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Archive for April, 2014
April 20th, 2014 - 3:08 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: What Pope Frank SHOULD Read this Easter Sunday
Sister Elizabeth Johnson’s Challenge To The Vatican (extracts from an essay by Jamie L. Manson ) “You say Mary is too passive. Isn’t obedience the greatest virtue?” This was one of 40 questions sent to Elizabeth Johnson by a cardinal when she was up for a tenure-track position at[...]
April 19th, 2014 - 12:03 pm § in Politics
Why The Dems Will Lose in November
FLA-13 After a close special race in Florida, it now looks as if the Dems will give up![...]
April 19th, 2014 - 10:55 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The UW vs the Unions
One of the UW unions representing classified staff, the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), has released a report on its labor relations with the University. I’m writing to share this report with interested UW AAUP members. It is attached as a PDF to this message, and can also be [...]
April 19th, 2014 - 9:59 am § in Politics
Could Syrian War Result In Israeli-Syrian Alliance?
Fars, Iran’s News agency, claims that Kamal al-Labwani, leader of the moderate Syrian National Coalition (SNC), has proposed a coalition with Israel as the only way to oust the Syrian government. Kamal al-Labwani spent 10 years behind bars in Syria before being released two years ago at Pre[...]
April 18th, 2014 - 11:02 pm § in The Ave Scene
Commentary by SMS: How to fake a Chihuly
Chihuly fakes Dale Chihuly famously makes no art of his own. Instead he runs a factory where others, anonymously, create Chihouly stuff. Last spring Federal authorities arrested a Renton man for offering fake Dale Chihuly glass pieces and paintings. Ironically, the fraud was discovered when [...]
April 18th, 2014 - 8:55 pm § in Misc.
South Carolina, Here We Go Again!
I’ve never lived in South Carolina, and frankly don’t want to, and have only an outsider’s impression of the state. A story in today’s news doesn’t improve my opinion of South Carolina or the people who live there. If the good citizens of South Carolina want to be taken[...]
April 18th, 2014 - 1:09 pm § in Misc.
APPLESAUCE: Why do I need to give Apple my $*^%% finberprint?
Like millions of others, Fred Kahl never used a passcode on his iPhone. The 48-year-old creative director said it was “kind of a pain in the ass” to punch in those numbers every time he needed his phone. In the meantime, plans for the Goldfinger project by Apple have been held up by poli[...]
BUCHENWALD 38: Ukraine events and Jewish memories of the early stages of WWII
Denials and Debates About the Facts In Europe Marked the Path to The Camps in the 1930s. (Donetsk, Ukraine) Once again the opponents in Europe are using their Jews as pawns. Fliers were distributed by masked men this week ordering Jews over the age of 16 to register with the new authorities (for[...]
BUCHENWALD 39: Lost in the story of the resurrection, is a story of an insurrection.
How Christians Think About Jews at Easter There is a very strange understory associated with this video. Jay Michaelson at the Forward sees the video as a crude effort to desecrate the memory of Auschwitz and use the camps as a lever to convince Jews that Christianity is our salvation rather than[...]