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Anonymous wrote:I am Jewish and I can't really stand socializing with non-assimilated and observant Jews. Sheltered types like Shoshanna on "Girls" are a dime a dozen here in DC. Even at age 40+, they are still talking about camp and wetting their panties over planning a $45000 bar mitzvah.

I despise the Orthodox and feel they have destroyed any chance of Israel succeeding peacefully. I prefer the company of lapsed Catholics. Ironically, most of my close friends are Jewish, but they have all intermarried and lead completely secular lives.

Yes!!!

I got together with a friend of mine, we are in our 40s and she just wanted to talk about camp, from 30 years ago. And, all her friends are Jewish. I just can't deal with it.

I'm raising my daughter Catholic (my husbands religion) just because the whole thing makes me ill.

Wow! You are so sad to raise your Jewish daughter as a Catholic. I bet you also want to get back at your parents in some way. Either that, or you were brought up with a very weak Jewish education. I have no respect for people like you. You're a traitor, and you are looking a gift horse in the mouth and don't even know it. Good luck to you.

Why is it valid to you for PP to raise her daughter in her own faith but not her husband's?

Why do you think? Use your brain.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we should more or less close our doors to new immigrants/permanent residents. I liken it to a family that would love to have/adopt more children but need to care for the ones they have and just can't afford to have/adopt more, as much as they might like to. I also think we need to stop granting citizenship to children of non-citizens just b/c they are born here.

I agree with you 100%. If you weren't born here, and you're over 18, you gotta go unless you're in an accredited college. If you get pregnant while IN college, you gotta go. If you break the law, you gotta go. If you need to apply for welfare, you gotta go.

Also I think people moving here from other countries should have to assimilate a bit more than they do. There should be a mandatory Learn to Speak English class that gets them fairly proficient. After graduated, you have to teach that class (volunteer). If you are not enrolled within 3 months of arriving here you have to go. If you can't graduate after the second pass of taking it, you gotta go. You can test out of having to take the ESL class, but still have to volunteer. After fulfilling your ESL volunteer obligation, you have to volunteer for an American-created organization that is not based on helping immigrants from your home country. GIVE BACK. If you have a child who commits a crime, you AND that child, gotta go. You are welcome back after that child reaches age 18, but any immigrant who breaks a law is never welcome back to live here permanently. If you are not either working or going to school or some combination of the two that equals full time for more than six months, you gotta go. (There should be waivers for this during recessions.) Full time students can stay in the country between semesters but for any break over two weeks long they must be volunteering or working at least 20 hours a week (or a combo of the two that equals 20 hours a week).

Lastly, I think we should do away with calling human beings "illegals." A person, in and of themselves, can not be an illegal human being. It is not illegal to be alive. We need a different term.

Another term already exists: undocumented worker.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Jewish and I can't really stand socializing with non-assimilated and observant Jews. Sheltered types like Shoshanna on "Girls" are a dime a dozen here in DC. Even at age 40+, they are still talking about camp and wetting their panties over planning a $45000 bar mitzvah.

I despise the Orthodox and feel they have destroyed any chance of Israel succeeding peacefully. I prefer the company of lapsed Catholics. Ironically, most of my close friends are Jewish, but they have all intermarried and lead completely secular lives.

Yes!!!

I got together with a friend of mine, we are in our 40s and she just wanted to talk about camp, from 30 years ago. And, all her friends are Jewish. I just can't deal with it.

I'm raising my daughter Catholic (my husbands religion) just because the whole thing makes me ill.

Wow! You are so sad to raise your Jewish daughter as a Catholic. I bet you also want to get back at your parents in some way. Either that, or you were brought up with a very weak Jewish education. I have no respect for people like you. You're a traitor, and you are looking a gift horse in the mouth and don't even know it. Good luck to you.

Why is it valid to you for PP to raise her daughter in her own faith but not her husband's?

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Anonymous wrote:I think we should more or less close our doors to new immigrants/permanent residents. I liken it to a family that would love to have/adopt more children but need to care for the ones they have and just can't afford to have/adopt more, as much as they might like to. I also think we need to stop granting citizenship to children of non-citizens just b/c they are born here.

I agree with you 100%. If you weren't born here, and you're over 18, you gotta go unless you're in an accredited college. If you get pregnant while IN college, you gotta go. If you break the law, you gotta go. If you need to apply for welfare, you gotta go.

Also I think people moving here from other countries should have to assimilate a bit more than they do. There should be a mandatory Learn to Speak English class that gets them fairly proficient. After graduated, you have to teach that class (volunteer). If you are not enrolled within 3 months of arriving here you have to go. If you can't graduate after the second pass of taking it, you gotta go. You can test out of having to take the ESL class, but still have to volunteer. After fulfilling your ESL volunteer obligation, you have to volunteer for an American-created organization that is not based on helping immigrants from your home country. GIVE BACK. If you have a child who commits a crime, you AND that child, gotta go. You are welcome back after that child reaches age 18, but any immigrant who breaks a law is never welcome back to live here permanently. If you are not either working or going to school or some combination of the two that equals full time for more than six months, you gotta go. (There should be waivers for this during recessions.) Full time students can stay in the country between semesters but for any break over two weeks long they must be volunteering or working at least 20 hours a week (or a combo of the two that equals 20 hours a week).

Lastly, I think we should do away with calling human beings "illegals." A person, in and of themselves, can not be an illegal human being. It is not illegal to be alive. We need a different term.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Jewish and I can't really stand socializing with non-assimilated and observant Jews. Sheltered types like Shoshanna on "Girls" are a dime a dozen here in DC. Even at age 40+, they are still talking about camp and wetting their panties over planning a $45000 bar mitzvah.

