Friday, December 24, 2010
News Flash" President Born in Hawaii
Friday, December 17, 2010
Don't Believe Everything You Read
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Juan Williams v. Helen Thomas - Double Standard?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Armenian Genocide: Let's Call it What it Is
On the Verge of Electing Extremists
- It's not concern over the federal deficit -- see Marco Rubio and the $3.5 trillion added by extending the Bush tax cuts.
- It's not a national rejection of big government -- see Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Rand Paul, et al advocating for federal control of every pregnancy.
- It's not anger over the federal stimulus -- see the really long list of Republicans who criticized the stimulus and then trumpeted the stimulus checks.
- It's not about a revolt over health reform -- see Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, among others, who criticized and even sued over it and then trumpeted the checks.
- It's not about the Wall Street bailout -- see Pat Toomey, former derivatives trader and Republican for Senate from Pennsylvania.
- Nor it is about political neophytes and outsider candidates -- see Christine O'Donnell, perpetual election/media machine, among others.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Delaware Senate Debate 10-13-2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
British Media continues its anti-Israel Bias
Sunday, October 3, 2010
2 Israeli soldiers convicted for actions during Gaza incursion - CNN.com
Just wondering when any Lebanese or Palestinian army/militia/whatever -- will hold a similar tribunal for similar violations of "rules of war."
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Racism and the Tea Party
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Anti Semitism: Alive and Well 65 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz
Here we are 65 years later, and still fighting the ravages of anti-semitism. The "Work Will Set You Free" sign at the Auschwitz Museum is stolen by right wing thugs, a priest in Poland claims that the Holocaust was "a Jewish invention, a Jewish cemetary in France is defiled with swastikas; these are just a few of the incidents highlighted in a report issued recently by the Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism an Israeli organization that tracks anti-semitic events. The Huffington Post ran the story and the comments that followed were mind-boggling to say the very least. If I didn't read them for myself, I would not have known the visceral hatred and ignorance that exists. (For those not familiar, the Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington in 1995 to provide a liberal alternative to conservative bloggers as Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report.) Comments ranged from "You reap what you sow," to "well, how can you prove it was an anti-semitic event; maybe it was just anti-Israel?" Certainly, that would not have been the response had the story been "Muslims attacked worldwide." In that instance, the response would have overwhelmingly spoken to the injustice of collective punishment.
"And what is anti-Zionism? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friends, because they are Jews. In short, it is anti-Semitism...Let my words echo in the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews -- make no mistake about it."
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
"In Unity there is Strength"
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Hamas to deliver "final Shalit offer."
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Egypt and Hamas
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Those Wacky Iranians
It's a Wonderful Day at Arbonne
Friday, January 1, 2010
I've been posting news stories to my Facebook page to the great dismay of many of my friends. So, after multiple admonishments by more than one friend, \ I've taken the plunge and will now be Blogging my way through life n this blog setting. My blogging will include musings on everything from living in New York City as a middle aged single woman to Politics to the Middle East, and anything in between. Topics will sometimes be funny, sometimes morose, sometimes ironic, and sometimes angry. But all topics covered represent something that is passionate to me.
So, for my first entry, let me talk about my hopes for the New Year, which will likely give you a sense of where my future blogs might take me:
a) Gilad Shalit will be returned to Israel safe and sound, both mentally and physically, and Nasrallah will be disemboweled, oops, I mean disempowered.
b) President Obama will get the health care initiative through Congress and the Teabaggers will FINALLY realize they are just one paycheck away from needing a public option themselves.
c) Women who use public restrooms will learn to WIPE THE FREAKING SEAT before they move on (I know, doesn't quite reach the level of importance and urgency as a and b but it's been on my mind for, like, forever!
d) The American public will come to its senses and understand we are in a financial war here at home -- a classic David and Goliath -- Main Street vs. Wall Street. This will start with Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland will rule against the Bankruptcy Trustee in the Madoff fraud, and rule for investors with respect to "net equity."If you agree, join us at www.investoraction.org
d) I will actually have a date for New Year's Eve 2010/11.
So, good night and good luck -- for now.