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The Republican party, especially the TEA party faction remind me of bullies. It seems the only way they deal with those who differ in their beliefs is to shout them down, insult them and if that doesn't work, call them un-American.The TEA party tactics consists mainly of shouting down their opponents. This was demonstrated clearly a couple of years ago when Congressman Gene Taylor tried to hold

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Discuss and if you really believe he is a Muslim defend yourself. Do not use links from Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Newsmax, World News Daily, and other garbage sites.

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In my post, Self-hating Jew, I linked to the 14 points of fascism. For the next few weeks, I'm going to show some of the concerns I have the direction the US is going.1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public

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Someone, an anonymous person from Littleton CO, has accused me of being a self-hating Jew because I support President Obama. There are many reasons I support President Obama. He is not out to get Israel. He is not a Muslim. His policies on Israel are about the same as past presidents. Unlike some past presidents such as George W. Bush, he did not promise to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv

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Don't let Congress take away your freedom of speech. Stop SOPADo your part to end American CensorshipOur protest song!!!

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Today, we honor a real American hero, Martin Luther King Jr. He understand the term equality. He marched peacefully even when state violence was directed at him and those who marched with him across Alabama. He spoke eloquently of the oppression blacks suffered at the hands of state policies in places like Mississippi. He spoke against the poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures used

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Our country was founded because of the efforts of progressive thinkers. They had the audacity to suggest that all men are created equal. Since then, as a country, we've stumbled forward. We fought a civil war to ensure that no one was denied their rights as US citizens because of the color of their skin. We behaved atrociously to the indigenous population. Women didn't have the right to vote

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Over 235 years ago, a group of liberated thinkers got together and created something unique: the United States of America. Today, a lot of politicians running as Republicans and as members of the TEA Party seem bent on changing the very things that make the United States so unique. Gingrich, for now, the leader in the Republican race for president has openly stated that we should ignore those

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If you value taking personal responsibility in your life, then vote no on Amendment 26. Government should not interfere in health issues.

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May your fast be easy.

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To me, very touching:

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I watched President Obama's speech last evening. I like it a lot because it gives more tax cuts to those who need it most: The middle class. The proposal would also pay for itself by closing tax loopholes that large corporations and billionaires currently enjoy on the backs of the middle and lower and middle classes. Some of those mega-corporations enjoy tax breaks for creating jobs. Too bad

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I saw The Help yesterday. The overwhelming I've had is anger followed by disbelieve and horror. The reviews of this movie seem to imply that it is a feel good movie. To me, it just showed the hateful and willful ignorance of bigots. It also showed how a group mentality can very easily take hold. When some dared to to speak out against the horrible laws, they were murdered. Mississippi has a

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Tropical Storm Lee is sitting off the coast of Louisiana dumping huge amounts of rainfall along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast. The rain is much needed as both states have been suffering through a drought. The rain has been light with periods of intense rain which is expected to last for three days or more. The winds have begun to pick up a little. Winn Dixie alert in D'Iberville!!!!

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Time to get the umbrellas, boats, etc out. Three days of expected 10-12 inches of rain. Td Thirteen : Radar : Weather Underground

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Originally posted two years ago:This evening begins the festival of Shavuot. It marks two things: The giving of the Torah and the harvest of first fruits. We accepted and committed ourselves to living the 613 mitzvot. By doing so, we harvested fruits for all generations to come. All of Israel stood at Har Sinai and made the commitment and obligation of "We accept and we will do". All became

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June 1 marks the start of hurricane season. Now is the time to start preparing. It can take awhile to gather all the things needed whether you stay or evacuate. The National Hurricane Center has a nice booklet that explains what a hurricane is.Ready.gov has a list of items everyone should consider keeping in an emergency kit.Recommended Items To Include In A Basic Emergency Supply Kit:Water,

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One of the very first lessons earned as a child is that it is important to share even if we didn’t like the other child very much. It was our very first lesson in seeking justice. A squabble over a child’s toy doesn’t seem like it would be such a lesson. Think about it. To me, this lesson seems to teach many things other than giving over a toy for a short time.In thinking about the many

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It is always hard to lose a Mom. It is also hard to watch her as day by day she becomes weaker and can no longer fight. It is hard to watch the monitors in the ICU room as your Mom's blood pressure drops hour by hour and is close to flat lining and then mercifully, the ICU staff shuts it off. It is hard to watch the face of your Mom as it changes from one full of health to the pastiness of

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Fark.com.Dinki 2011-02-22 09:59:42 AM In these tough economic times, we need everyone to make a sacrifice. We need everyone to share the pain. We are all in this together, and everyone must be willing to suffer for the greater good. So we are going to make some cuts-Poor people, we are going to cut food stamps, Medicaid, family services (including Planned parenthood), HEAP, and many if not

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cPetty Womanwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook

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Unbridled rage fueled by political leaders does have consequences.

