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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Anthrobabe</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145792</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthrobabe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Help-- I&#039;ve snorted coffee out my nose. 
Thank you I needed that laugh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Help&#8211; I&#8217;ve snorted coffee out my nose.<br />
Thank you I needed that laugh.</p>
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		<title>By: beagledad</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145708</link>
		<dc:creator>beagledad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks more like Jerry Garcia to me.  Only in relative terms, though, but as I think about it, I haven&#039;t seen a photograph of Jesus recently, so maybe it looks more like Jesus.  Just to be safe I&#039;ll go to church but hum &quot;Uncle John&#039;s Band&quot; during the hymns.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks more like Jerry Garcia to me.  Only in relative terms, though, but as I think about it, I haven&#8217;t seen a photograph of Jesus recently, so maybe it looks more like Jesus.  Just to be safe I&#8217;ll go to church but hum &#8220;Uncle John&#8217;s Band&#8221; during the hymns.</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel Schneiderman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel Schneiderman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is a HOOT!! The appropriate ethnic food context, in particular. We need humor in these dark times, and it&#039;s a measure of just how much when even a whole wheat pita with a strange facial booboo might seriously symbolize the savior to whomever wants to see it.  I also heartily agree with Brian G, it looks like a helmeted baseball player. Holiness is indeed in the eye of the believer...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is a HOOT!! The appropriate ethnic food context, in particular. We need humor in these dark times, and it&#8217;s a measure of just how much when even a whole wheat pita with a strange facial booboo might seriously symbolize the savior to whomever wants to see it.  I also heartily agree with Brian G, it looks like a helmeted baseball player. Holiness is indeed in the eye of the believer&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jesus is really getting around. Now he&#8217;s going to nuzzle your falafel.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesus is really getting around. Now he&#8217;s going to nuzzle your falafel.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] He already vacated the floor tile to take up residence in a sandwich.   Unfortunately, He never made it into a sandwich, but is on for auction instead. (via Bad Astronomy). [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Assi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Assi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I was tempted to eat it but for some reason I didn&#039;t.&quot; Could it be the money you could get selling it ?!  215$ !!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I was tempted to eat it but for some reason I didn&#8217;t.&#8221; Could it be the money you could get selling it ?!  215$ !!</p>
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		<title>By: Raphael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raphael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to say the questions and answers on the auction are hilarious. I particularly love the honesty in one of the seller&#039;s answers, whrein he says: &quot;if you want to see it you will&quot; :-D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to say the questions and answers on the auction are hilarious. I particularly love the honesty in one of the seller&#8217;s answers, whrein he says: &#8220;if you want to see it you will&#8221; <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Brian G</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145294</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you tilt your head to the right a bit you can see a baseball player wearing his helmet.</description>
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		<title>By: BAMom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil, you have always been a top notch punster, but I think you just went over the top. I have been laughing for the last half hour. Thanx for starting my day off in such a great way.

Mom</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil, you have always been a top notch punster, but I think you just went over the top. I have been laughing for the last half hour. Thanx for starting my day off in such a great way.</p>
<p>Mom</p>
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		<title>By: MaDeR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What Jesus in pita have to Israel and Hamas? StevoR, you have equally &quot;interesting&quot; mental patterning as people that sees Jesus in pita.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Jesus in pita have to Israel and Hamas? StevoR, you have equally &#8220;interesting&#8221; mental patterning as people that sees Jesus in pita.</p>
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		<title>By: StevoR-Correcting</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR-Correcting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>D&#039;oh! %$#@#@!!@ italics &amp; lack of editing capability!
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StevoR Says: 
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 am 

Click on my name for a Wikipedia entry on the Amalekites, incl. the following Old Testament / Torah / Talmud quotes - scroll down to “war of extermination” : 

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&lt;i&gt; “14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” (Exodus 17) 

This enmity is repeated in Numbers 24, in Balaam’s fourth and final oracle:

“20 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction. 

And again in the law, in Deuteronomy 25:

“… in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.” 

The fighting is mentioned again in Judges 3:13, in the Judgeship of Ehud, and again under Gideon, as the Amalekites teamed up with the Midianites
(Judges 6:3, 6:33, 7:12). 

This enmity is also the background of the command of the Lord to Saul:

“2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” (1 Sam. 15:2-3). 

