Pope vs Rabbi in Silent Debate

Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy.
There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal:
He'd have a religious debate with the leader of the Jewish community;
if the Jews won, they could stay in Italy; if the Pope won, they'd have to convert or leave.

The Jewish people met and picked an aged and wise rabbi to represent them in the debate.
However, as the rabbi spoke no Italian, and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they agreed that it would be a silent debate.

On the chosen day, the Pope and rabbi sat opposite each other.
The Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers.
The rabbi looked back and raised one finger.
Next the Pope waved his finger around his head.
The rabbi pointed to the ground where he sat.
The Pope brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine.
The rabbi pulled out an apple.
With that, the Pope stood up and declared himself beaten, and said that the rabbi was too clever, the Jews could stay in Italy.

Later, the Cardinals met with the Pope and asked him what had happened.
The Pope said:
"First I held up three fingers to represent the Holy Trinity
He responded by holding up a single finger to remind me there is only one God common to both our faiths.
Then I waved my finger around my head to show him that God was all around us.
The rabbi responded by pointing to the ground to show that God was also right here with us.
I pulled out the wine and Host to show that through His perfect sacrifice, Jesus has atoned for our sins; but the rabbi pulled out an apple to remind me of the original sin.
He bested me at every move and I could not continue."

Meanwhile, the Jewish community gathered to ask the rabbi how he'd won.
"I haven't a clue," said the rabbi.
"First he told me that we had three days to get out of Italy, so I gave him the finger.
Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of Jews.
But I told him emphatically that we were staying right here."

"And then what?' asked a woman.
"Who knows?" said the rabbi.."He took out his lunch, so I took out mine."
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If America Can't See Hillary Clinton's Top 22 Secret Emails, Democrats Must Nominate Bernie Sanders

Huffington Post
March 23, 2016
By H.A. Goodman

"The foundation of any defense pertaining to Hillary Clinton's private server revolves around either negligence, or the debate regarding retroactive classification and overclassification.
First, I explain (in this You Tube segment) that the views of Brian Fallon and others pertaining to overclassification "run amok" ignore 22 "Top Secret" emails on Clinton's server.
Most importantly, if Americans can't see these emails, then everything the Clinton campaign has said regarding this story is irrelevant.

Like I stated during a recent appearance on CNN International with John Vause, Hillary Clinton is being investigated by the FBI and faces the risk of indictment.
Thus, if you fear a Trump presidency, you better vote for Bernie Sanders, especially siince nobody knows why Clinton owned a private server in the first place.
This private server, and the "Top Secret" information on this server, will ultimately make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee.
Bernie Sanders can easily win the primary race, but the FBI investigation will make him the only way Democrats stop Donald Trump.

The FBI and Justice Department aren't going to set a dangerous precedent for future secretaries of state, and future presidents, by allowing government officials to act like Hillary Clinton, without legal consequences."

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/if-america-cant-see-hilla_b_9530100.html

Demand Justice For Dog Found Brutally Murdered On Beach....(Petition)

AnimalPetitions.org

DOG STABBED, HELD UNDERWATER, AND LEFT FOR DEAD ON BEACH

A dog was reportedly found dead at a Los Angeles beach by people in a canoe who'd spotted a shovel standing upright in the water.
The shovel was driven into the ocean floor while the handle held the dog by it's collar, which had the dog's animal license still attached to it.
One of the people in the canoe said that it appeared the dog was forced underwater until it drowned.

The license found attached to the dog's collar allows investigators to trace it to the owner.
A prosecutor says that the poor dog may have had the license still attached as some sort of vengeful act against it's owner.

This is a depraved, sick act of cruelty to commit against an innocent animal, even if the owner had wronged the killer.

Demand that this cruel person be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law when found.


Sign petition at:
http://animalpetitions.org/129497/justice-for-dog-found-brutally-murdered-at-beach/

Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Donald Trump walk into a bar.................?

Civil Rights Icon Writes to Obama on Behalf of Don Siegelman

Fred Gray, lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, wrote to President Obama:

"I recognize injustice when I see it...I see it in the case of the criminal prosecution and trial of my friend, Don Siegelman."



Write your own letter or e-mail to President Obama today.
http://free-don.us/in-the-media/how-to-contact-the-president/

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The Mile High Club

On a passenger flight, the pilot comes over the public address system as usual to greet the passengers.

He tells them at what altitude they'll be flying, the expected arrival time, a little bit about the weather, and advises them to relax and have a good flight.

Then, forgetting to turn off the microphone, he says to his co-pilot, "What would relax me right now is a cup of coffee and a bl**job."

All the passengers hear it.

As a stewardess immediately begins to run toward the cockpit to tell the pilot of the slip-up, one of the passengers stops her and says, "Don't forget the coffee!"

