A Giant Can Of Worms

Posted on 14/06/2025 by Grumpa Joe

It feels strange not to be writing for my blog, and today, I feel guilty for attempting to spill my brain out in words. As always, I begin writing. Nonsense at first, like the sentence above. Eventually, after a few sentences, my brain finds its way to a subject out of the ether. There is so much going on in the world, and in my life, it is hard to choose a topical direction. There are times when I am in the middle of an art piece and I will show photos of the work in progress. Other times, the news gets to me and I pick a political topic to opine on. The big topic in the news is war. The battle between Ukraine and Russia and now the fight between Israel and Iran. The battle on the streets of America rapidly evolving into civil war. I predicted a civil war amongst Americans when Obama first began his transformation of a civilized country into one of division. Rapidly, our neighbors are turning on each other. Although I do not know a single neighbor whose politics different than mine who will ignite a civil war.

The differences between Conservatives and Liberals in our country is real, strong, and flammable. These differences are definitely not rooted in race, religion, language, or ethnicity. They are emanating from within people’s minds. The war in Ukraine seems to be based on a pissing contest between ego-maniacs. Russia wants more land; Specifically the land Ukranians live on. I guess that a country that spans five times zones is not large enough to be significant. There is always something a neighbor has that you don’t and wallah, let’s go to war for it.

The fight, I have the most trouble understanding involves Jews. Historically, the Jews have always been the underdog. Hatred for Jews goes back thousands of years and I don’t know if anybody has ever known why. The current dispute between Palestinians and Iranians and Jews is unfathomable. Only one reason comes to me that is a possibility for disharmony. Take for example the differences between Jews and Arabs. They all come from the same area of the world, they all look alike, they live in the same region, yet they are totally different. Some say, the Jews use their cunning for business to cheat others. I can’t believe that there is a gene that spells a difference between one tribe having a stronger business gene than the other. The only difference that is logically noticeable is religion. The Jews model their lives upon the ten commandments. A second difference is that Jews hold a belief that there is but one God, and have done so for thousands of years. Muslims have modeled their religion on the Life of Mohammad. Although, there are some similarities between the two religions I can only understand a few of the differences. All of Mohammad’s rules are written in the Koran, and the single biggest difference lies in the belief that Islam believes that one God rules all. Judaism also believes in one God, but also in a separation between the state and God. There can be ethical, and moral rules as defined by the ten commandments and those dictating earthly matters such as property ownership, speed limits, boundaries, taxes. etc.

What is more intriguing is the hatred of jews by non-muslims, like Hitler. What is it that incites people to hate each other?

Growing up, I never disliked anyone, but I did pick up racial hatred from my parents. When Mom and Dad arrived in America from Europe, they did not have an inborn dislike for black people. They didn’t have blacks in that part of the world. I believe that Dad learned to dislike blacks from his superiors and co-workers on the railroad he worked for. Mom learned from her girlfriends and Dad. They did bring an attitude about Jews from Europe. We never discussed the matter, but my opinion is that they disliked Jews because Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.

So, why are the Iranians and other Muslim countries so focused on killing jews? What did the Jews do to make their neighbors hate them so? You tell me.

One scenario for this hatred is this; athough Jews have been a community in the mid-east for several thousand years, they did not become a country until 1948. When Israel was founded the total area dedicated to them was rather small as compared to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan all of which eclipse Israel in size. Palestine was also a large community that occupied the same area as Israel and declared itself a state in 1988. Therein lies the problem. Both populations, Israel with over nine million and Palestine at five million citizens live side by side in towns scattered throughout the same territory. Picture a map of towns both Israeli and Palestinian occupying side by side within the same territory. Both populations wanting to be in control. Each claiming sovereignty over the other. Imagine a Palestinian going to work in the morning and having to cross a border into an Israeli town only to pass into another Palestinian town to another Israeli border to enter an Israeli town where your job is located. Imagine having to live by all the rules of both countries multiple times a day while commuting.

The whole situation is giving me a headache.

The answer is that I don’t know and don’t care. We are too far apart to get into it. If the Palestinian lived in Frankfort and I became friends with him, things would be different, and we’d argue things out. In the meantime, I suffer from hearing all the opinions and news reports about Israel and Palestine.

If the Jews don’t wipe out all of the Palestinians, and the Jews don’t annihilate all the Iranians, this skirmish will last another thousand years.

See, I told you at the start that I don’t have anything to write about, but I did it again. I found a topic after I began pushing keys and opened a giant can of worms.