I despise the Orthodox and feel they have destroyed any chance of Israel succeeding peacefully. I prefer the company of lapsed Catholics. Ironically, most of my close friends are Jewish, but they have all intermarried and lead completely secular lives.

Yes!!!

I got together with a friend of mine, we are in our 40s and she just wanted to talk about camp, from 30 years ago. And, all her friends are Jewish. I just can't deal with it.

I'm raising my daughter Catholic (my husbands religion) just because the whole thing makes me ill.

Wow! You are so sad to raise your Jewish daughter as a Catholic. I bet you also want to get back at your parents in some way. Either that, or you were brought up with a very weak Jewish education. I have no respect for people like you. You're a traitor, and you are looking a gift horse in the mouth and don't even know it. Good luck to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, many a poor person has given her or his life in military service to fight the wars of the wealthy.

Because only the wealthy benefit from freedom? Many a poor person has died doing many jobs that the wealthy choose not to do. What would you suggest as an alternative? Communism?

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Anonymous wrote:I am personally sick of the "troop love" everyone in the military is a hero sentiment. Let's face it 80% of those enlisted (not officers) would be flipping burgers if they did not have the military as an option. It is a glorified welfare system

You are an asshole! You get to sleep peacefully at night because of "those enlisted"! You should go and see "those enlisted" over at Walter Reed Medical Center with no arms/legs; then come back and let us know if they don't deserve some "troop love". Would you have felt the same if your child joined?

I didn't respond to the posters who are so anti military. But I do want to say this. I have two sons in the Army. Both are enlisted. One graduates from college in a few weeks. The other starts college in 9 months. Both served in Afghanistan. One did tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq. At one point I had two boys serving in a war zone at the same time-one with the 82nd Airborne and the other with a combat engineer battalion. Both were injured while overseas, thankfully not seriously.

I post only to say-your words have power and today your words hurt me deeply. I know I am just some random Internet stranger. But I am a real person who nearly lost a son overseas. When I say your words hurt, I mean they literally made me cry. I think that says a whole lot more about you than it does me or my boys.

One more thing...My dad is a retired two star General and my husband was an officer before he joined the FBI. I've spent most of my life around troops. You reference "enlisted" as welfare people. NO ONE I know in the military, Officer or otherwise, would ever refer to our young soldiers that way.

NP here. I don't exactly share the sentiment of the previous poster (e.g. about flipping burgers) and I'm sorry that you are hurt by it. However, I don't think that the entire country has to glorify the work of the military. I didn't ask your son to go to Afghanistan or Iraq. In fact, I'd rather they stayed home safely with you. This jingoistic bullshit about fighting for freedom just rubs me the wrong way. If your family wants to devote your lives to the military that's great for you and I recognize that it involves sacrifices, but I don't understand why I have to thank you for doing something that I didn't ask for and don't support. There are plenty of other people in the country (yourself included) who will pat your sons on the back. If my own child chose to join the military I would be worried for him and stressed about it, but I wouldn't be grateful.

But that's kind of the point, isn't it? No one suggested you "thank" my boys for their service, although it's always nice when someone does. There is another option. Try being kind and showing compassion. I promise you, our soldiers aren't 't fighting for some abstract concept of "freedom". They are fighting for the guy standing next to them in the foxhole. You may not agree with this conflict , but you can't possibly believe we don't need a strong, well-trained military. Not sure how much you know about the military, but here's a clue- they don't take a vote before going to war.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

I saw a program, maybe from NatGeo, of a matriarchal society where the men use makeup hoping to attract women. And some of the ladies were chauvinistic, saying things like, why shouldn't the men try to please them. Very interesting.

Wow. I just wear makeup to hide my horrible facial scarring, because it hurts when I overhear little kids asking their parents "what's wrong with that lady?" and "was that girl in a fire?" The worst is "What's wrong with her face?" Sorry, but I'll keep on with my makeup.

I'm sorry for your pain. But this is not what the pp is referring to, I'm sure. I think she is referring to society's expectation that women must wear make up to be appropriately presentable. Especially in young adult social gatherings and then later law and business/professional settings.

Get out of DC. I live in Berkeley and while I do shave and don't ever wear Birkenstocks, I also don't wear any makeup beyond sunscreen and lipgloss on a regular basis to work. And I look completely appropriate and presentable in business and professional settings, and I am a young adult.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

I saw a program, maybe from NatGeo, of a matriarchal society where the men use makeup hoping to attract women. And some of the ladies were chauvinistic, saying things like, why shouldn't the men try to please them. Very interesting.

Wow. I just wear makeup to hide my horrible facial scarring, because it hurts when I overhear little kids asking their parents "what's wrong with that lady?" and "was that girl in a fire?" The worst is "What's wrong with her face?" Sorry, but I'll keep on with my makeup.

I'm sorry for your pain. But this is not what the pp is referring to, I'm sure. I think she is referring to society's expectation that women must wear make up to be appropriately presentable. Especially in young adult social gatherings and then later law and business/professional settings.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

I saw a program, maybe from NatGeo, of a matriarchal society where the men use makeup hoping to attract women. And some of the ladies were chauvinistic, saying things like, why shouldn't the men try to please them. Very interesting.

Wow. I just wear makeup to hide my horrible facial scarring, because it hurts when I overhear little kids asking their parents "what's wrong with that lady?" and "was that girl in a fire?" The worst is "What's wrong with her face?" Sorry, but I'll keep on with my makeup.