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Casting As Persians
Capturing and testing the spirit of Purim, which was observed yesterday and Sunday.
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(She was not looking to win the queenship because she wanted to marry a Jew, so she requested no cosmetics for her session with the king, but she was chosen anyway.)
5) Why did Esther’s story about poison have to check out?
A: It was registered under another name.
(Her uncle and adoptive father, Mordecai, overheard two palace guards plotting to poison the king. He told Esther, who reported it to her husband in Mordecai’s name. This is the source for the great virtue ascribed in Judaism to giving credit to sources.)
6) What made Haman change his position concerning Mordecai?
A: He couldn’t take the bow so he went to the stern.
(Haman was angry because Mordecai refused to bow when he passed, so he sternly initiated a vendetta. Tradition indicates Mordecai could not bow because Haman wore an idolatrous totem around his neck.)
7) Which capital featured in the meeting between Haman and Ahasuerus?
A: The Kikar.
(The currency, i.e. capital, Haman offered as a bribe is called Kikar in Hebrew. Kikar also means a public square, and in Israel the Defense Department complex in Tel Aviv is called the Kikar, the equivalent of our Pentagon. The actual capital city was Shushan, today known as Shush or Shustar in Iran .)
8) How did Haman suggest Ahasuerus contemplate the Jewish problem?
A: MMMMMMMMMM.
(Haman offered 10,000 Kikar.)
8) What happened when Mordecai went to sleep?
A: He tried to hit the sack but the sack hit him instead.
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 3.2.10 @ 10:20AM
Folks, I give you an excerpt here from the American Thinker. I hope each of you read the entire article "A radioactive cloud..... over Iran" there.
Best regards
""Remember that Saddam Hussein had a giant, rickety warehouse full of yellowcake uranium -- all the time we were told he had no WMDs by the sleazy Western media. We heard about that warehouse only three years after Saddam was overthrown, the yellowcake was very carefully repacked and moved out, and it was sent to Canada for reprocessing. The uranium warehouse was never bombed or shelled. The risk of a radioactive disaster -- or at least a P.R. disaster -- was much too great. President George W. Bush tolerated years and years of vicious personal smears by the Democrats and the Left about his "failure to find WMDs" just to ensure that the yellowcake was moved safely out of the country. That's the kind of man George W. Bush is. He did the right thing, and he took the hits from all the sleazy demagogues. ""
S.L. Toddard| 3.2.10 @ 10:56AM
That facility was common knowledge long before the Iraq invasion, and had been monitored by IAEA since 91, I believe. "We heard about that warehouse only three years after Saddam was overthrown" is simply a lie. Here is a press release from April 2003, in which the IAEA expressed its concern for the safety of that nuclear material:
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter.....00304.html
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.2.10 @ 11:19AM
SL,
That is specifically why I pasted the excerpt here.
...So no one could play around with the truth.
The man wrote ".....all the time we were told he had no WMDs by the sleazy Western media...
Uh... remember how many zillions of times we heard the phrase, "Bush lied--people died"
I could give you a thousand media links saying precisely what the columnist said they said....right off yahoo search.
You would still argue through your kalediascope though.
Not worth it.
Fascist| 3.2.10 @ 3:00PM
Some words from Hitler:
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the *Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
* You may replace it with: leftist thoughts.
Conservative| 3.3.10 @ 1:05PM
Some words from God:
"For God so loved the *world He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." Jn. 3:16.
*You may replace it with: Jew
*You may replace it with Gentile
*You may replace it with Fascist.
ATLmedia| 3.2.10 @ 9:13PM
Fascist? Thanks for the honesty!
Close to Tex are ya?Thought so ;-]
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.2.10 @ 9:35PM
FASCIST..........you are a turd.
Go find a turd-bowl to write in. We are for the most part, adults here.
You cannot contribute here...bye!
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