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broke taxpayer May 1, 2013 at 03:22 pm
Mr Rea I wish you the best of luck in your run for school board. You have my vote! If you are…Read More interested in the financial side maybe you can get an answer to why our district is cutting 2 of our auditors? They work for the taxpayers to assure our money is spent correctly. It seems strange that in times of so called financial difficultly you would reduce you fiscal oversight. Isn't that what got Roslyn in trouble? Strange that the new superintendents first moves are that. In a 143 million dolar budget, the amount spent on our claims auditor and internal auditor is not much. We need both positions restored to protect the taxpayers interest
Robert Deacon April 16, 2013 at 01:51 pm
Thank you Richard. If you have a smart phone you may access my info by texting the word…Read More "MOLD" to 71441 this will open a link and give you my pertinent information at your fingertips. Look forward to one day meeting you.
Robert Deacon
Richard Warden April 16, 2013 at 01:35 pm
I'll keep you in mind for recommendations. I'm a licensed home inspector performing many…Read More pre-purchase home inspections with my company Southampton Home Inspections AKA Suffolk New York Home Inspections.
Ann Darcy April 16, 2013 at 02:10 am
Hello Rabbi Huberman, Usually I give up TMZ for Lent, but then go back to it as it can be amusing…Read More at times. I don't even know who they are talking about, for example:. Ashley Tisdale.(?) Anyway, calling somebody a "rising nobody" is funny for a second but basically its just snark, or as you call it "dreque". You inspired me to give it up completely, forever. Thank you. Ann
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:09 pm
Ps: it also helps disabled girls have more confidence in themselves ..
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:08 pm
That is not true. Pageants open a door for girls/woman to speak out and help out. There are many…Read More different types of pageants to chose from. Not all are about beauty alone.
Miss Long Island 1997
Also a Lupus and domestic violence Survivor
Jen Thomas April 13, 2013 at 12:02 am
We should be teaching our daughters to love and respect themselves and pageants do not do that.…Read More Feel like a queen? How about a judge or an architect? As the mother of a disabled daughter, I am appalled by this.
Gigi Bowman April 11, 2013 at 07:18 pm
Florida Senate Passes Anti-Drone Surveillance Legislation…Read More
http://spreadlibertynews.com/florida-senate-passes-anti-drone-surveillance-legislation/
Ann Darcy April 10, 2013 at 10:28 pm
We have given up our rights voluntarily with cell phones ( aka personal tracking devices), which…Read More are actually short wave radios with no legal guarantee of privacy.Our shopping can be traced with credit/debit cards and where we drive can be monitored with GPS and EZ pass. Some things we DO have control over. Ann Rita Darcy
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:37 pm
Interesting article. It reinforces the point of the blog which stresses the importance of ensuring…Read More that animal rights, labor laws and environmental respected when we slaughter and prepare our food. It's also interesting to note that the Noahide law of respecting animal rights appears in the Torah many generations before the laws of Kashrut.
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:34 pm
The simple answer to your question is "the Bible says so." Leviticus 11:21 notes "you…Read More may eat all the winged swarmy things that will walk on all fours; all that have above their feet jointed legs to leap with on the ground" This includes bald locust, crickets and all varieties of grasshoppers.
As "counter intuitive" as this may appear to us living in the United States, especially during times of famine it was important set boundaries with regard to what people could consume. After all, Kosher actually means "fit" to eat. Although the Bible is vague on why it distinguishes between different types of insects, I am guessing that the law seeks to divide insects which spend all their time walking in the earth and dust, and those who were able to jump or fly.
It is interesting to note that last month, just prior to Passover, a rare infestation of locust occurred in the Middle East. The attached link documents the "invasion" and notes that this set off a fad of locust eating in various many countries.
http://news.yahoo.com/bible-comes-life-locusts-swarm-israel-190310435.html
Consuming locust may seem odd to us, but based on some of the fast foods or other items which we consume on the fly in North America, who are we to judge?
Thank you for the question.
Micah Danney (Editor) April 10, 2013 at 01:49 pm
Thanks for this article. There was a NYT op-ed on the subject of animal treatment published Monday:…Read More http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/opinion/open-the-slaughterhouses.html?_r=1&. Could how we treat "food animals," maybe the most rights-deprived sentient members of our society, relate to our sense of compassion, or lack of it, in other arenas?
Right Here May 21, 2013 at 10:48 am
Maybe because once in the system, they see each additional baby as an additional check with more…Read More benefits?
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