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I had doubts about joining in the chorus of people leaving condolences to anybody. I thought they would be diluted by the repetition and “sameness”: They don’t.

Each comment left here or in Facebook or tweeter and emails felt very needed and appreciated.

You guys helped us very much and the missus and myself want to extend our profound thanks.

And she is gone. December 25th 2019, 07:43am.

She was a child of the Spanish Civil War and the truly backward customs of the era. She ran from the sheer poverty of a Spain post Civil War and WWII that made many like her emigrate to other places She also survived Cuba under both Fascism and Communism and all she built in Venezuela was swallowed again by Communism. Let’s say she hated both of the sides and managed to pass that gene to me.

But she lived he last almost two decades in the US, with her son and “daughter” (She always called my wife “her daughter” which sometimes made for embarrassing moments during introductions) as free as she could be. Made friends with people who did not speak the same language and above all she lived in peace. Whereas in Venezuela she ended up living behind tall compound-like walls topped with razor wire and barred windows, the only thing between her and the street here was the pane of glass on her window.

She loved us deeply, she lived fully and she died painless. In the end, is something we all should aspire to when the time comes. I am sure she is now with dad making sure he is well dressed and well behaved up there. Kinda sorry for pops though, his vacation in Heaven is over.

I will believe in Santa for one of these.

I want to make it clear, this fucking asshole does not represent the opinion of the majority – if the entire rest – of the Jewish community in the United States.

Wish your Christian coworkers a Happy Hanukkah today. If they say "I'm not Jewish", say "I'm not Christian but you jam your holidays down our throats so…"

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 23, 2019

This bitch is the worst kind of Progressive.  She needs to feel like a victim during the Holidays and is using her “Judaism” to give her a grievance and an excuse to make other people feel like shit.

This attitude is both disgusting and the antithesis of Jewish teachings.

It is Rabbinic teaching: Dina d’malkhuta dina  which means “the law of the land is the law.”

As Jews, we are supposed to follow the laws and customs of the nations in which we live – except when they directly contradict Jewish laws.

As a Jew living in a majority Christian country, if we are wished a “Merry Christmas,” it is both the decent thing and the Jewish obligation to wish the other person a “Merry Christmas” back.

This woman is a shame on the Jewish community and to her parents and really needs to crawl under a rock and shut the fuck up for… ever.

I’m sorry.

Ignore this piece of misery spreading human garbage.

Sincerely,

Your Jewish Friend

I am, if nothing, a traditional guy.  Stop complaining , you know I always play this one.

Or the Jolly ‘Ol Elf will bust a cap in yo ass.

Merry Christmas Eve!

I am going to keep hammering this point home:

Societies function best when the government priorities the safety and wellbeing of its law-abiding, productive, tax-paying core.

When governments fail to do so, chaos ensues.

We see this pattern bifurcate.

On the low end, this is frontier justice.  When the law fails to protect the people, the people will take matters into their own hands.

On the high end, this is a revolution, like in France or Russia, where the people starved as the monarchy got fat.

Eventually, the law-abiding, productive, tax-paying core gets tired of being taken advantage of for their law-abiding, productive, work habits and they fight back.

The purpose of democracy is to make that fight bloodless.  It gives these people an outlet and the ability to make change before things turn bloody.

What we are seeing in places like San Francisco is a total failure of this system.

A small number of professional activists hold all economic growth, especially for small businesses and the middle class, hostage.  They know the systems of power and are able to devote themselves fulltime to crushing working people who have actual business to run.

This is an absolute disaster if your interest is how to run a city.

The law-abiding, productive, tax-paying core of the economy cannot be stamped out of existence by a handful of activists bankrolled by wealthy virtue-signaling leftists and grievance mongers.

In addition, the powers in San Francisco’s city government are entrenched.  Largely because of the efforts of these same sorts of people.

While some law-abiding, productive, tax-paying people can move out of San Francisco, there are many there for who that is the city of their birth.  That is where their families are.  The intangibles make it difficult if not impossible to leave.

So if the powers that be are disinclined to change what happens next?

I can imagine one of these small business zoning fights ending when a professional activist type’s body is found in an alley.

San Francisco seems to be approaching Louis XVI level of instability, where an entrenched city government and an activist class get rich while destroying the lives of everyone else, and I don’t know how much longer that can last.