Saul’s failure to obey this command cost him his kingship. Note the commentary on this total destruction later by Samuel, when Saul summons him from the dead through prophetic vision literary tool:

“16 And Samuel said, ‘Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy? 17 The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.” (1 Sam 28)” &lt;/i&gt;

*** 

Note many Jews still today call for genocide against those they see as the surviving “Amalekites” notably the Palestineans - who, like the Amalekites from the indigenous SEMITIC population of a land the jews wish toconquer and possess. 

These Jews are, ironically, thus genocidal anti-Semitic racists themselves!  

If you go back far enough it seems to me that the root cause of all the violence in what is now Palestine / Israel, are these vile, racist tribalist, notions stemming back from a group of bronze age tribesmen that “god” was a racist who chose only them sabove the rest of Humanity and incited them to genocide to take over their self-”promised” land.  

This racist and ugly premise remains the core of the jewish religion. It seems inextricably bound within jewish thinking and an unending problem for Jewish relation with the rest of Humankind. I know Jews will dispute this and point to other more palatable, more ethical, more refined parts of their faith but really .. The undeniable reality is that *this* one line :
&lt;b&gt;
Jews believe “god” is racist who prefers their tribes (12 to begin with 2 surviving) over all other Humans and gave them the “divine” right tosomebody elses “promised land.” &lt;/b&gt;

is in essence what best sums up Judaism. It&#039;s not pretty but its true.  

Oh &amp; yes, Jesus began life as Jew but he &lt;i&gt;(like Spinoza, Einstein and Noam Chomsky among others) &lt;/i&gt; rejected his religion and came up with a better way of thinking ..</description>
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***<br />
StevoR Says:<br />
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 am </p>
<p>Click on my name for a Wikipedia entry on the Amalekites, incl. the following Old Testament / Torah / Talmud quotes &#8211; scroll down to “war of extermination” : </p>
<p>*** </p>
<p><i> “14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” (Exodus 17) </p>
<p>This enmity is repeated in Numbers 24, in Balaam’s fourth and final oracle:</p>
<p>“20 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction. </p>
<p>And again in the law, in Deuteronomy 25:</p>
<p>“… in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.” </p>
<p>The fighting is mentioned again in Judges 3:13, in the Judgeship of Ehud, and again under Gideon, as the Amalekites teamed up with the Midianites<br />
(Judges 6:3, 6:33, 7:12). </p>
<p>This enmity is also the background of the command of the Lord to Saul:</p>
<p>“2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” (1 Sam. 15:2-3). </p>
<p>Saul’s failure to obey this command cost him his kingship. Note the commentary on this total destruction later by Samuel, when Saul summons him from the dead through prophetic vision literary tool:</p>
<p>“16 And Samuel said, ‘Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy? 17 The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.” (1 Sam 28)” </i></p>
<p>*** </p>
<p>Note many Jews still today call for genocide against those they see as the surviving “Amalekites” notably the Palestineans &#8211; who, like the Amalekites from the indigenous SEMITIC population of a land the jews wish toconquer and possess. </p>
<p>These Jews are, ironically, thus genocidal anti-Semitic racists themselves!  </p>
<p>If you go back far enough it seems to me that the root cause of all the violence in what is now Palestine / Israel, are these vile, racist tribalist, notions stemming back from a group of bronze age tribesmen that “god” was a racist who chose only them sabove the rest of Humanity and incited them to genocide to take over their self-”promised” land.  </p>
<p>This racist and ugly premise remains the core of the jewish religion. It seems inextricably bound within jewish thinking and an unending problem for Jewish relation with the rest of Humankind. I know Jews will dispute this and point to other more palatable, more ethical, more refined parts of their faith but really .. The undeniable reality is that *this* one line :<br />
<b><br />
Jews believe “god” is racist who prefers their tribes (12 to begin with 2 surviving) over all other Humans and gave them the “divine” right tosomebody elses “promised land.” </b></p>
<p>is in essence what best sums up Judaism. It&#8217;s not pretty but its true.  </p>
<p>Oh &#038; yes, Jesus began life as Jew but he <i>(like Spinoza, Einstein and Noam Chomsky among others) </i> rejected his religion and came up with a better way of thinking ..</p>
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		<title>By: StevoR</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Click on my name for a Wikipedia entry on the Amalekites, incl. the following Old Testament / Torah / Talmud quotes - scroll down to &quot;war of extermination&quot;  : 

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&lt;i&gt; &quot;14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.&quot; (Exodus 17) 

This enmity is repeated in Numbers 24, in Balaam&#039;s fourth and final oracle:

&quot;20 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction. 

