WORKER-OWNED COOPERATIVES, Thom! That's the answer, for all who aren't self-employed! Otherwise we're just bustin' our fannies to make someone else rich. - Aliceinwonderland

Quote hartmann:If that $26.7 billion in bonuses went to the working poor, instead of the gamblers on Wall Street, our economy would grow by more than $32 billion. That makes a whole lot more sense than gifting billions to the very people who crashed our economy. It's time to fix this broken system, to stop rewarding the people who gamble with our economy, and time to put this money back into the hands of the real working people in America.

Definitely very well said!!!

The bonuses are given with private funds. It is none of anybodies business what they do with it. I would suggest to quit putting your money into wall street. They would have nothing to bonus.

Why is it that Thom thinks all money in America belongs to all Americans. It belongs to the Americans that earn it. They choose how much of it goes to the government by elections and the rest is theirs to choose what they want to do with.

What are we to do?

It will have to get worse before it gets better: I guess. We need a massive occupation of Washington DC; the sooner the better or fix voter suppression. The pen can be mightier than the sword.

It will have to get worse before it gets better: I guess. We need a massive occupation of Washington DC; the sooner the better or fix voter suppression. The pen can be mightier than the sword.

They should get their bonuses in very high velocity spent uranium.

Off topic:

The Citizens United decision may not prove the right-wing of the Supreme Court is corrupt, however, continued failure to reverse the decision does.

What do you expect.

We have a president who let's them do as they please. I thought Obama was a Democrat but he will be the first president to retire as a billionaire.

Keystone xl? He will let them have that too. That is a done deal. It is all over except for the crying.

BP allowed to drill in the gulf? He let them start bidding on new leases just this week.

Honestly what do you expect. Obama still thinks a plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11.

"They stole it fair and square", eh Kend? Why, Kend, do you think that if something is legal that makes it legit or ethical? If corruption is legalized because corrupt politicians make the laws that doesn't make it less corrupt. This is democracy, Kend, there is no "divine right". If we don't like laws we change them. Property rights and how they are defined, what is letimately yours or someone else's are creations of the state. The legitimate function of government is to protect the weak from the strong, that's why the strong are against government because they want to be the government and put a tyranny over the weak.

The working people, the "working poor", work harder than anybody, they work very hard, very difficult and unpleasant jobs for nickels - so they have to work two or three of them. They should be paid more than anybody some of those jobs are so unpleasant.

Don't talk about "earning" money, Kend. The working people make it possible for the CEO to have what he has. He doesn't deserve the bonus while his producers are so undercompensated.

Mark and Alice. I don't like Wall Street anymore then you do. But I also believe that we should be free to do with what we want with what we have. people who invest in Wall Street Are not the working poor. They are investors and if they are stupid enough to but there hard earned money with those crooks then so be it. Alice I don't think those CEO's deserve a penny but they have a contract and the investors invested knowing that. I don't agree with the lady who deliveries my mail who only works 5 hrs a day and makes $60,000 a year with 6 weeks holidays but that here contract So be it.

Kend: It's one thing if wealthy investors take a chance and risk their money and another thing when the government bails them out and puts the burden on the taxpayer. I believe that the government shouldn't do this.

Yes, a lot of people would lose their jobs...but then, the top executives of those companies would take the blame and lose their shirts... as they should lose their shirts. They would also get the blame for being bad business people...no bailouts!

Workers take risks too...that they have chosen a good company to work for or not...and they may have made a bad decision when they applied for the job. But mostly, workers don't have any say in running the companies and are mostly innocent victims of top management's bad decisions.

But when our government bails these companies out and puts the burden on the tax payers it just isn't fair to the tax payers. The companies should fail and the top execs should be shot in a firing squad. Oops! did I just say they should be shot in a firing squad? I mean they shouldn't get off so lightly. They should die penniless and destitute!

They claimed that it was to save American jobs. Bull$h1t!!!
Then why to they let these corporations send our jobs overseas? What they are more concerned with is bailing out the top execs and the wealthy investors. They deserve to lose...we don't!

This sets up a system of "too big to fail"..."too rich to lose". And they make the little people lose their money. Make them go through austerity...do without essential goods and services so the rich can continue their high life.

It's high time for a revolution in this country...not that I look forward to it...but what else can we do? Voting doesn't work because people keep voting for the same political crooks, both Republican and Democrat, owned by the ruling elite. Re-elect the good Democrats but vote out the bad ones...put Greenies or Socialists in their place. They'll vote the same way as good Democrats. But the Blue Dog Democrats won't!

