I have ‘em.

I’d like to lose them, please.

The doldrums, not the carnivals.

Haveil Havalim

Carnival of the Cats

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A smallish article in JP attracted my wandering attention:

Iranian artillery fired more than 180 shells into northern Iraq, targeting Kurdish rebel bases, the Iraqi government said Sunday. The shells landed near the Iraqi village of Haj Omran, which is about five kilometers (three miles) inside the Iraqi-Iranian border, Iraq’s Ministry of Defense said.

I have searched for other articles or a commentary on this one, but aside of the Kurdish source (also with reference to AP), couldn’t find any. No indignant peacemongers, no governments’ opinions, no NGO’s raising their strong, albeit reedy, voices in protest against the obviously unlawful and hardly friendly act by a sovereign nation toward its neighbor. Aside of Kamal Karkouki, deputy speaker of parliament for the Kurdish regional administration, that is.

The most intriguing question: where are all the human right groups in Iran and why don’t they follow suit of their Israeli and Palestinian colleagues? Hmm…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

AP’s recent story titled Bahrain Sees Ties With Iran Eventually
has nothing to do with relations with Iran.

It’s about Bahrain’s relations with Israel and the Bahraini Ambassador’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions:

“We feel very unsafe. We are not sure that something like Chernobyl will not happen again,” Al Belooshi said. “We would like to see a more united front against Iran. The United States is leading the charge, and other countries should follow.”

The AP’s shown sloppy editorial control over headlines, stories, and photo captions. What’s next? Out-of-focus photography, or leaving the lenscap on?

Finally, a verbal barrage against Iran from the Israeli side. It’s about time they started gettting “Hitler” and “Ahmadinejad” in the same sentence. That bastard keeps on diminishing the Holocaust. Time to remind the world that it happened, and he wants to see it happen twice.

In a recent interview with German daily Bild Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched a scathing attack against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referring to the Iranian president as a “psychopath” and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

“He is a psychopath of the worst kind,” Olmert was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

“He speaks as Hitler did in his time of the extermination of the entire Jewish nation.”

Well, yes. And it’s about time more people started pointing this out. Loudly.