So They Try To Reinvestigate Apparent Murderer Robert Wood But Not Rapist Kirk Douglas?

The LAPD already stated that Robert Wagner is not a suspect in his late first (and third) wife (Natalie Wood Wagner)'s death-- so we're left with maybe even (as others have said) Christopher Walken or even (and I think others will say or have said) the captain. Meanwhile, nobody is talking about reinvestigating child raptist Kirk Douglas (since, by law, then 16-year-old Natalie Wood was a child when he raped her, and he could've gotten the death penalty-- this was 1944 or even 1945, after all; and hopefully, ex post facto would not apply to him since he raped her before the decisions to outlaw the death penalty for child rape).

Meanwhile, someone did once ask if I'm related to Kirk Douglas, ne Issur Danielovitch Demsky. I mean, we're both cleft-chinned Ashkenazic Jews with descent from Jews born in the then-Russian Empire. But as far as I know, we're not related.

But then again, maybe that's partly why hutzpah-laced Jack Czarnecki didn't admit that his granddad Julian Czarnecki ne Chernetski was the son of Krasne, Suwalki-born "Katarzyna" Danilowicza Chernetska-- a murderer of his own mother wouldn't be to be related to a child rapist, right? Even the hardest of criminals and toughest of incarcerated criminals hate sexual offenders and criminals against children-- especially sex offenders against children.

I suppose, however, that being related to Kirk Douglas would come as no surprise-- I mean, I'm related to Jack Czarnecki, his meshugene cousin Marcela J. "Mia" Danilowicz (and she was "Mia", and I will never let her forget where she came from), and  his meshugener uncles John and Joe Czarnecki (who committed Social Security fraud and explotation against Pfc. Bernard S. "Bernie" Czarnecki, WW2, KIA-- and it took him 18 years to die from a botched-shrapnel-removal operation at Lebanon Veterans Affairs' Hospital).

Update (3:50 PM EST): I'm not laughing in a "Ha, ha" but an "Oh, G-d, help us all" way right now-- Gomel (Homiel) isn't too far for how much one could've moved over the years or even for a Yom Tov. And Pop-Pop did always say that we were Polish-Lithuanian... G-d, help us all. By the way, remember who journeyed from Lipsk to Tsuman, Ukraine just for Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan... so, Krasne-Gomel movements are not that farfetched.

So This Romanian Keeps Reading My Desire To Cover "Mockingbird"; So...

Why doesn't he send me the other part of "Mockingbird" (at least once I get my soundcard-- not actually my speakers, but my whole soundcard-- repaired, restored-- provided a miracle-- or replaced)? I could remix it and we'd have a cover of "Mockingbird". I have my e-mail address on my blog and Facebook page.

As a Messianic Jew, I Have Some Questions... Such As...

1. (When anything tempts me not to want the Rapture or to want the Rapture to be delayed a little longer) Who's gonna care about anything else (e.g., marriage, drawing more cartoons, reading a blog post) when the Rapture comes?
2. (When a fellow Jew says that he or she is tolerant, won't bash anyone else, etc.) Does that include Messianic Jews (Jewish Christrians), especially those who are open about our faith but don't proselytize? (Because we get persecuted a lot and accused as missionaries in a perjorative sense.)
3. Why aren't more people praying for the Rapture?

"Kaddish Tikabel" or "The Complete Kaddish"

Kaddish Tikabel

A version can also be seen at Wikipedia's "Kaddish" page.

My recommendation is to recite at least what you've memorized of it every time that you think about it at minimum, if you can-- after all, don't you wan't the Rapture to come? For:

 ¹³ Return, O LORD!
How long?
And have compassion on Your servants.
¹⁴ Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days! (Psalm 90:13-14, NKJV)

and

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, ¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:11-13)
 

"It's Not What Goes In.... But What Comes Out"

"¹⁰ When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: ¹¹ Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
¹² Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
¹³ But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
¹⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
¹⁶ So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? ¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”"

And:

"¹⁴ I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; ¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things^[e]is acceptable to God and approved by men.
¹⁹ Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. ²¹ It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.^{[f] 22} Do you have faith?^[g] Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³ But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.^[h]"


Same with rap, rock, etc.-- music doesn't make a person say or do things: what is already in the person will make him or her gravatate toward and be affected-- not effected-- by the music. "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man." and "[T]here is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean."

So, James Dobson and those who say that music effects grow b'nei v'b'not-mitzvot to do things are absolutely wrong; but they may not be wrong about undiscerning, impressionable, effectable children-- though children can be very discerning, unaffected and uneffected, and unimpressionable as well. However, " ¹² All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. ¹³ Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them."

As A Jew, I Thoroughly Resent Any Portrayal of Jesus As Black or White

Dr. Marylin Kulik of Berkely College cites a fairly-often-used map that suggests, if not shows, that Jesus was Olive-- not Black (shakar), White (lavan), Yellow (tzahov), Red ('Adom, though 'Adam was 'Adom, but Iraqi 'Adom-- red or ruddy), or Brown (hum), but Olive (zayit). The Diaspora (HaGalut) left many of us looking all the different colors, though some of us retained the Olive complexion (including the Olive complexion in my own Ashkenazic Jewish family).

So the more that I'm becoming aware and getting closer to my Jewish heritage, the more that I resent any portrayal of Jesus as Black or White.

Some People Are Total Idiots and Mormons; And Saying That Is Being Nice...

For example, some sicko thought that he was being funny by joking that he helped a pervert commit a crime against a child-- or if he wasn't joking, he outright bragged that he was an accessory to a crime. There is nothing funny about crime, let alone any crimes-- especially certain deviance-based crimes-- against children. In fact, this person who joked about being an accessory (actually, an outright accomplice) to the crime would be brutalized by the inmates in jail or prison really quickly-- inmates don't like sexual crimes, especially any sexual-deviance crimes against children.

As Jerry Sandusky will learn and my sister told me that one inmate learned (In fact, our friend told her that he heard that the inmate was murdered, dismembered, and bagged that he was so despised.), even the hardest of criminals dislike and hate the hardest-of-the-hardest criminals.

And tzedek-- karma, justice-- does bite.