You can do better than that Phil.

You're being too kind.

(BTW, do you think there are many Gentile bloggers that get the same kind of personal attention from Mr. Podhoretz?)

I've learned a long time ago to not "freak out" to implied or stated threats to my or my family's physical health. To do so is a grant of power to the party that issues the threat. I either ignore the threatene, or much more fun, my response is to state that 1. I'm able to defend myself at the "thermonuclear level" if need be, and 2. I have no problem calling the local constabulary to either arrest someone or to pick up their remains in a bag or with a spatula, whatever is required.

It's been my experience that when faced with this response, the first party threatener stops.

"…So much anger" and the body of the email said "…just because you married a shiksa?"

This only proves that JPo is a racist. Why aren't you calling him on this Phil?

Does racism not count when the racist is Jewish?

And how many gentile women would like to know what JPo thinks of them? Excuse me? "Shiksas"????

If he can say that, may gentiles call him a "kike" to retort?

Why don't you ask him Phil?

What "Shiksa" means:

"Shiksa and Shaygetz are the Yiddish derivative of the respective
feminine and masculine Hebrew words for something unclean, dirty. The
appellations are customarily applied to gentiles who do things
inimical to Jewish interests, such as vandalizing Jewish buildings,
robbing Jewish kids of their lunch money, or becoming romantically
involved with Jews :-). The root is "sheketz", which refers to house
rodents and lizards. They impart ritual impurity, and therefore the
term lends itself to the same kind of idea. Some have taken to using
the term to refer to Christian women in general. If Christians were
using the term against Jews in English, they would be saying "Filthy
Jews" or "Dirty Jews", and we Jews would rightly be offended. Hence,
use of these terms should really be avoided; it is insulting and
inappropriate, even if no bad intent was behind the usage. It is
always better to use neutral, less pejorative (judgemental) terms,
such as non-Jew or Christian.

Note: In Israel, shaygetz is sometimes used to refer to a misbehaving
child.

Note: There are other words for non-Jewish women, "nachriah", and
"goyah", that are more properly used in less judgemental situations."

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/11-Miscellaneous/section-7.html

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Israel Shahak, noting the 1968 English-language volume, The Joys of Yiddish, by Leon Rosten:

"[It] is a kind of glossary of Yiddish [the Jewish traditional language of central and eastern Europe] [with]…. an etymology stating … the language from which the word came into Yiddish and its meaning in that language.

… The entry shaygets – whose main meaning is 'a Gentile boy or young man' — is an exception: there the etymology cryptically states, 'Hebrew origin,' without giving the form or meaning of the original Hebrew word.
However, under the entry shiksa — the feminine form of shaygets — the author does give the original Hebrew word, shegetz (or, in his transliteration, shegues) and defines its Hebrew meaning as 'blemish.'

This is a bold-faced lie as every speaker of Hebrew knows.

The Megiddo Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, published in Israel, correctly defines shegetz as follows: 'unclean animal': loathsome creature, abomination … wretch, unruly youngster; Gentile youngster." [SHAHAK, p. 26]

http://lancethruster.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=455228

Dirty Bombs, Gut Feelings and False-Flags: An Examination of Implications of Recent Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Economist Mr. Paul Craig Roberts

Its a scientific fact that extreme obesity in old women linked to early Alzheimer's. Let Poddie be. She is just re-entering her kindergarten age.