It is up, and I have a new question for you all: Do I sound like Ellen DeGeneres to you? One of the guys at work says my voice sounds like hers. He says especially in the way I talk, as in the inflections, or speech pattern, I suppose. I can see a tiny commonality, but not much more than that.

Meanwhile:

This week we don’t have a feature interview as President George Bush didn’t return our calls. We wanted to ask him what he thought about the Dhimmification of Europe and the US. But I guess we’ll just have to wait. Instead Tom Paine talks about the 1940s Noel Coward/David Lean movie ‘In Which We Serve’.

In BlogNews this week we go first to the TimeOut Magazine article “Is London’s Future Islamic?”. Iowahawk managed to find a first draft of this piece entitled “London’s Swinging like a Scimitar” but frankly the original is a parody of itself.

This week’s weird Fatwa can be found at Little Green Footballs. Read it and weep. The Guardian’s piece about Tony Blair is here: Blair launches fund to improve teaching of Islam.

The Terror Finance blog has the piece about Tariq Ramadan assaulting people in France.

This week Damian goes after Che Guevara and mentions the following post from Mucracked!. Damian’s Blog can be found here.

Meryl is on fine form and talking about Ahamdinejad and Israel.

(I didn’t write that. Brian or Tom did.)

Okay, this is cool. I had no idea I had so many inbound links, but apparently, it’s up over 280,000.

You can have a real blogwar there, and find out which of your favorite bloggers have more or fewer inbound links than I. There’s a blogger—I won’t name names—that I thought was more popular than I. Turns out, not so much. Ha!

Yep. Ego. I’ve still got it.

This song was running in my head tonight, and I had to hear it.

Say what you will about Grey’s Anatomy, but damn, they make good music videos.

By the way, Isaiah Washington has been fired. He ticked off the gay mafia in Hollywood. You’d think that an actor would know better than to do something that stupid. Plus, well, he’s had anger issues on every show he’s been on. Bummer for Christina, though. Oh, well. That leaves her and Alex. Now what a weird match that would be.

By the way, best episodes of the year—the ones with Meredith talking to all the dead people from last season—written by Marti Noxon, veteran of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I look forward to more by her hand. She’s good.

You simply cannot make this stuff up. It’s comedy gold.

Iran has filed an official complaint with the United Nations Security Council criticizing statements made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz regarding the possibility of a military attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities.

[...] The protest came in response to statements made by Mofaz during a visit to Washington last week, heading an Israeli delegation that held strategic discussions with the US dealing mostly with the Iranian nuclear threat.

At a press conference, Mofaz responded to a reporter’s question by saying that “the military option is included in all the options that are on the table…”

The complaint also refers to an interview that Prime Minister Olmert gave the German publication Focus. The letter quotes Olmert as saying: “Nobody is ruling it out…It is impossible perhaps to destroy the entire nuclear program but it would be possible to damage it in such a way that it would be set back years… It would take 10 days and 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles.”

Next, Iran files a complaint with the UN titled, “I’m rubber, you’re glue.”

Reuters, in a reckless streak of openness tells the story:

The Palestinian journalists’ union criticised militants on Sunday for using a vehicle marked with a “TV” sign to approach Gaza’s border with Israel and attack an Israeli military position across the frontier. One militant was killed in Saturday’s attack, jointly claimed by Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah faction. The Israeli military said none of its soldiers was hurt.

“The use of vehicles that carry ‘Press’, ‘TV’ or other signs … expose journalists’ lives to danger, gives the Israeli occupation a pretext to target and kill journalists and restricts their ability to perform their professional and national duties,” the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate said.

So far so mundane - after all, this is not the first time a vehicle with ‘Press’ sign or an ambulance carries brave “freedom fighters”. But here comes the punch line:

Abu Ahmed, spokesman for Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, accused the Israeli military of fixing the TV sign to the armored car.

Truth, apparently, is in the eyes of the beholder. Here are some samples of another Zionist conspiracy. I have to say: them Zionist Hasbara bandits have done a quick paint job this time!

