a Scientologist.

Our friend Mary "saw Lee Anne today on a news clip about Tom Cruise proposing to Katie Holmes in Paris. Keep an eye out if you happen to see it. The footage was of a press conference today in Paris where Tom was promoting War of the Worlds (I think), but he also announced that he had proposed to Katie at the Eiffel Tower.

Apparently his publicist (I assume Lee Anne), put this announcement out over the wire with 'URGENT' written all over it. The people on Good Day New York (Fox) were totally making fun of it, saying stuff like, 'usually when bulletins come over like this, it's really important.'"

Apparently Katie also likes The Church of Scientology more than Nicole because Nicole apparently didn't want to raise her kids as clones of this organization.

And what of the bitchy sister? Poor Katie has to deal with Lee Anne who we hear, from people who used to be related to her by Scientologist marriage, is a quintessential bitch--very protective of her lunkhead brother.

You ever see those Scientologists in the subway tunnels offering people a free stress test? We hear it was stressful being in the same room as the Scientologists. Thank G-d there is a Germany, and thank G-d they consider the Church of Scientology a cult.