Any sign of Yvsa?

Unfortunatly, I'm monolingual in English, and my Jewish knowledge is all in translation.
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Get a King James bible you want great English literature, which was in an old-fashioned style even when it was first printed. Get a modern translation if you want some idea what the Hebrew meant.

Here are more more Wisent links:

European Bison Working Group http://www.cbsg.org/ebison.htm
All living Wisents (bison bonasus) are descented from descended from 13 zoo specimens after the species became extinct in the wild after WW1. About 1,000, including the Bialowieza Forest herd, are from 12 of the Lowland subspecies, and another 2,000 have a Caucasian subspecies bull in their pedigree. There are no more pure Caucasian Wisents. The American Bison (bison bison, a.k.a. buffalo, is considered a distinct species.

Bialowieski National Park http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/pnp/bial.htm
The Bialowieza Forest, which straddles the Polish and Belorussian border up near Lithuania, was a hunting reserve for the kings of Poland for a lot of years, and it's the last big stretch of virgin forest in Europe.

Either bison would stand out in a crowd of true buffalo, such as the water buffalo (bubalus bubalis of khukuri handle fame.

Domestic cattle are descended from the wild Aurochs (bos primagenius. The last known original-condition wild Aurochs was killed in Poland in 1627.

The yak (bos grunniens)of Nepal, Tibet, etcetera, made famous here in Yvsa's signature file, is closely related to domestic cattle, and the wild yak (bigger than the domestic variety, as the aurochs was bigger than domestic cattle) is seriously endangered.

I remember a news item some time back about a mutant domestic goat whose horns were fused together so it looked like a small unicorn, but a quick Alta Vista search didn't turn up anything.

. . . now where was I?
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Thank you anyway James. You have not exhausted my resources, and I'll try another guy who I know. He was raised orthodox and set out after training as a counselor to save the world. He ended up going home drinking himself to sleep after what he dealt with. After they dried him out he headed for the first place he saw for spiritual help, a Catholic Church. Had a nice long talk with the pastor, a Father Ahearn who ended up pulling out a book and telling him, " I think this has been waiting for you to come along."
It was a book of daily meditations by an Orthodox Rabbi named Twerski.

I'd sent him a 12" Sirupati - can't remember the name of the organization, but it's motto is now "never again". His uncle, and the founder of it were coconspiritors, and originally used the slogan "every jew a 22". I mailed the knife that morning, came home and the incident at the jewish childcare center in LA had just hit the radio. If I'd known in time I'd have sent a 20" instead.

Anyway, the way I know about the book is a couple weeks later it came to my mailbox. Come to think of it I may mail him the matching 20" Sirupati ( to the 12" ) of the two 20's I have. They say that you can choose your friends but not your family - else why would I have an Orange Irishman, an Okie Cherokee, and a New York City Jew as brothers? ( I'm also getting awful suspicious about a certain Malaysian Muslim lately )

Will let you know what he turns up.

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Some people are alive simply because it is illegal to kill them.

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 05-14-2000).]
 
The organization with the slogans "Never again!" and "For every Jew a .22!" is the Jewish Defense League, founded by Rabbi Meyer Kahane. Their idea - and it was a good one - was that persecution and pogroms should always be dangerous for the perpetrators. Had he and his organization stuck with that agenda, they'd be heroes.

People who are well-prepared to defend themselves can and should be slow to anger and avoid giving in to hate. Unfortunately, the JDL went on to espouse in-your-face militance for its own sake, going out of their way to make enemies.

About 15 years ago, I got a pretty good taste of their style on one occasion when loud public anger was appropriate (there was a WW2 war criminal in town who needed to be made unwelcome), and Kahane's lieutenant, Irv Rubin, was leading the picketing, and I was there to help make noise and disturb the peace. We all ended up getting taken downtown by the LA police, and two hours in a cell with JDL people was plenty. The cops bought us lunch, and charges were dropped the following week.
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[mandatory knife reference] I wasn't quite the knife nut then that I am now, so all I had on me was a Victorinox Champion Swiss Army Knife, which the cops didn't bother to take off my person until we checked into the lockup, and which they gave back when they turned us loose a couple of hours later. [/mandatory knife reference]

Kahane went to Israel and founded a "right-wing nationalist" party with a platform of ethnic cleansing, and ended up dead at the hands of one of our "disgruntled cousins" from the Muslim branch of Abraham's clan.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and before you know it the whole world is blind and toothless!"


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[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 05-14-2000).]
 
There are only a few, but yet still *some* times when hating can be utilized for survival, much like adrenaline, to keep you going beyond normal limits, or to allow you to react quickly when to hesitate is to die.

As a rule, however, hating is like you drinking the cup of poison yourself, and then waiting for the S.O.B. you hate to keel over and die. You end up being the one who suffers the consequences.

On the other hand, the million mom marchers ignore the reality of the Holocaust. Ah well, too confusing for me. But I know that caring for others is essential for my spiritual well being. I also believe that maltreatment of others ought to be immediately and emminently hazardous to the perpetrator's longevity. I haven't the answers. But til I do, I plan on remaining armed. Almost forgot mandatory edged reference - got any idea how long it takes to touch up a 58" long sword with two 45" edges? Quite a while however you do it.


[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 05-14-2000).]
 
Some of the organizers of the Million Mom March had children at the Jewish Community Center where that damned Nazi nutcase sprayed bullets all over the place. I'd say something about the laws he was already breaking by owning a gun and all the chances the authorities had had to disarm and confine him, not to mention the absurdity of bringing up trigger locks in these gawdawful cases, but I'd just be preaching to the choir here.

My reaction to the JCC shooting was to go out an buy a more combat-oriented handgun than the ones I already owned. I'm not authorized to pack it in temple, but I always sit in a pew on the aisle within 21 feet of the door. And the sisterhood ladies appreciate my Cold Steel Vaquero Grande when there's bread to be sliced afterwards.
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