Ghimeabragh, twitter

Rightwing Sleight of Mouth or the Right tries to redefine “Blood Libel”

I’ve decided to update this post with the entire exchange. oldest tweet to last. I am ExitPass

grivno Ben Grivno
Did you know that it’s impossible for historic terms to take on a broader meaning? So sayeth the Blood Libel obsession crowd! #TeaParty #p2
@grivno Blood Libel has a vry specific meaning. 1 that incited, & still incites anti-Jewish sentiment. It’s bn adopted by the Arab states.
@ExitPass Language is not a permanent fixture. the meaning of terms can broaden. the obsessive focus on a single term looks kinda crazy.
@grivno so, “nazi” no longer means “white supremicist“? “Christkiller” no longer means “Jew“? “Spic” no longer refers 2 “hispanics”? Gotcha
@ExitPass “racist” no longer means “one who believes his/her race is superior.” now it means “one who opposes the progressive agenda”
@grivno (cont) So,#Giffords accused Palin of “Blood Libel” when she criticized the “surveyor’s” symbol ovr her “surveyed” district as provacative?

From: @grivno
Sent: Jan 12, 2011 7:51p

@ExitPass the “blood” part refers to group of genetically-related people, this could expand to mean ideologically-related people

@grivno nice try. As a Jew, I KNOW whaT it means, and it means “Jews murder christians and use their blood in matzoh”. THAT’S what It means

@ExitPass I was setting up a logic framework, not dissing your intelligence. I figured U knew what it meant.

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Ghimeabragh

Good Days/Bad Days

and those days in between. As a brain injury “survivor” (I need another word, as it’s not something you “live through and get over”), I have good and not so good days/weeks/months even years. I’m in the midst of a not-so-good-spell. to say more would be “attention seeking” and “whiny”. No one really cares. except me. friends “care” as long as they aren’t really asked to step up to the plate and take action, they really prefer you pay someone to hear you “whine” and “attention seek”.

Maybe it’s New York, but growing up in California, if my friends needed to talk, I was there to listen, as they were for me.

Uncategorized

How to Share Your Digital Photos on Flickr

Flickr is an online digital photo sharing site, which has become a great place for professional photographers to showcase their work.

If you haven’t tried it yet, here’s a step-by-step guide to uploading your digital photos on Flickr.

(Note: This describes the basic steps to upload your pictures in Flickr, without using the uploader tools for PC and Mac.)

1. Get a Flickr account

If you already have a Yahoo! account, then all you need to do is sign in using your Yahoo! ID and password.

2. From your flickr homepage, click on the “Upload Photos & Video” button.

3. Click on “Choose photos and videos”

4. Select the file you want to upload. You upload more than one picture, by clicking “Add More”

5. Choose the privacy settings you want (private or public). Then click the “Upload Photos and Videos” button.

6. A progress bar will let you know how the upload is going. When it’s done, you will see, “Finished! Next: add a description, perhaps? Click on the link if you’d like to add a description.

7. From this window, you can do several things: add a description, add tags, save the photo to a set (or create a new set, if you like). You can also change the privacy settings of the picture.

8. If you’re satisfied with everything, click on “Save”. You can go back and change any of the settings, and even delete and reorganize photos later.

Wasn’t that easy? Now you can show off your best photos to the world. You could even have your photos used in websites and other materials – that is, if you want them to.

If you’d like to take digital photographs worthy of being displayed, shared and spread all over the Internet, check out “Shoot Digital Pics Like the Pros.”

It’s a free report with plenty of tips for taking digital picture you’ll be proud of.

Activism, Rumours Gin Mill

After Eric Cantor’s “treason”, can a Jew ever be President?

With the revelation that Sen. Eric Cantor (R-Va) held a one-on-one meeting with Israel’s Netanyahu and assured him

that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington. He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.