And, as a matter of routine, this attack on the crossing must trigger a series of UN inquiries and protests of the closed border check posts. Stands to reason.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

I’m in and out of meetings much of today, and driving back and forth to northern VA. Here are a few things to keep you busy while I’m busy.

We’ll stop when you stop: Olmert says the IDF will continue to operate in Gaza as long as the rockets keep falling on Sderot. Yeah, I’ve heard that one before. Wake me when they put on a new reel.

USAF and IAF, together again for the first time: Gee. What on earth could American and Israeli pilots be training together for? (Osirak) I really can’t figure out the answer to that one. (Osirak) I wonder if there was any sort of event recently that makes this event particularly auspicious? (Osirak) June seventh, June seventh, why do I keep thinking of that date? And 1981? (Osirak) Eh. It’ll come to me eventually.

Indoctrinate U.: Hamas is doing its best to make Gaza and the West Bank an Islamic theocracy, starting with making the schools more Islamic. In other words, in a few years the Palestinians are going to hate Israelis even more than they do now. That’s hard to believe, and yet, I do believe it. Read it and weep.

Voting with their feet: Palestinians are emigrating from the terrortories in such high numbers that their religious leaders are issuing fatwas against emigrating like their 50-80,000 brothers have done. Say, fellas, don’t let the door hit you in the ass! Buh-bye! Seeya!

Well, this made Bibi’s day: Looks like Netanyahu may get a second chance at running Israel. Bibi will beat all the opposition in an election, according to the latest poll. This time, Bibi, can you lay off the corruption?

I see you: Israel has just launched another spy satellite. Any guess as to where this one will be concentrating? Iran? Ya think?

Right. Feel free to put your own suggested reading in the comments to this post.

Something tells me that fabled “red line” has been crossed. The war has reached Ismail Haniyeh’s house. Too bad it didn’t reach Haniyeh.

Clashes re-erupted in Gaza early Monday when gunmen opened fire in the house of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack on Haniyeh’s house in the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City. It was the first time in a month of infighting that Haniyeh was an apparent target, underlining an escalation in tactics by the warring sides.

At least three Palestinians were killed in gun battles between Fatah and Hamas combatants in the Gaza Strip Sunday.

Among the casualties was the imam of a Hamas-affiliated mosque, who was executed by Fatah gunmen.

Earlier Palestinian sources reported that a member of Fatah’s Force 17 plummeted to his death Sunday after being thrown by Hamas gunmen from the 15th floor of a Gaza City high-rise.

The AP titles their piece on the fighting, “Grisly Palestinian Infighting Flares.” Yeah, “infighting.” Like it’s the two most popular girls in school running for Homecoming Queen, not, say, the murder of civilians who get in the way of murdering your enemy.

Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings.

I’m wondering if Hamas has decided to start saving bullets by throwing Fatah terrorists off buildings instead. But no, probably not. It’s just another war crime that Amnesty International neglects to include in their report on the terrortories, since Israel isn’t the one doing the killing. Witness:

In an especially grisly incident, Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security force, took him to the roof of a 15-story apartment building and threw him off. Mohammed Sweirki, 25, from the Presidential Guard of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, was killed in the plunge.

That set off skirmishes through the city, including gun battles and shelling. Fatah militants surrounded the house of a Hamas mosque preacher and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the four-story building. They then entered, shooting at preacher Mohammed al-Rifati, 40, and taking him away. Later, his body was brought to a hospital. Hamas pledged revenge.

Let’s see, throwing a man off a building, firing at a mosque, murdering a religious man. Where is the world outrage that we saw during the siege of the Church of the Nativity, when dozens of terrorists held the Christian priests captive while the IDF surrounded the church?

Oh, wait. I keep forgetting. When Israel or America does it, it’s a war crime. When Hamas or Fatah does it, it’s “infighting.”

Once again, we here at Yourish.com are rooting for both Hamas and Fatah to win. Kill as many of each other as you can, please. Leave no rival terrorist alive! The thanks of a grateful nation will be yours. The nation will be Israel, but hey—trust me, they’ll be grateful.