Jack Engelhard’s award winning book ESCAPE FROM MOUNT MORIAH recently had its first chapter, MY FATHER JOE brought to the silver screen by A-List Canadian filmmaker Nikila Cole. The film has taken prizes at film festivals throughout the world and is featured at this year’s CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.
All the pathos, love and upheaval that shines through every paragraph of the story and every minute of the cinema has again brought to the fore this brilliantly written, emotion-packed collection of stories about life as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish refugee from the Holocaust growing up in Montreal in the Late Forties-Early Fifties.
Now, through the generous permission of Jack Engelhard, I am presenting here another story from this one of a kind collection:
I RESIGN
I RESIGN is probably the most lighthearted true story recounted in ESCAPE FROM MOUNT MORIAH. Between this and MY FATHER JOE, one cannot help but see that these accounts each have their individual appeal, while collectively the reader experiences at the visceral level every emotion on the planet
So now is presented, through Jack Engelhard’s kind consent, the story “I RESIGN”, one of eighteen mini-masterpieces that make up ESCAPE FROM MOUNT MORIAH, available in hardcover from Amazon as well as on Kindle.
From “Escape From Mount Moriah” by Jack Engelhard
Copyright © 2011 Jack Engelhard
Chapter 9
I RESIGN
My first job was with a man named Mr. Cohen, who ran a nursery. When I first went out there, to Cote de Neige in the vast outskirts of Montreal, I thought I’d be working with children. These turned out to be plants.
The job required being on your knees all morning and afternoon to pull out weeds, row after row under a spiteful July and then August sun.
The weeds grew fast. One day I counted them, how many I was pulling, and the total came to 6,740. They grew tall and thick and you never knew what lurked between them. Rats, for example. Rats bigger than dogs. One afternoon there I was, face to face with a rat. He stayed. I ran.
I told Mr. Cohen about it and he laughed.
As for me, I did not think it so funny. I was about 14 then. Most boys my age were delivering newspapers — but we needed more money.
So each day for a good part of that summer I took three streetcars to Cote de Neige and three streetcars back, an hour an a half in the morning, an hour and a half at night, and in between I pulled weeds.
Now, the thirst was the worst of it; no matter how much water you drank, it was never enough. The walk from Mr. Cohen’s nursery to the first streetcar stop was about two miles, and I walked this distance filthy from dust and empty from thirst. I passed beautiful, new suburban homes — another life for me. People would be sitting outside on their lawns, watering the grass.
What a waste of water, I thought. What were they watering anyway? Weeds?
Or they’d be eating juicy watermelon.
Now, I know this is what I saw. I once saw Maurice Richard sitting outside just like that, eating watermelon. Maurice Richard, the Babe Ruth of hockey. I never even told my friends about this. First, nobody sees God…so how can you see Maurice Richard? Second, this was mine. I wanted to keep it to myself.
I did tell Mr. Cohen about it and he laughed.
I hated this job very much.
One day Mr. Cohen asked me to run a hose over a long row of flowers. “I’m promoting you,” he said with a chuckle. Accidentally, I aimed the hose in his direction and drenched him from head to toe. I missed no part of him.
“I needed a shower anyway,” he said.
I said to myself, I am not long for this job.
One more rat, I promised myself, and I am gone for good. Goodbye.
Only a few days later, nearing the end of August and the beginning of school, here was that rat standing between me and a weed I was about to extract. I fled to Mr. Cohen’s office. Before stepping in, I took time to collect myself.
Then I said, “Mr. Cohen, can I talk to you for a minute?”
“Even two,” he said.
I felt awful. Never before had I resigned. “My Cohen,” I said, “I resign.”
He laughed.
“You resign?”
What was so funny? Resign was serious business. “Yes. I resign.”
“Resign?”
“Yes,” I said.
“You?” he said. “You resign?”
“Yes,” I said. “I resign.”
“No you don’t resign.”
“Yes I do resign.”
Then he explained.
“Presidents resign. Prime ministers resign. You?”
All this over a single word. Had I said something so terrible? Apparently yes. For Mr. Cohen was almost violently particular about this. That I was quitting…this bothered him not at all. That I was resigning…this infuriated him.
“You?” he said. “You quit.”
He wanted me to say the words. I realized that by quitting, I was the weed picker that I was — there among the worm, the ant, the rat. By resigning…by resigning I was soaring to the heights of presidents and prime ministers, and certainly well beyond the reach of Mr. Cohen.
No wonder he was outraged, especially when — even after he offered to double my severance pay — I still refused to quit.
