As he visits America, on the day when Jews celebrate the need to artone for OUR, that is the Jews’, errors, Pope Francis must be accused of celebrating one of HIS, that is the Church’s, worst atrocities .. the enslavement, ethnic genocide and deaths of California’s indigenous[...]
Archive for September 22nd, 2015
Okla. teacher tells kindergartner’s mom that left-handed is “evil”
An Oklahoma teacher allegedly forced a left-handed 4-year-old student to write with his right hand, and when the boy’s mother complained, the teacher sent her a pamphlet that asserts being left-handed is “unlucky, evil, sinister” and associated with “the devil.” The sch[...]
Wingnuts assert the clock boy built “half a bomb”
Eager to slap a “terrorist” label on a 14-year-old Muslim boy who built an electronic clock and brought it to school, only to be arrested by stupid cops because an ignorant English teacher (not his engineering teacher) who thought it looked like a bomb freaked out, a rightwing “thi[...]
Carly says she won’t deal with Iran, but she already has
When she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard, her company got around U.S. sanctions by using a European subsidiary and Middle East distributor to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of printers and computer equipment to Iran’s evil regime. While it sounds mundane, I don’t see how anyone could de[...]
Our New Media Age
Did anyone see any interesting movies this summer? We WANTED to go to the movies but it all seems utterly boring.[...]
Yom Kippur: The Era of Jewish Apartheid
(Huffington Post, Sandy Goodman) 57 percent of Orthodox Jews prefer Republicans and the OJ Families Are As Large a Catholic Families were a Century Ago! The American Jewish community is coming apart at the seams. Its vital center is collapsing, and the entire group is increasingly polarized by ru[...]
Buchenwald 77: A plea to my sibs on Yom Kippur …”there may be no one left to tell their story.”
Imagine what this eve of Yom Kippur must have felt like in Buchenwald The vow taken that night … whether sung in the original Aramaic or translated into any of the languages spoken in the camp … is called “Kol Nidre.” The vow, wherever recited, would have been the same: A[...]