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Tonight’s installment in our pro-Israel artists week features Elton John, a regular visitor to Israel, who in 2010 said to his fans at a concert in Tel Aviv:

“Shalom! We’re so happy to be back here! Ain’t nothing gonna stop us from coming, baby!”

That’s the ticket. From the 1973 double-album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, here’s John and lyricist Bernie Taupin’s paean to working-class escapism: Roy Rogers.
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  1. So this link has been going around FB a bit the last few days. In a nutshell, actor Eric Stonestreet, who plays a gay man on TV, refused to be in a picture with Rick Santorum, a conservative Catholic.
    That’s his prerogative; I don’t begrudge him doing so.
    However.
    I would like to leave it to SDA readers to muse on this: were the roles reversed, i.e. if Rick Santorum were to refuse to have a picture taken with a gay actor, what do you think the public reaction have been?

  2. “In the hospital, how people act? It doesn’t matter what religion you are. People here have freedom, the Jews give freedom,” he gushed.
    Kheiri said he wished he could move his family to Jerusalem and leave Iraq’s problems behind.
    ===================
    The comments are getting a bit ‘hatey’
    http://rudaw.net/english/world/25072014

  3. The most stunning allegation in the lawsuit is that an estimated 50 percent of all trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is derived from illegal wash trades.

  8. Johann: Re: ”It’s his perogoative”
    I don’t think it is!! Assuming this is an American TV show–I doubt that anyone can refuse to work with another person based on political association.
    If the employer lets Stonestreet get away with that–Santorum would have a multiutde of resources to rectify the situation.
    Could I refuse to work on an oil rig because one of the workers is black?

  9. Its just as big a problem in BC, with taxes and cross border shopping.
    Carbon tax (and transit taxes) out here raises prices on gas and diesel. So, those living within shouting distance of the border, make the weekly trip over the line to fill up on gas, and also purchase many other products, including lower taxed booze (half price typically), due to excessive Canadian and BC taxation.
    Our governments here are too stupid to realize a basic tenet of taxation. Raise them too high, and people AVOID PAYING TAXES.
    And to think, this is because of taxes from the Feds (CPC) and BC ( the “pro-business” Liberals). Our governments are addicted to spending

  10. Devastating comments by the (English) judge of the Quebec Superior Court against ‘Newfoundland”s case in the Hydro-Quebec Churchill Falls contract case that is now going to be appealed to the Supreme Court for the second time. The Newfoundland taxpayers will be on the hook for the considerable expert and legal costs plus the costs of their own legal advisors who of course think it is a good idea to go on. Danny Williams legacy lives on…
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/…/10062082/story.html

  11. Yes, you can refuse. It’s called freedom of association. However your employer may exercise his right to discontinue associating with you. But, you’re right. In our “free” society Santorum would have a multitude of resources to exercise his “rights”.

  15. DanBC;
    I regularly fuel up in Idaho. The cost saving per litre varies between 0.30 to 0.40 cents per litre over BC prices. Take about 10% off that saving for $ conversion. Also I am assuming the higher ethanol content in USA gas is the reason my fuel mileage is weaker using USA gas. Est another 12% reduction in saving. When all is said I might save 10 to 15% on USA gas purchase. However I save 50% on my beer which makes it taste particularly good in hot weather. I also buy tractor gas with no ethanol in it which makes my tractor happy.
    If I was still in business I would be very unhappy that Canadian Customs do not really enforce the collection of GST or PST anymore. $12 per $100 of purchase is a pretty significant subsidy to our American brothers.
    Finally I suggest that governments are addicted to spending because their voters see no downside. I have never seen a politician who would not spend no matter what their political inclination. This will not change until all the credit is gone.

  16. Shame, shame, cross border shoppers! You are deliberately avoiding your loyal Canadian obligation to pay for your share of your “free health care” through taxes.

  17. Jeff, I listened to the great song. And thank you EBD.
    I nearly went catatonic upon first hearing the title track of Yellow Brick Road, as I did earlier with Sgt. Pepper.
    Tho, like most of my fellow “haters” here, I have grave reservations about the modern gay agenda, I have always liked Elton John who seems to possess a good measure of good sense and who is a most worthy ambassador of the gay world.
    It is not at all surprising to learn that he didn’t buy the hateful filled BDS bigotry.

  21. I’m sure those responsible for the posters will be denounced by the local municipal authorities and tracked down by the Attorney General’s office as those people who had a parade float showing Obama’s Presidential Library as an outhouse in Iowa or somewhere.

  23. Of Bismarck: a seer*.
    …-
    “Rex Murphy: The mighty combustion of small events, and other lessons from the First World War”
    “So it seems now to some, as it seemed to some a century ago, that there is a menacing scattering of events and conflicts, where a disturbance, an accident or misadventure (such as the shooting down of the passenger jet) in one arena could unwind into a chain of unforeseen events, a haphazard flow of unpredictable cause and effect.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/07/26/rex-murphy-the-mighty-combustion-of-small-events-and-other-lessons-from-the-first-world-war/
    …-
    Bismarck: a seer*.
    1888: “If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.”

  24. O’narcissist’s Goodnight.
    …-
    “US closes embassy in Libya, withdraws staff
    DAWN.com – ‎42 minutes ago‎
    WASHINGTON: The United States has temporarily closed its embassy in Libya and evacuated more than 150 Americans from Tripoli, the State Department said on Saturday.”
    …-
    “Kerry: Libya evacuation not permanent”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=095SCXTyFnw
    …-
    Dover Beach
    “The Sea of Faith
    Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
    Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d.
    But now I only hear
    Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
    Retreating, to the breath
    Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
    And naked shingles of the world.”
    Matthew Arnold

  25. “Shame, shame, cross border shoppers! You are deliberately avoiding your loyal Canadian obligation to pay for your share of your “free health care” through taxes.”
    Yes, I will surely feel shame next week when I get my new tires(6 on my dually) and save about $1000.-1/2 the price as in Canada. And then I will fill up my fuel tank ($35 dollar saving) and then I will save approx 250 on Kitchen drawer slides.Oh, almost forgot I will then pick up about 50-60 worth of dairy product 50% saving there. And I may go to Costco to buy an electronic gadget to save the eco feel. Only 5-10$ saving there but its the principle of not havving to pay an eco fee on everything I buy.

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