Smacks forehead! 1 January 2009
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, la vie en rose.trackback
I don’t know about you but on the 29th of December I was bundled up on the sofa, hot chocolate at the ready… and it was cold enough that I decided to roast chicken breasts in the oven, one to have hot with barely steamed broccoli and the other for chicken sandwiches later… emphasis, bundled up.
However, on the 29th of December I, and all of us, could have been ice swimming. In Siberia, Belarus and China.
Members of a local ice swimming club head for the water to swim in the Yenisey river in the Siberian city of Krasnoyars [Picture: REUTERS]
A member of the Optimalist heath club hacks a hole into the ice covering a canal near the village of Viazynka, Belarus [Picture: REUTERS]
OK! .. I think the guy above wins for truly hardy. Hardiest of the hardy. Wins hands down, or up.. or wins wielding the hatchet while thigh deep in freezing water… and definitely not wearing even a thong.
A winter swimmer dives into icy waters at a park in Shenyang, China [Picture: REX FEATURES]
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From the last thread… not because it was near the close of the thread, it just fits in…
catnip – 31 December 2008 I don’t make resolutions but I’ll make an exception for 2009: I resolve to contribute to global warming because I can’t stand the damn cold weather here in the frozen tundra anymore.
Ramen.
{This frozen stub of a comment has completely retracted inward}
If it didn’t matter……you wouldn’t have responded hon….
:0)……;0)
kisses to ya…….
I respond to lots of things diane that track past my scan of the world.
Hilarious… I see the first of the automatically generated “related” posts is about Cats, blogging and People.
What a hoot.
picking up from the last thread
what i “see” is an island of humanity, configured as a salon, set amidst an american sea of idiocy, who’s service is a discerning eye, way much more often than not also a collective set of discerning eyes observing the events of the world. perhaps the most important aspect, at least for me, is that the outrage i feel at the injustices of our time, and the unfairness and the horror of the traumas inflicted by human against human, isn’t seen nor felt by me alone. others see it too. and more clearly.
and that, believe me, is a much-needed lifeline on this end of the wire.
other than that, pass the noodles, mettwurst and rye!
Happy Hogmanay, diane, and peace be with you in the coming year.
(Never thought you were a Rapture-hound, BTW. But I took the liberty of calling you a wild hare once, and you liked it. So that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)
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Madman has the middle picture illustrating his Nothing New in the New Year’s Eve post, too. The beautiful guy with the hatchet looked like a human sundial to me, on a very very overcast, sorta polar-apocalyptic day.
Toques off for the crazy Siberians!
The local stories about regional icemaniacs blow my tiny mind every year, too. Not my cup of frozen rocks! Brrrrrrrr.
Toques back on again, quick!
bayprairie at 5 – Beautifully said.
Telegraph has an article on a unique pair of collectors in Manhattan… I’ve read about them over the years… what a story…
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yeah the guy with the ice pick is quite a picture… Reminds me of seeing skiers in Switzerland, happened to be at KLeine Sheidegg, on the route to the Jungfrau.. but elsewhere too, they climb mountains before skiing down them.
Not quite the furred and sunglasses set in the two by two gondolas to the high piste… something else entirely.
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ty.
in less-serious-trauma-avoidance-whirrled here’s a composer i’ve surfed across via lucid’s recently linked trumpetist, Ingrid Jensen. ms. jensen sometimes plays with this group.
Boleria, Solea y Rumba- Maria Schneider Orchestra
hey CSTAR! think teh whitechicks cut it?
Know what you mean. First time I ever saw a telemark skier, it was a septaguarian on a steeeep downhill face.
maria’s Bulería, Soleá y Rumba score calls for 5 reeds, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 bass trombone, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and cajons. It also features a vocal part on the 3rd section, the Rumbas.
new to me is:
cajon
Cajon Solo
diane,
Did I read you right? Did you say those of us who hang out here are compassionless? Seriously?
