Blog Posts - ELIADE MOLDOVAN

August 28th, 2018

8/28/2018

Was John McCain a hero? Think twice.

8/27/2018

When I turn my TV on US news these days, it is mostly about Jon McCain’s death. RIP. I honestly appreciated his work as a senator and his standings when he run for the US president. I honestly do. Remarkable.

But for me he was not a hero. I hate war, and if you read my books you will see it plain and simple. As a pilot John McCain’s jet fighter dropped bombs over populated areas, killing people, good and bad. He truly believed he served his country and when he became a POW he showed what he is made of; but still not a hero. Killing people in the name of an idea is not hero. Those sending people to fight take advantage of their credulity. Just think of Trump who found a way to cheat the system and avoid going for fight in Vietnam, then mocked John McCain when he run for president. These are the very bad guys (Trump-like guys), soldiers like McCain are just silly pawns.

I will give you some examples. If you visit Mongolia you will see Genghis Khan statues in the most visible places, the biggest national hero. But he killed millions to fulfill his maniacal dream; starting from nothing he built the biggest empire existing on Earth before him. Is he a hero or a monster? Depends who you ask. Same for Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and believe it or not there are many considering Stalin and Hitler as heroes.

Killing people under the umbrella of an ideology, political differences, religion intolerance, cultural or language differences is still a murder, not punished by rules of law, because the rulers use the means of war for their advantage, and they make the rules.

Question: What US president prolonged a war only to win re-election?
Hint: we talk about the same Vietnam war.

Soul murderers

8/19/2018

This morning CNN early news brought again in the spotlight the case of those pedophile priests. More then 300 “fathers” with serious predatory allegations against kids. Is something worse than that? Let’s stick to numbers. More that 300 in Pennsylvania alone, and there are 50 US states. And my take is that the phenomena is not happening only in US. And wait, Catholicism is not the only faith worshiping God. There are Anglicans, Protestants, Christian Orthodox, and many-many sects. Are all priests with this wicked appetite migrating to Catholicism because the church protects them? Personally, I do not think so.
The church is supposing to educate and protect our souls. Instead, many pretending doing so are killing our souls; and their attack is against the most vulnerable among us, the kids. I saw a documentary where some of those abused as kids by priests, talked about their experience when they became adults. I hardly can imagine a most damaging experience. One remembered a fellow kid committing suicide. The pleasure of vicious priests suggests the lack of empathy toward the victim. Guess what? They were supposed to be understanding, compassionate and directing. They are quite the opposite, seems to me their boss is the devil. And the church does what? Cover it all, moving them from one parish to another, so, the abused and their relative and friends loose track of them.
I have two questions:

Do the leaders of the church believe in God? Hint: Protecting the soul murderers suggests the opposite.
Where is God?

The hoax of Aretha Franklin's pastor

8/16/2018

First, I am a music lover, I dance when a song is inspiring, and I know for sure I danced on some of Aretha Franklin’s melodies. I am sorry every time an artist bringing some sun in my life dies. RIP Aretha Franklin.

Yesterday I saw on TV her pastor, saying he will pray God to help and heal the artist. And next day she is dead.

I think the guy is a joke. Did he pray? Or he only said it because his parish expected him to say it?

Let’s say he prayed. But God did not save her. His pray was useless. My question is: what kind of knowledge substantiated his statement? Did he know God is listening? And if God is listening, is He doing this kind of activities?

Now I am serious and tell you what I think. People like the priest I am talking about turned me away from faith. I think “something might be out there” but guys like that pastor have no clue what they talk about, just take advantage of credulous people ready to believe anything someone dressed in clerical clothes says.

By the way, another news of the day is about more than 300 pastors in Pennsylvania (alone!) accused of sexual abuse. Did all pastors with bad habits moved to Pennsylvania? You do the math.

Are the smokers dirty?

8/15/2018

This past week-end I had to kill some time downtown Toronto, waiting for my wife; she participated in an event, few hours long.

I stopped in a park somewhere on Queen Street West. It was a little bit hot outside, but in the shadows of some big trees was quite right. I found a very wide bench in the shadows of a near-by building; I took-off my shoes and stretched my legs on the bench; it felt good after a 15 km walk.

I Enjoyed myself looking to passers-by people. At a certain point, a guy, eating from a cassolette, dropped it when finished, and the garbage bin was only 3-4 meters away! Note: I picked it up and dropped it in the garbage bin.

Some time later another guy passed-by eating a sandwich. He stopped near the garbage bin, finished eating, drank all the content of a plastic bottle, and dropped the sandwich paper and the bottle in the right bin.

