Friday, August 29, 2008
Israeli Innovations to better mankind; 2008 (so far)
IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2008 ISRAEL HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE FOLLOWING: 1. Scientists in Israel, found that the brackish water, drilled from underground desert aquifers, hundreds of feet deep, could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as saline as sea water,...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Another Dispatch from the Center of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
A Neighbor’s Child; by Larry Rich On Friday afternoon, the 22 nd of August, five-year old Hassan Shgadi was playing outside with his ten-year old brother. They live in the Palestinian village of Kfar Adja that is adjacent to Jenin. Both were barefoot when a large yellow scorpion (poisonous and...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Am I Going to Heaven or Hell?
I woke up to this question in my email spam box. It was a come-on, sent by Puzzles.com to farm for those vulnerable to sales pitches. There was, indeed, a 12 question multiple choice quiz, but of course in order to be scored it redirected me to all kinds of companies trying to sell me something. No...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus
This was the crux of Nikki Tinker's Congressional primary campaign against incumbent Democrat Steve Cohen in Memphis that was decided last week. As Bob Herbert opined this past Sat. in the New York Times, "Ms. Tinker was a candidate with nothing substantive to offer. The raison d'etre of her...
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Jean Lafitte, the Most Famous Jewish Pirate
This piece about Jewish Pirates was written by a former professor from Temple University, Professor Bernard Glick: Many of the pirates of the Caribbean were Sephardim Jews who turned to piracy to get revenge on the Spanish Catholics who expelled them from Spain in 1492, murdered their families and...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
In the Details
I was racketing around in an old red Datsun, its front end sounding like a death rattle, when suddenly, the noise stopped. Along with the engine. Returning home from downtown Houston, from my grueling job as a sales assistant for a tyrannical female stockbroker, it was one of those oppressively hot...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Hate-Mongers In Office
“Wealthy AIPAC members control many media outlets. The media in the US perpetuates an antiquated s view of Israel as a small-struggling democracy surrounded by powerful Arab nations. Americans are too ignorant and lazy to spend the time to learn the truth. Israel, since the Second Intifada which...
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Where is God?
I wrote the following for my Humor blog, but will make a few changes to reflect my thoughts about You Know Who.... Yesterday afternoon, I thought I'd been banished to Siberia. The woman at the Westin Boston Harborfront reception desk took a look at her computer, bit her lip and handed me my room...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pan's Labyrinth, Bruno Bettelheim, Uses of Enchantment
I was thinking about Bruno Bettelheim's seminal work; Uses of Enchantment (about children's intrinsic need for fantasy) while watching a movie called Pan's Labyrinth last night. Set in 1944 Fascist Spain, the movie was centered on a 10 year old girl, Ofelia, whose father had been killed in the war...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Song from the Funeral I Attended today;
My God, my God I pray that these things never end; The sand and the sea, the rush of the waters, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of the heart. The sand and the sea, the rush of the waters, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of the heart. Translated from Hebrew; written by Hannah Senesh,...
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