So what? Your point? My former shul goes back even further. Reform is a lot of things, but it's Judaism like Joel Osteen is evangelism. More like self help than religion. Religion AS religion clearly takes a back seat to all the Tikkun Olam activities. And those are fine to do but let's just not call them religion. Not when all the children can't read a Siddur, don't have Bnai Mitzvah ceremonies, don't learn much of anything about Judaism and don't make it an issue to even have much in the way of faith. Call it Unitarianism, call it modern neoQuakers, call it a community center but since it tosses out nearly as much of the covenant as Jesus did then it's not really Judaism per se. It's something else. See Judaism already had its Protestant Reformation with Mendelsson's invention of Reform Judaism. But it should tell you something that NONE of his descendants were practicing Jews at all. Most converted to Lutheranism. The very fact that this Reform shul hosted this event where none of the local Protestant churches would should tell you that Reform is more interested in everything non Jewish than in anything Jewish. And again, that's fine. They could host whatever they like but it has nothing to do with Judaism. All the assimilation in the world, all the ecumenical conferencing didn't save your relatives, did it? No at the end of the day it meant nothing. There were two broad classes of folk who perished in the Shoah: the poor pious ignorant of the shetl who didn't know any better, and the rich assimilated German intellectuals who thought that they knew more.

That's not really what you're saying. What you're saying is let me do whatever the hell I want and you have to embrace me because I demand it. If only those Muslims would respect my wishes to make them eat pork. How dare they.

Salon, or any other self professed Vanguard of right and righteous opinion simply doesn't have discussions. It has cherry picked tomes which reflect The One True Shape Of Things In General. So the readership is that, it reflects that and cannot wrap its collective heads around anything that differs from that. Of course everyone is a poo flinging primate. It's the power of the mob and the bigger the mob gets in relation to a threat the more hysterical the mob becomes. You laugh at the perceived oppression of the 84% Protestant Americans have of themselves. Yet you and any mob are no different. It's all of US who are the problem, we dissidents who you think pee in your pool, dirty the china and probably feel up the help too. How dare we. How dare we intrude on you and tell you you're full of shit. Of course people are rude and self centered. Any group is automatically populated with personalities who think they're a better cut of person than all they people they want kept out.

No Jews No Dogs No Irish: Smithers, release the hounds.

For more tolerant climes. Not just medical and biological research but a whole host of areas that don't correlate well with defense tech. I say let's do it. Let the brain drain commence. Let America be the dumb Philistines that they've always wanted to be. My youngest is 2 years from college and will certainly leave the state, possibly the country. Who cares? Let them eat Retard. Let the good work and the good science go on somewhere else. All you have to fear is learning another language. Of course it might be Hebrew so that lets most of you off the hook. Better you stay home stay stupid.

I say stomp your fat cloven hoof on the gas pedal of that stolen short bus, straight to hell. Send me a Confederate flag when you get there.

It's a Liberal brain disorder. Let's have a nice chat - now now now there are no bad ideas, everyone gets a turn, just pass the 'speaking feather' on to the next person in the circle.

Keef caved but Carol would not. The Politburo kicked her to Kolyma.

Where they pay and make it clear that even where you pay you can get kicked off at will at any time, no refunds. Then print a list of rules. Most importantly, pick favorites, and enforce the rules capriciously - that way the level of random terror will help keep everyone in line.

Is much much funnier

Gutenberg printed books but it was Aldus who came up with the stroke of genius to make books small enough to be portable in a saddlebag. Before him printed books were massive things chained to lecterns. With books being portable it was inevitable that literacy spread and people had access to books.

Are going to be childish then there's no hope. I don't see rock throwing teenagers tearing off their Nike logo t-shirts. Where on Allah's blighted earth do they think this stuff comes from? A long time ago I discovered that the guy in the street screaming Yanqui Go Home, wants you to take him with you.

You run the risk of Counter Revolutionary Reactionary Yellow Running Dog Capital Lackyism, there. Cell phones are officially the Baby Eating Dog Torturing Red Meat and Cigarette Devil. Now please put on your seat belt and bike helmet and stoop to your workbench tovarish. A soccermom will be by soon to scold you.

All the time we are treated to this post Soviet inanity that somehow Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Egypt are themselves paragons of righteous anti western anti Zionist wonder, freedom and multiculturalism fighting the good fight against those nasty nasty people called "Israelis". When did we become like Syria? I would think you'd be cheering.

Or as we like to call it, America.