Nothing will come of this.

But two nights ago on CBS’ overnight feed on Showtime Networks, a player named Amber Siyavus Tomcavage stirred things up. The 27-year-old Las Vegas cocktail waitress must have forgotten that the cameras were on when she — under her breath — had a long discourse with housemate Jameka about “the Jews.” Her mother must be so proud.

The essence of Amber’s complaint? That Jews she has met were “bad” people and you could tell them by either their noses or their names. Jameka, who professes to be a Christian, made no reaction to Amber’s declaration. None of the footage has been shown on CBS’ broadcast so far, but it’s all over the Internet.

Nothing.

Unless your rant against Jews includes mentioning your very powerful (Jewish) boss by name, or you are a proven member of a neo-Nazi party trying to pass along your filth to college students, you will not be fired for anti-Semitic remarks. You will not be penalized for anti-Semitism. In spite of CAIR’s lies to the contrary, it is anti-Semitism—not “Islamophobia”—that is the one “ism” still allowed. To find that some braindead wannabe from Vegas who apparently wasn’t even hot enough for the strip club circuit is anti-Semitic is both unsurprising and a bit of a yawn.

Oh, sure, it pisses me off. All anti-Semitism bothers me. But this bimbo reminds me of no one so much as the stupid piece of crap at a party I attended years ago, who, right after admiring the largesse of Donald Trump bestowing a fist-sized rock of an engagement ring on Ivana, turned around and dissed Jackie Mason for giving his fiancee a big engagement ring, complete with a “Those Jews and their money” ignorant rant, and utterly missing the hypocrisy of her anti-Semitism.

Nothing came of that, either. Well, I did get a very silent, very pointed fuckyou moment a bit later. My cousin prevented me from going off on the idiot, begging me not to make a scene. I did, and walked away. (This was many years ago.) But I also took my Star of David, which had slid inside my buttoned top, out of the shirt, making sure it was now displaying openly. I saw the anti-Semite in the backyard and pointedly walked up to her, probably glaring. I am not subtle when I am angry. I said nothing, just stood there for a long moment. Her eyes moved to my Star of David. She said nothing, either. She dropped her glance and walked away. The cowards always do, when confronted with the truth of their ignorance, or a chance to say it again, this time, when they know a Jew is listening.

Our little Vegas strip-club wannabe probably never had the nerve to say anything negative about Jews to Jews, either, and will probably not suffer anything at all for her little “slip.”

Yes, the Yuckitude Scale™ has maxed out.

Richmond tied its record high temperature for the date at 12:54 p.m. today when the mercury hit 100 degrees. The record was set in 1977.

Now we go to our cat in the street, for the all-important cat-in-the-street interview.

Say, Tigger, it’s 100 degrees in the shade on your patio. What do you think of the heat?

Thank you, Mr. Tig.

It’s 98 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade of my patio, and Tig couldn’t be happier. That Magical Maine Coon Cat Coat, the one that insulates summer or winter, keeps him napping all afternoon when the local stations are issuing extreme heat warnings on the crawls below their afternoon shows.

I’m going to have to issue an extreme laziness warning.

It should hit triple digits sometime this afternoon, with the heat index about about 110-115. Sarah and I discussed this in our own meteorological terms. We have decided that yesterday was about an 8 on the Yuckitude Scale™, and that only triple digit temperatures could make it a 10.

Forecast for today: 10 on the Yuckitude Scale™, leading to Extreme Yuckitude and cautions to remain in waist-deep water if at all possible.

(All bloggers using the Yuckitude Scale™ must link back to this post as payment of my Yuckiright™ fee.)

This Ha’aretz article purports to be about a missile defense, but it’s chock-full of what Ehud Barak thinks is wrong with the current processes of the IDF, and how they can be fixed. This is why I point out that the IDF is a thinking army, and why I maintain my optimism about Israel’s defense capability.

Though Barak has declined to say so explicitly or to point an accusing finger at anyone, he has been unpleasantly surprised by what he has discovered about the Israel Defense Forces’ preparedness in the weeks since his return to the Defense Ministry. At a meeting Tuesday with reservists from an armored brigade, one tank gunner told him that his current reserve duty is the first time he has seen an actual shell in five years. “No one will wait five years before the next exercise,” promised Barak, who believes that live-fire exercises are critical, as they are the closest thing to real combat.

Last week, Barak met with a group of brigade commanders and was surprised to hear some of them say that during last summer’s Lebanon war, they had faced difficult dilemmas when they weighed the “value of their missions” against the danger to soldiers’ lives. Barak, like other former generals, has been critical of some units’ failure to stick to their missions during that war, and he told the brigade commanders that this is not an issue they should even consider during wartime. A single brigade commander, he explained, lacks a clear picture of the entire front, and must therefore act on the assumption that his superiors have good reason for their orders.

Each commander, he added, must behave as if the outcome of the war depends on his actions alone.

Barak has also met recently with several of the retired officers who led the army’s in-house probes into the Second Lebanon War. Based on these meetings and his studies of the material, he has concluded that the biggest problem was the enormous difference between a real war and counterterrorism activity in the territories, coupled with the lack of an “institutional memory”: Israel’s last real war occurred 24 years ago, and the IDF no longer has any officers who remember what that was like.

Operations to arrest wanted terrorists, for instance, are often halted in the middle if a soldier is wounded, as evacuating him is considered to take priority. In war, however, such conduct would be beyond the pale: An assault must continue even if the unit suffers casualties.

It sounds like Ehud Barak can fix things, if he doesn’t start running for office right away and sticks to managing the defense portfolio.

There are two less Hamas terrorists in the world today.

Two Palestinian gunmen, members of Hamas’ military wing, were killed by Golani troops Wednesday morning near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip. There were no injuries among the soldiers.

The IDF reported that the force entered the Strip after spotting the gunmen. An exchange of fire erupted shortly afterwards and the two gunmen were killed.

At least Hamas is no longer pretending that they want anything other than the destruction of Israel. Fatah’s peace is a lie.

Meanwhile, an IDF soldier was lightly wounded in a separate incident in Nablus early Wednesday, as two explosive devices and gunshots were aimed at IDF forces operating in the city.

Another explosive device and two Molotov cocktails were hurled at troops near the village of Beit Omar, south of Bethlehem.

On Tuesday night, the IDF arrested 13 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank. Six were arrested in the Nablus area, and one was arrested in Jenin. Two gunmen were arrested in the Ramallah area and four were apprehended in Bethlehem.

I note once again that those arrests and attacks are all taking part in the West Bank, where a supposed “truce” is taking place.

Uh-huh.