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  1. I have found them all to be lacking in one direction or another to varying degrees. I try to find balance by sampling from a wide variety of sources across the political spectrum domestically and internationally in order to be able to compare, though lately I’ve been going to the BBC most frequently.
  2. It was on X/Twitter. They deleted the post and issued a correction after they were excoriated for it, so the original isn’t up anymore, but you can see the responses and the correction.
  3. I’m not sure I could classify Reuters as a “high factual source” after they called released hostages last week “Israeli soldiers” (the hostages they were referring to were older women and little girls, including a three-year-old).
  4. Well, if terrorists are firing guns out of it and operating from a base underneath it, and you do your best to get all the civilians out of harm’s way first, then yeah. If that’s the location your opponent has chosen to wage war from, that was the choice he made. Your choice at that point is to fight him where he is, or to stand and let him kill you. You don’t get to choose to fight him where he’s not. ETA: Whether the efforts to get civilians out of harm’s way are sufficient is the real question, in my opinion.
  5. I stopped by the farm supply store the other day to get chicken feed, and saw a sign that they were having a 10% off sale on Wednesday. So I didn’t buy the chicken feed then, but went back yesterday and got two months’ worth. Also, they had a deal on gift cards going where you could buy a $30 gift card for $25, so I paid $150 for $180 of gift cards—chicken feed paid for the next year or so.
  6. That stinks if people have called you antisemitic for your opinions, but that isn't what this thread was about. The OP was talking about the surge of actual antisemitism that is occurring right now.
  7. Is the rise in islamophobia greater among young people? I have seen many reports of antisemitic incidents on college campuses, but the reports I have seen of islamophobic incidents haven't disproportionately involved young people. I haven't seen any numbers on it, though.
  8. I was never taught anything about history post WWII in school.
  9. Except that what we are seeing on many college campuses is the opposite of this; not a clear distinction between anti-Israeli government sentiment and anti-semitism, but the opposite.
  10. Of course there is anti Muslim sentiment as well, but nobody in this thread said there wasn’t. Responding to “I don’t see A, only B” with “Here are a bunch of examples of A” is not missing J, it is giving a logical response. I don’t think we have to supersede every discussion of problem A with problem J to prove that we care about both (especially when problem A is statistically a more prevalent occurrence in our country at this time).
  11. My thoughts: There is a hierarchical mindset that is very common in the viewpoint of many young people that I think is at the root of the current surge in anti-semitism, especially among those on college campuses. There seems to be a sorting of who, as a group, is the most-to-least oppressed, that is based not only on historical oppression, but also to some degree on the material success of each demographic on average. Those who don’t fall on the oppressed side are at least suspect of being oppressors. It isn’t a big step from here to saying therefore, those whose groups are seen as more materially successful are the ones who it is okay to discriminate against. I think that the general acceptance of discrimination against Asians in college admissions comes from the same root. Asian immigrants as a group are seen as highly materially successful, so there is no widespread outrage at the fact that Asian kids have to work significantly harder to get into the same schools as other kids. It doesn’t matter if that kid’s parents were refugees who fled a foreign regime or what they had to overcome to get here. Asians are not viewed as a group that needs help and protection, because statistically they tend to be highly educated with good incomes. So people don’t really care about the discrimination or think that it is all that unjust. It is the same with Jews. As a group, statistically speaking they are well-educated and materially successful, so they are seen as falling more on the oppressor end of the hierarchy, regardless of actual historical oppression or the facts of current hate crime numbers.
  12. It is undeniable that antisemitic speech and actions are rampantly on display around the world at this time. Antisemitic incidents are up 400% in the U.S. (according to the Anti-defamation league, at the end of October) and they were already the most targeted group for hate crimes by a significant margin before the surge (according to the FBI). There have been stabbings by strangers for being Jewish, homes defaced with swastikas because they had a mezuzah on the doorframe, kosher delis vandalized. Jewish students on college campuses are especially terrorized. At Cornell there were threats to shoot up the Jewish life student center, slit the throats of Jewish men, and rape and throw off a cliff Jewish women on campus. At Northeastern University in Boston last week, Jewish students gathered for a Shabbat dinner and protestors gathered with signs calling for global intifada—not an uprising against Israelis, but against all a Jews around the world.
  13. I could, but their normal prices are 1.5 to 2 times the cost of the exact same products at the other stores in town, so I wouldn’t get $48 worth of anything for it. I usually only shop there for the sale items and the occasional fancier item that isn’t carried at the other stores, like when I want Gruyère cheese for my French onion soup.