And again in the law, in Deuteronomy 25:

&quot;... in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.&quot; 

The fighting is mentioned again in Judges 3:13, in the Judgeship of Ehud, and again under Gideon, as the Amalekites teamed up with the Midianites 
(Judges 6:3, 6:33, 7:12). 

This enmity is also the background of the command of the Lord to Saul:

&quot;2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 &lt;b&gt;Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.&quot; &lt;/b&gt; (1 Sam. 15:2-3). 

&lt;b&gt; Saul&#039;s failure to obey this command cost him his kingship. &lt;/b&gt; Note the commentary on this total destruction later by Samuel, when Saul summons him from the dead through prophetic vision literary tool:

&quot;16 And Samuel said, &#039;Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy? 17 The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.&quot; (1 Sam 28)&quot; &lt;i&gt; 
 
Note many Jews &lt;b&gt;still today  call for genocide against those they see as the surviving &quot;Amalekites&quot; notably the Palestineans &lt;/b&gt;- who, like the Amalekites from the indigenous SEMITIC population of a land the jews wish toconquer and possess. 

These Jews are, ironically, thus being genocidal anti-Semitic racists themselves! :-( 

If you go back far enough it seems to me that the  root cause of all the violence in what is now Palestine / Israel, are these vile, racist tribalist, notions stemming back from a group of bronze age tribesmen that &quot;god&quot; was a racist who chose only them sabove the rest of Humanity  and incited them to genocide to take over their self-&quot;promised&quot; land. :-( 

This racist and ugly premise remains the core of the jewish religion.  It seems inextricably bound within jewish thinking and an unending problem for Jewish relation with the rest of Humankind. I know Jews will dispute this and point to other more palatable, more ethical, more refined parts of their faith but really .. The undeniable reality is that *that* line : 
&lt;b&gt;
Jews believe &quot;god&quot; is racist who prefers their tribes &lt;i&gt;(12 to begin with 2 surviving) &lt;/i&gt; over all other Humans and gave them the &quot;divine&quot; right tosomebody elses &quot;promised land.&quot; 

is in essence what Judaism is. :-( 

Oh &amp; yes, Jesus began life as Jew but he &lt;i&gt;(like Spinoza, Einstein and Noam Chomsky among others)&lt;/i&gt; rejected his religion and came up with a better way of thinking ..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Click on my name for a Wikipedia entry on the Amalekites, incl. the following Old Testament / Torah / Talmud quotes &#8211; scroll down to &#8220;war of extermination&#8221;  : </p>
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<p><i> &#8220;14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.&#8221; (Exodus 17) </p>
<p>This enmity is repeated in Numbers 24, in Balaam&#8217;s fourth and final oracle:</p>
<p>&#8220;20 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction. </p>
<p>And again in the law, in Deuteronomy 25:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.&#8221; </p>
<p>The fighting is mentioned again in Judges 3:13, in the Judgeship of Ehud, and again under Gideon, as the Amalekites teamed up with the Midianites<br />
(Judges 6:3, 6:33, 7:12). </p>
<p>This enmity is also the background of the command of the Lord to Saul:</p>
<p>&#8220;2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 <b>Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.&#8221; </b> (1 Sam. 15:2-3). </p>
<p><b> Saul&#8217;s failure to obey this command cost him his kingship. </b> Note the commentary on this total destruction later by Samuel, when Saul summons him from the dead through prophetic vision literary tool:</p>
<p>&#8220;16 And Samuel said, &#8216;Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy? 17 The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.&#8221; (1 Sam 28)&#8221; </i><i> </p>
<p>Note many Jews <b>still today  call for genocide against those they see as the surviving &#8220;Amalekites&#8221; notably the Palestineans </b>- who, like the Amalekites from the indigenous SEMITIC population of a land the jews wish toconquer and possess. </p>
<p>These Jews are, ironically, thus being genocidal anti-Semitic racists themselves! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>If you go back far enough it seems to me that the  root cause of all the violence in what is now Palestine / Israel, are these vile, racist tribalist, notions stemming back from a group of bronze age tribesmen that &#8220;god&#8221; was a racist who chose only them sabove the rest of Humanity  and incited them to genocide to take over their self-&#8221;promised&#8221; land. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>This racist and ugly premise remains the core of the jewish religion.  It seems inextricably bound within jewish thinking and an unending problem for Jewish relation with the rest of Humankind. I know Jews will dispute this and point to other more palatable, more ethical, more refined parts of their faith but really .. The undeniable reality is that *that* line :<br />
<b><br />
Jews believe &#8220;god&#8221; is racist who prefers their tribes <i>(12 to begin with 2 surviving) </i> over all other Humans and gave them the &#8220;divine&#8221; right tosomebody elses &#8220;promised land.&#8221; </p>
<p>is in essence what Judaism is. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Oh &#038; yes, Jesus began life as Jew but he <i>(like Spinoza, Einstein and Noam Chomsky among others)</i> rejected his religion and came up with a better way of thinking ..</b></i></p>
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		<title>By: StevoR</title>
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		<dc:creator>StevoR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Talkingabout Jesus&#039;es likely real versus imagined appearance, here&#039;s food for thought :

