Laundry list

Maybe a quick laundry list of thoughts today
Barak didnt leave soon enough so BiBi could move forward and Livni should be escorted out the same door.

re: Berlusconi's bravado claim he never paid for sex...actually this narcissistic comment deserves more attention than I want to discuss today, but I've heard this directly and read it too often. Does this indiscreet and assinine comment excuse adulterous, self indulgent betrayals or does this comment indirectly mean women can't control themselves so what the heck, just get it anywhere, anyway. Of course in the context of contemporary historical events, in this age of Moshiach we are in, where up is down and left is right in the realm of human events, nothing much makes sense anymore which is why retiring with a copy of Tehillim and staying indoors seems the only solution.

In this one teeny corner of opinion, it is highly doubtful that stuxnet puts a damper on Iran's activities for 'years' because its more likely Iran was way ahead of all the global assumptions and deceptive statements made by the IAEA to cover up how advanced they actually are.

China feels the dollar is obsolete as a global currency and is pushing the yuan to replace it. Considering my entire neighborhood is now Chinese, still buying with cash, stores emptying and changing hands every 6 months, building codes on building heights being ignored in a residential area of 4 story buildings and let's not fall asleep with a recitation we already know that everything is made and badly so, in China...in another country, or maybe another time where politicians sell out their country and citizens for personal profit, it might well be considered treason.

NAFTA and the peculiar inability or refusal to protect America's borders from rampant immigrant overflow and gun running/drug/prostitution business is distanced from the daily realities of what America has come down to-the focus is switched to Assange & Co. disseminating information that those of us in the '60s could only dream of doing.

I read somewhere in the last couple of days that Obama is prepared to spend billions on the next election. Well, I did say that Emanuel did not go to Chicago (solely) for himself, he's there laying groundwork for 2012.

On a more personal note...my emails remain unanswered and calls not returned. And that's while I'm still in NY!
I was thinking this morning how or why G-d would create a life that experiences only rejection and hate.
An unwanted child, made fun of and bullied in school, isolated because of alcoholic parents, becomes religious thinking that's the solution for Life and Family, Community only to find more of the same.

I've come to the realization that some lives are meant to be for reasons unexplained-nothing special or heroic, maybe something that needed to be completed by a soul, or fixed from a last reincarnation but the expectation of being loved...like the expectation of happiness that Friedman writes is a misconception...we are not owed happiness and I guess we are not owed love, we are here only to serve G-d and it seems some people serve in ways that involves joy and family and others in solitude.