No, I resigned
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Did “Three Cups” Author Deserve “60 Minutes” Hanging?
By Jack Engelhard
Justice without mercy is not justice.
That was an exceedingly harsh expose of Greg Mortenson last Sunday on “60 Minutes.” Can’t say I read his book “Three Cups of Tea,” a huge bestseller over the past few years, a book that’s made him very rich, rich enough to build schools and feed the impoverished in Afghanistan. No need, here, to go over all the charges made against him on “60 Minutes,” other than to list the two main allegations – that the book contains fraudulent information, and that those schools he says he built were never built.
I must admit that on first watching that segment on “60 Minutes” my instinct was (G-d forgive) one of gladness. How good it is when a faker gets nabbed.
It’s called shandenfroid – never mind the misspelling but it’s a German word that means “oh joy when another person trips and falls.”
In my religion that’s a sin, and my instinct was sinful.
Obviously I’ve made a complete turn-around. I now feel sorry for the guy and I think that “60 Minutes” was way too tough.
First of all, even Mortenson’s severest critic on the program admitted than even though not all the schools Mortenson promised to build were up and running, some were. In other words, plenty of people were helped and continue to be helped. Again, back to my religion, if you save a single life, it’s as though you’ve saved the entire world.
Mortenson, then, deserves plenty of credit for that alone.
On the matter of padding his book, well, authors are known for this. It’s the nature of the craft. Was Hemingway really the first to liberate the Ritz?
Oh, there was one more serious charge, that he used philanthropy money for personal use. If this is a crime, every politician would be in jail for misuse of campaign funds.
This man Mortenson may not be perfect as a man or as an author, but did he deserve all that from “60 Minutes?” Listen, we are all vulnerable, authors and anyone who speaks and writes. I think it was Robespierre who said (not exact quote but the gist) – “Find me 20 words written by any man and I will find a reason to hang him.”
Mortenson was hung.
The New York Post reveals that he’s going in for heart surgery this week. Let’s wish him success and speedy recovery.
(I couldn’t work up the energy to find the spelling of that German word. Maybe it’s because I hate it so much. If you know it, I’m all ears.)
About the author: Bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard wrote the novel “Indecent Proposal,” which was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His book of memoirs, “Escape From Mount Moriah” has been selected for the Cannes Independent Film Festival through the filming of his short story “My Father, Joe.” Engelhard’s website – www.jackengelhard.com
Justice without mercy is not justice.
That was an exceedingly harsh expose of Greg Mortenson last Sunday on “60 Minutes.” Can’t say I read his book “Three Cups of Tea,” a huge bestseller over the past few years, a book that’s made him very rich, rich enough to build schools and feed the impoverished in Afghanistan. No need, here, to go over all the charges made against him on “60 Minutes,” other than to list the two main allegations – that the book contains fraudulent information, and that those schools he says he built were never built.
I must admit that on first watching that segment on “60 Minutes” my instinct was (G-d forgive) one of gladness. How good it is when a faker gets nabbed.
It’s called shandenfroid – never mind the misspelling but it’s a German word that means “oh joy when another person trips and falls.”
In my religion that’s a sin, and my instinct was sinful.
Obviously I’ve made a complete turn-around. I now feel sorry for the guy and I think that “60 Minutes” was way too tough.
First of all, even Mortenson’s severest critic on the program admitted than even though not all the schools Mortenson promised to build were up and running, some were. In other words, plenty of people were helped and continue to be helped. Again, back to my religion, if you save a single life, it’s as though you’ve saved the entire world.
Mortenson, then, deserves plenty of credit for that alone.
On the matter of padding his book, well, authors are known for this. It’s the nature of the craft. Was Hemingway really the first to liberate the Ritz?
Oh, there was one more serious charge, that he used philanthropy money for personal use. If this is a crime, every politician would be in jail for misuse of campaign funds.
This man Mortenson may not be perfect as a man or as an author, but did he deserve all that from “60 Minutes?” Listen, we are all vulnerable, authors and anyone who speaks and writes. I think it was Robespierre who said (not exact quote but the gist) – “Find me 20 words written by any man and I will find a reason to hang him.”
Mortenson was hung.
The New York Post reveals that he’s going in for heart surgery this week. Let’s wish him success and speedy recovery.
(I couldn’t work up the energy to find the spelling of that German word. Maybe it’s because I hate it so much. If you know it, I’m all ears.)
