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Friday Morning “Magic”
This guy’s good.
I’m impressed.
Now can he pick up the cards he dropped?
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President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement Disorder
Everything about Obama, regardless of his "tough" Chicago activist background, suggests a man not taken seriously by foreign dictators.
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Religion and Politics: What Obama could learn from Benjamin Disraeli
Could it be that growing uncertainty about President Obama's present religious affiliation is connected with his religious history from childhood, just as there was always lively interest in Disraeli's Jewish childhood?
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Top Ten Things America Has Done for Muslims
Many passionately believe the argument that the United States is mistreating Muslims. Nonsense!
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How to Regulate America Out of Business
Vladimir Lenin had a much simpler time of it. American leftists are far more civilized.
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Harry Reid: Praying that History Won't Repeat
Being a Democratic leader of the United States Congress may be hazardous to your political survival.
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Are the Poor Subsidizing the Rich via Credit Card Rewards? Don't Be So Sure
Do credit card reward systems subsidize the rich at the expense of the poor? The Boston Federal Reserve claims that credit card payments are a form of regressive wealth transfer
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Ya estamos de vuelta
Bueno, pues como podéis ver ya se puede acceder al blog. Como os comenté, estos días Gaussianos ha estado fuera de combate por temas técnicos, concretamente por un cambio de hosting. El proceso ha sido algo traumático ya que no han faltado errores y problemas de todo tipo. Por ello os pido que si veis algún fallo, como imágenes que no aparecen, enlaces que no funcionan, applets de GeoGebra que no cargan, datos erróneos, etc, me lo comuniquéis con un comentario en esta entrada. Muchas gracias.
La semana que viene volveremos al ritmo habitual. Gracias por vuestra comprensión.
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More Hitler in Hell
I've decided to turn the Hitler in Hell cartoon of two days ago into a series.Here's some positive news as reported in the Forward:JCPA Taking Direct Aim at Anti-Israel Boycotters "With anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions efforts gaining visibility, the Jewish community’s main public-policy coordinating body is for the first time confronting the BDS movement as a specific and stated priority.At its recent annual plenum, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs passed a resolution stating that BDS should now “be regarded with the utmost seriousness and urgency.”“This is a very serious matter,” JCPA’s executive director, Rabbi Steve Gutow, told the Forward. “We need to wake up, whether we are on the right, left or center.”The JCPA, an umbrella body representing Jewish community relations councils across the country and more than a dozen leading national Jewish groups, adopted the anti-BDS resolution at its plenum in Dallas on February 23. Gutow said that JCPA member groups are planning to create a permanent body that would respond to the activities of the BDS movement.While efforts to promote boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeting Israel are nothing new, an international BDS movement embracing a shared platform emerged only in 2005, in response to a call from Palestinian NGOs. Thus far, the BDS movement has taken various forms in different places, pushed forward by decentralized groups of activists around the world with the aim of branding Israel as an international pariah, drawing inspiration from efforts against apartheid South Africa. In the United States, the movement has launched boisterous public demonstrations, such as those that have greeted the Israel Ballet on its current American tour." -more -Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973
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Desert Wolf, from "Calming Waters"
If there's someone really special in your life, give him/her Calming Waters. Have a great Shabbat!
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Does 'Barely True' Mean True?
I've been truth-checked. The St. Petersburg Times fact-checked my piece on the cost of the Iraq War.
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Famous Supporters of Israel: Frank Sinatra
He did it his way.
Francis Albert Sinatra may have been one of America ‘s most famous Italian Catholics, but he kept the Jewish people and the State of Israel close to his heart, manifesting life-long commitments to fighting anti-Semitism and to activism on behalf of Israel .. Sinatra stepped forward in the early 1940s, when big names were needed to rouse America i nto saving Europe’s remaining Jews, and he sang at an “Action for Palestine ” rally (1947). He sat on the board of trustees of the SimonWiesenthal Center; and he donated over $1 million to Jerusalem ‘s Hebrew University, which honored him by dedicating the Frank Sinatra International Student Center.. (The Center made heartbreaking headlines when terrorists bombed it in 2002, killing nine people.) As the result of his support for the Jewish State, his movies and records were banned in some Arab countries.
Sinatra helped Teddy Kollek, later the long-serving mayor of Jerusalem but then a member of the Haganah, by serving as a $1 million money-runner that helped Israel win the war. The Copacabana NYC nightclub, which was very much run and controlled by the same Luciano-related New York mafia crowd with whom Sinatra had become enmeshed, happened to be next door to the hotel out of which Haganah members were operating. In his autobiography, Kollek relates how, trying in March 1948 to circumvent an arms boycott imposed by President Harry Truman on the Jewish fighters in Eretz Yisroel, he needed to smuggle about $1 million in cash to an Irish ship captain docked in the Port of New York . The young Kollek spotted Sinatra at the bar and, afraid of being intercepted by federal agents, asked for help. In the early hours of the morning, the singer went out the back door with the money in a paper bag and successfully delivered it to the pier.
The origins of Sinatra’s love affair with the Jewish people are not clear but, for years, the Hollywood icon wore a small mezuzah around his neck, a gift from Mrs. Golden, an elderly Jewish neighbor who cared for him during his boyhood in Hoboken, N.J. (years later, he honored her by purchasing a quarter million dollars’ worth of Israel bonds). He protected his Jewish friends, once responding to an anti-Semitic remark at a party by simply punching the offender. Time magazine reported that Sinatra walked out on the christening of his own son when the priest refused to allow a Jewish friend to be the godfather. As late as 1979, he raged over the fact that a Palm Springs cemetery official in California declared that he could n ot arrange the burial of a deceased Jewish friend over the Thanksgiving holiday; Sinatra again — threatened to punch him in the nose.
Sinatra famously played the role of a pilot in Cast a Giant Shadow, the 1966 film filmed in Israel and starring friend Kirk Douglas as Mickey Marcus, the Jewish-American colonel who fought and died in Israel’s war for independence (Sinatra dive-bombs Egyptian tanks with seltzer bottles!) He donated his salary for the part to the Arab-Israeli Youth Center in Nazareth , and he also made a significant contribution to the making of Genocide, a film about the Holocaust, and helped raise funds for the film. Less known is Sinatra in Israel (1962), a short 30-minute featurette he made in which he sang In the Still of the Night and Without a Song. He also starred in The House I Live In (1945), a ten-minute short film made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, which received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe award in 1946.
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jsoffer: @ixmael en clase es para no mancharse la camisa de gis
jsoffer: @ixmael en clase es para no mancharse la camisa de gis
Dodgy Mugshot Haircuts
Meet some people who were all arrested for one crime or another, but whose real crimes is their hair.
See the whole gallery here.
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Dear John
Our relationship has certainly had its ups and downs, but if you are willing to give it one more try, I guess I am, too.
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We've Made a Deal: America Picks Door Number 2
In the next few years, one of two doors will open in America.
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Ad Wars: Republicans Are Winning
In an extraordinary political year, Republicans are finally grabbing the lead in advertising creativity and appeal, while Democrats are stumbling. Enjoy the videos!
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Public Service: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Today's public employee is definitely not your dad's civil servant.
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The Unrepentant Republican Party
Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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