Posted in politics on 18 December 2008 - 22 כסלו 5769
ELIGION Dispatches walk us into the deeper meaning of the shoe incident. Yes: hitting someone with your shoes is a bad thing in any culture. But it’s important to understand what shoes mean in a culture where you take your shoes off at the boundary of holiness.
“If Iraqi people come at you with [...]
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Posted in jocularity, politics on 16 December 2008 - 20 כסלו 5769
ISHOP ALAN Reminds us that God throws his shoe over Edom and that, yes, this is an expression of contempt. I well remember the campy Anglo-Catholic Priest, pardon the tautology, who giggled before Morning Prayer and said, “Over Edom she casts her pump.” THe Bible lives today in Modern Iraq!
If you [...]
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Posted in politics on 10 April 2008 - 6 ניסן 5768
Increasingly, I get the sense that we (average Americans) know nothing about this war other than what we are told - and the Gov’t is using that to their own advantage.
I have no idea if Raed is more or less biased than, eg, Fox News. But I know that more - not less - [...]
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