We finally got in a full workout at the gym. The session went fine, and we feel fine this morning.
We've resumed tweeting via our burner account Natan Nagid GOC, Operation Big Cedars. We shrug.
Sticking with the Red Sea Pedestrians, The Times of Israel headline reads, 'Activists block public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayers as Orthodox group sets gender divider. Angry scenes at Dizengoff Square gatherings on Sunday, Monday after Rosh Yehudi group defies courts, puts up improvised flag barrier between men and women; similar tussles elsewhere.' Haredi/Orthodox Jews used to want to be left alone. But in recent years they've become aggressive A-holes about this stuff. These are your guys, Bibi. Maybe it's time for us to move on. We don't know. We yearn for thee, old Blue and Whites.
Seque to 2003 and Me....20 years ago right now we are in waaaaay over our head teaching history and English at a second-rate Orthodox Yeshiva in Passaic New Jersey. Our commute is half an hour long, and every day we drive to the yeshiva with great trepidation. We try to find comfort listening to Mike and the Mad Dog on Sports Radio 66, WFAN. Every evening we drive home exhausted and angry blasting Led Zeppelin. Ah....our brand new Jeep Liberty. We loved that Jeep...we loved that Jeep.
Speaking of things that suck and 2003, and continuing our deep dive into the New York Jets... The Jets' 2003 season was lost because the Giants knocked out their quarterback, Chad Pennington, in a pre-season game. We were there, having foolishly bought Giants season tickets. Pennington was the Jets' young gun quarterback, they're savior. He had a decent career, but his arm gave out. He moved on to Miami (and boy did Jets fans hate that) before retiring.
Was Pennington a bust? Who knows. But we do know about three young quarterbacks the Jets drafted since Pennington. These are Mark Sanchez (2009-2012), Sam Darnold (2018-2020), and now Zach Wilson (2021-?). Honestly the Jets' best quarterback this century might be Vinnie Testaverde (1998-2003, 2005). Before Vinnie there was Kenny O'Brien (1984-1992) and before Kenny O, the legendary Joe Namath, who was in the news this week slamming Wilson and the Jets.
We did not watch the Republican debate last night. We didn't even remember the debate till we went to bed and turned on the telly. Our friend William Katz did watch the debate and here's his assessment, 'So the second Republican debate is over. And what did we get? Nothing.' If this election cycle kills off the presidential debate dog and pony show that will be a good thing. We still maintain none of this matters, that the Dems will win no matter what. But we're wondering if Trump isn't changing the campaign rules the way he did in 2016. We shall allow this thought to percolate.
Bork! Bork! Bork! Sorry, one must needs be a certain age to understand that we're now talking about World War 1990: Norway and the Swedish intermission. See also the title of this post. Things are going fine, we're smoothing things out. We know what the Swedes call their fighter wings, but not what they call their squadrons. As for the Poles, we're just making it up. These being good commies, the Poles aren't going to have a Sobieski Squadron, right? And certainly no Maczek Squadron. And damnit, it doesn't look like the Swedes had AWACs, which is why we couldn't find one before 1994.
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