And this is far too funny to pass up. Although the one on the pole is a trifle disturbing.

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Via Sarah.

After that last post, I think we need a kitty break.

This was taken on February 2nd. That box, by the way, is one of my boxes of Passover dishes. I decided I didn’t want cat hair in all the Pesach dishes, so I covered that one up and put an empty box there instead, with steps up so that he could get into it easily. I thought I took pictures of Tig in that box, but I can’t find them, so I guess I didn’t. Too bad. They were pretty cute pictures.

The new cat search goes on. There’s a woman out near Dahlgren that runs a home for cats who says she has two young adults that would probably work for me. I may visit this weekend. Depends on how things go. There’s also a possibility of a Maine coon kitten. I can’t decide which I’d rather go with—a cat whose personality is already developed, or one that develops as we go along. Either way, Miss Gracie is going to have to get used to having another cat around again.

I’m sorry, but I have only one answer to this:

Russia’s foreign minister called on Friday for an end to the blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and demanded that Israel halt settlement activity in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Sergey Lavrov said it was “unacceptable” for Gaza to be afflicted with the blockade, which was imposed by Israel and Egypt after the Islamic militants of Hamas seized control of the coastal territory last June from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement.

“The siege should stop so the Palestinian people in the strip could lead normal lives,” Lavrov said at a news conference in Ramallah with Abbas, whose Palestinian administration governs the West Bank.

The single word: Chechnya.

Chechnya, you effing hypocrites. Chechnya, you effing sons of bitches. Chechnya, you effing piles of dog crap that oppressed your Jews for centuries, and in modern times, kept your Jews hostage for decades. Chechnya, you anti-Semitic bastards who wrote the forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and even today are passing the blood libel freely around.

Okay, so maybe that was more than a single word. But eff off, Russia. You’ve done enough damage to the Jews. You backed the Arabs from the 1950s on. You sent Russian soldiers and pilots to fight against Jews in 1967 and 1973. You trained the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Iraqis, the terrorists—and you are today helping Iran to get nuclear weapons.

Chechnya, you lying, hypocritical, anti-Semitic pox on the world. I thank God that my great-grandparents left your nation and came to America.

Judeopundit recently posted Koznik sez, “Nakba Denial as Much a Crime as Holocaust Denial” and rebuts such nonsense with:

Holocaust deniers deny that 6 million Jews were killed. Nobody denies that 700,000 Palestinians became refugees. What the diarist means by “Nakba-denial” is failure to render the events of 1948 with the requisite amount of pro-Palestinian hand-wringing. And actually, spurious equating of the, ahem, Nakba with the Holocaust is itself a form of Holocaust denial.

I’d argue further that Holocaust deniers deny 15 years or so of Jewish history, Israel’s current peace partners deny a couple of thousand years of Jewish history.

Of course, the Palestinians, nowadays, complain that they are suffering a real “Holocaust.”

Above is a picture of a demonstration organized by the “pro-Hamas National Commission for Child Protection from the Holocaust.”

However in a real Holocaust babies were burned.

I am named after my aunt who was burned in an Auschwitz crematoria along with her baby during The Last Days of the Nazi death machine. Actually, her mother in law volunteered to go burn with the baby. “I am older,” she said. “who knows? maybe you’ll survive to have other children.” You see, burning the baby was the prime Nazi objective. But my aunt would not let her child burn without her.

In this make-believe Holocaust babies are routinely healed.

Dr Dudi Mishali, head of the Department of Pediatric & Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery at the hospital, said: “The baby has a complete occlusion of his aorta. This is a severe defect, and if the child is not operated on as soon as possible he could die within a day.

‘He will probably be operated on tomorrow (Monday) and the prognosis is good. He is currently on medication that is keeping him alive,” he added.

Dr Mishali said that an average of three Palestinian babies with heart defects arrive at his department every week: “We have daily communications by phone and fax with doctors in Gaza. There is no heart surgeon in the Strip, so they transfer all of these children, and there are many, to be operated on here.”

The Palestinian Authority usually covers half of the expenses and the rest is generally covered by donations raised by the hospital.

Those horrible Israelis, not only do they heal, they even help pay for the treatment!

There are two problems with this kind of exhibitionist suffering. One is why does Palestinian society place a premium on scaring its children and inventing threats that aren’t there? Israelis facing real threats actually laugh at the threats as Elder of Ziyon applauds.

You gotta hand it to the kids to be mentally stable enough to joke about the daily threats to their lives.

But the another part is even more disturbing. Evelyn Gordon writes:

But perhaps even more worrying than Abbas’s statements is the world’s response. Not a single international leader bothered to condemn last week’s ethnic cleansing accusation. Nor did anyone condemn his Al-Dustour remarks, his rejection of the peace education resolution, or any of his other less-than-moderate statements and actions.Given the world’s fixation with resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its reluctance to acknowledge that Abbas may be miscast as a peacemaker is understandable. Yet by tolerating such blatant incitement, the international community further undermines the prospects for peace.

The world tolerates the anti-Israel (and antisemitic) hyperbole, fretting more about buildings built by Israel than buildings destroyed by Hamas. There’s an asymmetry in approaches to the peace process and much of the world, though they claim to desire peace in the Middle East, does all it can to keep the conflict alive.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

CNET discusses German Jews’ attempt to get YouTube to remove Nazi propaganda from its ranks. The commenters take this opportunity—of course—to bash the Jews. But not in the way you think. No, on the eve of Good Friday, one of our tolerant Christian friends chooses to point out that, gee, it’s always a good time to blame the Jews.

Let the Central Council of Jews in Germany view / not view, and / or post, what they want; and let all others view / not view, and / or post, what they want. With regards to … ‘Honestly, killing people because of their religion is pretty lame.’ - I agree; especially with tomorrow being ‘Good Friday’ - the day that Jesus died at the hands of the Jews.

Yeah, you gotta love the attitude that blames the Jews for killing Jesus, even though they’re taught that Jesus had to die to save their sins.

Once again, however, The Exception Clause corollary is proven: In any internet discussion involving religion, politics, or Jews, the probability of it devolving into anti-Semitism is 100%.

The terrorists achieved their goal on Friday, sending 600 people running for cover as the Color Red alert sounded.

Palestinian terror groups launched three Qassam rockets from northern Gaza towards Israel on Friday afternoon, as residents of southern Israel celebrated the Purim holiday in street shows and fairs.

And they almost hit one of their own, again, because they truly don’t care whom they hurt, so long as they achieve their goal: Which is to push Israelis out of Israel.

One of the rockets reportedly landed on the Palestinian side of the security fence along the border between Gaza and Israel, security forces are currently deployed to locate the other two rockets. No injuries have been reported and no damage was caused.

They held their fire while John McCain visited Sderot. Gee. I wonder why. Couldn’t be because Hamas told them they couldn’t, could it?

In Kibbutz Alumim a panic broke out as Color Red rocket sirens sounded, sending the assembled crowd of some 600 people running for cover. “It was very unpleasant. Many of the participants aren’t from the area and came here to visit, they grew frightened and left very quickly,” said one of the festival-goers.

“It was very sad to see the panic that was created. Afterwards it (the festival) just didn’t go back to normal. Unfortunately our enemies just won’t leave us alone,” he said.

Actually, they will, if the government finds the stones to do what needs to be done and send the IDF into Gaza in force. Apparently, 900 rocket attacks in three months doesn’t count as a good enough reason to clean out the terrorists.