YudelLine 2.1One Jew's News and ViewsRepublican: Gut social security or give Arafat a posthumous victory!- January 6, 2005 Via Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall comes this choice bit of Republican rhetoric: "The president is going to go ahead," said Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a Republican leadership lieutenant. "He cannot afford to fail. It would have repercussions for the rest of his program, including foreign policy. We can't hand the president a defeat on his major domestic initiative at a time of war." Oh, I see. If we don't gut social security, we're giving in to...http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000907.html Toward what tradition, exactly- January 6, 2005 Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of Toward Tradition, recycles his thesis that third-world countries get what they deserve because they lack the "influence of Biblical culture": Western civilizations second distinctive cultural imperative is the importance of preserving human life. This too derives directly from our Biblical roots and distinguishes us from the peculiar fatalism toward death found in so many other cultures.....Many of the deaths are attributable to slowness in adopting the western..http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000905.html His eye is on the sparrow...- January 6, 2005 Ron Rosenbaum addresses God and the tsunami: Let me concede that yes, there are many paths to faith, but it is an underappreciated scandal that, philosophically, the "age old question" of theodicy has not been satisfactorily answered without resort to vague evasions ("Its all a mystery," "We just cant understand Gods plan," "It will allow good to manifest itself in the hearts of the survivors," "We live in a fallen world," "The dead are better off in heaven"). To which...http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000904.html But sadistically, folks...- January 5, 2005 Total crap from Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder, who argue that America withhold aid from tsunami-stricken nations: There should be a precondition that before these nations receive any aid, they should clearly denounce terrorism and, at the very least, discontinue the state-sponsored anti-American drivel heard in that part of the world.... Perhaps the strongest practical reason to hold up monies is the fact that we do not know that the money will actually reach the intended recipients. In fact,...http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000903.html You watch: In 500 years we'll make a holiday out of it- January 4, 2005 Israeli police apologize to Shas lawmaker for clocking his car at 145 mph. Why Because his Mazda 6 is supposed to be able to reach only 110 mph....http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000902.html |