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I'm With You, Howard Beale!

If you are on aggregator - click here to view this video! WOMEN -- WE CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN. Put down the Obama Kool-Aid!! Engage your brains! Now that these men have showed their true colors are we going to allow this in OUR COUNTRY? The country where we work, went to school, had and raised our children, paid our taxes, went to our doctors, shopped, cried, cradled, pulled, pushed and given our BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS? Are we going to let the now-revealed misogyny and testosterone-driven bull**** drive our country into the hands of some man who doesn't even know what they are doing or someone who's so confused they barely know what planet they're on? Has 8 years of Bush/ Cheney/ Rove insanity driven us THIS FAR OFF THE EDGE? I'm with you, Howard Beale: If you are on an aggregator, click here to see an Academy Award Winning performance!

The Anti-Semitism Dilemma on Facebook

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By Dr Andre Oboler Eighty-three-year-old President Shimon Peres recently urged young people to fight anti-Semitism using Facebook. Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog met with delegates to the World Union of Jewish Students in the Knesset last week and told us to employ technology to combat Jew-hatred. Herzog, who is also responsible for relations with world Jewry and the fight against anti-Semitism, wants us to fight the good fight via the Internet. "Who's going to pay for this?" I asked. Try British Jewry, he helpfully suggested. But when I approached figures in the British Jewish leadership, they suggested - you guessed it - that I turn to the Israelis. Peres helpfully proposed a specific technology to focus on - Facebook - and I agree with his choice. If only we knew precisely what to do, and how to do it. The idea probably stems from the fact that Peres recently met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In fact, Facebook is not only ...