OK -- the only anti-poverty solution is world-class education. Liberal rhetoric. Where are we going? Going to revitalize the community colleges? Tell us how! OK. Increased Pell Grants. That's good. Whoa! Debt forgiveness! REEEED meat.
He's talking health care. But I'm a little lost. Didn't get anything out of it.
The rabbi of Temple Israel, one of the largest Conservative Jewish congregations in the Capital Region, is resigning after 18 months on the job.
Rabbi Daniel Wolpe was hired in September 2008... Wolpe and his wife, Susan, filed for bankruptcy in Albany in September, five months after a Michigan court ordered the Wolpes to pay a $164,585 judgment to another couple
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In 2006, Temple Israel fired its longtime cantor, Philip Friedman, who pleaded guilty to molesting an 11-year-old girl. He was supposed to be helping his victim prepare for her bat mitzvah.
From the Mouths of Conservatives -- Don't Feed the Humans?
Andre Bauer, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina:
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed," Bauer said, according to the Greenville News. "You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
Al Gore is God -- Or, a Jewish Take on Environmentalism
In this episode of MyJewishLearning's ongoing series, The Adventures of Todd & God, God appears before Todd in the form of former Vice President Al Gore to teach Todd the Jewish values of being environmentally conscious.
Enjoy!
(And yes, I know it's a pretty false media-driven caricature of Al, but...)
I haven't had a lot of time for blogging lately, but Richard reminded me yesterday that I really need to say something about how disappointed I am with Obama's approach to Afghanistan and Iraq. I fully agree with what Tristero says here:
If the Democratic party today doesn't have viable candidates who are prepared to oppose this crazy policy, it sure as hell will have them two elections hence. I realize that opposing the election of Democrats at a time when the opposition party has literally gone off the deep end puts this country at serious risk of another extreme rightwing takeover. But I don't think liberals have much choice but to take that risk. We are talking about potentially thousands upon thousands of human deaths for an utterly pointless war. This liberal - and I'm hardly the only one - can neither support nor excuse what is now officially the Obama/Afghan War.
Matt Yglesias, who I saw a few times at Netroots Nation, writes that high speed rail could and should be the industry that saves the American economy. At this moment, I couldn't agree more. I'm on my way back from Pittsburgh on Amtrak. I've been on the train for 9 1/2 hours (with a couple of brief pitstops). This ride should not take that long -- it's only a 6-7 hour drive. Long-distance train travel will never be in high demand when it takes longer to take the train than to drive.
Having said that, for me at least, it's been a much more pleasant experience than flying and I'm happy I took the train.
