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Magdolna

You will thank me for this.
Ruzsa Magdolna is a Hungarian star, virtually unknown in the states.
She wrote this song herself, in English, to highlight her voice.
She is an unbelievable talent, termed the European Janis Joplin.
you'll see why.

Ruzsa Magdi

I don't care for hip hop, but this Hungarian singer is so cute, and so talented (she has a wide range of styles) and she just kills me in this video.
Watch it, it's fun!

A Horse walked into a bar.....

A horse walked into a bar.
The bartender said, "Hey, why the long face?"

La vita e belle

Hello, everybody, this is my regular Monday Blog.

First, I fixed the clips, the YOUTUBE clips so they fit on the page and display properly when played.

Today I want to talk about the movie "Lavita e Belle " and Achinoam's performance of the theme song.

The film is based on a true story about an Italian Jew who is sent with his 4 year old son to a concentration camp in the 1940's.

The protaganist, Guido, loves his son and doesn't want him to suffer the horrors of the ordeal, so he convinces him that the experience they are having is a game.

Guido Orefice is a sweet, goofy man who is always telling stories, The true power of love is explored in this masterpiece. Guido's love keeps Giosuy alive through the harsh truths of the concentration camp. As always, Guido makes everything into a story and a game so that the little boy will remain hidden throughout their time there. Even when all the other children are murdered, Guido's stories convince Giosuy to remain hidden from the soldiers. Giosuy's desire for his very own tank keeps him focused on winning the game that Guido has created.

Guido fell in love with Dora, a gentile, before they were taken to the camp.

Not only does Guido show great love but so does Dora. Since she is not Jewish, Dora is not threatened by the concentration camps. However, when Guido and Giosuy are taken, she demands to go with them. Dora never sees either of the people she loves nor does she have any more time with Guido, but her love brings her to the concentration camp to share their fate.

One of the reasons for the warmth of the film is that viewers meet the characters when their lives are simple and happy. We see them first as Guido and Dora fall in love and begin to share their lives together. Additionally, we understand the characters because they are so well-developed. The viewer completely understands why Guido would make a game of the concentration camp since he creates a story or a game for every other part of life even beforehand.

I can't recommend this movie with anything more than complete enthusiam.

It is truly an emotional film.

Please click the YouTube excerpt on the right of the page, it's Noa singing the theme song to the movie, and her rendition is as beautiful as any part of the film.

I first came accross Noa while listening to Arutz Sheva's Isaeli jukebox some 10 years ago.

(Google "Arutz Sheva Jukebox, click on Israeli music, "listen" and Noa sings 'Machar Yagi'a Bechatzot', it's about the 7th song on the playlist. It's incredibly beautiful and moving.

Noa, or Acinoam Nini, is a huge star around the world.

She is a Yemini Jew who currently resides in Israel.

There's a link to her website on this Blog, or you can go to http://youtube.com/ and search for "Noa", it's worth it.

The film and the song both have brought me to tears, and that isn't easy.

They help me put my own existence in perspective.

I'll be back.

G-d willing.

Why Did Bin Laden Dye His Beard?

I don't know.
According to "Arabists" commenting on the cable news shows,
dyng one's beard is not common in the land of the blood cultist-moonworshippers.
Grey in the beard symbolizes wisdom.
Not in Bin Laden's case, of course, but generally.
Maybe he thought Whitney Huston would see the video, and he's
been watching the " Just For Men" commercials which promise that young
sex-Goddessses will drop dead at your feet, even if you're a terrorist, or
pushing your paltry possessions down the street in a shopping cart, and he
believes it.
By now most of us have seen the new YouTube offering by Bin
Laden.
I only wish I could get ahold of the dope he's doing. I'm
kidding. I'm already paranoid.
But seriously, aside from murdering innocent
women and children, what has this guy got going for himself? It's good that he drops in once in a while.
Maybe it will help find him.
And maybe it will reinvigorate the war on terror.
It couldn't hurt.

Osama bin Laden said in a new video marking the sixth anniversary of al Qaeda's September 11 attacks the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power, but he made no specific threats.
In his first video appearance for almost three years, the al Qaeda leader said U.S. President George W. Bush was repeating the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq.
In a sign that the almost 30-minute tape, acquired by Reuters Television from a web trawler in Europe, was made recently, bin Laden mentions new French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Its authenticity could not immediately be verified, although an excerpt seen by Reuters matched a still photograph carried by an al Qaeda-linked Web site which advertised the tape in advance. "Despite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and modern military arsenal, and despite it spending on this war and its army more than the entire world spends on its armies, and being the major state influencing the world's policies ... 19 young men were able ... to change the direction of its compass," bin Laden said in the tape.
"The subject of the mujahideen has become an inseparable part of the speech of your leader and the effects and signs are not hidden. Since the 11th, many of America's policies have come under the influence of the mujahideen."
The video shows bin Laden sitting at a table dressed in white and cream robes and wearing white headgear.
Beneath him, a banner on the screen reads in English: "A message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden to the American people." Bin Laden appears tired and sallow, though his beard is much shorter and darker than in his last appearance, when it was streaked with grey. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the tape demonstrated that "terrorists are out there and they are actively trying to kill Americans and threaten our interests."

Christina...Not Bad Looking, But Naiive..

Hello, everybody.

This is my regular Sunday Blog.

Today I want to talk about that lady, Christina Amapour, who's been called a female Michael Moore, but not as funny.
She put together a piece of Garbage for CNN called G-d's Warriors, which attempted to equate Islam with Judaism and Christianity.

The media does indeed have a liberal slant, as very few reviews were on the mark.

Credit should be given to MSNBC for several reports the next day castigating Amapoor and CNN for this outright propaganda piece.

Fox justly condemned "G-d's Warriors" but in an effort to appear...fair and balanced, they had a couple of imbecilic leftists commenting on the issue, and if one hadn't seen the piece, one wouldn't really know that it was in fact a piece of politically correct Muslim propaganda.

By the way, my favorite Web Site, IsraelAmerica, summed up the "Documentary" pretty well, even before it finished running.

They called it an "affront to intelligence and good taste."
israelamerica.blogspot.com/

By the way, (again), in case you haven't heard, Amy Winehouse, (They Tried to Make me go to Rehab, I'm No Good) just got out of rehab, and the English tabloids had pics of her after a fight with her live- in lover.

Amy's career is taking off, but may not get far, unless someone can intervene and save her from herself.