What's A Kosher Pastrami Sandwich Got To Do With It?

"I want to know why you sent your goons after my daughter, Fred. You send another goon to my daughter's house and I'll take you out, buddy!" - Paladino to New York Post editor, Fred Dicker

Q: How many Republican politicians can you fit in the closet?
A: Evidently, all of them. - Top Five Republican Gay Sex Scandals

Fruit Barrow on 41st and Park -
Where I met the man who wants to be a woman

For a moment there I thought I'd accidentally opened "The Onion" and not the "New York Times". But the New York Times it was.

I had come across the following so-New-York paragraph,

"I was in the middle of eating a kosher pastrami sandwich," Rabbi Levin said. "While I was eating it, they come running and they say, 'Paladino became gay!' I said, 'What?' And then they showed me the statement. I almost choked on the kosher salami."

This from Elisabeth Harris's article, Rabbi Breaks With Paladino Over Apology, about the alliance between Republican nominee for the 2010 New York gubernatorial election Carl P. Paladino, and Yehuda Levin, an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn - an alliance which has now fallen apart. The rabbi has denounced Mr. Paladino for his apology over remarks he had made about homosexuality last Sunday.

Usually it is Paladino making headlines. He's one of those wannabe politicians that prides himself on straight talking, pun intended. I want to know why you sent your goons after my daughter, Fred," Paladino demanded. "You send another goon to my daughter's house and I'll take you out, buddy!" - The Daily Politics

Jeez, and we Aussies thought our pollies were rough as guts!

Back to the Rabbi and the Republican. Strange how some people still don't get it about gays. They feel threatened by anyone whose sexuality is not hetero. It is becoming increasingly obvious that those people who believe that homosexuality and trans-genderism are contagious, feel so because they, deep down are one of those types of people they say they despise. Just look at Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, Bob Allen, Mark Foley and Glenn Murphy for example.

It's not just politicians though. I was walking down Park Avenue this morning on the way to a dental appointment. I was about to pass a fruit barrow when I decided to stop to buy a banana for breakfast, as it would be several hours before I would be able to eat again. There was another customer there, a young Hispanic guy, chatting to the vendor. "A man who wants to be a woman is a disgrace," he was saying. I looked him in the eye and he said it again. "A man who wants to be a woman is a disgrace," adding "Don't you think so lady?"

From "Are We Not Men?" (The IT Crowd)

"Hah," I answered him. "I think YOU want to be a woman. In fact I'm sure of it." There was a fleeting look of alarm in his eyes and then he puffed himself up to a full five feet six and said, "I am 100 percent man!" By this time I had paid for my banana and was walking away.

Desperate to ensure that a complete stranger could be in no doubt as to his masculinity, he followed me for a while, repeating, "I am 100 percent man!"

I was laughing to myself. It put me for a good mood for my dental marathon. Marathon? Marathon Man? Yikes!

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