In real historical life Jesus most probably looked like one of those Palestineans being butchered in Gaza by the Israelis. If you want to know what Jesus looked like look at them. 

Imagine Jesus in the face of the Hamas leader murdered with his wife and family. See Jesus in the face of the kid throwing stones at the Jewish tanks and fighter jets come to kill his family or perhaps alreday having murdered them alongwithotherinocent civilians. 

I&#039;m no Christian but think about his words on &quot;love thine enemy&quot; and &quot;treat your neighbour as yourself&quot; and &quot;live by the sword, die by the sword.&quot; There&#039;s some good advice there - Israel is living &amp; thus will perish by the sword. z

For all its firepower and brutality, Israel is and can only make things ever worse for itself. Reality is that  Israel simply  cannot wipe out Hamas without wiping out the 1.5 million Palestineans in Gaza which almost all support it - and democratically elected it. 

Even Israel, surely would not be able to get away with the genocide of 1.5 million Gazan&#039;s and the three million plus other Palestineans that Israel, Hitler&#039;s poisoned legacy to the Jews and world, has both denied exist and tried and indeed is still trying to exterminate. :-(


Eventually the world *will* wake up and tell Israel : 

&quot;ENOUGH!!! Stop your murders &amp; get the blazes out of Palestine -it never was your land!&quot; 

Despite the Isreali &quot;big lies&quot; to the contrary, the truth is that Israel NOT Hamas broke the ceasefire and Israel NOT Hamas caused the whole problem by occupying Palestine in the first place and, interesting bit of trivia here folks, Israel actually *founded* Hamas back in the 1980&#039;s as a counter to the Palestine Liberatiopn Organisation (PLO) which then backfired onthem. A bit like the CIA training and using Saddam Hussein and osama binLaden as &quot;Our sonnob-es!&quot; 

Getting a bit of pita-bread Jesus&#039;es &amp; all but thais is what people really need to know and understand because Isreal isexploiting theWestand intheprocess is leading us and itself toan apocalpyptic calamity -aswellas furtherguilt, shame and bloodshed. 

The Palestinean -Israeli conflict needs to end in Israel accepting reality and getting the hell off other people&#039;s land. israel should be evacuated from the South-West Asian region and resettled in Europe or the US. The longer Isrealis and their backers refuse to do that - the more suffering and death will be caused - for them as well as others. :-(

All religions are wrong but the Jews &quot;Yahwah Delusion&quot; that god is a racist who chose only their tribe or twelve and gave them special rights to some &quot;promised land&quot; that was already owned by others - and that thisracist god then ordered the genocide of these other groups - Canaanites, Amalekites, Jebusites , Philistines, Moabites etc .. is surely about as ugly
and evil as a religion can get.

