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You want hellfire and brimstone? Child sets Bexley synagogue aflame
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A 7-year-old boy playing with a lighter in a closet set a fire that caused $100,000 damage to the offices of a synagogue Wednesday morning, fire officials said.
The child was at the Congregation Ahavas Sholom synagogue to attend services, said Kelly McGuire, a fire department spokeswoman. No charges will be filed, but the boy will be referred to a department program that counsels children who have fire-setting tendencies or are fascinated by fire, she said.
The weekday morning minyan is the only service I can imagine that was going on at the time of the blaze. Here’s a website for the synagogue, which is part of the Orthodox branch of Judaism. It looks like this:
H/t to BSB, which caught the Columbus Dispatch making a few booboos.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:43 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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He also lives next door to my son’s best friend and we know him from the Jewish community and mutual friends. From OPENERS:
Solon City Councilman Edward H. Kraus has been appointed by Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann to co-lead the agency’s Cleveland office.
Kraus will run the 73-employee office with Mark Mastrangelo of Willoughby, who was selected by Dann on Jan. 18.
Kraus, 46, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Ohio House in 1994, will come from private practice. He previously worked for seven years as a Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor. In addition to leading the office, Kraus will serve as its assistant chief of consumer protection.
Best of luck, Ed.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:45 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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From the Washington Post:
The Virginia House of Delegates approved a far-reaching proposal Tuesday to strip charities and other organizations of state and local funding if any of the money is used to provide services to immigrants in the country illegally.
The proposal, one of nearly 50 immigration-related bills under consideration by the General Assembly, could force such groups as the Salvation Army and the Virginia Association of Free Clinics to verify immigration status before offering assistance to those in need or risk losing funding.
Sorry but a few laws will not discourage do-gooders (certainly wouldn’t deter me):
Responded Kitty Hardt, director of program operations at Commonwealth Catholic Charities: “We don’t stop services to look for documentation.”
Likewise:
Immigrant rights advocates said that taken together, the bills are mean-spirited and contribute to a growing bias against Hispanics, who make up 6 percent of the state’s population.
“I think they have put together an agenda that says we are going to beat up on illegal aliens, regardless of their status as children or adults,” said Del. A. Donald McEachin (D-Richmond).
More ideas for how to make our fellow human beings miserable, unwelcome and prone to commiting acts resulting from desperation (which is most likely what got them here in the first place):
Over the next month, delegates and senators are expected to debate bills aimed at making life difficult for those who have entered the country illegally. There are bills to deny in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants, punish employers who hire undocumented workers and expand the power of state and local police so they can help federal authorities apprehend people in the country illegally. Other pieces of legislation would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to come to Virginia.
How Christian of people, not to mention how American.
Where the hell have all the good people gone? And this comment is just plain stupid:
Lawmakers said charitable groups could help illegal immigrants as long as the money is from their private, not state or local, funds.
What - they think it’s Monopoly money you can separate and distinguish by putting it in different piles? Ugh. It disgusts me that people in elected office cannot think of any better way to affect immigration reform than denying them basic needs once inside our country, no matter how they got here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:41 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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You want hellfire and brimstone? Child sets Bexley synagogue aflame
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A 7-year-old boy playing with a lighter in a closet set a fire that caused $100,000 damage to the offices of a synagogue Wednesday morning, fire officials said.
The child was at the Congregation Ahavas Sholom synagogue to attend services, said Kelly McGuire, a fire department spokeswoman. No charges will be filed, but the boy will be referred to a department program that counsels children who have fire-setting tendencies or are fascinated by fire, she said.
The weekday morning minyan is the only service I can imagine that was going on at the time of the blaze. Here’s a website for the synagogue, which is part of the Orthodox branch of Judaism. It looks like this:
H/t to BSB, which caught the Columbus Dispatch making a few booboos.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:43 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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From the Washington Post:
The Virginia House of Delegates approved a far-reaching proposal Tuesday to strip charities and other organizations of state and local funding if any of the money is used to provide services to immigrants in the country illegally.
The proposal, one of nearly 50 immigration-related bills under consideration by the General Assembly, could force such groups as the Salvation Army and the Virginia Association of Free Clinics to verify immigration status before offering assistance to those in need or risk losing funding.
Sorry but a few laws will not discourage do-gooders (certainly wouldn’t deter me):
Responded Kitty Hardt, director of program operations at Commonwealth Catholic Charities: “We don’t stop services to look for documentation.”
Likewise:
Immigrant rights advocates said that taken together, the bills are mean-spirited and contribute to a growing bias against Hispanics, who make up 6 percent of the state’s population.
“I think they have put together an agenda that says we are going to beat up on illegal aliens, regardless of their status as children or adults,” said Del. A. Donald McEachin (D-Richmond).
