tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post4475644576696230460..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: An Open Letter to Gail Simmons of Food & Wine Magazine Concerning Its Honoring of Racist Cafe Owner, Reem AssilMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-91568708764394756992018-04-23T23:17:12.417-07:002018-04-23T23:17:12.417-07:00That's the thing. My wife and I used to look ...That's the thing. My wife and I used to look forward to the Academy Awards. Now we can't sit through it. I don't care what their politics are. I don't want to spend 3 hours listening about it during a movie awards show. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-17900360139618690722018-04-23T15:37:47.089-07:002018-04-23T15:37:47.089-07:00Trudy,
They were evicted from the premises. They ...Trudy,<br />They were evicted from the premises. They were arrested. What I want to know is which part of the incident was racist. Where's Waldo?<br />Being asked to leave while black is not in and of itself racism. I am so sick and tired of hearing the constant din of "racism," where the circumstances are at best murky and questionable. It's like I never left Berkeley. <br />The two youths may have actually seen this as racism. That doesn't mean it was. But that is exactly what we are now supposed to believe. <br /><br />There already were protests at Reem's over a mural of someone who doesn't accept the law, international or local, but who believed in whipped up tribal passions, who tried to murder scores of people for being the "wrong type" of people, succeeded in two cases, and the owner of the cafe who believes in the same thing. People ripped signs of protestors hands, said awful things to them including veiled threats, the cops were called, and one protestor I happen to know was dragged into court for exercising his first amendment right to write about it. Where's the national outrage? <br /><br />In Philadelphia two guys, non-customers, loitering, were asked to leave, but they were black, in a city with a large black population, in a Starbucks that probably serves loads of black customers, where black people probably work. I've seen no indication that Starbuck's harbors ill-will toward black people, or calls for their murder or subjugation. No murals on the wall celebrating the klan. Nothing. Nada. Nichts. Yet this is considered a racist incident and national scandal. You can see the shakedown coming. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70371328495570617112018-04-23T14:34:28.322-07:002018-04-23T14:34:28.322-07:00Russell and College Ave = high rent.
Russell and College Ave = high rent.<br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-69814280582525519632018-04-23T13:28:24.159-07:002018-04-23T13:28:24.159-07:00The evidence is trickling in that the so called ev...The evidence is trickling in that the so called eviction from Starbucks of 2 or 3 black men who claimed to be waiting for someone was an intentionally staged event. And certainly all the protests that stemmed from it were and are still from the same fraternity they are members of. <br /><br />So I propose that someone, preferably black or brown, stage a similar civil disruption at Reem's in Oakland, get thrown out or better, detained by the cops in order to trigger a series of protests highlighting the 'palestinian' racism towards black or brown people. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-38091752903245813642018-04-23T13:16:28.010-07:002018-04-23T13:16:28.010-07:00Meanwhile.....
https://www.americanthinker.com/bl...Meanwhile.....<br /><br />https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/04/berkeley_cafe_closure_forces_left_to_decide_between_having_their_racial_virtuesignalling_and_drinking_their_coffee_too.htmlEmpress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-84075923598698891102018-04-23T10:49:32.851-07:002018-04-23T10:49:32.851-07:00As for Antonio Salieri:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...As for Antonio Salieri:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri<br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-40643784186436269472018-04-23T10:42:29.312-07:002018-04-23T10:42:29.312-07:00Anthony Bourdain is CNN's answer to news conte...Anthony Bourdain is CNN's answer to news content. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-47054037588177005492018-04-23T10:40:57.151-07:002018-04-23T10:40:57.151-07:00Yes, I saw a clip of her just a few days ago talki...Yes, I saw a clip of her just a few days ago talking about that on Bill Maher's old show. (I spend far too much time on youtube.) As usual, she was interesting, probably far more so than the people she was arguing with at school.<br />Roger Waters is rock music's answer to Richard Wagner. Bombastic, pompous, and antisemitic. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-39839754259231423562018-04-23T10:07:45.101-07:002018-04-23T10:07:45.101-07:00From Roger Waters to Anthony Bourdain, I am gettin...From Roger Waters to Anthony Bourdain, I am getting very tired of people whose art I love turning out to be total schmucks.<br /><br />I guess this is a small taste of what Antonio Salieri felt.<br /><br />But, y'know, Camille Paglia wrote about this in one of her collections of essays.<br /><br />She was at Yale in the late 60s or early 70s and was, or so she says, the first openly lesbian graduate student there or in the lit dept or whatever.<br /><br />She talks about getting into a screaming battle-to-the-death with a few of her co-graduate students at a party over Under My Thumb by the Stones!<br /><br />Can you imagine?<br /><br />What Paglia argued is that you can separate the art from the man.<br /><br />I still do not know the truth of that matter.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-15085386729645691532018-04-23T09:59:23.678-07:002018-04-23T09:59:23.678-07:00That is a very good idea!That is a very good idea!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-88024532506672979412018-04-23T09:57:43.296-07:002018-04-23T09:57:43.296-07:00It's unconscionable. I can understand that Ass...It's unconscionable. I can understand that Assil, as a hard-line anti-Zionist activist will have friends that would call us "White Supremacists" and even, for reasons that I still do not understand, "homophobes" despite the fact that almost half of us at the vigils were Gay.<br /><br />But what amazes me is that the NYT, the SF Chronicle (total rag) and Food & Wine would celebrate this woman.<br /><br />The NYT I expect nothing from. Hell, they even downplayed the friggin' Holocaust.<br /><br />The Chronicle is a joke.<br /><br />But Food & Wine?<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />Gail Simmons broke my heart.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-76293075304624263402018-04-23T09:51:52.934-07:002018-04-23T09:51:52.934-07:00We like the Academy Awards. Laurie enjoys the &quo...We like the Academy Awards. Laurie enjoys the "red carpet" and I enjoy spitting and complaining. :O)Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-33544299240322542242018-04-23T09:47:53.668-07:002018-04-23T09:47:53.668-07:00You're a local chef!
Y'know, OLT, one of ...You're a local chef!<br /><br />Y'know, OLT, one of the funny things is that Oakland is filled with retail spaces that have signs reading <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=oakland+stands+united+against+hate&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS747US747&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDxbqo7NDaAhUJOawKHdWYDDkQ_AUICigB&biw=1093&bih=510" rel="nofollow">Oakland Stands United Against Hate.</a><br /><br />It's such insidious nonsense that it just pisses me off.<br /><br />Oakland stands united against hate... except in the case of the Jewish people where it seems to be understandable and promoted as a matter of "social justice."<br /><br />And they even sought to drag me into court for writing about it.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-89622893292304344242018-04-23T09:43:33.090-07:002018-04-23T09:43:33.090-07:00At this point I am fairly amazed that the message ...At this point I am fairly amazed that the message is simply not getting through. It is not as if there is any honest doubt that Reem Assil is honoring a convicted and confessed murderer, yet apparently they just love that flatbread.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-50236081118786145322018-04-22T09:00:31.111-07:002018-04-22T09:00:31.111-07:00As Hollywood cashes in on the blockbusters they ar...As Hollywood cashes in on the blockbusters they are giving their prestigious awards to lousy films with pronounced political agendas. Jimmy Kimmel admitted as much on air. And that crowd loved him for it. <br /><br />Once upon a time they gave out awards using good film making as the criteria. They didn't have people at the podium telling you how they enjoyed a film as a ____________ (fill in the intersectional identity).<br />As an alternative they had stuff like this:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZkOHcjyak<br /><br />Can a SJW even imagine such a thing?<br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-20686657057854527742018-04-22T07:50:25.788-07:002018-04-22T07:50:25.788-07:00Oh, yes, Anthony Bourdain. He has an episode on &q...Oh, yes, Anthony Bourdain. He has an episode on "Jerusalem" (probably the most fascinating city on Earth), and spends 3/4 of the show in the West Bank and Gaza ... not talking about food. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-83356416165350181702018-04-22T07:23:39.869-07:002018-04-22T07:23:39.869-07:00That's an interesting insight, Jacob.