This commentary on the BANKSTERS, to me is not only just `common sense`, it is pretty similar to the thinking of everybody i know--so how come we are not hearing and seeing Thom EVERYWHERE????

Thom had a radio show here in L.A. on an AM station that actually tried a Progressive format--for a minute--but now they are back to the standard Conservative blather. The Message needs to get out there!

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Where do you think the money they have comes from? Working Americans created that wealth and the banksters appropriated it by gaming the system, creating little or not wealth themselves. As Thom points out, giving letting workers keep more of the money generated by their labor stimulate the economy much more than letting people in the financial community speculate on goods and raw materiels, driving up their price for everyone. In reality, there is no such thing as private funds when disparities in income are so great.

Julia I guess I do have to agree that more money in workers hands is a good thing it will get spent and stimulate the economy. I just believe instead of forcing it out of the hands of private companies we should reduce taxes. maybe raise the ceiling for low income workers to a higher amount before they even start paying taxes. I am no expert at US taxes so I guess I should be careful what I say. I see the problem is government is deciding where our money gets spent instead of us. The governments track record on spending isn't very good. your Feds just went into debt about 6 trillion in the last 5 years and really have nothing to show for it.

Mark I can tell you our post office is in big trouble. They just announced a few months ago no more home delivery. All mail will be picked up a "super boxes". I think unions have there place but in this case they have gone way overboard. In fairness the internet sure didn't help.

Alice and I dont agree often but I love the idea of worker co ops. As I mentioned before some of my employees are on a profit sharing system with the hope they will buy me out someday.

Quote jkh6148: I study the Holocaust and have compiled a file on it and know it to be a forgery.

How do you mean? Any key points that would support your claim? I am not arguing with you...anything is possible. I just don't know...I wasn't there, myself. Thank goodness! Of course, it would also be interesting why you think Hartmann's book is anything like those other stories. I haven't read any of them so I'm an open book. ;-} Well, actually, I have read some of the others you refer to. But that was a long time ago...and I don't remember much.

I did, however read John Sack's An Eye For An Eye which can be downloaded for free here:
https://archive.org/details/AnEyeForAnEye

That book is about how the Jews, after WWII, set up their own concentration camps and tortured and murdered Poles and Germans who they believed were Nazi collaborators or members of the Nazi party. They even hauled in children into those camps. They confiscated homes and property too. I guess what comes around goes around! But now, Israel is treating the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.

THE PROTOCOLS of the LEARNED ELDERS of ZION

At various times throughout the modern period, the myth of a "Jewish world conspiracy" has attracted adherents. Jews have been accused of plotting to take over the world by undermining the existing social and political order.

The myth of the "Jewish world conspiracy" springs from diverse sources. Myths which draw on popular anti-Semitic notions which have their roots in medieval Europe from the time of the Crusades. Tales were circulated among the masses, of secret rabbinical conferences whose aim was to subjugate and exterminate Christians. One source of the myth, is the medieval anti-Jewish Christian accusation that, as the people of the devil, Jews, like the devil, aim to control the world. Others have highlighted the charge that Jews aim to avenge their centuries-old oppression by Christians, or the idea that Jews inherently strive for national and/or world power.

Political anti-Semitism, defined as hostility toward Jews based on the belief that Jews seek to obtain national and/or world power, experienced a momentous upsurge after 1879 in Europe. We can largely attribute the dramatic rise in political anti-Semitism between 1879 and 1939 to the emergence and rapid development of the international socialist movement and, concomitantly, to the popularization of the notorious "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a viciously anti-Semitic book. It is the second most widely published book in history. It has taken root in bigoted, frightened minds around the world, has strongly influenced the masses, and bolstered the credibility of the myth, that Jews control governments. It is a classic in paranoid, racist literature. Taken by the gullible as the confidential minutes of a Jewish conclave convened in the last years of the nineteenth century, it has been heralded by anti-Semites as proof that Jews are plotting to take over the world. The book is a complete fabrication.

In truth, the text is a forgery. The direct predecessor of the "Protocols" can be found in the "Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu," published by the non-Jewish French satirist Maurice Joly in 1864, and segments of Sir John Redcliffe's (using the pseudonym of Hermann Goedsche) novel "Biarritz".

The "Protocols" plagiarize nearly word for word the fictional political speeches of Machiavelli contained in Joly's book, in which Napoleon III conspires to dominate the world. The actual "Protocols" substituted the Jewish elders for the French emperor.