More ideas for how to make our fellow human beings miserable, unwelcome and prone to commiting acts resulting from desperation (which is most likely what got them here in the first place):
Over the next month, delegates and senators are expected to debate bills aimed at making life difficult for those who have entered the country illegally. There are bills to deny in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants, punish employers who hire undocumented workers and expand the power of state and local police so they can help federal authorities apprehend people in the country illegally. Other pieces of legislation would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to come to Virginia.
How Christian of people, not to mention how American.
Where the hell have all the good people gone? And this comment is just plain stupid:
Lawmakers said charitable groups could help illegal immigrants as long as the money is from their private, not state or local, funds.
What - they think it’s Monopoly money you can separate and distinguish by putting it in different piles? Ugh. It disgusts me that people in elected office cannot think of any better way to affect immigration reform than denying them basic needs once inside our country, no matter how they got here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:41 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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Very interesting discussion going on over here at Rightpundits. The original post is a bit more full of hyperbole than I would like, but I happen to agree with the incorrectness of the legislator’s pursuit because outlawing spanking is not going to get at whatever it is the legislator thinks she’s getting at - which is probably crappy parenting and failure to integrate a parenting technique that should be used in the most sparing of ways (it’s not in my toolbox period, but you can read my comment in the thread). The original article about the ban is here.
The blog is a conservative one, but I’ve had some good, lengthy and substantive experiences there and would recommend it to others who want to read some different views and leave comments with a group of folks who will respond, and not necessarily as monolithically as some more homegrown conservative blogs we know from around these parts might respond.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:57 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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He also lives next door to my son’s best friend and we know him from the Jewish community and mutual friends. From OPENERS:
Solon City Councilman Edward H. Kraus has been appointed by Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann to co-lead the agency’s Cleveland office.
Kraus will run the 73-employee office with Mark Mastrangelo of Willoughby, who was selected by Dann on Jan. 18.
Kraus, 46, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Ohio House in 1994, will come from private practice. He previously worked for seven years as a Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor. In addition to leading the office, Kraus will serve as its assistant chief of consumer protection.
Best of luck, Ed.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:45 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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You want hellfire and brimstone? Child sets Bexley synagogue aflame
Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
A 7-year-old boy playing with a lighter in a closet set a fire that caused $100,000 damage to the offices of a synagogue Wednesday morning, fire officials said.
The child was at the Congregation Ahavas Sholom synagogue to attend services, said Kelly McGuire, a fire department spokeswoman. No charges will be filed, but the boy will be referred to a department program that counsels children who have fire-setting tendencies or are fascinated by fire, she said.
The weekday morning minyan is the only service I can imagine that was going on at the time of the blaze. Here’s a website for the synagogue, which is part of the Orthodox branch of Judaism. It looks like this:
H/t to BSB, which caught the Columbus Dispatch making a few booboos.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:43 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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He also lives next door to my son’s best friend and we know him from the Jewish community and mutual friends. From OPENERS:
Solon City Councilman Edward H. Kraus has been appointed by Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann to co-lead the agency’s Cleveland office.
Kraus will run the 73-employee office with Mark Mastrangelo of Willoughby, who was selected by Dann on Jan. 18.
Kraus, 46, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Ohio House in 1994, will come from private practice. He previously worked for seven years as a Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor. In addition to leading the office, Kraus will serve as its assistant chief of consumer protection.
Best of luck, Ed.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:45 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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Very interesting discussion going on over here at Rightpundits. The original post is a bit more full of hyperbole than I would like, but I happen to agree with the incorrectness of the legislator’s pursuit because outlawing spanking is not going to get at whatever it is the legislator thinks she’s getting at - which is probably crappy parenting and failure to integrate a parenting technique that should be used in the most sparing of ways (it’s not in my toolbox period, but you can read my comment in the thread). The original article about the ban is here.
The blog is a conservative one, but I’ve had some good, lengthy and substantive experiences there and would recommend it to others who want to read some different views and leave comments with a group of folks who will respond, and not necessarily as monolithically as some more homegrown conservative blogs we know from around these parts might respond.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:57 pm January 31st, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Very interesting discussion going on over here at Rightpundits. The original post is a bit more full of hyperbole than I would like, but I happen to agree with the incorrectness of the legislator’s pursuit because outlawing spanking is not going to get at whatever it is the legislator thinks she’s getting at - which is probably crappy parenting and failure to integrate a parenting technique that should be used in the most sparing of ways (it’s not in my toolbox period, but you can read my comment in the thread). The original article about the ban is here.