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Fairy Tale Terror

Posted on 24/11/2023 by Grumpa Joe

The big story yesterday was from New York State. It seems a car with two people slammed through a border barrier at one hundred miles per hour in a hurry to get to a concert in Canada. Thankfully, they slammed into another barrier, and the car exploded. It is unknown whether it exploded like a bomb or ignited like a gas tank fireball. What bothers me about this story is that officials can tell us that the couple was headed for a concert in Canada but can’t tell why they suddenly decided to be in such a hurry.

I want to believe the couple was involved in a freak accident, with the car being the problem. I also want to think that the couple supported Hamas and showed it with the spectacular launch of a modern computer-controlled car of high reliability. The terror attack is the most probable explanation but the least supported.

It was Thanksgiving morning, and the streets of New York City were lined with thousands of people watching the annual Macy’s parade ushering Santa Claus into town. Why not pull off a terror stunt to panic people into doing stupid things? I can believe that the Government would want to suppress anything terror-related in an attempt to keep the citizens from panicking. Although this incident happened hundreds of miles from the city, it was close enough to warrant concern. At the same time, a group of Hamas sympathizers glued themselves to the street to disrupt the parade and to garner attention. If I were in charge, I would have left them all glued to the street until the glue wore off. This might have made them wonder if the New York City cops would have directed traffic around them as they did with the parade. It is my opinion that leaving the glued protesters sitting there watching taxis and busses bearing down in the hopes they would avoid driving over them might have convinced them to change their minds about sympathizing with a hate group. It is too bad the NYC Police chose to do their job to protect them.

Meanwhile, In the Mideast, Israel is doing a fabulous job of swatting the annoying flies that have been proclaiming death to Israel and all Jews. If Israel is smart, they will only stop long enough to get some hostages out alive but short enough to keep Hamas from regrouping underground into a different set of tunnels. I believe Israel is finally pissed off enough to make some history and will eradicate Hamas and any of their supporters worldwide. Remember when ISIS was the scourge of the Earth? They were moving across the territory rapidly spreading their shit for brains’ ideas about how we must live. It wasn’t until Trump declared that the USA would not stop eliminating ISIS until they were eradicated. All of a sudden, we stopped hearing from ISIS. Israel must do the same with Hamas, Hezbollah, and all Jew-hating groups.

Israel must successfully execute their goal to stop Hamas, and after that, they must brainwash all Palestinians into believing they love Jews and want to live peacefully together. Then, they must keep doing it for generations to make a lasting peace. At the same time, the USA must STOP giving the Palestinians money. They are poor money managers. They see money only as a vehicle to eradicate Israel. They must learn to fend for themselves and not allow themselves to be enslaved by the Muslims.

It would probably be an easier job to eradicate all Palestinians than it would be to make them believe something new. And now, I am sounding like Hitler.

Another idea is to convert all Palestinians to become Jews. Good luck with that.

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Believe

Posted on 10/11/2023 by Grumpa Joe

If you were to ask me what I think about the war in the Middle East, I would more than proudly proclaim that I hope the Israelis do as well in this war as they did in the past when Egypt invaded them. They call it the Six-Day War. That is how long the Egyptians lasted. I don’t like or believe in the genocide of a race, but I do think eliminating a murderous, hate-filled cult from existence is appropriate to save the world. The cult in Palestine is called Hamas. If we in America want to see peace in the world, we must do all we can to eradicate this mentally diseased order of people.

I received this article from a friend, and it deserves a reading. It is truthful and insightful. I remember when General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited a Nazi death camp, he informed the photographers to take pictures. He said

“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” 

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower predicted the future correctly. Today, we have the Muslim community believing that the Holocaust never happened and countries in Europe recommending that all mention of the Holocaust be removed from being taught in their schools for fear of offending the Muslims. My take on the matter is that Muslims should be eradicated from the face of the Earth. If that is considered hate speech, so be it. I am a hateful person when it comes to a religious belief system bullying the world toward their doctrine.

With what is happening in the Middle East now I feel this should be passed along …

 Who really died at Auschwitz?What really died at Auschwitz? Here’s an interesting viewpoint. The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper. It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe, and possibly to the rest of the world. I walked down the streets in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth: Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a group of people who represented culture, thought, creativity, talent.We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who made great contributions to the world, and thus changed the world.The contribution of today’s Jewish people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. Look at any donors’ board at any symphony, art museum, theatre, art gallery, science center, etc. You will see many, many, Jewish surnames.These are the people who were burned. Of the 6,000,000 who died, how many would have grown up to be gifted musicians, doctors, artists, philanthropists?And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the diseases of racism and bigotry, Europe opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it “offends” the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.It is now approximately seventy years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This email is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming The Holocaust to be “a myth,” it is imperative to make sure the world “never forgets.”This email is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center “NEVER HAPPENED” because it offends some Muslim in the United States? If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran, Iraq or some other Muslim country.Please do not just delete this message; it will take only a minute to pass this along. We must wake up America, England, Australia and Europe before it’s too late.
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”                                                      —Plato  
Holocaust-denial graffiti was spray-painted on one of Seattle’s largest synagogues, Temple De Hirsch Sinai.Rabbi Daniel Weiner

