Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Certainly I must since you have a vested interest in the subject....far more than I do (though I should have more as a Christian). But I'm still curious, because my reading (limited though it is) on the pogroms was that they were very detrimental to the eastern European Jews. Perhaps this was more directed at the Hasidim than the more secular types? Curious as to your views on that.

I do agree that many Jews were Bolsheviks. Not sure that translated so much into many Jews being Soviets. I see a transformation in the 20s and 30s from the Marxism of the revolution into the Soviet structure that was not as accepting of your people.

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Blimey!  Fulham have beaten Juventus in the Europa League despite trailing after the first leg   In a possible bright spot for the American Threadsters it was American who scored the winning goal.

Dixie-you're very kind for throwing us a soft ball pitch to hit (alerting us to the American's winning goal).

What sport are we talking about? I've heard of Europa ("Festung Europa"), but nothing else in that sentence makes any sense.

It's the grand sport of Association Football old boy. Some developing nations, unable to fully grasp the concept of the game refer to it as soccer.

The Europa League is one of the two multi-national tournaments that is played over here by club teams, until recently it was the UEFA Cup but the powers that be decided to change things around a bit. Fulham beating Juventus is quite a big thing, Juve are one of Europes bigger clubs historically and Fulham are, well not. It's good for me as well, Dempsey was in my fantasy league team until he crocked his knee and now he's fit again he'll be going right back in again.

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ORIGINAL: radar

Thanks Dixie for the quick lesson on all that. I have seen some of the UEFA games broadcasted here in the States on ESPN. I guess you're saying that's now the Europa League, but pretty much the same clubs as before?

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to radar)

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Weekend is finally ****ing here tithe...

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ORIGINAL: radar

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Blimey!  Fulham have beaten Juventus in the Europa League despite trailing after the first leg   In a possible bright spot for the American Threadsters it was American who scored the winning goal.

Dixie-you're very kind for throwing us a soft ball pitch to hit (alerting us to the American's winning goal).

What sport are we talking about? I've heard of Europa ("Festung Europa"), but nothing else in that sentence makes any sense.

It's the grand sport of Association Football old boy. Some developing nations, unable to fully grasp the concept of the game refer to it as soccer.

The Europa League is one of the two multi-national tournaments that is played over here by club teams, until recently it was the UEFA Cup but the powers that be decided to change things around a bit. Fulham beating Juventus is quite a big thing, Juve are one of Europes bigger clubs historically and Fulham are, well not. It's good for me as well, Dempsey was in my fantasy league team until he crocked his knee and now he's fit again he'll be going right back in again.

Thanks Dixie for the quick lesson on all that. I have seen some of the UEFA games broadcasted here in the States on ESPN. I guess you're saying that's now the Europa League, but pretty much the same clubs as before?

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Post-work tithe.

You guys havent done much today, have you?

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Post-work tithe.

You guys havent done much today, have you?

Workin. Wassup yo.

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ORIGINAL: USS America

I've got The Madness.  

My bracket is starting to fall apart as a couple of the underdogs I picked have not come through. 

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ORIGINAL: USS America

I've got The Madness.  

My bracket is starting to fall apart as a couple of the underdogs I picked have not come through. 

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Certainly I must since you have a vested interest in the subject....far more than I do (though I should have more as a Christian). But I'm still curious, because my reading (limited though it is) on the pogroms was that they were very detrimental to the eastern European Jews. Perhaps this was more directed at the Hasidim than the more secular types? Curious as to your views on that.

I do agree that many Jews were Bolsheviks. Not sure that translated so much into many Jews being Soviets. I see a transformation in the 20s and 30s from the Marxism of the revolution into the Soviet structure that was not as accepting of your people.

I'm sorry, but I'm I'm still having a tad of trouble with your terminology. The "pogroms" as a series of events in the late 1800s certainly were detrimental to the Jews. That was a redirection of racial animosity (on the part of the Tsarist government) pure and simple. But what you referred to above as "Stalin's pogroms" was a very different thing. After googling the term I find that it refers to the arrest and execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which was a very real event, and one that my family was fairly close to, since my grandfather knew several of the members, including Mikhoels (pardon the phonetic spelling). What it was not, was a racially motivated event. It was Stalin disposing of a tool no longer useful, same as he would have done to Poles, Czechs or Romanians. To his credit, however, the Soviet government under Stalin, to my knowledge, never had a policy of (overt or otherwise) discrimination against Jews.

Whew. This is a very big subject, and I have to run along now.

A very good day to all.

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ORIGINAL: USS America

I've got The Madness.  

My bracket is starting to fall apart as a couple of the underdogs I picked have not come through. 

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Post-work tithe.

You guys havent done much today, have you?

Workin. Wassup yo.

Dude! Its Friday. Workin's so heinous.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: USS America

I've got The Madness.  

My bracket is starting to fall apart as a couple of the underdogs I picked have not come through. 

Que? Translation please.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

Did some more reading and agree. Found a curious bit about Stalin trying to setup a Soviet 'Zion' in the Far East. It hinted at there being something of a debate about which language should be the lingua franca of a new Israel: Yiddish or Hebrew.

That was quite an eye-catcher since I happen to be studying Hebrew right now.....and due to my basic German skills, I can actually pick up a decent amount of Yiddish.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Post-work tithe.

You guys havent done much today, have you?

Workin. Wassup yo.

Dude! Its Friday. Workin's so heinous.

It gets worse. Today was a "University Holiday". So I only was at work for 8 hours today. It gets worse. Working on my annual "Report of Activities" and "CV" for annual merit review. It gets worse. I probably put in 20 hours on the damn things. It gets worse. We will have a series of meetings over the next four (4!) months for committees to assign scores to all of the sections (6) in the submitter's ARAs. It gets worse. So that my peers-that largely don't know WTF I do-can (mis)judge my work effort. It gets worse. These scores are then used for determining so-called merit pay increases. It gets worse. But, of course, there's no money for any merit pay. It gets worse. But the University is making faculty (and staff) take a 1% pay increase this year. It gets worse. This will be an across the board increase regardless of merit score. It gets worse. By giving us the 1% pay increase, we will be putting our college's budget in deficit to the tune of 2% of annual budget. It gets worse. We have formulated a plan for furloughs to offset the 2% annual budget deficit.

I'd call for someone to shoot me, but this little tidbit didn't exactly raise morale around here this week...:

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/87823122.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