Emma Goldman (June 27 . She played a pivotal role in. Martha and Grant swap stories about how they came up with names for their dogs. Also this week: Have you ever been called a stump- jumper? How about a snicklefritz? And what’s the last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you consult, it might be zythum, zyzzyva, zyxomma, or zyxt. This episode first aired February 2. An open Reddit thread entitled 'What are your favorite culturally untranslateable phrases?' rapidly degenerated into a collection of rollicking, profane.Pet Name Evolution. Sometimes the process of naming a pet takes a while. The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan, 1917, complete HTML text, English literature, novel. We were talking about what it is like to spend one's childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning. List of birds in Bangladesh are Magpie (Doel), Mayna (Maina), Cuckoo (Kokil), Crow (Kak), Parrot (Tia), Pigeon (Paira), Martin (Shalik), Cock (Morag), Goose (Rajhans. Can a Desert Nation Solve the World's Water Shortage? We are facing a global water shortage. But one tiny country, in the middle of a desert, has found remarkable. New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, is a regional dialect of American English spoken by many people in New York City and much of its surrounding. Entertaining young children during a long vacation is always challenging, but add blistering heat, long car drives and ill-timed afternoon naps to the mix, and the. The announcement was made at a black. The hosts talk about how their dogs’ names evolved. Happy as a Clam. A native Japanese speaker is mystified by the expression “happy as a clam.” In Japanese, she says, if you had a good night’s sleep you might say you “slept like a clam” or “slept like mud.” So why do English speakers think clams are content? Depending on which dictionary you consult, it might be zythum, zyzzyva, zyxomma, or zyxt. For instance: “This is how Steve Jobs begins a card game.” Suffonsified. A caller from Princeton, Texas, remembers that after a satisfying meal, her late father used to push back from the table and say, “I am sufficiently suffonsified. Anything more would be purely obnoxious to my taste. No thank you.” What heck did he mean by that? Discoveries about the expression and all its variants can be found in the article “Among the Old Words” by now- deceased Dictionary of American Regional English editor Frederic G. Cassidy, published in American Speech, Vol. Stump- Jumper. A Vermonter says he’s sometimes called a stump- jumper. Should he be flattered or insulted? Bicycle Tom Swifty. Martha shares a couple of Tom Swifties, those funny sentences that make great punny use of adverbs, like “? The Origin of “Tom Swifty”Martha tells the story behind the term Tom Swifty. Grant shares some more funny examples from the A Way with Words discussion forum. Gradoo. Gradoo is a word for something undesirable, the kind of thing you’d rather scrape off your shoe. A man who grew up in Louisiana wonders about the term, which he heard from both English and Cajun French speakers. How did the meaning of directly change in some parts of the country to mean “by and by”? Snickelfritz“You little snickelfritz!” An Indiana man says his mother used to call him that when she meant “You little rascal!” Although the term’s meaning has changed over time, its original meaning was a bit naughty. This episode is hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, and produced by Stefanie Levine. Photo by coniferconifer. Used under a Creative Commons license. Music Used in the Broadcast. COLUMN ONE: Defeating Hamas in America - Opinion. To defeat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, it is first necessary to understand it. The BDS campaign is an extraordinary phenomenon. Activists from US coast to coast robotically parrot the same lies, employ the same tactics of bullying, intimidating and silencing pro- Israel activists and speakers on campus after campus. Their goals are uniform. During a public appearance at Harvard Law School, one of the heads of BDS movement at the school, Husam el- Qoulaq, asked her why she is “smelly.”Qoulaq is the head of Students for Justice in Palestine at Harvard Law School. SJP is the central engine of the BDS movement. Its members are the ones who organize the “divest from Israel” resolutions routinely passed by ignorant or intimidated student representatives on college councils. SJP members are the ones who regularly harass pro- Israel students and riot or otherwise disrupt pro- Israel events on campuses. They are the ones who willingly and purposely engage in rank anti- Semitic demonization of Jews and Israel to normalize Jew- hatred in America. Given SJP’s lead role in the campaign against Israel and American Jewry on college campuses, students and Jewish groups trying to combat the racist movement focus their attention on SJP. But it works out that SJP doesn’t formally exist. There is no nonprofit group called Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP doesn’t file tax forms. It doesn’t have a paper trail. In other words, SJP is a ghost organization, an illusion. To bring it down you need to find its controllers. The Canary Mission (canarymission. It was formed “to document people and groups that are promoting hatred of the USA, Israel and the Jewish people, particularly on college campuses in North America.”According to the website, SJP was founded in 2. UC Berkeley Prof. Bazian’s organizational pedigree reads like the who’s who of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in America. Bazian fund- raised for a Hamas front group called Kind. Hearts. In 2. 00. Islamic groups that were found guilty of providing material support for terrorism in the framework of the Holy Land Foundation trial, Kind. Hearts was forced to disband. Kind. Hearts was found to have raised money for Hamas. Another of Bazian’s former employers, the Islamic Association for Palestine, also disbanded after it was found guilty of funding Hamas. According to the Canary Mission’s findings, Bazian founded SJP to distance the BDS movement from its Islamic masters. His idea was to brand it as a radical group that could easily collaborate with other radical groups on campus and so turn the radical establishment into an engine for anti- Israel activism. Although Bazian went to great lengths to brand SJP as a non- Islamic movement, he had no intention of ceding control of the BDS movement to non- Islamic forces. To ensure control over SJP, and through it, the BDS movement as a whole, according to the Canary Mission, Bazian formed American Muslims for Palestine. On April 1. 