A Republican has the perfect explanation of Trump’s appeal: “Trumpism offers a simple explanation for why things are the way they are, and offers a simple solution.” Whenever you feel even remotely drawn to what Trump is saying, remember: it’s a gross simplification.
[Spanish] A Jewish singer is harassed in Spain.
Religious fanatics are on the offensive in Tallahassee.
These days, doing any kind of work registers as “heroic” in the minds of many.
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Почему сжигают иностранную еду в России –
http://scholar-vit.livejournal.com/429657.html
А потом скажут что мы плохо относимся к больным Палестинецам –
http://lynx9.livejournal.com/1110588.html
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What are your thoughts on the lawsuit claiming that officials in Texas are refusing to issue birth certificates to US-born children of illegal immigrants?
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I don’t have polite vocabulary for these fuckers.
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If true, it’s malicious. Just because they fervently wish birthright citizenship doesn’t exist doesn’t mean they can deny citizens the ability to prove their citizenship or the the ability to prove who are parents and children.
<a href=”http://www.npr.org/2015/07/20/424722479/immigrants-sue-texas-for-denying-birth-certificates-to-u-s-born-children>Immigrants sue Texas for denying birth certificates to US born children
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It’s just this need to bug people throughout generations that’s so intolerable. And in a country of immigrants, too.
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http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/israeli-journalist-apartheid
A leading Israeli journalist—writing in Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most-prestigious daily newspaper—says “It’s Time to Admit It. Israeli Policy Is What It Is: Apartheid.”
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SB, if you are interested in my country, do you read Israeli newspapers, like very Left Haaretz, at least? It looks almost comical that you are glad to bring any Israel=Apartheid article from pro-Palestinian website written by non-Israelis, but don’t bother to read Israeli papers in English. If nothing else, it would give your opinions more weight and you would get more anti-Israel material (in Haaretz, Israel=Apartheid stance is so old news, but you present it as something new). Seriously, you can’t understand Israelis – our mentality and the reasons for it, unless you read our papers too. Not only American ones.
Haaretz may be oldest, but it is not regarded as most-prestigious by most Israelis. It is way too Left for that, and its Israeli readership is decreasing:
// [wiki] As of June 2011, readership was 5.8% of the public, down from 6.4% the prior year. In 2012, amid falling circulation, Haaretz was undergoing severe cuts … While some have argued that it functions for Israel much as The New York Times does for the United States, as a newspaper of record, others have compared its liberal bias to Fox News’s conservative bias. In 2007, Shmuel Rosner, the newspaper’s former U.S. correspondent, told The Nation that “people who read it are better educated and more sophisticated than most, but the rest of the country doesn’t know it exists.”
I read Haaretz sometimes and, if you look at not-about-Palestinians articles, it’s a good paper. However, if you look at its political articles, the comparison to Fox News is not unwarranted. (I don’t watch Fox News ever, but one can not be more biased than many Haaretz articles). And I don’t even identify as Right-wing, but as a Center voter.
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“Seriously, you can’t understand Israelis – our mentality and the reasons for it, unless you read our papers too. Not only American ones.”
This is like a child molester saying ‘Seriously, you don’t understand us. Have you even read NAMBLA monthly? Do you even know our mentality and reasons for it? Why will you not devote your time to knowing more about our motivations? Then you’ll understand.’
Umm, no.
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// This is like a child molester saying ‘Seriously, you don’t understand us. Have you even read NAMBLA monthly?
So, Palestinians are helpless innocent children molested by evil Jewish adults, in your eyes. Everything is 100% Jewish fault, just like in paedophiles’ cases. I thought you were interested in understanding the conflict (it would not have prevented you from supporting Palestinian statehood), but if so … then we have really nothing to talk about.
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“Jewish adults, in your eyes. Everything is 100% Jewish fault, ”
I see what you did there. 🙂
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\ I see what you did there.
I don’t. Just wanted to say that your comparison presented Palestinians as children and Jews as adults.
Btw, the noble innocent child-like savage, who can’t take responsibility over his behavior in the conflict and can not be judged as ‘adult’ White people, is a racist stereotype.
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Haaretz is liberal?? Interesting. I subscribed to the free electronic version but it proved way too conservative even for me.
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\ Haaretz is liberal?? Interesting. I subscribed to the free electronic version but it proved way too conservative even for me.
What was conservative in it?