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PS. Look up the story of Saul and the Amalekite king in the Bible if you don&#039;t believe me - among many others, look at god (aka Yahwah-Jehovah-El-Shekinah etc ..) The &quot;prophet&quot; Samuel personally murdered the King of the Amalekite tribe-people who Saul had spared and thenruled thatSaulfor showing such mercy had lost Yahwah&#039;s favour and was to lose the kingship .. Look at the story of Israel&#039;s conquest of Canaan and how &quot;god&quot; supposedly ordered the jews to committ an extermination far worse than the Shoah! (nazi holocaust) 

.. &amp; to think the Jews accuse others of racism and &quot;anti-Semitism&quot;! Remember here too that the Palestineans (like their ancestors the Philistines and like the Amalekites, Cananites and others) are also *Semitic* peoples making Israel ultimately, ironically the world&#039;s only anti-Semitic nation! :-( 

Maybe if folks want to think Jesus-wise, they might consider telling &amp; pressuring Israel to stop killing innocent children, men and women and learn to love their neighbours rather than threatening, bombing, invading, and occupying them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talkingabout Jesus&#8217;es likely real versus imagined appearance, here&#8217;s food for thought :</p>
<p>In real historical life Jesus most probably looked like one of those Palestineans being butchered in Gaza by the Israelis. If you want to know what Jesus looked like look at them. </p>
<p>Imagine Jesus in the face of the Hamas leader murdered with his wife and family. See Jesus in the face of the kid throwing stones at the Jewish tanks and fighter jets come to kill his family or perhaps alreday having murdered them alongwithotherinocent civilians. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m no Christian but think about his words on &#8220;love thine enemy&#8221; and &#8220;treat your neighbour as yourself&#8221; and &#8220;live by the sword, die by the sword.&#8221; There&#8217;s some good advice there &#8211; Israel is living &#038; thus will perish by the sword. z</p>
<p>For all its firepower and brutality, Israel is and can only make things ever worse for itself. Reality is that  Israel simply  cannot wipe out Hamas without wiping out the 1.5 million Palestineans in Gaza which almost all support it &#8211; and democratically elected it. </p>
<p>Even Israel, surely would not be able to get away with the genocide of 1.5 million Gazan&#8217;s and the three million plus other Palestineans that Israel, Hitler&#8217;s poisoned legacy to the Jews and world, has both denied exist and tried and indeed is still trying to exterminate. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Eventually the world *will* wake up and tell Israel : </p>
<p>&#8220;ENOUGH!!! Stop your murders &#038; get the blazes out of Palestine -it never was your land!&#8221; </p>
<p>Despite the Isreali &#8220;big lies&#8221; to the contrary, the truth is that Israel NOT Hamas broke the ceasefire and Israel NOT Hamas caused the whole problem by occupying Palestine in the first place and, interesting bit of trivia here folks, Israel actually *founded* Hamas back in the 1980&#8242;s as a counter to the Palestine Liberatiopn Organisation (PLO) which then backfired onthem. A bit like the CIA training and using Saddam Hussein and osama binLaden as &#8220;Our sonnob-es!&#8221; </p>
<p>Getting a bit of pita-bread Jesus&#8217;es &#038; all but thais is what people really need to know and understand because Isreal isexploiting theWestand intheprocess is leading us and itself toan apocalpyptic calamity -aswellas furtherguilt, shame and bloodshed. </p>
<p>The Palestinean -Israeli conflict needs to end in Israel accepting reality and getting the hell off other people&#8217;s land. israel should be evacuated from the South-West Asian region and resettled in Europe or the US. The longer Isrealis and their backers refuse to do that &#8211; the more suffering and death will be caused &#8211; for them as well as others. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>All religions are wrong but the Jews &#8220;Yahwah Delusion&#8221; that god is a racist who chose only their tribe or twelve and gave them special rights to some &#8220;promised land&#8221; that was already owned by others &#8211; and that thisracist god then ordered the genocide of these other groups &#8211; Canaanites, Amalekites, Jebusites , Philistines, Moabites etc .. is surely about as ugly<br />
and evil as a religion can get.</p>
<p>&#8212;- </p>
<p>PS. Look up the story of Saul and the Amalekite king in the Bible if you don&#8217;t believe me &#8211; among many others, look at god (aka Yahwah-Jehovah-El-Shekinah etc ..) The &#8220;prophet&#8221; Samuel personally murdered the King of the Amalekite tribe-people who Saul had spared and thenruled thatSaulfor showing such mercy had lost Yahwah&#8217;s favour and was to lose the kingship .. Look at the story of Israel&#8217;s conquest of Canaan and how &#8220;god&#8221; supposedly ordered the jews to committ an extermination far worse than the Shoah! (nazi holocaust) </p>
<p>.. &#038; to think the Jews accuse others of racism and &#8220;anti-Semitism&#8221;! Remember here too that the Palestineans (like their ancestors the Philistines and like the Amalekites, Cananites and others) are also *Semitic* peoples making Israel ultimately, ironically the world&#8217;s only anti-Semitic nation! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Maybe if folks want to think Jesus-wise, they might consider telling &#038; pressuring Israel to stop killing innocent children, men and women and learn to love their neighbours rather than threatening, bombing, invading, and occupying them.</p>
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		<title>By: reevesAstronomy</title>
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		<dc:creator>reevesAstronomy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s up to $215 now.  That&#039;ll make it the world&#039;s most expensive religious pita.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s up to $215 now.  That&#8217;ll make it the world&#8217;s most expensive religious pita.</p>
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		<title>By: Tressa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tressa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see young Simba from the cartoon The Lion King.  Wrong son.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see young Simba from the cartoon The Lion King.  Wrong son.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Herboso</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145125</link>
		<dc:creator>Eric Herboso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I only just got the pun, even though I saw the post when it first came up. But I don&#039;t feel bad, because it just highlights the fact that I wasn&#039;t brought up with inane aphorisms.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I only just got the pun, even though I saw the post when it first came up. But I don&#8217;t feel bad, because it just highlights the fact that I wasn&#8217;t brought up with inane aphorisms.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145122</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>no no... it only suggested that they shouldn&#039;t really maybe oughta be used... in certain conditions. I don&#039;t think it covers a bread-full-of-face situation like this, but I&#039;ll look deeper into it since it is a sorta grainy situation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>no no&#8230; it only suggested that they shouldn&#8217;t really maybe oughta be used&#8230; in certain conditions. I don&#8217;t think it covers a bread-full-of-face situation like this, but I&#8217;ll look deeper into it since it is a sorta grainy situation.</p>
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		<title>By: Cmajor7</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cmajor7</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Geneva Convention banned puns like this.</description>
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		<title>By: Scott Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damn. What would have gotten it to such a high level as running from the room screaming? I wouldn&#039;t wanna drop a half-baked pun on the floor. Especially a pita with a Savor in it. 

