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Chomsky did better than I expected him to. He's certainly no moron. But war crimes?

That is not how I operate. It seems as if you are making a veiled attack on me.

What's first? Varies between city-data.com's forums, americanwx.com's PR roundtable and others. Given my political preferences sometimes Rabble. On this one I fear that one wrong step could lead to a suspension. I am a serious poster and not a troll but it is not fun when I have to be so ridiculously careful.

I agree, we have an expression that "Jews don't like to pay full price." And I of course am Jewish. Haradim are a real problem. A not funny situation occurred in nearby Rockland. One Haradi went to worship at a different shul than he was "supposed" to. They tried to burn him alive as he slept.

Ditto.

In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old BiasesRachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, sought admission to UCLA Student Council's Judicial Board. She was initially excluded because she is Jewish. After the intervention of a faculty adviser this USAC reversed itself and approved her membership. Link in headline, excerpts below: LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council’s Judicial Board. Until it came time for questions. “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community,” Fabienne Roth, a member of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, began, looking at Ms. Beyda at the other end of the room, “how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?” For the next 40 minutes, after Ms. Beyda was dispatched from the room, the council tangled in a debate about whether her faith and affiliation with Jewish organizations, including her sorority and Hillel, a popular student group, meant she would be biased in dealing with sensitive governance questions that come before the board, which is the campus equivalent of the Supreme Court. The discussion, recorded in written minutes and captured on video, seemed to echo the kind of questions, prejudices and tropes — particularly about divided loyalties — that have plagued Jews across the globe for centuries, students and Jewish leaders said. The council, in a meeting that took place on Feb. 10, voted first to reject Ms. Beyda’s nomination, with four members against her. Then, at the prodding of a faculty adviser there who pointed out that belonging to Jewish organizations was not a conflict of interest, the students revisited the question and unanimously put her on the board. This incident brings to the surface anti-Jewish views that are usually dressed up as dislike for the policies of the State of Israel, or appeals for racial and religious "diversity" and alleged Jewish "over-representation" in various schools, the media and other professions. This disgusting incident provides an opportunity to discuss the real hidden agenda that still plagues society; Jew hatred. The difference between racism against Jews and against other minorities is that Jews, in general, conform to law and social custom. Thus, they are not the victim of well-publicized police violence. That does not negate the existence of discrimination.

I would hope the government has better things to fund than losers who have no life other than the Internet.

The problem is we have lost so many posters, through bans, leaving or otherwise. Some of those posters were good and some not so good. Overall that has slowed the forum down a bit much. I myself now look at MLW second or third when I go to post rather than first. That means, on a busy day, I may not get to it at all.

Are you adjusting for the location of the property?

Are you mocking a mathematical genius?

I've had a pack of 35 cm. of global warming in my backyard for more than a month. And it got to -15C last night.

I guess terminally ill people in a lot of pain just must find the will to go on.The same people who bellyache about the cost of government and the cost of medicine want the terminally ill to extend their sentence of endless pain. On the dime of the government in Canada or the insurance company in the U.S.

I want a bill regulating vicious Golden Retrievers.

The shifting of Poland westward, and dislocation of Germans in the West and Poles in the east doesn't seem to bother you. Ditto Chinese occupation of Tibet.

There aren't that many Jews left in Continental Europe. Really not a big deal; unless they're butchered.

I have a problem with allegedly "civil" posters who spend their days bashing Canada. Just as I don't like my country bashed I don't like Canada bashed.

Some of the worst trolls have their personal messaging disabled and when called out on it say "if you want a friend buy a dog."

How many cheap shots can you get in against Canada in 22 minutes? Can-Con; Canadian road quality; and Abortion If you hate Canada so much why do you post so much here? Is this a "South Park" mentality? Can't you find some anti-Canadian threads on www.city-data.com ?

Apparently the broad outlines are well-known and they are toothless. Sanctions are lifted and we have to take Iran's word on compliance.

We have an exception for that, called, phonetically "Pikuach Nefesh" or "to save a life" (link, excerpt below). According to pikuach nefesh a person must do everything in their power to save the life of another, even donate bodily organs. Ovaday Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, ruled that one may donate an organ to a person in critical need, so long as it does not put the donor’s life at risk. It is also permissible to travel on Shabbat to save a person’s life. Maimonides declared that a Jew should take the individual, even if a gentile is present, in order to encourage “compassion, loving-kindness and peace in the world” (Mishneh Torah, 2:3). The laws of the Sabbath may be suspended to provide any necessary medical care to a critically ill individual or to an individual in the likelihood of danger to life. However, if a person has only a lesser infirmity or physical ailment, any violation of Shabbat should be minimal or, if viable, performed by a gentile.

I wouldn't want a NAU. I think a Can-Am passport would be just fine. This passport could either be issued by the Queen or the U.S. Department of State. Our two countries are closely linked by business ties, marriage, strong alliance and to some extent common language. Mexico is an ally but is much more prone to instability.

Unfortunately for humans and medical ethicists head transplants are said to be three or so years away. Positively creepy but apparently true.

I was and am in a pissed off mood. Virtually every ally of the U.S. and many domestic constituencies want to stop the Iran deal. It is unverifiable. It will give Obama a photo op and that's it. He is hellbent to leather to do the deal. As for ISIS his Defense Department pre-announces where and when it will strike in a spring offensive. I am not a military man but that seems unforgivably stupid. As to the tone. forgive me. I was tired and annoyed.

I said that our connection to the Holy Land is exceptional. As Golda Meir said, G-d gave us the only part of the ME that has no oil (well it sort of does now).

Only our Obaminable President is in favor of ISIS and Iran going nuclear. He wants the authentic, Marco Polo experience with the Arabs with the fun of modern weapons thrown in.