About the author: Bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard wrote the novel “Indecent Proposal,” which was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His book of memoirs, “Escape From Mount Moriah” has been selected for the Cannes Independent Film Festival through the filming of his short story “My Father, Joe.” Engelhard’s website – www.jackengelhard.com
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Page to Screen to CANNES-Jack Engelhard's "Escape From Mount Moriah"
"My Father, Joe," adapted from my memoir "Escape From Mount Moriah," has been selected for screening at CANNES, Europe's most prestigious Film Festival, equal to the Academy Awards. The date -- May 18. This is quite a coup for the Canadian film-maker, whose "little film that could" has already won numerous other film festival awards worldwide.
The book "Escape From Mount Moriah" has been awarded top prize on EXCELLENCE from the Independent Publishers Association.
What's the book about, as reflected in "My Father, Joe?" It's about a kid who survives Europe's genocide to discover a new continent -- America!
Yes, America, the land of second acts and second chances.
Novelist Jack Engelhard is the author of eight or more books, including the international bestseller "Indecent Proposal," which was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Engehard's Works can be found on Amazon and on his website www.jackengelhard.com
http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Mount-Moriah-Memoirs-Refugee/dp/0967407486/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303061925&sr=1-1
The book "Escape From Mount Moriah" has been awarded top prize on EXCELLENCE from the Independent Publishers Association.
What's the book about, as reflected in "My Father, Joe?" It's about a kid who survives Europe's genocide to discover a new continent -- America!
Yes, America, the land of second acts and second chances.
Novelist Jack Engelhard is the author of eight or more books, including the international bestseller "Indecent Proposal," which was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Engehard's Works can be found on Amazon and on his website www.jackengelhard.com
http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Mount-Moriah-Memoirs-Refugee/dp/0967407486/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303061925&sr=1-1
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Fox News Behaving Badly?
By Jack Engelhard
The Obama administration has found the enemy and it is Fox News. The New York Times and CNN got it straight from the lips of White House communications director Anita Dunn who revealed that, “We’re going to treat them [Fox News] the way we would treat an opponent.”
Hello Lady? The press is SUPPOSED to be an opponent! That’s why it’s called the Fourth Estate, to keep a sharp eye on the other three Estates, executive, legislative, judicial. Nowhere is it written that the press shall collaborate with the government; quite the opposite if my reading of Thomas Jefferson is correct: “The only security of all is in a free press.”
Ms. Dunn, obviously speaking for Mr. Obama, accuses Fox News of being a branch of the Republican Party. This can only mean that the White House finds no such sinfulness among all the other networks, which suggests that the rest of them are branches of the Democrat Party. I’m not saying this, she is (if not in so many words).
Apparently, Fox News simply refuses to cheer this White House, a White House that has grown accustomed to unconditional admiration. Behold the petulance.
Fox News keeps turning to the wrong page in the hymn book.
Speaking as a recovering journalist and as a viewer who monitors most of the channels, I find Fox News to be the only place where all sides are given a voice. This is also the place where – well, does anyone remember checks and balances, or has this notion become old-fashioned?
Except for the press, or rather, except for Fox News, who else is around to keep tabs on a Party that dominates the White House and the Congress? Someone has to find out what’s going on behind closed doors – and it sure won’t be a network that qvells and thrills every time Mr. Obama speaks (as in Chris Matthews).
Mr. Obama has spoken out against Fox News several times, if obliquely, but I suspect that the peeving was refreshed when Glenn Beck ousted Van Jones.
Was that the bridge too far?
We the people expect the news media to be our guardians against government excess and misdeeds (Democrat or Republican). It’s a dirty job (like umpiring), but somebody has to do it, and frankly, few besides Fox News are on the job. Yes, my fellow journalists will argue that they too are “fair and balanced,” and yet it is quite clear that too often they are Democrats first and journalists second.
This all began with Woodward and Bernstein, who, in bringing down a flawed president, proved that journalism was not simply a means to report the news.
Journalism can change the world.
A generation of idealists – the Peace Corps generation – joined the nation’s newsrooms to “make the world a better place.”
But that is not the duty of journalism. Journalism serves the nation when it seeks facts and pursues truth and (in the phrasing of JFK) lets “the chips fall where they may.”
Ms. Dunn was correct, after all. Journalists should be treated as “opponents.” Too bad she could only find Fox News as being so troublesome.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com Engelhard’s latest book, the newsroom thriller “The Bathsheba Deadline” is now available in paperback. http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255629656&sr=8-1
The Obama administration has found the enemy and it is Fox News. The New York Times and CNN got it straight from the lips of White House communications director Anita Dunn who revealed that, “We’re going to treat them [Fox News] the way we would treat an opponent.”
