Apple Store line on the UWS for the new iPhone 4

This is dedication...

Parshat Balak

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What happens when you drink a Coke?

Great find by Adam Steiner. As someone who has consistently worked at removing soda from my diet, I found this inspiring:

What Happens to Your Body If You Drink a Coke Right Now
by Liz Lewis
• Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? Because it gets you high. They removed the cocaine almost 100 years ago. Why? It was redundant. • In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (And there’s plenty of that at this particular moment.)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate; your blood pressure rises; as a response, your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness.

• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production, stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• > 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium, and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• > 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium, and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes, and water.
• > 60 minutes: As the rave inside you dies down, you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like hydrating your system, or building strong bones and teeth.
• This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) Want to know what happens after that? Check out what happens to your body after you drink a coke, every day for a long time.
• Coke itself isn’t the enemy here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid, which are found in almost all sodas. Moderation, people!

Heart attack Cafe

If you gotta go, go deep fried!

Parshat Chukat

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Words from the Spaniards

Thank you Dovid Green for finding this. José María Aznar, who was the Prime Minister of Spain between 1996-2004, has created a "Friends of Israel Initiative." Recently, British newspaper, The Times, published his op-ed. It is a very good read, and the general theme as quoted by Aznar is "If Israel goes down, we all go down." Check out the full article here.  

OUr seal is on there too

While this blog focuses on interesting and humorous posts, I could not pass up posting this story. Recently, in my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU we had a representative of ExactTarget come in and give a presentation on email marketing. He also had with him three autographed copies of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. As luck would have it, I won one of the three copies by guessing that a numerical figure posted in the course of the presentation represented the total annual revenue generated by email marketing campaigns. When I received the book, I also received a pen and a pack of specially designed M&Ms with ExactTarget's name stamped across the package, and of course the M&Ms were color coordinated with ExactTarget's colors. Almost immediately after receiving them, I noticed an OU-D on the back and raised my hand and announced that my company's logo is on the package of M&Ms as well.

I like that story, but the reason I am posting it is because it will now be shuffled around the OU as the second of its kind. The first time is when Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb met President Bush, he was handed a pack of red, white and blue M&Ms with the seal of the president on the package, and he smiled, flipped over the package to show that his seal, the seal of the OU was on the package as well.

Who is this guy?

It is so refreshing to see a member of the House of Representatives boldly and proudly show America's support for Israel. Now if we could only get our president to.



and then I saw this, which suddenly makes me ask, who is this guy? Rep Pence from Indiana, I salute you!

Real Men of Genius

Thank you for posting this Josh Richton. These are oldy but goodies.

Top Ten Reasons Israel did not make the World Cup!

10. Team's strong defense constantly confused with unnecessary offense
9. Only allowed to score proportionately to opponent
8. Kicking anything is immediately considered state sponsored terror
7. Chief Referee: Richard Goldstone
6. Constantly occupying opponents net
5. When team calls time out, UN calls emergency session
4. Whole team given red cards just for showing up
3. The Black and White ball is grey to rest of the world
2. Always considered off sides
1. Who needs a World cup when you've already got a Yiddishe one?

Thanks Bangitout for another great top ten...

The lower case a-Team

To quote one commenter on Youtube: "There are no words to describe how awesome this is"

this is a shopping list

New Mortal Kombat movie?

Wow this movie looks quite graphic. It is amazing what they have done with it. It's like the movie Se7en  merged with the video game Mortal Kombat...



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Portion Pac chosen by Inc Magazine

I am happy to announce that my Uncle, Marvin Klein's company PortionPac has been honored by Inc Magazine as one of the best places to work in the U.S.
You can read about it here

A Look Inside the Un-Factory

Irma Carrillo (left) and plant supervisor Mary Jaramillo sit awhile with PortionPac's owners. Marvin Klien and Warren Weisberg(far right). The factory is full of beach umbrellas; workers unfurl them when the sun coming through the skylights becomes too strong.

Weisberg, Marvin, and Burt Klein, the company's president (right), have rescued employees in every kind of trouble

 

Song of the day

Great comment found below this clip:
"Aint no american idol wimps here, this is where the BIG DOGS bark"

Steven Spielberg on the Shema

Towel heads

easy on the toner

The green mullet returns

Pun!

On Helen Thomas

By now I am sure you have all seen the video in which veteran White House Press journalist Helen Thomas said that all Jews should get out of Palestine and go back to Poland and Germany.  As shocking as it is to hear, I am certainly glad the left wing liberal biased media's colors are finally showing in true form. Bill Maher said "If you are a racist, you are probably Republican." I think not. The old ideology of antisemitism being a social norm is sadly quickly creeping back into the mainstream. Anti-Israel Jews are doing nothing to help that mindset I might ad. In any case, see the following:


Also, check out the following articles:
Washington Post
Helen Thomas agrees to bow out as commencement speaker at Walt Whitman High

Jerusalem Post
An Open Letter to Helen Thomas 

The Huffington Post
Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas

Media Bistro
WHCA Outraged by Helen Thomas, Considers Punishment

CNN-The end! 
Helen Thomas Retires


Jon Stewart-Hilarious!
Jon Stewart Takes on Helen Thomas for Israel Remarks (Video)

Love this guy

Than you Adam Steiner, great find. This is the type of politician people envision when they cast their vote. Thankfully, NJ elected Gov Christie.  Maybe just maybe his positive and effective attitude in policy will spread throughout the country.

