JJG Journal

For obvious reasons, apart from children and the mentally retarded no one watches commercial TV anymore. My son told me he tried to watch “Borat” on commercial TV once, but due to FAA censorship it was a completely different movie than the original. I can well believe that. Some good material is broadcast via commercial TV but if you are going to sit through hours of commercials to catch minutes of your favorite show, you desperately need a life or brain. Best show on commercial TV at this point has to be the Jon Stewart Show. This clip is particularly funny

America Is Becoming Less Christian, Less Religious.

The state of Israel is committing moral suicide by adopting Nazi-style methods of aerial bombing of civilian populations and subsequent collective punishment. Not easy to watch a democratically elected government behave like this. The recent Israeli election has seen the country shift further to the right, with Radical extremist Avigdor Lieberman emerging as the kingmaker in forming the next Israeli government. His agenda: bombing Iran, crushing Hamas in Gaza, stopping negotiations and cracking down on Israeli Arabs...Continue Reading »

Jon Stewart and the writers of his show do just that…

George Mitchell has now been tasked with the most difficult diplomatic mission one can imagine: To negotiate a resolution to the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As mentioned in a previous post, I don’t think that the two-state solution that everybody had been talking about for as long as I can remember is a viable possibility. This article poses 5 tough, reality-based...Continue Reading »

“The hate us for our freedom”, as Ex-President Bush said. Read this to see if Bush got this one right…Why do they hate the West, we will ask.

runs contrary to the long-term interest of the state of Israel and its citizens. Killing innocent civilians is neither wise, nor self-defense. It is an act of terrorism. Same as sending home-made Qassam rockets into populated areas in order to terrorize the Israeli population. There are no good guys in this game and the resolution can not be achieved through more violence. Hamas is a repulsive fundamentalist organization that thrives on hatred for all Jews, Israel is a repulsive militaristic state whose policies consist of disproportionately violent and indiscriminate responses to provocations...Continue Reading »