In his "Dialogues," which make no mention of Jews, Joly attacked the political ambitions of emperor Napoleon III using the imagery of a diabolical plot in Hell. The "Dialogues" were caught by the French authorities soon after their publication, and Joly was tried and sentenced to prison for his pamphlet.

Joly's "Dialogues" while intended as a political satire, soon fell into the hands of a German named John Redcliffe (Hermann Goedsche). Goedsche was an anti-Semite in the middle of the 19th century who believed in a conspiracy between Jews and Masons to dominate the world. He was also a spy for the Prussian secret police. Goedsche adapted Joly's "Dialogues" into a mythical tale of a Jewish conspiracy as part of a series of novels entitled "Biarritz" which appeared in 1868. In a chapter called, "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel," he spins the fantasy of a secret centennial rabbinical conference which meets at midnight and whose purpose is to review the past hundred years and to make plans against European civilization for the next century.

Goedsche's plagiary of Joly's "Dialogues" soon found its way to Russia and was translated into Russian in 1872. Although it was part of a novel, it was printed separately as an anti-Semitic pamphlet in Russia and was widely circulated as a truthful account.

The Protocols were actually written in Paris sometime between 1895 and 1899 by an agent of the Russian secret police reworking the earlier works of Joly and Goedsche into a new edition called the, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" The manuscript of the "Protocols" was brought to Russia in 1895 and was printed privately in 1897.

The "Protocols" as they are usually published, are divided into twenty-six separate chapters each of which are a lecture on how to subvert western civilization. They spell out the alleged secret plans of Jewish leaders seeking to attain world domination by inciting Christians to fight against each other, to undermine the Christian world politically, economically, and morally, and to establish upon the ruins a new world state ruled by the Jews. They represent the most notorious political forgery of modern times. Although thoroughly discredited, the document is still being used to stir up anti-Semitic hatred. In addition the "Protocols" are vigorously anti-democratic as well.

The political controversies that sparked the writing of the "Protocols" was soon forgotten but the anti-Semitism remained. In 1905, the "Protocols" were first published by Sergei Nilus, a little-known Czarist official in Moscow and an agent of the Russian secret police. Nilus, who might have been one of the authors of the "Protocols" became their main promoter as part of an campaign of anti-Semitism. He circulated several editions each with a different account of how he discovered the document. In his 1911 edition Nilus claimed that his source had stolen the document from a non-existent Zionist headquarters in France. Other "editors" of the "Protocols" maintained that the document was read at the First Zionist Congress held in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland.

In the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, reactionary armies made extensive use of the "Protocols" to incite widespread slaughters of Jews. While the early publications of the "Protocols" were in Russia, it was spread to the rest of Europe by Russian emigrants after the fall of the Tsars in 1917, where they claimed that it provided proof that the Jews were behind the Russian Revolution.

The "Protocols" reached Germany sometime around 1918. One of those who brought them to Germany was Alfred Rosenberg, an Estonian of German heritage who first encountered it as a student in Moscow. Rosenberg soon became an anti-Semite convinced of the authenticity of the "Protocols." When he fled after the Russian Revolution, he took the "Protocols" with him.

The "Protocols" offered to many non-Jews an explanation and a scapegoat for the chaos that marked Europe in the aftermath of World War I. What may have convinced people who normally might have been suspicious of the authenticity of the "Protocols" was the claim that the "Protocols" had been authored by the Jews themselves and had fallen accidentally into the hands of the intended victims of the Jewish plot. Funded by the Pan-German League, the Berlin edition was first to succeed the Russian Nilus version. It was brought to public attention in the middle of January 1920 by Gottfried zur Beek, (pseudonym for Ludwig Muller von Hausen), a retired army captain and editor of an anti-semitic monthly. The German version was noteworthy for a new embellishment explaining in breathless detail how the "Protocols" had been stolen by a Russian spy from a Jewish messenger on his way from the secret Zionist meeting in Basel to a "Jewish Masonic lodge" in Frankfurt. The evil "Judeo-Mongols" had instigated a war to "stab Germany in the back" and were now embarked upon a "golden international" racial and "Mammonistic" rampage that had to be halted soon.

