Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Police-Horse Brutality in Jerusalem
The quarantine worked and today we had a very low number of COVID infected persons. Except in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, where they ignore secular Government orders. They follow only God's commandments. The authorities instructed the police to be humane and kind in imposing the curfew, but police horses are incorrigible brutes. Police-dogs were not employed. I heard that the police-camel corps are held in reserve. Camels have big teeth but their worst weapon is halitosis. They belch and birds drop dead from the sky.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Zoom Fatigue
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Paris: Chechen Student Decapitates Teacher
Trying to explain the concept of "Freedom of Expression", the teacher presented in class a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. A Chechen student, scandalized, decapitated the sacrilegious unbeliever.
Un professeur d'histoire-géographie a été assassiné, décapité ce vendredi aux alentours de 17h près d'un collège de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, dans les Yvelines. D'après nos informations, la victime avait montré des caricatures de Mahomet dans le cadre de son cours d'éducation civique, initiative signalée par des parents d'élèves.
25% of the French population is Muslim. How nice is to live in Kfar Saba where there are no such murderous ethnic/religious/political tensions.
Friday, October 16, 2020
35 Km of Gas Pipes Dug Up and Stolen
Argentina breaks all records of corruption. A State owned company laying down a gasoduct from Bolivia, dug up 35 kilometers of its own pipes already under earth. Five were found (pic), the rest has disappeared. Source Pagina 12. The management is being investigated. Probably they have been reused in another part of the project, you cannot sell them on eBay. The Government was charged for the "new" pipes. That is my opinion based on personal experience as a former provincial employee.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Two days in Quarantine
We are babysitting grand-daughter Noia, 4 years old, a freckled redhead - and we had a nice conversation. We had never spoke because her older sister, her mother and my wife - all deranged - always sabotage me. We examined my new anti-pigeon windmill and the dead tree in the "garden", she carried water to the plants and enquired what they eat, I told her about the bats living in the fig trees in our street and she asked how big are they, we observed the forms of passing clouds and so.
Now I am trying to make some order in my projects.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Ayodhiya Rebuilt
Monday, October 12, 2020
Gandhi and his homespun loincloth
In these eventless corona quarantine days, I am reading Naipaul's "A wounded continent" about India. In merciless phrases, he deconstructs the Mahatma (Big Soul) Gandhi and Bhava, his saintly successor. Hinduism seeks spiritual perfection and disdains this world, and accepts defeat, misery and dirt, believing that they refine the soul. Naipaul hates Hindu philosophy and would clearly prefer the racial policy of the British Raj instead of the Hindu caste system. But the Brits got exhausted after 300 years of dealing with fakirs and retired to their misty island.