“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
– HL Mencken
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“The more Qassam fire intensifies, and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.”
– Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, Matan Vilnai
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In February 1930 Freud was asked, as a distinguished Jew, to contribute to a petition condemning Arab riots of 1929, in which over a hundred Jewish settlers were killed. This was his reply:
Letter to the Keren Hajessod (Dr. Chaim Koffler)
Vienna: 26 February 1930
Dear Sir,
I cannot do as you wish. I am unable to overcome my aversion to burdening the public with my name, and even the present critical time does not seem to me to warrant it. Whoever wants to influence the masses must give them something rousing and inflammatory and my sober judgement of Zionism does not permit this. I certainly sympathise with its goals, am proud of our University in Jerusalem and am delighted with our settlement’s prosperity. But, on the other hand, I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state, nor that the Christian and Islamic worlds would ever be prepared to have their holy places under Jewish care. It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland on a less historically-burdened land. But I know that such a rational viewpoint would never have gained the enthusiasm of the masses and the financial support of the wealthy. I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives.
Now judge for yourself whether I, with such a critical point of view, am the right person to come forward as the solace of a people deluded by unjustified hope.
Your obediant servant,
Freud
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1. Talk about absurdity. How is Mark Penn spending his gigantic haul? is answered by Arlen at the Daily Background:
Hillary Rodham Clintonās pit-bull pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn has his Washington, DC, neighborhood in an uproar. He recently started multimillion-dollar renovations on his house on O Street in Georgetown, but didnāt alert anyone beforehand, said one local. āIt includes an underground garage and home office. His yard is an ugly, huge gaping hole that looks like the descent into hell.ā
…Itās the talk of Georgetown: Why is Mark Penn, pollster and strategist to Sen. Hillary Clinton, building a tunnel underneath the lot between his two houses on O Street NW? Perhaps he wants to avoid prying eyes, or a 30-foot walk in wintry weather.
2. Fail:
3. White people like shitty musical comedy (what a surprise):
One of the more interesting things about White people is that they love singing comedians…..
Itās a pretty good idea because when you have jokes that arenāt that great and music that isnāt that great, you can mix them together and create something that will entertain white people.
Oakland’s recent gun buyback was especially ridiculous. The police offered up to $250 for a gun “no questions asked, no ID required.” The first people in line? Two gun dealers from Reno with 60 cheap handguns. Fortunately the buyback did manage to get some guns off the street, too bad they were turned in by a bunch of senior citizens from an assisted living facility.
5. See More of this wonderful internet worlds: And The Next President Of The United States Of America Is…, Florida Hates Gays, Right-wing blogger kills himself to protest the existence of Muslims, Ralph Nader Annoys Everyone and Announces Presidential Run Again, Zionism, the Working Class and Struggle between Hamas and Fatah, and ol’ Georgey says āI’ll be dead before the true history of the Bush administration is written.ā
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