Are Muslim kids forced to go to such schools ?

If there are more Muslims than Jews in the Baltimore City schools, and the schools close for Yom Kippur, then they should close for the Muslim Holidays too.

Christmas doesn't count because it is during the winter holiday season anyway.

If it is so important take the day off. Get over it.

My God, what next?

Recommend that the Baltimore County Board of Education suggest that the activists all move to Saudi Arabia, or Hell.

Maybe they can add September 11, 2001 as a holiday.

But Muslim leader Bash Pharoan says the calendar “feels discriminatory.”

Bash Pharoan's statement feels retarted.

Better add the holidays of every religious faith in America:

[Link: belief.net...]

Oh, and don't forget to take the quiz to find out what religion you really are (Belief-o-matic knows!):

[Link: belief.net...]

Its important the school board stay firm.
Give these loons an inch and they'll bloody take a mile.

Hey Bash, become an American first.

Leave.

Celebrate your hateful asses off back in the Ummah.

Oh, and thanks to all the Hindus and Bhuddists here who don't see our predominately Judaeo-Christian heritage and traditions as a humiliating assault on their ability to breathe the same air as us.

Trust me, it's only going to get worse. Every Western country is looking at the other waiting for it to act first, providing cover for the actions they're going to have to take.

/waves hello to the French and Dutch

Just one more way of insideously proclaiming that Muslims and Islam are majority and mainstream. Christians and Jews don't count. We do, and you can't discriminate against us. We .feel hurt

Let me guess. One of their holiest days is 9/11?

Islam refuses to recognize the holildays of other religions but expects us to recognize its holy days. Perhaps it's time we treat Muslims in a manner similar to which Muslims treat Christians and Jews living in Muslim nations.

What are the two "holidays"?

Death to Infidels Day and More Death to Indidels Day?

Dollars to doughnuts the school board caves.

We do whatever they want,AS SOON AS there will be religious freedom in every muslim country, as soon as they pay back the money they stole to the Jews they threw away from their countries in the last sixty years, as soon as Christians and Jews and Buddhist (etc.) can live, teach and proselytize in all the muslim countries, as soon as they recognize the rights of women, as soon as they start a proactive fight against whomever in their communities preaches and organizes jihad.
Otherwise they can just pack and go back to their tents in the desert, NO MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE are welcome here.

Friggin invaders.

What do Muslims bring to the table? I mean what do they do that is good for society? All I ever hear is them bitch abouth this group or that group and how they are victims of this or that. It's really getting pathetic.

Can someone tell me one thing they have done that is good for American society?

Well why not a day off for Ramadamadingdong for whatever they call it.

#3 Gordon

We're not your daddy, okay?

Unless it is some sort of parochial school, it shouldn't be shut down for ANY religious holiday, unless it is also a national holiday. Christmas for example. If Ramadan becomes a national holiday, then we can talk about it. Of course, if Ramadan becomes a national holiday, most of us here will be dead after fighting a desperate last stand against the jihad...

Bash, you know what also "feels discriminatory”?

Being tortured or killed for even celebrating Yom Kipper or Christmas in the backward countries where islam is the majority.

F- off

Christmas doesn't count because it is during the winter holiday season anyway.

Isn't Christmas WHY there is a winter holiday?

YOU KNOW.I put a few droplets on the ground for this country and I'm starting to get real nervous over the direction we seem to be going.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! His ice cream cone is bigger..WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Ri-friggin-diculous!

OT - P.A. to sound siren on 'Nakba Day'

The Palestinians are planning to mark Israel's Independence Day by sounding a siren as an expression of mourning. The siren will be sounded throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip at noon on Sunday, and Palestinians have been asked to stand still for one minute to protest the establishment of Israel.

I always thought they mourned by firing their AK-47s in the air, and deploying a couple suicide bombers. (Same as their celebrations.)

Someone told me that Liberals are traitors.

I believe it.

You know the saying.

Death by a thousand cuts!

This is just going to be another one in a long line of cuts. I'll bet y'all the school board caves in. PC and all, you know!

Did I just hear an ACLU phone ringing?

Here only one suburban school district closes for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and it's due to too many absenses. It was probably more economical feasible to just close the schools than to find substitute teachers and make up homework for the Jewish students.

Not all school districts close for the High Holiday, only one or two with high number of Jewish students and teachers.

But I think the real purpose of the muslim leaders doing this is to force the board of education to either start honoring other holidays or to stop closing on Jewish High Holidays. Wouldn't surprise me if the ACLU and other LLL are going to start getting involved to demand that all school districts be prohibited from closing schools on Jewish High Holidays due to separation of state and church.

JG

# 3 Gordie,

Christmas doesn't count because it is during the winter holiday season anyway.

Earth to Gord.......take a wild guess as to what "the winter holiday season" is based on.

Gordon

Christmas doesn't count because it is during the winter holiday season anyway.

Exactly what "Winter Holiday" are we celebrating if we remove christmas?
Sorta like, if we roll all these other holidays into the same time period, than Christmas becomes diluted somehow.

BTW, I live in B-more and have been watching this on the news closely.

I can't wait to see the comments section of the Baltimore Sun (local rag) and listen to the liberals try to get their brains around this one.

The ehadline of this thread ""Muslims Upset _______" fill in the blank

My question is "When are those assholes not upset"?

Why are religous holidays celebrated at all? I understand if the holiday fall on the accepted break periods or State/Federal Holidays (eg, Christmas), but why should there be special holidays for purely religous reasons? If you want to celebrate it, there's be nothing stopping you from staying home 'sick'.

where's the darn ACLU when u need 'em?

What's the big deal? Their holiest day, September 11, usually falls before the beginning of the school year.

There is no way we solve these problems, they are doing the same everywhere in the world.

They are just invading the whole world.
And nobody is doing ANYTHING to stop them.

Splodydon and Ein-Your-Face are not holidays I want my kids to celebrate, thank you. We don't need to show special deference to the intolerant.

How about a constructive holiday, like INDEPENDENCE DAY for AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ from decades of brutal tyranny?

The School Board should counter-propose with those dates. Just a thought.

/

"Holiday" = "Holy day"

That is where the word comes from......

Well I think they should include, at minimun, the date of The Headchopper's Ball

Oh goody, a holiday for every holy day of every religion! It's going to be a non-stop party! Yes, yes, this is good because I would like to celebrate them all.

We need to make every day a Holy Day so the [bigoted word]s don't hijack them first

#3 Gordie

What, you can't say it?

It's called the "Christmas Holiday!"

At least it was when I grew up. Before the LLL's screwed our country up.

I live in Maryland, a bastion of knee-jerk liberalism. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

Amerabia is a distinct possibility, folks. The natural desire to compromise plus the fear of losing our heads or other bodily members if we don't.

I'm not very sanguine about the prospects of a non-dhimmi response from the State of Maryland to requests like these.

What's the big deal? Their holiest day, September 11, usually falls before the beginning of the school year.

Not in Texas. There are so many holidays and "teacher workshops" that many schools in the Dallas area start in mid-August when afternoon temps still routinely top out in triple digits.

The other explanation I've heard is the early starts are pushed by the football coaches so they can start practices earlier in the summer.

nodrog-

Christmas doesn't count because it is during the winter holiday season anyway.

Why do you think that is?

What precentage does the muslim population there represent?

