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Somalian Pirates came to the attention of the World Jewish Community recently when a bunch of them (over a hundred!) gave up their lives to save Israel by hijacking a boat coming out of Iran with some horrible chemical weapons, of course, obviously, for the purposes of destruction. Who are these Awesome Africans? Warrenellis.com quotes cominganarchy.com quotes this article:

They live a high-profile life - driving luxury vehicles, using fancy mobiles and laptops, living in big, decorated houses, marrying beautiful women,' says Dahir Salaad Musse, a businessman in the port town of Bosasso in the semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland.

Piracy has changed into a highly lucrative industry as shipping companies cough up increasingly hefty ransoms for the release of their ships.

In particular, the business has snowballed over the last few years as young men, seeing the lavish lifestyles of their peers, flock to get their slice of the cake. The East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme says there are now well over 1,000 pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden, compared to just over 100 in 2005.

As a consequence of what is Somalia's only growth industry, several pirate havens have sprung up in Puntland.

Settlements such as Eyl, Garowe and Harardhere are becoming boomtowns - at least compared to the rest of Somalia, where a bloody insurgency, drought and rising food and fuel prices have left millions dependent on food aid.

If the economy gets bad? If the government gives up on protecting you? Remember: there is hope– in piracy! Take responsibility for your community!

Piracy has its origins in the organized communities of the Puntland coast. In the 1990s, a group of fisherman in settlements there banded together to prevent illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste off their shores. This harmless community action inspired many analysts to designate Puntland a model for Somali civil society. When some ships illegally fishing were boarded in attempts to police the region, the reward offered for the boats return was enormous—amounts that were many times the monthly income of entire villages.

Piracy took off as an attempt to gain income from this type of civic policing, and slowly grew to what Kaplan called the “innocence” of piracy. It wasn’t long before the pirates became more ambitious, using the fishing boats they captured to hunt larger prey. And with the money that came in, small fishing towns were transformed into pirate havens. As responsible organizers, pirates have invested some of their profits back into the franchise, replacing barely seaworthy rafts with speedboats, AK-47s with modern arms, and GPS tracking systems to boot.

Remarkably, hostages are treated well, with some pirates even setting up special kitchens onshore to cook western meals for their captives. Medical care available on the ship is not withheld to force the hand of parties that would pay a ransom. The Somali pirates are more businessmen that extortionists, and the strategy is paying dividends—according to a report by London-based think tank Chatham House, shipping companies have forked over US$30 million in ransoms to Somali pirates this year. Welcome to growth enterprise in the anarchic societies of the 21st century.

For some negative effects of the piratical efforts, check out this video:Not everyone benefits.

From a comment by Zoroasteryid on Is Tanya to Blame for the Rubashkin Fiasco?

sometimes one gets the impression that the reason why certain people give so much tzedokoh is to cover up &/or excuse the method that they acquired their wealth. it is almost as if they feel so guilty knowing that they got rich illegally &/or immorally that they give it away lavishly to try to wash it away. or they genuinely feel that they are allowed to act illegally/immorally in order to great good. this, my friends, is called mitzvah haba’ah ba’aveirah, which is WORSE than just doing an aveyrah, because when you merely sin you know that you are doing something wrong. but when the sin is done through a mitzvah, you actually convince yourself that it is not a sin, so you are not even moved to do teshuvah - aderabo, he expects to be known as a tzadik & ba’al chesed. he has fooled himself. as the maharash said, “it is no trick to fool a fool.”

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(hat tip to pilegesh.org)

Comment by me on frummies acted like mindless beasts in this election

oy shit.

it’s really put us in a weird place, those of us who are ortho progressives… yeesh.
at least a buttload of jews voted for him but, no joke, the mental health section of stern college had a big table set up today in case… well…

the only time a teacher mentioned the win was when a teacher said “how’s everyone doing on obama, is everybody ok?”

i got into a huge fight with a girl who not only said that obama was a terrorist who won’t let israel defend itself ( mindreader!)
first i tried to point out the loshan hara, then she said it’s ok to speak loshan hara about non jews!! she said that these are her views, but refused to provide any evidence to support her claim because, well, obviously…
she then opened up and told me that this is just another piece of the pre gog u magog picture (what is she referring to? leaders will be like dogs?! i hope not!)
of course i tried to remind her that as a matter of principle, prophecy in the torah is seen as a challenge for us to rectify the world, a warning of what will happen if we don’t.
i’m desperate, i feel like i’m drowning in a sea of hate and it’s all these jews who are supposed to know better for so many reasons.

the thing is, i really care… and it hurt my feelings during the campaign when Barack Obama was villified and his face was put next to dictators and tyrants. i’m sure someone is going to respond to this who (is a shithead) doesn’t feel so honky dory about the president elect, but jeez, get over it. the people voted. your distopian fantasies won’t happen as our utopian visions won’t, and at the end of the day we’re just all a bunch of human beings trying to make the best of what we’re given to the best of our abilities, Obama included.
it’d be nice if all the haters made aliyah right now, they could have 1 fucked up country instead of 2, making life just that much more palatable.

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."                                                                          -    haonion hakodesh

Just got this text from a Chabad Shliach: Oib m'davent MCCEIN efsher PAYLIN az der Aibeshter zol nisht BIDEN der president far A'BHAIMA…!!!!  

In the name of R. Gedaliah of Linitz who said in the name of his master the Mokhi’ah [of Polonoya] that the messiah will instruct good merit (melamed zekhut tov) upon all of Israel even upon the wicked, [saying] that they are all righteous, that they are correct (yid. “az zey zenen gerecht”). And because of the merit that he will instruct merit upon them they will return in repentance, and through this they will be redeemed, for in repentance one is redeemed.

And he would say - a little tzadik loves little resha’im, a great tzadik loves great resha’im, but the messiah will love and instruct merit even upon complete resha’im. And anyone who instructs merit upon all creatures is of the aspect of the messiah…   

(Sefer Baal Shem Tov, 61, note 100 in the name of Midrash Pinhas Ha-Hadash)

Maybe this applies to oneself as well. You are the messiah to the extent that you have redeemed yourself through the sweetening of Judgments…

In the final analysis we are all a priori vindicated – the messiah is just the one who takes it all the way…    

-atgate231

R'Menachem Froman, noted Zohar learning mystic and Rabbi of West Bank settlement "Tekoa," comes out with a message:

 American Jews and Non-jews have to elect Peace! and Justice!

And I think, in the current situation, it's Obama

Barack Obama.

Check out the comments - from holy Yiden who are turning the world into a better place for all of us - on the Black rabbi who is Michelle Obama's cousin.

Here is one wicked one which lumps the Yemenite Satmere into the fray

Anonymous Says:

er iz fun de satmara shvartza….

Note: The Forward mentions that he went through an Orthodox conversion.

“The Jews,” said he, “as a race, are probably the most able of any in existence. Now when a gifted person is charming and uses his exceptional ability generously, he is a paragon and people adore him; but in the same way, if a person with unusual ability is disagreeable, his ability makes him just so much the more disagreeable, and thus the disagreeable individuals in that race are the more conspicuous.”

“They are not one bit more disagreeable than the Anglo-Saxons,” said Mrs. Whitehead. “Having been brought up in Brittany, then taken to England, I came fresh to both, and I know.”

(Lucien Price, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, XXIII, September 10, 1941, Pg. 179-80)

-atgate231