Thanks for the clarification. Am I the only one that laughs at Bill Kristol/Billy Crystal?

Well, as a non-Jew who has grown up and lived in communities where there was little visible Jewish culture/religion, my understanding of Jews and the Left is mostly what I have gleaned consciously and subconsciously from the arts and academic studies, and lets face it, stand-up comedians. John...

If there is choice for each yet to be made, then it is unknown what that choice will be, and therefore the nature of future events are unknown, and therefore cannot be foretold.

Beautiful poem. The trinity?

Here's the CNN link.

The only thing that remains is to break the glass ceiling in... curling.

I'm not dissing real estate.

Nor am I plugging for bonds and stocks.

But NO asset can increase in value, especially at that speed, forever.

That includes stocks and bonds and gold in particular.

It's always a bad idea for a police officer to make a situation worse. The officer should have advised the woman that refusing to acknowledge the ticket was a crime and that he would testify in court that she did refuse to sign. (presumably he had it on car cam.)  but arresting her on...

I've got no problem with celebrating Christmas. Heck, as I probably mentioned on that thread, I celebrate Christmas myself. (I imagine religious Jews would have a harder time celebrating it. However, none of them that I know of would have a problem with someone else celebrating it.)

...

Of course you have free will. You get a choice, who you'll listen to. 

You're free to choose.  A wide and spacious road leading to death or the narrow one leading to Life. 

Come into the light or stay in the...

I can't be sure, but I think there's also a Northeast tilt towards the discussion.

If you were in NY, you have a support group for being Jewish.

If in Alabama, say, you're an outsider.

And yeah, 30 days starting at Thanksgiving focused on someone else's major...

Wow, take a heartless jab at Sitting Bull while you're at it. Yeah, he should have acquiesced, just let the government put his people on reservations, and put in some slot machines to draw tourists. Martin Luther King should have just accepted those shoe shining jobs - better some employment...

RM,

I completely agree. The most potent weapon of ultraconservative  ideologues is divide and conquer, and that's what's so amazingly myopic about Watkin's comments. He said that while he supports the right...

Qnonymous,

I don't know anything about the video you referenced. I quoted a remark that Watkins made on Facebook. And he quotation didn't require context.  He said what he said. How much...

Your reply is improperly applied.  

Art It is not revenge, it is insight

THIS IS NOT MY WAR.  I DO NOT HOPE FOR REVOLUTION....     ITS COMING ON ITS OWN.

THAT TOO WAS PROPHESIED   ...

John is a friend of mine, and I thank you for making him feel welcome.  It's a shame that others couldn't bring themselves to be more gracious, but I suppose that's the nature of the beast. 

I suppose we become too insulated here, maybe. 

...

Peracles,

First you asked why I challenge person's ability to think just because they disagree with my point of view.  Then you go one to say the following:

"If a man can marry a man, why can't I marry two women I love...

probably not--more from the article:

....But experts said NATO summit protesters angry about the war in Afghanistan got to have their say, while the Chicago police were restrained, and always seemed to be one step ahead of the demonstrators....

Just a matter of time 

...

Something happened in Boston 

Not really.

Perhaps I should not have excerpted Kristol but I did not know there was so much antipathy from so many here toward him.  Toward Bill, sure, who hasn't wanted like to wipe that smirk off his face from time to time.  

And maybe I should not have tried...

I have to admit, I  got caught up in the juvenile taunting and was admonished by G.

Personally I thought you (Q), Sleepin Jesus, Peracles P ,  DiJ and DanK to name but a few;  made ...

Your point about Marx's negative view of Judaism is correct but was even more sharply delineated than your comment suggests. In his "On the Jewish Question" (an early writing:1843) he said the following:

As soon as society succeeds in abolishing the ...

Just to be clear—what I found laughable about that last bit was the "95 percent". Wikipedia puts it at 76-80%, and that's consistent with what most other people report. Sure, perhaps Kristol was talking...

Of course. But when it all comes together--the "my friends," the slang, the right-wing Jewish writer criticizing Jews, and the war on Christmas--that's a whole lot of context. See my last reply to Emma.

That is exactly what I meant, acanuck, and thank you for the links.

