Tuesday, March 15, 2011

1. There Are Simply No Words - a Jewish Israeli family is murdered in cold blood, and the animals in Gaza pass out candy to celebrate.......


"During his televised statement Netanyahu also called for a strong, clear unequivocal condemnation of the murders from the international community. He said he noticed “several countries that always hasten to the UN Security Council in order to condemn Israel, the state of the Jews, because it planned a house somewhere, or laid a tile somewhere,” but tarried when it came to issuing a “strong condemnation of the murder of Jewish babies.” (my emphasis)


3. Japan - absolutely heart-rending to learn of the widespread death and destruction in Japan. No need to post the videos, if you haven't seen them then you have been on some other planet.

Question 1 - Which was one of the first countries to offer aid? Let me see. Starts with "I", is in the Middle East.....""Iraq" - no....."Iran".....no - oh yeah, those genocidal Jewish oppressors in ISRAEL...... Israel Among First To Respond With Humanitarian Aid To Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Japan disaster and Itamar killings put Jewish giving on the spot | JTA - Jewish & Israel News. And this is no "one-off" - Israeli Humanitarian Relief Operations.

Question 2 - does anyone proof-read the President's remarks? I mean.....Obama Declares Bond Between U.S. and Japan ‘Unshakeable’

4. "That Week" - I suggest that this is typical of the morons behind that ridiculous annual hatefest of Israel - Queen’s intrepid anti-Israeli revolutionary frets about feeling “unsafe,” shrinks away | Full Comment | National Post - not sure why they need a special week (which runs for more than one week by the way) when they hate and bash Israel 24/7/365.

In any event, see this excellent response to the cowardly Queens moron - Queen’s University student explains facts of life to anti-Israel rector | Full Comment | National Post, as well as these links, the following video, and, of course Israeli cartoonist Dry Bones:


5. BDS - if you are involved in Israel advocacy, you know these initials stand for "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions" - against Israel - of course, not anyone else. One of the tactics the IAW morons are using is an attempt to boycott Mountain Equipment Cooperative - a Canadian outdoor equipment and clothing company that sells Israeli-made products. MEC has steadfastly refused to knuckle under to these knuckleheads - so while I never make commercial pitches on my blog - I encourage you to go to this link and become a member of MEC as a sign of support.


"SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – Folk music icon Pete Seeger, quoted earlier this week as saying that he supports a boycott of Israel, told JTA that his position on Israel is constantly evolving.

Earlier this week, the pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement group Adalah-NY reported that Seeger met recently with representatives from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and told them that he “supports” the anti-Israel BDS movement.

Seeger told JTA by phone Wednesday that he “probably said” that, but added that he is still learning a lot about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his “opinions waver with each piece of information” he receives."

Pete - no disrespect, but you do not sound like the very model of clarity and precision - please read the item below about Justin Trudeau and remember - "think first, then speak" - and by the way, did you ever try some of that "wacky-tabaccy" - with or without our Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau?


6. Political Correctness Strikes Again - I think that Mr. Trudeau must have been sitting too close to his late father when he was smoking the "wacky-tabaccy" - Trudeau blasts feds for calling honour killings 'barbaric'- Politics - Canoe.ca. Now, of course, it's full steam in reverse - Trudeau tweets a retreat on 'barbaric' comments- Politics - Canoe.ca. Justin - it's simple - think first, then speak.....

7. Wow, Talk About Anti-Semitism - ShalomLife - Roseanne's neighbours kill her goats for being Jewish - wait - the goats were killed because she is Jewish or the goats were?



9. Books And Such - I am especially interested in the first two items, the first written by James Carroll, the author of Constantine's Sword, and the second by Deborah Lipstadt, who slew David Irving in his libel suit against her:


11. President Obama - have not picked on him for a while - Obama as Hamlet - By Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner - National Review Online, and also see:


and since many people say that Obama is a black Jimmy Carter, here's this shot at old peanut-brain - Peter Worthington: Some of Jimmy Carter’s best friends aren’t terrorists Full Comment National Post

12. The Maccabeats Return For Purim - great stuff.

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

1. Shame - I guess that everyone is familiar with a variety of expressions regarding money - such as "money talks". Another famous expression about life, or karma, is that "what goes around, comes around"



These expressions have achieved perfect synchronicity in the real world at the world-famous London School of Economics. It has been disclosed that over the years the LSE gratefully (greedily) accepted gobs and gobs of cash from Libyan madman Colonel Gadhaffi. So not only did the school accept blood money, it also turns out that - surprise, surprise - the school has taken a consistent anti-Israel stance and advocates boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel - Jewish Ideas Daily: The best universities money can buy, RED FACES AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: MELANIE PHILLIPS and Libya and the LSE: Large Arab gifts to universities lead to 'hostile' teaching - Telegraph. Better still is this story - LSE academic’s ‘slap threat’ to Jewish leader - Just Journalism.

