Hassidic Newspaper Photoshops Hillary Clinton Out of Iconic Photograph

The 'shopped image

Oh, brother. My antipathy toward religion is well known, and I don't single any of them out as better or more likely to be true than any other. I think they're all preposterous. But I had no idea that certain Jewish sects are forbiddent to portray images of women. Not scantily clad women, not pornographic images, merely women in general apparently. As I said, Preposterous.

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Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Photoshopping Of Iconic Image

The original image.

They photoshopped Hillary out. They caught hell. Now here is their 'apology'. . .
 
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Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link.

Rachel Maddow, On a Roll

It might seem like I throw a Rachel Maddow Show clip up on the blog whenever I can't think of anything else. It's not true (most of the time), but I could get away with it, if I wanted to. Her MSNBC show is one of the most interesting, entertaining and informative programs on cable news. If you like your cable news loud and pointlessly argumentative, RMS is not the place for you. But if you want to feed your brain, you've found your destination.

Last night's show was so entertaining, I'm tempted to post every available clip. But I'll tamp down my geekdom, and just present the opener, in which Rachel discusses Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Japan. Rachel made me laugh out loud more than once (especially at the clip of the Japanese finance minister on a bender), and seemed to be having a really good time. Maybe she finally got some sleep this weekend. Rachel is made of awesome. OK, geek-gushing over. For now. . .

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Clinton Cat, Socks, Near Death

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Poor kitty. When the Republicans went after the Clintons, they didn't stop with the human members of the Administration and family. The even went after the Clinton's cat, Socks. Something to do with the Christmas card list, or something, who cares. As a cat lover, it was nice to see a White House pet other than a dog.

But Socks' lives are running out, as unfortunately happens to all pets sooner than we'd like. As I often say, a pet is just a little tragedy waiting to happen.

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Clinton's Socks the Cat Near Death

We have some bad news today on the presidential pet front. Socks the cat, probably the most photographed presidential kitty in history, has cancer and isn't expected to live. "His days are numbered," says Barry Landau, a friend of Socks' master, Betty Currie. Landau, a presidential historian and author of The President's Table, tells our Suzi Parker that the Currie family could have put Socks on feeding tubes, but decided against it. "They fear he is too old," adds Landau, who is writing a book on presidential inaugurations. And a second source told us that Socks is gravely ill. . .

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