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Behind the Aegis

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20. The title is a hot mess.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:27 PM
Sep 2015

It isn't a "Yom Kippur fundraiser" but rather, a fundraiser being held on Yom Kippur.

I am going to add my own, 'fact is stranger than fiction" story:

I was working for a university, which decided to hold homecoming on Rosh HaShana. This upset the small Jewish community, especially the Jewish boosters. So, the university, in it's infinite wisdom, decided to "make it up" to the Jewish community, as they weren't going to move homecoming. While in a staff meeting, we were told of the predicament and then told of the solution: The following Saturday, they would hold a pig pickin' on the grounds. Well, I burst out into laughter because, well, I thought it was a joke. The puzzled looks on the face of my boss indicated, nope, this wasn't a "funny" but an example of profound ignorance. First, I had to explain, while many Jews are lapse on Kosher, most will not actually eat pork, especially in a setting where a big ole pig is being roasted in the ground. Second, the following Saturday was Yom Kippur (which I had to explain) and Jews typically fast..so, again a "banquet" ain't gonna cut it! She hightailed it out of the meeting to make several quick calls, as this "make up" session was about to go to print. But, that is what happens when you have a staff of over 500 people and one Jew!

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It is appropriate that a republican is having an event with such items liberal N proud Sep 2015 #1
What are you talking about? oberliner Sep 2015 #8
Yom Kippur? liberal N proud Sep 2015 #10
"happened to be scheduled during Yom Kippur" oberliner Sep 2015 #11
My bad! liberal N proud Sep 2015 #12
That is how I first read it as well. tavernier Sep 2015 #13
Marco Rubio's BAD. And I'm glad. The Kochs, and Crow, are very interested Hortensis Sep 2015 #28
ghoulish home,who is that other republican that collects relics? one of their radio oldsters? Sunlei Sep 2015 #2
Goodbye to dollars from Sheldon Adelson. no_hypocrisy Sep 2015 #3
Definitely not true oberliner Sep 2015 #9
Adelson's primary interest is Israel. He would definitely withdraw any funding from Rubio. hedda_foil Sep 2015 #21
You have no idea what you are talking about oberliner Sep 2015 #24
Does anyone know IF Harlan Crow is a Nazi sympathizer? Collecting Hortensis Sep 2015 #29
Crow and Adelson teamed up in supporting Newt last time around oberliner Sep 2015 #30
Probably safe to say Adelson doesn't have a problem with him. Thanks. Hortensis Sep 2015 #31
So far Adelson has been picking nothing but losers oberliner Sep 2015 #32
May just! I'm guessing he peaked long ago in personal development. Hortensis Sep 2015 #33
perhaps not--it's like the fundies all like the eminently unchristian Trump and backed Santorum, MisterP Sep 2015 #14
What. The. Fuck. hatrack Sep 2015 #4
I would burn the... Mike Nelson Sep 2015 #5
That shouldn't really be an issue for a large part of the base n/t IDemo Sep 2015 #6
Harlan Crow is a nasty person who bribed clarence thomas a while back Gothmog Sep 2015 #7
Once again, demonstrating... Behind the Aegis Sep 2015 #15
Now, HOW can you say that? Would they eagerly await the deaths of Hortensis Sep 2015 #34
You lost me at "Yom Kippur fundraiser". KamaAina Sep 2015 #16
"The fundraiser happened to be scheduled during Yom Kippur" oberliner Sep 2015 #17
Not great planning on Rubio's part KamaAina Sep 2015 #18
Adelson lives in Las Vegas oberliner Sep 2015 #19
He's only one example of a Jewish repuke donor KamaAina Sep 2015 #25
I doubt he gives a crap about a fundraiser in Texas being held on this date oberliner Sep 2015 #26
The title is a hot mess. Behind the Aegis Sep 2015 #20
HAH Dorian Gray Sep 2015 #22
That's when I still liked working there...another year... Behind the Aegis Sep 2015 #23
You cheated a lot of people of a good laugh, Aegis. Bet we Hortensis Sep 2015 #35
My grandmother is rolling in her grave laughing Ruby the Liberal Sep 2015 #37
Hitler's not so bad HassleCat Sep 2015 #27
Oh look, Harlan Crow also has Stalin an Mao in the garden Oilwellian Sep 2015 #36
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