You can buy a picture of The Rebbe at Wal-Mart, although they can't guarantee shipping in time for Hanukkah.  Normally $210, now at the everyday low price of $112.

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First they made fun of the Republicans, but I wasn't a Republican....Just One Minute shows us that the incoming Democrat leadership may, in fact, be just as clueless.

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes (incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee) said. “You’re talking about predominately?”

“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.

“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

It gets worse.

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You know a story is "bad for the Jews" when even the Jerusalem Post writes a relatively inflammatory headline.

US: Rabbi asks for hanukkia (menorah); X-mas trees removed

The real story (more here and here) seems to be that the local Seattle Chabad asked to put up a menorah in the airport.  Not wanting to have to spend time catering to multiple religions, the airport decided to take down the nine Christmas trees which were already up.  There's also word of a lawsuit which wanted to force the placement of the menorah

Of course, the Chabad rabbi who made the request didn't ask for this - "I am devastated, shocked and appalled at the decision that the Port of Seattle came to" he said.

Just to show how this can spin out of control, on the local news radio here in Dallas, the reporters said that the Chabad rabbi was insisting that there be as many menorahs as Christmas trees and that they all had to be eight feet tall as well, which is obviously not true if one has any understanding of how Chabad works.  Here's their website devoted to the public menorahs they put up all over the world.

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Rabbi Bogomilsky said he wants the Port to apologize for statements on Saturday that he says passed blame to him.

"I would hate to think it was just a way for them to cover up their poor call," the rabbi said. "This was totally a Port of Seattle decision. The Port
should step up and say that."

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Here's the forecast at the top of the Dallas Morning News website this morning.  Pretty drastic drop in temperature, wouldn't you say?

Mon		Tue		Wed		Thu		Fri
69		68		69		70		0
46		42		43		43		0