July 25, 2016

Did you suspend parts of the TOS?

Seems that way from the amout of posts fighting the last primary.

July 21, 2016

I didn't believe that the republicans could sink any lower than Bush II.

I was wrong.

Listening to all these nightmareish clowns on the RNC freakshow makes me very nervous that anybody would vote for them.

My family members, who are conservative...too many, are saying that they are either sitting this one out or voting Libertarian.

My wife and I will be voting for Clinton, and I hope she wins by a landslide.

I will still work towards the progressive cause, but I can't in good conscience sit this one out.

July 17, 2016

Senior rabbi condemns IDF for accommodating LGBT 'perverts'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4829206,00.html


Religious-Zionist Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, head of a distinguished IDF preparatory yeshiva, accused, via homophobic rhetoric, the army of seeking to silence one 'worldview' and promote another.

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a central educational figure in the religious sector, called LGBT persons "perverts" at a conference on Monday and condemned the IDF for having permitted them to insert their worldview in the military system. The revelation of his remarks comes at the end of the week following the cancellation of the Be'er Sheva Pride parade and the uncovering of homophobic remarks from the incoming chief rabbi of the IDF.

The rabbinical conference that Levinstein was addressing was against "the reform of the "Effect of the reform of the State of Israel's identity." Levinstein said, regarding LGBT persons, "There's a crazy movement here of people who have just lost the normalcy of life, and this group is driving an entire country crazy. It's going into the army at full strength, and nobody dares open their mouth to speak up."

July 15, 2016

Trump: The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all time

Will Nothingyahoo side with the Republicans again like he did last time?

July 13, 2016

BDS is a war Israel can’t win

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/israel-cant-win/


Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times [“Why the anti-Israel boycott movement is an immoral threat to peace”] would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of “the region’s only intact society”, while simultaneously boasting it can’t touch Israel’s health and global economic integration.

Yet his reasoning from “morals” rings hollow, and amounts to little more than the shilling of the professional apologist industry deployed on Israel’s behalf throughout the Western media, in the never-ending defence of the oppressive status quo in Palestine.

Halevi excoriates BDS, disingenuously, for making the Jewish state “the world’s most pressing problem” today, while extolling Israel’s freedoms and national righteousness. Of course, his complaint manages to engage in both self-pitying and craven boosterism at the same time – a kind of perverse humble-brag.

No, Mr Halevi, Israel is not the world’s greatest problem – rather, Israel is Palestine’s great, existential, enduring problem for a people who have lived their whole lives under the constant, brutal and de-humanising occupation of this enlightened state.

July 13, 2016

Question submitted by R. Daneel Olivaw