113.
perfect example of “american sea of idiocy”
I want to know whatever happened to that asshole- what was it ? Shallowthief or some such?
He was donkeytale right? Still blogs on the FSZ?
Ironic Disconnect Award goes to Miss Blue in her efforts to stomp out criticism of Israel. Dig the sig:
400+ Palestinians killed in a day. 2 weeks Israeli AssMud. Do the Math.
Speaking of poultry as comfort food, I made a turkey dinner today for the 2 1/2 of us here. Mmmmm….
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yeah thats the reality based community for you.
oh its not democratic partayness! lets just ignore shall we!!! maybe it’ll go away!!!!!!!
goddamned idiot
bertrand russell rules.
whats important? you’re “piece” of mind?
fucktastic partay idiot tool.
meanwhile palestians die.
I’d be happy if they examined the inherent weakness in any position that NEEDS to be politically “slanted”
When the toddler got up from his nap here today, I was making supper and watching CNN. They showed a pic of Gaza with smoke rising from the buildings. He looked at it and said, “Oh no”.
Yeah. “Oh no”.
BHHM
sorry, it had snagged one of yours the donkeytale/sthief one… out now…
But then again, maybe the Pwoggy Kossack “politically slanted” line
is all tactical-like thingleschtuffen
I mean, just look at all their WINS, all they’ve gained….LOL.
Maybe it’s strategami …kind of like origami, but digital.
But Inserted rectally. In the woods. As a tree falls.
With More than the occasional Papist dropping by for a dump.
Bring it on!
He can speak and do when he wants to… at the top of Tapper now (below it is some Mil Times poll about hesitation or skepticism of Obama in the ranks…? Must be LIES foul lies.. we were told they ALL voted for him.
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Followed the link… to Mil Times……So classic.. they’re wary of Obster AND they don’t want DADT repealed.
So simple. Shorter version, shorter message sent by someone at the Pentagon: They don’t like him much and if gays are public they’ll revolt. You gotta love it.
re 10
Ay mamita, toma chocolate, paga lo que debes
Re Cuba. I’ve noticed quite a bit of commentary recently on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Batista.. I find it peculiar that in the midst of an existential crisis of financial capitalism worldwide, all of a sudden it’s the right time to discuss the failure of cuban socialism.
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i’ll pay! what a joy.
I find it peculiar that in the midst of an existential crisis of financial capitalism worldwide, all of a sudden it’s the right time to discuss the failure of cuban socialism. —CSTAR
Very important we understand There is No Choice. Our is the Best Of Worlds… and that world ends at our coasts and borders. Wild sea monsters are farther out… and what lies beyond them, mortal, god fearing men do not even think about
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Dulce con Dulce sabe mas dulce
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A very unappreciated cuban singer Xiomara Alfaro..
Moliendo Café : “Cuando la tarde languidece renacen las sombras y en la quietud los cafetales vuelven a sentir…”
Poor little rich boys:
Tycoons in trouble
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051673.html
US troops shoot TV staffer in stomach. I am so so tired of it.
So tired of feeling helpless.
well hopefully Leviev has diamonds hidden in the fridge. You know, inside the old mayonnaise jar painted white. Nobody would think of looking there.
You have to love this one.
NOW the Israelis are willing to admit to a top secret nuclear facility. That is, horrors! within reach of those ‘just like what Hitler used on London’ rockets coming out of Gaza. They are calling it, “in the battle zone”.
We are in new territory in spin nation spin-a-thon, spin city… here.
Obviously Times lies.. Miss Tzipi should discipline them.
37 Collective punishment.
That’s an idea americans would be very wise to reject.
Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960
Cristobal Diaz-Ayala
Fotos Seccion A
portrait
Xiomara Alfaro
Press TV has teh full text of a shortish interview with Finkelstein in NYC
Angry Arab.. no embedded links:
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Speaking of fools, the IDF said the same thing about Hezbollah in 2006. So much for the much vaunted Israeli intelligence unit.
