Israel has invaded Gaza...

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I think I'm starting to get a handle on your worldview Ike.

There are two kinds of people in this world.

Jews, and Non-Jews.

I would say, on some level that's pretty goddamn accurate TJ. But since your post probably is intended to suggest something about me...maybe it's time for me to set you straight.

I am not a Jew. So if your intention was to insult me, you can take a flying fuck through a rolling donut. I'm an Irishman. Biological father was a Connolly. An unemployed drunk toolworker. The best thing that ever happened to him was the WWII draft. Biological mother was a Leahy. My birth mother was a neglectful slut who persistently abandoned my older brother and sister and her infant son for weeks at a time heading out into the taverns of Chicago to get laid by the first wealthy looking asshole she could find. The state division of child protection in Illinois took temporary custody of her children a number of times...and finally threatened to permanently remove me from her custody. At which point she made a deal with her Jew boss and his Jew wife, to an open adoption and off I went. My dad's parents were Russian Bolsheviks. My mother's family was 7 generations in this country and barely Jewish at all. They were not observant Jews. I never spent 5 seconds in a synagogue or Jewish temple. I come by my agnosticism almost by osmosis.

I'm a Mick with Jew parents. But I learned what I learned about hate and bigotry directed at Jews from an early age. And next to abuse directed at animals, hate and bigotry frosts me pretty much more than anything.

So you go ahead and make your snarky comments about whatever types of people you think are in the world...and you can figure which side of me you end up on, if any of it matters a shit in Arafat's hat to you.