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Hi, Does anyone know a place to rent a car? It's for my folks, their car is out of commission at the last minute and they have to get down to Ocean County. I called Enterprise but they all closed their offices at 1. Any ideas? Uber and Lyft would cost way too much. And Zip car is out of the question since it would cost just a bit less than UBER and LYFT. Any ideas appreciated it.
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Comrade Troll you do realize that was almost 15 years ago....the West was trying to normalize relationships with Russia after the cold war. Putin hadn't become the fascist tyrant....he is now....although....there were signs....that the West clearly missed ......that he would turn out to be a monster.
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Um have you looked at the history of that part of the US? If you do then you know that you have it all wrong. Quote:
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So sad to hear you are leaving. I may not have always agreed with you but you were a valuable contributor to this forum. Also, now more than ever we need people to stick up for freedom...to save this nation from the peril that resides in the White House currently.
I have one relative and several in-laws who reside in Australia(by extension NZ)......from what I am told they are facing similar issues with right wingers..... Good Luck! Quote:
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles ... k-control-of-germany.html
How the Nazis Took Control of Germany Hitler was not that popular when he first took office, but the Nazis quickly changed that, for the simple reason that power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it Today, Jan. 27, marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. That event did not mark the end of the Holocaust?gassings continued until the eve of Hitler?s suicide on April 30, 1945, and thousands more died of the effects of starvation and mistreatment at places like Belsen even weeks after their liberation. But Jan. 27 should put us in mind of the beginnings. How did this happen? In particular, how could Germany, by all outward indications a civilized and modern country, become a persecuting society, brutally indifferent to the fates of anyone outside its supposed ?people?s community?? These questions should worry people for all time. Adolf Hitler was a minority choice to lead his country; when he took office, roughly 55 percent of Germans had never voted for him. Anti-semitism was prevalent in German culture but by no means dominant or respectable. The nation?s elites (the establishment) generally regarded the Nazi f?hrer with disdain and mistrust and doubted his capacity to run a government, given his complete lack of experience at doing so. The consensus about the Nazis? wild-eyed promises was captured by the oft-repeated German proverb, ?Nothing is eaten as hot as it?s cooked.? Six years later, most Germans were acquiescing, and many of them were trying to benefit from, the complete humiliation and dispossession of German Jews, their demotion to ?subjects? of the Reich, and their forced expulsion from the country. Three more years on, most Germans, including those elite corporate leaders and civil servants who scorned Hitler in 1933, were not just turning a blind eye to, but facilitating enslavement and mass murder? and finding a great many helpers in the Axis-occupied and Axis-allied regions of Europe. The key to understanding the transformation of Germans? behavior is straightforward: power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. Power enabled the Nazi regime to unleash the haters, to intimidate the squeamish, and to change the moral valence of prejudice from something frowned upon to something glorified as patriotic. Once that happened, individual self-interest took care of the rest. Above all, power enabled the propagandists for Nazism to divide the world relentlessly into Us vs. Them and to shut down more nuanced perspectives. To Germans, the world became a perpetual struggle between poor, virtuous, and victimized Us, and malevolent, conspiratorial, and implacable Them. In such an unforgiving environment, all means of self-defense were justified, including preemptively striking Them?taking their rights away, concentrating them in camps and ghettos, wiping them out?before they supposedly had a chance to do their worst. Demonization of ?Them? is always the first step toward persecution and genocide. And an essential prerequisite for demonization is its proponents? sense of victimization, of having been or being about to be robbed of a birthright. The adherents of modern anti-semitism, not only in Germany but elsewhere in Europe, were people displaced and diminished by the Industrial Revolution and threatened by the specter of communism. In our own day, the devotees of nativist populism, not only in the U.S. but also in Europe, are people declassed and disoriented by the digital revolution and alarmed by the rise of Islamism. Will they go the way of the Nazis toward ever escalating paranoia and persecution? Only if governments help them. Populist movements, on their own, can?t make persecuting societies or generate genocides. These phenomena need office-holders to countenance, stimulate, and implement hatred. Only when powerful leaders choose to let discrimination and violence take hold, and then to accelerate these lusts, does systematic degradation, let alone mass murder, result. That is the challenge the Holocaust poses all these years later: Which way will political leaders go? Toward feeding angry and vengeful segments of public opinion or toward promoting pluralism and progress? Because the prospects look chancy right now, we should all recall the words of another German proverb??Beware the Beginnings??and be ready to act on it. Peter Hayes is professor of history and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation professor of Holocaust studies emeritus at Northwestern University. W. W. Norton & Co. published his new book, Why? Explaining the Holocaust, on Jan. 17.