Being a lizard, I'd like to proclaim every sunny day a holiday. I worship the great sun god "TANMYBUNS"

#33 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Exactly what "Winter Holiday" are we celebrating if we remove christmas?

The old pagan European Winter Solstice celebration, of course. All very politically correct, you see. So-called liberals believe all referrences to Christianity MUST be removed from public life, but accomodations MUST be made for the followers of the Paedophile Prophet. All very "inclusive".

Celebrate them all, Californican? What would Scientologists celebrate, say? Tom Cruise's raffish smile? Hi everybody! Happy Wacked-Out Hubbard Day! Here's a free poster from "Risky Business"! Vintage!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

Insanity. I suppose you'll want off work too?

There is going to have to be an "America First" movement ( or call it what you like) if we are going to survive this attack. Even if we prevent them from attacking again with planes or bombs, they are going to attack us intellectually, verbally.....people they are trying to wipe out anything but Islam and the word has got to get out and get out NOW. We had better be getting out the message that the Muslims are trying to take over, BEFORE anything you say against them becomes a hate crime. big brother is waiting in the wings and if WE LET THIS HAPPEN then I have no pity for us.

WE ARE AMERICANS. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE BETTER START FIGHTING FOR IT IF WE WANT TO KEEP IT.

GORDON, SHUT UP.

owl

( yeah, I'm pretty freaking angry - sorry)

AI-

Ameri-rabia here we come ! ! !

Death first!

Gordon:

How about Festivus?

Don't forget to close the schools for Buddah's birthday, too. And while we're at it, I think we should also be celebrating the anniversary of Disneyland's opening (all month long in May). Thanks RoP. Now move on. (dot org)

Let's see........

I'm not a President, but I get President's Day off
I'm not a civil rights leader, but I get MLK Day off
I'm not a veteran, but I get Memorial Day off
I tend not to celebrate New Year's Day (no specific reason, I just don't), but I get the day off

Heck, I don't get Easter off.......

Perhaps I should complain...or should I?

/sarcasm

...and if the fish are biting.

#33 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Exactly what "Winter Holiday" are we celebrating if we remove christmas?

Winter Solstice, Chanukah, Kwannza (ugh), Boxing Day :)

I grew up in Encino, which is a very Jewish part of Los Angeles. At Encino Elementary School we all got Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah off, Jewish or not....because if the school were to stay open there would be less than 50% attendence. Half of the students were Jewish.

My cousins that lived in other less-Jewish parts
of LA did not get these days off.

If the Baltimore School Disct. has an area where 50% of the students are Muslim then they might have a point.....otherwise, get over it.

#27 Joel:

The Palestinians are planning to mark Israel's Independence Day by sounding a siren as an expression of mourning. The siren will be sounded throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip at noon on Sunday, and Palestinians have been asked to stand still for one minute to protest the establishment of Israel.

Gosh that's funny. I was under the impression that Jordyptians simply wanted to live in peace side-by-side with the state of Israel, which they accept as a neighbor.

At least that's what liberals keeps saying, despite the words and actions of the PLO.

Maryland will fold on this one. Maryland is dhimmi central.

...and if the surf's up.

...and of course the opening of Deer Season.

Where is the "cry baby" picture?

#3 Gordon

"If there are more Muslims than Jews in the Baltimore City schools, and the schools close for Yom Kippur, then they should close for the Muslim Holidays too."

Again, the blind PC assumption that islam is just another religion.

Please name one other 'religion' that advocates death for anyone wishing to leave it.

I’ll make it even easier for you. Name one other ideology (religious or secular) that has a ‘leave and you’re dead’ clause and is given official recognition by the state?

This little 'quirk' of islam alone must make it technically illegal in most of the west.

Oh well.

Move somewhere else.

We were not found as a muslim nation, so piss off.

You think these assholes would be a bit more contrite in light of certain events and try to make amends.

But no, they'd rather stick in our faces.

That'll win us over.

Gordon: For Festivus (which falls out every December 23 no matter what day of the week that is) I will make a contriubtion in your name to The Human Fund - "Money for People."

How many calendars have special days listed on them, but ARE NOT CELEBRATED? I don't remember the last time I celebrated Boxer Day. But, I don't live in Canada either.

Are they going to list every friggin' special day on every friggin' calendar to be PC?

Hope not...

Wait til "the Hallmark people" weigh in on this one.

#3 Gordon

If there are more Muslims than Jews in the Baltimore City schools, and the schools close for Yom Kippur, then they should close for the Muslim Holidays too.

Well what if the number of Muslim students is 95% the number of Jewish students? Your math discriminates against Muslims.

Also it seems that the schools only close for one Jewish holiday; there are others. This means that the Muslims are entitled to only one closing.

As for your comment about Christmas being in the middle of the winter holiday, everyone knows that this holiday is only because of Christmas. Possibly the whole system should be restructured. Oh I know the Jews never complained. Why should they - extra holidays, the lazy sods. But now that the Muslims are complaining we should look at it.

// Gordon's Daddy.

// Run along now. Play your harmonica son.

Don't speak to it and it will drown in it's own bile.

This is really making me angry. Do you know how many years Jews politely asked for Jewish Children to be allowed Unexcused absences for our two Holidays? (3 days at the most) We've been in the US and contributed in every way for almost 400 years...and didn't dare even ask about this issue until recently. (last 30 years or so) And here we are, with Muslims just arriving in the US and almost immediately DEMANDING that their numerous holidays be listed and G-d knows what for their children. All I can say is: What a diff it makes when you are a large and violent group. Bet they get what they want. If not right this minute..a year or so down the line.

Jews don't get off for Chanukah..Dont get off for Passover..or any other of our Holidays..just the two Holidays and I don't know if we get TWO days for Rosh Hashona or not..Didnt used to. (last I heard the STATE decided that Jews were only allowed ONE Day for Rosh Hashona..That Holiday is in fact a TWO day holiday)

61 Model 4

Gosh that's funny. I was under the impression that Jordyptians simply wanted to live in peace side-by-side with the state of Israel, which they accept as a neighbor.

But, but, I thought that there ws a Road Map to Treblinka er Peace that was going to produce two states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace where they hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

I'm an American Jew. When my kids were little and in public grade school (yeah, mistake), they did not get off for Jewish holidays. We had to get permission from the schools, which was never a problem. So what that they got off for Christmas or Easter. This is a Christian country, and we respect that fact. In fact, because this is a Christian country, we are able to practice our religion.

In most Moslem countries you can't practice any religion but Moslem.

#3 Gordon

Don't know of the actual percentages of residents, but there are a lot of Russian Jews in and around Baltimore. Most emigrated in the 80's and 90's. Frankly I'm surprised Baltimore Co. schools record Yom Kippur, or any religous holiday for that matter. They're very PC here.

Festivus Frikkin Minimus!

I'm surprised that the school is closed for Yom Kippur. When I went to school, Jews were able to miss that day without penalty, but the rest of us still had to go.

ToxMan-

How many calendars have special days listed on them, but ARE NOT CELEBRATED? I don't remember the last time I celebrated Boxer Day. But, I don't live in Canada either.

My favorite is ANZAC Day.

I've mentioned this before. Obviously, with the Muslim calendar, based on a primitive moon god religion with a 28 day cycle and no relation to a solar calendar, is just hard to integrate with a Western calendar.

