Comments on: That’s SIR Peres, thank you!

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:03:47 +0000

When we stop getting turned on by fine behinds?

By: froylein

froylein — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:05:27 +0000

I don’t object to the missionary position.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:10:09 +0000

When will people finally learn to stick (sorry!) to the missionary position?

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:24:01 +0000

The King (obm) learned some of those moves from Sir Tom.

Speaking of “I can’t walk out…” this group, Footsteps, was mentioned on the news tonight in a piece about Orthos looking for kinky sex on craigslist.
footstepsorg.o...

I think it addresses some of the topic above.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:31:29 +0000

That’s enough about my social life, Muffti.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:25:01 +0000

Is that the phony one or the real one?

By: froylein

froylein — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:51:45 +0000

What Muffti's trying to say:

By: Grand Muffti

Grand Muffti — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:03:50 +0000

Morrissey, Muffti talked to the counterfactual game last week and truthfully, it’s not your biggest fan either!

By: montana urban legend

montana urban legend — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:36:51 +0000

Chutzpah,

I don’t see what is wrong with acknowledging America’s feats of heroism and extraordinary decency while also acknowledging its shortcomings and faults. History is not just about choosing a side to cheer for or to demonize. That said, I don’t know the degree to which restricting immigration was (aside from anti-Semitism) a result of legitimate social concerns, demogoguery, or demogoguery that the cognoscenti widely (both here and abroad) accepted as legitimate social concerns at the time, but were still reflective of appeals to demogoguery nonetheless.

All of these questions help parse down exactly what historical lessons can be learned from these events, even if that goal comes at the expense of seeing America (or any other country) as only either “100% good” or “100% bad”. Patriotism and good will are fine, but it’s important that those things not get in the way of drawing historical lessons.

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:57:33 +0000

I think we should let FDR and US immigration policies off the hook. A country can only take in so many sick and destitute people at one time without putting itself at risk of overloading its social services system.

You can call restricting refugees anti-semitism if it makes you feel better,and that was no doubt a large factor, but I think the U.S.A. deserves a slight bit more appreciation that that. There were countries that did not allow any refugees to come in.

Would U.S. Jews today be happy to let in the same number of refugees from Darfur and other impoverished and war-torn areas as FDR let in after WWII? I highly doubt it.