This may be the Canadian in me talking but I've always adored the Richler works, namely The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Joshua Then and Now . Also, Atwoods's The Handmaid's Tale .
Gene, you gotta stop this. It's really uncool.
Ok, I'm trying to understand this. Because this John Stuart Mill guy, this philosopher and political economist who lived like 130 or so years ago says something, that makes it so? Therefore "the law should not exist"? We're no longer permitted to make amendments to this? It's carved in stone because one guy who's philosophies have little bearing 100 plus years later, said it?
You spelled the first word in your title wrong. You added an extra 'i' and an superfluous 'e'.
I like my laser hair and am going to keep it.
This is for all those that think Israel's response was disproportionate. Just the last five years of the terror that happens in their country: June 25, 2006 - Eliahu Asheri, 18, of Itamar, was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists from the Popular Resistance Committees while hitchhiking from Betar Illit, southwest of Bethlehem, to Neveh Tzuf, where he was studying. His body was found on June 29 in Ramallah. Israeli Authorities believe Asheri was murdered by his captors shortly
Simple but very thick. Lots of olive oil, tomatoes, garlic, onions, oregano, basil and about a gallon of red wine. Reduce, reduce, reduce until it's so thick you can repoint a brick house. Spaghetti cooked al dente and served with the sauce piping hot, smothered in parmesean.
Driving a ford or chevy, just like having XP or OS X dosent make you superior to those who use the latter. Yikes, I drive an Audi. What does that make me in this metaphor?
Last time I checked I was a lefty liberal. That's why I don't understand all this liberal's hate Israel stuff. I actually agree with everything you've written Gideon, well except for the part were you indicate that teachers are fair, many of the one's I had were anything but, and have always defended Israel's right to defend herself when faced with an unprovoked attack on her borders and her people. Maybe I'm not the same kind of liberal yo
Now *that's* some good paranoid, liberal type thinkin'. Welcome to my world.
Sorry Gideon, I thought that when you wrote in your original post: Ok, this will be brief but I don't need much time to prove my point: That we all could take the same liberty in our responses. I'll take your advice and look into the numbers. <img src="http://images.stardoc
I don't hate macs, just snotty mac users. (but only the snotty ones).
Not so much wishy-washy as adaptive. I see it as the wealthy who gradually changed things. They went from using their wealth and influence to have their children excused from the draft, to using their wealth and influence to make compensation for an all volunteer army attractive enough so that the poorest of the poor would find a paid stint in the army better than a futile existence in poverty. Liberals adapted their position to match the new circumstances. In the end the reason remains the
This has nothing to do with ones likes and dislikes. We are dealing with a war in which Israel has a stated objective of "degrading " the Hizbollah. I cannot imagine how the killing of civilinas can degrade the Hizbollah. And a war in which the Lebanese sponsored Hezbollah's stated objective is to eradicate all of Israel and murder all of it's ci
Repeat a lie often enough, and people will believe it. ---Joseph Goebbels Often we hear those that are anti-Israel and anti-Zionist proclaim that being opposed to either does not mean that they are anti-semites. They repeat it often until they convince themselves and all around them. Sometimes they even manage to convince Jewish people. However, according to Yale researchers Edward Kaplan and Charles Small, it just isn't so. From their study: No
Those that are not anti-semitic sometimes come from the least likely places: Such as this Arab-American: "Dr. Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychiatrist, took part in a debate on Al-Jazeera television back in February. The words she spoke that day earned her death threats. Here is some of what she said: From MEMRI: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between tw
Yarmulke is the term most North American Jews use to describe the headwear. The Kippah is the traditional term for the headwear of the Ashkenazic Jews. My wife's family uses both terms. Both are acceptable.
I don't think anyone really hates Jews, just those funny little hats. you're referring to the kippot.
Then there is the case of the Israeli kids in the northern Israel border town of Kiryat Shmona, supposedly writing nasty messages on missiles destined for Lebanon. The pictures circulated the Western Media for a few days until they were determined to have been faked. An Israeli blogger hunted down the real story and exposed that it was the western media photographers that had staged the pictures. An excerpt from what she uncovered: "kids were in bomb shel
You only read what you want. I have said that the actions aginst Israel are unjustified. However this war is over the capture of three soldiers. Please go back and reread the initial reports of July 12th. This is not all there is to it. Hezbollah captured two soldiers and then killed eight others that
I am interested to know what people feel in the aftermath of the bombing which killed around 50 civilians in Lebanon and the promise of Isreal to implement a ceasfire whilst the incident was investigated, only to continue to drop bombs through the day? From CBC news: [Bolding mine] "Israel said it would suspend its air strikes on
Some might argue, but falsely so, that the problem with people exercising their liberty to drive without seatbelts, ride motorcycles without helmets or eat in unhealthy ways, is that if they become injured or sick society will be burdened with higher healthcare costs. That's not a problem of liberty but one of socialism. There's no liberty-based argument for forcing one pe
I used to have a blog here but found it far too right wing and got tired of being abused and insulted by American rednecks (Bolding mine) Name-caller.
I swear, the Arab nations and the nations of Europe, through the help of the UN have managed to accomplish what Hitler could not. Ironically, the site of their latest attempt at eradicating the Jews is Israel itself. Think about it. Surrounded on all sides (save the Mediterranean coast), by hostile Arabs who can indiscriminately lob missiles at it's citizens, can cross it's borders and kidnap and kill both civilians and soldiers, can walk into open markets, restaurants, shop
You also might be a Jew hater if: You start every diatribe about Israel with "I'm not an anti-semite, but......." Man, that's a dead giveaway.
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