But, with Labor Day 3 weeks prior, Thanksgiving 2 months away, and the weather in most of the country still good enough for outdoor activity, lets declare the third or fourth Monday in September as "Eid-al-Fitr" day. A three day weekend when Americans can reflect on the role of Arab and Muslim culture in the US. Things like bringing the Hindu concept of "zero" to the West, the invention of the word "algebra", the rearrangement of the Manhattan skyline.

We'll BBQ hot dogs and bacon cheeseburgers and spareribs, drink beer, wear bathing suits. Maybe a special weekend of college football. "The Eid Pigskin Classic". A special Friday night NASCAR race.

Maybe Neiman-Marcus and Sak's will have special "Eid Weekend Sales".

Maybe even TV specials, Neil Diamond concerts where he sings inspiring things about Mohammad.

Really, it sounds like a wonderful way to show our Muslim immigrants just how much we appreciate them.

#6 John
#7 Whole Wheat Bagel
#18 Poitiers-Lepanto
Yes, yes, and yes.
Followers of Mohammed,
TOO FREAKIN' BAD!
And yes, I'm thinking the school board may cave on this. As long as the general public is clueless about islam, there will be caving, giving in, accomodating.
Remember the scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where the pretty girl is about to be lowered into the fiery pit by the bad guys, and Indiana has been drugged/hypnotized, and she's crying, "Wake up, Indie, wake up!"
That's how I feel.
Wake up, America.

Innismir

Winter Solstice, Chanukah, Kwannza (ugh), Boxing Day :)

And a Merry Winterboxed Chriskwannzukah to you as well.

Sorry, Merry Christmas just seems to "flow" easier.

I am afraid that the Board of Ed will cave on this item though. But, I will have to look up the demographics of B-more and see what percentage are Muslim.

This guy doesn't seem to understand how the game works in this country. If the holiday is really so significant to you, keep your kids home that day. They'll be no more "victimized" than if they had to call in sick. If over the years (yes years, these things take years, and too bad if you can't wait) schools notice significant number of students out on a particular day they will raise the issue. That's the time to make your case to the school board.

Unless of course, your real reason for pushing Muslim holidays is simply to promote Islam.

#78 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

LOL

#16 Endangered in Mass

"Death to Infidels Day and more Death to Infidels Day"

I have a nice little Sig Sauer and some hollow points to counter those celebrations.

75 BabbaZee

George, Festivus is your heritage

Frank Costanza

I love the feats of strength part. Charles can go up agianst one of the trolls who infest this blog.

I think Peackeepers anal verge is now Islams 1,278th holiest site!
It appears no where on this calendar!
Jihad!

#78 Ed Mahmoud

LOL! Maybe we can make up a special "Eid al-Fitr" stamp, too. Oh wait, we already did...

#84 Joel
I grow weary of trolls and their moldering bile.

I've mentioned this before. Obviously, with the Muslim calendar, based on a primitive moon god religion with a 28 day cycle and no relation to a solar calendar, is just hard to integrate with a Western calendar.

Careful, Ed, the Jewish calendar is also lunar. In fact, I believe there is a month they must actually repeat every few years to try to keep it somewhat in synch with Earth's orbit around the sun.

Here are some other holidays that I DEMAND to be placed on ALL school calendars:

August 21: Garlic Salt Festival

Sept. 28: Opposum Festival

Nov. 15: Wart Hog Day

May 29: Fuzzy Hat Day

And Today: Parsley Festival.

I feel discriminated against.

/insanity mode off

What are the chances of getting people to quit considering Islam as a religion and start thinking of it as a socio/political movement with religious overtones?
Most decent people want to give "religions" at least some consideration and are unwilling to criticize them - this will be our downfall.
It would help if we could put Islam in the same context as Communism. It wouldn't make any difference to some, but it would wake up others.

Not until they agree to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day and the Great American BUYcott (of ammo).

88
LbtB

But they manage to keep Chanukkah in December and Passover in the Spring, don't they.

Quick, what month is the Eid al Fitr in 2025 AD?

OT - More evidence that socialism doesn't work - even when combined with Islam...

Socialist ideology remains deeply entrenched in the mindset of many Libyans.

Official estimates say 13% of Libyans are unemployed. With a local population of 5.5m people, half of whom are under 20, this is an alarming figure and one that calls for solutions...

"Previously, everyone who graduated from high school or universities was employed by the state," he said.

"Of course now the state is overcrowded by employees."

You've got to laugh.

Libya grapples with unemployment

Mr Zaidi went on to stress that the Revolutionary Committee movement does support moves towards privatisation, but not in a capitalist way.

How do you privatise in a non-capitalist way?
Sell to the lowest bidder?

87 BabbaZee

You should have seen some of the trolls who used to come on this blog in past years. One was a typical Brit from Oxford that reeked of being totally dhimmized.

What's really absurd about this is that Islam does not follow a solar calendar (i.e. not 365 days in a year), so that their holidays do NOT fall on the same time every year. In fact, they slowly migrate through the western calendar, moving several days forward every year. After a few decades, it will have made the complete cycle.

Maybe they should get back to us when they adopt the Gregorian Calendar.

Oh, by the way, I am a member of The Cult of the Purple Walrus! We have 17 holidays per year -- a year being exactly 273.6 days long. I DEMAND, and I mean DEMAND, that all school districts honor all 17 holidays!

What? You ignore me?

OK, how about if I add this: Purple Walrus acolytes around the world will call for your death if you do not accede. Oh, and we have a LOT of annoying lawyers who will sue you into oblivion unless you do what we say.

There. I thought you'd listen. Now, the first holiday we'll implement is Holy Tusk Day, which falls on January 26 this year... .

I don't see Theodor Herzl's or Frank Zappa's birthdays on this calendar. Now I AM offended.

Sure and after we let them have Infidel day, then they are gonna want wife-beating day, then goat-fuckin day, then throat-slitting day, then call to pray to the Big Rock in the desert on loudspeaker 5 times a day. Before you know it we will have about as much freedom as Republicans at Harvard.

It's called the "Christmas Holiday!"

Actually I have to agree with Gordon here. It is no longer known as Christmas in the gov't run world.

Even my private employer has quietly put out notices that the word "Christmas" cannot be used in company material during that time of year.

Lizard, there's actually a leap year (with the extra month, as you say) seven times every 19 years. Once upon a time I could tell you where those leap years fell (3rd, 6th, 10th... ) but I've forgotten now.

Here's a listing of Catholic Feastdays.

I DEMAND that EACH AND EVERY ONE of them be put on the Baltimore Schools calenders because it “feels discriminatory" if they don't.

And yes, there are Feastdays for everyday on the calender.

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Shiver me timbers! when be that, arrrrrr.

Here we go again...

Talk Like A Pirate Day
Shiver me timbers! when be that, arrrrrr.

Mind yer swabbin' you scurvy lot!
Arr Arrr!

Lets see if i have this right, christians and jews are persecuted and killed trying to practice their religion in muslim countries. yet they come here and DEMAND we honor their religous holidays?. do something FOR this country instead of against it and maybe they would have room to talk. til then. they should shut up and be grateful we do not deport them en masse

#101 californican

September 19th = Talk Like A Pirate Day.

# 92 Ed

Depends when the Mufti or Iam declares it to be.
Based on sighting of the new Moon.

Wonder where they got that from ?

As a conservative I need "liberals suck," day...kay?

98 Dave the.....

I thought that the politcally correct term is "the Holiday Season." Soon the 3rd Monday in December will be the day we ahve off.

