Goodness

No good deed goes unpunished.

This is ALWAYS true!

Enjoy your day everyone.

People and Hate

There will always be people in this world that do not like you.
There could be many reasons for this dislike, and there could be none at all. You could be friends with everyone you know...and yet there will be people that dislike you. Its just a part of life, you cannot please everyone all the time.

Just saying.

The Ignorance of People!

I am so frustrated with inconsiderate ignorant people!

My husband and I went to a great program this past motzei Shabbat. The rabbi was inspiring and right on the money. His wife the rebbetzin was funny, charming and really fun to listen to! If it just wasn't for the BEEP's that can't figure out how to put their phones on silent and or vibrate!

Cell phones have been in wide usage for at leas the last 10 years. By wide usage I mean that I have had a cell phone for at least the last 10 years so have most people in North America. There should be no surprises of how to put your phone from one mode into another.

It does however surprise everyone in the room, even after the announcement of "Please put your phones, pagers, beepers into vibrate or silent mode". Everyone looks around and get's really annoyed and yet...these people just don't get it. Not only did one particular lady didn't get it...she didn't get it twice!

TWICE in one speech that was less than one hour!

Here's a thought: if you are waiting for a phone call, put the phone on vibrate and keep it in your hands and stand by the back door! Don't sit close to the back door but not really and keep the phone in your purse...just so that you have to dig for it while the lecturere pretends to ignore you all the while you cut into their speech for a few seconds...HOW RUDE!

Is that real?

This question seems to follow me and my purse around everywhere we go. It happens to be that I have a nice purse. What I can’t figure out is: do other people with nice purses get approached and asked: “Is that real”? Or do I just emit a vibe that says…nope that can’t be real she wouldn’t be wearing such a real purse.
Usually I just say…”I don’t know” and leave it at that. On Saturday night in the parking garage somebody asked me this particular question and I said “I don’t know”. They could not let it go. How could I not know? What is going on that I don’t know if my purse is real or not, and on it went.

Then I realized: I DON”T CARE and excused myself and walked away.
What I still don’t understand is how people have the audacity to come up to a relative stranger and ask such a question? When I’m wearing my engagement ring do people come up to me and ask: “Is that real”….NO, they don’t. So why is it appropriate to do that when I’m wearing my purse?
So frustrating!

How I love Ambiguous statements.

Over the past weekend I had the privilege of celebrating many simchas within our community. During one such event I got caught up in a conversation that I usually hate having. Yet, my interest was tweaked by a friend that was truly looking for advice in a ‘scientific’ category.
We started talking about organic foods and how the world has become so evil in the use of plastics everywhere and all these other EVIL things that are going on. This is where my attention usually gets exhausted and I find something else to occupy myself with, then to keep listening/ participating in such rubbish. Yet, again a phrase yanked me right back into this particular conversation. One person was stating to another that they know someone that eats exceptionally healthy, and unfortunately they were diagnosed with cancer…BUT because they ate so healthy and were so strong they were able to battle their cancer and thank g-d beat it. Now, I know this particular story (and the person whom the conversation was about). It is true that this person eats exceptionally well, and it is true that this person’s cancer is in remission. However the problem in this story is not the out come but the way the facts were presented.
The fact is this person had chemotherapy and that is why the cancer is in remission. Weather or not this person’s diet helped get them back on their feet faster or not is a point of contention, maybe, maybe not.
Then there was another blanket statement that went something on the grounds of “well, people that eat organic food are just healthier and are able to fight off infections and diseases better”. That’s when I decided that all glove were off and made a few blanket statements as well, really just to see the reaction I would draw from the crowd. Some statements went on the grounds of: “well most people that I’ve seen articles written about drank like fish smoked like it was their job and were really fat and lived to be 100 years old, so how do you explain that”? At which point some around said well that’s ridiculous, as to which I said “no more ridiculous than your ambiguous most people that eat blah blah blah are healthier”. How do you know what they ate, and how it affected them? Give me hard core statistics to prove anything organic is better than anything that isn’t? Give me numbers, theories or anything other than complete speculation and ambiguity. Apparently after that people were thinking way to hard to respond with anything other than, “well you know it’s just a topic to talk about”. I guess I always think that if someone is going to bring up points then the least they could do is prove that those points are accurate.

Truth

For all of those idiots in the world that think that Jews would be allowed to live in peace without the country of Israel please go ahead and read this article. I am always baffled by the amount of stupidity, and stupid trust that people have around the world. Can we the Jews not learn from our own history? Is it sacrilegious to realize that the minute we get a little to comfortable somewhere, something is just bound to happen? Well here is a little evidence, but have no fear more proof is coming.

Without Israel, Jews will not exist, even in America where everything ‘seems’ to be just peachy!

Update: July 1:50pm

G-d Bless America the Great!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/31/shenadoah.beating/index.html

Ironic that the American Press tries to push all of this news under the rug, and yet worries so much about how JUNIOR SENATOR OBAMA's trip to the middle east is going. Ironic.

Terrorism

It is most interesting to me that murdering bastards, war starting hypocrites are given a forum to speak. It is not enough that these alleged leaders ruin their countries, oppress their people and out right kill their own people for their own amusement BUT, we as a civilized and democratic people CHOOSE to ‘negotiate’ with them. It is most amusing to me that the American people as a whole are so tolerant and willing to accept out right lies rather than call something what it is. In this case this is a perfect example of a TERRORIST in power that will inevitably star World War III.

Giving מעשר

Last week in shul there was an announcement that really crawled under my skin. It started with how this year is Shmita year. True. Then it continued with how the farmers in Israel need our help. Ok. Then it continued to say that Rabbi’s in our area all approve of this particular organization and everyone should give to this one particular organization. Ok. The part which I liked the best stated that the MINIMUM to give to this organization is $180. EXCUSE ME? What does that mean MINIMUM? Does that mean if I write a check for $18 nobody will cash it? They will send it back to me saying, ‘I’m sorry this is just not enough!”
Who has the right to tell you who to give to AND how much to give? Is it the right of your rabbi? Maybe it is the right of your friends? Or maybe, just maybe it is Nobody’s business! I will not be pressured to give money to ANY organization which I am not completely comfortable giving money to. If I somehow feel that this is not for me I have the freedom to say NO and to give to another organization. Forcing people, and degrading them into giving into your organization only pushes people farther away from it.
Another fantastic point: why do people assume that any and every organization is worth while for me to give to? Just because you want to give ma’aser to this organization does not mean that I feel the same way. Thank g-d, g-d gave us the ability to pick and choose and make our own decisions. It is because of this that a lot of organizations can and do exist. If everyone picked the same ones to donate to, then only a few would really exist. Since people have the freedom of choice they can pick completely different organizations to support.
Why do people assume that by pressuring others with slogans like “the great rabbi’s in your community support this organization” is going to work on everyone? I believe that there aren’t really any good organizations that the rabbi’s of the community will not support!
It is also my prerogative as to how much money I give to an organization. If I feel strongly towards the cause then I will donate a little more, if I feel like I should give because it’s a nice thing to do then I’ll give a little less.
There also seems to be a lot of people in everyone else’s business. Nobody knows how much money I donate and to what cause so, in my humble opinion they need to stay out of my business. Little slogans like: “well you should donate to this cause because it’s not your money anyways” make me want to puke. It is my money g-d gave it to me and I will decide with the common sense which g-d gave me as well which organization I will support!