is me burying the hatchet, and the scraping sound is the match for the peace-pipe. After all:

when the ladino perished the ashkenazi bloomed and when they ended it became our time, just as it is now barack's, which sounds blessed to me.

"It is now barack's"!! Dave, my man, if you are voting Obama, too, all friction is smoothed, all arguements forgotten. Us Obama voters gotta stick together. See you at the polls, and say a brocha for Barack, every day!

Dave, you've got Obama all up to speed on what he needs to do for Israel and all, right? You finding his foreign policy input acceptable? He got the advisors you would wish?

Sure O'Bama is a grand Irish name, but he has got Israel's back, right?

Godfrey Freaking Daniels!

That is the utter madness, insanity and clinical diagnosis of bat shiat crazy psychopathy.

Of course it is just a troll and a sick joke because you can't be that devoid of humanity.

Everyone seems to mistake the devil for god - it must be the shoes.

I guess my biases are always toward those who, regardless of their inherited religion, have lapsed enough that they can see the world with their own eyes. I don't think it makes anyone less "Jewish" if their support for Likudnik Israelis falters, any more than I thought my mother less "Catholic," when she told the chaplain at the hospital when she was dying that she only put "Catholic" in her profile "to keep the other religious crazies away," and waved him away dismissively.

Ultimately, the test of any religious belief is whether its central tenets mean anything to you.

For Jews, this could only mean identifying with, and certainly not persecuting, disempowered minorities. For Catholics, same thing, particularly in America, where our beliefs were long considered cultlike and aberrant, and also to recognize that salvation could only come through good works, and a humble life in the image of Christ..

Both religions have now been coopted and shamelessly exploited by political movements that operate in their names, evidence of which we see here, and, shamefully, representing the opposite of their founding principles.

If there is a God, he/she would be embarrassed.

Barack Obama recently said that McCain represents an improvement over Bush, and I think this issue illustrates why Barack is right. Bush is America's worst nightmare, and Iraq's. That's a really big nightmare. Like 330 millions worth.

McCain, by contrast, is running to be the nightmare of an entity that is not even a country, but rather a political subdivision of a group of people who would like to be a country.

For republicans, this does represent an improvement, and a step in the right direction.

However, I hasten to add that McCain has lots of problems with his own party (or rather his party has lots of problems with him). He's a Maverick, you know. And it may be that his party will not be satisfied with this rather low nightmare goal. A "nightmare gap", one might call it. So they may insist that he be a bigger nightmare than his campaign promises heretofore would indicate.

-I'm cooking dinner, for crying out loud.-

Sorry, Ma'am. Didn't mean to upset your culinary sensibilities.

Please allow me to buy you dessert.

First, i have REALLY good antennae (come from lines of people, realizing before others, but escaping at the last minute) - Obama LIKES jews. why? who can know that? maybe hyde park, maybe law school, who knows? i just trust my gut in this. AND he has because of his name and color and not-whiteness some sympatico with the moslems. PERFECT! i can't be trusted by the arabs, i don't like or trust them (except omooex - and him only SOMETIMES) but i'm not STUPID, the moslems need some respect which jews aren't going to give them. Obama might. this is going to be a really very ticklish negotiation. i have hopes that Obama can be fair and just PERHAPS the arabs, for once, will choose their own happiness rather than the jews' misery.

Thank you for your kind offer, Northwestwoods; I plan to take you up on it.

But for future reference, never use the word, "Ma'am."

My mother taught me that. Even if the woman in question is old enough to be your grandmother, "Miss" will always go over better. Try it. You'll see.

Please make a note of it.

-My mother taught me that. Even if the woman in question is old enough to be your grandmother, "Miss" will always go over better. Try it. You'll see.

Please make a note of it.-

So noted, and I would even submit 'Ms.' might even be more approriate, though maybe too Gloria Steinhem for a lady of your station. It's your call, er, Miss....

Bullshit Express strikes again:

-Last summer, just before starting to use his wife’s plane, Mr. McCain was quoted in a newspaper report as saying that he did not plan to tap her substantial wealth to keep his bid for the Republican presidential nomination going.

I have never thought about it,” Mr. McCain was quoted by The Arizona Republic as saying at a July appearance. “I would never do such a thing, so I wouldn’t know what the legalities are.”-

I love Straight Talk (tm)

Now that's good to know. So all that stuff they're pushing about Obama and Hamas and him being next door to a Moslem terrorist, and all, I should just pay no attention to? Good.

You don't think maybe the reason "Obama likes Jews" is cause he took a little try at defusing that old Palestinian Demographic Time Bomb. I wouldn't want to say, he, ah... "rolled his own" but maybe he tried boiling a bagel, if you get my drift. Jewish women can be very persuasive, you know.

I'm very upset about this "ex-Jew" thing. I've been a Jew all my life, and I'm sort of accustomed to it, you know? Here I am, going my circumcised, Bar Mitzvahed way, and some of it a pretty rough way, never suspecting that instead of being a Jew, I was an ex-Jew! How could I let this happen? Well, never mind that, what can I do about it. I'll do anything to get back in. The benefits alone are priceless, and the company, unique. I'm sure the condition isn't irremediable. Will they have to drop a hot rock on my head, like my motorcycle gang wanted to do to make my gas tank glat. They said it really helps your carburettors from getting plugged.