You people are hilarious!  Your tricks are so transparent.  (Do you travel in packs everywhere you go?)

No, Dijamo, I don't plan on responding to Quinn.  There is no responding to Quinn, there is only feeding his tiresome maw until he regurgitates bile.  There was...

Weird thread, indeed.

Since everyone is fighting with everyone else, let me quibble with Genghis's admonition about the offensiveness of non-Jews quoting Jews about Jews.

Surely, I can write, "Noam Chomsky says ... ," right...

Ramona, respect (or acknowledging error) from you is something I would never expect based on past history, so I doubt that's what Quinn is looking for.  Nor is he looking for validation.  Quinn's as confident in what he's done for his causes as I'm sure you are in...

Respect.  You want respect.  You.  You want respect.

I'm speechless.

Also.

I'm done.

We're reviving that custom, PP.

Stand by...

Maybe you missed the edit where I said this comment was about the magazine article and not the bslev v EmmaZahn cage match.

I hope you understand that there's a huge difference between not being pro-Israel (or even being anti-Israel) and what you wrote up above, both specifically about Bruce and more generically what you quoted from Irving Kristol. I'm all for respecting Christian's rights to be...

Thanks. I agree with you that higher education should be totally free and available to all, but that we have to not only pick our battles but also pick how we're willing to fight.

In principle, higher education should be totally free and available to all. Same for heath care. Canada has come close to achieving the latter, but it's a balancing act as to where the tax dollars go. Health care is a universal...

I have nothing to discuss with you Emma.  And I reserve the right to address others concerning what I think.  I am not interested in what you think.  So go ahead and change this into a legitimate debate about x-mas, or about whether I sought sympathy because of what I felt when I...

Yeah, but what school is it?

My wife actually called me to ask if she should buy shares, so there must have been quite a frenzy on the daytime talk shows. I told her it would be even worse than buying Lotto.

AT,

Perhaps you are more rational and could shed light on what the debate is.  I wasn't debating anything when all this stuff was thrust upon me, and certainly not anything about Christmas. 

The level of violence (verbal, emotional and physical) that some people find to be normal (ie just the way things are) sometimes is rather jaw dropping.  Those who are caught up in abusive relationships can act in "strange" ways. 

I once lived next to a couple who were...

Perhaps because of Jewish guilt (snark), I was beginning to feel badly about Emma getting pounded on.  But then I just read her explanation of her comment to Genghis, something about that she would "feel bad" for Bruce. . .if something or other .  I am not asking anyone to...

Peter,

I will try to respond later.  Just got to the Marine Air Terminal at LGA (best place to get a flight in the Big Apple).  Funny thing, if you've ever been here you know there's a passageway to the gates where there are a bunch of free magazines for passengers to...

This sounds a lot like the debate between the proponents of same-sex unions, with one side saying now wasn't the time to push the marriage issue and instead push for civil unions, and the other side claiming it was time to stand up for all of one's rights.

This is one helluva human-interest story. Try telling me there isn't a book, movie and/or reality series looming. Talackova has achieved what anyone who enters a beauty competition aims for -- visibility and name recognition -- in spades. She's...

Thanks for the suggestions, Genghis.  Let's take them one by one.

1.  In this case, I quoted a Jewish source because Bruce's comment reminded me of the section I excerpted not to establish some kind of Jewish cred.  As to saying the same thing in my own voice....

This is all too complex for me.

What happened to the good old days when Jews just killed Christ and ate Christian babies? Simple to understand, simple to get riled up. Killing Christmas? Almost like conspiracy theory - have to find the grassy knoll somewhere.

PS - snark.

If you're referring to students' ability to make jokes about anything, I'd say the picture might be reflective. If you're talking about actual student attitudes, I'd say it's very unreflective. Even at UVA, which is a comparatively conservative school, I think you'll...

Which is all going around the point of me posting the picture, which is that one choose to go onto the ten random public universities today, just how much real socio-political activism along the line of the occupy movement is one going to find?  How many students will one find trying to...

No, Emma, one thing I do do is read the articles people post. You can see my comments below.

 I have to say your post is one of the cruelest I've seen in a while--not just nasty, not just stupid, but out and out cruel.

Here you have Bruce talking about his childhood. The...