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Its clear the DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP has let us down...many including Obama thought that Trump once in office would moderate his stance...that we should give him a chance. That failed completely. The only thing left standing between tyranny and the semblance of a free society are the people. RESIST!
Posted on: 2017/1/25 17:51
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He scrubbed civil rights and LGBT issues. And his first executive order was to deny a 500 credit towards mortgages....ya know so those poor billionaires on WALL STREET can make a living too. Quote:
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At least Trump is trying to MAKE AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AGAIN by shilling jewelry.
https://www.cnet.com/news/melania-trum ... lady-white-house-website/
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Can't wait for the Grove St. location to open, their donuts are way superior to DD. :)
Posted on: 2017/1/20 16:41
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Enjoy your special day Trump supporters.....I hope you get what you deserve. ![]()
Posted on: 2017/1/20 16:38
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Hi, I recently attended a movie there for the first time. It was so fun. And the venue itself is gorgeous. I hope they remain independent. For almost all events a fire marshal indeed is required. 201.798.6055 | info@friendofloews.org Good LUCK!
Posted on: 2017/1/14 23:11
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Happy New Year to all!
It so happens that several of my light fixtures/bulbs died on me. I was able to put in LED bulbs for most of them with no problem. There is one light fixture on my ceiling that is a bit tricky. This is it: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-4- ... -10-Pack-422675/203466573. Id like to replace it with something more energy efficient. Doe anyone have any recommendations? It is pretty high on the ceiling....i just want to be able to put it in as i would with the one i have now. I am complete doofus when it comes to home maintenance. Thanks ALL!
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What Trump Needs to Learn About Protests
By Margaret Talbot , November 11, 2016 http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c ... s-to-learn-about-protests
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This was a surprising result to say the least. I congratulate Trump because he pulled it off. An angry mass of people have spoken in large enough numbers...where they were heard. Basic democracy. Whether or not choosing a candidate out of spite will solve our issues...only time will tell. But If the Democrats roll over like the spinless Republican Party did with Adolf Trump.....both organizations deserve to perish.
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How about this for a zinger: Your orange fuhrer has lost the election.
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Father who ?repeatedly raped his 12-year old daughter? gets 60-day sentence. Fury erupts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mo ... day-sentence-fury-erupts/ I hear that Drumpf wants to nominate this judge to the Supreme court or at the very least be the presiding judge at his own sexual assault/rape trials....
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Phone failed to trigger bomb outside police station
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap ... tation-bomb-case-42856679 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... Colorado-cop-station.html
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio ... ebombed-article-1.2832967 North Carolina county GOP office attacked Donald Trump blames "animals respresenting Hillary Clinton" for the firebombing. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10 ... cked-229865#ixzz4NIH0R6Sw Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10 ... op-office-attacked-229865
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New Jersey Muslim Center Defaced With ?Donald Trump,? Racist Graffiti ?F**k Allah? and ?F**k Arabs? were among the messages spray-painted on Bayonne?s Muslim Community Miraj Center. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/b ... _58013157e4b06e047594c812
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Three Kansas Men Charged With Plotting a Bombing Attack Targeting the Local Somali Immigrant Community https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/po ... r/?utm_term=.8fe7406fa329 ?It will be a bloodbath?: Inside the Kansas militia plot to ignite a religious war
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Silly Matt, we already know about Drumpf's parenting approach. What i really want to know is how he feels about women!
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I doubt they will watch this.
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I don't know if the video is real or not....especially since the poster is a right winger....who in his profile pic is all geared up for some hunting with this trusty assault rifle....but if it is true its scary.