So when the proverbial sh*t hit the fan, some genius at LSE (we are talking about very high and powerful academic intellectuals, after all) decided that the best thing to do was to pretend that its ties to Libya never existed - witness the rapid cleansing of the online biographies of any member of the school who had anything to do with Libya - Cover-up claims after editing of academics' biographies.


I do not give a damn that Sir Howard Davies, the now-former Director of the LSE, immediately stepped down over the issue. I hope that he has many a sleepless night with an extraordinarily guilty conscience, and I hope that all others who participated in this fiasco take a bullet (figuratively speaking, of course) and find their careers in shambles.

This sordid affair reminds me of thesis of the famous pre-World War II book "The Treason Of The Intellectuals", and I think it illustrates the true meaning of greed, sanctimony and corruption. I hope the LSE gets what it deserves - and I do not mean new endowments. I would not put it in charge of a kindergarten class.

And I'm sure that the LSE is not alone - as was stated in an editorial in the English newspaper The Independent:

"Sir Howard's departure, however, must not be used as a pretext for sweeping under the carpet awkward questions about foreign money in British academia. So far as the LSE is concerned, it is to be hoped that the inquiry, which will be headed by the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, will sort out what was given, by whom, and how it was used, so that clarity is brought to the whole affair. But the LSE is far from alone among educational establishments in having benefited from links with Gaddafi's Libya. Nor is the colonel's the only dubious regime to have seduced British universities with its money.

If the soul-searching at the LSE encourages others to review their sources of recent funding, that is all to the good. The incentives given to universities to take any money that might be going, both in fees from overseas students and endowments, has brought about a situation where – it might seem from outside – almost anything goes."

2. It's Not Just Academic Institutions - Ethics failure over Libya.

But my personal favorites are the entertainers who performed concerts for Gadhaffi and gang - 'Yeah!' Usher is giving back Libya money - CNN.com and Music's Kadafi connection: Private concerts stir up controversy - latimes.com (to single out one example - a Canadian example - Nelly Furtado - $1M for a 45 minute concert in 2007 - are you kidding me?) - uh, guys, it would mean a lot more if (a) you never did the concerts in the first place, (b) you gave the money back before the sh*t hit the fan, (c) you do not think that donating the money to charity is some great act of selflessness and repentance, and (d) you did not make a bunch of bullsh*t excuses (like, "I was naive....").


If anyone knows anyone who thinks that these guys would have given back the money on their own - please have that person examined by a mental health professional immediately.

But don't worry - I have a good way to start to make amends - go and perform some free concerts in Israel.

3. What's That Smell? - Oh yeah, it's time for the annual Israel Apartheid Week hatefest. Want a nice home-grown example? Try this - Rector of Queen’s University celebrates Israeli Apartheid Week, declares Israel guilty of ‘genocide’ | Full Comment | National Post.

I'm not going to give this disgusting event any more space than it deserves, which is the amount of space available under a cockroach.



And please - to the university administrators who permit this disgraceful annual event to take place on their campuses - which are supposed to be bastions of truly free speech, dialogue and the peaceful exchange of views - you are no better than the LSE - and, and since you reside in your ivory towers amongst the rest of us great unwashed, when the event on your campus concludes, please remember to flush the toilet. There's simply no other way to put it.


4. Speaking Of Synchronicity - odd, don't you think, that these 2 stories appeared in the news at the same time? Britain expels Israeli diplomat over 'intolerable' actions of Mossad - contains video and SAS unit, diplomats bungle secret mission into Libya | The Australian. In case you missed it in the latter story:
"The BBC reported that the Britons had been approaching an agricultural compound when the mission went wrong. They were confronted by Libyan guards who searched the soldiers' bags and found weapons, ammunition, explosives, maps and passports for at least four different nationalities." (my emphasis)

5. Media - not a good week or so for the fourth estate, I'd say......




6. What If This Is True? Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas Rape, Mutilate and Harvest Organs of African Migrants - I'm waiting for the outrage.......

7. Ruth Wisse - her interactions with Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Irving Howe:


9. I'm Done With Hockey - I have been a huge fan of hockey since I was a kid. But the total inability of the National Hockey League to deal with escalating violence (and I do not mean fighting) has reached a tipping point after this week's sickening occurrence involving Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins and Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens. After Chara manhandled Pacioretty into the stanchion supporting the glass between the benches, the NHL, in its infinite wisdom, saw fit not to impose further discipline on Chara - but what do you expect from a league that failed to impose further discipline for 2 incidents involving Sidney Crosby - the best player in the world and the heir to Wayne Gretzky?