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Stephen Colbert Rally - Restoring Truthiness

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You really don't get used to it. You learn to cope and how to grieve and still carry on day to day. I still mourn all the people Katrina killed and the things that were destroyed. I have also found it awesome the number of people who came down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help us rebuild.We don't know how many years the oil spill will affect the Gulf of Mexico and how many years tar balls

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I've become very disheartened in the direction the United States has been going since President Bush was president. At the time, I agreed with some of his policies. I did protest the invasion of Iraq but once troops were on the ground, I fully supported them. In an effort to understand the Islamic faith I began reading a website by Robert Spencer. He equates all Muslims with the radicals. I

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I took these photos on Sunday and Monday along the Biloxi beach:

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Stephen Colbert's simplified oil spill speech

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I took these photos yesterday at the beach in Gulfport. It is in the area where President Obama visited today. From news reports, he was on the east side of the pier.The black skimmer skimmed over this dark patch and then resumed its hunting.I cannot tell if this bird washed ashore is a black skimmer, a heron, or an egret. This is the same in which 15 dead sea turtles washed ashore last

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My governor, Haley Barbour, keeps trying to insist that the oil spill is no big deal for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Sure, we haven't seen the thick sludge hitting the shores of Louisiana. But as soon as the winds and tides are right, it seems like it is inevitable.The oil is impacting the life of the creature that call the shoreline and the Gulf home. The air does not have that sweet clean smell

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NOAA has now closed one third of Federal Gulf of Mexico waters.Oil has reached Petit Bois Island. The island is a barrier island about 12 miles south east of Pascagouls Mississippi.United States Attorney General Eric Holder is launching a criminal probe.I cannot seem to feel rage at this mess. The scope of the disaster is just too vast. I try to go to the beach everyday just so I can still it

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Have you ever watched birds as they take care of their young? Birds are fiercely protective. Many times I've watched in amazement as mockingbird chases off a hawk and as a grackle chases off an osprey. The Louisiana brown pelicans can do little as the oil comes ashore in Breton Island and covers their eggs and hatchlings with a thick coating of oil.Herons are in the same dire mess.Marshes are

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I found the following video at Gulf Oil SlickWe need tighter and more effective government regulation over these rigs. We need to make sure that the oil companies have plans that entail more than just blaming each other for what goes wrong.In Biloxi & D'Iberville Mississippi, in Bayou LaBatre Alabama, and in places in Louisiana, there are thousands who work in seafood plants who are now out of

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From Marshall Ramsey of The Clarion Ledger:

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Yesterday morning when I stepped out to get the newspaper, the air was heavy with scent of oil. I live 12 miles inland!! The oil slick is inching ever closer to my beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast:Sea turtles and other animals are already washing ashore dead:High winds and rough seas caused the protective booms to break.And there are concerns that the oil slick may become caught up the Gulf

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Waiting to how bad the oil spill will be is almost as bad as waiting for a hurricane to hit. Fighting Oil with Fire.Update: 4/30/10Five foot waves are overtopping the protective booms. The oil now drifting into the South Pass of the Mississippi River. The oil is expected to reach the Mississippi Coast on Saturday. I'm sickened by the thought of the potential loss of wildlife. Once the oil

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Join Coffee Party USA.Sit down like adults and discuss political issues.

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Click on image for a larger view.

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The very first Admendmnet listed in the Bill of Rights is this:Amendment ICongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.There has been a growing trend in our country to call

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They are out to undermine us(using Glenn Beck's logic)!!!!!! The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cConservative Libertarianwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Reform

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Yesterday was the annual Link to Jack Day.

