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, free of pollutants, and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proves an ideal environment. 2. Israeli-developed designer-eyeglasses, promise mobile phone and iPod users, a personalized, high-tech video...
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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 deadly) aggressively attacked their feet. Both boys were stung, little Hassan in the big toe of his left foot and his big brother on his ankle. Their anguished cries were heard by their mother 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 problem; I provided a fake name and address. Score one point for Hell, I guess. The quesitons all had to do with moral dilemmas; ie, you find a bag of money in the trash, what would you do? Or, your...
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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 campaign was that she was an African American running in a district in which the majority of the voters were also African American." Though Ms. Tinker did not write or distribute the offending flier, with...
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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 stole their property. Six of Barbarossas chief officers were Jewish! This article sheds light on one of the most famous Jewish Pirates: Jean Lafitte the Jewish Pirate. One of the things I do since I...
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