~looking North, South, Yeast, and West for another pun~ sorry... it&#039;s the Smart@$$ gene in me. Got a double dose of it from both of my parents. I think my dad coulda made some good bread outta this whole pita-full deal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn. What would have gotten it to such a high level as running from the room screaming? I wouldn&#8217;t wanna drop a half-baked pun on the floor. Especially a pita with a Savor in it. </p>
<p>~looking North, South, Yeast, and West for another pun~ sorry&#8230; it&#8217;s the Smart@$$ gene in me. Got a double dose of it from both of my parents. I think my dad coulda made some good bread outta this whole pita-full deal.</p>
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		<title>By: Drhoz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drhoz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>that pun earned a hiss of breath through teeth - which if you follow the Callalhan ratings, is only just shy of &#039;running from the room screaming&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that pun earned a hiss of breath through teeth &#8211; which if you follow the Callalhan ratings, is only just shy of &#8216;running from the room screaming&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Chris J</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/02/pitadolia/comment-page-2/#comment-145097</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s not a piercing it&#039;s a dimple. we all know christ was a stoner.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s not a piercing it&#8217;s a dimple. we all know christ was a stoner.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>okay, I guess I Knead to get this half baked pun out of the oven. Wouldn&#039;t a better title have been &quot;Pitadoughia&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>okay, I guess I Knead to get this half baked pun out of the oven. Wouldn&#8217;t a better title have been &#8220;Pitadoughia&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Still a little wrong. Maybe Mr. T with a samurai top knot.</description>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, wrong and big FAIL...Its Mr T with a Mullet!</description>
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		<title>By: Joe Anderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil,

 You have some of the best one-liner&#039;s ever.  I have personally witnessed at least a dozen classics.  While I am surely impressed by the sheer volume  of material you produce (hot air is a gas, you know), sometimes LESS is MORE.

-JP</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil,</p>
<p> You have some of the best one-liner&#8217;s ever.  I have personally witnessed at least a dozen classics.  While I am surely impressed by the sheer volume  of material you produce (hot air is a gas, you know), sometimes LESS is MORE.</p>
<p>-JP</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aw nick. What pun is it if no one encourages it?</description>
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