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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (54524)	5/14/2014 10:17:11 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Brummar actually recommended that mindless post that California was a third world country! Unbelievable!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (54524)	5/14/2014 1:02:43 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Today I was watching Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. Always liked his acting and his movies! Anyway, the movie did a great job of showing the mindless bigotry of superstitious people who care nothing for Science or Reason. And I thought about people on this thread who are NO DIFFERENT from those ignorant and uneducated people depicted in the movie--people who would gladly support the removal of Science from the classroom and the return of Genesis. AIEEEEEEEEEE!! One of the great lines, after DARROW tells the story of his golden dancer rocking horse made of spit and paint... "As long as the prerequisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry, and hate--I say the Hell with it"

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (54524)	5/15/2014 6:36:04 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

WAR: NYT JILL FIRED AFTER ASKING 'FOR EQUAL PAY' At the annual City University Journalism School dinner, on Monday, Dean Baquet, the managing editor of the New York Times, was seated with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the paper’s publisher. At the time, I did not give a moment’s thought to why Jill Abramson, the paper’s executive editor, was not at their table. Then, at 2:36 P.M. on Wednesday, an announcement from the Times hit my e-mail, saying that Baquet would replace Abramson, less than three years after she was appointed the first woman in the top job. Baquet will be the first African-American to lead theTimes. Fellow-journalists and others scrambled to find out what had happened. Sulzberger had fired Abramson, and he did not try to hide that. In a speech to the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon, he said, “I chose to appoint a new leader of our newsroom because I believe that new leadership will improve some aspects …” Abramson chose not to attend the announcement, and not to pretend that she had volunteered to step down. As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. Sulzberger is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson, who spent much of her career at theWall Street Journal, had been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, which accounted for some of the pension disparity. Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Times, said that Jill Abramson’s total compensation as executive editor “was directly comparable to Bill Keller’s”—though it was not actually the same. I was also told by another friend of Abramson’s that the pay gap with Keller was only closed after she complained. But, to women at an institution that was once sued by its female employees for discriminatory practices, the question brings up ugly memories. Whether Abramson was right or wrong, both sides were left unhappy. A third associate told me, “She found out that a former deputy managing editor”—a man—“made more money than she did” while she was managing editor. “She had a lawyer make polite inquiries about the pay and pension disparities, which set them off.”

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (54524)	5/15/2014 9:01:12 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 69300

Egyptian TV: Disney “Copied” Tom And Jerry From Ancient Egyptians, Karl Marx Stole Communism… One minor problem, it wasn’t Disney who created Tom and Jerry, it was William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Be sure to alert Iqbal of this. Via MEMRI: In a recent TV interview, Egyptian urologist and Egyptologist Wassim Al-Sissy said that Tom and Jerry were created by the ancient Egyptians and copied by Walt Disney. “I consider everything to have been planned here,” said Al-Sissy, citing the Ipuwer Papyrus as evidence that Karl Marx had taken the principles of Communism from ancient Egypt. The interview was broadcast on the Egyptian Al-Kahera Wal-Nas TV on April 21, 2014. Following are excerpts: Wassim Al-Sissy: At the signing of the [Camp David] peace accord, Menachem Begin thanked President Carter for all his efforts, and said that it reminded him of the efforts of his forefathers who build the pyramids. These are lies! This man was a liar! The pyramids were built in 2800 BCE, whereas Abraham lived in 1700 BCE – he lived 1,000 years after the building of the pyramids. Even if we assume that they were around when the pyramids were built, there is a difference between shepherds, who know nothing about engineering, or about erecting such monumental structures, and who couldn’t do much more than carry bricks, perhaps, and between the brilliant minds who could build such structures. Anyone who knows this but still attacks [Egyptian] civilization must be working for global Zionism. Sigmund Freud, who was a Jew, said so himself. In his book Moses and Monotheism, he wrote that ancient Egyptian civilization constituted the eternal complex of the Jews. Interviewer: In your book, you wrote that Tom and Jerry were created by the ancient Egyptians. Wassim Al-Sissy: Right. Interviewer: Did Disney copy it, or did they come up with the same idea themselves? Wassim Al-Sissy: They copied it. I consider everything to have been planned here. Even the principles of Communism – it turns out that they were written by Ipuwer, the historian from the First Intermediate Period. He wrote that labor belongs to the laborers, that the land belongs to those who till it, and that the heavens do not rule the land, because there is no god. This is from the First Intermediate Period, after the Sixth Dynasty. It turns out that the text, written by Ipuwer, the ancient Egyptian historian, was kept at a museum in Leiden, and from there, Karl Marx, Trotsky, and all those people too the slogans of Communism. They adopted them from the Egyptian Communist period, following the Sixth Dynasty. So even the principles of Communism you took from us?!