Scott Sloan is a hoot. He just told his audience that God told him to eat fish.

Well, the message is out in Cincinnati, apparently also known as Porkopolis. I suppose if I weren’t Jewish, I’d have known that nickname. However, I introduced him to Sarah’s daughter’s pet phrase for beef: Yummy cow.

In the meantime, EATAPETA Day starts in about 35 minutes. I’m going to go to bed. I suppose I should count sheep to help me sleep.

Don’t forget, it’s EATAPETA Day tomorrow. I’m going to be on the same radio station that interviewed me last year, but can’t get to my email to see if it’s streamed. It’s satellite, though. 11 p.m. EST, tonight. More details later.

In the meantime, go to Lair Simon’s and register your gathering.

Sarah and the twins and I are meeting for lunch, keeping with our EATAPETA Day tradition.

Where will you be?

Okay. I’m on between 11 and 11:20 p.m. Here’s the streaming audio.

So much for that vaunted palestinian love of death. Ahmed Saadat told Al Jazeera this morning:

“We are not going to surrender. We are going to face our destiny with courage,” he told Al-Jazeera television from the jail.

Guess he’s a coward, then.

JERICHO, West Bank (AP) - Six Palestinian militants holed up inside a Palestinian prison surrendered to Israeli forces Tuesday, almost 10 hours after soldiers using helicopters, tanks and bulldozers raided the compound to seize militants who killed an Israeli Cabinet minister.

The militants who surrendered included Ahmed Saadat, leader of a radical PLO faction and mastermind of the 2001 assassination of the minister, the Israeli military said.

The pals aren’t happy.

As the militants surrendered, some 15,000 Palestinians, led by dozens of gunmen firing in the air, marched in Gaza City to protest the raid. The demonstrators, chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, marched toward the Palestinian parliament building.

Palestinians, furious about the raid that also left two Palestinians dead, attacked offices linked to America and Europe, torching the British Council building in Gaza City and kidnapping foreigners, including an American professor, a Red Cross worker, two South Korean journalists and two Australian teachers at an American school.

Way to go, schmucks. Destroy the organizations that are helping you. Then, expect them not to leave.

I guess that part about loving death only goes for the brainwashed young men who become suicide bombers. Because Ahmed Saadat is alive, kicking, and on his way to an Israeli jail, where he can no longer run his terrorist operations.

Buh-bye.

Mahmoud Abbas, who has been weakly asking Hamas to “honor previous agreements with Israel” for the past few weeks while Hamas builds a cabinet out of their slate of terror chieftans elected to the Palestinian parliament, wasn’t bothering to honor previous agreements with the UK, the US, and Israel himself:

A March 8 letter from the British and American consul generals to Abbas, obtained by Haaretz, states that “the Palestinian Authority has never fully complied with basic provisions of the agreement that established the U.S. and U.K. Jericho Monitoring Mission.”

The letter goes on to say that, “While the six detainees… are held in continuous custody, the Palestinian Authority has consistently failed to comply with core provisions of the Jericho monitoring arrangements regarding visitors, cell searches, telephone access and correspondence.”

“If the Palestinian Authority would like the U.S. and U.K. to continue their involvement… conditions at the Jericho Prison must be brought into full compliance,” the letter continues.

Should this fail to happen, the letter concludes, “we will have to terminate our involvement… and withdraw our monitors with immediate effect.”

Jericho Prison was nothing more than office space for the leadership of PFLP, with open access to phones, the media, assistants, and others who could allow the PFLP leaders to continue to plan terror activies. What’s sick about this whole situation is that if Abbas hadn’t have pulled an Arafat and offered to release these vile scum, the British would have kept sending letters instead of acting.

And where was the U.S. State Department in all of this? Even the British swent through the effort to send letter. Did Condi’s Corps bother even doing that while their Royal Mistress was calling Abbas a “partner for peace” and practically begging Hamas to just issue an empty statement thinking about possibly considering recognizing Israel so she could whip out W’s checkbook?

Of course, only a fool of the highest sort would look back at his repeated offers to release those prisoners and think that Abbas was honoring the agreement at all.

