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  • “Excuse me ladies and gentleman. I’m sorry to interrupt. Can I have your attention.”

    “Excuse me ladies and gentleman. I’m sorry to interrupt. Can I have your attention.”

    You know when you hear that on the subway, some obnoxious person is going to come through, asking for money.

    Well, I sure am.

    I don’t ask much of you, gentle reader. But why not give a little money to help feed hungry people? And it will actually go to buying food to put in hungry bellies.

    https://www.gofundme.com/dx4293xg.

    My wife is one of the people behind this, so I guarantee it ain’t no scam.

    But first read this, by our friend Annia Ciezadlo. Yes, this is what I (but mostly they) did on our summer vacation.

    But you may ask why I care. I ain’t no bleeding-heart do-gooder. But I do have a soft-spot for Syrians. See I’ve been there. Twice. For vacation. Aleppo was wonderful. A lot of people don’t realize that most refugees from Syria are educated middle-class people. They had lives and jobs and dropped their kids off at school got stuck in traffic and lived in nice apartment buildings. Until the war. And now their neighborhood might look like this:

    That was Aleppo back in 2007. At the juice stand by the park. We ordered a tamarind drink and the kid gave us a drink and then wouldn’t take our money. Why? Because we were Americans from far away. And he was very sweet. Today he might be marching across Europe today, cursing the Hungarians.

    You can even look at the rest of my vacation pictures if it will help you give.

    So how does this relate to the Greek island of Mytilene (AKA Lesbos)? It just so happens I’ve been going there with my family for a long time. And it just so happens that this year a massive humanitarian crisis is literally washing up on the island’s shores. And many of these refugees are the same damn people who were so nice to us back in Syria!

    My wife and her friend speak Arabic. So they went off to see how they could help. Mostly I hung out at the beach guarding this octopus to make sure nobody else ate it before they got back for dinner.

    I didn’t want to take up room in the little rent-a-car, which they were filling up with people walking across the island in the heat. Plus, it was vacation. Anyway, I did go one time with them across the island to help out with my limited Greek. See, here’s Kara Tepe, the refugee camp, a few weeks ago.

    And here’s my wife taking and giving polaroid-like pictures to cute orphan refugees. Oh, did I just play the cute hungry orphan card? Gosh, I guess I did. (This is a different camp, just FYI.)

    So give a bit to help feed hungry people who are being forced into a trial by ordeal across Europe. They’re nice people. Really. And if there’s a chance, put “cop in the hood” or something in a message. I’m curious if anybody reading this will be inspired to give money.

    Here’s the link again: https://www.gofundme.com/dx4293xg.

  • Looking up to police officers

    I just learned that cops in Greece have to be at least 5’7″ (170 cm) tall. Male and female. That’s crazy. Hell, I’m just barely over the cutoff.

    …which is the highest minimum in Europe, along with Malta, Romania and Serbia. At 152cm, Belgium has the lowest height requirement. Female applicants in Greece must also be 170cm tall, making them the highest in Europe.

  • Golden Schmucks, Violence, Immigrants, and Greece

    And the report by Jerusalem Postreporter Gil Shefler, who got beat up by extremists on one end of the spectrum, but isn’t sure which.

    I’m amused that Gil asks the Greek Nazi party (Golden Dawn) how they differ at all from the German Nazi’s of WWII. All the party member can come up with is: “The Nazi’s didn’t like Greece. We are nationalists who love Greece.” That’s the only difference?

    It bothers me that this group is called, “extreme right” or, as the New York Times so inadequately put it, “Far Right.” Well, yes, technically correct. But Golden Dawn is is actually a Nazi Party. Not like the Nazis, but actual Greek Nazis… with messed up swastika and all. 

    And here’s the Greek Nazi party leader — an elected member of parliament — throwing water at a person on a talk show and than slapping another woman. Class act. I hate Greek Nazis.

    He is now wanted for arrest on assault charges.

    When I lived in Greece, I was amused because the graffiti for “Golden Dawn” — in Greek, by morphing an “η” into an “α” — can very easily be changed into “Golden Eggs” (Χρυσή Αυγή becomes Χρυσή Αυγἀ). Good stuff.

  • Marine reservist attacks Greek priest

    Marine reservist attacks Greek priest

    Why? Because marine reservist Jasen Bruce said he “looked like a terrorist.” He doesn’t. He looks like a Greek priest.

    Why? Because Bruce said he tried to rob him. He didn’t. He’s a priest.

    Why? Because the man yelled “Allahu Akbar.” He didn’t. He’s a priest.

    Why? Because the man grabbed Bruce’s crotch and made sexual advances in perfect English. He didn’t. [But feel free to insert priest joke here… they make the same jokes in Greece.]

    The priest was lost.

    The marine is an idiot and should be jailed. But the priest is forgiving.

    Here’s the story in the St. Petersburg Times by Alexandra Zayas and Demorris Lee:

    A Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

    What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.

    Dude, do you really think a terrorist just walked down the street and happened to pick on you, the one patriotic American ready to defend himself and his country by beating a man of God with a tire iron?

    Bruce is a sales manager for APS Pharmacy in Palm Harbor. His blog entries tout the benefits of increasing testosterone and human growth hormones. He was charged with misdemeanor battery in 2007…

    Online photo galleries depict him flexing big muscles wearing little clothing.

    An exterior surveillance video of Tuesday’s chase captured the two men in motion, said Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Laura McElroy:

    “You see a very short, small man running, and an enormous, large muscular man chasing after him.”

    What a f*cking idiot. It’s sh*t like this that makes me a little more sympathetic to the Flying Imams.

    Here’s Bruce’s mugshot:

    And also reminds me of one of my favorite jokes. It ends like this: “For you it’s a tragedy. For me it’s a mistake!”

    Update: In the case of the marine reservist who attached a priest for looking like a Muslim terrorist, all charges were dropped. The priest didn’t stick around America to press charges. To rehash, this idiot chased a Greek priest for three blocks and beat him with a tire iron while telling a 911 operator (listen to the call here):

    I got a guy who’s trying to mug me. … He just grabbed my f—— b—- when I got out of my car. … I just hit him with a tire iron and he’s trying to take off. He said he was going to f—— kill me. … This guy’s not gonna come back. I wanna knock him out.
    …
    He looks like a Middle Eastern guy, a Taliban guy. … He straight up looks like he came from Afghanistan … knows where I live and knows what I drive and I’m not letting him come back. I’ll kill him. I got a wife.

    So let me get this straight. This priest, who says he was lost, looked like he was from Afghanistan, tried to rob the idiot, then grabbed his balls, and then yelled “Allahu Akbar.”

    Ohkaaay.

    The prosecuting lawyer called this ‘roid rage noting the attacker is “a 220-pound pharmacy manager who blogs photos of himself flexing his muscles and had worked as a drug informant for police.”

    The attacker, after charges were dropped, says he forgives the priest. Gee, that’s mighty Christian of him.

    Here’s a picture of the attacker.


    He’s not gay at all.

  • Greek Police Attacked in Terrorist Attack

    Six shot. The AP story by Derek Gatopoulos: “Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding six police officers.”