In Germany Rosenberg soon became involved with a mystical group that was a precursor to National Socialism known as the "Thule Society" where he frequently lectured about the "Protocols". Rosenberg was there to explain the mysteries of the "Protocols" when Adolf Hitler appeared on the stage of right-wing politics in 1921. Rosenberg was at Hitler's side during the attempted putsch in Munich in 1923. By then the "Protocols" had become one of the central themes of Nazi thought. The "Protocols" were the basis for much of, "Mein Kampf" and formed an important part of the Nazis' justification of genocide of the Jews in World War II. Also, Rosenberg's book, "The Myth of the 20th Century" became the most important exposition of Nazi philosophy.

It was already known that the "Protocols" were a forgery when Hitler received his first copy. The exposure of the forgery began as soon as the "Protocols" began to appear in western Europe but the coup de grâce occurred in 1921, one year after the "Protocols" was first published in Great Britain. In August, 1921, the "Times of London" printed a devastating exposure of the forgery by printing extracts from the, "Protocols" side-by-side with the passages from Joly's book that had been plagiarized. A whole book documenting the forgery was also published in the same year in America by Herman Bernstein "The Truth About "The Protocols of Zion". From that point, the "Protocols" were dismissed by thinking people everywhere. However, it did not stop the wide circulation of the "Protocols" by Russian emigrants and later by Hitler. Even the decision by a Swiss court after consultation with three experts in May, 1935, did not affect the distribution of the "Protocols" by the Third Reich.

The "Protocols" served to rationalize anti-Semitism and genocide in Hitler’s Germany. The myth of the Jewish world conspiracy permeated Hitler’s thinking, and he linked Germany’s economic hardship during the 1920s to the secret plot.

Once in power Hitler invoked the "Protocols" to justify anti-Semitic legislation, and suppression of all opposition to the Third Reich. For example, the first anti-Semitic measure in April of 1933, a one-day boycott of Jewish stores, was deemed a defense against the Jewish plot of economic domination.

On May 13th, 1943 Goebbels had a long and quite remarkable conversation with Hitler. Most of it was a monologue by Hitler about the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Goebbels had recently reread the "Protocols" and concluded they were "as modern as the day they were first published". He was "astounded" at the remarkably thorough way in which they laid out the Jewish striving for world domination. "If the Zionist protocols are not genuine, they were created by a brilliant critic of the period."

Goebbels, who had heard Hitler go on about the international Jewish conspiracy since the mid 1920s, found Hitler's comments extremely interesting. Hitler, he added, had no doubts about the origins of the infamous forgery written by the tsar's political police. "The Fuhrer believes that the Zionist protocols are absolutely genuine." Hitler said, "No one could be so brilliant as to describe the Jewish striving for world domination as well as the Jews themselves." The Jews, he continued, did not, "work from a predetermined program but according to their race instinct ... Modern peoples had no alternative but to exterminate the Jews."

The war that the Nazis waged against the Jews was not just a war of physical annihilation. The anti-Semitic agitation of the Nazis was international in scope. It was an international war of propaganda to convince the rest of the world of the evils of Judaism. One of the primary weapons that the Third Reich used for this international anti-Semitic propaganda campaign against the Jews was the "Protocols". Under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, the "Protocols" was translated into many other languages, and the world was flooded with cheap editions of the forged document.

Not even proof of the fallacious nature of the "Protocols" dampened interest in them. For many anti-Semites, public disclosures of the falsity of the "Protocols" only strengthened the belief in its authenticity. Anti-Semites around the globe still actively circulate the "Protocols". Even today, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is one of the principal propaganda weapons of anti-Semitism. The document is also favored by such U.S. right-wing extremists as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis, and the Aryan Nations. The most common U.S. edition was published by hatemonger Gerald L. K. Smith’s Christian Nationalist Crusade.

It is still distributed by those who deny the Holocaust as well. The Institute for Historical Review, the intellectual center of the movement denying the Holocaust, continues to sell the "Protocols". Ernst Zündel, who states openly that he is an admirer of Hitler and claims the Holocaust never happened, still quotes from the "Protocols".

Nor is the United States the only country and English the only language where the "Protocols" are still being distributed as "fact". The "Protocols" are available in virtually every European country. Translated into Arabic, the "Protocols" have become a standard text for anti-Semitism in the Middle East. Translated into Japanese, millions of copies are still being distributed around the Pacific Rim.

http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc1014.php

http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/protocols.shtml

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/protocols.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hoax.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-challenges.html

HENRY FORD and the JEWS, NEIL BALDWIN, Copyright 2001, Perseus books Group

ROOTS of HATE, Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust, WILLIAM I. BRUSTEIN, Copyright 2003, Cambridge University Press.

