tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6642849002901425948..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: We were slaves, now we're free, or at least reasonableNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51922170362690314852015-04-05T09:35:04.941-05:002015-04-05T09:35:04.941-05:00Why don't you ask some? Or is that unimaginabl...Why don't you ask some? Or is that unimaginable? From the way you cast this question, it seems like an instance of blaming a group for what is common. Do they set girl babies out to die in the woods? No, that would be the Chinese. Do they selectively abort so much that the sexual ratio is 9 men for every 10 women? No, that would be the Indians. I was actually at the ordination of the first female rabbi, Sally Priesand, who went to my synagogue in Cleveland. Which made it kind of a shock when she retired, 30 years later. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-88303230926486136962015-04-05T09:06:22.302-05:002015-04-05T09:06:22.302-05:00Belated thanks Jakash - not only am I not a Republ...Belated thanks Jakash - not only am I not a Republican (I'm technically an independent but the closest I came to voting Republican was not voting in the Mosely-Braun/Fitzgerald senate race), I campaigned for Kerry and Obama (twice)! In 2008 John McCain backed off his interventionist position on Darfur (during one of the debates), so he probably wouldn't have fared much better.<br /><br />I'm like a Mickey Kaus-type Democrat except I'm not quite as against public worker unions as he is and definitely not as anti-private unions. Anon-not-Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38488334151077155802015-04-04T23:50:15.099-05:002015-04-04T23:50:15.099-05:00Do you really need someone to tell you that it'...Do you really need someone to tell you that it's wrong? Are there many Americans who support it? Who want laws passed to facilitate murder of Christians in other countries? The stories on the front page of the New York Times today. Maybe because you're capable of the phrase "Muslim whining" we realize we need to tend to our own would-be mullahs at home, and not state the obvious about horrors abroad. Sad.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41351041408157173602015-04-04T19:41:54.951-05:002015-04-04T19:41:54.951-05:00Where is the outcry about the Christians killed by...Where is the outcry about the Christians killed by Muslims in Kenya very recently? Or is it just Muslim whining we worry about?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50775602202626867612015-04-04T14:25:27.845-05:002015-04-04T14:25:27.845-05:00If A-n-A were a Republican, which I'm pretty s...If A-n-A were a Republican, which I'm pretty sure he's made clear that he's not, he wouldn't be disappointed about aspects of Obama's presidency, he'd probably be furious and irrational about the very idea of it, as so many have shown themselves to be. His well-reasoned and informative comment above is practically the antithesis of what one has come to expect from some of the louder Republicans, IMHO.Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-981956766511977422015-04-04T13:28:10.305-05:002015-04-04T13:28:10.305-05:00hmm, a not a, you must be a republican
And I don&...hmm, a not a, you must be a republican<br /><br />And I don't believe the old Test. story that claims a supposedly just God goes and kills<br />children of those who aren't Jews??? That's what the OT rabbis would want us to believe as if the others were inferior or okay to kill off, cause they didn't know the secret of marking their door. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69481617032699817322015-04-04T12:08:36.539-05:002015-04-04T12:08:36.539-05:00Your continuing abstinence is admirable Neil. Not ...Your continuing abstinence is admirable Neil. Not a rule I feel a need to abide by but would not find too hard to comply with were I enjoying that kind of company and sharing of an uplifting tradition, whether or not mythological. I would, however, seek out a more astringent lubricant than grape juice.<br /><br />It did bring to mind an alternate view of the subject expressed epigrammatically by an Oxford don in the 18th Century, who wrote:<br /><br /> "If all be true that I do think<br /> There are five reasons we should drink.<br /> Good wine, a friend, or being dry.<br /> Or lest we should be by and by<br /> Or any other reason why."<br /><br />Tom Evans Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2666111753287925112015-04-04T11:37:23.289-05:002015-04-04T11:37:23.289-05:00What a lovely and symbolic table setting. Some of ...What a lovely and symbolic table setting. Some of those cups and candle sticks look like beautiful antiques, perhaps handed down from one generation to another. Thanks for sharing , NS.<br /><br />Mrs. AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-40267329098360608182015-04-04T10:13:21.851-05:002015-04-04T10:13:21.851-05:00One of the most depressing things about the Obama ...One of the most depressing things about the Obama presidency was how he, and many of his religious supporters (not just Jews), windsocked on the Darfur genocide. Darfur is the only genocide recognized as such (by the state department and Congress) while it was ongoing. Or as the Washington Post called it, Rwanda in slow-motion, as if the Lord was testing those who said Rwanda happened too fast to act. Senator Obama was once the Democrats' face on Darfur - he spoke at a big rally for intervention in 2005. Jan Schakowsky spoke at all sorts of local events. Then came President Obama's presidential race and everybody shut up. Samantha Power, a campaign advisor (and wife of Obama friend/advisorCass Sustein) - the self-proclaimed "genocide chick" for her famous book on interventionism ("A Problem from Hell"), went mute. Upon taking office, Obama appointed a friend as an envoy to Sudan who was seen by most Darfur observers as an appeaser, sacrificing Darfur for the sake of continued intelligence on Al Queda and for reaching a deal on South Sudan. <br /><br />The horrors didn't go away. Last year alone nearly half a million people were displaced in Darfur. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/17/world/middleeast/ap-un-united-nations-darfur-exit-strategy.html?_r=0 Hopefully some people still are remembering them at this year's seders.Anon-not-Anonnoreply@blogger.com