h/t Sultan Knish
Kerry spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who has frequently taken issue with negative references by Israeli political figures to Secretary of State John Kerry denounced another claim from an Israeli political commentator that the respected diplomat was a "lapdog of the Arabs."
..."Furthermore, its simplistic to reduce the career of a capable public servant and longtime senator to being a lapdog for the Arabs when the Secretary has also been a lapdog for the Viet Cong, the Sandinistas, the Iranians and really anyone who would have him."
h/t Gates of Vienna
Judea and Samaria: to Jews and Christians around the world, it's the Bible's heartland. But much of the world, including the United States, wants Israel to give this important piece of history to the Palestinians as part of a Middle East peace deal.
Now Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett is leading the charge to keep that land in the hands of the Jewish state.
..."Judea and Samaria, what would supposedly become the Palestinian state, is a big mountain, 1,000 meters high," he said. "Smaller Israel, the pre-'67 lines, is right under. So imagine giving away this high land to the Palestinians."
[Ynet] If both Jews and Paleostinian Arabs start their historical narrative with beginning of Zionism, Jews have deeper moral claim to Land of Israel.
Beginning the story of Jewish nationalism with the forerunners of the Zionist movement or the First Aliyah or the arrival of Herzl already grants Paleostinian Arabs their greatest moral argument.
This is so because if the Jewish nationalist starting point is, say, 1890, then there were already large numbers of Arabs living in the Land of Israel. The exact numbers aren't known, but the standard demographic estimate is that there were probably close to 500,000 Moslems and Christians who were living in the land by 1890, with ten times more Moslems than the 43,000 Jews. It is those numbers that seem to present Zionism's founding with a moral problem.
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#1
I doubt the intended audience is capable of grasping the author's arguments. So let me try.
"We are crazy, and we have an equalizer. So leave us alone. You'll live longer."
There is a running joke about wild animals in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" - if you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Pops into my head every time I read about the Paleos bitching about how mean the Juices are to them. If you don't want Israeli bombs falling on your heads or Israeli bulldozers driving through your living room, then just leave them the f**k alone! If you don't bother them, they won't bother you.
#6
Looked up the tail number. The plane is listed as being owned by: "Bank of Utah Trustee." The plane is listed under "George & Phyllis Belsey Charitable Remainder Unitrust Ra045-15000u." Phyllis Belsey has contributed to Obama campaigns and the DNC. Listed as "Democrat." An interesting thread is at Godlike Productions. Site. Couldn't find any recent flights to Iran.
#9
Excellent effort John. I looked up the AMC website. No mention of jet aircraft or overseas operations. I'll give you a 3 guesses and a wild card. Go for it !
Being an honest gentleman not particularly brave or bold, but also not particularly interested in being lead by a lemming mob possessed by extraordinary popular delusion over the lip of an abyss into madness, I have on many occasions received comments, or, rather, white noise contorted into the shape of words, from various gibbering of poop-flinging yahoos, maudlin waifs, cringing serfs, drooling children, shrill man-boys, cocoa-sipping pajama boys, gormless Eloi, eunuchs, and nyctalope cannibal troglodyte Morlocks of the Left.
The mob dislikes anyone who does not worship the mob, or their Glorious Leader, or whatever fickle idea, bright as a butterfly, wanders through their collective empty heads during the current news cycle. They will, of course, dislike with equal disdain anyone who does not worship the brief and fugitive idol darting before their glassy and unblinking wide-open eyes tomorrow, even if the first directly contradicts the second. Logic is not their strong point.
...To answer that, we have to remind ourselves what makes a moonbat a moonbat. A moonbat is a person of otherwise normal levels of intelligence and decency who is addicted to a false vision of the world, an attractive vision, a glamour, a dream. The Grand Vision has been sold to them using modern Madison Avenue techniques based on a cynical study of human weaknesses.
The elements of the Grand Vision change from decade to decade. In my fathers time, the Vision involved helping white-skinned male factory hands to unionize and throw off the oppression of capitalists; in my time, the Vision involves helping pregnant lesbian black-skinned atheist women to throw off the oppression of white-skinned male factory hands; in my childrens time, the vision will involve helping the Muslims suppress, oppress, and butcher any lesbian black-skinned atheist women that fall into their hands.
But one element never changes. The Grand Vision is always heaven on earth, a heaven without God, a heaven made by human hands, and the heaven can be achieved if you, the savior, merely forswears the straitjacket on normal morality, and, as an act of holy and noble defiance, indulge in the various vices and crimes to which your crooked nature already inclines you. All you need do is trample the crucifix and kiss the buttocks of the black iron idol of Baphomet, pardon me, I mean all you need do is oppose the oppressive Bourgeoisie morality, bravely throw poop on a few police cars, bravely claim to have favored the Civil Rights Act you and your party opposed, bravely commit adultery, bravery express toleration for sodomy, bravely do exactly what the lemming around you do, your every hair and whisker sensitive for any hint of change of the mobs fickle opinion on the issues of the day, to be bravely sure you brave do exactly what ever other lemming does because you are all nonconformists.
The moonbats particularly dislike, nay, they hate with a deep and abiding hatred anyone who is articulate, well-educated, thoughtful, rational, and this is for the most amusing and ironic reason imaginable: These degenerate brain-undead cretins think that they are both more moral and more intellectual than honest, normal people. It is central to their self-delusion.
#2
But the "Glorious Vision" is so much easier. There is no need to work, think, or do anything--everyone becomes a winner; there is no risk of loss. And now that marijuana is incrementally being legalized, one can just vegetate and entertain hazy thoughts of the Glorious Vision promised by Nancy Pelosi and ilk. Social justice, re-distribution of wealth, and statism make the grand dream possible in the minds of the Left. The 60s was their (the Morlocks) decade. It showed the way. Camelot was their myth. Heaven on Earth was the dream which was achievable by distributing Heaven (not necessarily equally) to those deserving (those that contribute and vote Dem) The ends justified the means (Sarc).
#3
All well and good but you won't be laughing if we do nothing about the warming and peek oilz. Won't be so funny when you're sweating like a hawg while walking to work.
However, I have a plan, it will require your faith and ummmm..... credit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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