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In honor of the forthcoming convention of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, we herewith offer 3 items related to Chabad which you may have missed:

1) The September edition of New Voices, which they title "The Lubavitch Issue." Our very own Anarchist Rabbi Captain Sholom Keller is featured on the cover with an extensive interview:

2) Tanya in the comix (in the pocket of a Rubashkin yet!), by the talented Eli Valley(http://www.evcomics.com/). See the bottom right frame:

3) A Rubashkin-related story you may not have heard of : A shliach arrested on alleged sex abuse charges with a 13 year old boy:

May Chabad continue with their glorious work until giluy Melech haMoshiach, AMEN!

PS: To the Rebbe-philic cows out there - this is about Chabad, NOT the Rebbe (this time), so do not delete. Unless you consider "Chabad" as synonymous with cyanide & exposure to it (spiritual) suicide…

I mean if I died, fuck. I would'nt have those fancy Litvaks crying. (BTW, to see Litvaks cry was takke a zach.)

In the name of R. Gedaliah of Linitz who said in the name of his master the Mokhi’ah [of Polonoya] that the messiah will instruct good merit (melamed zekhut tov) upon all of Israel even upon the wicked, [saying] that they are all righteous, that they are correct (yid. “az zey zenen gerecht”). And because of the merit that he will instruct merit upon them they will return in repentance, and through this they will be redeemed, for in repentance one is redeemed.

And he would say - a little tzadik loves little resha’im, a great tzadik loves great resha’im, but the messiah will love and instruct merit even upon complete resha’im. And anyone who instructs merit upon all creatures is of the aspect of the messiah…   

(Sefer Baal Shem Tov, 61, note 100 in the name of Midrash Pinhas Ha-Hadash)

Maybe this applies to oneself as well. You are the messiah to the extent that you have redeemed yourself through the sweetening of Judgments…

In the final analysis we are all a priori vindicated – the messiah is just the one who takes it all the way…    

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In shakes you lose the essential taste i.e. Tropicana's fancy berry smoothie and Bolthouse Farms fruit shake. Haagen Dazs açaí sorbet is OK. Zola original can be great but could go rancid. The Sambazon drinks are pretty damn good + they make a smoothie of 100% pure açaí.

The number one source for açaí that I have yet to taste is the "Flavor Brazil, açaí Amazon palm berry fruit puree". And it's best when melted for 1/2 hour prior to serving.

There are expensive 100% juices and powders available on the Internet. Just note that this berry spoils very easily so be careful with the source and handling.

Nutritional content from wikipedia (-there's more on this there)

(per 100 g of extract) 533.9 calories, 52.2 g carbohydrates, 8.1 g protein, and 32.5 g total fat. The carbohydrate portion included 44.2 g of fiber.^[2] The powder was also shown to contain (per 100 g): negligible vitamin C, 260 mg calcium, 4.4 mg iron, and 1002 U vitamin A, as well as aspartic acid and glutamic acid; the amino acid content was 7.59% of total dry weight. Açaí has an exceptional content of fats, including oleic acid (56.2% of total), palmitic acid (24.1% of total), and linoleic acid (12.5% of total),^[2] and also contains a high amount of beta-sitosterol (78-91% of total sterols).^[2][3] These oil compartments in açaí fruit harbor dense contents of polyphenols such as procyanidin oligmers and vanillic acid, syringic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, protocatechuic acid, and ferulic acid which were shown to degrade substantially during storage or exposure to heat

Appropriately, the baseball gods decreed that their hallowed heroes of this pastime of these great United States of America should not qualify for this year's playoffs.

The gods wished it: the national audience of this most reverent game witnessed it. The heart of baseball that is the New York Yankees and their devoted fans always deeply knew and felt this. A celebration of the game that goes beyond winning. A celebration at Yankee stadium in a non-playoff season. Who would have thunk!

There was Andy Pettite in a losing season receiving a standing ovation. There was Robbie Cano handing his gloves to an eight year old over the dug out. Before, you saw Reggie Jackson sitting in the stands with the fans, taking pictures.

And then there was Derek Jeter, who fittingly was the last Yankees batter, speaking to the crowd, telling them that memories are there so that the pride, tradition and victory which is the New York Yankees glory, could continue.

You felt the ghosts of Gherig and Ruth and the other greats.

And as Derek finished it so verily, "to the greatest fans in the world".

You gotta love this if you are a baseball fan.

As tonight the baseball gods signed it in the book of life.

Breaking down the comments and exchanging chats with two of the editors who did not post comments, confirms, that all those with a college education were opposed to it appearing on 7fatcow and all those with just a high-school diploma, or, as with most of you, nothing at all, were all gung-ho about The Onion appearing on 7fatcow.

That's scientific.

I hate The Onion. No, that's not true: I utterly despise The Onion, and have never laughed at their attempts for jokes and humor. Every story of theirs is a rehashed old one-liner, repeated 20 times, beating the original line to death.

Their writers suck.

Their attempts and constant misfires at being funny get a lot of people very depressed.

Can we ban The Onion from 7fatcow?

It being hot all along, this is the first day that I feel that special wind. Shitty winter is around the corner,

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Haven’t you heard? It’s the end of the world…

The long awaited Large Hadron Collider goes operational next week.

This 8 billion dollar particle accelerator, at 17 miles long, will be the largest and most powerful one ever built. It will have the capacity to accelerate particles up to 99.999 percent the speed of light and is expected to replicate the conditions at the time of the Big Bang. In the process it will most likely create a number of black holes here on earth and provide insight into the nature of antimatter, alternate dimensions and the Higgs boson.

Sounds exciting, but the problem is that nobody really knows what may happen in such extreme conditions. People are worried and some of the participating scientists have even gotten death threats. The scientific community claims that there is no risk and that the worries are out of ignorance. According to them, the black holes will be very small – too small to have much impact or to grow – and the extreme level of the power of the collisions is regularly obtained by cosmic rays hitting the earth.

Ok. I trust science more or less as much as the next guy and I don’t think we will be swallowed up by our own homemade black holes – but you can’t rule it out completely either. We are playing with the unknown and science is not perfect enough just yet to categorically eliminate all concerns.

My point here is that this is a serious issue potentially (if only theoretically) effecting all of humanity and being implemented by a few scientists with some governmental backing (CERN, the laboratory institution that is building the accelerator, is an international facility and under no particular governmental jurisdiction). Why is this not up for a major international consensus or something? Why am I being told and not asked about something that might kill me and everyone I know? And the question is larger than this particular instance – how is it that decisions can be made by a few people regarding serious issues that can potentially affect every person on this planet directly and irrevocably without anybody even knowing about it?          

-atgate231

Think hot financial advisors in stilettos versus hairy forest women from Oregon.

Think Angelina Jolie versus Sinead O'Connor.

Think Chabad versus Carlebach.

Think Sarah Versus Hillary.

The list goes on.

(BTW, I'm voting for Obama)