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Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is hysterically funny. "Israel is our canary in the mine of world events. And the canary is singing."

When there is danger in the coal mine, the canary stops singing, and in fact, assumes room temperature. If the canary keeps singing, the mine is safe. (Methane gas is what silences the warbling winged one.)

I don't think the author is saying Israel is safe. Apparently, the author is clueless when it comes to the use of metaphors. With metaphors like this, who needs enemies?

Posted by Thoan 2006-07-30 00:36|| 2006-07-30 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Dang. Beat me to it, Thoan. I had that clueless first line copied and ready. 'Journalism' is what you do when you can't cut it in the food service industry.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-30 00:59|| 2006-07-30 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Not to say he doesn't have some good points, though...

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-30 01:03|| 2006-07-30 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 He had some good points, but that was the first thing i thought of too about the birds. When the birds quit singing that is when the trouble begins. :)

Posted by djohn66 2006-07-30 01:26|| 2006-07-30 01:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Israel is our canary in the mine of world events. And the canary is singing.

Personally, I'd like Israel to be considered a mantis shrimp.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-30 03:30|| 2006-07-30 03:30|| Front Page Top

#6 sorry, grom. But antisemitism is the canary. Not all canaries die, mind you, but when a canary dies in a coal mine, it's an indicator that a major problem needs to be dealt with immediately.... or else...

I don't know why...but when the cockroaches come from the baseboards and the worms crawl up from the ground to feast upon antisemitism, history has shown that we only have so much time left to act in order to avoid tragedy.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-30 09:21|| 2006-07-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Thoan and PBMcl,if you drop your overwhelming sense of grammatical and/or metophoric one up-man-ship, the overall sense of what Besoeker rings true.

Posted by WolfDog 2006-07-30 11:57|| 2006-07-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, my mistake.....that should be Michael Geer, not Besoeker. Also, please excuse the mistake(s) in syntax, last night is still catching up with me.

Posted by WolfDog 2006-07-30 12:00|| 2006-07-30 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Not written by me, only posted. Michael G

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-30 13:22|| 2006-07-30 13:22|| Front Page Top

#10 It is not US policy to beat Islamofascism by any necessary means. The policy is to prop political-Islam. Is it working? Somebody recently posted pictures of Egypt's Cabinet Ministers of their wives, one of which was current and the other from over a decade ago. Prior to 9-11 the women wore regular street clothing. Now the wives were wearing Islamic dress. The Muslim countries are Islamising, while the West denies the jihad component of same.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-07-30 18:02|| 2006-07-30 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Jihad is their last desperate hope to keep their culture and societies from being overwhelmed. They are really stuck. Every attempt to graft modernism on the Muslim tree has failed. Colonialism and Arab nationalism went nowhere. A few concrete plants were built and a few wars were launched, but nothing much came of any of it. The Israelis actually tried pretty hard to break the mold in the occupied territories and the intifadas were their reward. Our current projects in Afghanistan and Iraq might work if we had three generations to dick around and we were willing to kill off 10-20% of the male population in those places. Neither of those will prolly happen.

So the Muslim's only hope is to either make us go away or to annihilate us. Making us go away won't work in a world of oil and satellite TV. I think that if they can overrun Europe, India, and SE Asia, they might be able to annihilate us. Get ready for Allah-dämerrung!

Posted by 11A5S 2006-07-30 18:25|| 2006-07-30 18:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Globalism is not that name. Globalism is only a sidebar.

Actually, globalism is exactly what Islam is afraid of. Keeping Middle East Muslims disconnected from the outside world is one of their few means of maintaining power.

Posted by Zenster 2006-07-30 18:28|| 2006-07-30 18:28|| Front Page Top

#13 11A5S - good notes, but I'm not so sure we'll lose to pre-medieval Islam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-30 18:47|| 2006-07-30 18:47|| Front Page Top

#14 And the Romans didn't think they'd lose to pre-iron Teutons.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 18:57|| 2006-07-30 18:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Mis-applied metaphors aside, Mr Geer has articulated exactly what I was wondering about the idiotic left, and add my plaudits.

This link is to the original letter from the Danbury Baptists to Jefferson, as well as his reply: It appears that they were being persecuted by the State established church, and were worried that the federal government would join in. Jefferson's reply has been partly taken out of context: the "wall" was not as much to protect the government from the church, but a wall to prevent the government from being taken over by a specific religious sect and used as a tool of persection of competing sects. This was the concern of many americans during the presidential candidacy of John F Kennedy.

Am excellent post, Besoeker: a link to this will eventually go on my blog, for the record.

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