I think it was at Lenin but might have been at Perrin… Pal leadership from feminist (nto sure who that was) to communist has been denigrated the same. And Hizbollah and Iran…Syria Lebanon… on and on. Over and over the so called younger generation come from Stern and Irgun, other groups, fighters and killers. From Rahm to Tzipi.
It was months ago that the UK Independent carried a FP story on Livni’s background as part of, a principle in, one of the two and three person killing teams that worked in Europe.
Fine, the way of the world, but it gets old.
Is there something in the Illinois water?
Burris sought death for innocent man
Raimondo: The Huffington Post: Israeli-Occupied Territory
Burris is a nut, over the years it is just so clear, the debris, too often, goes into the game of politics, all levels.
Popping in to say that I wish everyone here an insightful, thoughtful New Year & although there’s no peace in the world may you have inner peace to help you through all the insanity.
Thankyou *mattes* for the link at #30 in the “Bomb bomb…Palestine” thread.
For a brief break & a laugh:
Lenin dissects and expands on the Finkelstein interview that I linked to in comment # 41…
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Happy New Year .. penlan
8)
Lenin also linked to this (and the site looks as tho it might be very interesting):
Words on a T-Shirt I saw:
Sind Engel Geflügel?
(translation: Are Angels Poultry?)
Happy New Year and hope everyone made it through their torturous holiday ordeal, I mean their joyous holiday season, more or less intact. I myself still have to confess to my casual nyc girlfriend how I ‘slept’ with a virtual stranger in her bed in her apt after she graciously let me stay there for a few days whilst she was in cali, a couple days before xmas… (too much information, I know).
…kicking myself for not bringing a camera out here new year’s eve in berlin, an unbelievably wild scene; the sheer volume (numerically and sonically) of the fireworks quite impressive and a little scary.
btw have heads here seen ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, a Spanish film from a year or so back? A really beautiful and horrifying movie, sort of a horror/historical drama/fantasy hybrid – the story takes place in Spain in ’44, go rent it if you haven’t seen it (my pick of the week).
Good Luck to all in Ought Nine,
‘gird yer loins’, got a feeling it’ll be a wild ride.
jam.fuse!
‘gird yer loins’, got a feeling it’ll be a wild ride.
Agree…
And Pan’s Labyrinth is top of my list to rent.. (I am very very behind on movies)…
As for the bed event… can’t you do the mundane and say it happened but … “it did not matter”…
HNY… 8)
#50
Thankyou Marisa! –
Gerard Baker in the Times Online:
How much is that doggie in the window?
Catnip, I can see why Jay Elias hated Justin Raimondo
so much. Justin does have his sources.
I wonder where Jay is lately, must have taken a new assignment….
#49 Marcat….
aaah, the new and improved Bolsheviks/Red Army.
52. Are Angels Poultry?
lol!
I asked my roomie just last nite if she’d seen Pan’s Labyrinth while we were watching The Kite Runner – both excellent movies.
57. Catnip, I can see why Jay Elias hated Justin Raimondo
so much. Justin does have his sources.
For the most part, Raimondo is no holds barred and much more independent than Elias could ever claim to be.
Elias is AWOL? If he’s breathing, I’m sure he’s busy propping up the Israeli government somewhere.
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I suspect the IDF will end this latest round of murdering madness by the time Obamalama’s inauguration comes around so he can push the issue to the back burner while murmuring “peace process” every now and then – especially with the elections there coming up in February. Not that it makes any difference who wins there either.
… But for Republicans, the possibility of Franken, Caroline, and Burris all making it into the Senate is like hitting the trifecta — incompetence, nepotism, and corruption, respectively, will be the buzzwords for our new Democratic Senate. …
One of the schnauzers (Goldberg) at The Weekly Standard
… and I see today that Cornyn is stating Franken will not be seated Tuesday.
