Don’t Bang on My Teakettle

American Thinker ^ | 17 Jul, 2022 | Clarice Feldman

[MtnClimber]

The state of the world is disturbing enough that we don’t need more things to get disturbed about.

There’s a Yiddish expression -- Hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik! It means “don’t bang on my teakettle.” Apparently when you went to see someone and they were in the field, workshop or barn, you banged on their teakettle to summon them. So the expression means, don’t bother me.

Each day when I check my emails, there are at least 20 messages with the header “disturbing” or some like word designed to get me agitated enough to contribute something to the sender.

Honestly, I’m disturbed enough about the state of the world that I don’t need more things to get disturbed about. For starters, there’s rising inflation with no discernible end in sight. There’s a horrible war in Ukraine with enormous destruction and loss of life. People are starving in Sri Lanka as a result of idiotic “green” agriculture mandates which are undoing there and soon elsewhere the marvels of Borlaug’s Green Revolution where the use of manufactured fertilizers and crops bred to be disease-resistant were making national famines a thing of the past.

Perhaps because of the seven years he spent living in America during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Rajapaksa was in thrall to green nostrums. He campaigned for president in 2019 on a platform that promised a form of technocratic utopia, including the commitment to turn Sri Lankan agriculture completely organic in a decade. He was particularly attentive to Vandana Shiva, a rabid Indian opponent of modern scientific agriculture. She considers Borlaug the enemy.

Covid hit Sri Lanka particularly hard, wiping out tourism, its economic mainstay. Heedless of this calamity, and of the wider impoverishment caused by lockdowns, Mr. Rajapaksa took a step that poleaxed Sri Lanka.

[MtnClimber]

Here is your Clarice ping.

[Babba Gi]

I saw a Robin today.

[cranked]

Teakettle banging, for sure:

‘Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU

Can anyone wonder why the Matrix was such a success?
A scripted teakettle....

[Tupelo]

Another good column from Clarice Feldman.
The “wokeness” she speaks of is nothing more than the death throes of the Republic. And a thousand years of Western Civilization for that matter.

[sauropod]

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[PghBaldy]

LOL I misread the headline...

[Terry L Smith]

im 70, disabled, a veteran who has watched since nefore the blue dress in yhe oval office, that wr gone phooked a long time mow, with us getting adjusted and somewhat accustomed, to the daily phooking.

while being phooked, we have allowed more shenanigans then we, if we were not being phooked, would have put up with.

when bureaucrats, can by regulations alone, make determinations about the civilian populave, without the slightest fear of bounceback, manage, savage, and ruin the lives of the populace, we are completely phooked, with no way back, except, possibly, installing a congress that eradicates those bureaucrats’ operatioms, and not rehire them in another capacity.

[upchuck]

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[Shady]

Yep.

[drSteve78]

Having a huge bit of GAF fatigue.

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[Bob Ireland]

[Albion Wilde]

There’s a Yiddish expression -- Hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik! It means “don’t bang on my teakettle.”

LOL -- brings back memories! One of my college classmates had only heard Yiddish spoken by her grandparents. With a totally New York City accent, she would say, "Quit hockin' me in chonnick!"