tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post7122806738031992063..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: ProfessionalismSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-85625581609159145672010-06-08T12:48:36.374-05:002010-06-08T12:48:36.374-05:00Obviously, the solution is not to eliminate Israel...Obviously, the solution is not to eliminate Israel or Palestine--it's to eliminate religion. Just think how much time and money and lives we'd save! <br /><br />We could get rid of the pope and religious wars and church services and priests and crucifixes and pogroms and honor killings and shaming and Inquisitions and sexual guilt. We'd still find reasons to kill each other of course, but at least they wouldn't be "holy" ones.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-18287753975197114662010-06-08T12:23:26.454-05:002010-06-08T12:23:26.454-05:00Everyone has some degree of cultural baggage on th...Everyone has some degree of cultural baggage on this matter - particularly Jews. Feeling that, for the first time in millenia we actually have a place to go to once our Liberal or Conservative patrons decide they don't like us very much any more. We're quite loath to give that up. Though it would also help if the American media and political establishment didn't act as if Likud was Israel's only party...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-51812867470164208202010-06-07T22:10:45.146-05:002010-06-07T22:10:45.146-05:00Yes, it was a wrong and terrible thing to say. But...Yes, it was a wrong and terrible thing to say. But she's done so many good things as well, and always supported the powerless. <br /><br />We did the same thing--we took Native American land and shoved them off into oblivion to suffer outside of sight. If a Native American said to me, Go back to Ireland (or Wales or Germany or England), I'd understand and think that they had some justification for feeling that way.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-85153133446514428002010-06-07T16:47:19.073-05:002010-06-07T16:47:19.073-05:00Thank you.
I love Helen Thomas. She was the last,...Thank you.<br /><br />I love Helen Thomas. She was the last, the very last, honest reporter covering the White House.<br /><br />Now the pther "reporters" can concentrate on the truly important issues facing Americans: Paul McCartney and Obama's failure to be emotive...enough.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827236343578670299noreply@blogger.com