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Help Bob the Wonder Dog. Face book has muzzled him!More details at Can This Poodle Wearing a Tinfoil Hat Get More Fans Than Glenn Beck?Help Bob and become a fan!

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For a little while. The forecasts call for more this afternoon and evening.

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The forecasts appear to be correct. It has already started sleeting and snow is forecast for later tonight and early tomorrow morning. It looks like where I live might see 5 inches! The last time it snowed here along the Mississippi Gulf Coast was in December 2004. There was just enough snow that on my car for me and my kid to have a snowball fight.

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With the Republicans continuing to embrace evangelicals, I fear for our country. Two hundred thirty-four years ago, a group of men got together and made a Declaration that all men are created equal. They wrote a Constitution that sought to protect the rights of the individual in matters of religious beliefs and made the radical decision at that time not to select a national religion. They

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cHaiti Earthquake Reactionswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis

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The pictures coming in from Haiti speak of the tragedy unfolding there. The New York Times has a list of organizations to help.AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE45 West 36th StreetNew York, NY 10018(212) 792-2900AMERICAN RED CROSSText “HAITI” to “90999″ to make a $10 donation.2025 E Street, NWWashington, DC 20006(800) REDCROSS (733-2767)AMERICARES88 Hamilton AvenueStamford, Conn. 06902(800) 486-

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Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and others keep looking for that simpler time. John Oliver of The Daily Show did some research:The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cEven Better Than the Real Thingwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis

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Ah hum, excuse me dear, but President Bush was president during 9-11 when our country suffered its worst terrorist attack:Mary Matalin: Bush Administration Inherited.

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In the 1500's Martin Luther started the the Reformation. At first, it seemed like a good deal for Jews."He wrote in his work entitled, That Jesus Christ Was A Jew:"For they [Church clergy] have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs and not human beings. They have done nothing for them but curse them and seize their wealth ... I hope that if the Jews are treated friendly and instructed kindly

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A day of freedom he shall proclaimFor the son and the daughterHe shall protect them as his belovedYour names are beautiful, they shall always endureSit and rest on the Sabbath day

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I don't think so.More on the belief of evangelicals:So what happens when we Jews continue to keep our faith? What happens when we don't all suddenly decide to flock to Israel in the coming months? What happens when the end times don't happen?

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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cPrescott Financial Sells Gold, Women & Sheepwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorU.S. Speedskating More Beck and monetary musings. Pretty nifty scheme Ingraham, Limbaugh, Beck and others have. Scare the heck out of you and then convince you to buy gold from the people who pay them as spokes persons. You might even say

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Kenny Ellis:

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May the lights of freedom shine for all!Take a stand like this man did in Switzerland did after minarets were banned!

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Merry Hyatt has found allies in her quest to put an initiative on the ballot next year requiring public schools to play Christmas carols.Hyatt, who moved to Redding four months ago, said she joined the Redding Tea Party Patriots and recruited several members to help her collect the 433,971 signatures needed by March 29......"Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas," said Erin Ryan, president

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Little Green Footballs has an excerpt of Christopher Hitchens' Sarah Palin's Brand of Populism Dangerous and Deceptive. Fred Malek was the guy in Nixon's administration who volunteered to purge the Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Because the second thing to note about Malek is that he was the man who drew up a list of Jews to be fired from the civil service under the Nixon

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I've never been a big fan of Glenn Beck. His hate-filled rhetoric is reminiscent of people such as Father Coughlin and the ramblings of Senator Joseph McCarthyNow, Beck is claiming that it is the Anti-Defamation League is at fault for the rise in anti-Semitism.Just listen:Beck blames ADLJust as Father Couglin spread lies and half-truths in the 1930's and Senator Mccarthy did in the 1950"s, so

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Would you consider this to be Stalinist, Maoist, or Nazism?

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For the past several months, I've been reluctant to click on some of the blogs I used to read on a daily basis. When Bush was president, many claimed there was a Bush derangement syndrome among centrists and leftists. This pales in comparison to the moronic derangement of some bloggers and a lot of others out there who seem to think that Obama is a Marxist, Socialist, Communist, and Fascist.

