Oooooooooh! He was the STALKER from The Practice. I knew I’d seen Henry Gale before. Wow, he does creepy very well.

Can you say, “Rewrite”? I knew you could. Because this scene:

[SAWYER, TRYING TO OPEN A DHARMA-OREO COOKIE, BREAKS IT]
HURLEY: Dude, you have to twist it off.
AUDIENCE: WTF? Are you trying to tell us Sawyer is too stupid to know how to eat an Oreo cookie? Did someone screw up this scene by writing “SAWYER” instead of “JIN”? WTF?

totally needed a rewrite. Shoulda been this:

[JIN, TRYING TO OPEN A DHARMA-OREO COOKIE, BREAKS IT]
HURLEY: Dude, you have to unscrew it.
JIN: Eh?
HURLEY [Takes cookie, shows Jin]
JIN: Ooooooooh. Tank. U.
SAWYER: Yeah, it takes an expert to know how to eat one of these
AUDIENCE: No, just someone who’s ever eaten one, schmuck. Duh.
HURLEY: RAAARGH! HURLEY SMASH! HURLEY SMASH ANNOYING LITTLE MAN!
JIN: Hahahahaha, nasty man finally gets the crap kicked out of him, I think I’ll just stand here and laugh
SUN: Jin, Sawyer’s getting hurt! Go help!
JIN: Are you NUTS? Look how big Hurley is!
SUN: Hello, you’re Korean, you have magic powers, remember? You can make me pregnant even though you couldn’t until we got on the island
AUDIENCE: Yeah, right, like he’s really the father!
JIN: Did you just hear a bunch of people shouting?
SUN: Look! Hurley’s squashing Sawyer, please stop, the women of America are counting on you!
MERYL: No, take off your shirt first so it doesn’t get ripped!

Who was that guy who played Dave? I’ve seen him before, but ever since he’s shaved his head, I can’t remember where I saw him when he had hair. He drives me nuts, but damn, I want to know where I saw him before he shaved his head.

If you’d like to be a part of this week’s podcast, here’s a quick and easy way.

Record yourself saying “What the hell is wrong with you?” (and think in terms of the EU deciding that they’re going to talk and send money to Hamas). Send it to me (meryl-at-yourish-dotcom) in mp3 or.wav format (mp3 is smaller and better).

Go to it, folks, but do me a favor — send the mp3s later today, because I’m at work and can’t access my email from home until six p.m. EST.

Update: I’m home now, folks. Send away.

Update 2: Thanks to all who contributed, but I couldn’t use the mp3s in this week’s podcast after all. However, I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to use them in the future. If you wanted to contribute but didn’t get to it in time, feel free to send me an mp3 file.

Someone screwed up the Carnival of the Vanities again, by deciding that it was too much work to go by the rules and run everyone’s post, no matter what. (I did, though I risked major bad feelings by actually rating the posts.) This guy proposed to be the “editor” and chose which submissions were worthy of his notice.

First Lair took umbrage, and then he took over.

This is what a Carnival of the Vanities looks like.

Javier Solana and the EU have decided they don’t want to see a Hamas government fail.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told the European Parliament on Wednesday that the EU did not want the Hamas government to fail and believed the Islamist movement, which espouses the violent destruction of Israel, should be given a chance to change.

These people are unbelievable. They live with their heads in the sand, with their ears plugged by their fingers while they shut their eyes and say “Lalala, I can’t HEAR you!” when confronted with information like this:

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar on Wednesday denied referring to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, wording that might have hinted Hamas was recognizing Israel’s right to exist.

“Such a sentence was not used in the letter,” Zahar told Reuters in the Gaza Strip.

And:

“I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it,” Zahar said in the interview. “I hope that our dream to have our independent state on all historic Palestine (will materialize).”

And:

“We and the Zionists have a date with destiny,” he said. “If they want a fight, we are ready for it. If they want a war, we are the sons of war. If they want a struggle, we are for it to the end. We have more stamina than Israel and will defeat it, God willing.”

And:

Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader sworn into the Palestinian Authority cabinet last week, told the Xinhua news agency that he is certain the goal will be realized, because “There is no place for Israel on this land.”

And these quotes are all from the last two and a half weeks.

And here’s one from yesterday:

Israel must not be recognized and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry should aim to establish a Palestinian State from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, in place of the Jewish State, PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar said according to Palestinian media reports.

The EU is full of morons. Hamas will never change. Hamas will never moderate.

The war is coming.

Forget Sharon Stone, Jason Alexander, and Roger Waters. Next year in Jerusalem for The Pope?

Pope Benedict XVI is considering visiting Israel in the first part of 2007, Shimon Peres said Thursday after meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican.

Peres renewed an invitation, first made last year by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, for the pope to visit Israel. “He indicated that he may do it in the first part of next year,” Peres told a news conference.

So, will the unwilling Hitler Youth alumnus take his Popemobile to Ramallah and lay a wreath on the Tomb Of The Well-Known Terrorist?

(And when’s Bush going to fly Air Force One into Ben-Gurion? For a man who flies plastic turkeys into Iraq in the dead of night, he’s sure showing his stripes by avoiding an appearance in Israel while sending his legion of Roadmap minions in his place.)

