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The ABC’s of Me

7 Tamuz 5769 - 28 June 2009 at 03:04
by Amanda.
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I don’t generally do Meems, but this one seemed interesting and fun. I may actually turn this into, or use it as the inspiration for, my as yet non-existent about page.

A – Age: 29

B – Bed size: Double

C – Chore you hate: doing laundry

D – Dog’s name: don’t have a dog yet, but plan on getting one.

E – Essential start your day item: Taking a shower

F – Favorite color: Royal Blue

G – Gold or Silver: gold

H – Height: 5:5

I – Instruments you play(ed): don’t play any

J – Job title: Right now I’m in between jobs and going back to college.

K – Kids: none, and don’t want any

L – Living arrangement: living in an apartment

M – Mom’s name: Jane

N – Nicknames: don’t have any

O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: eye surgeries

P – Pet Peeve: People who take blind to mean slow or deaf

Q – Quote from a movie: will have to get back to you on tthat one

R – Right or left handed: right

S – Siblings:three Michael, marie and Erin

T – Time you wake up: 7 or so, but can depend YUCK!

U – Underwear: always

V – Vegetable you dislike: brrussels sprouts

W – Ways you run late: Just being plain slow.

X – X-rays you’ve had: both ankles several times

Y – Yummy food you make: chicken alfreedo, rice crispy treats

Z – Zoo favorite: the snakes

Twouble With Twitter

4 Tamuz 5769 - 25 June 2009 at 11:48
by Amanda.
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If you take yourself really seriously, and you sincerely believe that your presence on Twitter and/or the many times a day you tweet about your latest profit-making venture, or how your social meedia expertise should be knocking us off our feet and leaving us completely astonished and speechless, or even if you’re one of those people who feels that everyone in the universe should be clued into every second of your day, every day, this is probably not for you. But for everyone else, this is incredibly funny. Enjoy.

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Blind Man Harassed Off Bus Because Of His Guide Dog

20 Sivan 5769 - 11 June 2009 at 22:27
by Amanda.
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A driver told a blind cancer sufferer to get off his bus when a woman and her children became hysterical at the sight of his guide dog. George Herridge,
71, told how the mother flew into a rage and shouted at him in a foreign language. A passenger explained she wanted him to get off the bus during the incident
on May 20.
Mr. Herridge stood his ground and refused to leave the bus, and very good on him for that. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to go into activist mode. Guide dogs are an invaluable help to their blind companions, and people have no right to ask that people using guide dogs leave buses, or establishments, or wherever they happenn to be. And people who use religion as an excuse for this sort of abhorrent behavior are in a way worse. It’s like they’re trying to foist their own personal views of purity onto the rest of the world, who may or may not want it. Somehow, I don’t think God, or Allah, or pick the deity is going to send someone straight to hell just because they spent a few minutes of one day in the company of a dog. And as far as children being frightened of the dog and raising Cain, this would be one of those occasions where parents need to take control of the siituation and tell the children to deal with it, instead of convincing bus drivers to expel the passenger with the dog. I consider myself to be a tolerant person. I won’t go out of my way to offend someone’s sensibilities, and in most situations, will even go out of my way to make sure that their sensibilities are taken into account. But this sort of thing is just beyond the pale.

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Former Liberian Dictator Finds Judaism

18 Sivan 5769 - 9 June 2009 at 23:18
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Charles Taylor, the former dictator of Liberia who is currently imprisoned in the Hague awaiting trial by the special court for Sierra Leone, has decided to convert to Judaism. According to the BBC, one of his wives reports that he is now practicing Judaism, but still believes in Jesus. In other words, he wants to practice both Judaism and Christianity. I hope Mr. Taylor doesn’t think that his newfound faith will somehow lessen the effect or severity of the charges pending against him. Accepting this man as a candidate for conversion feels, on a gut level, the same as accepting a professed Nazi as a candidate for conversion. On the other hannd, I suppose it’s remotely possible that he is actually attemptting to turn his life around and become a better person, although I can’t help but doubt this rather strongly. And I hope that someone takes the time to inform Mr. Taylor that, in order to convert to Judaism, even the most liberal form, he has to forsake all other gods, including Jesus.