Bash Pharoan? Yes, let's.

Wonder where they got that from ?

Kleptokoranimals!

Cry me a river

We do have an Islamic Holiday - it's called Memorial Day.

Jehu, have you heard? All liberals are still traitors.

No. 101 Californican: Did you know that AVAST! means Stop!

#80 Village Idiots Appretance

And a Merry Winterboxed Chriskwannzukah to you as well.

Sorry, Merry Christmas just seems to "flow" easier.

I usually use the term "Happy BoxaChrismaKwanzaKah Solstice". :D

Agreed. Merry Christmas does sound better.

Anybody in Md. know if they changed the Rosh Hashona excused absence policy? Its a TWO DAY MAJOR Holiday and Md. Schools decided for Jews that it was a ONE DAY Holiday..

If Muslim students are being allowed to leave the classroom every day to pray and they are beginning to push for Holidays for themselves..then its time for Jews to demand that the full Holiday of Rosh Hashona be acknowledged. We've waited politely long enough. Sheesh

November 19th = National Ammo BUYcott Day.

BabbaZee

Why are you demeaning traitors?

104 DIAMONDMASC
103 BabbaZee
91 Renna

On Talk Like A Pirate Day do we (the guys) get to wear a Puffy Shirt?

As you can tell I'm in a Seinfeld State of Mind this afternoon.

#119 jehu
LOL

#90 our gal sal
You are exactly right.
Considering islam a religion is a mistake.
I personally consider it an insane, evil death cult that wants to take over the world.
How do we get our government to do this?

#108 The company I work for has renamed Christmas to "Celebrate the Diversity of the Season".

As it's become rather large, they kiss PC butt like you wouldn't believe.

Pleeeaseeee make it stop....!

You know, percentages be damned.

I don't care if they are 10, 20, or 99 percent of the student population, I still don't want to give a holiday to celebrate a death cult religion that adds nothing of value to this planet and has blood on all its borders.

Kinda reminds me of the fear over Elvis's "thrusting pelvis" in the 1950's. They were right.

It's a slow death..

Amerika 2055

Hey mom, wheres my burka?

It's in your other mothers bedroom Aisha dear. Don't forget your koran.

Thanks mom, Allah akbar.

They never saw it coming.

Dave the...-

Actually I have to agree with Gordon here. It is no longer known as Christmas in the gov't run world.

Thanks to our LLL/Secularist friends! I say the opposite of nodroG- if it's going to be the "Winter Holiday" because "Christmas" is offensive, then perhaps all holidays should get some new PC name. Halloween can go by "Harvest Holiday". Independence Day can go by "Fireworks Holiday". And New Years Day can be called "Buy a New Calendar Day".

Only way to stop this crap (aside from just kicking their asses back to one of the GREAT countries they came from).

Is to have NO religious holidays. Give kids 2 or 3 floating holidays to take on their own time. Call it whatever you want, or for whatever reason...this stuff sucks.

Like that town in Wisconsin that went and allowed the throat-slitters to have their little call of pray to Satan blaring out of loudspeakers 5 times a day. Guess cause the Catholics have been able to have bells or something was the LLL excuse.

I've always liked Glen Beck's name for the Holiday Season:

Ramahannakwanzmas.

Government & employers appear to have ENDORSED THE RELIGION OF SECULARIZATION...

I wonder what would happen if they put out word that "Martin Luther King" day cannot be mentioned. Instead you have to call it National Heritage Day. This is to respect those who aren't African-Americans.

Californican: Did you know that AVAST! means Stop!

I do now.

Being serious for a moment, perhaps Sep 11 should be declared a national day of mourning and it be compulsory for all children, including those of the Muslim persuasion, to be taught the evils of terrorism.

#123 Dave the.....

What diversity of the season are they talking about?

#132 #17

Sept 19th is already "Patriot Day."

There is no reason why your suggestion couldn't become one of the traditional ways to remember that day.

Damn! This makes me too mad anymore. Like watching cancer spread in a friend, and everyone around gets out party hats and plays twister, laughing their idiot heads off..."you got cancer?"

"Man that sounds really great, where do I get mine!"

I think Dr Ali Sina or Bat Ye'or or Daniel Pipes or Robert Spencer should have a chat with the school board.

OT

That cell approaching Leavenworth, KS, while small, looks interesting to me.

KC Metro area is under a tornado watch.

No warnings at the current time.

#132 #17-

Being serious for a moment, perhaps Sep 11 should be declared a national day of mourning and it be compulsory for all children, including those of the Muslim persuasion, to be taught the evils of terrorism.

HEAR! HEAR!

#132 # 17
I second that.

We must close the borders to muslim immigration, we must not allow here the same invasion that has killed Europe.

It's an invasion , idiot politicians !

They planned it !
They are carrying it on, it can be the end of everything we hold dear !

I thought that politicians could at least read, evidently the only thing they can do is live long lives doing nothing from dawn to sunset.

#47 RoughRider

I remember when DISD schools started right after Labor Day. This was in the '60s.

The outrage! Imagine this happening in Towson, Maryland, the 15,987th most holy site in Islam.

/sarc

If Baltimore is going to add these holidays, I demand that they allow days off for Diwali - the Hindu festival of lights! (and I am neither from India nor Hindu)

Diwali celebrations are a lot of fun, India is a democracy, India recognizes what is at stake in the war on [Islamonazi] terror, and Indians have added a lot to the USA, so if another holiday should be added, it should be this one. Plus Aishwarya Rai is pretty hot.

If you are unfamiliar with Diwali, this expalins it: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Guys, I've got the perfect solution: We should declare the chunk of the year from November to February to be the federal holiday of Christmahanakwanzaramadanakavali. That'll solve all of our problems!

Is that Welsh or Slavic? LOL

I hate this thought, but can't help it. I think the only hope for America is another massive attack on the homeland by these vermin. God, I wish there was another way, but we are playing with the end of civilization. America WAKE UP!

#133 Joel

What diversity of the season are they talking about?

They put a notice on the intracompany web site listing all the celebrations of that time of year. As a Lutheran-American I found it very insulting that they equate Christmas with about a dozen really obscure events. I'm fine with Hannakuh of course, but some of the rest.....

One of the managers here was told that if he sent cards to the people who report to him, he could not use the word "Christmas" in it.

I wouldn't have stood for that, but some people don't want to jepordize their careers.

#124 urthshu

Pleeeaseeee make it stop....!

Stop crying, and fight your father!

The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear

Looking at the school calendar, they use all kinds of un-P.C. lingo.

I see
Christmas
Easter
Rosh Hashanah.

Since we moved here last year, I have found a lot of closet Republicans in the area.
Most of them were afraid to speak about their beliefs in such a liberal enclave/nest/pit/cesspool, etc.

However, once our Bush yard sign went up for the election, we have all kinds of new friends.

Plus going to and from work in uniform sorta got them all talking.

How about a compromise? Give them as many Muslim holidays here as there are Christian holidays in Saudi Arabia.

