Up! Up from Depression

Saturday night worked hard to finish the chicken factory of D. in the Shaarey Benjamin Industrial Area, distant one kilometer from Ramallah. The factory is owned by an Israeli Arab, and like the supermarkets and other shops in that "illegal" settlement, is built on Palestinian clients. I feel that Israeli Arabs are super-aware of the opportunities opened up also for them, as part of the dominant nation, in the  territories. They have no fear and they speak perfect Arabic. 

The work was difficult, then I could not sleep and woke up angry with a vivid nightmare: it was the ceremony of presenting the diplomas of the course, everybody was receiving back approved their project papers and their diplomas, and I received a fat file with my many projects and no diploma. The old lady in charge indicated the three page handwritten letter explaining that they had examined carefully but decided to not graduate me.  

How to pull up myself from anger and depression? Start working. I am not in the mood, answered to myself. We  know that you cannot work now, but at least you can move your legs and get out of the bed and open the next plan? I could do that. Up then and start doing, the rest will come by itself. 

So I put myself in motion and worked till now. May be the issue is dehydration, I mean, I have not tasted wine for weeks, I am dry, I need vinegary smelly Rioja wine! Now that I have a clear goal, this night I am going to drink red wine as I recommended by the doctors. "Moderately" - whatever that translates for an old fat Jew. I am enjoying it in advance. Up from depression.    

Kabalat Shabbat

Welcoming the Shabbat in the kinder. The big-headed boy is Geffen. First grandson. He is watching his enemy across the table, that biting bully in blue shirt. 

Light sails

The discovery of the enormous light sail tumbling across the solar system, the oumuamua object, led me to the Planetary Society's light sail project and then to the IKARUS project of JAXA, the Japanese space agency. They have demonstrated the feasibility of the concept and created a technology that seems to me quite advanced, opening up the possibility of managing the sail by controlling its reflectivity, its angle to the sun, and even the way to generate much electricity. Like a sailboat, it can move against the direction the wind, meaning that it can be used to go everywhere. 

Replacing...and Ruling Americans

The refugees are not only replacing "them" American European folks, they are starting to rule them. A clitoris-less Somali Muslim woman, married to her own brother, was elected to the Congress by Minnesota. No friend of Israel at all. Muslims are a big success in America. Not so much in Somalia. 

First Credible Contact with an Alien Space Civilization

The space object we call ‘Oumuamua entered our solar system a year ago, turned and quickly left again. It was represented as a solid cigarlike object but it was not. Now we know it was a thin sheet of 0.3 mm thickness and 16000 sq meter surface. A Harvard paper proposed that it was a light sail from an alien ship. It is the first plausible encounter. 

Replacing them

Bloomberg, a business magazine, is ecstatic with the Democratic Party's probable victory and control of the American Congress. Demography is destiny, they say, and American demography votes for the Democrats.  Obama was not a success, Hillary was corrupt, so there must something I don't understand here, because the stock exchange is … rising.

P.S.: Remember the lead pollution of Flint's water? Flint operators forgot to add buffer to the water or may be it was stolen, but facts are irrelevant, whole America is convinced that Governor Schuette tried to poison the Flint Blacks and that Obama and Hillary saved their lives. The system works: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer today defeats Republican Bill Schuette. 

The Rebbe explains the mystery of kangurus in Noah's Ark

Yeshive Bochers (Jewish divinity students) love to formulate difficult questions to their teachers. For example: How did an Australian marsupial like the kanguru travel to Mount Ararat and take his reserved seat in the Ark? Flying Quantas? Rabbi, how was that?

Rabbi Moshe Leib the Cohen Halberstadt has the answer.  It goes like that: You know that there is a process called evolution in nature. Yes, Darwinian evolution. There are "initial", antediluvian animals that were in the Ark and survived the flood. There are other animals that were not in the Ark but evolved from the survivors. Now, is the kanguru an antediluvian, initial, root animal, or it evolved after the flood? The distinction is unimportant, the fact is that Australia is full of jumping kangurus, so it definitely must have been one or the other.

BTW, the kanguru meat is not kosher.