MARVEL ...That's an interesting insight, Jacob.<br /><br />MARVEL is going thru something similar.<br /><br />The movies are kicking ass at the box office because they are remaining true to the characters from Iron Man to Wonder Woman to Black Panther.<br /><br />The comic book market is getting hit because they do miserable shit like turning Captain America into a Nazi or have new characters wearing t-shirts saying, "Ask me about my feminism."<br /><br />As for the anti-2nd Amendment kids, they are just a useful momentary phase of the Democratic Party.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-58472119678400888322018-04-22T06:23:58.435-07:002018-04-22T06:23:58.435-07:00F&W seems to be encroaching on Anthony Bourdai...F&W seems to be encroaching on Anthony Bourdain's space where he typically prattles on about human rights and the glory that is the 'palestinian' cuisine. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60417015975457128572018-04-21T18:46:55.803-07:002018-04-21T18:46:55.803-07:00Placing an "Open Letter to Gail Simmons"...Placing an "Open Letter to Gail Simmons" on this blog is good, but there is no substitute for placing a paper-copy of this open-letter into her two hands.<br /><br />If that is not possible, then send a copy of this open-letter to her by traditional mail, three times, on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, to insure that she reads it.<br />============================================<br /><br /><b><i>Ancient Roman historians <br />connected Jews with the Land of Israel</i>:</b><br /><br />https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html<br /><br />============================================<br /><br /><b><i>Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable</i>:</b><br /><br />www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/27/israel-cannot-withdraw-from-the-west-bank/<br /><br />https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html <br /><br />============================================<br /><br /><b>How to Convict the <i>New York Times</i> <br />of Unfair Bias Against Israel:</b><br /><br />https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-nyt-erases-israel-from-map.html<br /><br />http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postnyt-vs-israel.html<br /><br />https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-how-to-convict-new-york-times.html<br />Mr. Cohenhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/DerechEmet/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-84851043598198568672018-04-21T14:16:49.515-07:002018-04-21T14:16:49.515-07:00"According to the plea agreement signed by Od..."According to the plea agreement signed by Odeh and accepted by the court, Odeh admitted that she lied about her criminal history, by falsely denying that she ever had been arrested, charged with a crime, convicted, or imprisoned. Odeh admitted today that she had omitted her Israeli arrest, charge, conviction and imprisonment from her United States naturalization application even though she knew she was required to disclose them. Odeh also admitted that ’At the time she made the false statements, Defendant knew the statements were false, and that she made the false statements intentionally and not as a result of any mistake, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or any other psychological issue or condition, as she had previously claimed in court proceedings, or for any innocent reason. Odeh also admitted that at the time she made the false statements, she knew that it was unlawful for her to provide false information to the United States government in connection with her application for Immigrant Visa and her application for naturalization. Had Odeh revealed the truth about her criminal history, as she was required to by law, she never would have been granted an immigrant visa, admitted to the United States, allowed to live here for the last 22 years, or granted United States citizenship."<br /><br />https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/individual-convicted-overseas-being-terrorist-who-participated-1969-british-consulate<br /><br />This is who this new celebrity chef lionizes, as Palestinians express their Nazi love. American Jews, largely, would rather attack Israel for being the liberal state it is and look the other way to true injustice. Go figure.<br /><br />oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-50509986727715468322018-04-21T10:44:27.983-07:002018-04-21T10:44:27.983-07:00At least 2 out of 10 on this list are obviously ch...At least 2 out of 10 on this list are obviously chosen for progressive politics.<br />Maybe others too, but it's too much effort to research. You can no longer trust any recommendations. Sci Fi was gone years go, as Nebula and other awards push PC compliant garbage over actually enjoyable books. Hogg just got a book deal, he's probably already worth more than most people reading this board.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14901811045493439598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-6342412200462423512018-04-21T09:05:56.273-07:002018-04-21T09:05:56.273-07:00I have no reason to doubt that this was an honest ...I have no reason to doubt that this was an honest mistake on behalf of Food & Wine and my guess is that Gail Simmons had nothing whatsoever to do with it. But she is the face of the publication and I just want her to realize that they've made a mistake.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-39123223849424368332018-04-21T06:55:16.569-07:002018-04-21T06:55:16.569-07:00Well said Mike L. Serving hate with flatbread is n...Well said Mike L. Serving hate with flatbread is not social consciousness. All hate must be condemned. One Less Thinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01226170728153324433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-22464758679523685422018-04-20T23:00:47.205-07:002018-04-20T23:00:47.205-07:00Will Food & Wine next be toasting Bubba's ...Will Food & Wine next be toasting Bubba's KKK Cafe? <br />"Their grits are yummy, and come from an old family recipe." "Confederate battle flags, a floor to ceiling mural of Jefferson Davis, and a few photos of lynchings adorn the walls and give an authentic, homey feel." <br />"Bubba says he wanted a place where people could discuss, or his word "jaw" about the injustice meted out to the confederacy. About blacks he says, observantly, and bravely, that the oppressed have become the oppressors." "Bubba's is just filled to the brim with California Love. 4 stars"JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.com