Hello Lady? The press is SUPPOSED to be an opponent! That’s why it’s called the Fourth Estate, to keep a sharp eye on the other three Estates, executive, legislative, judicial. Nowhere is it written that the press shall collaborate with the government; quite the opposite if my reading of Thomas Jefferson is correct: “The only security of all is in a free press.”
Ms. Dunn, obviously speaking for Mr. Obama, accuses Fox News of being a branch of the Republican Party. This can only mean that the White House finds no such sinfulness among all the other networks, which suggests that the rest of them are branches of the Democrat Party. I’m not saying this, she is (if not in so many words).
Apparently, Fox News simply refuses to cheer this White House, a White House that has grown accustomed to unconditional admiration. Behold the petulance.
Fox News keeps turning to the wrong page in the hymn book.
Speaking as a recovering journalist and as a viewer who monitors most of the channels, I find Fox News to be the only place where all sides are given a voice. This is also the place where – well, does anyone remember checks and balances, or has this notion become old-fashioned?
Except for the press, or rather, except for Fox News, who else is around to keep tabs on a Party that dominates the White House and the Congress? Someone has to find out what’s going on behind closed doors – and it sure won’t be a network that qvells and thrills every time Mr. Obama speaks (as in Chris Matthews).
Mr. Obama has spoken out against Fox News several times, if obliquely, but I suspect that the peeving was refreshed when Glenn Beck ousted Van Jones.
Was that the bridge too far?
We the people expect the news media to be our guardians against government excess and misdeeds (Democrat or Republican). It’s a dirty job (like umpiring), but somebody has to do it, and frankly, few besides Fox News are on the job. Yes, my fellow journalists will argue that they too are “fair and balanced,” and yet it is quite clear that too often they are Democrats first and journalists second.
This all began with Woodward and Bernstein, who, in bringing down a flawed president, proved that journalism was not simply a means to report the news.
Journalism can change the world.
A generation of idealists – the Peace Corps generation – joined the nation’s newsrooms to “make the world a better place.”
But that is not the duty of journalism. Journalism serves the nation when it seeks facts and pursues truth and (in the phrasing of JFK) lets “the chips fall where they may.”
Ms. Dunn was correct, after all. Journalists should be treated as “opponents.” Too bad she could only find Fox News as being so troublesome.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com Engelhard’s latest book, the newsroom thriller “The Bathsheba Deadline” is now available in paperback. http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255629656&sr=8-1
Monday, September 14, 2009
Toronto Hate-Fest, Starring Jane Fonda
By Jack Engelhard
Then, in 2001, is was Durban, where a pretext of human rights was turned into a Conga Line of Israel bashing. Now it’s Toronto. This cause is also good, on the surface. There’s an international film festival going on even as we speak – and who can complain about something so artistic? Well, there’s a problem.
Organizers decided to honor Tel Aviv and Israeli filmmakers and as we know, no good deed goes unpunished.
Immediately after word got out about this (City to City) Tel Aviv connection to Toronto, a group of artists devoted to replacement politics went ballistic and called for a freeze on anything that honors Israel’s contribution to film – or anything that honors Israel, period. Replacement Politics? That’s the endeavor to replace Israel with any population that isn’t Jewish.
The protest against Israel began slowly enough, but then grew into near-Biblical proportions. E-mails tell me that more than a thousand members of the filmmaking community have rushed in to sign up for a petition tagged “The Toronto Declaration” – which declares, “No Celebration for Occupation.”
Durban was likewise hysterical about the “occupation.” This word, occupation, is used politely in lieu of “No Jews Allowed.”
Who knew that so many in the film industry would be so quick to sign us onto the Book of Doom – on the eve when we pray for the Book of Life?
We’ve gone from screenwriter Ben Hecht who wrote “A Flag Is Born” to screenwriter Tony Kushner who said, “I wish modern Israel hadn’t been born.” Somewhere within a single generation blessings have been turned into curses. There is no Frank Sinatra (a true friend of Israel) to shame these petitioners for their open-faced treachery.
Who are these people and what do they want? We know what they want, and no amount of smooth talk, double-talk and rewrite can hide the message that they want Israel sliced and devoured. They say “apartheid” where there is no apartheid. They demand a “freeze on settlements,” which picks up language even before Durban.
We are now back further and into the covens of Wannsee and Nuremberg, where Jews were given restrictions and parameters.
