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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (18966)	1/1/2012 12:09:16 AM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Very well put... Religious salesmanship is so transparent that one wonders how anyone past 5 can fall for it. If they were just selling nothing with no story to deny it, I can see some thinking, "well 'nothing' might be behind the curtain"; but when it comes with a fairytale that is no less absurd or primitive than any of thousands of similar fairy tales...how can any person possibly not see that the wizard is just a man?? The Wizard of Oz teaches a lesson that every adult ought to know and understand: Always ask what is behind the curtain. Those shysters are not sending you special salt or hair that they prayed over because they cannot stop loving you! Don't ever sign anything till you find out what is behind the curtain! It has been impossible for centuries for the religious power brokers to sell anything but an invisible suit of clothes. But the gullible and the frightened are still buying it while these charlatans dance naked in front of them.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (18966)	1/1/2012 11:55:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

“Anti-Semitism has become almost wholly the province of the Left today” December 31, 2011 \| Filed under Anti-Semitism,Economics,Meme Watch,Paul Krugman \| Posted by Rick Rice Steven Hayward at Powerline is wondering that which some enterprising journalist uninterested in keeping his gig (since I’m sure he’d soon be blacklisted) should take to Paul Krugman: So Paul Krugman phoned in his periodic “Keynes Was Right” column today, arguing that the Obama Porkulus failed only because, like “true” Communism, it wasn’t tried vigorously or faithfully enough. I wonder if Krugman also credits Keynes’s views on Jews, which British blogger Damian Thompson of The Telegraph brings to our attention. From Keynes’s diary: "[Jews] have in them deep-rooted instincts that are antagonistic and therefore repulsive to the European, and their presence among us is a living example of the insurmountable difficulties that exist in merging race characteristics, in making cats love dogs … It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains." Thompson adds: If Keynes was an intellectual hero of the Right, rather than the Left, do you think those quotes would be so little known? Anti-Semitism used to be a property of the Right, yet it’s worth pointing out that today many of the intellectual heroes of the right are Jews, such as Milton Friedman, Leo Strauss, Irving Kristol, etc., or that anti-Semitism has become almost wholly the province of the Left today. Perhaps a host of Jewish comedians could tour the country with the sole purpose of pushing “against those who are exhibiting behavior which is less than consistent with the values of this nation” and fight the Jewaphobia running rampant in leftist circles and particularly in the hallways where the nation’s newspaper of record is published. Imagine with me what the outcry would be if a conservative columnist was singing the praises of an economic policy put forth by someone who said the sort of things of Arabs that Keynes has said of Jews. Do you think the only place you’d be reading about it is the blogosphere? On a somewhat related note, the FBI recently published their crime statistics culled from the year 2010, and here are some interesting numbers related to hate crimes: Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed: •65.4 percent were anti-Jewish. •13.2 percent were anti-Islamic. •9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified. •4.3 percent were anti-Catholic. •3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group. •3.3 percent were anti-Protestant. •0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. (Based on Table 1.) The bottom line is that Jews were subjected to 5 times the number of hate crimes of victimized Muslims… yet we’re led to believe by some that Islamophobia is this creeping cancer spreading in America. Right. I’m sure the 922 Jewish hate crime victims in 2010 would agree. http://wizbangblog.com/2011/12/31/anti-semitism-has-become-almost-wholly-the-province-of-the-left-to... John Maynard Keynes on 'repulsive', 'impure', 'ugly' Jews By Damian Thompson Religion Last updated: January 21st, 2009 53 Comments Comment on this article Did you know that John Maynard Keynes was a venomous anti-Semite who could have given Richard Wagner a run for his money? Me neither. Yet the evidence has been out there for decades. Here are a couple of extracts from his writings, courtesy of Chris Dillow via Clive Davis's Spectator blog: "[Jews] have in them deep-rooted instincts that are antagonistic and therefore repulsive to the European, and their presence among us is a living example of the insurmountable difficulties that exist in merging race characteristics, in making cats love dogs … It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains." If Keynes was an intellectual hero of the Right ... his antisemitism would be scandalous. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/8163741/John_Maynard_Keynes_on_repulsive_impure_ugl... .... Keynes didn't like Jews. I spoke with a British Jewish historian who told me most Brits of his day didn't like Jews. And Keynes did have some close Jewish friends. But I don't find it all that easy to give Keynes a pass. His dislike of Jews was somewhat central to how he understood economics. Keynes had this idea that Jews had brought the idea of longing for immortality to Pagan Europe. He saw that longing as positive but felt that many Jews distorted it into a longing for money. He thought that the Jews influenced the rest of Europe to love money too much and that had ruined much of European civilization. Keynes believed that by 2020, European civilization would have gotten past its Jewish-inspired love of money and would focus on other things. It doesn't seem necessary to comment too much on this. One Jewish correspondent pointed out to Keynes that Jews don't actually spend a lot of time thinking about immortality. That's more of a Christian thing. Keynes just ignored that. .... http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/01/some_problems_with_keynes.html