Haaretz in Hebrew (I read printed newspaper several times) is so Left that even most Left Israelis seem to disagree with it.
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Regarding Spainish article, I saw the artist’s response in English:
Matisyahu released his reaction to the events in a facebook post on Monday, saying “The festival organizers contacted me because they were getting pressure from the BDS movement. They wanted me to write a letter, or make a video, stating my positions on Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pacify the BDS people. I support peace and compassion for all people. My music speaks for itself, and I do not insert politics into my music.”
The statement continued to say, “Music has the power to transcend the intellect, ideas, and politics, and it can unite people in the process. The festival kept insisting that I clarify my personal views; which felt like clear pressure to agree with the BDS political agenda. Honestly it was appalling and offensive, that as the one publicly Jewish-American artist scheduled for the festival they were trying to coerce me into political statements. Were any of the other artists scheduled to perform asked to make political statements in order to perform? No artist deserves to be put in such a situation simply to perform his or her art. Regardless of race, creed, country, cultural background, etc, my goal is to play music for all people.”
The Valencia section of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign had launched a public campaign for Matisyahu’s performance to be cancelled, saying he was a “lover of Israel” and demanding he make a public statement on his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4691872,00.html
I think BDS accusing him of being a “lover of Israel” (note the word choice) shows where those people come from. I am a lover of Israel, as are most Jewish Israelis.
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If there are people who can’t afford this kind of thing, it’s Spaniards. They have constructed their entire history until 2 minutes ago in terms of extreme anti-Semitism. Even the Civil War was all about the vicious anti-Arab rhetoric on the Republican side and the diseased anti-Jewish rhetoric on the Nationalist side. This is not something they can afford to do before figuring out their anti-Semitic legacy.
I wish people saw that there are things some of us simply cannot allow ourselves to do. Russians will maybe get the right to opine about Ukrainians in 300 years. White Americans will maybe deserve to speak about Native Americans sometimes in the next millennium. And Spain will maybe eventually get to the place where it will be OK to opine on Jews. Maybe eventually. But that will happen long after we are all dead.
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Two Israeli universities among top 100 worldwide
Shanghai Ranking puts Jerusalem’s Hebrew University at number 67 and Haifa’s Technion at 77; Technion ranked 18th globally for computer science and engineering.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4690983,00.html
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http://daily.jstor.org/usps-post-office-murals/
When United States Post Office Tries to Sell Off Historic New Deal Sites, Scholars and Communities Protest
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http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/08/charity-begins-at-yale
Who do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money?
It’s not even close.
Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers as compensation — about $137 million in annual management fees, and another $343 million in performance fees, also known as carried interest — to manage about $8 billion, one-third of Yale’s endowment.
I am but a simple country faux-lawyer, largely untutored in the ways of high finance, but this seems like a truly fantastic ripoff of what one of its former presidents called the best finishing school on Long Island Sound. Yale paid six percent of that portion of its endowment managed by the Masters of the Universe to said Masters, for their priceless 480 million dollars-worth of wisdom?
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Education is just a front for all kinds of (often shady) business dealings at Yale. It’s absolutely disgraceful. We weren’t allowed to make photocopies for the classes we taught because that would be too wasteful. The building where my department is located is an absolute disgrace. But there was never money for actual educational purposes. It’s disgusting.
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Very funny true story:
О советской милиции, интелях и работягах
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Все началось с обыденного конфликта между таксистом и пассажирами – ассистентами физфака Одесского университета.
http://scholar-vit.livejournal.com/430010.html
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<ahref=”http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/08/20/donald_trump_says_the_real_unemployment_rate_is_42_it_s_not.html”>Donald Trump wildly overestimates the real unemployment rate. U-6 is something like 10. 2; the labor force participation rate is 62.6%, the lowest since 1977. If Trump were right, we’d be in the middle of a Greek style meltdown right now. If you look at the BLS charts, the workforce rate has not swung as much as any unemployment rate.
The labor force rate may be a problem but the problem is more complex than “Democrats (and Obama) are terrible on the economy”.
You asked in a another post why the people running as Democrats don’t talk about the economy. You forget that Shrub checked out mentally several months before he actually left office and Barack Obama worked very hard to get the bank bailout bill passed. That’s how Obama ends up owning the bill and TARP in a lot of people’s minds, even though Shrub signed the bill and occurred before the election.
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TARP worked, though. And it worked brilliantly. The opposite method is being tried in Europe (austerity) and we can all see the result.
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