Jane Fonda, who won two Oscars for being the daughter of Henry Fonda, well, she sure signed up for this petition, as did scores of other B-List actors and filmmakers, including Julie Christie, Harry Belafonte, someone named Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, of course, and somehow or other, Noam Chomsky, who can always be counted on when it’s time to slur the Jewish State.
This crowd only needs a place an event and an excuse to denounce Zion. Name the occasion, and they will come. (I’ve heard of novels and screenplays being turned down for being “too Jewish.” Here’s a case of an entire country being turned down for being too Jewish.)
Fonda and others in her sphere of influence declare that they love Israel, even as their aspirations differ not in the slightest from (the late) Yasser Arafat to (the latest) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They speak in smooth tongues from crooked hearts, so they will never straightly say that they want Israel wiped off the map. That would be so crude.
No, that wouldn’t be liberal and it wouldn’t be progressive and it wouldn’t be artistic, so they speak in code. Any Israeli act of self-defense is called a “massacre.” Any act of deterrence against terrorism, any action to protect and preserve Jewish life, is an affront to these high-minded elites.
How is it that our luminaries of refinement and poetry collude with Jihad tyranny, yet defame Israel’s liberty -- freedoms that are shared by Arabs and Jews alike?
Tel Aviv is the showplace of this!
They may speak in parables, Fonda and the lot, but I know the taunt “Dirty Jew” when I hear it, and even when it is not spoken I can smell it – miles away from Toronto.
Remember, it was Bilam who was ordered to curse the Children of Israel. He ended up with blessings, which from 3,000 years ago serve us to this day:
“How goodly thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places O Israel.”
Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, The Bathsheba Deadline, which centers on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252969607&sr=8-1
Engelhard can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
Then, in 2001, is was Durban, where a pretext of human rights was turned into a Conga Line of Israel bashing. Now it’s Toronto. This cause is also good, on the surface. There’s an international film festival going on even as we speak – and who can complain about something so artistic? Well, there’s a problem.
Organizers decided to honor Tel Aviv and Israeli filmmakers and as we know, no good deed goes unpunished.
Immediately after word got out about this (City to City) Tel Aviv connection to Toronto, a group of artists devoted to replacement politics went ballistic and called for a freeze on anything that honors Israel’s contribution to film – or anything that honors Israel, period. Replacement Politics? That’s the endeavor to replace Israel with any population that isn’t Jewish.
The protest against Israel began slowly enough, but then grew into near-Biblical proportions. E-mails tell me that more than a thousand members of the filmmaking community have rushed in to sign up for a petition tagged “The Toronto Declaration” – which declares, “No Celebration for Occupation.”
Durban was likewise hysterical about the “occupation.” This word, occupation, is used politely in lieu of “No Jews Allowed.”
Who knew that so many in the film industry would be so quick to sign us onto the Book of Doom – on the eve when we pray for the Book of Life?
We’ve gone from screenwriter Ben Hecht who wrote “A Flag Is Born” to screenwriter Tony Kushner who said, “I wish modern Israel hadn’t been born.” Somewhere within a single generation blessings have been turned into curses. There is no Frank Sinatra (a true friend of Israel) to shame these petitioners for their open-faced treachery.
Who are these people and what do they want? We know what they want, and no amount of smooth talk, double-talk and rewrite can hide the message that they want Israel sliced and devoured. They say “apartheid” where there is no apartheid. They demand a “freeze on settlements,” which picks up language even before Durban.
We are now back further and into the covens of Wannsee and Nuremberg, where Jews were given restrictions and parameters.
Jane Fonda, who won two Oscars for being the daughter of Henry Fonda, well, she sure signed up for this petition, as did scores of other B-List actors and filmmakers, including Julie Christie, Harry Belafonte, someone named Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, of course, and somehow or other, Noam Chomsky, who can always be counted on when it’s time to slur the Jewish State.
This crowd only needs a place an event and an excuse to denounce Zion. Name the occasion, and they will come. (I’ve heard of novels and screenplays being turned down for being “too Jewish.” Here’s a case of an entire country being turned down for being too Jewish.)
Fonda and others in her sphere of influence declare that they love Israel, even as their aspirations differ not in the slightest from (the late) Yasser Arafat to (the latest) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They speak in smooth tongues from crooked hearts, so they will never straightly say that they want Israel wiped off the map. That would be so crude.
No, that wouldn’t be liberal and it wouldn’t be progressive and it wouldn’t be artistic, so they speak in code. Any Israeli act of self-defense is called a “massacre.” Any act of deterrence against terrorism, any action to protect and preserve Jewish life, is an affront to these high-minded elites.
