Now, I know there are people that can play two flutes at once.
The real trick would be to be able to play three! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Trick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trick. Show all posts
September 22, 2021
Two Flutes Are Better Than One
December 21, 2020
A Perfect Biowarfare Attack!
So how would you conduct a biowarfare attack?
You wouldn't want to release a full-scale deadly pathogen, because then you would endanger your own population as well as your adversary.
But instead, you release a pathogen (like Coronavirus) that is just deadly and contagious enough to cause a worldwide panic, shutting down countries and economies and threatening to overwhelm hospitals and emergency responders.
Then you would watch patiently as vaccines are developed that everyone would need to get to resume their lives and jobs. Of course, the vaccines get rushed through development, approval, and distribution in order to calm the fearful and disenfranchised populace.
And here is where you would have your adversaries by their you know what, because if your agents can then infiltrate the vulnerabilities of the overwhelmed and unprepared, civilian pharmaceutical companies, their supply chains, or distribution networks during the emergency, and contaminate the vaccines with a really lethal pathogen, you would ensure that all your adversaries are eliminated (from their leadership on down to the blue collar workers in society), while your own population (which wouldn't get those vaccines from abroad) would be absolutely fine.
Maybe even the first dose is intentionally passed through okay to lull the population and its leadership into the trap, but then the follow-on doses are tainted once the flies are already in the spider's web.
Your adversaries are now sick and/or dead, but their countries and infrastructure are fully functioning and in place for you to take as spoils.
World domination, it can happen as plain and simple as this.
Look around you at what's happening in our times. Mad men or genius, but this is more than any science fiction could offer. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Pixabay)
July 11, 2018
Not A Kiss
Sometimes, a kiss is not a kiss.
It could be a phony show.
Like a snake.
It slithers and fools people into complacency.
Kiss kiss!
Hug hug!
But around the back is a hand holding a dangerous dagger.
It stands ready to swing and plunge into your soft unsuspecting tissue.
The more kisses, perhaps the more hiding of their true intentions.
People are complex and sometimes malevolent.
They want what they want, and when they want it.
When the time comes, a kiss can turn into a sharp knife.
You wonder how is it that person has no more kisses. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 22, 2015
Synagogue Time
Usually, we like to go a little later so that basically we are there for about an hour and a half of services.
That's about my attention span and then I start to get claustrophobic and antsy.
(BTW, some friends that go to Church told me that they have the same experience.)
But the last two weeks something changed...(no, not me).
Last week in Maryland, we went to synagogue and the people were standing in front with the Ark open and I thought wow they are way ahead and are finished with Torah reading and are putting the Torahs away already.
But after a moment, I realized they were only just taking out the Torahs for the weekly reading, and we were actually earlier than usual.
When I inquired in synagogue why they were behind schedule, I learned that to get people there for more of the services, they had decided to start later.
Ah, it's a trick!
This week in Florida, I went to the Chabad shule and we were running late (hey, it's vacation) about 10:45 and thought shule would almost be over, but they were just in the morning prayers still, and there wasn't even a minyan yet.
Two places, two synagogues, two weeks and they are changing the start times...
Seems smart from their perspective to try and get people there and for more of the services, but for the people who just want to come for a certain amount or parts of the service, isn't this just going to cause people to come even later in an endless cat and mouse game.
Start later, come later, start later, come later...
I'm no Rabbi, but how about a serious focused service--ONE solid hour (plus)--full of REAL kavanah (concentration), meaning, and sincerity, and everyone comes on time?
Start on time, come on time--really pray (no talking please)!
And still plenty of time for socializing and bonding after services at the yummy Kiddish.
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Brian Smithson)
July 23, 2015
Taking The Spin Off Things
Question everything, believe nothing (except in G-d).
It's not just that a lot of people out there are full of sh*t--yes, that is true too.
But also that many powerful people are experts at manipulation and spin.
Take just some recent some examples:
- We didn't just give America and Israel-hating "suicidal, apocalypse-seeking" Iran a clear path to the bomb and in just half a generations' time (along with hundreds of billions to continue funding global terror and a lifting of the weapons and ballistic missile embargo), instead we have a "comprehensive long term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
- With the hackers who not only showed how to take wireless control of a moving Jeep Cherokee, but also released information on how to do it, they didn't put another tool in the toolkit of the cyber attackers and terrorists out there, instead "they are bringing atttention to an issue auto makers have for too long ignored."
Could go on and on to issue after issue...
The point is that from a young age we are primed to respect, listen, and automatically believe figures of authority and experts--when our parents, teachers, spiritual leaders or a policeman or fireman says something, we naturally believe them, who they are, and in them.
This is what politicians and executives and other people in power prey on--that we will believe them over everyone else or any other facts to the contrary. They have the title, the uniform, the badge, or whatever, and so they must be good, honest, and trustworthy.
However, good parents and teachers make sure to tell children not just to take people or what they say at face value. For example, if someone comes to the door and says they are delivering a package, don't just open the door. Look through the peephole, ask for identification, or have them come with a neighbor, etc.
I remember in the very first movie of "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson, where his wife and daughter answer the door expecting a simple delivery from the supermarket that they were just at and instead they get a brutal gang that murders the wife and rapes the daughter.
Similarly, in cases where women get pulled over, attacked, and raped by someone with flashing lights, siren, and even a fake uniform/badge--even as you believe you are obeying the law, others are taking advantage and fooling you.
As comforting as our beliefs are and perhaps even that we just want to believe--things often are not as they appear or what we want or expect them to be--what goes on behind the scenes and the spin that comes out in front are designed to intoxicate the masses. ;-)
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Kristian Niemi)
January 20, 2015
Buyer Beware, Else Buyer Remorse
He used to say (or so my dad used to tell me), "You open your eyes or you open your wallet!"
Put another way is that "A fool and his money are soon parted."
But I like the way my grandfather put it even better--easier to remember and no name calling involved! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 26, 2014
Going For A Healing
First day in Santa Fe and there was so much to see.
By afternoon, my wife said she was tired and wanted to stop in an "Oxygen Bar."
Good Jewish boy from the Bronx, what do I know from Oxygen Bars?
So they had these cool health tonics, soothing music, beautiful artwork, oxygen therapy, and...
In the back, they did healing treatments!
So my wife tells me I should do this.
Ah, why do I want to spend money on healing treatments?
She jumps up, goes over and talks to the owner, and comes back and says "Okay honey, she is going to give you a sampler."
A what!
I hem and haw, but my wife doesn't take no for an answer, so I reluctantly go to try it.
Well...
I really enjoyed it.
From spa-type treatments to spiritual healing.
I had a smorgasbord of some light massage/reflexology, oils, sprays, rocks, branches and leaves, warm wet cloths, figure eights with a dream catcher, angels and animal spirits, and even prayers said.
The very nice Jewish owner, Kadima Levanah, spoke about releasing your energy, having compassion on yourself, doing your best, starting anew, and having a full healing.
By the end, I was smiling and feeling a lot more stress free--even though my wife tricked me like usual! ;-)
(Source Photo: Rebecca Blumenthal)
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