The blog is a conservative one, but I’ve had some good, lengthy and substantive experiences there and would recommend it to others who want to read some different views and leave comments with a group of folks who will respond, and not necessarily as monolithically as some more homegrown conservative blogs we know from around these parts might respond.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:57 am January 31st, 2007 in Politics | Please comment
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Does anyone else, like me, end up with a bunch of open tabs at the end of the day that you’ve ignored or have kept passing over because you don’t have the time you want to take to post about whatever information is discussed in the item that lives at the URL in that tab? (say that outloud and you too can read like I write, or talk like you read or…whatever)
Sometimes I open a Word document just so I can place all those URLs in there for future blog posts. Sometimes I start posts and then just save them. Sometimes I send myself an email with all the links, with the hope that I’ll get back to them the next day (HA! I laugh at my own foolishness!).
And then there’s tonight when I’m going to try to put all the items I read today for which I still have an open tab into one post. Here goes:
1.. Sperm - Barbaro - NYT article says that Thoroughbred racing’s Jockey Club doesn’t do artificial insemination. There goes the frozen winner possibility. Anyone have conspiracy theories ready yet for how someone will circumvent that rule?
2. Sprawl - damn, but I’m now stuck between two North-South routes that need to be or are in the process of being expanded to more traffic lanes. Aren’t I supposed to be in some far out suburb, spoiled rotten by the ability to spend obscene quantities of money to fill my minivan’s gas tank?
Not according to this article about how Mayfield Road will be torn asunder. And not according to the 30K square foot Smith Barney office building being constructed off of Lander Circle or the land being sold just opposite that plot, wedged between Chagrin Boulevard and Lander Road and across from Garfield Memorial Church which the residents (though not me) of my once bucolic city agreed to re-zone for business.
And not according to the Cedar Road expansion project which, although Pepper stood its ground and forced Lyndhurst to absorb all the expansion of that road to four lanes, still affects the rest of us.
3. Eric Fingerhut. Higher Education. Board of Regents. Chancellor. Reporting to Governor. Hello?? Anybody out there?
4. Women are EVERYWHERE. You’d think that would make men happier, right? Nah. These aren’t the women most men want everywhere. To which I of course would reply, such men are not the men I want around anyway. SNARK.
Women in government, via Politico, here and here.
Women investigating the gender gap in new media and the Internet.
Women being misquoted by Fox News, which doesn’t seem to know the difference between a blog entry and a blog comment. Then again, CNN didn’t do much better when it covered the story on bloggers covering the Libby trial.
The Speaker of the House’s main online woman giving excellent and simple and direct steps for how government folks and candidates should be blogging.
Women becoming the grand poohbahs of a Grand Pooh-bah’s presidential campaign’s blogging operation (h/t to reader AP).
Women rock, and if you’re not down with that, you’re going to feel less and less comfortable in this country.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:20 am January 31st, 2007 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Does anyone else, like me, end up with a bunch of open tabs at the end of the day that you’ve ignored or have kept passing over because you don’t have the time you want to take to post about whatever information is discussed in the item that lives at the URL in that tab? (say that outloud and you too can read like I write, or talk like you read or…whatever)
Sometimes I open a Word document just so I can place all those URLs in there for future blog posts. Sometimes I start posts and then just save them. Sometimes I send myself an email with all the links, with the hope that I’ll get back to them the next day (HA! I laugh at my own foolishness!).
And then there’s tonight when I’m going to try to put all the items I read today for which I still have an open tab into one post. Here goes:
1.. Sperm - Barbaro - NYT article says that Thoroughbred racing’s Jockey Club doesn’t do artificial insemination. There goes the frozen winner possibility. Anyone have conspiracy theories ready yet for how someone will circumvent that rule?
2. Sprawl - damn, but I’m now stuck between two North-South routes that need to be or are in the process of being expanded to more traffic lanes. Aren’t I supposed to be in some far out suburb, spoiled rotten by the ability to spend obscene quantities of money to fill my minivan’s gas tank?
Not according to this article about how Mayfield Road will be torn asunder. And not according to the 30K square foot Smith Barney office building being constructed off of Lander Circle or the land being sold just opposite that plot, wedged between Chagrin Boulevard and Lander Road and across from Garfield Memorial Church which the residents (though not me) of my once bucolic city agreed to re-zone for business.
And not according to the Cedar Road expansion project which, although Pepper stood its ground and forced Lyndhurst to absorb all the expansion of that road to four lanes, still affects the rest of us.
3. Eric Fingerhut. Higher Education. Board of Regents. Chancellor. Reporting to Governor. Hello?? Anybody out there?
4. Women are EVERYWHERE. You’d think that would make men happier, right? Nah. These aren’t the women most men want everywhere. To which I of course would reply, such men are not the men I want around anyway. SNARK.
Women in