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Magdeburger Joe: Eric Holder: Stopping Prison Rape Is Too Expensive
Back in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. In 2010, the law remains largely unenforced. According to Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States the law must not "impose substantial additional...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 4:09pm -07:00T (473 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: My Contribution To A Discussion On Spanking
Members of Rantrave.com have been discussing the issues of corporal punishment. Two thoughts come to mind on the issue. One is a bit of advice I received from a rabbi with a large family. He said that even scolding should not be done when one is visceral...
Dateline: 2010-08-26 3:35pm -07:00T (432 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Female Palestinian Peace Activists Suffer Sexual Harassment, Rape From Palestinians
It won't make the front page of the New York Times, but it seems that female peace activists in Israel who go to Arab villages are looked at as "piece" activists by the locals in the Arab villages. Women who go to these villages are sexually harassed, mo...
Dateline: 2010-08-15 11:35am -07:00T (467 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Steven Slater And Newt Gingrich, Flip Sides Of The Same Coin
The public is taking a second look at Steven Slater, the mercurial flight attendant who cursed out a plane full of passengers and then left the plane through the emergency escape hatch and became a national folk hero. Now it turns out that he may have b...
Dateline: 2010-08-13 2:35pm -07:00T (852 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Learning The Hard Way At Radio Shack
In 2 months, my daughter and I both burned out power cords for our respective laptops. I went to a local Radio Shack to get a cord for my daughter's notebook, the kind with the little box that steps down the power from 110 volts to 18.5 volts. The sal...
Dateline: 2010-08-08 10:05pm -07:00T (406 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: "Spirit" and Other Musical Memories From The 60's and 70's
There are some songs and groups that don't make the "oldie but goody" compilations that one hears on classic rock stations. One such group is "Spirit". Their album "The Family That Plays Together" was one of the all time classics of rock music. I just ...
Dateline: 2010-08-05 11:20pm -07:00T (571 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Maxine Waters Wins Elliot Spitzer Hypocrisy Award
Maxine Waters is facing 3 ethics violation charges. It seems that she tried to help her husband's bank get some bailout money. Waters' husband, Sidney Williams, owns stock in OneUnited Bank. He is a board member of the bank as well. All of Waters' alleged...
Dateline: 2010-08-02 10:05pm -07:00T (425 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Czerwone Gitary, A Great Polish Band From The Communist Era
This evening, I was looking for some songs in Russian by the Puhdys, a great rock band from East Germany. Back in the 70's, they did a tour in 5 republics of the former USSR in which they sang beautifully in Russian. I have not been able to find any recor...
Dateline: 2010-07-26 10:35pm -07:00T (372 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Taste As A Metaphor And Words Of Courage From The Fog
In my family, I am in the distinct minority. I lean towards semi dry wines. My family likes sweet wine and considers my choices to be very dry. When we pass the wine cup around the table Friday night, I say the blessings and drain the cup to the last f...
Dateline: 2010-07-25 12:34am -07:00T (283 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Thank You Shirley Sherrod
The controversy about Shirley Sherrod has been widely discussed lately. In a video released by Breitbart News, Sherrod tells an audience at an NAACP banquet about an incident in which she was supposed to help a white farmer who was facing foreclosure ...
Dateline: 2010-07-22 12:26pm -07:00T (480 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Gaza, Teheran or Lahore: Who Chooses The News?
Yesterday, I opened the Jewish Press and it had a story about Hollywood and other entertainment ditzerati who have decided that they are boycotting Israel. Israel's latest provocation was the Gaza flotilla fiasco, in which 9 people were killed. The same ...
Dateline: 2010-07-15 11:45am -07:00T (785 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Crown Heights Election Winners
Now it's official. Yossi Hackner and Fishel Brownstein have joined Zaki Tamir in forming the new Vaad Hakahol of Crown Heights. For once, everyone recognized the election as legitimate. There were certainly the usual anonymous leaflets and accusations, ...
Dateline: 2010-07-07 9:06pm -07:00T (286 words)
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Magdeburger Joe: Thoughts During The Three Weeks
We are now in the middle of the 3 weeks. As important as music is to me, I find that I need to pull back from it. There is a shul that I stop at for evening prayers. As always, when I go there I stare at the yarzeit plaques. In this one shul, a man pu...
Dateline: 2010-07-05 7:49pm -07:00T (249 words)
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