SCHADENFREUDE: A WORD APPLICABLE TO OBAMA DEALING WITH OUR ENEMIES

I am not a great fan of German achievement. I believe that a Lexus or a Cadillac is better than a BMW or Mercedes. But I do acknowledge that Germans have a way with words. They created words that other languages simply do not have.

Schadenfreude is such a word. In case you are not familiar with it, it takes 7 English words to define it: "malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others".


The dictionary also explains it with a quote from the New York Times about historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin , watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics; he said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."

All this is a prelude to inform you that I felt - and greatly enjoyed Schadenfreude recently. A friend had recently come back from a trip To Russia . He told us that he saw beautiful flowers at an expensive flower shop in Moscow and asked where these out-of-season flowers had come from. " Holland ," he was told. "Most of our flowers come from Holland but the Dutch buy a lot of them from Israel and resell them throughout Europe . We are lucky to get them. They are so beautiful"

Another friend spent a week in the French countryside where he enjoyed a wonderful tasty fruit, apparently some kind of a cross of a peach and a plum. He asked what it was and was told that it was imported from Israel , the only place where it was cultivated.

I am sure that at least some of the flowers, fruit and vegetables that cater to European sophisticates came from the more than 3000 Gaza Greenhouses. They were all built on barren empty land by the Jews who, until a few years ago - employed over 12,000 so called 'Palestinians', there.

Since the start of the last Intifada and several terror attacks by the more demented employees, the number of Arabs working the greenhouses was drastically reduced, and they were replaced by Thais, Africans and Filipinos.

During the months of preparation for the Israeli withdrawal there were many questions on what should be done with the greenhouses. They were state-of-art agricultural marvels with their own sophisticated temperature and humidity control systems, they turned out millions of dollars worth of produce yearly and they were a source of employment for thousands of people in an area where close to 40% were unemployed.

Should these marvelous structures be destroyed? Moved? Abandoned?
And then a wonderful and heartwarming solution was found.

A small group of wealthy American Jews decided to buy the greenhouses from Israel and donate them to the Palestinian Authority. One of the donors was former World Bank president James Wolfensohn who put up $500,000 of his own money.

All in all, $14 million was collected, the deal was done and appreciative Palestinian spokesmen announced that the greenhouses would become the cornerstone of the future Palestinian economy.

So where is the Schadenfreude, you say? Happy ending for all, right?
Palestinians get the greenhouses, Israelis get $14 million and the small group of admirable Jews in America get the warm feeling of having made the world a more tolerant and loving place where Arabs appreciate Jewish kindness and are less eager to murder Jews, right?

Well, no, not really. Have you heard the old story about a scorpion that asked a fox to carry him across a river?

The fox refused: "You are a scorpion and you might sting me," he said.
The scorpion scoffed. "Don't be ridiculous. Why would I sting you? We would both drown if I do," he said.

The fox thought this made sense and told him to climb on his back. Halfway across the river the scorpion stung the fox.

"Why? Why did you do that? We'll both drown," cried the drowning fox. " I know, but this is my nature and I can't change it ," said the scorpion before dying.

Just an hour or so after the Jews left Gaza, thousands of Palestinians swarmed into the empty settlements. The Palestinian police stood by and watched the mob demolish the abandoned synagogues and set them on fire. They also watched with interest as part of the crowd turned on the greenhouses, breaking windows, taking plates of glass, wiring, computer and electronic parts, irrigation pipes and timers.

It didn't take long -- after a few hours or so the greenhouses that it had taken years to build were just so much junk.

And so I have Schadenfreude. The Palestinians will not export flowers to Holland or fruit to France . The greenhouses will not be rebuilt. The Palestinian economy, such as it is, will continue to be mired in corruption, hatred and violence. They will suffer -- Schadenfreude --but still, they'll never admit that it was their own fault.

And, I also have Schadenfreude towards the naive rich Jews who thought that the Arab reaction to their gift would be based on logic and not on inbred hatred.

You silly people! Didn't you learn yet that this is the nature of the so called 'Palestinians', they 'sting' even if this means their own destruction?
You lost $14 million and, you know, I am glad you did.

I only hope Israel cashed the $14 million check before it was too late.

