Sean McBride

Surprise? I used to think it was *because* they were in Congress that they became millionaires. Now, of course, I know it's because they started out that way and the political system is designed to recognize only the wealthy. Broken family stories aside. : ) - Cole Jolley

"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - Sean McBride

It will never stick. Religious people and woo proponents will keep misquoting and misrepresenting him :( - Eivind

"A year later, after the Israeli attack on Gaza, I was able to examine the damage done to the small and heavily populated area, surrounded by an impenetrable wall, with its gates tightly controlled. Knowing of the ability of Israeli forces, often using U.S. weapons, to strike targets with pinpoint accuracy, it was difficult to understand or explain the destruction of hospitals, schools, prisons, United Nations facilities, small factories and repair shops, agricultural processing plants and almost 40,000 homes. The Goldstone committee examined closely the cause of deaths of the 1,387 Palestinians who perished, and the degree of damage to the various areas. The conclusion was that the civilian areas were targeted and the devastation was deliberate. Again, the criticism of Israel in the Goldstone report is justified." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Slow motion genocide, driven by messianic ethno-religious nationalism. Very biblical indeed. - Sean McBride

"If you use Twitter for content, you must hate it when a major story slips past you. There is no good way to avoid this, it will happen. Twitter Tim.es wants to change that, by generating a personalized ‘newspaper’ for you based on what the people that you follow are talking about. The more times a link has been posted by someone that you follow, the more weight it is given. The result is curated content stemming from the people you trust, who are the people you follow." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Some of the worst offenders: Andrew Bostom, Bruce Tefft, Caroline Glick, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, Debbie Schlussel, Dennis Prager, Dore Gold, Jamie Glazov, John Podhoretz, Melanie Phillips, Meyrav Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Mona Charen, Pamela Geller, Steven Emerson, Steven Plaut, Ted Belman, Yaron Brook - Sean McBride

What explains the double standard? Silence implies assent and approval. - Sean McBride

"Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department. Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within society, and respect for holy and other sites. The comprehensive report, written by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, says Israel discriminates against groups including Muslims, Jehova's Witnesses, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin. The report says that the 1967 law on the protection of holy places refers to all religious groups in the country, including in Jerusalem, but "the government implements regulations only for Jewish sites. Non-Jewish holy sites do not enjoy legal protection under it because the government does not recognize them as official holy sites."" - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

This story is the second most influential item on Israel on Twitter this morning (according to Topsy), and the report in question was produced by the American government. The story was published in a leading Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. What do you want to bet that the American mainstream media go out of their way to ignore and smother the story? - Sean McBride

"The danger of this war on terror, it turns out, is that it not only collapses when it hits the ground in Muslim countries - as the sheer impossibility of using force to control Islamism in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals itself - but that its religious nature can divide the West as well, rendering a minority suspect and further undermining the chances of a multi-faith democracy successfully fighting a religious war without succumbing to more primal identities. Every which way, Osama wins." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

"One Ex-KGB analyst has been warning for years that the US will collapse in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

"Also it wasn't hard to find anti-Bush coverage so extreme that it made Bush actually look somewhat sympathetic" Really? I remember when Bush had the White House correspondents dinner and made light of the ongoing lack of WMD findings and _everyone there laughed_. Ha ha, what a fun joke! Forget that /thousands of people died/. There was excoriation of that moment, but it happened mostly away from mainstream media. - Andrew C

Abe Foxman talking to Natasha of Haaretz: "In general today, one of the long-term challenges for the American Jewish community is evident in demographic forecasts that predict that in two or three decades, certain minority groups are expected to become a majority in the United States. A recent ADL poll showed that 12 percent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views – but among African-Americans, the figure is 28 percent, and among foreign-born Hispanics it is 35 percent. "If 20 years from now the largest caucus in Congress is Hispanic, they will have a great deal to say about where foreign aid goes," says Foxman. "On church-state issues and all kinds of social issues – some of which impact directly on the Jewish community and some indirectly – they will have a great influence. We are working on it now, so as they become the majority force, there is a sensitivity, a relationship. It’s a major challenge."" - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Ethnic nationalists tend to tie themselves up in the most peculiar intellectual knots. - Sean McBride

Not likely. - Sean McBride

ROTFLMAO @ this Comment ===> The anouncement It in all probability will be 11/9/2009 This is the year that has been considered by myself and given serious thought for the last 10-15 years or maybe even since 1984 at thazt ime I could see more clearly with my m ionds eye, but then I did not know what to make of it. other than being a little nuts (insane) at the time, but I kept it to myself... celestials1938@msn.com Sumner Morrill koch - Eric Logan

There is something of significance going on with UFOs that is being hidden -- that much is certain. But I am not sure what it is. The entire field is drenched with misinformation -- much of it no doubt deliberate (scientific disinformation). - Sean McBride