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January 3rd

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A “New Year”, but nothing new. Our Lord and Protector has asked for immunity from prosecution while in office; something he had declared he wouldn’t do. Liberman, in the meantime, tells American Jews they need to move to Israel (not that I disagree). And those American Jews don’t yet seem to understand the danger they’re in. “New York is our Jerusalem”. Been there, done that, many dozens of times; it always ends the same way, but apparently our “people of the Book” didn’t read that book. My coreligionists in the US might want to take a look at 6 firearms that will fit in your tallit bag.

While Jews in the US have been getting mown down like sheep, by people whose motives are “unclear” or “complicated” — to the point where visibly Jewish people in NYC are in physical danger — in Texas, a gunman entered the wrong church to commit his villainy. Naturally, the Left is wringing its collective hands over those parishioners carrying guns to church. They gloss over the fact that those gun-toting worshippers put a quick end to the bad-guy, and prevented a massacre.

Because “guns bad”. And its moral corollary, “violence never solved anything”.

Both statements are demonstrably false. Guns are not moral actors, they are tools: neither good nor bad. In the right hands they can be used for good, as that Texas incident proves. And “violence”, when directed and focused properly, has indeed solved very many problems. Just ask the Carthaginians how the Third Punic War worked for them, or the Japanese about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, or the Germans on Dresden. It’s insufficient violence which fails to solve problems.

Enough with the facile platitudes, please.

Not particularly cruel, but most unusual:

• “Hairy Legs” Biden told coal-miners they could “learn to code”. In his actual words, “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”. The man’s an actual idiot in need of a village.
• Software disenchantment. He’s not wrong.
• Plant-based burgers will make men grow boobs according to some fringe reports. That’s all right: the boobs will just match the overhanging gut from all the beer and fries. Seriously: if you’re eating so many burgers your mammaries grow, you’ve likely got many more problems.

My week was spent mostly working on making 8th go Nuklear. It’s an ongoing project to get rid of “JUCE”, and so far it’s moving along nicely and generating some “buzz”.

I was inspired by a friend this week to make “gumbo”. Since I can’t make a legitimate one due to keeping kosher, I opted for a vegan “gumbo”. It was surprisingly good, and my mom had two helpings: probably because she didn’t know it had a pile of okra in it…

Esther’s been on a knitting-rampage. She’s (apparently) part of a team in a competition, so we’re becoming inundated in baby-hats. I forgot to mention last week: she repurposed Sarah’s room, turning it into a woman-cave. Now I only see her at meal-times.

The weather’s cold, and it’s supposed to rain for shabbat. Our three weeks of winter has begun!

This shabbat we’re going simple:
homemade ḥalla, mushroom soup, meatballs and rice, probably other stuff, various salatim, and poppy-lemon cake.

Until next time,
shabbat shalom!

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