Jeff Goldstein went undercover to see if people were more amenable to Jew-hatred from the left or the right.

It’s an absolutely hilarious video. Doesn’t matter if you like Goldstein or not, he’s wonderful in this.

If Jeff would stick to this sort of thing and dump the anti-feminist posts, I’d probably read him a lot more regularly again.

There is no such word as “irregardless.”

It doesn’t matter how many times you use it. It’s still not a word.

Or, to put it another way: Irrespective of the frequency of the use of “irregardless,” it is still not a word—regardless of what some people think.

Alas, I am back from the North Carolina Outer Banks and back in the non-vacationing world. We had a wonderful time, and are planning to do it again next year.

A few pictures, so I can look at them and sigh longingly.

Dogs allowed

Girl talk.

We walked the dogs on the beach in the evening, when there were fewer people around. The girls generally tagged behind, looking for shells and talking.

It was a good time. Too short, though. Next year, the full week. Next year, it’ll be a much more planned vacation, and hopefully, a paid one. Temping really sucks in that respect—I don’t work, I don’t get paid. Not in this job, anyway. My previous one had much better benefits. I accrued a certain amount of time per hours worked, and could start taking it after a month.

Oh, well. Perhaps Large Company will change its mind and make me a permanent employee soon. Hey, I have another Outer Banks vacation to plan, and I need to buy a few more beach items. I want my own boogie board. And some kind of raft or tube. I told Heidi what I want to do next year is get a floating lounge chair and jury-rig an anchor for it, then float it out past the breakers and just lie there and enjoy the ocean. She laughed and said that would be fine, until the next day, when I’d be in agony from the sunburn.

Okay, so next year, I’ll spend some time outdoors first. Got a bit burned yesterday, and last night wasn’t the most comfortable sleep I’ve ever had. Between the sunburn and the cats yowling at me because I was back home, I didn’t get much sleep. Oh, right. I’m writing this Thursday night and it will post on Friday morning sometime. The wonders of scheduled posting.

Not content to kill Lebanese through the willful use of them as human shields in Hezbollah’s war on Israel, Bashar Assad is now strangling their recovery by cutting off electricity:

Syria has cited technical problems for its decision to cut power supplies to Lebanon, which was already suffering from severe electricity rationing after the outbreak of hostilities last month, Syrian and Lebanese officials said Friday.

The Syrian office for the production and transport of electricity had informed the state-run Lebanese electricity company that “it cannot ensure supplies anymore,” because of technical problems with its own power grid.

There was speculation the electricity supply cut was an attempt by Damascus to pressure the Lebanese not to comply with the Israeli demand.

When Jews cut off electricity to Arabs as political pressure, it’s a crime against humanity and every nation and NGO shrieks bloody murder.

But when Arabs willfully cut off electricity to other Arabs as political pressure, it’s just “technical difficulties.”

Oh, and making the Lebanese dependent on Syrian electrical power isn’t a form of occupation and dominance while Palestinians dependent on Israeli electrical power is.

See how that works?

American military supports Israel: Looks like not all of our ex-military big guns are anti-Israel. Check out this ad in the Sun.

A former Soviet general says Islamic terrorism was created and executed by the Soviet Union, and details many terrorist attacks that were sponsored by the KGB. He says Russia essentially fomented Jew-hatred to create an American enemy in the Middle East after losing so badly in the Six-Day War. I remain somewhat skeptical as to his claims of the Soviets originating it. Yasser Arafat grew up hating Jews, and the Middle East sheltered Nazi war criminals long before 1967. However, there’s no denying the Russian fingerprints in the Middle East, then and now.

On September 11, 2001, President Vladimir Putin became the first leader of a foreign country to express sympathy to President George W. Bush for what he called “these terrible tragedies of the terrorist attacks.” Soon, however, Putin began moving his country back into the terrorist business. In March 2002, he quietly reinstituted sales of weapons to Iran’s terrorist dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei, and engaged Russia in the construction of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor at Bushehr, with a uranium conversion facility able to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. Hundreds of Russian technicians also started helping the government of Iran to develop the Shahab-4 missile, with a range of over 1,250 miles, which can carry a nuclear or germ warhead anywhere in the Middle East and Europe.

Iran’s current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had already announced that nothing could stop his country from building nuclear weapons, and he stated that Israel was a “disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world” that would be eliminated. During World War II, 405,399 Americans died to eradicate Nazism and its anti-Semitic terrorism. Now we are facing Islamic fascism and nuclear anti-Semitic terrorism. The United Nations can offer no hope. It has not yet even been able to define terrorism.

Hat tip: Lt. Smash.

Sorry, I’m not interested in the Indian restaurant with the Hitler theme. It disgusts me too much. Go read LGF if you want the information; you won’t find it here. However, just for that, I’ll be calling the city Bombay from now on. Because it will get me more attention to not use its Indian name.

Israel ups the ante: More nuclear-capable subs are on the way from Germany.

With the purchase of two more German-made Dolphin submarines capable of carrying nuclear warheads, military experts say Israel is sending a clear message to Iran that it can strike back if attacked by nuclear weapons.

The purchases come at a time when Iran is refusing to bow to growing Western demands to halt its nuclear program, and after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

The new submarines, built at a cost of $1.3 billion with Germany footing one-third of the bill, have diesel-electric propulsion systems that allow them to remain submerged for longer periods of time than the three nuclear arms-capable submarines already in Israel’s fleet, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The latest submarines not only would be able to carry out a first strike should Israel choose to do so, but they also would provide Israel with crucial second-strike capabilities, said Paul Beaver, a London-based independent defense analyst.

Israel is already believed to have that ability in the form of the Jericho-1 and Jericho-2 nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, which are buried so far underground they would survive a nuclear strike, he said.

Good. But will it stop the madman who wants to murder the world’s Jews?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would “sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel,” Giora Eiland, Israel’s former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

At present, Eiland stressed, the ultimate decision maker in Iran was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 67, whom he said was “more reasonable.” But, Eiland went on, “if Ahmadinejad were to succeed him - and he has a reasonable chance of doing so - then we’d be in a highly dangerous situation.”

The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, “has a religious conviction that Israel’s demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that’s a real threat.”

He needs to be assassinated, if you ask me. Too bad we don’t do that anymore.

Oh, look. Hezbullah is threatening Lebanese Christians. Watch the world ignore this.

Jacques Chirac, ever a friend to Israel, says 15,000 peacekeepers is too many.

PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that he does not believe the expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon needs 15,000 troops, and he called that figure “excessive.”

A U.N. resolution calls for the force in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, to expand from 2,000 troops to 15,000.

Chirac, who has pledged a total of 2,000 French troops, said the territory in question was too small to require that many peacekeepers.

You know, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard that excuse used before.