Trump is going to Michigan for a campaign rally...

[kentuck]

...while the WH Correspondents Dinner is going on.

Which one will FOX broadcast?

Which will be more divisive?

[Gothmog]

1. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Cha]

15. trump's cowardice is

bottomless. Thanks for that perfect gif, Goth

[Xipe Totec]

2. Mishigas

No, I didn't misspell.

[ProudLib72]

9. Oh I hate these transliterations

And I have to think in Yiddish then back to Hebrew then back to Yiddish. משוגע

[Xipe Totec]

11. It shouldn't be so hard

Google is your friend

http://www.yourdictionary.com/mishigas

[ProudLib72]

12. When I did an intensive summer semester in Yiddish in Vilna

there was a woman who could only read in transliteration. She insisted that the teachers transliterate everything for her. When they wouldn't, she tried to recruit fellow students (including me). She refused to learn the alphabet.

Then there was my Hebrew professor who absolutely loathed my Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew. When I was taking Yiddish and Hebrew at the same time, whew did I get her riled up!

[Xipe Totec]

13. Same thing with Ladino

I can't read Ladino, but I understand every word of it.

[ProudLib72]

14. Wow! I don't know many people who know Ladino

It may be because I was always part of the Ashkenazi community (although there was one woman I met in Albuquerque who was from a marrano family).

Did you know that there was a "secret" language between Jews and Romani? There was this guy in grad school who was studying German, and he told me all about it. Since both peoples were marginalized, they developed a language to communicate certain things just among themselves (like "There is a pogrom in the next town, so watch out" ). I always thought that was fascinating. Of course, since it was mainly a spoken language, not much remains today.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Many of the colonizers of Northern Mexico escaped Spain at the same time

as the Ladinos were expelled from Spain. One step ahead of the Inquisition. A lot of the blood flowing through Mexican veins in the borderlands between the US & Mexico is Sephardic. Some know it, some don't.

If you visit these places you will see women, with blue or green eyes, wearing head scarves in the traditional way. The children playing a game they call 'Quita y Pon' (Put and take away) with a top you will immediately recognize as a dreidel.

And the flour tortillas, well, what can I tell you about unleavened bread...

[ProudLib72]

17. On Pesach, my father in law used to claim that tortillas counted as unleavened bread

Anything to escape the horrors that eight days of matzoh can do to a person. I tend to agree with that assessment.

[oasis]

3. Deplorable dunderheads should prepare themselves for endless rambling.

[Turbineguy]

4. He'll spend a nice evening

foaming at the mouth with his doltish "patriot" supporters.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Of course he is.

Anything to keep the attention on him. Stupid motherfucking narcissist. HATE him.

[Kirk Lover]

6. I heard MSNBC say they are airing his rally...such a pity. They'll pick up coverage at

9:00. CNN it starts at 7:00 and that's where I'll be.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Campaign rally?

I understood it is a 'Fill up my defense fund war chest' event.

[marble falls]

8. Its a matter of mind over matter. I don't mind because cheetolini matters less every day.

[ProudLib72]

10. Maybe Faux will rerun the Rump phone call instead.