9, during a hearing before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, American Muslims for Palestine’s nature became clear. Jonathan Schanzer served as a terrorism finance analyst for the Department of the Treasury from 2. He currently works as the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington. In testimony before the subcommittee, Schanzer revealed that the heads of AMP are alumni of three Islamist groups that were banned following their convictions for terrorism financing during the course of the Holy Land Foundation trial that ended in 2. AMP’s leadership held key positions at the Holy Land Foundation, Kind. Hearts and the Islamic Association for Palestine. These groups and their employees transferred millions of dollars to al- Qaida, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Although Schanzer could find no indication that AMP is continuing its predecessors’ practice of sending funds to foreign terrorist groups, he demonstrated how the heir of Hamas- USA now direct the BDS movement. AMP provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so- called . Everything from their “Apartheid Walls” and Die- Ins to their posters and slogans and tactic of shutting down pro- Israel events is dictated to them by AMP. Whereas SJP doesn’t exist at all on paper, AMP’s existence is eyebrow- raising from a legal perspective. AMP is not registered as a nonprofit so it is impossible to know its funding sources or the size of its donations, because it is not required to publicize them. As Schanzer explained, funds for AMP are raised through yet another organization called Americans for Justice in Palestine Education Foundation, or AJP, whose nature and behavior are also strange. AJP’s chairman is Bazian. AJP and AMP share the same office in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hill. Unlike AMP, AJP is a registered nonprofit. In its 2. 01. 4 9. Schanzer’s testimony, it reports raising in excess of $3. But, in apparent breach of the law, AJP did not report how it spent the money or where it received the funds from. Like AMP, AJP members worked in the past for the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine and Kind. Hearts. At AMP’s 2. Chicago, participants were invited to “come and navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.”Given SJP’s raging success, it isn’t a surprise that Bazian isn’t the only one claiming to have founded it. As Schanzer testified, Shaqdeh, who also lives in Chicago, is listed as a terrorist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine by the PLO’s Ministry of Expatriate Affairs’ website. Shaqdeh is also the coordinator of the Chicago- based US Coalition to Boycott Israel. In 2. 01. 4, Shaqdeh traveled to Ramallah where he met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. The chairman of the US Coalition to Boycott Israel is Ghassan Barakat. According to Schanzer, Barakat is a PLO consular official in Chicago. Like SJP, the Coalition is not a legal entity. It is not registered with state or local tax authorities. But given Barakat’s and Shaqdeh’s associations with the PLO and the PA, it is likely that it is funded by the US- funded PA. Perhaps money from the PLO to SJP and other BDS outlets is transferred through an opaque New York state registered nonprofit called Wespac. Currently, a delegation of Palestinian students, organized by Bir Zeit University, paid for by Wespac and managed by SJP is traveling through the US lobbying students to boycott Israel. Schanzer’s testimony should lead anti- BDS efforts in three directions. Two of them are legal, and one is political. On the legal front, AMP and AJP’s commingling is curious, to say the least. Their failure to report the sources of their funding or how the funds are used appear, at a minimum, to be a breach of reporting requirements. Accordingly, it is highly unlikely that any investigation will be conducted by federal agencies in the near future. This leaves state, local and congressional authorities. Since AMP and AJP are registered in Palos Hills, both Illinois tax authorities and law enforcement and Palos Hills authorities can open investigations into their operations. Moreover, Congress, which exposed the fact that both groups appear to be a natural continuation of banned terrorism- supporting organizations, is fully empowered to conduct congressional investigations of their operations, replete with the power to subpoena witnesses. As for the operations of PLO officials in Chicago, their work is arguably in breach of the laws stipulating the permitted conduct of PLO officials in the US. Congress can investigate their behavior as well, and determine whether or not it constitutes a material breach of the PLO’s permitted actions in America, and so requires the US to cut off its relations with the terrorist group. Certainly the involvement of PA/PLO officials in an anti- Semitic hate campaign is grounds for a cut off of US aid to the PA. On the political front, it is vital that Israel fight BDS as the most widespread form of anti- Semitism in North America. Unlike the situation in Europe, where BDS is largely an economic warfare campaign, in the US its goal is political. Its leaders are not interested in harming the Israeli economy per se. American Jewish organizations and activists need to call out college administrators when they say since they refuse to carry out divestment resolutions that they oppose BDS, even as they allow SJP to operate on their campuses and even fund the Hamas front group directly. Schanzer’s testimony makes clear that the BDS movement is part and parcel of the jihadist war against Israel whose goal is its annihilation. Both legally and politically, it needs to be fought accordingly. Caroline. Glick. com. Think others should know about this?
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