Miraculously, thankfully, Pacioretty has been released from the hospital. Canadiens' Pacioretty released from hospital His season, and maybe his career, is over - refer to Todd Bertuzzi's vicious on-ice attack on Steve Moore 7 years ago in which Moore sustained similar injuries - after which he has never played a second of professional hockey.

And to be perfectly clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the victim was a member of the Montreal Canadiens. It has everything to do with an arrogant league administration that simply cannot see the forest for the trees and a greedy players' union that blames the injury on the construction of the rink - both obviously think that the fans who follow the sport like a religion, who (used to) look up to professional players as idols - and, perhaps most importantly, support the whole damn thing with their hard earned money - are a bunch of morons.

So I'm done. Honest to G-d. All the excitement I felt last year when my beloved Canadiens upset the Capitals and the Penguins in the playoffs has simply evaporated.

Here are some links about the latest "incident", as well as the video of the incident itself.

(here's the NESN version - does anyone really believe the analysis from the home town network? - poor decision?)


(also from NESN)


(Mr. Gary Bettman - the epitome of arrogance)

10. Sorry - just not in the mood to find anything humorous on which to end. But I did find something inspirational.







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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 - "antisemitism special edition"

I can honestly say that I have almost no idea who Perez Hilton is other than that I believe that he is some sort of personality who traffics in gossip about celebrities. But when even he asks about the recent prevalence of antisemitic outbursts, that is an indication of the seriousness of the situation. What's Up With This Wave Of Anti-Semitism Lately?? | PerezHilton.com

In my opinion, if anyone thinks that after World War II and the founding of the modern State of Israel that antisemitism is a thing of the past, they are sadly mistaken. Antisemitism is a disease that has been with us for a very long time, and it shows no sign of going away any time son - if anything, it is morphing into more sophisticated and virulent forms - such as the annual pack of lies known as "Israel Apartheid Week" - but more on that in a later edition.

Where does antisemitism come from? Well, this story certainly gives a clue to one major cause - Simon Wiesenthal Center Lauds Pope Benedict XVI’s Absolving Jewish Collective Guilt for the Death of Jesus | Simon Wiesenthal Center - I mean, if one preaches a message of hatred for a couple of thousand years, some people might start to believe it......

So, with all that in mind - here are a number of links on the disgraceful subject of antisemitism - broken apart by "topic":
But see:

And by the way, one of the sure ways to know that a person is antisemitic is after they make a terrible antisemitic statement, observe the virulence with which they deny that they are antisemitic and try to find some way to squirm and wiggle out of what they said - see, for example, the pathetic case of the late David Ahenakew - after saying this - on tape -

"But ah, the Germans used to tell me, and I got to know them well because I played soccer against them and with them and so forth. But they used to tell me that you guys are blessed. What we know about the Indians in Canada. They are blessed. But that blessing is being destroyed by the, by your immigrants that are going over there. Especially the Jews, they say, you know. The Second World War was created by the Jews and the Third World War, whatever it is, right now that war ... thaAhenakew.JPGt wages on Israel in the Arab countries. I was there too. But there’s gonna be a war because the Israelis and the “Bushies”, you know, the bully, the bully, the ah the bigot and so forth in the United States that tells you that if you’re not with me you are against me.

After his speech, he reiterated his remarks to a reporter, saying:

The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. ... That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe. That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries.

and:

How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?

he then said this:

"At his second trial on hate charges he testified that he doesn't hate Jews but still believes they caused the Second World War.

"Everybody says I'm a Jew-hater," he told court. "I don't hate the Jews, but I hate what they do to people." (my emphasis)


Here are some videos on the subject - the interview with Anthony Julius is obviously very long, but you may want to pick away at it in pieces - Julius is a distinguished barrister in the UK who, among other things, acted on a pro bono basis for Deborah Lipstadt when she defended herself from libel accusations leveled at her by Holocaust-denier David Irving, and he also represented Lady Diana in her divorce from Prince Charles. The second video makes the point in Andrew Klavan's inimitable manner. The third video doesn't really add much except to show that the topic has made the late night talk show agenda - though I thought that the conversation was rather "dopey".








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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

For tonight only - a totally different format - a little of this and a little of that - mostly on the lighter side..........with the observation that when your life evokes comparisons of any sort to the demented Colonel Gadhaffi, you need help.










(I don't really look like this)

(or this either....well, maybe a bit like the monkey
on the right)

(oops! - where's the proofreader?)


(unless you speak Hebrew - and I do not - please bear with the subtitles - funny)






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Tuesday, March 1, 2011 quick update

It's a mad, mad, mad world



3. Iranian Foolishness - they must be doing the same drugs as Charlie Sheen/Carlos Estevez - Iran: 2012 Olympics logo 'racist,' resembles word 'Zion'

WOW

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