Dec 30
Chanukkah and Livingscum
There was a public Menorah lighting for Chanukkah in City Hall on Wednesday.
Here was another cheap publicity stunt from a Mayor who at all turns has managed to offend the Jewish community (the Nazi jibe to a Jewish journalist, and love-in with Al Qarawadi for example), part of a strategy to weasel his way back into the community’s good books without having to apologise publicly for his Nazi outburst (wearing his jacket apparently turned him into a private individual, absolving himself of the charge of behaving disrespectfully), or from distancing himself from someone who advocates suicide attacks on innocent civilians.
The original invitation to the Chabad Lubavich Rabbi, I have it on good authority, was made by the GLC and the Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, not the Mayor himself, who cynically hijacked it for his own ends. But either way, he loses – no-one in the community or the wider concerned public will ever believe that he wants to build bridges, and that this was anything other than a publicity stunt which will only reinforce suspicion of this odious cretin. And so what? If he hates it, even better – having a big public Menorah in the wondow outside his office, and now potentially each year, will be a big 2 fingers up to him every time he goes to work.
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
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Oh, come on, Jon. This Livingstone putz could make an angel crazy, but he is no more than a dirty politico, and he will become anti-Muslim in a jiffy, if it suits his agenda.
Most importantly – he seems to be Jewish, so the joke is on him. take a look at this:
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2005/11/it-runs-through-maternal-line-ken.html
The poor jerk practically confesses to being a grandson of a Jewish whore. Not that I have anything personal against whores, nor against Jews (being one).
Nah – he is just a putz, believe me.
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Say not so, Saint Nick. Were you reinvented by Coca-Cola crypto- fascists to hide their twisted neocon agenda? Don’t miss Watcher of Weasels’ compelling iconoclastic Yuletide Ululations. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working
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