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After a fun-filled weekend at Chris and Janet’s in an undisclosed location in Northern VA, I am home, rather tired, and looking around at the housecleaning that will be postponed another day or two (at least).

It was a beautiful day yesterday, so we took the top off the Jeep and drove out to Leesburg, where I did not say a discouraging word in spite of the fact that there was a [eyeroll, please] channeling class going on in the New Age shop where we visited a mutual friend. The most negative thing I said was that if I’d found that shop twenty years earlier, I probably would have spent a couple hundred dollars for various dragony, glass-orb, and other fantasy objects, while still rolling my eyes at all the [kaff] supplies for witches and warlocks. One thing I did not take a picture of, or even comment on, was a sign saying “Black Salt–anti Jinx!” on plastic bags of, yes, black salt.

Boggles my mind that people actually believe this stuff.

I’m telling you, if I were less honest, I’d be a gazillionaire by now, because I would have started a religion that would make the scientologists look like pikers, and I’d have done it without the blackmail and the threats and the copyrighted materials and the killing people from neglect.

You don’t need to hurt people to screw them out of their money. You only need to give them a reason they find, well, reasonable.

People are starving for answers. Maybe I should start charging for them.

In any case. We had a lovely weekend, and I’m going to eat dinner made up of food I bought at Wegman’s yesterday, one of the places we stopped.

Oh. And go see the Simpsons Movie. If you like the Simpsons, or ever liked the Simpsons, or think you might like the Simpsons, you will love this movie. It is very, very funny (funnier if you’re a Simpsons fan). And stay for the credits. All of them.

It doesn’t matter where you turn, Arabs simply refuse to acknowledge the sins of their people when it comes to terrorism. Here we have an Arab Israeli man claiming that not only did his son not steal a gun from a security guard and use it to try to murder Israelis, but when confronted with incontrovertible video evidence, he says that the evidence is a fake.

Surveillance tapes showing Ahmad Khatib grabbing a weapon from a security guard and firing it repeatedly during a pursuit in Jerusalem’s Old City last Friday were doctored by the police, said father Mahmoud Khatib during a Sunday memorial service for his son.

Ahmad Khatib, according to videotapes, seized a gun from a guard of the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva and fired it repeatedly before being shot down by the security guard chasing him. But many of the shooter’s friends and family have asserted his innocence, some saying that the incident was a complete fabrication.

And who, pray tell, would be behind this fake video?

According to Mahmoud Khatib, it is significant that the incident took place next to the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva which he said is housed by “extreme people who try to take over Muslim Jerusalem by buying houses.”

Wow. “Extreme” Jews are taking over Muslim Jerusalem by the horrible act of buying houses legally! Oh. My. God. Quick, call the UN! And of course, there is the inevitable call for “justice.” Because it isn’t justice, you see, if the proof shows his son perpetrating a terror attack.

The shooter’s father claimed that the investigation into the incident was not conducted in a proper and unbiased manner, and demanded a new investigation headed by a neutral source. “I am only looking for justice,” he said.

What would be a proper and unbiased manner? What “neutral” source? Gee, let me think… Nope. Can’t get a better one than the Israeli police. The Shin Bet is taking over the investigation. Look for more whines of bias.