You know, Bash has a point. We need to recognize the high holy days of Islum when muslimes can take pride of their contributions to the world:

9/11 (which others have recognized already)
3/11 (Madrid train bombings)
9/1-9/3 (a couple of days off for the Beslan school massacre that killed 330 children and teachers, could make for a long weekend if timed correctly)
10/12 (Bali bombings killing 202 mostly Australian tourists and locals)
10/23 (Forty-one members of the ROP calling themselves the Islamic Suicide Squad took more than 800 Moscow theatergoers hostage)
6/10/95 (members of the ROP held more than 2,000 patients and medical personnel hostage and used pregnant women from the maternity ward, as a shield). 120 killed.
9/5 (Munich Olympics massacre)

I could go on, but running out of bandwidth chronicling all of the days in which the school district could recognize the unique and consistent contributions of the ROP to societies around the world.

How about their contributions to Medicine? Industry? Technology? Economics? We could institute holidays for these achievements from the muslimes.

Now if we could just identify any.....

Hey New Yorkers! The UN is fixin' to stink up more of your space.

UN eyes space in B'klyn, WTC area

The world body is looking for office and conference space while it renovates its landmark East Side headquarters, starting in 2007. Among the sites under consideration is 7 World Trade Center, the high-rise being completed next to Ground Zero.

I say move the UN to Darfur while their renovations are going on.

148 Dave the.....

I do (to supplement my meager wages) some substitute teaching on my days off. I find it pathetically amusing when I see the books about Kwanzaa they have in teh NY City public schools.

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
101 PM CDT WED MAY 11 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT

* AT 1257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JARBALO...OR 12 MILES EAST OF OSKALOOSA...
AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
LANSING BY 135 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF FT LEAVENWORTH IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM.

If I were running that office (EAX), the residents of Fort Leavenworth would have had an extra four minutes warning.

Dave the...

I'm planning an LGF party for us Midwestern Lizards. Whould you like to join us? Email me!

But, but, but --as the Muslims themselves are always proclaiming --Islam is NOT just a religion, it is a social-political system.

Treated as a political-social ideology, they are not entitled to any special priveleges because they happen to have a religion that goes with it.

Just saying, they can't have it both ways --claim religious exemptions AND insist they are a social-political ideology entitled to have their own laws and rules of justice.

jehu: Thats not gonna work. Heres the direction of how the West actually responds to violence or the threat of violence. Once there is a large Terrorist action, the US actually CAVES. Whole lotta tough talk, but soon after the threat or the action, Islam gets closer to what they want. ie..despite 30 years of promising Jews and most Americans that there would NOT be a SECOND Pal State..after the US Citizen voted for Reps who DIDN'T back a Pal State..whatdoyouknow? there IS going to be a Pal State. It seems Terrorism WORKS..and works well-thank you very much.

Under the Radar the US is reponding to all sorts of demands of Muslims..All of a sudden Hospitals are amending all sorts of policies and proceedures so as to conform to what Islam wants. Its quiet, but it is happening.

On topic, Intelligence report cites "routine" Egyptian antisemitism.

#154 Sarah D

A UN building on the WTC site? Now THAT'S desecration. I'm going to riot.

#149 AI
Muslim ain't a race, so it's hard to tell.

Now that we are getting specific as to where in Baltimore this is taking place (Towson)I can say "I live in the middle of Towson".

In Towson, there is not a lot of Islamic presence, yet.

Our district doesn't close for religious holidays, but students are allowed to miss religious/cultural (like lunar new year) days as excused absences.

I assume staff too, but being a Christian I can't think of any holiday I would want to celebrate that I don't already get off. My Muslim friend gets Friday afternoons off to go to juma, but she has to make up the hours. I assume, anyway.

Hey, if we're going to have Talk like a Pirate Day, then we also need to have:

Talk like a Hippie Day
Talk like a Valley Girl Day
Talk like Einstein Day

You know, for equality's sake.

:-)

#19 jgold

Can someone tell me one thing they have done that is good for American society?

Does Casey Kasem count as "...one thing...good for American society?"?

160 WriterMom

I am shocked!

This crap makes me livid. My niece and nephew aren't allowed to sing CHRISTMAS CAROLS, but the f*cking MUSLIMS are going to get two holidays? And don't fool yourself into thinking they won't. Spineless sally ass school committee will capitulate. Just watch.

WTF is happening to our country?

Sorry for the rant.

165 Simple Voice

Though he is an Arabist propagandist (like Ralph Nader), Casey Kasem is not a Muslim.

"After we evacuate the settlers we would have to maintain military forces, security guards and forces to destroy the houses in the middle of enemy territory and there is no assurance that there wouldn't be terror attacks," Mofaz said.

Good reason to leave then huhm?

Sounds like they have no control over the situation - they're weak

Imagine that was the top ranking general of the US forces!?

We live in a suicidally Politicaly correct world in which fear of appearing un-P.C. is the worse thing - that's just plain pathetic

[Link: reuters.myway.com...]

Everyone knows that true Muslims recognize no 'holy days' and have no 'saints'. This is just a ploy by westernized Islamics to curry favor with the west by sharing customs such as 3 day weekends.

167 loppyd

I have friends who live in Maryland (Rockville and Baltimore), believe me Maryland is as bad as Massachussetts.

OT:

Does anyone have any idea what's happened to Tim Blair's blog?

170 mglazer

Mofaz has turned into an idiot. The PLO has said that they want to destroy those homes yet he thinks that Israel would get bad P.R. by blowing them up.

#3 Gordon—

Baltimore City is not in Baltimore County. Don't change the subject.

I attended Baltimore County public schools from first through 12th grade. These particular schools were in the Pikesville "ghetto," and the student body of each was 90% or more Jewish. Never mind the High Holidays; the halls were near-empty during many of the "Yom Tov" days of Succoth, Passover, and Shavouth. Virtually none of the missing pupils were shomer shabbas, but that's another matter. The schools were open on those days, but it was essentially all-day study hall for those (like me) who attended.

It seems to me that concepts of critical mass and comparability come into play here. If the Muslim school population is minuscule, then Muslim holidays should be accommodated in the same way that, say, Hindu holidays are accommodated for believers. No way should special treatment be afforded on Muslim supremacist grounds.

Note that the complaining parties speak of two holidays, which must be the Eids. I infer that they are willing to countenance the school system's failure to mark the holidays of Shi'a Islam.

Judge Rules DMV Cannot Revoke Driver's Licenses

A judge ruled yesterday that the state Department of Motor Vehicles cannot proceed with a plan to revoke hundreds of thousands of driver's licenses based on immigration status.

.....

In Manhattan, Justice Smith ruled that the state's pending suspension of 252,000 licenses, many of which were gained with fraudulent Social Security numbers, is unlawful. The DMV responded that it intends to appeal, which places a stay on the ruling so that undocumented immigrants cannot renew licenses despite the ruling.

252,000?! Just in Manhattan? Free Americans unite, this crap has gone on for far too long.

The two holiest days of Islam

And how many non muslims died on these days to make them so holy?

#165 Simple Voice

Although Kasem is Arab, I'm not sure that he is Muslim. His bio says his parents were Druze.

And he also is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Do. Who knew?

#169 AI

See, I have a problem with that; I can't believe that only 1.16% have multiple parentage. It's the problem of being boxed into a particular group.

We've talked here before about our various backgrounds. Keeping track of this stuff is just silly, after a while.

Muslim activists are seething and demanding special treatment.

This reminds me of the standard conservative line in opposition to gay rights, that it is "special" rights.

Sorry, no. Demanding equal treatment is not the same thing as demanding special treatment. The only reason someone would call it special is if they thought the group in question didn't even deserve equal treatment, which seems to be Charles' opinion here. It's just hate, pure and simple. And whether some Muslims hate more is irrelevant.

