I’ve been remiss, but Lair hasn’t. PETA Is Full of Crap has been back in business for weeks.

March 15 is IEATAPETA Day, or EATAPETA Day, whichever you prefer.

Here’s the history. A funny post by Lair on why you should eat animals with other people. This category, where you can read your fill on the history of EATAPETAs past, and on letters from angry vegans. Let me state now, as always, that I do not in any way condone cruelty to animals. I do, however, condone making fun of PETA, which has a higher kill rate than any animal shelter in Virginia, I think—at all times. (Fair warning: That link is from an organization sponsored by, gee, restaurant and food lobbies. If you know your sources, you can use them wisely.)

Meat. It’s what for dinner, tonight. And many other nights.

I just bought myself a Crock Pot. I think I may make a pot roast for EATAPETA Day. Depends on whether or not I find some fellow Richmonders who have time for dinner out on a Thursday night. There’s a steakhouse on Parham Road that I’m fond of.

In any case, start thinking about how you’re going to prepare your feasts, and discuss them in the comments!

I told you, the moment that book hit the presses, that it would feed into the insane Jew-hatred that suffuses the world. I said the David Dukes and the Jew-hating Muslims would leap on it as an authoritative source, proof that the Blood Libel is true.

I was right.

Interviewer: What is this story of the blood matza, which some authors – even Arab ones – say is anti-Semitic lies and nonsense, while others say it is true?

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: Unfortunately, some Arabs want to be holier than the Pope…

Interviewer: A journalist like Salah ‘Issa, for example, wrote in Nahdhat Masr that we don’t need to decide whether the blood matza story was true or not, but that we should examine how we deal strategically with the Jews and the Israelis in the 21st century.

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: That’s true, but it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t deal with such issues. Let’s not forget that the West in its entirety globally celebrated Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. So why shouldn’t we do the same? I called for a Nobel Prize to be awarded to the Israeli Jewish historian, the son of the chief rabbi of Rome…

Interviewer: He’s the son of the chief rabbi of Italy…

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: He’s the son of the chief rabbi of Rome, who is still alive at 90 years of age.

Interviewer: He wrote Bloody Passover, the book we are discussing.

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: This man proved scientifically and objectively… He’s an academic, who heads the department of Jewish history at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University. We are not talking about an amateur, a fraud, or someone looking to get famous. We are talking about an academic, who follows scientific and objective principles. He reached the conclusion that there was indeed a group of extremist Jews, who used to slaughter Christian children, and to collect their blood in order to make the Passover matza. It had to be a child who had not reached puberty. They would abduct him, and put him into a barrel designed for this purpose, which had holes in the sides at the place of the arteries. They would insert iron skewers through the barrel, and make the boy’s blood flow that way. Then they would collect the blood, and use it for Passover. Some sources in Jewish halacha say that preparing a single matza on Passover this way is sufficient for all the Jews. Others believe that such matzos should be prepared in each country separately.

Interviewer: They sacrifice Christian children… When was it? In what century?

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: It has been substantiated since the Middle Ages.

Interviewer: Since then?

Muhammad Al-Buheiri: Yes.

Thanks so much, moron, for adding fuel to the paranoid conspiracy theorists of the world, who would rather believe that a conspiracy of Zionists rule the world than the fact that their society sucks, partly due to their insistence on shutting down scientific investigation due to its being “un-Islamic,” and partly because they insist on not using fifty percent of their assets, namely, women. No, it’s not the fact that your rulers are thieves, dictators, psychopaths, and megalomaniacs. It’s not the fact that you insist democracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s not the fact that you keep on driving out your best thinkers and doers by your medieval behavior.

It’s the Jews.

Yes. It must be the Jews. There can be no other explanation—that causes you to look in the mirror.

One more time, it’s the Yourish.com mantra: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already.

Addendum: It’s been pointed out to me that I should explain exactly why the blood libel is such a load of crap to the people who read this post, but won’t follow the link to the definition. Here it is in a nutshell:

The use of blood is absolutely forbidden in Jewish law. It is one of the 613 mitzvot, the commandments Moses received on Mount Sinai. This is a fact that is always—always—ignored by the Jew-haters who want to feed their ignorant followers with conspiratorial theories about Jews.

