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2010-03-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu denies reports a close aide slammed Obama as a 'disaster' in wake of meeting

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Posted by gorb 2010-03-30 01:42|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 It's ok, we here in the US know he is a disater. He won't be able to do much after the next election.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-03-30 05:06|| 2010-03-30 05:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Why not just claim that the Juice used the n-word to describe Bambi, and be done?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-30 06:41|| 2010-03-30 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 No sense keeping the "disaster" to ourselves. We'll gladly trade you Barry for Netanyahu and throw in Axelrod and Rham along with as many GBU-82's as you think you'll need.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-30 06:46|| 2010-03-30 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Who told you we can't build our own GBU-82, Besoeker? Keep your freaks---we've plenty of our own.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-30 06:55|| 2010-03-30 06:55|| Front Page Top

#5 But if we use the freaks as GBU-82s....

Posted by DarthVader 2010-03-30 08:15|| 2010-03-30 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 You sure you don't overestimate botox hardening, Darth?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-30 08:21|| 2010-03-30 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Bullets can kill. Bombs can kill. Even Freaks thrown at high velocity can kill.

And that Nancy Pelosi with her botox face could penetrate to the center of the earth.... and survive.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-03-30 09:25|| 2010-03-30 09:25|| Front Page Top

#8 There is probably a mistranslation of "greatest disaster".

What he probably said was something involving some of the words: "schvartzer", "schmuck", "bupkis", "dreck", "gonif", "kvetcher", "meshuggah", "nebbish", "noodge", "nudnik", "pisher", "putz", "schlemiel", "schlub", "schnook", "schnorrer", "schmedrick", or "yutz".

But "greatest disaster", not so much.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-30 10:25|| 2010-03-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Prob'ly not exactly those words, Anonymoose. The argument over Yiddish vs. Hebrew was resolved early in the last century.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-30 11:18|| 2010-03-30 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 He should have said some liiberal mumbojumbo about not being in a greement with the statement but supporting his peoples right to speak freely.

Posted by Mike N. 2010-03-30 11:37|| 2010-03-30 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 "Two can play the newspaper denials game."

Posted by mojo 2010-03-30 14:00|| 2010-03-30 14:00|| Front Page Top

#12 "And I have heard that the Alcalde is actually a trained gorilla - but who would believe such nonsense?"
-- Zorro, The Gay Blade

Posted by mojo 2010-03-30 16:53|| 2010-03-30 16:53|| Front Page Top

#13 trailing wife: Yes, but Yiddish rolls off the tongue more joyfully than Hebrew. Especially with the curses, that are truly inventive. I liked one in particular:

"May you inherit a 100 room hotel, and have a heart attack in every one of those rooms."

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-30 19:13|| 2010-03-30 19:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Yiddish phrases do have a richness of meaning and often multi-layered that is well-honed.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-30 20:06|| 2010-03-30 20:06|| Front Page Top

#15 ^sigh* I studied Yiddish for one quarter at Hebrew school before giving it up. I was taking both Hebrew and German at the time, and adding the language that stood halfway between (Hebrew alphabet, Germananic language) messed me up in all three classes. And while Daddy spoke all three languages, Mama had no Yiddish at all, which meant I had no exposure at home.

I'm sure y'all are right about the richness of the language. That curse is truly impressive.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-30 23:49|| 2010-03-30 23:49|| Front Page Top

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