I just got some very depressing news. Christine is one of the principle reasons I began investigating HIV literature. I had seen a profile of her by Celia Farber in Spin somewhere around 1996. Not too long afterward, I had an extended e-mail conversation with her about her perspective and she gave me some great guidance. She was the most publicly visible face of the movement and was vilified mercilessly in the mainstream media, but throughout always stayed calm and classy. She was supposed to testify on Tuesday in her civil suit against the LA coroner’s office over their false claim that her daughter died of AIDS in 2005 [actually she died of an allergic reaction to amoxicillan] which led to 3 years of the MSM painting her as a murderer [complete with Law & Order episodes]. I feel so sorry for her husband Robin and her son Charlie. She was a truly spectacular human being and gave her life to helping others.
Of course the pigs over at aidstruth are already dancing on her grave and apparently abcnews has a hit piece up on her [I refuse to go look at either]. This is just so shocking. She was in perfect health until she went on an herbal cleanse that apparently left her with bronchial pneumonia to which she succumbed in 10 days. Of course the fact that this is not how AIDS kills won’t stop the orthodoxy from claiming otherwise.
A devastating loss for those seeking the truth.
Sympathies and condolences, lucid.
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Oh I am so sorry lucid… I went and looked, yes skip the ABC piece.
I think our preferred political partners among the Israelis and the US political class should simply form a Unified War Party:
Re: Christine – I should also add, that probably her greatest life’s work was not only educating pregnant women about how ‘HIV’ tests often come back positive for a woman on a second or third pregnancy, but also helping them find qualified midwifes in their area [internationally] if they had tested positive to avoid the required ARV treatments prior too delivery and on the infant after delivery. She also worked tirelessly to find legal aid for women who didn’t want to give their infants ARV’s if they’d tested positive and had the state threatening to take their children away.
Let’s have a chest scan of the old frame no?
Wheezes of Bickering and Flickering, inevitably…
And Smoking. Of course, yes, the Smoke and Smoking,
New News of Service to Under Rock People no doubt…
So let’s begin with a look in the upper lobe
of the media, that Legionaire’s lung as it were, as it is-
as it ALWAYS IS–.
(tho one ought NEVER use clinical terms to describe it}
Artful terms are preferred instead.
Terms like ‘Poise”. As in “Poised”, Poised to Win, Poised to Obtain,
Poised to Gain..
So easily confused with Beauty, Art, Charm and Grace, as in
What Charm. What Grace. What “Poise”.
If it wasn’t perverse violence,
you would think they were talking of finding a lover:
Israel Poised for Ground Assault
Still?
What Restraint!.
Well Done, Tzipi and WaPo!
So Let’s move on..
What else should we be focusing on?
Hmmm. Let’s see what is on offer in the Times (and from whom.).
Breaking! New Shiny! Cigs bad fer ya! Da Babies too!
SMACKS FOREHEAD! Now with NUKES even….
. Straight up folks: Like our Undeclared Thirld World War,
This is going to be a TEDIOUS POST.
And it’s going to end up with a final grade of @15%.
Reflecting, among other things, the 15% On Any Day -Easy -
that is Truth, / New Truth / Poised/ modified or otherwise
meant as true poison to prepare >—metaphor here—>
non malodorous inhalers* as much as it is to thwart the New Truth leaning trendies, say, 38 year old recently laid off new father Tad Frederickson lll out on the fire escape of his soon to be repo’d New York Co-Op.
New Truths are meant for Ted, his new smoke to be inhaled instead of nasty leisure time activities like critical news reading or, for once, Tad, damnit-
grappling with the monumental sized shit that Tad the Fourth has just legacied right there plastered on his little
soon-to-be unpampered ass… < — metaphor there, too…— <
So Bring on the Experts. And Entertainers. Get used to Em
But don’t forget the Children.
Trust your instincts. Go with your nose. Fair Enough.
“We needed a term to describe these tobacco toxins that aren’t visible.”
But How does the story smell?:
Well, Like, Like, WMD?
Why not just go with Lung Gunk?