Judeo-Christian heritage or not, last time I checked there was no established religion in America. If schools accomodate one religion there's not much of a case to be made to refuse to accommodate others as well. The honest solution would be to not have any mention of religion in the calendar at all.

Here's a Muslime holiday I celebrate
every year. It's called -

HAPPY NAKBA DAY!

Happy Nakba to all the Paleostinians
and the Arab sub-humans!

172 Joel

The Carolinas are starting to look really nice. :D

#34 Joel -My question is "When are those assholes not upset"?

Plenty! Let's see....When Jews and Christian die. When schools hold "pretend you are a Muslim" week. When modern marvels of engineering and human achievement are destroyed. When stupid people convert to Islam. When stupid white liberals defend someone's right to wear a veil on their drivers license.

I wonder what the calendar looks like in Detroit, where the newspaper falsely reports that certain terrorists have been deported, terrorist prosecutions are sabotaged by those seeking to curry favor with the muslim community and the muslim community grows by leaps and bounds as we write these posts. The situation is only going to get worse - everywhere.

Wahhhhhhh! Wahhhhhh! Wahhhhhh!

Can we at least stop importing more troublemakers? No more muslim immmigration! There are limits to the benefits of "diversity."

I am from Towson.
Here is the demographics I was able to find:

Total population about 52,000

White 45,514 88.9 %
Black or African American 4,089 8.0 %
American Indian and Alaska Native 185 0.4 %
Asian 2,166 4.2 %
Native Hawaiian and Other Islander 30 0.1 %
Some other race 462 0.9 %

95 zombie

Good point, their "holy days" are not the same every year and the school calendars are created at least a year in advance.

And, NO school in the US is obliged to use any calendar other than the Gregorian. So, they would never be right anyway.

#146 buzzsawmonkey

After all, how insulting it must be to smell food, and to see/hear other people eating, when you are fasting from sunup to sundown.

Great, thanks for giving them another idea.

OH...While this discussion is going on I'm watching my TV where there was a huge Alert, all sorts of Washingtonians in the Cap. and White House running for their lives..until they made sure there wasn't an ISLAMIC Attack on the WHO. Last I heard, Jews and Israel have never attacked or made any plans to attack the US.

There may be a reason it's MARYLAND --it's on the other side of DC from northern Virginia.

I wonder how soon islamists will have enough local influence to intimidate our US Congress. (Not talking votes here.)

And could we cope by relocating Congress? Maybe to Philadelphia (city of brotherly love), or Las Vegas (gambling, niteclubs), or Baton Rouge (mardi gras)?

#193

So here's a problem: people complain about "racial profiling", and yet we ask about people's racial backgrounds all over the place. Yet I don't see a item in the lists above for "arab." Why is that?

#81 frankp_63

Unless of course, your real reason for pushing Muslim holidays is simply to promote Islam.

HA! That's a good one! Surely you don't think. . .

Is "BPP" just another nic for Gordon? A froll/troll?

Bluestar-

The Palestinians are not born subhuman.

They have to be raised that way.

But I agree

¡ Aloha Naqba !

#176 Sarah D.

Your post is evidence that without the subversive left terrorists and invaders wouldn't be able to attack us.

It's not only an invasion, the problem is that powerful forces INSIDE the Western World have planned how to open the doors to the invaders.

And news like that are carefully hidden by the MSM, the general population has NO IDEA of what is actually happening in this Country.

"The most important date on the Palestinian calendar, Nakba Day"

What Hindu holiday is it where they wear white clothes, and then they throw colored water at each other, for instant, on-your-body tie-dye? We should do that one every year.

Plus, Sadie Hawkins Day gets my vote.

#154 Sarah D.

Don't renovate the place, just tear it down and put a dog park on the site.

#168 Joel

Well, if Casey ain't a Muslim, then I can't think of one good thing.

#178 Renna

I knew he was Shaggy. He also does the voice of Robin, the Boy Wonder, on Superfriends.

OT
Another example of Google's anti-semtic news sources. This link is what they have in their world news section where the word Jews is in quotation marks.

[Link: www.profindpages.com...]

It could be possible that the Muslims there are primarily Nation of Islam which is NOT recognized by Islam as legtimate.

#146 buzzsawmonkey

After all, how insulting it must be to smell food, and to see/hear other people eating, when you are fasting from sunup to sundown

the purpose of fasting is to show your adhesion to your religion. How does what other people do have any play in it.

When I got baptised I wasn't offended because everyone else in the world didn't climb in with me.

equivalency is equivalent to stupidity

Unless stopped, they plan to soon celebrate Amerabia day.

#202 Simple Voice

Like, Wow.

#182 Bluestar

I agree with Happy Naqba day, but think calling Arabs sub-human is horrendous. I'm fine with Islamonazi-which I think is accurate, but sub-human is dangerous territory. Just MHO.

This year, more than a few high schools around the country scheduled Prom Night on Passover.

202 Simple Voice

Paul Anka is also of Arab descent but Lebanese Christian (as is Danny Thomas).

They are behaviorally sub-human - when it is used regarding the sub-human actions of people, it is legit. When you just decide to yell sub-human at a group of people that is minding it's own business, that's wrong.

They ARE sub-human [bigoted word]s... by their own words and deeds.

Good point, their "holy days" are not the same every year and the school calendars are created at least a year in advance.

More importantly, the same holiday might be held on a different day depending on the country of origin of the Muslim. In our school, the Pakistani kids (for example) start Ramadan a day earlier than most of the Muslims do because some imam there says it starts on that day. Others start a day later, and celebrate Eid on a different day, too.

#184 The Christopher

Yeah when infidel blood is shed they like to ullululate

183 loppyd

Yeah "Carolina Girl" has me convinced that my next stop (in my literal "Wandering Jew" phase) ought to be the Carolinas. Hope to see you there some day.

Aramerica?
Amerabia?
United Arab Americas?

Wake up America.

BenF: Here and there in the US there are A FEW small Jewish Communities that impact the school system. It ISN'T that those guys take off the OTHER Holidays that we have, it is if the absences are Excused or Unexcused.

While we are at it..there are Jewish Teachers who need to be with THEIR Moms and Dads and Husbands or Wives and Children for our couple of (ONLY TWO) Holidays.

We didn't Demand..we finally asked after about Four Hundred Years in the US.

This IS what is going to happen in in the US in about 20 years. Islamic Citizens are gonna demand that the US NOT shut down on Dec. 25. They will refuse to close their businesses..their banks..they will demand to use the US Post Office..Its already happening unofficially..Islamic Citizens don't stop their lives for Christmas. Jews DO ..out of respect..but not Islam.

FYI...

Casey Kasem = Kaseem Kaseem

Happy Nakba Casey, and Happy Nakba to all
my friends in Detroit, Paterson, N.J.,
and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.

May you remember it like it was yesterday!

Don't forget that in 2003 (I believe), the head of some Muslim agency in Michigan (where there is a large Muslim population) contacted the local school board to demand Ramadan as a school holiday while threatening "unhealthy consequences" if his demands were ignored.

When the school chancellor rightly perceived this as a threat and called the police, we were subjected to the usual response:

1. I didn't say what you said I said, even though what you said I said was an exact quote from my letter;

2. If I did say what you said I said, my words were taken out of context;

3. By accusing me of saying that my words (which I may or may not have said) mean what they mean in plain English, you are guilty of Islamophobia; and therefore:

4. I am the victim here and am being denied my civil rights.

We can expect this pattern to appear in Maryland as well.
And the reason my school district in upstate NY started closing on Jewish holidays was to accomodate the faculty more than the students.