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It Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Posted on 29/08/2021 by Grumpa Joe

It blows my mind as to why we are proceeding to self annihilate as a country. Who in his right mind would fight a war which we were winning for over twenty years, and then decide we’ve had enough? So much so, that we decide to abandon, and donate our entire military weaponry to the enemy. Did we do this because we thought perhaps the Taliban was losing so badly that we would level the playing field? There is no doubt in my mind that we will be back in Afghanistan again, and probably a lot sooner than we think. OpentheBooks.com has stated that the U.S. spent three hundred million dollars a day during the twenty years we spent trading bullets with the Afghanis.

If it were up to me the surface of Afghanistan would look like the surface of the moon with lots of craters. No civilization on Earth is worth spending that kind of money on to try and save them from themselves. Maybe we should have spent the money building a fence around the country to keep the inmates inside. They would be free to subjugate their own people, cutting off their heads to have fun.

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A Smoldering Pile Of Ashes

Posted on 24/08/2021 by Grumpa Joe

If one wants to get sick he can wander outside into crowds and pick up some COVID-19 virus, or he can listen to cable news and hear too much sh_t about Afghanistan. I don’t wander out and I quit watching the news about a country that we should be taking title to. After twenty years one would think that we own the place. Instead we leave it with our heads down, ears back and tail drooping between our legs. Why did we do this without getting any satisfaction? To me the root cause is simple. We believe in diplomacy instead of common sense. If we were really smart we would believe in common sense and diplomacy working together. Liberals tend to prefer diplomacy over military solutions. Our leadership has been mostly shit-headed liberal for more than sixteen of the twenty years we have engaged the Muslims in their world. They are Ivy-League educated Political Scientists who seem to have their heads buried in their rectums. Me, I prefer the George S. Patton method of diplomacy, we win they lose. One of the main problems with the Afghan world is that they are Muslims and they profess the same simple philosophy as Patton. Because of our Constitution giving us all religious freedom we shy away from taking other people’s religious freedom from them. What we forget is that they are not U.S. citizens and the Constitution doesn’t apply to them. When we engage in war against a people other than our own we should not project our rules on them. Hell, that would be hypocritical you say. BS, I say we will use any rules necessary to win.

In the very olden days of Empires, our very own British Empire, to whom we once belonged, had no problem with taking a country over and ruling it by the British system. Just about every known country on the globe fell under the rule of the British Empire. It wasn’t until we the colonist people stood up to them that we separated successfully. Had we not done that we would still be having tea every afternoon at four. Ownership is a benefit of occupation, and the British knew how to do that well. It was simple, the Brits ruled and the population was subjugated to their rule. It is my opinion that we in the United States should also have taken this approach when deciding to occupy Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, etc. We would now be the proud owners of many resources that are found in the mountains and deserts of those countries.

Think about it. Because we would literally own these territories we could then relegate the governance of these places to all the brain dead liberals who are trying to change our Constitution to be something we don’t want it to be. They could spend all their energies talking to and dealing with the Muslims who would be operating under the we win you lose philosophy. Our administration would not have to worry about adhering to the Constitution because it will never work for them. Our guys would have a field day applying the rules of the Koran into a working democracy. The liberal administrative solution would be to rename the Constitution to the Koran. It would be an arm wrestle between the strongest Muslim and our local Ambassador for which would be changed, the Koran renamed to the Constitution, or the Constitution renamed to the Koran? I won’t ask what you think would happen, there is only one option that would be acceptable to the occupied citizenry.

Again, my philosophy on Afghanistan is that we should have beat them militarily into a smoldering pile of ashes about eighteen years ago, and then made them subject to us. If they didn’t like our rules, and since they love cutting peoples heads off I would grant them equal treatment and a direct line to heaven by guillotine.

At the very least, had I been Commander in Chief I would have ordered every U.S. Citizen out of the country by a deadline. If they didn’t make the deadline I would take it to mean that these people had switched their alliances from the U.S. to Afghanistan and have chosen to remain. After all citizens were flown home, I would offer the same deal to all certified friends of the U.S Military. Once I was assured that ll of our people were out I would order a hasty retreat of all military personnel, but not before blowing up the Afghan government complex into a smoldering pile of ashes. That’s diplomacy baby, we win, you lose.

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