DC Tom

It's important to note that the desire for segregation was mutual. Ashkenazi Jews would tend to segregate themselves into distinct communities, simply through the communal practice and reinforcement of their shared Jewish rites and strong endogamous dictates of the religion. And the simple nature of society, where you couldn't go anywhere faster than walking speed, so people congregated around common services, which in the case of Jews were much more specific (e.g. kosher butchers) that what was available to the Christian population.

There's some serious structural problems with the idea above and beyond that, too. What to the petitioners do between "apply for asylum" and "go to the United States?" Stay in the consulate? Go home and hope the Tonton Macoute don't find out they're trying to leave the country?

Abortion is health care. In fact, since abortion is contraception, and free contraception is a right guaranteed women under the ACA, free abortion is a constitutional right. I'm far more pissed off at the idea of "nomenklatura" elevators. ***** Soviets.

It was a bit ambiguous. As I recall, the general rule was 1/4 Jewish, but exceptions could be made either way (particularly since the Nazis didn't really need a reason to gas someone.) You have to remember, too, that European Jews were generally much more cliquish (much like Orthodox Jewish enclaves in NYC today), so the designation was much more racial and less religious than you'd think by modern standards. I can look it up when I get home. EDIT: or you can just take GG's post at its word, which is what I recall.

At least two, you unbelievable moron.

Not just that, but the recitation of the shahada is the only requirement for conversion to Islam. This is roughly equivalent to forcing students to be baptized into Christianity as a class project. I'm all for teaching the basics of world religion in history classes - learned it myself in 9th grade, found it among the most valuable of anything I learned in HS). But forced conversion is a little over-the-top.

Jesus. It was bad enough when the left promoted Obama as a royal figure because they worshipped him. Now they promote Trump as a royal figure because they detest him. They're not royalty, they're citizens elected to serve. You don't pledge an oath of fealty to them personally by recognizing and respecting the National Anthem.

Statements like this are why I believe the Democrats will try to make the Republican Party illegal in the foreseeable future.

You're espousing a Clausewitzian view in a non-Clauswitzean world.

What the hell is that tie? That a NAMBLA tie?

Biden's slogan ought to be "Make America Great Again, Again."

I can't blame PG&E for this, not after the beating they took for causing the Camp fire. Californians, you want PG&E to be responsible for fire prevention? This is it. Deal with it.

Yes...again, the issue with Clinton's emails wasn't classified information. It was keeping information out of the scope of oversight.

From what I've heard the past few weeks, that's all untrue. Because if we're denying access to late-term abortions to women, we're turning them in to nothing more than "breeding factories." Yes, I actually saw that. Didn't bother pointing out that the idea women only have control over their actions in their third trimester was more misogynist and infantilizing to women than the worst thing I've ever heard Republicans say.

Same as my opinion on everything else: you're an idiot, ***** off.

It's a Lhasa Apso. Which makes sense, since those things are evil.

Good. Maybe traffic will get better.

During. Not after.

In his defense, have you met yourself recently?

The point should be less "who's worse than who," and more "disagreement isn't hate speech."

***** hell, that's stupid.

I blame lots of people, including Martin. Mostly, though, whichever bean-counters decided to end with a truncated final two seasons. It's lazy writing, but the single biggest contributing factor is probably the need to truncate the story to fit the schedule.

How she turned. Showing, through the character's actions and dialog not just why she turns, but the psychological process of how she goes from someone who locks up her "children" because they killed a child to someone who uses her surviving "child" to roast children. Character development is far more than a bullet list of the events of a character's life, but the interplay of those events on the psychology of the character and how it develops. It's the difference between "Walter White is a mild-mannered chemistry teacher who builds a meth empire" and "Walter White evolves from Mr. Chips to Scarface."

When questioned about the incident, Bill Belichick would only respond "We're moving on to Frank Reich's house."