How is it that our luminaries of refinement and poetry collude with Jihad tyranny, yet defame Israel’s liberty -- freedoms that are shared by Arabs and Jews alike?
Tel Aviv is the showplace of this!
They may speak in parables, Fonda and the lot, but I know the taunt “Dirty Jew” when I hear it, and even when it is not spoken I can smell it – miles away from Toronto.
Remember, it was Bilam who was ordered to curse the Children of Israel. He ended up with blessings, which from 3,000 years ago serve us to this day:
“How goodly thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places O Israel.”
Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, The Bathsheba Deadline, which centers on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252969607&sr=8-1
Engelhard can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Trade In Grandma and Other Clunkers (Save Obama’s Healthcare)
By Jack Engelhard
Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Our “cash for clunkers” has proven to be so successful that we’ve decided to extend the program for cars – and for people. Of course there is no place to trade in your elderly, people, in other words, that have too much mileage on them. You cannot simply dump and deposit seniors in some lot, get cash for them, and then go home.
So as part of our new and improved healthcare bill, we’ve inaugurated a set-up where people over the age of 65 will be – speaking frankly – at the mercy of the government. Since we know best, we the government will decide who shall live and who shall die. If, for example, a person begins to stutter, or if, for example, a man or a woman has already served his or her purpose in life, well, it’s time to go.
Some people simply aren’t worth the bother.
Americans (old or even young) who walk too slow or suddenly need help tying their shoelaces are unnecessary and disposable. The fine print in our Bill takes care of such useless individuals. We will, in a word, refuse to provide the proper remedies to whatever ails these people. That’s in the program even in bold print.
We have heard rumors that some people are against this new and improved system. These people are obviously malcontents. We have no room for such people. In this America, there is no place for differences of opinion. We must all think alike! We urge you to tune in and learn from the experts, people like Al Gore and Bill Maher and Bill Moyers. They have all the answers.
Pay no attention to real doctors, like Dr. Zane F. Pollard who wrote an article online for the American Thinker. This is what he said in connection to the Obama/Congressional Healthcare Bill, “For those of you who are over 65, this Bill in its present form might be lethal for you. People in England over 59 cannot receive stents for their coronary arteries. The [American] government wants to mimic the British Plan.”
This doctor (along with many other doctors) disagrees with our Plan and therefore he must be crazy and therefore he must be reported.
We hope that you paid attention to what our Linda Douglass had to say about malcontents. She said, “If you get an email or see something on the Web about healthcare insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag/whitehouse.” Linda Douglass used to be a member of the press (ABC) and now she is a member of the government, which is actually the same thing.
The government and the press are all in this together. We are a team. This helps us all – all Americans -- to think alike.
Notice that when our beloved leader needs to make another speech the mainstream networks quickly hop-to. We are one nation under Obama.
We are happy to inform you that this administration is determined to stamp out any form of interference and discord. Can we do this? Yes we can!
The doctor who spoke up against us, please be sure to heed Ms. Douglass and report him immediately.
He and millions like him are a threat to the Collective. They are counter-revolutionaries. Please remember that we voted for Barack Obama to revolutionize America. We voted for this. We voted for change. Change is what we got. Be happy about this. Do not complain. In this America there is no place for dissent and there is no tolerance for individualism. Never mind Emerson and Thoreau. We do not need and we do not want free speech, not in this makeover.
People who complain about this program or any other program will have to answer to Linda Douglass, and that’s just for starters. We do not want to talk about what comes next. We will not mention other plans in the works, like sending malcontents to re-education camps and re-conditioning centers. These Americans must be re-programmed and re-tooled. (This is only for people who disagree with us.)
Obviously, they must be sick.
You, the American voter, have given us a fail-safe form of government. (Thank you, by the way, for letting us run the whole show with no possibility of checks and balances. We are liberals and this is our country! We barely allow others to visit so please shut up.) We are one Party and we can do whatever we want and if we want to pass this healthcare bill, we will do so even above the complaints of the contrarians.
We know exactly what to do with clunkers.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249567759&sr=8-1
He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Our “cash for clunkers” has proven to be so successful that we’ve decided to extend the program for cars – and for people. Of course there is no place to trade in your elderly, people, in other words, that have too much mileage on them. You cannot simply dump and deposit seniors in some lot, get cash for them, and then go home.