Cantor later walked this back.  But the damage has been done. Those that believe the Zionists control Washington, like David Duke,  have their evidence of the “ZOG”. Indeed, he quickly picked up onto Glenn Greenwood essay and emblazoned it on his own site: Eric Cantor’s Pledge of Allegiance (to Israel over America! ) Greenwald I’m sure would not be pleased by the addition of the last phrase to his essay title (which is the only editorializing Duke brings to the essay), but the fact this has been picked up by the likes of Duke brings to the table of suspicion a bit of “proof’ that a Jew can’t be a loyal American, but instead owes loyalty first and foremost to Israel.

from the jpost.com:

One-third of Americans believe that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the United States, according to figures presented to the Knesset on Tuesday by Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman. “This belief is so out of sync with everything else happening in America, with the fact that there’s so much acceptance of Jews in all phases of life – academia, commerce, media, politics,” Foxman told The Jerusalem Post.

The ADL goes on to blame Carter and others for this “shift”. There has been no shift, just as the teaparty allowed the closet bigot to be free, so has Carter allowed the closet bigot to spew his or her theories on American Jewish loyalty. Foxman goes on to “speculate” on my voice in American political discourse being quieted by fear. He does a a very small point. He is counseling in couched terms, to do exactly that and shut the hell up on Iran and other existential threats to his manhood.
and, here:

The phrase “dual loyalty,” though salient for Jews because of their history, is, according to Kelner, not appropriate to the current situation.

“I would argue that this is a case in which the history is not giving us the language that is appropriate for making sense of what’s going on,” Kelner said. “Because it is not a question of loyalty to a unitary American government or a unitary government in Israel. It’s about partisanship in Israel. It’s about partisanship in the United States. It’s about partisanship within the American Jewish community.”

In fact, those American Jews who view Obama’s push toward a settlement of the conflict as progress express no fears of being accused of dual loyalty. On the contrary, they feel their interests are now aligned with the administration’s, if not with the current Israeli government.

“I admit that there is anxiety,” said Robert Wexler, the former Florida congressman who is now the president of the Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation, a Washington-based think tank. “There are some actors in the political process that make it their business to question the motives of those who seek to end the conflict. And I think that’s a misplaced effort. A continuation of the conflict does not help Israel. Fighting two wars every three years, facing an enemy that is better armed and better equipped each time, that does not help Israel.”

In my humble opinion as a mere Citizen, Cantor undid a lot of what Wexler was talking about, and deliberately so. The American Right cannot exist on a plane where a resolution to the conflict in the middle east is achieved, as it will destroy the Christian Right’s Endtimes Game.

Ad Astra, Prose & Poetry

the Chronicles of Me

This marks the end of my first full week at a new job. While it’s an IC, and I can go at my own pace, there is an unspoken pressure. I’m not as tired as yesterday, but then, I haven’t spent too much time dealing with bullshit, such as the revelation that “online bill paying” is “bank floats your payment for two-seven days before transmitting”. Or walking 4+ miles without stopping. I was not functional yesterday. Today? Just don’t know. Does the broker accept I have a disability? Or does he think that my mTBI is an excuse and I’m full of shit?

Ad Astra

flashback

I have begun work as NYS Licensed Real Estate Salesperson. Pretty neat, huh? One day I left a jacket there and thought “it will be here when I need it”. A few days later, I was going to leave a lightweight shirt I use a casual jacket and realized I was doing my old “I’ll leave it here so I don’t have to carry it” routine I inwardly flipped out and brought the clothing home.

Home. It’s more then just “a roof over your head”

Ad Astra

Why we should be a skosh more understanding of the Teaparty/GOP

ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2010) — Ever meet a kindergartener who seemed naturally compassionate and cared about others’ feelings? Who was cooperative and didn’t demand his own way? Chances are, his parents held, carried and cuddled him a lot; he most likely was breastfed; he probably routinely slept with his parents; and he likely was encouraged to play outdoors with other children, according to new research findings from the University of Notre Dame.

via Child rearing practices of distant ancestors foster morality, compassion in kids.

I guess what a friend mine always says about socially dysfunctional humans: Their parents didn’t love them enough.