So follow, fellow head scratchers. WTF am I talking about?
I mean really, who would advocate-
no words or Truth missing here-
Smoking children in their HOMES?
What I AM talking about
is the most effective InfoWar effort in the Arsenal:
Tangential Third Hand Arguments, Smoke,
their timing and placement -usually good on any day to occupy a segment on Broadcast and Cable with the desired reasoning tools thrown in to be applied to the Big Ticket Wholesale Liquidation Items on display…so consider the tobacco story a loss leader…
But let’s first dispatch with the literal aspect of the story.
Tobacco is Bad. Next.
So if you have kids, AND- bear with the reasoning here-
If you perhaps are the LAST
Bless’d With Little Crappers and Civil Rights retaining person on Earth that Hello!- is:
A.) reading the NEW YORK TIMES – story placement ‘oint it is, and
B.) AREN”T at the window doin the Mad As Hell Thing
over Gaza ledes, and instead
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C.) decides to light up turning the toxins on yourself and kin instead
and
D.) ISN”T merely on the fire escape but headed for JFK or Newark for rendering to International Parts of the Realm unknown where you ..
“Can Smoke Em if You Got ‘Em.”…
Then..
By ALL MEANS, read the Story Literally…
But remember: It’s About The Children Now,
especially now.
Especially since it’s almost irrelevent now
how Gramma and GrandPap and all the smoking Aunts and Uncles died of noxious gas then went up like Cordwood™.
So since were talking about tobacco, right?-
What do you think THE LOBBY is going to do?
That’s right.
You’re going to see more and more people
positively positioning the New Truth brand on more seemingly unrelated and innocuous venues than your hardly
Give a Second Thought to Subliminal Messaging Anymore minds have , even, tin foil defenses for…
We are going to see more of the experts to entertain, and entertainers to explain, truly chosen people, all,
weighing in on everything form radioactive toxins in cigarettes
( True but Hardly News) to
sappy economic populism, to feel good relief efforts, to significantly expanded Entertainment offerings ..
WATCH.
As Israel is “Poised” to Render Methodical
Mechanized and High Explosive Death to Gaza
like we haven’t seen in 50 years.
::[Smoke Break]
Regarding “tobacco” , It frankly is Brilliant,
THE LOBBYs work in Tobacco.
M&A’d it from the most addicted yet short sighted people on Earth,
then, with the Strategy of Settlements Everywhere™,
handled the Lions share of Settlements to states too.
They have everybody thinking it’s a group of Southern Slave Owners STILL.
Or Al Gore.
L
O
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So where do Key Partners in a Last Bit of Lung Coughed Up Empire seek refuge?
To simultaneously source and supply both cause and cure?
A bit of the Old and New Testament as it were…?
Meanwhile they have everybody form MI-5 to the FBI to Interpol looking under every rock for Moozlim Money.
When they’re not tuned into Jerry Springer, that is.
Brilliant, just Brilliant. Dubai will be in their hands in 30 years.
Mumbai and Karachi within 10. There’s more than a few ways to handle “disadvantageous” Population problems.:::Disinformation, Distraction, and Smoke – away from what is – IS KEY.
I hear the smart money is going all in …
For Crematoria and the Mortuary Sector.
Maybe Burris got a deal…
Stay Classy Israel.
You’re Stakeholdings are Riding on this.
BHHM out of Moderation (sorry for the delay).. think the filter just choked on that one..
Fun Ingrid Jensen clip.
hmmm He’ll come up against the Gitmo promises, civil liberties promises… as early as Feb 20.
(stock up on Arpege!)
Just remember, he’s never been to Chicago. he’s Hawai’ian.
I posted this above:
“”"”"We are going to see more of the experts to entertain, and entertainers to explain, truly chosen people, all,
weighing in on everything form radioactive toxins in cigarettes
( True but Hardly News) to sappy economic populism, to feel good relief efforts, to significantly expanded Entertainment offerings ..
WATCH.