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disrespecting The Dead

17 Sivan 5769 - 8 June 2009 at 16:36
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File this under the following:

  • How not to win friends and influence people
  • Ways to have your reliigious message rejected
  • Illustrations of extreme idiocy
  • Ways to make yourself and your co-religionists look bad

I’m sure there are probably other categories for this but they aren’t coming to mind at this minute. This is the sort of thing that makes me wish sometimes that protests like this should be made illegal at memorial services. You’ll have to watch the video at the link. The screen reader isn’t allowing me to copy the code properly, and/or WordPress isn’t parcing the embed code properly so that the player displays. (Via).
May the mourners Pvt. Long has left behind be conforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

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American People To Pres. Obama: No Plan, No Shutdown Of Gitmo

16 Sivan 5769 - 7 June 2009 at 21:01
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From the Planning to Plan Department: Just about everyone opposes President Obama’s planned closure of Gitmo, and even the members of his own party refused to grant the president the $80 million he asked for to close the facility, voting 90 to 6 to strip the requested funds from a war-spending bill. It’s pretty bad when even your allies desert you like that. Maybe this huge lack of support will convince the president to scrap this endeavor and move on to something else, perhaps something a bit more sensible. (Via).

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President Obama Declared A God, Sort Of

16 Sivan 5769 - 7 June 2009 at 20:30
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More of the idolatry which goes by the name of Americanism, this time from the left. On Friday, Newsweek’s editor, Evan Thomas, brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level by declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above above the world, he’s sort of God.” And the really sad partt is that this sort of thing isn’t immediately declared sick. I’m still waiting for the President Obama holy cards and icons, and I hope that President Obama has enough sense to eschew this sort of worshipful praise. After all, he has an example to look to from his own scripture, in the story of Paul and Barnabas being declared Zeus and Hermes by the people of Lystra, (see Acts 14:11-18). I won’t hold my breath. (Via).

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IDF Developing Sabbath-Friendly Keyboard, Computer Screen

15 Sivan 5769 - 6 June 2009 at 21:30
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(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Rabbinate is hard at work on the development of a special touch screen that would make it possible to use vital computer systems without violating Sabbath, reports IDF magazine BaMachaneh (In the Camp).

Operational considerations mandate the use of computer systems like ‘Masua’ or ‘Sheder Cham 400’ during the Sabbath. These systems inform their operators of the location of IDF units during operations and battles. Other systems, like the IDF’s medical information system, named CPR, must also be used on Sabbath.

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What Would Jesus Pack?

14 Sivan 5769 - 5 June 2009 at 17:28
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A Louisville, KY pastor is encouraging his congregation to bring fire arms to church on June 27th, in celebration of the 4th of July and the second amendment. This is the sort of thing that transforms simple patriotism into Americanism, the idolatry of preference of some of those who would call themselvves conservatives. Look, I’m in favor of keeping and bearing arms, and I firmly believe in the right to use lethal force to protect loved ones and property. But this is taking it too far. Since when did weapons have a place in worship services? It doesn’t matter if the guns will be unloaded. If they’re going to go to all this trouble, why not just put some of them on the altar and start bowing to them. Maybe even offeer sacrifices and such. They’re already half way there.

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Rabbis Oppose Use Of Internet During Study For Conversion

28 Iyar 5769 - 21 May 2009 at 13:21
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Here’s another anti-tech alert. Why doesn’t this surprise me?

Rabbinic Conversion Court judges are more likely to reject prospective converts who were partially trained via the Internet, a senior source in the Conversion Authority said Sunday.
According to the source, about 70% of prospective converts who are interviewed by the conversion court are accepted. However, among prospective converts who were trained in part via the Internet, only about half are accepted, said the source.
The issue of conversions comes to the forefront ahead of Shavuot, which is celebrated with the reading of the biblical story of Ruth, the archetypical convert to Judaism.

According to the above-referenced conversion court source, the court can tell the difference between people who study partially using the internet, and those who study using only books and a face-to-face teacher. I maintain, however, that this isn’t a matter of the internet producing lower-quality students, or the internet providing lower-quality material, but students either not utilizing it properly, or students finding alternative oppinions of rabbis who don’t necessarily hold like the rabbis sitting on the conversion panel, and thus these students are disqualified. During my conversion studies in 1999/2000, if it hadn’t been for the internet, I would have never gotten the information I needed. I devoured JewFaq, and to this day I use it as a partial reference, along with Project Genesis and Aish Hatorah due to the almost complete inavailability of seforim in any sort of accessible format. And until this complete inavailability is changed, I’ll continue to do so, or I’ll have to buy print seforim and then scan them, correct the mistakes that creep in through OCR, and then, finally, read it. So in my eyes, this annti-tech decree strikes me as a luddite one at best.
Hat-tip.

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