The decade in 7 minutes...

This is absolutely incredible. I would say it is a couple months early considering we do not know what the next two months will hold but nevertheless, this will blow your socks off.

2 great hits from Gothamist

While scrolling through the daily grind on Gothamist I found two great videos. First, this is either some guy off his rocker on shrooms or something like it, or aliens fro the friendly skies have come for a visit, you decide: Aliens?

and second, this is just not something you see every day. After the commercial success of the Super Mario Bros. franchise died down, it seems that Bowser had to resort to driving a cab in Staten Island. There is just no love for cab drivers

A Must See

Michael Fulop sent this to me, and it is a must watch. At the 92nd Street Y Alan Dershowitz and Dennis Prager discuss support, or lack of support for Israel in this country. Is it just conservatives, is that a good thing, etc. It is not that long, you can listen to it in the background, I assure you. But either way, it is a very must watch in order to get a better idea of the state of affairs beneath the radar.
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Awesome

Often times I have lists of Rabbis to call for my job and in doing so, I get pretty bored while the phone rings and rings and...often times I find myself reading or searching for the most random things. Today I googled 'awesome' and I would like to share the following image and video, both of which can only be described as awesome:

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enough said...

Buy this and check this

Often times when we(as the in the world) think about Israel, we think about two things: Religion and Politics. But we often neglect the dynamic impact Israel has had on the business world. (h/t Josh Richton) In his new book, Dan Senor, the co-author of 'Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" describes Israel as a Leader of Business Innovation. I encourage you to check out CNBC's interview with him, it is brief but very effective.


Also, I encourage you to check out ISRAEL21C which is a website dedicated to Israel's contributions to the world-and there are many. They cover Israel's innovations in technology, advancement in the Health and Medical fields, Social Justice and so on. If you go through it, you really will be surprised.

Music of the Day...AAR

Continuing the feel good theme for the day, I suggest you check out the All American Reject's Move Along It is a great song to do just about anything to...and hey, I heard it playing during NFL credits yesterday.

When you need a pick me up

Sometimes the strangest places hold the biggest laugh. Thank you Benjy Nadler for posting Christopher Walken doing his impression of Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

The stimulus that works and the stimulus that doesn't

This morning, I saw this article about positive effects the stimulus money is having: hot meals for seniors. Something just feels good inside when you discover that some of your tax money is going to feeding senior citizens instead of adding to the billions in government waste. One of the things I do like about the Democratic party is that they are usually the ones to spend more money on social-economical programs such as this. The billions in bailout and TARP money that went to all the financial institutions feels a lot more republican. I think both are important, but let's be honest, using money for old people is the 'feel-good' kind of government spending and fixing our financial institutions feels a lot more cold, and removed. Of course, regarding the latter, the Obama admin totally missed the boat on how to fix the economy. Turns out you can't throw billions of dollars at a problem with no regulations and expect it is blossom into a booming economy. As Josh Gottleib said at a Shabbos meal one time, 'If they had given all the money to the banks and said, 'Here is the money-now go use it! Lend it out to the American people, let them buy homes and fix their credit and get their mortgages adjusted into something can afford." then we would be in much better shape." But instead, the banks took the money and put it into their savings (or holdings, etc.) and are just sitting on it. And of course, the government, who are leaders in arrogance can not and would not go back to the financial institutions with egg on their face and say, 'Oops, we messed up, we failed to stimulate the economy. Can you please give us our money back, or, rather we demand that you lend it all out." To which they will receive an emphatic: "NO."

Family Goy

Season 8 episode 2 of Family Guy is brilliant and I strongly encourage you to check it out. Lois discovers she is actually Jewish and the entire episode is one big Jewish joke, and for the most part absolutely hilarious. Watch out for Brian's perfect pronunciation and accuracy of the bracha on candles for yom tov.

Also, the Bears finally crawled out of their slump. Their conquered the Brown (not exactly a difficult feat) with a 30-6 win. After the Minnesota-Green Bay game today, Green Bay will likely be tied with the Bears and hopefully between a big win and being tied for second in the division, the Bears will get back on track. They have the talent and the coaching, all they need to do is put it together; that and for Jay Cutler to stop throwing interceptions.