There was a serious effort to carve Regan's head on Mount Rushmore.

My premiums help pay for your pap smears and mammograms. Even though there is zero probability of me personally needing to take advantage of it. That's simply a fact of life - men and women indeed have different health care needs. I suppose some brightlight will soon come up with women only health insurance by women for women etc etc but you might not like the outcome of that. As a group, women of childbearing age is the largest consumers of health care dollars.

Stop making everything a goddamn Lifetime Movie.

Since you haven't been inside a shul in 30 years, that attendance in shul is predominately women now. Masorti has become far more liberal than it was 20 years ago (at least in the US, but not in Israel where Masorti has WOMEN only seders - bet you did not know that...). With the rise of the egalitarian movement in the last generation, in many shuls, men have been effectively pushed out. So their membership is the same, but their attendance is not.

It's too bad you see this as an us vs them war, but if you really feel that it's a zero sum game and not only must you win but everyone else must lose, I guess that's what you'll do. Good luck with that, Judy.

BTW the cantor's job is generally educational not liturgical. The real issue is that there are few men entering the rabbinate for roles other than the pulpit and in Orthodox the gap is quite wide. As far as I know Reform and Masorti don't place a great deal of focus on the same educational areas that Orthodox do, e.g Talmud studies, Dof Yomi, etc.

Moreover, few Reform shuls have the resources to support a rabbi and a full time cantor. Unless you're in Boca Raton.

And for what it's worth Masorti membership is way down. They don't really understand what they want to be. Reform membership is up, but one would expect that as it is nearly irreligious Unitarian Protestantism at this point. 1 part save the animals and 1 part send food to Darfur. I think the Judaism inside of it's been lost.

In my state, state legislators are part timers.

Negro Please.

They usually get killed. They are particularly useful as terror weapons and suicide weapons. So a child soldier who gets captured probably was not of sufficient fervor and zealotry in the first place.

What is the definition of a swing state? Because everyone knows that if the election is decided by less than 3% which is damned likely, it's going to wind up in Federal courts across the land, ultimately in the Supreme Court. And Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas just need one 'swing' vote there, to elect McCain. I don't even know why we bother holding elections anymore.

Is frightfully polluting.

NBA players MUST play 2 years college ball in the USA or territories or some such nonsense. Look, the NBA isn't completely rigged but it's not 100% legit either. It's a business and David Stern, the mouthpiece for the owners and chief television negotiator/frontman is going to do what it takes to ensure a monopoly on young healthy players who have no other options to play. Anyway, college coaches have started to note that players who are looking to bail early might as well since they're not team players. In fact good college teams really stopped being teams a few years ago. Everyone is auditioning for a spot in the NBA draft and winning college games and team dynamics don't pay for Bentleys.

We are 5 years, tops from merging the NBA with an And-1 circus and having 'celebrity' refs anyhow.

And ignore California. There's a plan that's sure to work.

If you were hoping to inject a subtle intimidation towards anyone who dares criticizes Obama's Hapshetsut you may have failed. Yes, we know she's black. Thank you.

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NFL spygate and steroids for racehorses. So it's not like they're not doing incredibly valuable and important work.

Seems to have abandoned the concept that ANY story isn't tangentially related to being black in America.

Maybe you should lobby your college for cheaper books. Or maybe there's some where else to cut. It IS about priorities isn't it? I have 2 in college and a third next year. So please don't preach to me what things cost. And going 2-3000 into debt each year is nothing. If you wanted it to be debt free you should have considered state university. I did. My kids are 3rd generation public university. Sorry but those are choices people should and should be expected to make. I'm already paying a subsidy for student health care & I would prefer not to add to that.

But soft what light through yonder window breaks/It is the East and Barack is the Sun.