We are not allowed to consume blood. That is why animals slaughtered for kosher meat are immediately drained of blood. That is why we use salt in the kashering process, to remove any possible remaining blood from the animal. To repeat: Blood is not kosher. Not. At. All. No Jew who calls himself a Jew would deliberately add it to the preparation of any food. The so-called “evidence” quoted above was obtained from torture. Every other historian who has written about it has discounted the evidence. For some reason, Toaff seems to think that confessions extracted via torture are valid—contrary to every other historian consulted. And of course, the Jew-haters latch onto this as “evidence” that the “conspiracy” is breaking.

No, it’s just evidence that Ariel Toaff is an idiot.

The ingredients of traditional matzoh are simple: Flour and water. Even Wikipedia gets that right. Too bad the Jew-haters aren’t that smart.

So, gee, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear The Man Who Would Be Hitlerblaming Israel and the U.S. for all the world’s problems. And where did he say this? In Sudan. Sudan. The irony of the moment is making even God wince, I think.

Iran’s president blamed the United States and Israel for the world’s problems Thursday in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan.

[...] In his lecture Thursday titled “Iran and the World,” the hardline president reiterated arguments that he has made repeatedly throughout the standoff with the United States and its Western allies over Iran’s nuclear activities.

“There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless America or the Zionists’ fingerprints are seen there,” Ahmadinejad told his audience in Farsi translated into Arabic.

Right. Because it’s all those Americans and Zionists in Darfur that are murdering hundreds of thousands of people. It’s that Zionist Janjaweed.

Sometimes, the news really makes you sick. This is one of those times.

Tzipi Livni said to an Arab newspaper what we’ve been saying on this blog for years: The Saudi so-called peace initiative, which includes the return of all palestinian refugees to Israel, is nothing less than a thinly-disguised plan for the destruction of the Jewish state by less than explosive means.

It’s impossible for Israel to accept the Arab peace initiative in its current version, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Palestinian newspaper al-Ayyam in an interview Thursday. She was referring to an initiative agreed upon at an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002.

The foreign minister said that the current version of the initiative was primarily problematic due to its references to the right of return.

On the very day the Saudi initiative was reported in the New York Times, I was interviewed by an Israeli radio station and said that this initiative could be a good starting point (for the peace process), said Livni.

Later, they went to Beirut and added new phrases that made the initiative unacceptable from an Israeli standpoint. They added clauses stating that Palestinian refugees cannot be settled in areas where they currently reside, Livni explained.

And here’s our buddy Saab Erekat, lying through his teeth:

“The Arab peace initiative addressed an agreed upon solution to the refugee problem. What more does she want? I wonder,” he said.

The Israelis never agreed to it. It is a plan to destroy Israeli by demographics, by including third-generation palestinians born in other nations as refugees. And, once again, nobody ever mentions the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who were residents of those same Arab nations that are demanding Israel let the heirs of the refugees return. Sure. When you let 600,000 Israelis and their families back in the Arab nations, and restore to them their families’ wealth that you stole. Then we’ll call it even.

Livni also had something to say about the Europeans who are willing to accept the Mecca deal, which did absolutely nothing for Israel and was only made as a way to stop the civil war and create a cover for funds to be distributed to the PA again:

Regarding European nations, such as France and Russia, who had praised the Mecca deal, Livni said that perhaps a few nations prefer to be done with the issue and say that the Mecca deal conforms to the principles of the international community.

Ouch. That has to hurt.

Liking this woman more and more.

So it turns out that Fisk lied again, by jumping the gun with accusations that were utterly unfounded, and ultimately disproven, about Israel using depleted uranium. Who cleared Israel? The Lebanese.

The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission has ruled that no toxic radioactive materials were found in the areas bombed by Israel during the recent war , following a series of accusations and suspicions regarding the shells and weapons used by the Israel Defense Forces.

The ruling, based on laboratory tests, was presented during a scientific symposium on nuclear energy held in Lebanon on Monday. The symposium was aimed at informing the Lebanese public of lab tests carried out on more than 100 sites bombed during the war.

I will breathlessly await Robert Fisk’s retraction.

Yes, yes, I know. I’ll wait a long, long time for that.