Oh, Leave Us Alone!

How stupid is this?  "Hanukkah-Thanksgiving mash-up: ‘Thanksgivukkah’. When holidays collide, you get the ‘Menurkey’".  No, thank you! It's tacky, too commercial, and diminishes the meaning behind the two holidays.

The One Who Knocks

I'm going to miss all those great "Breaking Bad" analyses now that the show is over, but the Internet is still full of good articles for those of us who can't get enough.  Here's a Jewish perspective, and this is the "I am the one who knocks" speech as written by famous authors.

Lots 'o Links

Here's more great reading on the government shutdown and other news thanks to Betsy's Page, Maggie's Farm, and Larwyn's Linx.

The Wild Wild West

Will they blame this on the Republicans, too?  "Both ABC and NBC reported that someone tried to ram the White House gate and was then chased, going to the Capitol. ABC is reporting that a female suspect is now dead."

Stuck on Obama

From The People's Cube.

Health Care for Julia

Did you see the Obamacare website? I'm assuming the woman in the photograph is Julia.

Living Long Is The Best Revenge

Read about the life of Israel Gutman, who has died at age 90 -- a survivor of not one but three Nazi concentration camps, a professor, and a historian.  People who whine today about how tough life is should look to him for inspiration.

Editorial Cartoons

By Gary Varvel

By Michael Ramirez

You Press The Button, We Do The Rest

Here are some great old Kodak photographs. The camera shown resembles the one my grandfather had.

Why Work? Others Will Do It For You!

William Murchison says the problem isn't Obama, the problem is us -- that is,  people so used to getting something for nothing that they now expect it, at the expense of the rest of us.  Obama just encourages this way of thinking.  Murchison writes,  "After Obamacare — which is likely to survive in diminished or expanded form, once it hooks 10 or 20 or 30 millions of us on the joys of health care funded by other taxpayers — no one can tell where things will lead. Earlier retirement, bigger pensions, bigger schools, subsidized auto purchases, subsidized utilities — who can say? This makes it all the more important to restrain, to diminish, the reach and power of Obamacare…. Such is the story Ted Cruz and the whole host of celebrity conservative spokesmen should be telling now in level voices: Obama isn’t the problem; Obamacare isn’t the problem. These are passing afflictions. The problem is America’s growing acceptance of the delusory propositions that opportunity means someone else’s good luck; that passing the buck is the prelude to receiving bucks galore from other parties; that the government must surely love and care for you, because… well, don’t you watch the President’s speeches?" 

I am sick and tired of being punished for working and earning money! And I don't work so that others can benefit from it -- I work so I can benefit from it!