October 3, 2008 | 7:09 pm

Orit: I went to Macao and it’s not Las Vegas!

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Bloggish contributor Orit Arfa went on a press junket to Shelden Adelson’s (the Sands) new Venetian resort-casino in Macao, China and filed this report for the Jerusalem Post:

As I wandered alone through The Venetian casino on my first night, my personal fantasies of Vegas-style fun, however, begin to slip away. Slots don’t flash jackpot numbers amid sounds of coins clanking. No scantily clad cocktail waitresses strut by tables, doling out free booze. Macao apparently doesn’t need such casino gimmicks to lure players. Gambling is a Chinese obsession. Players sat at the tables, mostly baccarat, looking focused and serious.

I scoured the tables for blackjack, my favorite, but I heard absolutely no English and players hardly made eye contact with me. While aces and face cards are a universal language, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat deaf and mute and I always like to schmooze while I play. There’s nothing like the communal cheer when the dealer busts or the communal moan when the dealer hits 21. I call it quits before I start.

But the Zionist in me was comforted as I watched people’s chips dwindle. Without their knowing it, Asians are indirectly contributing to Israel. Macao initiatives, gambling revenues included, have made Adelson the third richest man in the US, according to Forbes. Israel and Jewish causes have benefitted from his riches. Adelson is a key contributor to Taglit-birthright israel, Yad Vashem and other educational institutions in Israel and Las Vegas.

Still, I went to sleep in my fluffy bed missing the true Las Vegas vibe, so for breakfast I took comfort in the Starbucks near the lobby . . .

You can read her entire piece here.

Welcome back to Los Angeles, Orit!

October 3, 2008 | 5:41 am

VIDEO: South African woman reports warm flashes and sees vision in McCain spud product

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Anika von Wyck saw ‘visions’ in her trays of McCain’s Real Oven Baked Chips.

“Warmth flashed over me,” she recalled, “and there, in the chips, I saw it—the vision!”

A tip of the hat to Tea Drinking Lister for the President Potato meme.

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October 1, 2008 | 2:48 am

Methodist learns it’s 5769, says it’s awesome Jews live in the future

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Admitted Methodist Barrett Brown reports:

We are approaching the year 5769 of the Hebrew calendar, which is actually pretty awesome insomuch as that it puts us farther in to the future than does the more widespread Gregorian accounting. This is not quite as a cool as being ten thousand years into the future ala Dune, much less forty thousand years into the future ala Warhammer 40,000, but it still beats the pants off of the goyim’s paltry 2008 years since the birth of Christ, whose arrival on our fair planet set back the clock in both the literal and figurative sense. So perhaps I shall convert to Judaism out of love for the science fiction ethos.

That’s what we think, too!  And so does Mel Brooks in his classic trailer for ‘Jews in Space’:

L’Shana Tovah from the future!

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