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Just read this, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/64518.html, and found myself disturbed and appalled by what the IDF military rabbinate, if the allegations made in this article are indeed true, chose to distribute to Israeli soldiers before they went into action in Gaza.



Mind you, whether the motivation and rhetoric is religiously-based or not matters one whit to me. Not at all. One can be a thorough-going secularist and come up with similar logic and rhetoric to justify whatever… Continue

To-day marks the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre, in which a little over 900 people, who were members of the San Francisco-based People's Temple, either committed suicide by drinking a cynanide-laced, imitation Kool-Aid brand soft drink called Flavor-Aid, were injected with poison, or were shot by members of the People's Temple security force at the settlement in western Guyana, at the behest of the church's leader, the Reverend Jim Jones.



The settlement had been… Continue

Earlier this afternoon, I posted a trio of links about various and sundry anti-Prop 8 protests to be found, both nationally and in the Las Vegas and Reno areas.



Well, I left the house and headed over to where the protest was going to be held, only to find out that they are scheduled for to-morrow afternoon, not to-day.



This, some of you may already know.



To them, and to the rest of you out there, I wish to apologise, because it was my stupid misunderstanding of… Continue

Here are a trio of links, which I got from a People For The American Way e-mail this afternoon, to Join The Impact!!! web-pages for info about anti-Proposition 8 protests being held nation-wide to-day.



The first is to the national page, http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/?t=anon, where one can click on the name of one's state or other territory to be taken to the appropriate page for more information on where and when these protests are taking place in one's area.



The… Continue

Received a graciously critical reply to the message enclosed along with the Courage Campaign Repeal Prop 8 link I sent out this afternoon from an old and dear friend of mine, who justifiably criticised the use of certain nasty terms in it, as well as its loose grip on the facts regarding civil unions and its pedantic tone.



Have already apologised to her in my reply to her message, and promised that I would send out a similar apology to you all as soon as I was done with my reply to… Continue