Friday Focaccia
Who the heck is still voting for McCain? – apparently McCain is so senile, he needs Joe Lieberman constantly behind him correcting him. First he made it clear that qualifications (as he sees it) to be a “War President” and picking up the torch from Bush does not mean he needs to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite. And now he is showing off his International Relations skills by going into Israel and during a speech calling Purim, “their Halloween.” Now, to be honest I do not know squat about Purim, but I am not in Israel as a representative of the United States and making reference to it. Maybe before he opens his mouth next time, Lieberman could teach him how to use The Google 
, and get some information out of the series of tubes.
Glib Gibson – Gibson Guitars started out suing Activision for Guitar Hero claiming a patent infringement issue. Now they are apparently trying to get their way by suing retailers for selling the game! What next, will they sue you for buying the game?
Just another reason I hate Apple – Be careful the next time you update your iTunes software, apparently Apple is trying to broaden their market for their inferior Safari browser by making it part of an iTunes update. Remember when Microsoft tried to include IE7 as part of a Windows Update? Yeah, well the same outrage should be applied here. At least with IE it could be argued that by trying to move people from IE6 to IE7 Microsoft was just trying to rectify security issues (since IE6 is used throughout the OS whether it is your “browser” or not), but there is no valid reason to include Safari with iTunes. But this is Apple we are talking about, who would dare question the “Great And Powerful Jobs?”
Just another reason I love Starbucks – Things need to be changed… not so much new, but changed back to the way they were before, when Starbucks was mostly about coffee. Well it seems that Starbucks got the message, and is promising a number of changes to get back to their coffee basics. There is only one thing that would make me happier about this announcement. They did mention that there would be new espresso machines “designed to give a more consistent …” beverage. But to me, that only means another version of those automated espresso machines they installed. I would love to see them go back to grinding the beans and pouring shots from a real espresso machine. But I guess you can’t have everything.
Just wait until Bill O’Reilly gets a hold of this – I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this Jeff Parker cartoon, about the overcommercialization of Easter. Of course I probably didn’t laugh for the reasons it was intended. Here we have a holiday, where the symbols of the holiday in no way resemble the reason for the holiday. For this reason, either for a joke or not really understanding you always have people ask the question of what does the bunny and eggs have to do with Easter? Of course we know this is because the Christians stole the symbols of the Spring Holiday from the Pagans in order to “sell” their religion to try and convert people. Now you complain about its commercialization? I really just don’t want to see or hear about a “War On Easter” I really really don’t.
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`The egg probably comes from Passover since it is one of the symbols on the seder plate representing the circle of life and the sacrifice in the days of the temple. Since we all know the last supper was a Passover Seder this seems a sensible explanation for the egg. Now the Bunny… I have no idea.
My two oldest daughters are really beginning to question their beliefs and the 12-year-old’s list of 13 things had me wondering if believing in such things, like the Easter Bunny, was really a good idea…or, not.
Haha, I’ve said that, too about Purim. We’ve just recently moved to a location where there aren’t too many other Jews and I get lazy (read- exhausted) sometimes of being a subject of Show-and-Tell. “Yeah, sure.. Just like Halloween”. I should really approach the subject with more honesty and enthusiasm, but heh.
And I think the bunnies and eggs are a pagan thing- Ishtar and fertility and such. Kinda weird, if you ask me. As far as holidays go. =P