Because I need a cat picture to look at before going to bed, and because this one didn’t make it into the IFAQs post.

A new species of invertebrate animals that have been heretofore unknown to science have been discovered in Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced Tuesday.

Various politicians and members of Knesset deny that the report is based on their actions toward terrorism from Gaza.

Glenn Reynolds got a note from blogcorrespondent Bill Roggio arriving in Afghanistan with a some interesting observations about those riots in Kabul after a military vehicle had brake trouble and slammed into local traffic, killing a few natives…

The good news is I’ve safely landed in Kabul. The somewhat bad news is the UN flight to Kandahar is booked, so I will head down there on Monday. But there is plenty to do in Kabul, and I’ve already dug around a little bit about the violence in the city yesterday after a US vehicle killed 1 to 3 Afghans during a traffic accident. The consensus among the folks I spoke to is the protests after the accident were staged by groups waiting for such an event to happen. I made the comparison to the reaction by some Islamist groups in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) after the Muhammad Cartoon riots, where the “spontaneous protests” were anything but. there was agreement on this point. I will likely post about this tonight or tomorrow.

Planning violent riots just waiting for an excuse to launch them? Who’d have thunk up such a thing?

By Andrea Harris:

Rock music is not and can never be conservative. Don’t even try to argue with me, I’ll just whup you upside the head. Oh please, this is just pathetic — a pitiful illustration of no-longer-young people realizing that they are no longer cool, and desperately attempting to redefine the term “cool” to suit their current way of life. Look: just go ahead and listen to your old Motley Crüe tapes, and feel free to hang your framed Mudhoney poster on the wall of your living room. No one will take away your Republican Party card away just because you were young once, and you don’t have to pretend to be your grandfather to be considered a conservative.

The full post is well worth reading. Especially for people who think that “conservative” means “anything I like, because I’m a conservative so it must be conservative, too.”

Thank you, Andrea. Rock music. Conservative. Riiiiight.

The Scotsman, in one of the most outrageously anti-Israel pieces I’ve read in months.

We begin with scare quotes in the headline:

Israel kills four ‘militants’ in Gaza Strip night attack

The clear impression being: Israel says these guys were “militants,” they were probably innocent little palis just out for a midnight stroll.

ISRAELI forces raided the Gaza Strip early today, killing four Palestinians they claimed were Islamic Jihad militants who planned to fire rockets

It was the first time the army had ventured so deep into the area since the withdrawal in September..

The scare quotes are gone, but the use of the word “claim” is clearly intended to make the reader doubt the Israeli version.
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Natfhe conference supports blacklist of Israeli academics, says Engage.

Conference invites members to consider their own responsibility for ensuring equity and non-discrimination in contacts with Israeli educational institutions or individuals and to consider the appropriateness of a boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies.

On one hand - who gives a flying donut? On the other - that “boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies” reminds too vividly this picture:

Of course, most of the Natfhe dumbos that voted for this resolution may be too young to remember and too stupid to understand.

I am waiting now for a notice about an e-mail address and a phone number where I could report a few closet Zionists that still support and condone secretly, while dissociating publicly.

Also - where does one get some politically correct ash to sprinkle on one’s head while dissociating? And what is the correct way to tear one’s clothes while going at it?

Questions, questions…

Update: I cannot avoid adding the following quote from the Guardian report:

…said Tom Hickey, a philosophy lecturer from the University of Brighton, member of the union’s national executive committee and proposer of the motion. “Turning a blind eye to what an Israeli colleague thinks [sic!] about the actions of their government is a culpable blindness.”

Priceless! Even good ole Joseph did not go into the suspects’ thought process…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Donald Macintyre of Independent reports from Jerusalem:

Meanwhile three Palestinians were killed and at least four wounded in an Israeli air force missile strike late last night on a sector of northern Gaza reportedly used for the launching of Qassam missiles.

Need to get your sorry ass from Jerusalem hotels and move around more, Donald: here is what Haaretz reports:

IDF special forces troops, operating deep in Gaza in a rare Israeli ground operation inside the Strip, killed at least three members of an Islamic Jihad Qassam crew setting up to fire rockets into Israel early on Tuesday.

And here is the picture:

And here is the caption to that picture (by AP, lest somebody claims Zionist manipulation of the media):

Gazans removing the body of a member of a Qassam crew killed early Tuesday by IDF troops as he prepared to fire a rocket into Israel. (AP)

Now go back to the text by Mr. Macintyre. Notice his skillful avoidance of any term, even the usual “militant” is missing.

Duh.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.