I tried to remember how many times I saw people dropping things on the street, and how many times they did the right thing. More often then not, I remembered people doing what we expect from educated individuals. I do not have a scientific study, but I might say, more then 90% were the good ones.

Looking around, I see many-many cigarette buts. And right there, memories about smokers came to mind. I remembered seeing people smoking in their cars (driver window down, dropping the ashes on the road). All cases I remembered, after finishing they dropped it on the street. Note: every car has ash-trays.

Then I remembered people smoking on the street; same thing, the cigarette ended up on the walk-way. Even worse, I saw many smoking near a garbage-can having special tray for cigars, but the smokers preferred dropping them. Note: after the law forbidding smoking inside buildings, most (if not all) business buildings have those ash-trays near all doors; and I saw the smoker preferring to drop the cigar then placing it in the tray, 1-2 meters away.

OK, there were exceptions, and once again, I do not have a scientific study, but my guess is that the percentage is the other way around, 90% of smokers drop their cigars on the street.

I am not a smoker, and here I am in the assumption territory. They might think that cigars are small and do not hurt the eye as much as bigger garbage, besides, it is theirs, and maybe look nice down on the street.

I would like to remind them that I do not mind my fart, does not smell very ugly for me, and who knows, maybe for the smokers as well, smell nice.

Jokes about religion

7/21/2018

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised, the Lord doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me ... and I got it!

The joke is from:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion

Jokes about students

7/13/2018

The kid: “Dad, you have to go to school and talk to the teacher.”
The father: ”Why?”
The kid: "Well, nothing, I just asked… what end? "
The father: “How so?”
The Kid: "Well, the teacher, with a ruler in his hand, came and pointed it to me, saying, At the end of this ruler is a slow minded person ... and I just asked, what end? “
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The parents punish the kid for a very low mark in the geography class.
The father: “We punished the kid because he did not know where Morocco is, but do we know?”
The mother: “I am not very sure but could not be far. I have a colleague from Morocco and comes to the office on bike”
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The teacher: “How is your little brother?”
The kid: “ He is OK, but I am afraid my mother wants to sell him.”
The teacher: “How so?”
The kid: “She is measuring his weight every day.”

Various jokes

7/11/2018

Radio Moscow receive an anonymous letter with a question: “Are concentration camps in Russia?"
Upon reading the letter Radio Moscow answers: “We did not receive your letter.”
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In the mountains, a tourist talks to a shepherd. “How many sheep do you have?”
“92”
“How old are you?”
“Something between 60 and 70.”
The tourist scratches his head. “How comes you know how many sheep you have but not your age?”
“Well” said the shepherd “no one tried so far to steal my age.”
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A young man, drafted for the army, wanted to bribe the doctor to declare him unfit for service, and inserted few $100 bills in his ass.
The doctor finds the money, still, he filled-in the papers with the verdict: fit for army duty.
“But I have hemorrhoids,” protested the man.
“Yes,” said the doctor, “but not enough.”
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The doctor: “Did you listen to my advice and slept with the window opened?”
The patient: “Yes”
The doctor: “So did your asthma symptoms disappear?”
The patient: “No, but my iPad and TV dsappeared."

Drunkards jokes

7/10/2018

A guy enters a restaurant and asks for a bottle of wine and 2 glasses. After filling in the 2 glasses, drinks from one glass, changes seats and drinks from the other.

“Why are you doing this?” asks the waiter.

“One glass is for me, and the other for a friend that is a sailor, he is on the sea now.”

One month later the guy shows up again at the restaurant and asks for a bottle of wine and only one glass. He starts drinking when the waiter comes by: “What happened to your friend?”

“My friend is OK, it is about me” answered the guy. “I decided to quit drinking.”
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Three drunkards on the railroad.
One says: “There are too many stairs in this building.”
Second: “And the railings are too cold.”
Third: “It seems the elevator is coming.”
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“I do not understand why I am here at the police station?”
“For drinking” said the officer.
“Good, give me another brandy bottle.”
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A drunkard in a bus repeats continuously: “I do not care, I do not care...”
After a while a lady asks: “What don’t you care, man?”
“If I pi on my right or left foot.”
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Jokes about politics

7/9/2018

Q: Why do we have stupid politicians?
A: Because people elect one of their own kind.
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“Suppose I put my hand in a man's pockets and take his money. What does it mean, children?”
“You are the Minister of Finances!”
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The president visits a madhouse. He is sure he is well known even here, and asks a madman, "Do you know who I am?"
"No," replied the man.
Disappointed, the president explains: "I am the most important man in this country".
The madman smiled, "Do not worry, they will fix you, when I arrived here, I thought I am the Emperor of Japan."
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Q: Why are parliamentarians never robbed by thieves?
A: Professional courtesy!