This is going to be a hard Blog Posting to write but I’m going to give it a go. Please read on and see how I go about pecking it out knowing that many of you are going to say to me, “How could you!”
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I’ll set this up by talking about a Smudge Absurdity...
Ø Several years ago in broad daylight a man stole a baby right out of a carriage being pushed by its mother.
Ø The man and the man's face were caught on a security camera running up the street with the baby in hand being chased by the mother’s other two small children.
Ø Did you just say to yourself, “That’s great! They got a clear picture of the bad guy’s face and were going to be broadcasting it on TV and on the Internet and in short order they would apprehend the bad guy and get the baby back to its distraught Mother!”
Ø That’s not what happened because the people in charge of doing stupid things put a smudge over the face of the fleeing baby-stealing bad guy.
Ø Because of the smudge, instead of people down the street seeing the bad guy running with a baby under his arm and tackling him and taking the stolen baby away from him, they saw him coming toward them and they said to themselves, “I wonder if that is the baby stealer I just saw on the TV (and/or the Internet)? No, that’s not him. The TV (and/or the Internet) baby stealer had a smudge for a face.”
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Here is where I start treading on thin ice.
The news reports about the Israeli-Hamas War are going Smudge Crazy. Hamas has been doing some really Awful Things and the world is almost getting to see the Awful Things but not getting to see the Awful Things because they are Smudged Over.
Two nights ago I was telling my long-suffering wife (she is long suffering because I’ve got no one else that will listen to me) that the Smudges ought to be removed because the world needs to see the Awful in all of its Awfulness.
Then last night the Smartfella was proven right (to himself at least). I saw on TV, over and over, Hamas Supporters say that it was not true that babies had their heads cut off. It was just Israeli Lies.
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I say let the world see the Evil!
Maybe, just maybe, it will make some of the Hamas Supporters in our universities go back to their video games instead of going out and demonstrating with their cue cards in hand.
Maybe if they saw a baby head or two cut off unsmudged (is
that a word?) they would see the light and call a spade a spade and see how the
cow really eats the cabbage and say,
“Eureka, I now understand! I see that the Evil out there is Evil! I wanna
become Jew!”
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I think I have made myself confusingly clear. If you do not see my absolutely perfectly irrefutable logic I feel sorry for you.
On the other hand I understand that all of what I pecked out above will fall on many deaf ears because many of the demonstrators who see the babies heads rolling into the streets will say, “Just what I expected! Netanyahu cut off those babies’ heads with a kitchen knife and paid Fox News to make it look like Hamas did it”.
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The guy with the microphone asks: “How Do You Know That?”
The demonstrator replies, “Because it says so on my cue card!”
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
