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Casting As Persians
Capturing and testing the spirit of Purim, which was observed yesterday and Sunday.
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(The text says Mordecai heard of the decree against the Jews and he donned sackcloth and ashes. Tradition adds that this was revealed to him in a dream.)
9) Why did it take Esther three days to get to the king?
A: You know her and the girls! That was their idea of fast.
(Esther and her loyal attendants fasted three days before she approached the king. This sort of self-deprivation served as a sort of prayer for God’s assistance.)
10) What did Esther say when the king offered her 50%?
A: “Great! Let’s halve a party!”
(The king said she could request up to half the kingdom. She said she would reveal her request in a party honoring the king and Haman.)
11) How did Haman react to driving Mordecai around?
A: He was down in the dumps.
(Haman ended up leading Mordecai around town on a majestic horse to honor Mordecai for saving the king’s life. Tradition says his daughter thought it was Mordecai leading her father, so she dumped trash from an upper storey onto the head of the person on foot.)
12) What did Harvona say about Haman?
A: He was hanging at the wrong party.
(Harvona turned up at the exact moment the king was enraged at Haman to inform the king Haman had prepared a gallows for Mordecai. The king angrily instructed Haman be hanged thereon.)
13) Why did Haman leave before the end of the Megilla?
A: He couldn’t take the suspense.
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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