216 BLUESTAR

And may the Moooslims have more Nakbas in their futures!

Joel, loppyd

The Carolinas are mighty nice...

213 Joel

One fine day, my friend...one fine day.

If they get their holidays, how long before they demand the schools provide the Muslim students with not only a prayer room, but separate bathrooms (like at the DoD)?

#215 Vickie

We didn't Demand..we finally asked after about Four Hundred Years in the US.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the US has only been around since 1776 (not quite 229 years)...

But, I know what you are saying and agree...

:)

What happened to the private Texas athletic conference that questioned why the Moslem school wanted to participate with a Christians? I read about it here several months ago.

219 christheprofessor

I looove the Carolinas.

Do you live down there? I've been to Charleston a few times, Kiawah Islanf, Myrtle Beach, Pawley's Island....

My cousin lives in New Bern, NC.

They are NOT prevented from getting excused absences for any religious holiday and some of the districts in that area even offer them 2 "floating" days for Ramadan.

The complaint is that they are not SPECIFICALLY listed a designated holidays on the school calendar.

October 15, 2004
By Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Area Muslim students will be able to take two excused absences during Ramadan to observe the monthlong Islamic holiday of fasting and feasting that begins today, though local school systems do not consider the days official holidays.
Muslim students can miss two days during Ramadan: Lailat al-Qadr, the "Night of Power," which happens during the final 10 days of the month, and Eid al-Fitr, the day that breaks the fast, which also is a day of celebration for Muslim families and communities.

The other area systems do not specifically address Ramadan, but most will grant students excused absences for recognized religious holidays, even if they aren't on the official school calendar. [Link: washingtontimes.com...]

221 NuclearTinkerbell

They have separate bathrooms at the DoD?
Why?

loppyd

I was just about 50 miles from New Bern yesterday. Beautiful part of the country... Grew up near Myrtle Beach (but in NC)...

Like that town in Wisconsin that went and allowed the throat-slitters to have their little call of pray to Satan blaring out of loudspeakers 5 times a day.

Jehu, I curse your mustache and issue a fatwa on you! All good people know that Michigan was the dhimmi state that allowed such blasphemy.

NO CHEESE FOR YOU.

A.I.
I didn't realize until further into all the discussion, that the talk was focusing on Towson. Hence my remark on getting into the specifics of location. I didn't want you to think I was getting snarky on you.

As an aside, if anyone is trying to research the ethnic breakdown here, remember that Baltimore City is NOT a part of, or included in Baltimore county stats.

The news last night stated that the county does not recognize any religious holidays. However, on the dates that have a historic high absentee rate (i.e. 25 December) than they make it a holiday.

Baltimore County superintendent Joe Hairston said tonight that school officials have to look at a much broader view than just one community, and be sensitive to three-quarters of a million people.

Whatever. So long as "Talk like a Pirate Day" and "Cinco de Mayo" day is on there too (Okay, Cinco de Mayo is the official day to laugh at the French, drink beer, and eat fajitas. What's not to like about that?)

I'm a little pissed that my birthday isn't listed as a high holy day because it should be.

Can we have a national "Saddam Memorial ass-kicking day", or "Taliban Bites the Big One" day, or Moammar Fashion Show Day?

Michigan, Wisconsin...what's the difference, really?

(ducks and hides)

#230 Swamp Woman

Please check you email.

loppyD

Because they keep jihading in the floor?

Gosh, where I am living now --the opening day of hunting season is a school holiday!

Swamp Woman

I'm a little pissed that my birthday isn't listed as a high holy day because it should be.

So many of the ancient events in our planets history have been forgotten or cast aside.

(ducks for cover)

Hey!
I've got a GREAT idea!
If they don't like the rules & ways of our culture.....
GO THE F*** HOME!
It's very sickening to constantly hear these oil ticks complain about being "harrassed & descriminated against".
Case in point...
How are Christians treated in the world's biggest sandbox?!

230 SwampWoman

I spent my childhood thinking my birthday WAS a holiday --New Year's Eve.

cris: You know that I wasn't talking about the OFFICIAL US..but when Jews arrived on these particular shores. I was trying to compare and contrast how Jews handled the situation of living in a society where we are outnumbered or not the majority. We went along with the Majority until we realized that OTHERS were Demanding all sorts of separate treatment. FINALLY we decided to ask for..not demand..excused absences from school for our children on THREE lousy days. Depending on the States or Counties (I'm not sure about Counties) we finally FINALLY were allowed usually TWO Days.

Look at the diff of how Jews handled this "problem" for us and how Islam is handling this situation. These are our HIGH HOLY DAYS..and very solemn and very important. Jews are a FAMILY centered Group and on these days it is unheard of to NOT be with your family.

I think the US will institute "Floating Religious Days"...that will be a way the US will handle it while taking the pressure OFF Islam. G-d Forbid US Citizens actually know that ISlam has so much power in the US.

Lopps- are you still in here?

230 SwampWoman

I celebrated Cinco de Mayo last week at a bar in NYC. It aws a grand time! Too bad theFrench Ambassador to the UN did not show up.

#238 Vickie

I know, I was just pulling your chain (hence the smiley face!). I believe Jews have been a tremendous boon to the US and to the world with with their contributions (e.g., medicine, science, etc).

Sorry if I offended, didn't mean to...

219 christheprofessor
220 loppyd

I've been a Carolinas fan ever since I was a little boy and my hero was Francis Marion aka "The Swamp Fox". I always wanted to visit the Revolutionary War sites in teh Carolinas. I drove pased Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Guilford Court House, once but my travelling mate was in a hurry and I did not stop for a visit. That was a mistake.

chris

the Joos just stole those ideas from the ayrabs

238 Vickie

Back in the 1930's when Jews were banned from may resorts and country clubs, they created the Catskills Borscht Belt. When many medical schools had strict quotas on Jews, Jews founded their own hospitals. That is why you have a place such as St. Louis Jewish Hospital (how many Jews in St. Looy anyway?). When many of the Ivy League Universities had quotas limiting the number of Jews, the Jewish people of NY City went to City College ("the Jewish Harvard" and Brooklyn College)and those colleges had an ewxcellent scholastic reputation because of that. The Jews helped make Hollywood and many other industries. There was no affirmative action or special treatment for our forbears.

Cris: Its OK. I'm just sitting here in my GORGEOUS (so pretty here this time of year) DC area watching whats going on today..and totally disgusted. I see that despite all sorts of tough talk by US Citizens and US Officials..the MORE Islam threatens the US, the more the US actually CAVES. Can you just imagine what would have happened to Jews if Israel and Jews launched a 30 year Terrorist threat against the US? What would have been the response?

Geeze....

#244 Joel

We da best! Gotta love us! :)

Joel: Thats JUST how we handeled the situations. It was handled that way almost everywhere in the US. ie Dont want us? We will do the best we can using what we can..

There are people that DONT KNOW that we didnt handle our minorty status like others did. We STLL dont. Others USE us sometimes (as a wedge group) but usually it is without our groups permssion.

Vickie
That's a good point.
I don't think I've EVER seen the minority group "Jewish" on any type of application to anything.