So when Abbas turns to the cameras and promises to keep them in jail, what better a fool to slurp up Abbas’ lies than Yossi Bellin?

Beilin said the PA chairman told him in a phone conversation that he calls on Israel to avoid unnecessary escalation and withdraw from the prison in order to prevent more bloodshed.

“Abu Mazen said to me, ‘I am willing to be the one who guarantees you that Gandhi’s murderers, the six who are in there, will not leave the prison in Jericho. We will take full responsibility on ourselves to hold them,’” Beilin told Israel Radio, referring to Abbas by his nickname.

Beilin added that he “certainly believes in his willingness.”

According to Beilin, Abbas said he pledged to seek the return of international inspectors to the prison, stressing he would ensure the prisoners remain in jail until his efforts succeed.

Following Abbas’ announcement, Beilin called on Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “to accept [Abbas'] offer immediately, in order not to waste precious time and human lives.”

Yossi Bellin, ladies and gentlemen. If he’d have been Tina Turner’s assistant, she’d have gone back one last time and gotten beaten to death, and someone else whould have run Bartertown.

On the other end of the spectrum, MK Lieberman is calling for the prison to be bombed into oblivion in order to avoid any more troops getting hurt during the raid. (I say hold off… let a few reporters and human shields from Al-Jazeera and some PA-run media get in there.)

Either way, Gaza and the West Bank are turning into a Kidnapapalooza and Embassy Roasting Zone again. Kinda makes you wonder why anyone bothers with embassies and cultural centers when the so-called “Palestinian security forces” provide zero security and diplomatic staff are nothing but convinent locations to pick up hostages.

Hamas has begun its march towards the seventh century.

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ismael Haniyeh said Monday that he plans to appoint a minister whose job will be to advance the use of Islamic Sha’aria law.

“Sha’aria is the basis of law and no one plans to ignore it,” Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ismael Haniyeh said yesterday at a lecture at Gaza’s Islamic Movement. “Islamic law deals well with present reality.”

He added that Sha’aria law would be an influence in choosing ministers for his cabinet, Army Radio reported.

Ladies, grab your burkas! You’re gonna need ‘em.

Slobodan Milosevic manages to die before his war crimes trial finishes, and his son is accusing the UN of murder.

The former president’s son, Marko Milosevic, flew to the Netherlands to claim the remains of his father.

“He got killed. He didn’t die. He got killed. There’s a murder,” Marko Milosevic said on arriving in Amsterdam for the short drive to The Hague where his father’s remains have been kept since his death was discovered Saturday.

Wow, how many different answers can we give of the “and your point is?” variety?

I can’t find verifcation of the AP report that says Israeli Tourism Minister Ze’evi’s killers were not in the Jericho jail where they were supposedly being held. All the other reports have yet to confirm the operation has ended. The Jpost:

IDF Nahal Brigade troops, in addition to the police’s special anti-terror unit (Yamam) have entered the Jericho jail where the killers of former tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi are being held, the army confirmed on Tuesday morning.

During operation “Pay a Visit” the troops broke into the facility amidst reports of explosions and heavy gunfire. PA sources said one Palestinian policeman was killed, while three others were wounded in the exchange of fire.

Out of some 200 prisoners, 170 have already surrendered to IDF troops and were taken to the nearby Jewish settlement of Vered Jericho for interrogation. According to the IDF, whoever is of interest to security forces will be kept in Israeli custody, while the others will be returned to the custody of the PA.

However, the main target of the operation, Ahmed Sa’adat, the secretary general of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) believed to have masterminded the 2001 assassination, and five others involved in the killing, have yet to surrender. A senior security officer said that they had a good idea in what room Sa’adat was located.

Well, that’s one way to stop Hamas from releasing them.

I’ll be keeping my eye on this story, and the world outrage against it (of course), all day.

Of particular note: The U.S. and British monitors just kinda left their posts early Tuesday morning. [snicker] Nice going, guys.

So now you have to read Haveil Havalim (the Carnival of the Jews) and the Carnival of the Cats today.