Si Frumkin was born in Lithunia and survived a concentration camp, the only member of his family that did. He now lives in Valley 20 Village,CA. He is a contributing columnist to the Jewish Observer, Los Angeles , where this article appeared.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A GIFT: READ TO FIND OUT WHY

Our President and his left wing administration are traveling on our ticket. He uses our money for his travel while he demeans us everywhere he goes. One of his aims is to re-distribute the wealth from those who have to those who don’t,everywhere on the globe.

The taxes we pay go to support people who think protesting and welfare are real jobs.

Government workers are receiving on average as much as 30% more in salaries than the people who actually pay their salaries through hard earned taxes. These workers will earn MORE in retirement when they don’t work than the vast majority of hard working stiffs will ever earn while they do work.

Politicians try to convince people that government jobs created are somehow a good thing, when in fact, government jobs are nothing more than LONG-TERM liabilities.

According to the LEFT our place in North America is to work, risk, and sacrifice for everyone who feels ENTITLED?

I guess we owe them a thank you for all they do, don’t you think?

I was listening to Hillary Clinton speaking at Copenhagen , PROMISING the so-called developing world that they should expect to receive ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS every year from developed countries in order to combat Climate Change.
THAT’S REAL MONEY.

Where does this idiot think she is going to get that kind of money, since our money is borrowed from China ?

Now we have to be taxed to help some schmuck in the THIRD WORLD because of Climate Change?

What the hell is the Third World ? Where is the Third World ? What ever happened to the Second World ? And why should I give a damn about people in this mysterious World?

And how long are they going to be DEVELOPING anyway, since I remember them being the Developing World when I was in Grade School.

At what point will they actually be developed? Anyone know?

Can the left really believe that we the people are all so stupid, that this can go on forever? Or that we will all be willing to work for the sole purpose of serving our government masters and those who believe that they are entitled to TAKE what we earn?

THINK VERY SERIOUSLY ABOUT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

No politician has ever done America and the Free World a greater SERVICE, than has Barack Hussein Obama and the FOOLS who elected him.

For more than a couple of generations, America has been sliding slowly but surely towards creeping socialism, where even our ‘pretend’ Conservatives have been playing the game. George W. Bush comes to mind--the major cause of Obama's election.

Even ‘pretend’ Conservative leaders have been chipping away at INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, while imposing more and more regulations and bureaucracy.

Had Barack Hussein Obama not come along when he did, this trend to the LEFT, especially to the FAR LEFT would have continued without any REAL abatement.

But, because of Obama and the extraordinarily horrible people he is aligned with inside and outside of government, the shift to the LEFT that would have taken much longer has in fact EXPLODED overnight.

Had the move to the LEFT continued unabated, I sincerely believe that not only would our economies have crashed, but also, we would have lost our individual RIGHTS, which would have been irretrievable without some form of serious conflict.

Perhaps even a civil war between the RIGHT and the LEFT.

But, this SHOCK THERAPY courtesy of Obama has been a clarion wake-up call.

Even MODERATE LIBERALS are having serious sober second thoughts about the direction in which the LEFT are dragging the USA . So much so, that even they can see the edge of the precipice Obama and his coterie of co-conspirators are running hell bent to jump off of.

Here is a prediction that takes very little prognosticative skills: Not ONLY will Obama go down in history as the WORST President ever. Even making Carter look less horrible than he actually was. Obama will go down as the MOST HATED PRESIDENT EVER.

Because of Obama, who has managed to screw everything up in less than one full year, making his LEFT base upset, losing all of his moderate and independent supporters, taking a Nobel Peace Prize he didn’t deserve, and bringing America and the entire world to the brink of bankruptcy, THE AMERICAN LEFT WILL BE CRUSHED for a long time to come.

Sometimes we just don’t know how good we have it until something REALLY BAD happens to take it all away. Obama is that something REALLY BAD that has happened.

Despair not. We are Americans and we can get rid of treasonous leaders.

ARE ALL COUGARS PREDATORY

When a woman dates younger men, does it necessarily mean she's a predator?

That was the question I posed in a forum, and the answers I received varied enormously, but overall, the majority of people said that because the taboo is gone and so many older women look amazingly youthful, men are now the predators searching for cougar gathering places. What do you think?