A Lesson in History

Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews

Charles Krauthammer
Friday, June 4, 2010; A19


The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers.
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.
In World War II, with full international legality, the United States blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba turned back because the Soviets knew that the U.S. Navy would either board them or sink them. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry.
Oh, but weren't the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief? No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel's offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza -- as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.
Why was the offer refused? Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israel's inspection regime, which would mean unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas.
Israel has already twice intercepted ships laden with Iranian arms destined for Hezbollah and Gaza. What country would allow that?
But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade? Because, blockade is Israel's fallback as the world systematically de-legitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself -- forward and active defense.
(1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward defense -- fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan Heights) rather than its own.
Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for peace. But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer zone. Thus Israel retained a small strip of southern Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel. And it took many losses in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror attacks. It is for the same reason America wages a grinding war in Afghanistan: You fight them there, so you don't have to fight them here.
But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the anti-Israel insurgencies -- and therefore withdrawal, by removing the cause, would bring peace.
Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the land -- evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005. What did it get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of unrelenting rocket attack.
(2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense -- military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President Obama's description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda) the newly armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon and Gaza after Israel withdrew.
The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09. They were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the same international community that had demanded the land-for-peace Israeli withdrawals in the first place. Worse, the U.N. Goldstone report, which essentially criminalized Israel's defensive operation in Gaza while whitewashing the casus belli -- the preceding and unprovoked Hamas rocket war -- effectively de-legitimized any active Israeli defense against its self-declared terror enemies.
(3) Passive defense: Without forward or active defense, Israel is left with but the most passive and benign of all defenses -- a blockade to simply prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed for international de-legitimation. Even the United States is now moving toward having it abolished.
But, if none of these is permissible, what's left?
Ah, but that's the point. It's the point understood by the blockade-busting flotilla of useful idiots and terror sympathizers, by the Turkish front organization that funded it, by the automatic anti-Israel Third World chorus at the United Nations, and by the supine Europeans who've had quite enough of the Jewish problem.
What's left? Nothing. The whole point of this relentless international campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense. Why, just last week, the Obama administration joined the jackals, and reversed four decades of U.S. practice, by signing onto a consensus document that singles out Israel's possession of nuclear weapons -- thus de-legitimizing Israel's very last line of defense: deterrence.
The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million -- that number again -- hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists -- Iranian in particular -- openly prepare a more final solution.
letters@ charleskrauthammer.com

 

A little humor

Glenn Beck on the Flotilla ...

Flotilla Facts

Thank you StandWithUs...

Flotilla Facts

• Israel transfers about 15,000 tons of supplies and humanitarian aid every week to the people of Gaza.
  
• Lawyers representing the family of Gilad Shalit, the kidnapped Israeli soldier held in isolation, had asked the protesters to take aid for him, they refused.
  
• Israel offered the ship to dock in Ashdod port and they would transfer the aid to Gaza. This offer was made again and again - they refused.
  
• Israel has said that it will deliver any humanitarian aid that was in the boats to Gaza, as it does daily.
  
• Israel left Gaza in hopes of peace in 2005 and in return received more than 10,000 rockets and terrorist attacks. Israel has sought peace and compromise with its neighbors for all of its 62 years and it will continue to do so.
  
• Israel maintains a maritime blockade to ensure that weapons are not brought in by Hamas to use in attacks against Israel.
  
• "We fully intend to go to Gaza regardless of any intimidation or threats of violence against us, they are going to have to forcefully stop us," said one of the flotilla’s organizers.
  
• In the past, terrorist sympathizers have used aid deliveries to smuggle items like potassium nitrate in sugar sacks and used it to make bombs. Israel cannot afford to let goods get to Hamas unchecked.
  
• Five boats were boarded, the protesters complied and they were safely let to shore.
  
• One boat – the Mavi Marmara – did not comply. That is the boat where the violence took place.
  
  To read more facts including  videos, images, and more click here
  

Hooray France...I'm sorry what?

Either there is something in the air, or fair and unbiased leaders of France are sloooooly trickling out.  Recently France's former top anti-terrorism judge was quoted as saying "The Turkish Islamic charity behind a flotilla of aid ships that was raided by Israeli forces on its way to Gaza had ties to terrorism networks, including a 1999 al-Qaida plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport" read more...

Our fearless leader

What would we do without Bibi Netanyahu? He is the leader of Israel. He sees the facts for what they are and consistently maintains his bold message in support of the chayalim and the people of Israel in the face of pure evil that masks itself as liberalism. Here is his response to the world on the flotilla
raid:

My hat is off to you...

This kid has guts. Kudos for him.  May we all have the courage and the constitution to stand strongly and proudly for what we believe in.

Shebbing nachas

The Chicago Tribune has traditionally taken the standard liberal approach to Israel:holding them to a higher standard then anyone in the world, and continuing the narrow minded view that "Israel is guilty until proven guilty(Bibi)."  But they finally saw the flotilla situation for what it was.  This is a very enjoyable read, especially as a Chicagoan.

Israel and the flotilla