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buzzsawmonkey
1/25/2020 5:02:08 PM
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Kosh---just saw your Liz Warren work in progress. Eagerly awaiting the completed version.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 5:08:12 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:
Thanks. I will work on it tonight
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buzzsawmonkey
1/25/2020 5:35:13 PM
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Cultural note for the evening: I'm sure everyone is familiar with Lorraine Hansberry's famous play, "A Raisin in the Sun." Most know that the title was taken from a line by the poet Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Well, Hughes' line is actually a punning riff on a traditional African-American folk song, "Racing With the Sun": Get your day's work done Get your day's work done Or soon you'll be Racing with the sun Make your plans today 'Fore the evening's on Or you'll end up Racing with the sun Hard, hard times That you'll have Hard, hard times But today you're mighty glad 'Cause your work's all through And your battle's won Now you'll never, never be Racing with the sun Here's a recording of Ella Jenkins doing the song on a Smithsonian Folkways recording. The recording postdates Hughes' line, but the song itself is much older, and the likelihood that Hughes himself was familiar with the song, as was his largely-black readership, and that he was intentionally punning/alluding to something familiar with his readership is overwhelming.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 5:45:44 PM
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For our Jewish members - want to influence Israel? The World Zionist Congress elections is your chance Left-wing critics of Israel think that they’ve finally found a way to
make the voices of Americans who disdain the policies of Israel’s
current government heard. People like writer Peter Beinart, J Street
leader Jeremy Ben-Ami, American Federation of Teachers president Randi
Weingarten and other activists representing a broad array of liberal
groups are all agreed that trying to get elected to the upcoming 38th
World Zionist Congress will provide them with a path to stopping funding
for Jewish settlements in the West Bank and promoting a two-state
solution to the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
Their understanding of the Middle East may be slight, and their
proposals are hopelessly out of touch with the views of the vast
majority of Israelis. But they’re right about the importance of the
Zionist Congress and the way it gives Diaspora Jewry a voice that can
help influence Israel’s future.
Hatikvah, the name of the slate led by Beinart and company, is
just one of 15 such groups vying for the votes of American Jewry in an
online election that will be held between Jan. 21 and March 11. The
others represent the leading religious denominations, as well as groups
dedicating to supporting Sephardi Jewry, Russian Jews, Israeli expats
and those with a more political point of view, such as the slate of the
Zionist Organization of America and its allies as well as others
purporting to represent centrist or right-wing ideas.
Here's the election website I will probably vote this slate But this one is possible, too
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buzzsawmonkey
1/25/2020 5:58:04 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4: Thanks for this; it may help me make sense of the whole thing.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 6:10:38 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 5:
The first slate I linked to, ZOA, has support from Americans for Peace and Tolerance, let by Charles Jacobs, and CAMERA (Committe for Middle East Reporting Accuracy). Charles freed slaves in Sudan, and warns against militant Islam, such as the links between the Islamic Society of Boston and terrorist groups. (The Marathon bombers attended that mosque). For this, of course, he is branded an "Islamophobe". I was at a meeting where he was showing their movie Losing our Sons He didn't have the right cable to connect his computer to the projector. I had my computer, and played it. I wanted to buy the movie to give APT money, but he wouldn't take my money. I had actually met him earlier, at a CJUI meeting where Caroline Glick was the keynote speaker. I had had a letter published in the Boston Globe that got me some phone calls from someone, who at the end said I could discuss it with him, but I couldn't call him an anti-Semite. In discussing this with Charles, he said "Even though he is one" Anyway, I look at him the way Rick did with Victor Lazlo (video) "We all try. You succeed" The second slate is supported by Tom Mountain, who was at some of the same meetings - later with more Trump patches on his outfit than I have ever seen.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 6:47:56 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6: Their site has a problem that worked in my favor - no way to enter a card number, but it let me vote.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/25/2020 7:32:45 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8: Maybe some of the kings "identify as" queens. There was Edward II of England, after all...
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 7:45:39 PM
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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: Maybe some of the kings "identify as" queens. There was Edward II of England, after all... Rook, we are all pawns in game of life -- Paraphrased from Mongo
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 7:48:00 PM
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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: Rook, we are all pawns in game of life
-- Paraphrased from Mongo A bit too early to say good knight.
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Syrah
1/25/2020 8:34:16 PM
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I see in the news reports that Congressman Pete Stark is dead. I had met the man. I am a little disturbed about how I felt when I first read about his passing. i disliked the man intensely.
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Occasional Reader
1/25/2020 8:39:34 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9: But seriously, folks. I’ll admit I have not played chess in, literally, decades. But the best of my recollection, upper body strength, for instance, doesn’t have much to do with the game. It seems patently absurd to me to have separate championships for men and women.
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Syrah
1/25/2020 9:18:02 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14: i agree.
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Syrah
1/25/2020 9:20:06 PM
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What is the deal with this Chinese Corona virus? Is this thing a bio-Weapon outbreak?
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Kosh's Shadow
1/25/2020 9:31:41 PM
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In #16 Syrah said: What is the deal with this Chinese Corona virus?
Is this thing a bio-Weapon outbreak? I doubt it as Chinese have been most of the victims. The problem is the way in China strange animals are used for food, and have close contact with people. This isn't the first outbreak of a strange disease in China.
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Syrah
1/25/2020 9:45:48 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18: it is a little concerning all the same. If this is the modern day equivalent of the Spanish Flu, this could be bad.
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