Comments on: So this is Christmas…

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:34:25 +0000

What is going to happen when I send my next holiday greeting?
I hope they don’t have rockets which can reach Michigan or London by Easter and Passover.
And I didn’t draw cartoons or name a Teddy Bear Mohammad.
On the bear one it is a good thing it was not a Miss Piggy.
That would have been enough reason to Nuke London.
And I am supposed to be the senile old man!!

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:05:08 +0000

As far as the jokes go-The situation is so serious that if I don’t joke I will cry.
For as long as I have been posting here I have been posting on the Ralphtips blog. I had hoped my comments and the mostly worthwhile ones from the young people in the Middle East were helping the situation over there.
I have come to the sad realization that there is no solution and we are only going to see more suffering on both sides and more dead people.
The recent $7 billion pledge to get Palestine going will not do anything unless there is progress towards a viable state. Tn order to have such a state you have to get beyond the hatred and move into areas where there can be cooperation.
How is there supposed to be peace if they can’t even stomach a holiday greeting to the Jewish people?
My hopes for a happy holiday are crushed.
Amer, who hosts the site, is a medical student in Jordan.
He told me his father is a doctor.
I really expected he at least would have had the guts to run the greeting and ignore the protests.
I had great faith in the future because of the quality of the young students who will one day become the new leaders of all the nations of the region.

By: sjhoward

sjhoward — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:39:53 +0000

It may not have been your computer, Mort – I’m manually approving comments at the moment, so they won’t appear instantly like they usually do. I posted both because some of the jokes were different, and all were amusing

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:26:40 +0000

Sorry for the almost repeat memos. My computer is not working correctly (It is a HP-what do you expect?) and I thought the first one did not go through.

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:42:51 +0000

I guess this only proves how seriously the sides are out of sync on the Middle East problems.
I hope you and I don’t have suicide bombers visit us for printing this.
If they do I can tell them that instead of 70 virgins, they will spend eternity with my ex-wives. I would rather spend eternity with a camel.
I will risk both of our lives once again by wishing all the peoples of the word a Happy Eid, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.
May the New Year bring peace with equality and dignity to all people of the orld (and if any outer space beings read this blog-Happy Holidays to you also.
Opps-It is freezing rain-sleet and drizzle outside and most birds are supposed to have flown south to Oklahoma or where ever they go . But a bunch of Blue Jays have pooped all over my car.
Has Al-Quida found a new source of recruits?

By: Mort Karman

Mort Karman — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:13:39 +0000

Thank you, Simon, for printing my greeting to all the peoples of that Middle East region and the world.
If anyone can find something offensive in what I said it explains how crazy this world i
I hope we don’t have suicide bombers after you and I.
All I can say is if we do get hit, instead of the bomber going to spend eternity with 70 virgins he will spent eternity with my ex-wives.
As for me I would rather spend eternity with a camel.
Seriously, this just shows how far we have to go before there is any peace in that troubled land.
My hart goes out to all the innocent people on all sides who will die in the fighting.
At risk of being blown up, I again wish you and all the people of this earth a Happy Eid, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.
And a just, equal peace with dignity for all the peoples of the Middle East

By: Jonathan Rothwell

Jonathan Rothwell — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:09:38 +0000

I blame the Daily Mail and other right-wing groups and figures for giving Christians such a bad name. It’s really no different (at least in my view) to al-Qaeda terrorists giving Muslims a bad name.