User:Sholom
I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from Judaism to Ultimate to Genealogy, and, as I live in the DC area, politics, particularly US politics (both current events and history). And more! |
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[edit]Today is Sunday, September 21, 2025. It's 03:38 (UT).
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[edit]Useful Links
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General Editing[edit]
Images, Copyright, Etc.[edit]
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Tools[edit]
Policy[edit]
Misc[edit]Redirect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]] |
Vandalism, Protection, Afd, Etc.
[edit]- WP:RFPP
- WP:AIV
- WP:RFI (watchlist section)
- Report here {{vandal|username_or_ip}} optional brief reason for listing (keep it short) -- ~~~~
- but after giving a warning {{blatantvandal|[name of article]}}
- List of vandalism warnings
- Dealing with Vandalism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism
- Spam project - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam
- Spam message - {{subst:spam1}}
- WP:Spam
- WP:Articles for deletion
Congressional Templates
[edit]See [[Category:Succession templates]], particularly
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{{start box}} {{US House succession box | state=Texas | district=22 | before=[[Ron Paul]] | start=1984 }} {{U.S. Senator box | state=Washington| class=1 | before=[[Slade Gorton]] | start=2001 | alongside=[[Patty Murray]] | }} {{end box}} |
Also:
- {{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}} gives you "Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district"
- {{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}} gives you "
- United States Congress. "name of page (id: R000243)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress."
External Links: 2006 Election
[edit]These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!
- For all results in one place, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/VA/index.html, simply replace "VA" with whatever state you need
- The king - CQPolitics.com
- The Green Papers -- excellent reference resource
- TPMCafe Election Central - polls and stories
- TPMMuckraker - scandals
- Electoral Vote.com
- Nat Journal's ranked list of most likely seats to flip
- Real Clear Politics, ranked list of seats most likly to flip
- Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball
- Cook Political Report
- meta-survey of projections
- Pollster.com
Reference Templates
[edit]<ref> {{cite news |first = |last = |author = |coauthors = |url = |title = |work = |publisher = |pages = |page = |date = |accessdate = }} </ref>
if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such:
<ref name="Source1">{{cite news | etc. }}}</ref>
then to link it again use
<ref name="Source1"/>
Also
{{cite web | title=Title | work=Title of Complete Work | url=http://www.example.com | accessdate=2006-06-28}}
Two columns for references?
{{reflist|2}}
See also Sources of Articles.
Other Useful Templates
[edit]- {{subst:lifetime|1904|1991|Greene, Graham}}
- {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}} yields December 22, 1953
- {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}}
To Do List
[edit]- Bradley Schlozman -- good summary here
- Johnnie Burton -- part of Abramoff? See here
- Abramoff update, see here
- 2005 Georgia Voter ID Law -- or something entitled something like that
- Veco scandal -- see here
- Joey Fay, corrupt union official, involved with a number of pols in the 1940's and 1950's
- 495/Beltway: resources to update: lots of links from here
- update Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act to include information about Administration's withholding of accurate cost estimates, see, e.g., here and here
- Thomas M. Davis - article way too negative
- Ohio Investment Scandal -- apparently Coingate is only one part
- reorg Jeanine Pirro
- J. Joseph Curran, Jr. with info from here.
- Mayors of Newark, start with Leo P. Carlin and work backwards. [2]
- District of Columbia voting rights
- Frank Rudolph Wolf - stub
- Jim Moran -
- Congressional Districts, might United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1 be a template? (If anybody knows of a better generic one, please let me know!)
- converting generic succession boxes to {{USRepSuccession}} for US Reps?
- Sprauges, Sprague family; Lodge family (look in political graveyard); Freulinhuysen family page...
- It'd be a big project: MZM
- Is it true that JFK had no tax cuts passed?
- He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- RFK campaign missing some good details
- Great Society is kinda short . . .
- Interesting article at [4], which, if its information were incorporated here, would effect articles on Everglades and Fla Gov John W. Martin (where all this is missing), and adding to the following articles where it is mentioned to some degree: Lake Okeechobee, 1926 Miami Hurricane, and Herbert Hoover Dike.
- check out Template:COTWs
- Ed Buckham, Jack Abramoff, U.S. Family Network (and perhaps Tom DeLay), need some major updating b/c of the info in this article [5], does the Abramoff template need to include U.S. Family Network?
- The Chandler Family and the LA Times? [6]
- Frank Doyle Scholarships
Trivia
[edit]various 'landmarks'
[edit]- 1st edit: Roy Orbison
- 100th edit Talk:Bob Ney
- 500th edit Newark Evening News (initial version)
- 1000th edit Porter J. Goss
- 1500th edit Ed Schrock (+ pic)
- 2000th edit United States House elections, 2006
- 2500th edit Cynthia Matthews
- 3000th edit Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy
some articles I created
[edit]- Sharon Mosher, American geologist
- Patricia Herzog, lawyer in the landmark marital property law
- Justin Maxwell, Jonathan Albaladejo, Ross Detwiler, Brandon Larson - more baseball players for, at the time, the Washington Nationals
- Judah Nadich, Rabbi, chair of Rabbinical Assembly, helped Holocaust victims.
