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Post by savtele on Jan 24, 2017 1:12:02 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Angelika
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting - you are welcome to do that but you are also welcome to chime in!
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Post by savtele on Jan 24, 2017 1:33:52 GMT -5
Boker Tov All! I had mentioned on FB that I will need to be limiting my outrage - this is a marathon, not a sprint! And so today I was hoping to take a step away from politics. John is trying very hard to be positive, he's sure that things will not be as bad as I fear they might turn out. Personally, my fear is for our constitutional rights. (ANNNNDDD my BP is going up again!)
So my real question today is: what are your favorite news sources? I tend to read Daily Kos online (needs to be taken with a grain of salt - very left-leaning) & watch Rachel Maddow & Lawrence O'Donnell. Also Charlie Rose. By then, I'm livid - so I need a something funny or a good murder to calm me down, LOL!
Today my friend & I are going back to the gym that I have not set foot in since last summer. They are under new management, hopefully things are run well - I'll bbl to let you all know how that worked out!
Have a good day, ladies!
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Post by lee058 on Jan 24, 2017 8:31:48 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well, and please watch your blood pressure! Also don't let your heads explode!
This morning, before I came to this website, I sent an email to my Representative. I intend to keep in touch with my elected officials much more than I used to!
The sun is shining, hooray. I was getting tired of all the rain and clouds, even though I was grateful that they weren't snow.
Re my favorite news sources: MSN, the Washington Post (we have a subscription to the paper), the NY Times (I read articles online), CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, my local TV stations, and whatever articles look interesting when quoted (even some conservative ones). Also Snopes to fact-check; this is a good resource.
I'll be back later. Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by gazelle18 on Jan 24, 2017 11:54:59 GMT -5
It's good to step back from politics, at least for a while!!! I swear to myself every day that I am not going to dwell on it, but then something happens. Like an executive order, or an "alternative fact."
Favorite news sources: CNN, MSNBC (Maddow, Morning Joe), Politico, DailyBeast.
Weather is scrumptious in NOLA!! Good opportunity to take a long walk and listen to something non political on my walk.
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Post by happysavta on Jan 24, 2017 13:28:49 GMT -5
I watch both CNN and Fox every day. One seems to balance the other for me, I get both points of view, and I come up somewhere in the middle.
But honestly, I don't find much actual news on cable TV. Mostly it's political commentary, not hard news. Do you agree? It used to be very different in the days of Walter Cronkite etc. that I grew up with.
I read the local newspaper everyday and look for newspaper articles online and the Israel newspapers. I prefer print news to any of the cable stations. Rachel Maddow is just like Sean Hannity; you're listening to his or her "opinions" about the news, his or her "interpretation" of the events, not the news itself. Both of them have a condescending, know-it-all air about them that turns me off. And anyway, what you get from them is chewed up, smooth, and easy to swallow baby food. Cable puts out "news-STORIES" with the emphasis on the word "stories"- facts mixed with fiction. I dislike being fed this pre-chewed pap. I'm quite capable of chewing for myself, thank you. Sad, but true, you have to dig for the news nowadays.
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Post by louise on Jan 24, 2017 13:31:31 GMT -5
Cold & rainy here. I also tune into MSNBC & CNN. I also look at the Times on line and listen to WNYC (our NPR station). I do like to listen to Rachel Maddow also. I'm concentrating right now on getting back to myself. Eating had been way out of control and I am uncomfortable.
Am in the early stage of planning our Mishloach Manot program. The preschool has gotten huge with different splinter programs we offer and there's some discussion about who gets included - the list they gave me had 167 names only 17 of which were members and I balked.
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Post by happysavta on Jan 24, 2017 13:38:40 GMT -5
About every 3 months, I get an update from my local city counsel representative telling me what they are voting on or what issues they want to bring to the City Counsel. I wish each of our congressmen/women and out Senators would do the same. Once these people get to Washington, you rarely hear about what bills they sponsor or co-sponsor, what they are about to vote on and how they voted on bills and why they voted that way. You don't hear about what trips they take abroad or what they saw or heard there that they want us to know. They become so detached that they don't report to you. You're pretty much on your own if you want to keep up on what's going on. I think we should require them to report on their activities every 3 months.
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Post by happysavta on Jan 24, 2017 14:15:13 GMT -5
OK. I sent an email to each of my 2 Senators and my Congresswoman. I asked to get regular updates on their work and what's being accomplished. In the case of my congresswoman, she has an email sign up for reports already in place. I also asked them (all 3 are Democrats) to hold their noses and ignore the stupid twitter feed, to avoid partisan obstructionism, (not to indulge in knee-jerk opposition as the Republicans did to Obama) and to try to look for common ground and find solutions to national problems.
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Post by happysavta on Jan 24, 2017 14:27:23 GMT -5
So much of what goes on in Washington is posturing. And with a reality TV celebrity as the helm, I'm getting a deeper understanding of the words, "political theater". Gag, barf.
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Post by savtele on Jan 24, 2017 14:46:02 GMT -5
The weather here is amazingly beautiful also! & because the skies are clear, our nights are cold, cold, cold - but then the temps go up a bit. Forsythia is getting ready to bloom & there are the beginnings of little buds everywhere!
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Post by hollygail on Jan 24, 2017 16:10:06 GMT -5
It was cloudy when I went to minyan this morning, also when I left. It started to drizzle, and then rain lightly. A couple of hours later, it was really raining when I got onto the freeway to go to my shul (where I volunteer on Tuesdays before teaching 4:30 to 6) and my windshield got pelted (heavily!!!) with hail in a section I wasn't able to exit (there were only turnoffs to other freeways). After I took the turnoff to the freeway I needed, by the time I got to the first real exit the hail had totally stopped and it was raining again. And now, only about 10(ish) miles farther north from there, the sun is shining (I'm looking out the window in the office where I volunteer)... Enough already with this mishugenah weather! It's San Diego, for heaven sake!
I stopped watching news programs when I was a teenager or perhaps I was in my early 20s, because TV showed only negative stuff (murders, freeway accidents, what have you). I listened to NPR for years and years and years. It's only in the last few years (since I've gotten satellite radio in the car) that I've stopped listening to NPR in the car (and my bedroom's radio reception sucks big time, so I can't get NPR there any more either). I don't have a "favorite" news source any more...
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