{"id":628,"date":"2005-08-17T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=628"},"modified":"2005-12-11T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T16:36:15","slug":"mobilize-the-cabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mobilize-the-cabal","title":{"rendered":"Mobilize the Cabal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/52023.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this piece<\/a> in the NYPost, the check at Parkhill&#8217;s Waterfront Grill in Allenhurst, NJ was presented to &#8220;Jew Couple&#8221;. No, seriously:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/jewcouple.jpg?w=525\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are a family restaurant, and we welcome everybody,&#8221; [the manager] said, adding that the words &#8220;Jew Couple&#8221; were never intended to be derogatory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use it as a form of identity,&#8221; she said. She would not elaborate on what the restaurant does when there is more than one couple assumed to be Jewish at the restaurant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they put different colored stars of David on the checks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an outrage! We&#8217;d better get our lawyers, bankers and entertainment executives on the case!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the born-again Christian who does a half-assed job as a receptionist at my office has been putting articles in my mail-slot that explain how the Israeli pullout from Gaza is defying Biblical prophecies and will lead to ruin.<\/p>\n<p>One more of these, and I&#8217;ll launch into my &#8220;You belong to a psychotic death cult that believes true happiness can only come after apocalyptic destruction!&#8221; rant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jew Blogger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this piece in the NYPost, the check at Parkhill&#8217;s Waterfront Grill in Allenhurst, NJ was presented to &#8220;Jew Couple&#8221;. No, seriously: &#8220;We are a family restaurant, and we welcome everybody,&#8221; [the manager] said, adding that the words &#8220;Jew Couple&#8221; were never intended to be derogatory. &#8220;We use it as a form of identity,&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mobilize-the-cabal\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mobilize the Cabal!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-a8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6030,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/black-or-blue-latin-or-jew","url_meta":{"origin":628,"position":0},"title":"Black or blue, Latin or Jew","author":"Gil","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm still crazy-busy writing my Top Companies issue, so no time for blog-posts. 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