- Paul L. Troast, 1st chair of NJ Turnpike, filed gov candidate
- Template:Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy and some of the players: Monica Goodling & J. Scott Jennings
- Leonard Ruben, long time Montg. County, Md., judge
- Margaret Chiara, Daniel Bogden, two US Attorneys fired
- Michael A. Battle Director of EOUSA in DOJ (some involvement with Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy).
- 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege
- Jeralyn Merritt - defense attorney, creator of TalkLeft blog
- Cathy L. Lanier - first female to head (and current) DC Police cheif
- Anita Alpern - in 1970's, the highest ranking woman in the federal career service
- Thomas N. Downing Virginia Congressman
- Ohio 13th congressional district election, 2006
- Nevada 2nd congressional district election, 2006
- California 11th congressional district election, 2006
- Colorado 5th congressional district election, 2006
- Joel T. Broyhill (congressman)
- Arizona 8th congressional district election, 2006
- Georgia 4th congressional district election, 2006 (Cynthia McKinney loses in runoff)
- Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006 (Curt Weldon v Joe Sestak)
- Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2006 (Phillip Kellam v incumbent Thelma Drake)
- John E. Fogarty congressman
- Phil Hare running for Congress
- Roger Stillwell another character in the Abramoff scandal
- Jack Abramoff/CNMI
- Christine Jennings running for congress in Katherine Harris's old seat
- Sam Sparks federal judge, ruled on one fo Tom DeLay's cases
- Phillip Kellam member of local prominent family, running for congress
- Donna Edwards local activist, came within a whisker of beating Albert Wynn in Dem primary in 2006, then beat him, and won the general to become a Congresswoman in 2008.
- Balor Moore baseball player (first player drafted by the expansion Montreal Expos)
- William Pickering (governor) of Washington Territory
- Lew Anderson final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody
- Leo P. Carlin mayor of Newark
- Dave McCurdy Congressman from Oklahoma
- Andrew Jacobs, Jr. and Andrew Jacobs Congressmen from Indiana
- Jonathan H. Wallace Congressman
- William A. Newell Congressman, and governor of two states (NJ and Wash Terr)
- Benjamin Franklin Howey, John Runk, Samuel G. Wright Congessmen from NJ
- George F. Fort, Charles C. Stratton Governors of NJ
- Newark Evening News
- Template:Essex County, New Jersey
- Camelback Ski Area, in the Poconos (Pa.)
- Richard Warren passenger on the Mayflower (and ancestor of my wife) -- my first article
Parsha of the Week
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God found the Israelites in the desert, watched over them, guarded them, like an eagle who rouses his nestlings, gliding down to his young, God spread God's wings and took Israel, bearing Israel along on God's pinions, God alone guided Israel. God set the Israelites atop the highlands to feast on the yield of the earth and fed them honey, oil, curds, milk, lamb, wheat, and wine. So Israel grew fat and kicked and forsook God, incensed God with alien things, and sacrificed to demons and no-gods.
God saw, was vexed, and hid God's countenance from them, to see how they would fare. For they were a treacherous breed, children with no loyalty, who incensed God with no-gods, vexed God with their idols; thus God would incense them with a no-folk and vex them with a nation of fools. A fire flared in God's wrath and burned down to the base of the hills. God would sweep misfortunes on them, use God's arrows on them — famine, plague, pestilence, and fanged beasts — and with the sword would deal death and terror to young and old alike.
God might have reduced them to nothing, made their memory cease among men, except for fear of the taunts of their enemies, who might misjudge and conclude that their own hand had prevailed and not God's. For Israel's enemies were a folk void of sense, lacking in discernment. Were they wise, they would think about this, and gain insight into their future, for they would recognize that one could not have routed a thousand unless God had sold them. They were like Sodom and Gomorrah and their wine was the venom of asps. God stored it away to be the basis for God's vengeance and recompense when they should trip, for their day of disaster was near. God would vindicate God's people and take revenge for God's servants, when their might was gone. God would ask where the enemies’ gods were — they who ate the fat of their offerings and drank their libation wine — let them rise up to help! There was no god beside God, who dealt death and gave life, wounded and healed. God swore that when God would whet God's flashing blade, and lay hand on judgment, God would wreak vengeance on God's foes. God would make God's arrows drunk with blood, as God's sword devoured flesh, blood of the slain and the captive from the long-haired enemy chiefs. God would avenge the blood of God's servants, wreak vengeance on God's foes, and cleanse the land of God's people.
Moses came, together with Joshua, and recited all this poem to the people. And when Moses finished reciting, he told them to take his warnings to heart and enjoin them upon their children, for it was not a trifling thing but their very life at stake. That day God told Moses to ascend Mount Nebo and view the land of Canaan, for he was to die on the mountain, as his brother Aaron had died on Mount Hor, for they both broke faith with God when they struck the rock to produce water in the wilderness of Zin, failing to uphold God's sanctity among the Israelite people.
Hebrew and English Text
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Commentary from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University (Conservative)
Commentary from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Conservative)
Commentary by the Conservative Yeshiva
Commentary by the Union for Reform Judaism (Reform)
Commentaries from Project Genesis (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Chabad.org (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Aish HaTorah (Orthodox)
Commentaries from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (Reconstructionist)
Commentaries from My Jewish Learning (trans-denominational)
Commentaries from Aleph Beta Academy