The irony is that the only commenter on the video states: gas, deport, idgaf every religious muslim has to leave the west forever?. Nothing makes the world a better place than fighting hate with violence an more hate. Quote:
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http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,175987,00.html
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion. If the evil carnage we witnessed on Sept. 11 were typical of the faith, and Islam truly inspired and justified such violence, its growth and the increasing presence of Muslims in both Europe and the U.S. would be a terrifying prospect. Fortunately, this is not the case. The very word Islam, which means "surrender," is related to the Arabic salam, or peace. When the Prophet Muhammad brought the inspired scripture known as the Koran to the Arabs in the early 7th century A.D., a major part of his mission was devoted precisely to bringing an end to the kind of mass slaughter we witnessed in New York City and Washington. Pre-Islamic Arabia was caught up in a vicious cycle of warfare, in which tribe fought tribe in a pattern of vendetta and countervendetta. Muhammad himself survived several assassination attempts, and the early Muslim community narrowly escaped extermination by the powerful city of Mecca. The Prophet had to fight a deadly war in order to survive, but as soon as he felt his people were probably safe, he devoted his attention to building up a peaceful coalition of tribes and achieved victory by an ingenious and inspiring campaign of nonviolence. When he died in 632, he had almost single-handedly brought peace to war-torn Arabia. Because the Koran was revealed in the context of an all-out war, several passages deal with the conduct of armed struggle. Warfare was a desperate business on the Arabian Peninsula. A chieftain was not expected to spare survivors after a battle, and some of the Koranic injunctions seem to share this spirit. Muslims are ordered by God to "slay [enemies] wherever you find them!" (4: 89). Extremists such as Osama bin Laden like to quote such verses but do so selectively. They do not include the exhortations to peace, which in almost every case follow these more ferocious passages: "Thus, if they let you be, and do not make war on you, and offer you peace, God does not allow you to harm them" (4: 90). In the Koran, therefore, the only permissible war is one of self-defense. Muslims may not begin hostilities (2: 190). Warfare is always evil, but sometimes you have to fight in order to avoid the kind of persecution that Mecca inflicted on the Muslims (2: 191; 2: 217) or to preserve decent values (4: 75; 22: 40). The Koran quotes the Torah, the Jewish scriptures, which permits people to retaliate eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but like the Gospels, the Koran suggests that it is meritorious to forgo revenge in a spirit of charity (5: 45). Hostilities must be brought to an end as quickly as possible and must cease the minute the enemy sues for peace (2: 192-3). Islam is not addicted to war, and jihad is not one of its "pillars," or essential practices. The primary meaning of the word jihad is not "holy war" but "struggle." It refers to the difficult effort that is needed to put God's will into practice at every level--personal and social as well as political. A very important and much quoted tradition has Muhammad telling his companions as they go home after a battle, "We are returning from the lesser jihad [the battle] to the greater jihad," the far more urgent and momentous task of extirpating wrongdoing from one's own society and one's own heart. Islam did not impose itself by the sword. In a statement in which the Arabic is extremely emphatic, the Koran insists, "There must be no coercion in matters of faith!" (2: 256). Constantly Muslims are enjoined to respect Jews and Christians, the "People of the Book," who worship the same God (29: 46). In words quoted by Muhammad in one of his last public sermons, God tells all human beings, "O people! We have formed you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another" (49: 13)--not to conquer, convert, subjugate, revile or slaughter but to reach out toward others with intelligence and understanding. So why the suicide bombing, the hijacking and the massacre of innocent civilians? Far from being endorsed by the Koran, this killing violates some of its most sacred precepts. But during the 20th century, the militant form of piety often known as fundamentalism erupted in every major religion as a rebellion against modernity. Every fundamentalist movement I have studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is determined to wipe out religion. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more compassionate principles of their faith. But in amplifying the more aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they distort the tradition. It would be as grave a mistake to see Osama bin Laden as an authentic representative of Islam as to consider James Kopp, the alleged killer of an abortion provider in Buffalo, N.Y., a typical Christian or Baruch Goldstein, who shot 29 worshipers in the Hebron mosque in 1994 and died in the attack, a true martyr of Israel. The vast majority of Muslims, who are horrified by the atrocity of Sept. 11, must reclaim their faith from those who have so violently hijacked it. Karen Armstrong has written many books on religion, including Islam: A Short History, published last year by Modern Library Quote:
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lol okay. Yeah.
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Thank you for being logical and awesome!
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BITCH PLEASE! She doesn't have to do a thing you say!
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It scares me to think DRUMPF might win. Hillary isn't really that better of a choice in my opinion. She is a war hawk on foreign policy and is influenced heavily by corporate and big business. DRUMPF is a loser and a con....but if he is elected...then surely we deserve it.
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Of course we as a nation can stop supporting dictators that oppress their people. We could stop attacking or overthrowing democratically elected leaders an nations. We could stop selling arms to those very oppressive regimes.
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