THE JEWISH ENEMY, Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, JEFFREY HERF, Copyright 2006, BELKNAP PRESS of HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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THOM - I AM CURIOUS

I have the book but have not read it, but now I think I will. I study the Holocaust and have compiled a file on it and know it to be a forgery.

THOM, did it ever occur to you how much THE CRASH OF 2016 sounds like the PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION?

INSTEAD of the learned elders meeting every 100 years to plot the manipulation of the world's economies in their quest to dominate the world for their favor - it is the "economic royalists" secretly plotting "to destroy America" every 80 yrs in their quest to maintain their riches and power. THOM you know there are people and groups in this country who will be saying that you are right and that the "ecomomic royalists" are the JEWS of AMERICA. EVEN though you did not intend it to be, those people and groups might very well place your book on their shelves beside THE PROTOCOLS and THE INTERNATIONAL JEW.

Thom - What you say is true, but politicians and corporations globally are in the "absolute power corrupts ..." mode, and the only way to stop the train is to expose and correct the root cause. Band-aids won't work.

There was an event eons ago, and the responses of our ancestors to it, that began our loss of freedom and our addiction to being ruled, led, governed. GOOD NEWS: Since there was a root cause, and choices were made, if those choices are no longer working for us, we (globally) can change them.

I am part of a small non-profit. We've been doing research on this very subject for over 3 years and we've defined the abovementioned event; the choices made in response (we show proof); and a 3-step process to get from the troubled world of today (as you describe in your blog) to a place where humans globally live in alignment with our natural human design. Would love to share details and our website with you - please ask.

p.s. - Have you seen Block/McKnight's The Abundant Community? Their ideas align closely to our conclusions and approach.

"jkh6148" warns us that Thom's new book, "Crash Of 2016", could be used for purposes Thom never intended, by certain folks who don't like Jews very much.

Haven't we seen this movie before? They're playing a dangerous little game, exploiting old class-based resentments by making "Jews Of America" the whipping post, the target of all that rage now felt by the dispossessed, the marginalized, the foreclosed, the overworked & underpaid, and so on... like a match to gunpowder. Wanna see some heads roll? Economic royalists are "evil Jews". Fire away!

Here we go again. It's "blame the Jew" time! Hey, my maternal grandmother was Jewish. By Hebrew law, that makes me a Jew. Gee, maybe I better run for cover and hide somewhere; this is gettin' kinda creepy ya know? I'm not much into guns, though. Maybe I oughta get myself a taser….

But seriously. I think this is what I dislike most about humans, or the human race. It's this compulsion to target and scapegoat certain individuals and/or groups of people, for no reason except this "need" for someone to blame whenever times are hard, when most people are hurting and scared. This alone has caused the untimely, cruel deaths of millions of innocent souls, just within the past century. And for no good reason. Only to satisfy the appetites of predators like Nazis and Jew-haters. They come in all flavors: Muslim-haters, immigrant-haters, gay bashers, misogynists, white supremacists… a virtual smorgasbord of hate. Noam Chomsky warns us of this in his book, "Understanding Power", where he states that approximately a third of the American adult population is comprised of predatory types like this, the hate-mongers among us.

Yeah… I get kinda nervous or spooked when I start hearing shit like "Jew" this and "Jew" that. I never could quite get this "Jew" thing. I mean, piggish "royalists" come from all religions; it's not just "The Jew". I just don't get it. Why do folks have to single out this group and that group, to arbitrarily blame for the sins and the sufferings of all?

Dump-a-rama. Humanity's oldest sport. - Aliceinplunderland

Kend, if your post office is like ours then it's not the union or internet causing trouble but a manufactured, made up crisis to give a pretext for privatization - to give the service to salivating profiteers. Our post office has a similar "crisis".

What happened is that the Republican, Bush Era Congress, in 2006, in the middle of the night (no one knows exactly who or how many were present and, by some procedural technique I am unfamiliar with, dispensed with quorum requirements), by voice vote (so nobody knows who or exactly how many voted how) passed the A.L.EC. (American Legislative Exchange Council, the dark alliance between big business and Congress whose purpose is to craft and pass laws that are good for business special interests but bad for the people, a kind of Corruption Central) sponsored law, the Postal Service Enhancement and Accountability Act, which contained within it a little noticed provision that requires the U.S. Postal Service to prefund the healthcare benefits of its retirees 70 years in advance - for Post Office employees not even born yet. That's a completely crazy requirement and mandated cost. No business does what that provision requires the U.S. Post Office to do. Indeed, if any business would it would be history in short order.

