Yes, those anti-Palin folks are something awful, needing to get out their psycho books.
But how about that evil-doing Obama, which rhymes with Osama, with middle name Hussein, ruining the country and the world? Isn't it awful. jewishworldreview.com
Excerpt, but the rest might help some here who have spittle on their screen....
<... Rabbi Solomon notes that, regrettably, the nature of many people is to be contentious and vengeful throughout their lives. They want to be on top; they seek public acclaim. If someone else receives the public recognition they feel belongs to them, they become agitated and distressed. They plot. They engage in lashon hora, disparaging speech and slander. This is their revenge. This soothes their anger. But not only do they gossip, they want to listen to it — anything, as long as it belittles and disgraces the individual who is the subject of their envy. Envy is the root of gossip.
Jealousy, hatred, slander, vengeance — all are expressed because our neighbor has something that we would also like to have. It never enters our mind that perhaps we do not deserve it, or that we did not work hard enough for it.
IS THERE A CURE FOR ENVY?
Envy is the result of ignorance and foolish thinking, writes Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in his philosohphical masterpiece, "Mesilas Yesharim," rendered into English-language adaptation as "Lights Along the Way". The envious person gains nothing; the person whom he envies loses nothing; the only one who loses out is the one who envies. Envy is lethal; it is irrational. But that fact does not seem to stop anybody.
Rabbi Yechezkel Levinstein (1884 - 1974) explains the seriousness of the ailment called envy. This doctor of the spirit sees the jealous individual as one who does not realize that he is sick. Without knowing to medicate himself, the disease, he argues, will inevitably eat away at him until he becomes filled with hatred. ... >
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