As Israel is “Poised” to Render Methodical
Mechanized and High Explosive Death to Gaza
like we haven’t seen in 50 years.”"”"”
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So Color me cynical. But Check out DK’s Rec List now:
I’m dying
by kwickkick
If You Do Nothing Else Today, Read Krugman
by thereisnospoon
Paulson blames China and Germany for the crisis
by Jerome a Paris
Unfair oppression of dogs at the Daily Kos
by clammyc
The Repo-Man Just Towed My Car Away
by Stella 4 Obama
Personal: My Dad is dying and I have no heart for politics
by Killer of Sacred Cows
The Abramoff Scandal is Expanding: More GOP woes for 2009…
by dengre
In the interest of stopping terrorism…
by JeffLieber
Oh. LOL. Please. The dying guy? User id 190,468?
LOL. Apparently DKos diarist “kwickkick”
logged on just long enough to make the scene for the Election
before, ya know, Kicking the Bucket.
But not before a LieberPlugDiary:
I mean, seriously….
Where do they get such Low Grade Bullshit Artists? LOL.
So this Bullshit Lieberman Operative has been on the site – what?
A coupla months?
And his “Terms of Endearment” scenario is now going to sop up the saps playing out For How Long moving forward?
Through Gaza?
NYT seems to neatly be tucking Gaza below the fold in its World Section online:
href=”More on offer, Same author, New York Times:
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Morning Rounds
Missing Surgeons, Financial Worries and Safer Cigarettes
RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: January 2, 2009
General Surgeons Grow Scarcer
General surgeons are in short supply in America’s rural areas, The Washington Post reports, as growing numbers of young doctors opt for non-surgical specialties and surgeons flock to higher-paying fields like transplant surgery or plastic surgery.
[Been There. Done That.]
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Americans Struggling With Financial Stress
“”"More and more Americans are stressed by financial problems, the San Francisco Chronicle says. Losing a job can lead to anxiety, depression and antisocial behavior, …”"”
[ Well THAT"S news....
Strange tho- I thought it led more directly to homelessness and starvation . Well, at least it's not as Not as "anxiety provoking" as having a 1000 POUND BOMB drop on your house or a tank roll over your kids ...]
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States Mandate Self-Extinguishing Cigarettes…
[ The "self extinguishing" one's with Polonium?
...Now if only Israel could get
the PA to have Palestinians smoke them, no? ]
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New Yorker Loses 430 Pounds
[...Caroline Kennedy sees Hillary and Bill off to DC...]
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British Urged to Make Lifestyle Changes
The British government is launching a massive TV campaign that urges citizens to “eat well, move more, live longer.” …Big food companies including Kellogg’s, Unilever and PepsiCo are sponsoring the media campaign.
[Oh, just PLEASE.]
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Insurer Fined for Denying Claims
Oregon regulators have fined a health insurer $46,000 after discovering the company denied some 5,000 claims over three years without ever contacting the customers or health care providers to determine if the services should be covered
[ - Nine Dollars and 20 Cents a Pop. - ]
…and on and on….and on and on…
As Israel is “Poised”:
One feature on Secular Islam Televangelisti Sheiks…
Looks like a tone it down memo has been negotiated….
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Tomorrow’s News?: A poignant story of
Eleven Exchange Students who love their friends in Tel Aviv.
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I’m Out.
But E-Meters and Scientology are going to trump dead children today…
LOL I f anyone ever caught Jeffords and his wife… they were gently hilarious. Talk about following some tradition as it is your ”culture”, R by habit of the family…. His family had been R for 150 years or so…..but she sure was not.. and when ti came push to shove, they didn’t much like the modern R party.
They were a hoot!
Someone whose interest is education, which basically was his interest, is no Lieberman. Who I keep saying should take Hadassah and move to Israel and sit shiva for America. And as ms_xeno reminds me, nobody really wants him (seems the Democrats do, tho).
But can you imagine how feted and bribed he and Hadassah are when they are in israel?
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