April 2012
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musafeer:
When people compare the occupation of Palestine to the Holocaust
March 2012
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aatombomb:
We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him. The light bulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are...
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“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, but...”
– Lev Grossman (via mycrofts)
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liberalsarecool:
“I can tell you one thing. If I’m the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it.”
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Mitt Romney, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, on President Obama’s health care law.
“Kill it”. Not replace it. Or improve it.
What a complete waste of a human. Offensively proud of hurting the lives of millions.
Why does his campaign staff let him keep...
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I just finished taking a class at my shul on Maimonides’ Sefer Ahava, specifically the section on davening the Sh’ma. I liked the class so much that I thought, “Maybe I’ll buy the entire Mishneh Torah and study it myself!”
Or not. Boo.
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missmodela:
“man we totally raped the other team”
“i wish girls these days would have more self respect”
“i’m not racist my best friend is black”
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Romney To Uninsured: You Can Die On Your Own
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liberalsarecool:
A conversation last nigh on Jay Leno regarding Romney’s infatuation with repealing Obamacare and provisions like covering pre-existing conditions:
Romney: “People with pre-existing conditions, as long as they have been insured before, they are going to be able to continue to have insurance.” Leno: “Suppose they haven’t been insured.” Romney: “If...
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Student Beaten Outside Jewish School in Paris →
This happened at Ozar Hatorah school in Paris, “about 100 yards away from the school, out of sight of police who have been guarding the school since last week’s attack in Toulouse.”
I wish I had something profound to say but I’m too busy banging my head against the wall until I knock myself out.
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thelegendofzelda:
like you know when you really really really like someone but they only kind of like you and the rate at which your liking for them grows is way faster than the rate at which their liking for you grows and it’s like two functions on a graph and you’re trying to calculate where they intersect but for some reason you can’t find that point of intersection and then you realize it...
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“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank,...”
– Countess Markievicz, 19th/20th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via sharkyteeth)
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“I rebel; therefore we exist.”
– Albert Camus (via haereticum)
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“As the Jewish people, we certainly have plenty of familial grudges and...”
– Jordana Horn, What the Shooting at a French Jewish School Means For Us
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one time I was flipping through the TV at 2:00AM and came across “The Jewish Jesus” on the Bible network or something, and the dude hosting the show was wearing a zip-up tallit. Like a damn hoodie or something. I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry.
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Rick Santorum Got Money From ‘Jews for Jesus’ →
I’d say this was shocking, but that would be a lie. The best part is this quote:
According to Politico, who broke the story, the Messianic Jewish Alliance folks acknowledge that they’re not too popular among “traditional Jewish voters.”
TRADITIONAL JEWISH VOTERS YOU MEAN ACTUAL JEWS? WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN
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thecakesokay:
msnbc:
Jewish school slayings suspect dead after France cops storm apartment, officials say:
Interior Minister Claude Gueant said that Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin who had allegedly confessed to killing three Jewish children and four adults, was hiding in a bathroom when special forces officers raided his...
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“On another occasion it happened that a certain non-Jew came before Shammai and...”
– Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a (via emm-in-sem)
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“Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
Oh my gosh, yes, this, so much this.
(via stfuconservatives)
Last night, Democratic Texas State Senator Wendy... →
hannivernatters:
From Shakesville: “There are a lot of things that don’t get called terrorism in this country, but chief among them is the anti-choice movement, which is the most brazen, unapologetic terrorist campaign in the US, its co-ordination and orchestration done right out in the open, where no one in the media or politics will call it what it is. It is an inherently violent ideology,...
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Romney's communications director on CNN this...
barackobama:
Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force [Gov. Romney] to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
Eric Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.
So basically you can...
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Alaska Rep Says Women Should Have To Get Man's... →
lau-ra-sau-rus:
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“Don’t think about the worst-case scenario. If it happens, you will have...”
– Michael J. Fox
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“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel