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The Man Who Started It All
In WALKING THE BIBLE, he's still sitting there forever, behind a cloud of smoke, saying, "People like me don't have time to talk to people like you," then calling me at home that night to introduce me to Avner. Now, nearing 100, he has finally passed.Avraham Biran, an archaeologist of biblical site
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Feiler Faster in Denver -- Final Thoughts
The last of my brother's blogs.
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I was on the floor the other day and came across a man of about forty who wore on his left breast what looked like a military medal. A small ribbon pinned to his chest with a medallion hanging from it. It was the credential that his grandfather wore at the 196
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Feiler Faster in Denver -- Day 3
My brother's dailiy blog from inside the hall.
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President Carter addressed the Georgia delegation this morning. Recently, he said, he'd been interviewed by the editor of the British newspaper "The Guardian" and had been asked whether a President Obama could change America's reputation in the
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Feiler Faster in Denver -- Day 2
My brother's latest blog. He's the official photographer of the Georgia Delegation.
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Considering I described myself yesterday as a pop culture moron, the funniest response I've gotten so far was, "Who's Angela Bassett?"
In the wake of opening night there's been a lot of play about Carville and
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posted October 16, 2007 at 9:12 am
Am Jewish by birth…sprang forth from a Jewish woman, but was raised Catholic. And as we all know, Jesus, and His mom, Mary, were total Jews, so its kinda okay to be a Jew, I would think. I mean, we are kinda God’s chosen people.
So, with that, I was a monk in a Catholic Benedictine Monastery for years with a BA in psychology, and minors in theology and philosophy (useless), and it sickens me the myopic sense in people.
The more conservative one gets in faith, and, unfortunately, politics, the more problematic the person becomes as they try combining both.
For instance, these four god-fearing men…the last guy…not so much:
Idaho Republican, Larry Craig!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1004073craig1.html?link=rssfeed
What is sexier than hearing male flatulence accompanied with the stench of defecation, and then wanting bathroom sex from the cop in the next stall?
I’m gay, but not THAT gay.
In addition, this man:
Alabama minister, Gary Michael Aldridge!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1008072scuba1.html
Gets all autoerotic in two scuba suits, a scuba mask, flippers, rubber gloves, and rubber underpants. Moreover, he’s hog tied himself. How? I couldn’t tell you, but he managed it.
Oh, almost forgot…..a condom covered rubber phallus in his rectum.
You can never be too safe…
Get yo freak on, Gary! You go, girl!
Oh, and just today we have another:
Vatican’s very own, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/14/gay.monsignor.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst.
He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about “those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity.”
Stenico was secretly filmed making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful. In the Repubblica interview, Stenico said he had met with the young man and pretended to talk about homosexuality “to better understand this mysterious and faraway world which, by the fault of a few people — among them some priests — is doing so much harm to the Church.”
Last, but not least, sadly:
Armin Meiwes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3286721.stm
The victim, 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, answered the internet advert in March 2001, placed by Armin Meiwes.
Mr. Meiwes told investigators he took Mr. Brandes back to his home in Rotenburg, where Mr. Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr. Meiwes then flambéed and served up to eat together.
Prosecutors say Mr. Meiwes then stabbed the victim repeatedly in the neck and dissected the corpse.
…am gay, but not a cannibal….
So….what have we learned? Many people don’t read, view the news, nor go anywhere outside of their myopic scope to see the society in which we live.
All four men are saddening to look at, all are in pain, but we do nothing but deny rights to people who scare us.
Not really speaking for the fourth guy who ate someone. He’s in the crazy class.
If gay rights were acknowledged by the mass, Larry Craig wouldn’t have HAD to lurk around an airport bathroom, as he obviously is trying to conceal what he feels is a filthy secret. The filthy secret? Larry is gay. His marriage is a complete sham, but he will so badly cling to that ideal of having a wife because of society’s marginalization of homosexuals.
Society hates gays….more than African Americans and Jews. Well, almost as much as Jews. Why? Because being black is just being black. Being Jewish is Nazi propaganda, forged by Hitler’s hand, and forever burned in the minds of Americans. Look at Holocaust Propaganda posters of Jews as they were characterized. Their depictions are horrible. Hence, the birth of the “big nosed Jew.” Nazi invention. Being gay is inextricably linked to an imagined deviant sex act. And when you look at the deathcamps, Jews got two yellow triangles of identification, forming the Star of David. Gays were branded with an upside down pink triangle. Hey, now you all know where that came from. Thanks Adolph! And gypsies got a purple triangle.
Then we all got thrown in an oven and burned alive!
On a side note, while I’m thinking of it, as much as the southern states hate and rally against African Americas, it is the highest in concentrated percentage of, purchased and rented, interracial pornography.
Look out Jenna, LA. We know what you’re watching.
Everyone, go back to school. Read books, and learn. Study our history. God isn’t involved in any of this. God doesn’t intervene. Again, why? Simple pimple…that would void the contract of free will, our greatest gift. That’s why.
I wonder, as I type, “Will this post make it up to the board?” Probably not, once it’s viewed. Why? Because I’m being very honest, and people hate the truth, more than they hate jewy gays like me. (wow, a total double whammy on me).
Were I to have become a priest, I would have been a thorn, exposing every pedophile I came across because silence is quietism, and quietism is a sin that I would never be guilty of, ever.
I take my lead from my Master, Mr. Jesus Christ, Himself, the baddest protestor to ever walk the face of the earth. He had some kahunas to run up into the face of a violent Roman Government and challenge their monetay, religious, and political structures.
Remember the money changers? Yeah, He tore them up.
The Truth He spoke got Him killed. And as I just said, people hate knowing the truth.
Ignorance is bliss and sadness is wisdom.
Who do you want to be today?
posted October 16, 2007 at 12:33 pm
What an odd way for the article to end. I was expecting more discussion on the last quote about us limiting ourselves our being limited to those other fields.
posted October 16, 2007 at 11:43 pm
It is actually kind of amazing that such a small percentage of the world population has managed to become so involved in the active momentum of the world. But I like to think that it’s because Jews have always been known as the people of the book; the natural evolution of which is involvement in the media…
Yes, let’s embrace the truths of the stereotypes without the hatred that makes them anti-Semitic, racist, misogynistic, etc…
posted October 17, 2007 at 7:31 am
I suppose it would be a cause for concern amongst us Gentiles if all Jews thought and acted in unison. That has never been my experience. It is curious though. Is there something peculiar to the Jewish religious experience that enhances one’s leadership skills? Is it a strong sense of community, a pronounced compassion for humanity, or perhaps a persistence of purpose in keeping the Jewish identity alive. If we took the list and searched for all the children of Abraham, what would we find then?
posted October 18, 2007 at 11:13 am
Judaism and Israel should be looked at separately (since you mention the book, THE ISRAEL LOBBY). There is nothing wrong with Jews having money and being a predominant force in the media, as long as it doesn’t contribute to the suffering of the Palestinians…
posted October 19, 2007 at 9:28 am
I was amazed to find such influence wielded by so few over so many.
This has caused me to rethink the structure of western ideals in its campaign to control the minds of the many.
But the real questions should be this:
1. If the holocaust hadnt taken place then what would be the population of the worlds jews today taking the rates of natural births and deaths?
2.How would this affect the way the world would exist today, on cultural, social and religeous levels?
It is a well known fact that the pope and the holy roman church, in the second world war knew of the murder of millions of innocents, (i am well aware of the atrocities the japanese committed to the chinese during the same period), yet did nothing to stop or prevent it from happening. This lack of morality because the differences of belief can be found in the training of the young christian minds “as the jews were the people who killed thier saviour jesus” but more importantly one has to look at the events prior to the Second World War, namely the First World War. One of the catastrophic results of this war was the social and religeous breakdown of christianity as many women were left without thier menfolk and so began trying to contact thier loved ones through the mediums of clairvoyancy, this was a dangerous shift of idea and with such a tear in the christian idea being so apparent (to the christian religeous leaders) all other religeous ideas were seen as a clear and present danger. This was the real starting block for anti-semitism to take hold as the german nation, reeling after its surprised but inevitable defeat looked around for a scape goat and judaism always the religeon who had suffered not only in roman times but in the christian era as well was allowed to be seen as a danger thus focusing a nations vision behind a monster who clearly blamed jews for thier loss in the war, though many jews fought for thier respective countries and sacrificed thier lives.
As a culture the jews are strong in thier beliefs,rituals and observances, as when the romans sacked the temple of solomon they thought that by evicting all the jews to the far corners of the roman empire (the diaspora) they believed that they would, after a time break the jews and convert them, only thing was it had the opposite effect it just made them stronger. This knowledge of how the jews were able to overcome all the difficlties was a major thorn in the roman empire and the newly created christian church and so a campaign (which still exists today)was entered upon. Heres an example of how the children of the christian culture are taught, as i stated earlier that the jews killed thier saviour, now this is one of the tenets of the christian culture, so no matter how christianity plays thier cards jews are made out to be the bad guys.
This leads to only one outcome that by removing a great many jews from the world could only have one effect, THE RETAINING OF THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OVER THE MINDS OF THE MASSES.
In todays world society these differences are being slowly blurred by the new culture that has been emanating from the dominant world power at the moment America, eroding and replacing established ideas for ones that cause immorality to be seen as a social norms.
There is now a sinister edge to all this which isnt quite as apparent as most would think as western christian culture is determined to conquer the eastern islamic culture, (one has to remember the statements spoken by george bush and tony blair, about saying god told them to do this) this has been happening for over a century as when a part of palestine was given back to the jews this caused a big problem which is still being seen today as isreal trys to stop the palestiniens from suicide attacks by building a wall to protect themselves.With the mass depopulation of world jewry and being given thier homeland as a form of compensation, one must remember that christianity is a mutation of the roman empire and as the empire failed 3 times to conquer the east, even subjecting a captured roman emperor to be the footstool of the eastern king. This has never been forgotten and with world development, technology and population growth and conversion, the west is now beginning to flex its muscles, all it really needs is the reason and that has been prophesied with the prediction that the jews will be the cause of the next major war, so with isreal in a precarious position situated between muslim nations with certain nations refusing to accept the soveriegnity of isreal, the west reasons then is waiting in the wings, just like austria’s reason to go to war for the killing of the archduke ferdinand by gabriel princip.
My grandfather was born a jew and though he left the faith i find my spirituality has led me to the door of judaism for i was born into a christian culture and have travelled a path of my own as i refused christian doctrine all through my life, though the christian culture has tried every method to convert me and failed consistantly.
I hope these comments are allowed and those people are given a chance to read this.
posted October 19, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Kay Brasch says the following: “In todays world society these differences are being slowly blurred by the new culture that has been emanating from the dominant world power at the moment America, eroding and replacing established ideas for ones that cause immorality to be seen as a social norms.”
Where do you get this idea from? It sounds like terrorist propaganda. And it’s wrong.
Judaism established slavery as part of its God’s supposed eternal covenant with humanity in Leviticus 25:44-46. US eroded and replaced the idea of slavery and racial priviledge in the 60′s. Not all traditions are worth keeping.
Judaism established the idea that gays should be massacred only for existing in Leviticus 18, and gays have suffered tremendously due to this for two millenia. In Greek times, when Greece was the most civilized place on Earth, the most educated and its artists and philosophers the most refined in the history of humanity, they were stoning gays and women (as per Deuteronomy 22) to death in Judea. America is (with other civilized countries) slowly also replacing the idea that homophobia is normal, sane and good, shunning these forms of hatred for a people without knowing them and without the criteria to really judge their character. Not all traditions are worth keeping.
And so your accusation that America wants to teach that something immoral is acceptable should really be applied to ancient Jews. What is immoral about freedom of expression and freedom of conscience? About democracy and human rights? Civil rights? America is helpint to teach the rest of the world that there is a better, more compassionate and civilized way. It’s not a perfect country, but I honestly find your accusation entirely baseless.
The real problem in today’s USA is that democratic, secular values are under attack by Christians who disguise their military aspirations and bigotry as founded on their religion and legitimized by it.
posted October 20, 2007 at 5:39 am
Explain the overwhelming use of Ann Coulter in the Media. She’s offensive, wrong and definitely anti-semitic. I’ve signed several petitions to refuse her airtime, but she rolls on. It makes me wonder–just about everything from who is her base and why does the media pander to that base?
posted October 21, 2007 at 1:23 am
Joseph Aaron, editor of Chicago Jewish News, if I am reading his quote correctly, states that Jews are accepted in society. What??? Since when? There will come a time when the whole world will hate Jews with a vengeance, and do battle against them. After a time the Messiah will intervene and the Jews will be saved. They will be high and mighty. Even now G_d intervenes and has mercy upon them. Maybe that’s the reason many Jews are in high places. Or maybe their strength comes from the atrocities committed upon them and the hatred formed against them. More power to the chosen people. Many Christians like myself have an instintive and holy love for the people of Israel. I feel sorry for those who have only hatred in their hearts for the Jews. Pray for the peace of Israel.
Nancy Olmi
posted July 30, 2008 at 12:27 am
Me, as a real christian believed that JESUS CHRIST will come again,and he will give chance to other unbelievers to know him.But that time comes the great depression.Rich,famous,poor,whatever a person has.all will amaze. And those who says they are the truely choosen but not doing the hollyness they are nothing.Inside the Church we judge but,to the people outside GOD judge them.
there is a person who is choosen to explain the hidden words of GOD and tha is Brother Eli Soriano.In “The Old Path”or “Church of GOD International”Who are the choosen the suicider?the the rich people?
no!Ask brother Eli Soriano.
posted January 27, 2009 at 11:09 am
It’s amazing how effective legal racism can be. Christian white nation states are evil racists. Jewish white nation states like Israel practice religion. White pride is racism. Jewish pride is religion. Too many whites (more than 80%) is racism. Too many Jews, (more than their 2%) is proof of their intelligence, success, and rewards from a God who has chosen his race. That is rule of racism, not rule of law.
Whites born of a white mother are racists. Jews born of a Jewish mother are a religion. Funneling money to a Whites Only country club would be racism. Funneling money to a Hebrews Only or Jews Only nation state like Israel is religion.
Jewish racism is protected as a religion. Christianity and white success is attacked as racism, and outlawed in America by race and gender quotas. Jews are successful because their racism is a religion, protected by government. The only group that can challenge Jews, the Christian whites, are outlawed, by legal racism and gender bias as “affirmative action”. Why are there 10,000 Russian Communist Jews here in Minneapolis, to retire, and live off the land as refugees, getting more benefits than my father, who paid in his whole life?
Hitler legally favored white Germans. America legally favors Jews, Hebrews, and Zionists, in Israel. When your group is legally favored it is hard not to be successful. It also always leads to war.
Why do they hate us? Any group, Germans, Jews, Christians, Israelis, Whites, are hated when they take more than their numbers justify. Jews are two per cent taking fifty per cent. It is only logical that any group who takes more than their numbers justify are hated. Palestinians are not attacking Israeli Zionists because Israelis are sharing food and water. Israeli Zionists are hated for the same reason Nazis were hated, for invading, killing, stealing, taking too much, and lying about it.
Why do they hate us? Look in the mirror and you will find the answer.
Jack Goldman
St. Paul, MN
posted March 25, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Jack,
You need to write your own blog or a book. What you have said hits the nail of this issue right on the head. Having just returned from Europe I was privy to several private meetings among top investment advisers. Among them there is a growing concern that this concentration of influence and money in America within a single ethnic, minority religious group echoes the sequence of events that led to the turning of a blind eye to the atrocities that accompanied WWII. Political correctness dictates that we not talk about the hard feelings generated by the disproportionate consolidation of wealth with the European Jews during the time of hyper-inflation and hardship in the Weimar Republic but it existed nonetheless.
Correspondingly, there can be no sympathy generated when the list of people populating the top echelons of influence responsible for the current financial meltdown, the recipients of taxpayer bailout funds and the bungling attempts at the solution of these problems are disproportionately Jews. Just as how anti-Americanism goes hand-in-hand with the lopsided usage of resources world-wide, anti-Semitism has no choice but to rise with the continued consolidation of influence into the hands of the “chosen” 2%.
There is a solution, in my opinion, that has worked very well for higher education in this country. Create affirmative action quotas designating percentages of the population of these higher influential offices to the corresponding percentages of the ethnic population of the country. Of course this will result in the acquiescence and redistribution of power so will never happen.
The only recourse is then, as you say, to look in the mirror.
A well-traveled Gentile.
posted July 12, 2009 at 8:17 am
What you are witnessing is old-fashioned racism. The Jews are excelling because they are following the WORD of G-D more devoutly and diligently, and from that comes success.
You are envious and spiteful! The jews have been trampled on for over 3,000 years, sold into slavery and yet we see myopic viewpoints regurgitated like ancient vomit. Yes, Jews must try hard, they must excel so they can send money back to Israel. Did they want to live in Europe and other places? NO. They were sold into slavery and scattered and slaughtered.
And as for the Palestinians, there is no such thing. The term Palestina comes from the Romans who slaughtered the Jews, particularly during 70AD when they attacked Jerusalem and killed 600,000 Jews living in their own Jewish city!
After the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Judeans and the subsequent Roman repression and exile, the Romans renamed the entire district of Judea “Palaestina”.
The reason the Jews are trying so hard is because they having been fighting a war for their homeland for over 3,000 years… Get it yet?
Oh and if you should happen to look out over Jerusalem and you see that pretty Golden Building smack dab in the middle of the Holy City… That is not a Jewish building, it is a MOSQUE! Wake UP!
The reason the Jews are trying so hard is because they having been fighting a war for their homeland for over 3,000 years… Get it yet?
posted June 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm
You are a twit, btw. Get it?
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