I was too violent for tinypic.com?

[sickler]

I just took a look at last year's SBR Halloween thread, tinypic deleted one of my pics but left the others up.

With all the slasher images on the internet, unreal how they get their panties in a bunch over this:

[Chi_archie]

[pico]

looks like a pyscho

[Domestic]

I can see why they took it down, highly offensive image, very threatening and one of the most disturbing things I have witnessed.

[Arsenal]

That is funny that they find that picture so offensive.

[sickler]

looks like a pyscho

That was the intention.

Some people have no Halloween spirit.

[camel]

I can see why they took it down, highly offensive image, very threatening and one of the most disturbing things I have witnessed.

[sickler]

Camel, I like you because you get sarcasm.

[flyingillini]

Sickie,

The Emergence of Canadian Jewry

Canada as a country is strongly influenced by its proximity to the United States. Proximity inevitably leads to comparisons and, more important, to the tendency to lump the two countries into a larger North America. Similarities rather than differences are often stressed and the unique aspects of Canadian life overlooked. In response to this situation, many Canadians are quite self-conscious about their country and its virtues. Thus there is a strong emphasis in public life on things which are genuinely Canadian.

The Jewish community of Canada is in the same situation, yet there are important differences between the Canadian Jewish response to it and the general Canadian response. The Canadian Jewish community is an independent community, with vital institutions and all aspects of Jewish activity present. Jews are well-organized, visible, and effective. They play an active role in Canadian life and in world Jewish affairs. In addition, there are close ties and relationships with the American Jewish community, which is twenty times larger. Factors such as geographical closeness, a common language, the relative sizes of the two communities, and convenience have led to a limited amount of integration. For example, the Council of Jewish Federations includes Canadian as well as American local federations and regularly selects Toronto or Montreal as the sites of its General Assembly. But by and large the Canadian community maintains its own Jewish institutions and organizations and pursues an independent existence.

Jews in Canada are very much aware that the country itself is based on the concept of two founding peoples -- the English and the French. Consequently there is no single Canadian people or Canadian culture. This makes it easier for minority groups, such as the Jews, to maintain a separate identity and even a separate culture; where everyone is a hyphenated Canadian, Jews do not stand out from their fellow countrymen when they include the Jewish as well as the Canadian element in their identity. A reality of Canadian life has been the encouragement of multiple identities, with a major emphasis on ethnic identification in addition to religious identification. This contrasts with the American experience, where religious differences served as the primary means of self-identification until the recent increase in ethnic consciousness.

Although Jews first came to Canada in the eighteenth century, the bulk of the community consists of immigrants who came from Europe during this century or the descendants of such immigrants. The recency of much of the immigration is an important factor in understanding the development of the community. In fact the immigration and the encouragement of ethnic distinctiveness are complementary in terms of creating an environment in which Jews live comfortably as Jews while generally succeeding in efforts to participate fully in all aspects of Canadian society.

Under French rule Jews were banned from New France (as Canada was first called), just as they were from France proper. Only with the British conquest in 1759 could Jews appear openly in that land. Jewish merchants accompanied the conquering British and organized communities in Montreal and Trois Rivieres in the 1760s. Canada was almost entirely avoided by the nineteenth century German and Central European Jewish immigrants because the United States was the land of opportunity and Canada was a backwater. Hence it was the Eastern European Jews who were the real founders of the Canadian Jewish community, at the very end of the nineteenth century.1

[camel]

Camel, I like you because you get sarcasm.

Sarcasm gets me too.

[Extra Innings]

[stealthyburrito]

i shat my pants when i saw this picture.

[Sunde91]

Illini, your self-indulgent Jewish fetish gets old, fast.

[flyingillini]

Illini, your self-indulgent Jewish fetish gets old, fast.

Sounds good, it's for my boy Sickie anyway.

[mundane]

[sickler]

Sounds good, it's for my boy Sickie anyway.

And it's welcome in my thread.