Comments on: Will the Election Be Decided at Wolfie’s http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Buddy Larsen http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22225 Buddy Larsen Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:49:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22225 If he would only join Zell.... If he would only join Zell….

]]> By: Dishman http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22224 Dishman Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:18:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22224 From the update... I get the feeling Lieberman is sitting on the fence right now. I'm writing him a letter thanking him for his comments, and saying that I wish he'd won the nomination. From the update…

I get the feeling Lieberman is sitting on the fence right now.

I’m writing him a letter thanking him for his comments, and saying that I wish he’d won the nomination.

]]> By: Sandy P http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22223 Sandy P Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:32:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22223 --The hardcore Republicans (fiscal conservatives) are either not voting or switching to Kerry.-- So they're betting the farm that fiscal sanity will return, eh? RR shut down the government and got away w/it. They don't remember what happened in the 90s when the gov't was shut down. Maybe you should remind them how well that went over. Pubbies folded, Bubba won. Mean-spirited yada, yada, yada. –The hardcore Republicans (fiscal conservatives) are either not voting or switching to Kerry.–

So they’re betting the farm that fiscal sanity will return, eh?

RR shut down the government and got away w/it.

They don’t remember what happened in the 90s when the gov’t was shut down.

Maybe you should remind them how well that went over. Pubbies folded, Bubba won. Mean-spirited yada, yada, yada.

]]> By: ed http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22222 ed Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:37:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22222 After visiting with the Jewish relatives this past weekend I'd have to say that Bush has his work cut out for him. The hardcore Republicans (fiscal conservatives) are either not voting or switching to Kerry. Granted, this is mostly NJ and NY but still. I don't see Bush making too many inroads here. After visiting with the Jewish relatives this past weekend I’d have to say that Bush has his work cut out for him. The hardcore Republicans (fiscal conservatives) are either not voting or switching to Kerry. Granted, this is mostly NJ and NY but still. I don’t see Bush making too many inroads here.

]]> By: Buddy Larsen http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22221 Buddy Larsen Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:58:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22221 (Imagine Jackie Mason) ...guy goes into this little shop, and sees salt everywhere, bags and boxes on the shelves, on the counter, tons of it stacked against the walls. Says to the proprietor, "Wow, you must be quite a salt salesman!" Proprietor shakes head sadly, says "No, only average, but you should see the guy I BUY from!" (Imagine Jackie Mason) …guy goes into this little shop, and sees salt everywhere, bags and boxes on the shelves, on the counter, tons of it stacked against the walls. Says to the proprietor, “Wow, you must be quite a salt salesman!” Proprietor shakes head sadly, says “No, only average, but you should see the guy I BUY from!”

]]> By: maria horvath http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22220 maria horvath Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:39:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22220 Another great and funny guide to the language is the classic dictionary Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten (now in a new updated edition): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609806920/qid=1098185437/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-8633334-7479227 Many definitions include one or two jokes to explain the meanings. Alte Kocker: Two Alte Kockers sat in silence on their favorite park bench for hours, lost in thought. Finally, one gave a long and languid "Oy!" The other replied, "You're telling ME?" Another great and funny guide to the language is the classic dictionary Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten (now in a new updated edition):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609806920/qid=1098185437/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-8633334-7479227

Many definitions include one or two jokes to explain the meanings.

Alte Kocker:

Two Alte Kockers sat in silence on their favorite park bench for hours, lost in thought.

Finally, one gave a long and languid “Oy!”

The other replied, “You’re telling ME?”

]]> By: dennisw http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22219 dennisw Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:37:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22219 Wolfies closed last year. I have some good memories of the place but last I visited it looked terrible. Rascal House was their competition and is going strong 4 miles north of Wolfies at about 180th street on Miami Beach. My all time favorite is Katz's in NYC. Wolfies closed last year. I have some good memories of the place but last I visited it looked terrible. Rascal House was their competition and is going strong 4 miles north of Wolfies at about 180th street on Miami Beach. My all time favorite is Katz’s in NYC.

]]> By: Buddy Larsen http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22218 Buddy Larsen Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:55:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22218 I think I have part of it figured out, through what my otherwise highly intelligent Jewish lawyer (prosecuter, no less) friend WON'T say...that he agrees with GWB and dislikes JFK2, but will vote Dem anyway, because, he believes, I'm sure, that long-term, that is the party that will best protect minorities. I keep telling him that he's substituting an axiom for cold clear boots-on-ground lucidity. He says "How do YOU know?" And I have no Norwegian pogroms to throw back at him. Oh well, we're a much younger people, maybe in time we too will have enough history to see the wisdom in not listening to a patriot like Joe Lieberman issue a clear warning to the state of Israel about "Vichy" John Kerry. Politics ain't beanbag, but then beanbag ain't politics. I think I have part of it figured out, through what my otherwise highly intelligent Jewish lawyer (prosecuter, no less) friend WON’T say…that he agrees with GWB and dislikes JFK2, but will vote Dem anyway, because, he believes, I’m sure, that long-term, that is the party that will best protect minorities. I keep telling him that he’s substituting an axiom for cold clear boots-on-ground lucidity. He says “How do YOU know?” And I have no Norwegian pogroms to throw back at him. Oh well, we’re a much younger people, maybe in time we too will have enough history to see the wisdom in not listening to a patriot like Joe Lieberman issue a clear warning to the state of Israel about “Vichy” John Kerry. Politics ain’t beanbag, but then beanbag ain’t politics.

]]> By: Dulce http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22217 Dulce Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:54:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22217 A Country Lawyer, I think you've got it exactly right. In my (very informal) poll at a large metropolitan Jewish Community Center I attend daily, the guarantee of abortion rights seems to be the factor driving women (at least) into the Kerry camp. I think my generation of Jews is far more concerned with the entitlements of their own assimilated lives than with Israel. This is worrisome on a number of levels, of course, not the least of which is the failure to see that the "big picture" is more important than one's own personal comfort. Oy. A Country Lawyer,

I think you’ve got it exactly right. In my (very informal) poll at a large metropolitan Jewish Community Center I attend daily, the guarantee of abortion rights seems to be the factor driving women (at least) into the Kerry camp. I think my generation of Jews is far more concerned with the entitlements of their own assimilated lives than with Israel. This is worrisome on a number of levels, of course, not the least of which is the failure to see that the “big picture” is more important than one’s own personal comfort. Oy.

]]> By: Sandy P http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22216 Sandy P Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:00:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/18/will-the-election-be-decided-at-wolfies/#comment-22216 --Of course the fact that Kerry is scaring the old folks does not help. The man has no sense of right and wrong than a house cat.-- Shades of Lawton Chiles. They did it during the 96 election. –Of course the fact that Kerry is scaring the old folks does not help. The man has no sense of right and wrong than a house cat.–

Shades of Lawton Chiles. They did it during the 96 election.

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