Rejtő Jenő: Vesztegzár a Grand Hotelben

Wow! Our home in Buenos Aires was full of popular cheap short novels by Hungarian humorist Rejtő Jenő, and I devoured them all. Times were bad in Budapest of the thirties, and the novels -  took him a week to write - allowed him to eat. 

I loved the story of a luftgescheft Jew who sold the French Foreign Legion cheap "military" equipment like black handbags that he bought in a fire sale. He describes the Legionnaires marching in formation in the desert holding the fashionable handbags and flowery parasols. Unforgettably funny. Now a theater in Budapest announces a play based on another of his cheap novels: Quarantine in the Grand Hotel. There is a contagious disease and the authorities close down the hotel, no one gets in nor out. The hotel is full of international shysters and crooks, an intrigue develops to steal the valuable Bananoxid patent. A musical. No one is what it appears to be. May be in November I can take off a weekend and return to enjoy my mythical Ur culture. Budapest, Vienna, Berlin are still living off the cultural produce of the Jews. 

Coffee Aroma Closed Indefinitely by Ministry of Health

Two healthy persons were hospitalized after eating a tuna sandwich in Aroma coffeeshop in Tel Aviv, Sderot Ben Gurion. I live on canned tuna and Aroma is my client, so I am interested. It appears that about 0.5% of the population is allergic to fish, some to the point reacting to a kiss by a person who has eaten fish. The Aroma incident did not happen because the allergen was not on the label, most clearly it was a tuna sandwich. Now the health authorities are developing a frenzied media activity to show that they care and protect. They unchained a dozen inspectors to dismantle the place and find something criminal (apparently the temperature in one of the refrigerators was above the regulation. It happens all the time. It is late summer here, very hot.). 

These allergies are somewhat of a mystery. People who had experience with some molecule in infancy acquire tolerance to it as adult. Children are so overprotected that they grow up with weaknesses. Children should have a (moderately) dangerous childhood.

P.S.: Now the media is talking of food poisoning. That is more fathomable than allergy to tuna. 

Penis captivus

Zandspruit Clinic (S.Africa) was forced to close yesterday following its invasion by residents looking for 2 patients allegedly stuck together during coitus.

That's Nothing! Horror stories tell of girls whose vagina houses teeth — described in folk tales as vagina dentata — which sever every unknowing man’s member. 

Danny & The Juniors "Rock 'n Roll is Here to Stay"

                                                                                                                                                         Danny Rapp died of a gunshot (suicide) in a hotel in Arizona. The Juniors lived to late seventies.

The New Judaism

From Reuter:

Extinction Rebellion, which uses civil disobedience to highlight the risks posed by climate change and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species, is midway through a new two-week wave of actions in cities around the world.

Activists thronged the financial heart of London on Monday, unfurling banners, addressing passersby by megaphone or blocking streets around locations including BlackRock, the Bank of England, Bank of China and Barclays.

At BlackRock, volunteers glued themselves to the doors while others staged a mock dinner party with rolled-up banknotes on their plates. Police said they arrested more than 90 people.

The arrestees included Rabbi Jeffrey Newman of the Finchley Reform Synagogue, who was arrested near the Bank of England praying, singing and wearing a prayer shawl for the first day of the Jewish festival Sukkot.

It is amazing how Reform Judaism has transformed itself into an anti-capitalist anti-modern messianic movement. For some reason, it has decided that fire, that is, burning wood, coal and similar fuels, is sinful; that Nature's animals are sacred and hunting, breeding and eating them is against God's will.  It has developed a new set of ritual purity - kashrut - laws, that include taboo against wearing furs (in the original it was mixed textiles), intensively fed animals (in the original, pigs other unclean species), etc.

Yet, this new religion does not seem more arbitrary or crazy than the original one.

Quote:  Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.  Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs. There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for all of us. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.

Increasingly it seems facts aren’t necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief.”

Pic.: Ecocide by Kantor. What I see? The Devil trying to seduce that innocent Swedish virgin girl. The pic could be hanged in any Church.

Long and Boring Holiday

Succot in Kever Benjamin. Yesterday had dinner in the sukkah of my daughter. The grand children happy playing with a dog.

Today too hot to go out so I slept late and then entertain myself  preparing a long, long, detailed Bill of Quantities for a processed egg factory.  Boring. 

I try to imagine the quantum universe we are living in. Apparently it is like balls on strings, many balls on many strings: the balls can move freely to the right or to the left each on its string (the string being time, the balls are quanta that can move to the future or back). The situation at the start defines all the possibilities, knowing the starting situation one can know all the possible situation in the future. One can move the balls on the string left or right, time is meaningless. The whole game is meaningless.  

The Hunt for 859 Escaped ISIS fighters

"Jelal Ayaf, co-chair of Ayn Issa camp, said:

- 859 people escaped from the foreigners section

- Sleeper cells emerged from inside 'open' IDP section". 

Many of the escapees are Europeans. It may be hypothesized that the Kurds opened the prison doors and let them go.

The hunt is on for these terrorists trying to go home in Europe and re-start their careers in mischief making.