now wait till you've read my whole post before responding. i think that is the cause of half the miscommunication. i think he likes us because we are, in general, smart and logical and love to think and argue. and he's like that. VERY much so.

in one post you said you were jewish. is that correct?

(a) No, I didn't; (b) I can't believe you're asking.

Anyway, what's any of that got to do with the Jews being in misery? Why haven't you even mentioned the "Arabs' misery"?

Are you kidding me?

That would make you 1/2 ex-Jew. Are you still 1/2 Catholic?

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2008/03/ignatius-on-ann.html

Ignatius:

"It was Rice who insisted that this militant Islamic group be allowed to participate in the January 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, over strong protests from both Israelis and moderate Palestinians. Rice argued that the Islamic militancy represented by Hamas had to be given a political voice. But when Hamas won and predictably continued to reject Israel's right to exist, the United States had no coherent follow-up strategy. A new article in Vanity Fair says that Washington secretly egged on the rival Fatah movement to stage a coup in Gaza, but Hamas moved first with a countercoup that expelled Fatah security forces. The Hamas militants kept firing their rockets, goading the Israelis toward the reinvasion of Gaza they launched Feb. 27 that nearly scuttled the post-Annapolis peace process.

What's needed is some sort of cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. But Washington and Jerusalem stoutly insist that they will never negotiate with a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, they are quietly blessing an Egyptian effort to broker just such a cease-fire package. I'm sorry, but that is a lame strategy -- letting others do secretly what you refuse to do openly. "

Lang:

"Clearly, Rice is not competent to run American diplomacy and foreign policy. Did she really think that HAMAS would acknowledge Israel as a state once they were in power? What fool thought that? It must have been someone with a political science background who naturally (following the classic thought of that discipline) believed that the Islamc fervor and fanaticism of HAMAS was really just a "mask" for whatever it is that REALLY bothers them."

was that, hopefully, the arabs would choose their own happiness rather than the jews' misery. can you understand that? are you capable of understanding a complex sentence? it MEANS that the arabs would rather the jews suffer than they(the arabs) prosper. this doesn't mention their OWN misery. it is not a comparison it is a choice.

i think he likes us because we are, in general, smart and logical and love to think and argue.

Many people do not know this, but Zionism is based on a series of classic logical syllogisms, and has acheived all of its aims purely on the strength of its discourse. An admirable record, all things considered.

Sugarman will now fill us in on the details.

I read the sentence. I know what you meant.

It's just that as far as I can tell, you are capable only of seeing the misery of your own people, and none of anyone else's. Which makes you a racist, regardless of your supposed ability to write coherent and complex sentences.

Sorry.

US support to Israel mostly funds the advanced logical discourse by which Israel keeps its slavering Arab enemies at bay.

David "The Litvaks" is the name of my gang of one-percenter, outlaw Jewish motorcyclists. Unfortunately, most of the guys from schul ride Harleys, and you can't get those guys to even look at a sport bike.

But we strike terror into the hearts delicatassen owners up and down the coast every time we head out on the highway for a Sunday morning ride. And we better see some hot bagels and some cold lox when we pull into town. And a goddam fresh copy of the Times, or your shop goes on the trafe list!

You'll know us by the yamulkes under our helmets.

you are capable only of seeing the misery of your own people,

And getting royally pissed off when they're not miserable enough for you. Nothing pisses off a Zionist more than a happy Jew. Drives 'em nuts. "You're a Jew," they scream, "don't you know how miserable you are, or ought to be?"

the christians, particularly the roman catholics (like McEagle) have massacred us for 1500 years, culminating with a worldwide hate-murder. the germans stoked the fire but the rest of the world sealed the fire doors. the jews, obviously needed a state where they could at least get arms to sell their lives dearly. the arabs, who sided with hitler, then "ethnically cleansed" one million jews from algeria to pakistan. in today's world baldie and such cry "holocaust!" for palestinians who increase at the highest birthrate in the world. if there were a unitary state the jews would be at the mercy of their enemies. such will not happen. that is why there is israel. it would have been better had it not been in the midst of crazed vermin, but here it is. i would be happy to set up another jewish state in any territory available. do you see any?

but the one about McCain's bus shuttling "reporters" between the WH Correspondents' Dinner and the Bloomberg party, made me wonder why...

we don't just call it a day, and begin to call them the NeoconPress? That would certainly explain how and why they work.

Just as we have had to consider that there are many Democrats who actually agree with Bush & Co. on a number of issues, in order to explain their seeming to "cave" ...perhaps we should also consider that quite a few of the "journalists" are actually in favor of Bush's agenda, which is fast becoming McCain's except that it's likely to be far, far worse.

Perhaps their aiding & abetting really have nothing to do with cluelessness, laziness, or fear of job loss, but are really just because they're trying to help... in their own way.

There are repeat pattern theories attached to victims of abuse.

Some abused children grow up sad enough later to harm their own offspring or other young ones.

Violence upon helpless victims places them at extreme longterm risk. Battered women often retreat into sense deadened masochism.

If not counselled and psycholigally healed, after effects linger in the frayed psyche.

Irrational rage could be triggered in a survivor not fully healed.

That McCain's election ploys seem to include hawking Jewish voters by threatening foes of Israel, legitimizing the cults of apocalyptic Christian Rapturism, and forklipped protest of the Muslim labelling and noncontextual shock loops misportraying the Black historical critique of the Wright Reverend preachings, may not be all of the motives playing under his crazy belligerence.

If he keeps going off like this, eventually he'll be a danger sign alert signalling that he's become a Bush-Cheney hybrid lunatic.

Perceived to be unelectably nuttier than toast Tom Eagleton.

His campaign and Party will have to start explaining him and maintain a roster of translators hovering behind each grandiosity, wai(ing to soften the erratica.

Bob Dole had strength and intellect enough to seriously contend for the Presidency. I think his anger was what thwarted that run. McCain, too, exhibits evidence of permanent physical and psychological damage.

If he continues to hop back and forth from gentle fireside to A Few Good Men, it might clinch his unelection.

John Dean commented on Barry Goldwater's low regard for his successor.

Strange would be the irony if they wound up being remembered together as landslide Presidential losers.

Probability is that McCain is much the more likely one to self destruct. Not Obama.

Take the belt and shoe laces.