Without that law the USPS would've been operating at about a billion dollar profit in 2013, about a billion and a half in 2012 and 2011. The Post Office gets no taxpayer subsidies but makes all of its money from its very reasonable fees for its service, from stamps, etc.. Before the law the Post Office was doing so well it was about to replace its entire fleet of gas and diesel powered vehicles with electricly powered ones. And Internet does nothing to harm the Post Office (if it did ALEC members UPS and Fed Ex wouldn't be salivating over it looking to steal it from the people - or "privatize it"). If anything internet gives the Post Office more business and revenue. With Internet sales replacing bricks and mortar stores home and office delivery of the online purchases is an essential part of that and thus an ever growing need.

So then the reasons for the willful destruction of the Post Office are clear, not only the very obvious theft of it by profiteers and extortionists or its "privatization", but also mentioned is the fact of its being the largest unionized employer in the United States and that would be business oligarchs would simply have to hate the U.S. Post Office for its being a very prominent positive example of unionization (and of government employees, no less) within an efficient operation and of a marvelously well functioning government owned enterprize. As Henry Kissinger said when acting to overthrow the Allende regime in Chile and eradicate the legitimate government of Viet Nam. He said we can't allow the "threat of a good example" of a socialist state or of an indigenous population governing itself competently without direction from European or American colonial masters.

Anyway Kend, I suspect the reasons for the trouble with the Canadian post office are similar to those of the trouble with ours. Anyway, I'll research it.

Thank you Mark, for making such an excellent point; an important distinction that exists between anti-semitism, and opposition to Israeli policy.

As a young woman, having just been told I am Jewish (by a reliable source), I had all kinds of romantic fantasies of going to Israel, making Israel my "second home", or my "home away from home" or whatever. But now approximately 35 years later, the thrill is gone. Having witnessed three & a half decades of the Israeli-Palistinian conflict, I can no longer identify with Israel. Classic case of the hunted & persecuted becoming predators themselves! Aided & abetted, naturally, by Yankee Doodle Dandy's self-serving interventions... not to mention mountains of arsenal, made in the USA, donated to the noble cause of stealing oil and land that doesn't belong to either country. Because in this enlightened age, Might still makes Right and Winner Takes All and Screw You.

I'd bet all but my last dime some Israelis are as revolted by Mister Yahoo's policies as I am.

Shalom. - Aliceinkosherland

Aliceinwonderland ~ I'm terribly sorry to hear that. Your response is understandable. Is that possibly also why you tend to shy away from discussions of faith and haven't responded to my previous posts about the "Just A Little Light" music video phenomenon and the Autobiography of John L. Davies book I mentioned? ...If you don't mind my asking... I'm really dying to hear your opinion.

You see, I have other theories why you haven't responded and am trying to ascertain enough information to verify at least one of them. It would appear you either haven't read or haven't been able to see my posts. I'm almost certain you aren't intentionally ignoring me; however, it would be nice to verify if you are. You're response to this post--or lack thereof--will answer all my questions. Thanks for your time and patients!!

PS Don't knock yourself for being Jewish. They are, after all, the chosen people. They certainly were chosen for a reason. Remember, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For the light there is darkness. For the yin, there is the yang. For every good jew there is a member of the synagogue of Satan. It's just part of the physical laws of the universe; and, no reason not to be very proud of your heritage. Remember, Jesus Christ was a jew. Personally, I think he would be proud of you regardless of race or religion. You are in good company.

Listed below are the posts and topics in question. Thanks again!

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/03/cmon-americalets-keep-lights

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http://oaklandwiki.org/His_Honor,_the_Buckaroo

http://www.amazon.com/His-Honor-Buckaroo-Autobiography-Davie/dp/0943077125

This Blog--post #15

Marc, I'm shocked and baffled. Mind you, this isn't stated adversarially or with sarcasm. Up 'til now I knew absolutely nothing of these posts you speak of, that you sent directed to me. I would never deliberately ignore anyone unless that person has somehow alienated me, which you certainly haven't. If you'd be so kind as to give me adequate time to do so, I'll be happy to respond.

Could it be that for some mysterious, unfathomable reason I failed to recognize these were addressed specifically to me? If so, my heartfelt apologies. - Aliceinwonderland