An Increasingly Ridiculous Country

The Jewish State -- emphasis on Jewish, as in Maimonides and a thousand years of innovation and leadership in medicine -- has a fundamentalist shmendrick named Yakov Litzman currently running its health ministry. On Monday, he said that swine flu would be known in Israel as "Mexico Flu," because swine isn't kosher. What is kosher, apparently, is embarrassing your country and alienating Mexico.

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