#248 Vickie

That's one of the very coolest things about living in Israel-being the majority.

227 christheprofessor

Near Wilmington? Stopped there from lunch on the way to Myrtle Beach last year. Looked like a funky town!

248 Vickie

There was no Jewish ritos in America that's for sure. Unfortunately our passivity in face of the intransigence of the State Department in not implementing rescue efforts for Euroepan Jews in the 1930's cost so many lives.

loppyd

According to the book, Infiltration, the need for Arabic translators became so important after 9-11, that the US government hired basically anyone who could pass a cursory security screening.

The Jews that applied for the positions were dismissed due to the protestations of some Muslim supervisors, who found working with Jews to be too offensive for the new bunch of translators (who were hired prior to passing background investigations).

This same bunch demanded special washing facilities to perform their clean-up ritual prior to prayer. They "felt funny" washing their feet in the sinks of the infidels' bathrooms and requested (and were granted) separate, specially designed bathrooms to perform da'wa (or whatever) and no longer have to complain about sharing the facilities with kuffers. (Kooties, I guess.)

loppyd

yeah...

247 WriterMom

My only fault with American Jews is that they still are addicted (most of them anyway) to political liberalism. FDR is dead (and he was never our firend anyway).

Birds gotta fly.
Fish gotta swim.
Moslems gotta seethe.

Talk Like a Pirate Day

#149 AI

Having lived there a few years back, I would say that most Baltimore Muslims are Nation of Islam (African-American).

#242 Joel

I've been a Carolinas fan ever since I was a little boy and my hero was Francis Marion aka "The Swamp Fox". I always wanted to visit the Revolutionary War sites in teh Carolinas. I drove pased Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Guilford Court House, once but my travelling mate was in a hurry and I did not stop for a visit. That was a mistake.

Heh. Husband had an ancestor ridin' (or is that wadin') with Francis Marion. He has a really long term history of bein' part of the rowdy rabble.

253 NuclearTinkerbell

many Sephardic Jews livng in the US and Israelis who live in America, speak Arabic but they refused to use them.

We (yehudis) worked hard for, and earned our place in American society. I'll fight any [bigoted word]ed throatslitter that tries to change, defame or destroy this great country. You don't like it here? Take your bedsheets and your warped philosophy and go back to your sociopathic sandbox.

Nakba Akbar!

Michigan, Wisconsin...what's the difference, really?

Ann Arbor, Madison. Same thing. But I'll take Milwaukee over Detroit any day.

258 SwampWoman

Of course there was the Walt Disney series "Swamp Fox" with Leslie Nielsen playing Francis Marion. The Mel Gibson movie based on Marion "The Patriot" I thought was a historically inaccurate disaster.

#235 Village Idiot's Apprentice

So many of the ancient events in our planets history have been forgotten or cast aside.

(ducks for cover)

If I wasn't feelin' all happy and mellow, I'd have to hunt you down and hurt you real bad.

If anyone could possibly be interested:

Pirate Duck

#262 Joel

Of course there was the Walt Disney series "Swamp Fox" with Leslie Nielsen playing Francis Marion. The Mel Gibson movie based on Marion "The Patriot" I thought was a historically inaccurate disaster

But he looked damn good bein' all historically inaccurate, didn't he?

Joel

I've always wanted to go on a tour of the famous battles from the Civil War. Like
Sherman's march to the sea...

loppyd

Actually, south of Wilmington...

#259 Joel

many Sephardic Jews livng in the US and Israelis who live in America, speak Arabic but they refused to use them.

Does that make any sense to anyone? Why would you hire the frickin' enemy to translate important things, when you could hire equally competent translators who are motivated to actually fight terror?

*Shakes head*

Get used to it fu_ckos. Jesus is the real Messiah. Moses was an actual prophet. Mohammed is a goat-fuc_king child molester.

Was listening on WMAL yesterday to the bozo who is complaining. The talk show host, who is no friend of Israel or the Jews, said he thought the complainers' real motive was to make sure that Moslims get at least as much as the Jews do, and that this was an example of MidEast politics in action.

FYI - one major reason school districts historically have closed on Jewish high holidays is because so many teachers are out, and there are not enough subs.

Also, the reason that many districts close for one day, and not two, is because Reform Jews only celebrate one day, and are back at work.

I know a lot of you won't like me saying so, but unless the majority of teacher/students in that school district are Jewish, I would object to them giving Yom Kippur as an offcial school holiday. This is why schools around the country are bending over backwards to eliminate anything Christian. Every other Tom, Dick or Harry religion comes along and demands equal treatment, even if there is only one kid or one teacher in the whole district.

We would save ourselves a lot of headaches if we would just declare the oficial national religion to be Christianity and the official national language to be English. We're not going to discriminate against you if you have a different religion or language, but don't expect the 90% majority to bend over and kiss your 10% (or 1%) minority butt. Get used to the fact that Christian holidays are celebrated, and get used to the fact that to get around in society you better learn English.

christheprofessor

Ah. Well, it's all good as far as I'm concerned.

Now if only I could hear your drawl...

Tornado just north of Kansas City.

EAX WSR-88D Loop

loppyd

if you want to enable you're nic for e-mail, i'll send you more (my e-mail account all have my name, ergo, don't want to enable mine).... i should set up a cryptic yahoo account...

Joel for the record

Lots of Jews in St. Louis

I went to a school in the county that was about one-third each Jewish, Catholic, Protestant

268 NuclearTinkerbell

It amkes as much sense as that idiot Congressman from Hawaii and Pennsylvania saying that our troops in Iraq should not use Israeli made bullets (which are cheaper to purchase then anywhere else in teh world including the USA) 'cause we do not want to offend the senisibilties of our jihadi enemis in Iraq.

Army Told Not to Use Israeli Bullets in Iraq

#275 keepandbear

I went to a school in the county that was about one-third each Jewish, Catholic, Protestant

Hmmmm. That would be 100% infidel...

#253 NuclearTinkerbell:

I wonder if a buch of White southerners who complained about having to use the same facilities as Black people could get their own separate, specially-constructed facilitites.

Oh, yeah, we did away with Jim Crow back in the 1960's.

These Muslim elitists must think their sh*t smells like petunias compared to the rest of us dhimmis.

275 keepandbear

Lots of Jews in St. Louis

You could have knocked me over with a feather!

266 loppyd

I've done all the major (and smoe lesser known) battle field (Civil War) sites in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. One day I want to go to Tennessee, Georgia And Mississippi to see the Western battlefields. I have not visited Appomattox though. My favorite Battlefield is Chancellorsville which is 10 miles east of Fredricksburg Virginia.

265 SwampWoman

I don't normally notice guys but women I know and trust have asserted that Gibson is good looking. My co-workers son played an extra in the movie. he had a non speaking part and played a character who Gibson shot during the ambush scene.

#255 Joel

The idjit Canadian Joos are the same, voting Liberal still. I can't take it!

#272 LoppyD

Now if only I could hear your drawl...

Oh, hon, those Carolinians have some extra devastatin' drawls. Yummy!

(Husband was born up yonder.)

(Chris, you better be practicin' now that I've set you up like this. She has really high expectations now. )

266 loppyd

On one of my Boston visits a friend and I tooka train out to Concord to see teh famous bridge and site of teh first batle of the Revolution. It was freezing that day but I enjoyed going there immensely. The day before of course we did the Freedom Trail walk and ended at Bunker Hill.