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Simone Weil, a brilliant French philosopher, died in an English hospital on August 24 1943. Raised in a secular Jewish home, she was driven by an exacting conscience to share in the experience of working people. She took a year’s leave from her teaching job to work in factories.
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“Winters were growing shorter. For the old man that meant longer days to survey his property gathering chestnuts and mushrooms. But when the forests began to burn he blamed his serfs for not raking the floors.”—From Tolstoy’s Tales of Trump
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After telling his sons, “Watch and learn how we make a deal,” the old man shouted at the traders, calling them thieves and rogues and threatening to thrash them with a stick until they walked away. “Don’t worry,” he said, "they’ll be back.”—From Tolstoy’s Tales of Trump
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far....
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How long will it be before we begin hearing about “fake” (disloyal Dem-supporting) Jews, as opposed to the “real” Jews who love him? His defense of Israel (really a play for evangelicals and donors like S Adelson) has nothing to do with actual love for Jews (or anyone).
“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him....
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“So is Trump a philo-Semite or an anti-Semite? The answer is both. The principle that explains his seemingly contradictory outlook toward Jews is simple: Trump believes all the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews. But he sees those traits as admirable.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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Italian novelist Ignacio Silone d Aug 22 1978. A former communist, his novels dealt with the ideal of self-giving love and the imperative of solidarity. In “Bread and Wine” a revolutionary returns from exile to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. He goes about the town at night
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...writing NO on the walls—seeking to shatter the unanimity of consent on which tyranny relies. One of #DorothyDay’s favorite writers, who integrated the spiritual and the political—not in theories, but in affirming human dignity and the victory of love over hate and mistrust.
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MAKE L.A. SMOGGY AGAIN!
Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car, that is far less safe and doesn’t work as well, because execs don’t want to fight California regulators. Car companies should know....
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The scene in "Love Actually" where the Prime Minister of Denmark (in the fictional film this becomes England) tells the President what he thinks of their "special relationship." piped.video/WITlM2pY_a4 via @YouTube
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The Prince of Denmark, Informed that the President no longer intends to visit, offered this comment: "Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house." Tweeting In reply, the President stated that he never knew Hamlet was so "nasty."
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In honor of the Second Coming, to whom the President is honored to be compared:
....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for.....
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