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I guess I should have wondered why Stratford-on-Avon was hosting the Olympic Games.:lol:
 
Well, it did include an article about Hanukkah...

I just hope the Olympians bring enough condoms and leave their knives at home, since those appear to be the two largest problems with this particular community.
 
I could not work one day because a woman had her throat cut just up the road.
The pub 200m just up the road from my office was burnt down.
A pub another 300m up the road had two people shot and killed in it.
where I was staying the nearest pub had someone fire a pistol through the window and the next one about 300m away had to be closed for redecorating after someone was knifed to death.

I could go on but yes knives and guns are a problem.
 
Good News For The Jews! They Are Not To Blame For the Death of Jesus!

Pope lifts blame from Jews for Christ's death

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people as a whole from responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a new book due to be published this month, prompting praise from Jewish groups.

The pope wrote that the condemnations of Jesus Christ came from the "aristocracy of the temple" in Jerusalem and from the "masses" who acclaimed Barabbas instead of Jesus -- not from "the Jewish people as a whole".

Extracts from the book, the second volume of a biography of Jesus Christ, were published by the Vatican's official Osservatore Romano daily on Thursday.

The World Jewish Congress in a statement praised the pope "for unequivocally rejecting the argument that the Jewish people can be held responsible."

Congress head Ronald Lauder said: "2,000 years after the event it really was high time that the head of the Catholic Church made a clear statement on this.

"It sets an important marker against anti-Semitism in the Church," he said.

"Jews suffered from brutal persecution and anti-Semitism because Christians held them collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ, even though he was himself a Jew and was crucified by the Roman rulers," he added.

Marco Politi, a Vatican expert at Italian daily Il Fatto, said the pope's words were "a positive signal for the Jewish people, showing that Benedict XVI absolutely does not consider the gospels as a basis for any anti-Judaism."

Tensions between Judaism and Catholicism have been high for centuries because of Catholic blame of the Jews for Christ's death.

A Vatican Council in the 1960s that exonerated the Jews failed to end tensions, which have resurfaced in recent years under Benedict's papacy.

In 2007, the pope reinstated a "prayer for the conversion of Jews".

The following year he infuriated the Jewish community with a decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson.

There have also been Vatican moves to sanctify World War II-era pope Pius XII, whose public silence on the Holocaust has been widely criticised.
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Jon Stewart had this to say: The Pardon of the Christ

You know what this means. If the Jews didn't kill Christ, the real killers are still out there.
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Of course, Mel Gibson has yet to weigh in on this issue...
 
If you've ever wanted to live inside of a pixelated dream world, check out Moshe Safdie's massive residential complex design for Qinhuangdao, China. Best known as the designer of the famous Habitat 67, Safdie once again turns to the pixel as a design element - but this time on an even grander scale. Called Golden Dream Bay, the resulting group of buildings are stepped mountains complete with sky gardens, rooftop pools, sky bridges and green pathways running along the beach.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/moshe-safdie-golden-dream-bay_n_830602.html#s248249
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Thats crazy
 
I agree. Sign me up.
 
McRunner, top 50 marathon runner, trains by only eating at McDonalds:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/...ns-for-marathon-by-eating-only-mcdonalds.html

You’ve heard of Big Macs, McNuggets, McMansions and McJobs — now meet the McRunner.

Palatine dad Joe D’Amico plans to run the Los Angeles Marathon on March 20 after training for 30 days on a diet of McDonald’s fast food alone.

It may sound more like a recipe for getting the runs than running fast. But ultra-lean D’Amico aims to beat his personal best time of two hours and 36 minutes — a six-minute-mile pace that should put him among the top 50 finishers.

“My wife told me I was crazy,” D’Amico, 36, said. “But I love McDonald’s and I love running, and this was a great way to combine the two.”

D’Amico, who has been blogging about his progress at McRunner.com, has been eating three meals a day at the golden arches for the last two weeks. He plans to keep up the regime until the race.

He usually starts the day with a plate of hot cakes, an Egg McMuffin and an orange juice. He eats a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch, washed down with a large Coke, then enjoys a hamburger and fries for dinner, with cookies for desert. His only deviation from the McDonald’s menu is a daily multivitamin, tap water, and an energy gel he takes while on the road.

It is, his doctor says, a less than ideal preparation for the 26.2-mile ordeal. But D’Amico insists, “I’ve been feeling really good.”

Unlike filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who gained 24 pounds and saw his health rapidly deteriorate while eating at McDonald’s for a month for his hit 2004 documentary “Super Size Me,” D’Amico won’t order large fries, and he’s never had a Big Mac. He did try an Angus deluxe burger, though, as part of his training

“I can do it because I’m running 100 miles a week,” he said.

A more traditional runner’s diet centered on pasta, bananas and other whole foods fueled him to the finish line in the 14 marathons he’s previously run.

He isn’t sponsored by or connected to McDonald’s in any way, he says, but he is raising funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities because “It seemed a natural fit.”

“I’m not trying to prove anyone wrong or make any kind of political statement,” he added. “But I’ve been eating McDonald’s since I was a kid. In a way I’ve been practicing for this my whole life.”
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I hope that turns out well for him. Some of my best times in 5k's came right after eating Wendy's, so hopefully this will work for him. It will be nice to rub in the faces of people that treat fast food like some all-consuming evil.
 
DroopyTofu said:
I hope that turns out well for him. Some of my best times in 5k's came right after eating Wendy's, so hopefully this will work for him. It will be nice to rub in the faces of people that treat fast food like some all-consuming evil.
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Didn't he prove the exact opposite? That you need to have an uber active lifestyle in order to consume the bazillion calories and crap from McD and not end up a morbidly obese american ?
 
That is true for any food. Fat people aren't fat because they eat McDonalds or some other form of fast food. They are fat because their caloric intake is greater than they metabolic rate. They could easily do the same by never eating fast food. Many poor people get fat by eating diets consisting mainly of cheap pasta.

So McRunner is their perfect role model.

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Perhaps McDonalds should start providing their food at traditional carb dinners prior to marathons so the competitors have something to eat besides pasta. I'm sure that would go over big with the politically correct.
 
Formaldehyde said:
Perhaps McDonalds should start providing their food at traditional carb dinners prior to marathons so the competitors have something to eat besides pasta. I'm sure that would go over big with the politically correct.
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Except hamburger rolls in bulk aren't tasty. And the fries probably still have suspect levels of TFA.
 
Utah adopts the very first state firearm: The Browning M1911...

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http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/browning-m1911-is-utahs-official-firearm/1158336

Browning M1911 is Utah's official gun

Utah has become the first state in the country to have a state-designated firearm, after Gov. Gary Herbert signed legislation this week recognizing the Browning M1911 as the official gun, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The measure adds the M1911 semiautomatic pistol to the list of official state symbols, joining the blue spruce as the state tree; the elk as the state animal; the Bonneville cutthroat trout as the state fish; and the Dutch oven as the state cooking pot. Browning never actually manufactured the gun; he designed it and gave the blueprint to the military, which had Colt, Remington and even International Harvester and sewing-machine-maker Singer manufacture the weapon. The pistol, which turns 100 years old this year, is made today in Ogden, Utah, where Browning was born in 1855. He designed the gun for the U.S. Army, which needed a better weapon for fighting insurgents in the Phillipines.
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LDS banned darkies from priesthood because they were darkies, weapon designed to kill darkies. Coincidence? I think not.

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