HOME MADE Hamas:
Khalid Meshaal rejects impersonal, mass-produced armaments:
The logic of those who demand that we stop our resistance is absurd. They absolve the aggressor and occupier, armed with the deadliest weapons of death and destruction, of responsibility, while blaming the victim, prisoner and occupied. Our modest, home-made rockets are our cry of protest to the world.Note: Home is an Iranian munition factory…
The Scots put the O in Ronald-O and now Barack O is their man:
Fitzrandold, McGregor, Ann Dunham, O’Hara
There’s nae one as Scottish as Barack Obama
In Stirling, Dunfermline at the heart of the Barras
The new king of Scotland is Barack Obama
There’s lots more at Aye We Can.
IN this video masked men in Gaza are using children as human shieleds. Aren’t they?
Spotter and Jihad Watch
An 8-year-old is on trial for murder:
Statements made to Arizona police by an 8-year-old boy suspected of fatally shooting a man will not be used against him in court — unless the statements are needed to refute any testimony he gives — prosecutors agreed Tuesday.
Says Yamster in the Forum:
A jury of his peers will suffice in Law. Anything for a few weeks off school at that age but they will probably have to have ‘quiet time’ in the afternoon and ban Sunny D from the lunch table…
Spotter: Cheryl
Remi Gaillard is the American in France:
HARRY Reid stands up, says Paco:
Al Gore’s long run as The Snow Queen had finally ended: the trees were in leaf, azaleas were ablaze with magenta and white and lavender, and Sheila had switched from wool suits to cotton dresses – which, when back-lit with the light coming through the plate-glass window in the waiting room, made me feel like I had x-ray vision. I threw a glass of cold water in my face and reminded myself: I love her like a brother would.
The intercom buzzed. “Paco, there’s a guy out here, claims to be Senator Harry Reid.”
“Oh, yeah? What’s he look like.”
“He looks like the male half of that painting, American Gothic, except, instead of holding a pitchfork, he gives the impression of having sat on one.”
“Yeah, that sounds like Reid. Send him in.”
The Radio Times has a writer called…Helen Hackworthy…
DK is looking OH’s problem with Hamas:
Whilst I have agreed to disagree with Old Holborn over the Israel and Palestine situation, there is another point of ethics to consider.post a graphic video that purports to show Israelis blowing Palestinian civilians to shit and it is actually a film of Hamas’ own rockets exploding during one of their rallies, then you should probably admit that you made a mistake.
You see, I’m kind of old-fashioned and I do tend to think that if you
Apart from anything else, not to do so damages one’s credibility—which is, after all, what a blogger’s reputation hangs on…
You can always change your nom de guerre…
Christopher Hitchens, on Benny Morris, the revisionist historian’s published words:
To read Benny Morris is to be quite able—and quite free—to doubt that there should ever have been an Israeli state to begin with. But to see Hamas at work is to resolve that whatever replaces or follows Zionism, it must not be the wasteland of Islamic theocracy.
WHEN Israel was the underdog, how we cheered:
Having read thousands of words on the subject, I find I have nothing intelligible or helpful to say about Gaza. But I do remember sitting in a history class in school in 1967. Before the teacher came in, one enthusiastically belligerent boy had drawn a map of the Israeli advance across the Sinai in the Six Day War. We cheered. We felt that these were our guys. That would be unthinkable now that Israel, a country I love, has allowed herself to be seen as the world’s bully.
TAX. Here’s how it works, sort of.
Howarth says he then received a second letter telling him the government owes him money — four cents. He was told he would have to request the refund since it’s less than $1. “When I owe them a nickel, I must pay them. It’s not optional,” he said. “But when they owe me, I have to ask for it.”
Spotter: Bakel
A war in Israel and Gaza and the jihadis call for, well, genocide. Such is the way of peace:
Can a religion create good science?
I’m watching “Science And Islam” on BBC Four. I’ve already rejected the premise out of hand, but I’m watching it anyway. I’ll buy that Muslims have made and will continue to make important discoveries, but it’ll take a lot to convince me that Islam itself has anything to do with it. (This is not helped by the fact that after about five minutes the show referenced a book called “The Hindu Art Of Reckoning” as a major breakthrough in mathematics.) Favourite quote so far: “I think one must bear in mind that this [the 8th century AD] is an era in which people actually believed in God.” — Dr Amira Bennison, Cambridge University. How good is that?
Wow - so much has changed…
HAMAS uses Palestinians as human shields.
Jeffrey Goldberg notes:
One story the media isn’t telling, because it’s impossible to get this story in these circumstances (especially because Israel stupidly won’t allow foreign reporters into Gaza) is how much resentment the Hamas policy of using Palestinians as human shields causes among Gaza civilians. Early reports indicate that Hamas mortar teams were firing from the UN School. This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
One more thing, speaking of pornography — we’ve all seen endless pictures of dead Palestinian children now. It’s a terrible, ghastly, horrible thing, the deaths of children, and for the parents it doesn’t matter if they were killed by accident or by mistake. But ask yourselves this: Why are these pictures so omnipresent?
He knows why:
I’ll tell you why, again from firsthand, and repeated, experience: Hamas (and the Aksa Brigades, and Islamic Jihad, the whole bunch) prevents the burial, or even preparation of the bodies for burial, until the bodies are used as props in the Palestinian Passion Play. Once, in Khan Younis, I actually saw gunmen unwrap a shrouded body, carry it a hundred yards and position it atop a pile of rubble — and then wait a half-hour until photographers showed. It was one of the more horrible things I’ve seen in my life. And it’s typical of Hamas. If reporters would probe deeper, they’d learn the awful truth of Hamas. But Palestinian moral failings are not of great interest to many people.
But the deaths are real…
Interesting to see how the |New York Times is reporting on the Atheists’ campaign on London Buses