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The Onion does it again in it's Area Man Passionate Defender of What He Imagines Constitution to Be."Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to

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This family was lucky. They could afford to pay close to a million dollars to prove their innocence.Why would police produce false reports when they know the entire incident was recorded? "I really don't know," Nick says. "I guess they figured they're cops, so what the hell is going to happen to them? And you know what? They're right. They've gotten away with it."What happens to those who can't

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I don't think so. Dov Bear has an astute post. Pat Robertson claims Islam is not a relgion but a political and violent system. Should we declare that all Christians are violent and extremist because some advocate and commit murder against abortion doctors?Newscaster Bill O'Reilly states, "We can't kill all the Muslims". This is very dangerous and very close to advocating genocide.What

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A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical

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One of my favorite zemirot, Yedid Nefesh:

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My video has had 100,192 views!

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Send this eCard !On October 29, 1944 a voice rose in Germany that attested Am Chai Israel!“We bring you now a special broadcast of historic significance: The first Jewish religious service broadcast from Germany since the advent of Hitler.”Cantor Max Fuchs

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There’s been a great deal in the news about community organizers. Our country has a long history of community organizers. In fact, some of the most radical ones in our history were from the late 1700s. These radicals included John Hancock, John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and many, many others. These men were filled with radical ideas. They saw a vision of the colonies

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Standing Together has greeting cards you can send to Israeli soldiers for Rosh HaShanah.

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It had been 25 years since I last read 1984 by George Orwell. The first time I read it, I couldn't really visualize the description of the Two Minute Hate and people becoming riled up to the extent they were in the book. But now that I see the hour long hate-fest by Glenn Beck, the moronic writings of Pat Buchanan, and the hate Rush Limbaugh spews, I can understand a little better.

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Looking at all the rebuilding and reconstruction that has happened since Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast four years, I can still recall the feeling of despondency at all the destruction Katrina caused. One of the hardest places to visit was the beach at Gulfport. This is where I spent a lot of my childhood and where I took my son when he was younger. These pictures are also from my

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Saturday will mark the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I've been thinking about the things I was doing and the feelings I had while we watching the weather reports.BK (before Katrina), hurricanes to me were a source of fascination and wonder. They still are but now it is tempered by the knowledge of the great destructive powers hurricanes can hold.If I remember correctly, I had my son mow

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One of the big talking points opponents of health care reform bring up is the fear of rationing. They claim health care rationing exists in Britain's and Canada's health care system. A British doctor speaks out:Among the inflammatory charges, Sen. Edward Kennedy wouldn't have received state-of-the-art care for his brain tumor in a place like Great Britain because health overseers would have

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Mottel is hosting Haveil Havalim 229.

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Our founders were not godlike men. They had their faults like everybody. Most of the Southerners who signed the Declaration of Independence were heavily in debt. Thomas Jefferson eventually lost his beloved Monticello because of his debt. Benjamin Franklin was the 1770's Bill Clinton. When the American Revolution was fought, we were in heavy debt. It was to the point that many other

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Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform | Health Insurance Reform Reality CheckShared via AddThis

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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There are some great leaders in our country's history. Thomas Jefferson had great vision when he made the Louisiana Purchase. Abraham Lincoln had the vision of keeping the country united as well as abolishing inhumane slavery. Theodore Roosevelt had the great vision of preserving wild and undeveloped areas for future generations and our national park system was created.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It's time for your weekly dose of Haveil Havalim:228.

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Yesterday was one of those hectic days at work. I decided to go to the D'Iberville Marina with the intention of taking a 30 minute photo break and then coming back and eat the lunch I brought. Instead, I spent nearly 45 minutes trying to entice a beautiful little calico kitten. The kitten ate some chips I had brought with me but still would not let me get closer than 3 feet. I made a cat toy

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Jack is hosting Haveil Havalim 226: Harry Potter.

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Throughout history, Jews were forced to convert. The ones in Spain called the Marranos, are a famous group who forced to convert to Christianity and yet many kept up their Jewish customs and traditions and then faced the murderous Spanish Inquisition.Nissim Mossek has a very interesting video about Palestinians of Jewish origin. These Jews also remained hidden throughout the centuries after

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Thank you Justice Scalia!Legal experts and prosecutors are concerned about the results of last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires lab analysts to be in court to testify about their tests. Lab sheets that identify a substance as a narcotic or breath-test printouts describing a suspect's blood-alcohol level are no longer sufficient evidence, the court ruled. A person must be in court

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From Jew in the City

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