Colorado Cable TV Host Calls Boulder Mayor A ‘Big Jew’

Via Shmais.com Here is the article on them

It’s in stores, I already got mine yesterday.

It’s modern Lubavitchism gone wild, fun, interesting, meaningful, and rocking hard.

I’m in a venting mood, so that might be the theme of the day. Also saddened by the Schiavo death, just an uchy day.

This guy in my office, who is quite possibly the loudest and whiniest Kvetcher in the world is naging at me the whole morning. He doesn’t like his job, always asks me to switch jobs, he kvetches non stop. I don’t understand, this is his job background, this is what he has done at past jobs, if he doesn’t like it, he should quit and find another profession. But he doesn’t, and he does his work, usually fast, and always well, if not for that he would have been let go by now, but he is a good worked, and tries hard.

This morning he had a ton to do, and was having little tantrums, so I told him I’d stop what I’m in the middle of doing and help him. All of a sudden he didn’t want his boss helping him I guess, so he say’s no, i can get it all done, etc .. This is not the first time, I’ve offered to ease his load before but always gets turned down. I can understand not wanting your boss to bail you out, but I suspect more than anything he is just a kvetcher. One of these people who always wants to complain about how bad their life is, wo is me.

That to me is the worst kvetcher in the world, don’t kvetch if you don’t want help. Really.

Incidently this is funny …. about kvetching …

How come when there is a bombing in israel the media always reports half the actual numbers, INCLUDING the bomber. Then over the next week the number always doubles.

But when tragedy stikes in other parts of the country the overestimate by double. Yesterday I read reports that anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500 people were killed the in latest earthquakes in Indonisia. This morning i listen to the news and I hear them say, estimates were down to 500 people.

Just Curious

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I’m sorry, but this is sooo odd … they’re standing soo close together … i’m geting the heebee gee bee’s …this is almost as wierd as those bush sr. and clinton tsunami love-fest ad’s.

This just in from CraigsList ………..

LOST JVC VIDEO CAMERA with BABY BIRTH & BRIS RECORDED

Tuesday, 3/8

We lost our video Camera JVC in a yellow cab in upper east side on the day of the Bris of my new baby born while got back from the Synagouge. We taped 3 films with family pictures, my baby’s birth & his bris at the synagouge.

Please, if anyone know something about it or found it, you may kindly keep the camera as a reward - as the memorable 3 tapes in it are MUCH important for us. NO QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED, ALL I NEED ARE THE TAPES, PLEASE. Please be kind and call: 212-534-1984 or e-mail me: ydganit@hotmail.com

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Also on the more humorous, but still true (i think) side.
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DID YOU DROP YOUR CD’S ON THE C TRAIN THIS AM????

Reply to: radiopimpin@yahoo.com
Date: 2005-03-28, 9:24AM EST

You know, you really should not stick your foot in the door like that. You’re lucky the train didn’t speed of with your leg sticking out of it. That being said, in your panic you dropped 2 cd’s. I picked them up and shrugged as the train sped away and you were on the platform. WB and tell me what’s on these CD’s and I’ll mail them to you.
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Random, yes, wierd, yes.

Thanks to my sis for the link.

PS - (anyone know what WB means?)

How cool is this? Via Shmais.com

This morning I was listening to Mike and Mike on ESPN RADIO, getting a little March Madness fix, and it got boring, it was 8:35 and I said, let me switch to Nachum and see if anything worth while is going on there.

Usually there isn’t, but whenever this guy is on I listen. “This Guy” is Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, he is the Rabbi of Bris Avrohom. There is something about the way he speaks, it just makes me focus on every word he says. You could literally feel the warmness in the sound of his voice.

He was on discussing Pesach and other upcoming programs. He spoke about a project he started in memory of his daughter who passed away, a project to increase and encourage Mitzvah’s by children. Read about it here.