So as part of our new and improved healthcare bill, we’ve inaugurated a set-up where people over the age of 65 will be – speaking frankly – at the mercy of the government. Since we know best, we the government will decide who shall live and who shall die. If, for example, a person begins to stutter, or if, for example, a man or a woman has already served his or her purpose in life, well, it’s time to go.
Some people simply aren’t worth the bother.
Americans (old or even young) who walk too slow or suddenly need help tying their shoelaces are unnecessary and disposable. The fine print in our Bill takes care of such useless individuals. We will, in a word, refuse to provide the proper remedies to whatever ails these people. That’s in the program even in bold print.
We have heard rumors that some people are against this new and improved system. These people are obviously malcontents. We have no room for such people. In this America, there is no place for differences of opinion. We must all think alike! We urge you to tune in and learn from the experts, people like Al Gore and Bill Maher and Bill Moyers. They have all the answers.
Pay no attention to real doctors, like Dr. Zane F. Pollard who wrote an article online for the American Thinker. This is what he said in connection to the Obama/Congressional Healthcare Bill, “For those of you who are over 65, this Bill in its present form might be lethal for you. People in England over 59 cannot receive stents for their coronary arteries. The [American] government wants to mimic the British Plan.”
This doctor (along with many other doctors) disagrees with our Plan and therefore he must be crazy and therefore he must be reported.
We hope that you paid attention to what our Linda Douglass had to say about malcontents. She said, “If you get an email or see something on the Web about healthcare insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag/whitehouse.” Linda Douglass used to be a member of the press (ABC) and now she is a member of the government, which is actually the same thing.
The government and the press are all in this together. We are a team. This helps us all – all Americans -- to think alike.
Notice that when our beloved leader needs to make another speech the mainstream networks quickly hop-to. We are one nation under Obama.
We are happy to inform you that this administration is determined to stamp out any form of interference and discord. Can we do this? Yes we can!
The doctor who spoke up against us, please be sure to heed Ms. Douglass and report him immediately.
He and millions like him are a threat to the Collective. They are counter-revolutionaries. Please remember that we voted for Barack Obama to revolutionize America. We voted for this. We voted for change. Change is what we got. Be happy about this. Do not complain. In this America there is no place for dissent and there is no tolerance for individualism. Never mind Emerson and Thoreau. We do not need and we do not want free speech, not in this makeover.
People who complain about this program or any other program will have to answer to Linda Douglass, and that’s just for starters. We do not want to talk about what comes next. We will not mention other plans in the works, like sending malcontents to re-education camps and re-conditioning centers. These Americans must be re-programmed and re-tooled. (This is only for people who disagree with us.)
Obviously, they must be sick.
You, the American voter, have given us a fail-safe form of government. (Thank you, by the way, for letting us run the whole show with no possibility of checks and balances. We are liberals and this is our country! We barely allow others to visit so please shut up.) We are one Party and we can do whatever we want and if we want to pass this healthcare bill, we will do so even above the complaints of the contrarians.
We know exactly what to do with clunkers.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249567759&sr=8-1
He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Report Your Neighbors If They Dissent on Obama’s HealthCare Package
By Jack Engelhard
The White House is asking us to inform on people who disrespect the current bill on health care, a bill which nobody has read in full – but never mind. According to reports in the news media, Americans are to be on alert for anything that sounds “fishy” in connection to this proposed legislation. In other words, if you, a walking-talking citizen, voice any sort of objection, you are to be reported.
As the official word has it, if you, an upstanding liberal loyalist find any email message that is deemed as “disinformation,” you are to notify the White House immediately. Some might refer to this sort of tattling as “White Terror” – a system once employed by the KGB to have neighbor spy against neighbor, in which case nobody can be trusted, hence the term “White Terror.”
This system is still in operation in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and has proved to be so successful that 100 radio stations have already been silenced and shut down.
George Orwell spoke about this in “1984” even though this is “2009.”
Some may refer to this as a chilling infringement on free speech but so what, the government knows what’s good for us, so please shut up.
Who needs free speech anyway?
If you complain about this or any other government legislation, or proposed legislation, then obviously you must be crazy or be some part of an organized conspiracy. Only the government is legitimate and only the government has all the answers. The news media will tell you all you need to know, from the government’s point of view.
Remember the new slogan – In Obama We Trust.
So as for you, a citizen – you are permitted to have no point of view (except maybe in private), so just shut up, please.
(Be careful even when you whisper. Someone may be listening.)
