Editor’s Note: Laurie Baron, Ph.D, envisions how U.S. President Donald Trump would rewrite the history of the United States. Here is a link to Part I, the colonial period. … The New Republic (not to be confused with the fake news magazine)
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAPresident Trump has decided to replace the current “crusade against American history” by setting up the 1776 Commission to teach students “about the miracle of American history.” Historians from Fox News have leaked advance outlines of the lesson plans for the different eras in the American past. Here’s the one for the colonial period. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Ray Frank was the great granddaughter of Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, the renowned Gaon of Vilna. She actually organized the service that night in Spokane, Washington, as that community did not have a synagogue. She preached such a compelling message to the thousand attendees (Jews and non-Jews) about the importance of the Jewish community coming together and creating a congregation that a non-Jewish audience member stood up and offered the donation of a site for the Jewish community to build a synagogue. [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, has done it again. She found this license plate, by which the driver complains about running behind. We sympathize with the driver, whoever he or she may be, but urge him/ her not to speed. It’s just not worth the risk of an accident or a ticket!
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire“You know, putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. It’s — you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” –Bill Barr, September 16, 2020 … If Attorney General Bill Barr ever writes his autobiography, it might go something like this: [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USATo the melody of ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’
Flames that engulf the trees,
Smoke that makes us wheeze.
“Rake the forest floor!
Climate’s not the cause, I won’t pass more laws.” …
[Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireOne of the traditions on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is tashlich, when Jews symbolically cast away their sins by tossing breadcrumbs into a body of water (though the ceremony can take place at any time during the High Holidays until Hoshana Rabah, the 7th day of Sukkot). The ceremony arose from a verse from the prophet Micah (7:19), which states, “He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities, You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea.” Last year, Hillel at Stanford University partnered with another student organization to celebrate Tashlich in a non-traditional way. What did they do? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Talk show after talk show, comedian after comedian, everyone’s trying to be funny, to make us laugh. But they really needn’t go a long way to do that. Seemingly, all they have to do is find a topical issue, invite a guest or talk about a certain person, and then drag their names through the mud for the entertainment of the audience. [Michael Laitman, Ph.D]
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Lifestyles, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireLaurie Baron, Ph.D, has rounded up internet programs from Sunday, Sept. 13 through Thursday, Sept. 17 of direct Jewish interest.
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAAs reported in Bob Woodward’s new book Rage, Donald Trump confided that he downplayed the danger posed to the United States by the coronavirus because he didn’t want to panic Americans. Let’s look at how this leadership strategy has worked in the past. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
On my walks again
Twice a day I’m on my walks again.
My owners’ home confines us like a pen.
I need to get us out of the house again … [Elona Baron as Sung to Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireTell-all books about Donald Trump keep getting published. We have heard from Mary Trump that the president suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder, from John Bolton that he has no guiding principles in formulating foreign policy, and from Michael Cohen that he is a corporate criminal with a mafia mentality. Still 40 % of the American public considers him God’s gift to the United States. To discredit this belief, God has authored a book called This Is a Test: Why I Created Donald Trump. Here’s an advance excerpt. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireA drone suddenly appeared over Rabin Square in Tel Aviv last week and dropped hundreds of small packets on the unsuspecting crowd of pedestrians below. What did the drone drop? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Once upon a time, there was a sleepy Russian village named Mushpushshushnia. That’s my village. Once upon a time, there was a charming, bright, kind, but misunderstood and underappreciated 12-year-old boy named Velvl. That’s me. Once upon a time, Papa told me to fetch a chicken to slaughter. And that’s where the story begins. [Michael Ginsberg]
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Jewish Fiction, Michael Ginsberg, Trivia, Humor & Satire