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Wednesday, 8th October 2008

No more posts for the next day or so because of the Day of Atonement. G'mar tov.


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phil

October 8th, 2008 4:31pm

ok Melanie before the crazies arrive on site ,I will wish you well over the fast .

BJ

October 8th, 2008 6:45pm

I'm afraid Melanie is the leading crazy on this site!

Trek

October 8th, 2008 7:38pm

Here's this highly intelligent, good looking woman who is always sensible, full of common sense - yet she believes all that mediaevel guff.... no, I'm not anti Jewish or anti anything except anti religious.

Hysteria

October 8th, 2008 7:58pm

Trek - where I live (USA) to call someone (whisper this ) an atheist - is about as insulting as you can be!!!! Strange but true - and the root of many of our problems!

Stanislav Koblinski

October 8th, 2008 10:01pm

May you be inscribed in The Book of Life, Melanie.

Austin Barry

October 8th, 2008 10:32pm

Melanie/Joshua

G'mar Chatima Tova

Adam B.

October 8th, 2008 11:05pm

ndm, so criticism of Obama means one is a racist. Grow up.

Dave

October 9th, 2008 1:34am

And happy navrati too, Mel!

Anon

October 9th, 2008 2:22am

It's nothing to do with race. I like and admire many African Americans - often they are clearly superior to ignorant, vulgar, and nasty whites.

Obama though - I look at his pictures and all I see is the pose. I listen to his speeches, and all I hear is his consciousness of rhetorical ploys; and I never escape the sense that he's trying to equal or out-do MLK.

The difference is that MLK had fire and lived in and through the language. The packaging obscures anything real that might be inside BO.

If he's prez - I'll be physically ill until it's all over.

raymond joseph douglas

October 9th, 2008 8:45am

bless you melanie at this time.Those of us christians who love israel,wish you well!

logdon

October 9th, 2008 2:33pm

Melanie's evisceration of Obama is based entirely on facts the US and British msm will not go near. Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan etc are not fictitious names and the connection with Obama is solid and proved. I notice from last night he's now moderated his position on the US, not quite the land of hopelessness as portrayed by his gratingly ungrateful wife? However what has this to do with taking a few days off? The crazies have arrived on the site lurching into the same old, same old. Had this been some Muslim commentator during Ramadan would they be just as viciously hostile? I doubt it. That would be racism wouldn't it?

Susan Hill

October 9th, 2008 2:45pm

G'mar Chatima Tova

Trek

October 9th, 2008 4:13pm

Thanks Hysteria for the compliment.
What a choice in the American election! Obama's full of hot air (his wife's got a big chip on her shoulder - I don't think she likes being black) and McAin's too old (which may mean Palin with her finger on the red button!)
God help us all. If there is one!

Hysteria

October 9th, 2008 5:01pm

Trek

for sure God is not going to help - it's just up to us Earthlings!

Marian C

October 9th, 2008 8:03pm

G'mar Chatima Tova

EC

October 10th, 2008 9:15am

phil: "ok Melanie before the crazies arrive on site ,I will wish you well over the fast."

See you on Sunday?
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