That got me thinking though, about Mitzvos in general. I thought about individual Miztvos and little every day ones we do. Everyone has THEIR Mitzvah, something that find easy to do, they connect with, and is very good about. I know my Mitzvah is Mezuzah, since I was a little boy, I always rushed to kiss the Mezuzah, every one, in every door I walked through.

Maybe it’s cause it’s easy to do, maybe it’s cause you get to do it a lot. I know I think about how many people forget about it. Once in a while maybe they do it. But if you watch people you will see many many people just don’t do it. I don’t think its on purpose, it’s just something they aren’t in the habit to do.

What’s your Mitzvah? I once asked a friend of mine this question he told me making bracha’s. I realized how that’s so simplistic yet true, many people aren’t in the habit of always making a bracha on every single thing. They wash for bread, on shabbos everyone is careful, but when youre in the car, holding three things, and opening up your Snapple, while reversing out of a spot do you remember to make that shehokol?

Everyone has their mitzvah.

What’s Yours?

Im too tired to even read this really.

I got new header artwork, courtesy of “my aspiring artist sister”

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A. If you came to this post because of the headline and thought that then you’ve got your head in the gutter,thinking so dirty, must have beenreading too much of this one.

B. If you came here cause you thought I was referring the “white stuff” than you have a more serious problem, and should seek help asap.

C. I may have used that headline to get you here but it was worth it, it’s a good post!

Let’s get down to some business here. My question to you is, when you have a fire lit, a match or a candle, do you blow out the flame or do you wave it out by shaking it, or by snubbing it out in a tray, or wave your other hand at it? Or do you simply blow it out? I don’t know how many other people have heard of this, it might be a lot or maybe just a handful. Growing up I was always taught (loudly usually) that your not allowed (and by not allowed I mean someone thought up this minhag) to blow out a flame. The reason for this is that many times we refer and think of fire as a comparative to a Jewish Neshama. The fire that burns within us, our pintele yid, our soul, or nefesh elokus, the very being of our spirituality is like a fire. For that reason alone we associate lighting candles to marking Yartzheits. Why does a person shuckle when they daven? Why don’t we shuckle when we are at the DMV, or reading the latest Harry Potter book. We shuckle because like a flame flickers and tries to get higher. (heat rises, you’ll notice that the flame is always trying to reach onto whatever is above it, and grab on, if you hold a napkin above the flame without it touching, it will jump to it)

Well, my father, who is a whole bunch of future posts, was a religious dictator in my house. He never really imbued any form of love for the things he told us we had to do or weren’t able to do. Never explained to us why things were not allowed. He was very careful to punish the hell out of us if we did anything wrong, but never taught us any love for Mitzvahs or Minhagim.

After my mother (thankfully) kicked his abusive behind to the curve 15 years ago, many of my siblings and my mother as well, all struggled to separate his iron first ruling of religion in the home from Loving Hashem, doing His mitzvahs, Ivdu es Hashem B’simcha. Some of my siblings were never able to make the separation. Thus shaking off not just my father but Yiddishkeit in general. I myself went up and down, until I re-discovered my own path and came into the level I’m at today on my own.

A lot of over the top things my father taught us I did abandon, (like Bishal Yisroel, which NO ONE has kept in 30 years) but for some reason this blowing out the fire thing stuck with me. In my gut, I felt so guilty every time i blew out a candle, so I don’t. I know it’s ridiculous. But the symbolic’ness of it all just freaks me out. So I kept this minhag.

The first Shabbos i spent with my wife, she blew out the match she used to light the shabbos candles, and i asked her of she had ever heard of not blowing out fire and she said no, I didn’t want tp push something on her, so I never bugged her about it. My wife is deathly afraid of fire, and when she started lighting shabbos candles was using a small matchbook, we eventually went to large kitchen match sticks, which are easier to light. Only problem is the larger the match the bigger the fire, so she was even more terrified. We settled on the large barbecue lighters with a switch, so now, no blowing out, no problem lighting it, when she wants the fire out, she simply lets go of the trigger.

Have any of you ever heard of this custom? How widespread is out? Or isn’t it.