Daily Archives: 09/18/2012

(Community Matters) I’m sympathetic w/ my fiends about anti-Semitism. And I’m not surprised by the critics; when I read her Sunday column (which I blogged about – God Save Us), I imagined this might happen. It has certainly worried me that someone might similarly misunderstand my criticisms.

When people feel threatened, misunderstood, not heard and/or ignored, we grasp. Anti-Semitism is alive and growing in many parts of the world & that’s a real threat.  Pointing out the fallacy of Netanyahu’s too-heavy-handed, disrespectful behavior toward our nation’s leader is not anti-Semitic – nor is warning against the return of neocons.

Politico: The Critics of Maureen Dowd’s Critics

(Community Matters) Mrs. Romney on a helping hand

(Community Matters) The real “47%” to which Romney was referring: “. . .African-Americans, Hispanics, liberals, single and college-educated women, and union households.. .”

. . . said longtime Christian conservative strategist Ralph Reed. “Those groups alone add up to about 46 percent of the electorate.” Politico

[Haley] Barbour summed up the Obama message on Romney in perhaps the most memorable sound bite of the 2012 election: “He’s a wealthy plutocrat married to a known equestrian.”

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(Community Matters) Talk About It (Talk.SchoolMessenger.com) is an ap being introduced into the Leander schools which allows kids to instantaneously report bullying. Love this. This AAS article points out there’s been lots of progress against bullying in Central Texas schools.

Talk About It® allows faculty to meet students where they are – online and with text messaging – to help solve issues.

By reducing the stigma of communicating with trusted adults, the patent-pending service allows students to open up and break the ‘code of silence.’