HAPPY BIRTHDAY GC!!!!!
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
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Aims - May 09, 2005 2:23:42 pm PDT #8151 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hil R. - May 09, 2005 2:24:02 pm PDT #8152 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
and my post was basically regurgitating what I'd said to them, more from the pov of venting than informing anyone here of something they didn't already know
Sorry. I'd misunderstood this.
Rather than having a default setting of Jewish = victims, everyone here has a default setting of Jewish = aggressors.
I can't recall seeing any argument for Israel starting from a "Jewish=victims" setting written any time in my lifetime. At least, not anything applied to any current events; I have seen it in discussions of the fight for independence. (FTR, I think "Jews were victims of the Holocaust, and therefore deserve Israel" is bad logic and not likely to convince anyone of anything anytime soon. The best argument for Israel that I can see, from that sort of perspective, is looking at the number of countries that wouldn't take in Jewish refugees, but I'm not even positive that that's the best perspective to start from.)
(Also, a bunch of this is just getting stirred up in my brain right now by my complete and utter frustration over the British academic boycott, and I can feel myself headed into a rant, which I don't really want to do, so I'll end it here.)
Atropa - May 09, 2005 2:26:53 pm PDT #8153 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Quick shallow fashion dithering question: I'm going to see Rasputina tonight. Should I wear black ringlet hair falls, or black dreadlock hair falls (with a mini top hat, black skirt, petticoats, corset, and high-collared blouse)?
Aims - May 09, 2005 2:27:44 pm PDT #8154 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
RINGLETS RINGLETS!!
JZ - May 09, 2005 2:27:58 pm PDT #8155 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'd say ringlets, but I'm like that.
Pictures, please?
SailAweigh - May 09, 2005 2:29:13 pm PDT #8156 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Dreads, and an eye-patch.
Atropa - May 09, 2005 2:30:35 pm PDT #8157 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pictures, please?
If there is time, I will try and have Pete take pictures.
Dreads, and an eye-patch.
I would be SO tempted to do this, but I don't have an eye-patch, or the time to make an appropriate one before the show tonight.
Glamcookie - May 09, 2005 2:34:51 pm PDT #8158 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
t Thanks, Aims
SailAweigh - May 09, 2005 2:36:20 pm PDT #8159 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Happy Belated Birthday, GC!
Lyra Jane - May 09, 2005 2:36:34 pm PDT #8160 of 10001
Up with the sun
The best argument for Israel that I can see, from that sort of perspective, is looking at the number of countries that wouldn't take in Jewish refugees
My knowledge of Jewish history is basically nonexistent, but are there many of those anymore? What would happen if Jews who came to Israel after WWII tried to go back to their countries of origin? (I understand that being Jewish in 1948 Germany would have been, at best, deeply uncomfortable, though I'm not sure even that is an argument for a country in 2005.)
I'm neither pro or anti-Israel, but I am terribly saddened that people have been killing each other over a piece of desert the size of New Jersey for 2000 years. I can't believe *any* god anyone should believe in would want that part of it.