They Are Us, We Are Them: Remembering Rachel Corrie

Common Dreams.org
March 17, 2016


This week marks the 13th anniversary of the death of a 23-year old American activist and human being under the blade of an Israeli military U.S.-funded bulldozer as she protested the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.

After an obligatory "investigation," Israeli officials declared her death "a regrettable accident," hastening to lay the blame on "a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger."

After years of legal battles seeking justice and accountability, her family lost their latest appeal last year when Israel's Supreme Court ruled to exempt the defense ministry from liability in the murderous actions it deemed, unconscionably, but not surprisingly,
"wartime activity."

Corrie continues to be honored and memorialized by many Palestinians and activists as
"someone who always found hope and inspiration in people's resistance ..(and) recognized how our realities and our inspirations are intertwined."

Corrie voiced those truths in a speech about world hunger when she was ten.

May she rest in peace and power.


See photos:
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/17/they-are-us-we-are-them-remembering-rachel-corrie

The unbelievable story of why Woody Guthrie hated Donald Trump's dad

Source:
The Washington Post


Woody Guthrie, folk singer supreme, is known for the magisterial portraits he painted of Dust Bowl America and his sweeping indictments of social injustice.
What's not there in the beautiful imagery of his song, "This Land Is Your Land" --
-- the ribbon of highway, the endless skyway, the diamond deserts -- is right there in the slogan often affixed to his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."

But artists who traffic in grand dreams are also allowed to get specific.
In one of the strangest stories yet to emerge from Donald Trump's presidential campaign,
it appears that, more than half a century ago, Woody Guthrie penned lyrics condemning the candidate's father, Fred Trump, for racism.

"Donald did inherit his father's racism, and was probably actively coached in his father's racism, and worked with his father to perpetuate it," argued Will Kaufman, the professor of American literature and culture at Britain's University of Central Lancashire who unearthed the scoop, said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post.
"He picked up the mantle and ran with it with his father at his side. That's why people are interested in this I think."

Trump has been repeatedly accused of racism after his comments about Mexicans and has repeatedly denied such charges.
"I don't have a racist bone in my body," he has said.

The story begins with Kaufman, the author of one book about Guthrie already at work on another and a performer of the folk hero's music, sifting through the Guthrie archives in Tulsa last year.
There, in one of Guthrie's notebooks -- which contain pages upon pages of lyrics never set to music -- he found these lines, written in the early 1950s:

"I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project"

There was also this:

"Beach Haven ain't my home!
I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!"

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/22/the-unbelievable-story-of-why-woody-guthrie-hated-donald-trumps-racist-dad

The Case For A Presidential Pardon For Don Siegelman

Washington Spectator
March 8, 2016
By Scott Horton


President Barack Obama has promised one of the most sweeping criminal justice reforms in recent years and has built a strong bipartisan coalition to support it.
However, while the Constitution gives him the direct authority to immediately reverse glaring injustices -- through the use of the power of pardon and clemency -- Obama has been extraordinarily cautious about acting.
As the editors of The New York Times observed, "until recently President Obama was the least merciful president of modern times."
Indeed, the only high-profile pardon recipients under Obama have been Thanksgiving Day turkeys.
With less than a year left in office, it's time Obama became bolder with his powers.

One case among the thousands now before Obama cries out for consideration.
That is the 2006 conviction of Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman on corruption charges stemming from his acceptance of a $500,000 donation as he sought to pass a state lottery to fund public education.
The donation was made by a health care executive, whom Siegelman reappointed to an uncompensated state hospital oversight board.
As more than 100 of the nation's current and former attorneys general have pointed out, this prosecution was extraordinary.
If such conduct is corrupt, then there is hardly a senior political figure in the country who could escape prison -- including Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who both gave dozens of diplomatic and other government appointments to individuals who contributed or aggregated six- or seven-figure sums to their own campaigns.

In fact, Siegelman's Republican successor proceeded to appoint one of his major campaign donors to the same hospital oversight board.

More:
http://washingtonspectator.org/the-case-for-a-presidential-pardon-for-don-siegelman/

A Small Church Service

A husband and wife attend a small service at the local church one Sunday morning.
The man was very moved by the preacher's sermon, so he stopped to shake the preacher's hand.
"Reverend, that was the best damn sermon I ever did hear."

The Reverend replied: "Oh. Why, thank you sir, but please, I'd appreciate if you didn't use profanity in the Lord's house."

"I'm sorry Reverend, but I can't help myself....it was such a damn good sermon!"

The Reverend replied: "Sir, please, I cannot have you behaving this way in church!"

"Okay Reverend, but I just wanted you to know that I thought it was so damn good that I put $5,000 in the collection plate."

The Reverend's eyes opened wide as he remarked, "No shit!"