A wire article about new cheese got mashed with some crime reporting:
“It amplifies natural flavors in the cheese and brings out nuances and shades of the flavor that simply can't be achieved with conventional aging,e’s trying to run you off the road?” before losing the call.
A subsequent caller to the 911 dispatcher reports a car accident and a shooting in the area where Cremeens said she was being chased.
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Ha’aretz reports on the first kosher Portuguese cheese:
For the first time since the Spanish Inquisition in Portugal, a dairy product has been given an official kosher certificate. The ground-breaking product is a hard, goat’s milk cheese, manufactured by the descendant of Anusim Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity.
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Politico reports on why John Cornyn, Texas Republican Senator, missed the stimulus vote.
It was to attend a meeting of donors. At which he spoke:
…Cornyn — who was billed as speaking about the 2010 senate races — took some pokes at Democratic leaders, saying that “Nancy Pelosi drives the train” and describing Chuck Schumer as a “human vacuum cleaner.”
Reached for comment Nancy Pelosi responded:
*train whistle*
*train whistle*
All aboard!
via (washingtonmonthly.com)
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Something to remember:
Crossing the blood brain barrier BBB is difficult, because the tight peripheral endothelia only allows molecules that are both lipid soluble and smaller than 400 daltons.
via brains lab
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A thought experiment:
Imagine a composting toilet that is user friendly, economical, & aesthetically pleasing.
Found following through the previous post‘s primary sources.
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An interesting post by a woman claiming to have once established the first, and so far only, Jewish CSA contains this rumination on Jewish urbanism:
My point is, rather, that the pressure of Jewish culture pushes us strongly towards dense concentrations of other Jews – not just dense in a suburban sense, but because most observant Jews don’t drive at all, walkably Jewish neighborhoods. In many ways, this is good – observant Jews eschew commerce once a week, they do not drive on the Sabbath, they tend to congregate in tight knit commities[sic], usually walkable…
Against the counterpoint:
The other force pushing Jews towards urbanization is historical – Jews have lost their land in every place they lived in for thousands of years. As a minority, diaspora population, Jews have always been vulnerable and anti-semitism always prevalent – taking Jewish land was something of a hobby of most governments through most of Christian history, in large part because it was hugely profitable. Jews would settle on a farm, improve the land, and then, when the next round of scapegoating came about – and it always did – the powers that be would displace Jews and take over their land and wealth. For thousands of years, Jews were taught, over and over and over again that land in the diaspora was tenuous, that other forms of wealth, the kinds you can take with you in hard times in the forms of coinage or metals, were far more valuable and secure than land.
Not being observant of much beyond my toes, I don’t take the first point to explain altogether much. Certainly Jews could have “gone Amish” if it were so determining. Although, moving en masse to a desert nation and reclaiming a ritual language is something like “gone Amish”ing on the large scale.
The second point, why build a house of cards in a hurricane?, strikes me as more acceptable. You can’t smuggle acreage out of Germany the same as you can Albert Einstein’s ideas.
Another game to play reading this post is the “How many times can she use some formulation of the word Jew/Jewish in any given sentence/context”? Answer: a whole bunch of a lot.
Found via John Schwenkler by JL Wall.
At about 8am on Thursday, Parizaad Khan finally escaped from the Taj. She was herded onto a bus at the lobby door by heavily armed commandos. As it sped away, terrorists opened fire on the fleeing bus.
Jai Baba.
Terrorist attacks in Bombay: hour by hour so far – Times Online.
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Subtext: “Go to hell, Mitt Romney. No, not the one you believe in. The one I believe in.”
– From Dave Weigel’s commentary on Mike Huckabee’s book on intra-Republican infighting on toast.
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SF Gate had a link in their top story rotator with the title “Bond Review”. I figured some massive review of State, Municipal, etc… bonds would undoubtedly be newsworthy enough for top billing, so I clicked:
I’ll probably go see it.
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Around here, there’s a whole lot of honking, screaming and the occasional firework.
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