By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump backtracked on his call for punishing women who have abortions. He only advocates punishing doctors who perform the procedure, but feels that the women minimally should be forced to wear a Scarlet A on their clothing so pro-life advocates can shun them. * Ted Cruz blamed Donald Trump […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Among the most famous songs of the great Jewish composer Irving Berlin are White Christmas and Easter Parade. Bing Crosby introduced Easter Parade in the movie Holiday Inn in 1942. But Berlin first wrote this melody in 1917 with different lyrics. What was this original version of Easter Parade? A. Being With My Honey, including the lyrics “Days are
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The current guttersniping between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump about their wives has descended so far into the bowels of the body politic that CNN plans to broadcast a debate between the two via colonoscope. * Microsoft launched Tay, an Artificial Intelligence robot that posts tweets based on what it
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — There are many different ways in which children around the world celebrate Purim. Which of the following is not a Purim custom? A. Children in Italy divide into two teams and throw nuts at each other. B. Children in Tunisia make “Hamans” out of paper or rags
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Accusing the protestor who rushed him at a rally of having ties to ISIS, Donald Trump requested that the Department of Homeland Security place all Sanders supporters on the No Fly List and bar their entry back into the United States when returning from other countries. * Bibi Netanyahu rejected
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Merrick Garland, who if approved would be the 4th Jewish person to sit on the current United States Supreme Court, was not the first member of his family to receive an appointment from a president. What relative of his shares that honor? A. As Merrick Garland said
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –When Marco Rubio gave the Republican response to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address, why did the National Jewish Democratic Council criticize Rubio? A. They criticized him because the bottled water that he grabbed during his speech was not kosher.B. They criticized him because he said that the United
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The Game of Donopoly By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Directions: Start at Go with a loan of $1,000,000 from your father. Shake dice and roll a three. Go to Trump Village in Brooklyn and advertise that there are no vacancies while renting to African-Americans but not to whites. Roll the dice for a four. Pass
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — O. J. Simpson is back in the news, as we learn of a knife that is being examined by the Los Angeles Police Department. Might it be the murder weapon used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman? O. J. Simpson has a connection to Israeli
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Mitt Romney delivered a speech warning Republicans against electing Donald Trump as their party’s candidate for president. Later at a private dinner for wealthy Republican donors, he was overheard saying: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for Trump no matter what…who hate the government, who believe
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SAN DIEGO — License plate maven Melanie Rubin thinks we may have run this before, many years ago. But no matter. The message on the plate is good advice no matter when you come across it!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Emmanuel Lubezki won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for the film The Revenant. Lubezki, a Jewish-Mexican with family roots in Bolshevik Russia, has now won this award three years in a row (having previously won for Gravity and Birdman). When Leo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ After his victory in the Nevada caucuses Donald Trump gloated over winning almost every demographic group including the poorly educated. Echoing James Carville’s strategy from the 1992 Clinton campaign, Trump’s campaign manager proclaimed, “It’s the stupid, stupid.” * In a surprise move Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. The
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Republican frontrunner Donald Trump (okay, take a second and read those words again!) has drawn criticism from some Israel supporters because of his recent comments on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, when he stated, “Let me be sort of a neutral guy,” while declining to say who was
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