  14. An expensive grocery store in town that occasionally has very good coupons had their deal on diapers going. It comes around every couple of months. I checked their website that showed they weren’t out of the ones we needed, went to the store, and used the machine by the door to print out my recycling voucher (they give more per can/bottle recycled if you use it at their store than if you take cash). I hadn’t taken out the funds for my recycling in over a year, so the voucher was for $48. I went to grab the diapers and found that despite what their website had said, they not only didn’t have the diapers I wanted, but there was no place on the shelf for them anymore. I think they must have decided to stop carrying the large boxes of the less expensive brand. And apparently I can’t use part of the voucher funds; I have to use it all at once or the rest of the funds are lost. I don’t know when I am likely to want fifty dollars worth of anything from that store again if their diapers are no longer worth it. And I have this tiny slip of paper to keep track of until I have a use for it.
  15. This would also be more likely to find abuse in the highest risk child demographic, which is the under-fives. And avoid the hypocrisy of singling out some parents with no negative history as potential abusers while ignoring others, based only on their educational choices and not on their children being out of contact with reporters.
  16. Christmas stuff is coming together. I was searching for matching pjs and frustrated because they are so hard to find now with my kids’ range of sizes, but finally happened on some very nice ones with a coupon available that put them into my budgeted price range. A small, local grocery store had a tree sale this weekend and we got a nice tree for $39. I ordered the kids’ books when the Amazon deal was going, and we only need one gift for dd14, dd13, and ds2 still, plus a shared one for the nephews. Our foster girls’ dad has made it clear that he doesn’t want us to have a relationship with them anymore, so we have decided to put some money into their savings accounts for birthdays and Christmas from now on. I also saw that Azure Standard is having a promotion with 15% off of their azure market, azure market organic, and azure canning co. brand items right now for orders of at least $150. The canning supplies are also on sale for 15% off, so this is on top of that. I was able to order some things I have been wanting to build up my pantry supply of for cheaper than I can get them anywhere else, and get some half-gallon canning jars for $1.61 each. The promo code is ABUNDANTPANTRY2023 https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=dad23cd9c4 And this year I am finally remembering to do something that I have wished I had done each of the last several tax filings—start a record of my mileage for medical visits at the beginning of the year to fill in as I go, rather than retroactively trying to figure it out at tax time.
  17. The two youngest Zyadne siblings were released today, so that is all of the minor hostages other than the little Bibas boys.
  18. Now Hamas is offering to give bodies instead of live hostages in exchange for prisoners being released and an extension to the ceasefire, and are blaming Israel for not accepting this
  19. It looks like almost all of the known hostages age 18 and younger are back now--all except for the Bibas boys and the Ziyadne siblings. I hope that Hamas is lying about the Bibas family being dead, but I think it is more likely that they killed them. I can't imagine that anyone with a brain will believe them about the deaths being caused by Israeli fire without any proof after their blatant lies about the hospital bombing. But then, there seem to be a lot of people without brains in this world. If it were true, the strongest thing Hamas could do to support their own cause would be to immediately turn over the bodies and any other proof they could offer.
  20. I told my boys about math competitions and asked if they wanted to take to AMC 8. They are excited for it. Then I went to register them and pulled up the testing locations. There’s hardly anywhere offering it. We are looking at a seven hour drive to the closest higher learning institution offering it. There is one school in a city an hour away that is offering it to their students, but they haven’t returned my phone calls. If your kids have taken the AMC, how do you find a location for them to take it? Are you just lucky to be close or do you travel for this?
  21. I haven’t tried the enchiladas. Her smothered burritos are another of our favorites, though.
  22. It really depends on the kid. Transitioning from parenting two to three was the hardest adjustment as a mom having babies. Just learning to balance the needs of more little people than you have hands was tricky. I have five bio kids. But when we had our foster kids, eight was absolutely the hardest. Eight was 500% harder than parenting seven, even though we were dealing with ds’s cancer diagnosis simultaneously with going from eight to seven. But that was a function of K’s personality and attachment issues, not the number.
  23. I'm having trouble thinking of anything. I made a note months ago that I could maybe ask for an egg skelter as an idea for the kids to give me, but that was before I realized just how many eggs our chickens would be producing--the egg skelters I have seen hold nowhere near enough to keep eggs sorted by age for us. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=egg+skelter&crid=2L4NKMCVDK1ZB&sprefix=egg+skelter%2Caps%2C320&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 I would totally rather just not spend money and have less stress about reaching financial goals. Or maybe put some cash aside to go towards a fund for a long-term stretch dream. That's not likely, though.
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