Town Hall meetings are set up for the single purpose of allowing your lawmakers to state their case WITHOUT INTERRUPTION. Your job is to listen and pay attention respectfully, even reverentially, even if you have no idea about what’s being said – and if you object to what’s being said then obviously you are part of a mob or part of some lunatic fringe.
Don’t be silly. That is, don’t be so silly as to expect your lawmakers to sign a bill and ACTUALLY read what they are signing – never mind the small print, even the big print is too much to ask. Rep. John Conyers says it’s ridiculous to expect congressmen to actually read legislation. Here is Conyers in his own words:
“I love these Members [of Congress] that get up and say ‘read the bill.’ Well, what good is it reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill.” There you go, citizens, – it’s ridiculous to expect our lawmakers to know what laws they are making.
In the face of all this, there is absolutely no chance that you may have honest questions, concerns or grievances. You must be a bigot. You must be crazy. Or, you must be an old man or an woman who is afraid that under this proposed health care legislation – well, you will not necessarily be put to death BUT, the government will decide whether you may live or die.
Do not let this trouble you. You are in the hands of the government and the news media which means you are in good hands.
Who needs old people anyway?
How dare you speak up? Democrats control the entire White House and the entire Congress and we, we voted for this, a system without checks and balances, which means that this is the government we got and this is the government we deserve. Some might say that by voting for a single party to control EVERYTHING we have installed a tyranny. Not so. We elected people to speak for us and our job is never to talk back.
If anybody does talk back, be a good citizen, be a spy, and report on your neighbor. Make us proud.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249519055&sr=8-1
He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
The White House is asking us to inform on people who disrespect the current bill on health care, a bill which nobody has read in full – but never mind. According to reports in the news media, Americans are to be on alert for anything that sounds “fishy” in connection to this proposed legislation. In other words, if you, a walking-talking citizen, voice any sort of objection, you are to be reported.
As the official word has it, if you, an upstanding liberal loyalist find any email message that is deemed as “disinformation,” you are to notify the White House immediately. Some might refer to this sort of tattling as “White Terror” – a system once employed by the KGB to have neighbor spy against neighbor, in which case nobody can be trusted, hence the term “White Terror.”
This system is still in operation in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and has proved to be so successful that 100 radio stations have already been silenced and shut down.
George Orwell spoke about this in “1984” even though this is “2009.”
Some may refer to this as a chilling infringement on free speech but so what, the government knows what’s good for us, so please shut up.
Who needs free speech anyway?
If you complain about this or any other government legislation, or proposed legislation, then obviously you must be crazy or be some part of an organized conspiracy. Only the government is legitimate and only the government has all the answers. The news media will tell you all you need to know, from the government’s point of view.
Remember the new slogan – In Obama We Trust.
So as for you, a citizen – you are permitted to have no point of view (except maybe in private), so just shut up, please.
(Be careful even when you whisper. Someone may be listening.)
Town Hall meetings are set up for the single purpose of allowing your lawmakers to state their case WITHOUT INTERRUPTION. Your job is to listen and pay attention respectfully, even reverentially, even if you have no idea about what’s being said – and if you object to what’s being said then obviously you are part of a mob or part of some lunatic fringe.
Don’t be silly. That is, don’t be so silly as to expect your lawmakers to sign a bill and ACTUALLY read what they are signing – never mind the small print, even the big print is too much to ask. Rep. John Conyers says it’s ridiculous to expect congressmen to actually read legislation. Here is Conyers in his own words:
“I love these Members [of Congress] that get up and say ‘read the bill.’ Well, what good is it reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill.” There you go, citizens, – it’s ridiculous to expect our lawmakers to know what laws they are making.
In the face of all this, there is absolutely no chance that you may have honest questions, concerns or grievances. You must be a bigot. You must be crazy. Or, you must be an old man or an woman who is afraid that under this proposed health care legislation – well, you will not necessarily be put to death BUT, the government will decide whether you may live or die.
Do not let this trouble you. You are in the hands of the government and the news media which means you are in good hands.
Who needs old people anyway?
How dare you speak up? Democrats control the entire White House and the entire Congress and we, we voted for this, a system without checks and balances, which means that this is the government we got and this is the government we deserve. Some might say that by voting for a single party to control EVERYTHING we have installed a tyranny. Not so. We elected people to speak for us and our job is never to talk back.
If anybody does talk back, be a good citizen, be a spy, and report on your neighbor. Make us proud.
About the author: Jack Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His latest thriller, on media deceit against America and Israel, is available in paperback from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Bathsheba-Deadline-Original-Novel/dp/0595470793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249519055&sr=8-1
He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com
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