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(Community Matters) I’m not sure I see how swimming in the Sea of Galilee prioritizes other than as political fodder – and reading that even within the family rather than across the aisle. On the face, not clear why prioritizing with the FBI.

(Community Matters) Rev PatRobertson on Isaac: Turns out it wasn’t about the gays after all. Robertson’s reconsidered his theory of divine wrath. Tampa’s had a thriving gay population for decades.

(Community Matters) Feels as if we’re in some other universe. Such obviously respected people (by others, not me) are really saying these things: 

The county judge in Lubbock: “He’s [Pres Obama if reelected] going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens? . . . I’m thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe.”

“Turning to the United Nations to tell us how to raise our kids, or whether we can have the Second Amendment rights that our Constitution gave us, I mean, that is the wrong way to go, right? Do not cede sovereignty,” Romney said.

After likening the backlash to Todd Akin’s comments on “legitimate rape” to the Pharisees’ persecution of Jesus, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer is now comparing Akin to a victim of rape. After listing the growing chorus of conservative activists and media personalities who have called on Akin to quit the senate race, Fischer lamented that “everybody is gang tackling Todd Akin.” “You talk about a forcible situation, you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible assault, that would be Todd Akin,” Fischer maintained.

(Community Matters)

Where conventional grocers work with an average of 65 local farmers and food producers, food co-ops work with an average of 157. Likewise, locally sourced products make up an average of 20 percent of co-op sales compared to 6 percent at conventional stores.

Years after creating the market for organic foods, co-ops are still the place to find them. Of produce sales at food co-ops, 82 percent are organic, compared to 12 percent for conventional grocers. And, organics make up 48 percent of grocery sales in food co-ops, compared to just 2 percent in conventional grocers.

http://strongertogether.coop/food-coops/food-co-op-impact-study/

(Community Matters) nationalist violence in Israel – it’s horrific and condemnable from either side.

“Where on earth does a bar-mitzvah-age child find so much evil in himself?” The article said parents should be held responsible.

But on Channel 1 news Monday night, Nimrod Aloni, the head of the Institute for Educational Thought at a Tel Aviv teachers college, said, “this cannot just be an expression of something he has heard at home.”

“This is directly tied to national fundamentalism that is the same as the rhetoric of neo-Nazis, Taliban and K.K.K.,” Mr. Aloni said. “This comes from an entire culture that has been escalating toward an open and blunt language based on us being the chosen people who are allowed to do whatever we like.” NYT article

(Community Matters) Of course reading the e-book today while Robert drives us back to Austin

(Community Matters) College students, nope . . . GOP Freshmen on a “fact-finding” trip to the Holy Land. To be determined but the loss of confidence w/ integrity of new class could be substantial, especially among evangelicals and others – this at time there’s real question about turning over the House

(Community Matters) from Playbook:

“Still, swing-state voters are not convinced they would be better off in four years under Romney. Forty-four percent predict they would be better off four years from now if Romney wins and 49% say they would not be better off. Those figures are roughly the same when voters are asked to predict their situation … if Obama is re-elected — 42% say they would be better off and 52% say they would not … Obama’s re-election prospects remain uncertain. Gallup Daily tracking finds Romney with a slight edge over Obama in recent days.” http://bit.ly/Py62mH

Gallup polls historically over sample GOP

Nate still gives a 70% probability of reelection and  299 electoral vote forecast

(Community Matters) According to Krugman

(Community Matters) loving

His party . . . included many for whom purity mattered more than victory

(Community Matters) my apologies to Abby Meredith for poaching this pic off her facebook but I just couldn’t help it. One of my favorite wedding pics of all time. Happy 40th Lynn & Tommie.

ordinarily I would seek permission before using a family pic like this. Hoping allowed. xxoo

(Community Matters) Wow, talk about relative:

Playbook: BIRTHDAYS: Secretary Geithner is 51 … Jason Furman … Austan Goolsbee … Rosalynn Carter is 85 … ABC’s Bob Woodruff is 51 … Turner Broadcasting’s Kristi Slafka Brannan … House COS Connie Hair (hat tip: Patrick Gavin) … Roman Polanski is 79 … Vincent Bugliosi is 78 … Rafer Johnson is 77 … Robert Redford is 76 … Martin Mull is 69 … Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico, is 50 … Edward Norton is 43 … SNL’s Andy Samberg is 34 (h/ts AP)