Gaza is quickly becoming Terror Central in the Middle East.

Around 10 terror operatives affiliated with Al-Qaida and other global jihad factions have infiltrated the Gaza Strip in recent weeks.

Palestinian Authority sources said their security agencies suspect that the operatives, who arrived in Gaza from Egypt - some through the Rafah terminal - are staying in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah and are involved in smuggling materiel on a large scale.

According to various reports, some of which could not be fully verified by Israelis, the operatives belong to several factions, mainly radical Islamic movements in Egypt, that are affiliated with Al-Qaida. Beside Palestinians, there are citizens of Egypt, Sudan and Yemen.

[...] Citing Jordanian security officials, the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday “a definite presence” of Al-Qaida operatives in Gaza who intend to carry out attacks on “sensitive” targets. The reference apparently was to attacks on crossings into Israel and perhaps also the foreign observers at the Rafah terminal.

The observers left the terminal in the past - during the wave of abductions in Gaza on the day the Israel Defense Forces raided the Palestinian jail in Jericho. The PA went to great lengths to mollify them. Through these attempts, it sent several delegations of Gaza children to the terminal to express Palestinian support for the observers.

But wait, there’s more. Here are some must-read articles on Hamas’ intentions. They consider themselves the vanguard of the global jihad that will bring back the Caliphate. Like Al Qaeda, they’re using drug profits to fund terrorism. And, of course, Hamas is unrepentantly anti-Israel.

And these are the people that the EU must “deliberate” about before deciding whether to cut off funds to the Hamas-controlled PA. These are the people that France is going to issue visas to so they can beg for funds from the Europeans to kill Jews — first — and then Europeans. Yes, we are considering giving them enough rope to hang us, if by “we” I mean “the idiots in the West who refuse to acknowledge the unreprentant murderers of Hamas,” and “the idiots who think that Hamas won’t come after them once Hamas has solved ‘the Jewish question’ for them.”

The IDF has declared Hamas cabinet ministers fair game if they are found to be responsible for terror operations.

A refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist and the Palestinian Authority’s continued support of terror activity has granted the IDF the legal right to target and strike the Hamas Palestinian leadership, a member of the IDF General Staff told The Jerusalem Post this week.

“This new reality, in which the PA supports terror, does not prevent terror and does not recognize Israel’s right to exist can legally allow for diplomatic and operational decisions that were not made in the past,” the officer said.
Hamas’s refusal to recognize previous agreements, including the Oslo Accords, signed by Israel and the PA, the officer said, constituted a “severe breach of contract” and placed the Palestinian leadership on the same footing as a terror group.

“If we used to make a distinction between the PA and terror groups,” the officer explained, “today we can make a legal distinction between the civilian population on the one hand, and the PA including the terror groups on the other.”

I wonder if that was the message that was being sent when a Hamas cabinet minister was arrested earlier:

Police released a minister in the Palestinians’ new Hamas government on Thursday morning after detaining him earlier in the day. It was the first time Israel has arrested a minister since the Cabinet was sworn in last week, Hamas officials said.

Khaled Abu Arafa, Minister of Jerusalem affairs, was detained for questioning along with his bodyguard when he was on his way to the town of Azariya, located between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Edumim, where he was planning to open an office, the Hamas officials said.

Israeli defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Abu Arafa had been taken into custody. The reason for the arrest, said a security establishment official, was that as a resident of east Jerusalem, Abu arafa was prohibited from entering the West Bank.

Wheels within wheels. And then we have yet more terror attacks thwarted:

Security services announced on Thursday that the IDF apprehended a Palestinian woman in Nablus on Wednesday who was on her way to carry out a suicide bombing in Israel.

One day earlier, a Palestinian man and woman who had planned to carry out a similar terror attack were also arrested in Nablus.

Say, I thought all those polls insist that the palestinians want peace with Israel.

WND people have interviewed one of the Hamas chiefs, he of the colored beard:

Known as the Hamas’ foremost thinker, Mohammad Abu Tir is apparently sure that he has got wise to one of the most secret Elders’ conspiracies:

“Even the churches where the Americans pray are led by Jews who were converted to Christianity, but they were converted to keep controlling the Americans,” Mohammad Abu Tir, the number two Hamas terrorist in the newly formed Palestinian Authority government said during an exclusive interview from his home yesterday with top radio host Rusty Humphries and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.

The naivete of Hamas scientists literally leaves me breathless. How many times should we explain that everything is controlled by the Elders?

Specifically about Christianity: this conspiracy was conceived, planned and carried out more than two thousand years ago. The main instrument of this conspiracy (which is not a conspiracy anymore, but Hamas still cannot realize this) was a Jew popularly known as Jesus. Anyone who ever heard about the so called “immaculate conception” should at least suspect that the Elders have had a hand (so to speak) in this deal.

So, dear Mohammad, you must understand that we, the Jooz, do not need to control the churches any more than they are already controlled.

Oh, and regarding these Jews “who were converted to keep controlling the Americans”: we do indeed keep an eye on goings on in the churches, but it is just routine monitoring. And it is not performed by Jews - we employ the semi-sentient lizards to do it. They can be easily identified, just check out the people who (seemingly) fall asleep during the sermon.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews