Prince Harry’s pledge to protect wildlife has been dealt a blow over this picture of the royal crouching over the body of water buffalo he shot dead on a hunting trip. The photo has emerged in the week he pledged to do all he could to save animals threatened with extinction in Africa. http://w[...]
Archive for August, 2014
August 16th, 2014 - 10:14 pm § in Politics
Rick Perry’s Gonna Be A Movie Star!
Who will be cast in the role of Rick Perry, the long-playing Texas governor and erstwhile presidential candidate, in the upcoming movie Rosemary (release date TBA)? I’ll tell you at the end of this article who I think should get the part. Rosemary, of course, is the sequel to Marie, a 1985 [...]
August 16th, 2014 - 4:50 am § in Misc.
Summertime and the Eatin’ is Easy….
“The way I look at it, it’s freedom of speech,” Hafley told Lex 18 in a recent interview, going on to state that he had included the watermelon not in attempt to play to any racist stereotypes, but because the statue “might get hungry standing out here.” According to Ha[...]
August 15th, 2014 - 7:20 am § in Misc.
A Jewish Liberal Responds to Hatred of Israel
Edited from The Forward This was on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the epicenter of the liberal American shtetl, a place so ubiquitously Jewish that even the smallest grocery store posts Friday night candle-lighting times each week. Last Shabbat, as my husband and I were walking home from a l[...]
Who is a Jew?
Someone on Facebook asked me to define the terms Jew, Hebrew, Israeli, Zionist and Palestinian. Here are my answers: Israeli means a citizen of Israel. Anyone .. any religion or ethnicity can be an Israeli. Jew or Hebrew are synonyms and they mean being a member of the Jewish people. To be a [...]
August 14th, 2014 - 12:07 pm § in Misc.
August 14, Founding of Public Health Service
Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and disabled […][...]