Monthly Archives: July 2009

Monday night bedtime story

Once upon a time, there was a blogger who drove from Richmond to NorVA on Mondays. She got tired and went to bed. The end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know—don’t give up my day job. Admit it. Some of you … Continue reading

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Looking for peace partners in all the wrong places

Last week, while expressing some limited skepticism towards the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, Ethan Bronner of the New York Times reported that the economic and security situations in areas under the control of Fatah have improved greatly in recent years. … Continue reading

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Monday morning snark news

Despicable, if true: Settlers burn Palestinian fields as a consequence of having illegal outposts removed. I have no snark for this, only contempt. Labor to Israel: Netanyahu and Obama have their wires crossed, which is detrimental to U.S.-Israel relations. Meryl … Continue reading

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Baby sea lion swim break

Time for a cuteness overload. Via Neatorama.

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Best Of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere- Movie Review

Friends as usual it is my privilege to let you know about the latest edition of Haveil Havalim, the Best of the Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. It is a weekly blog carnival that you can use to see what the Jblogopshere thinks … Continue reading

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Obama ups the ante on “settlements”

The Obama administration shows its hand by demanding that Israel stop building in eastern Jerusalem. No word yet if anyone ever objected to Jordan’s near destruction of the city’s ancient Jewish Quarter (including synagogues and Torahs) which was—wait for it—in … Continue reading

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Busy, busy, busy

Who knew organzing a comic collection would take this much time? And we’re not half done.

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Dissin’ Nissenbaum

Surely you remember back in March, there was quite an uproar about Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead. A story in Ha’aretz, followed by one in the New York Times told of abuses committed by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians. … Continue reading

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Beware of the Blob

Beware of The Blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of The Blob Update: It’s algae. Put down the CO2 … Continue reading

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Podcast bleg

If anyone out there has an mp3 or wav file of clucking chickens—or even a person imitating clucking chickens—I’d appreciate an email. I need to get mind done early if possible, so I’ll be trying to squeeze it in between … Continue reading

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The U.K. Israeli arms embargo: Hypocrisy defined

The U.K. canceled export licenses for weapons parts to Israel because of the Gaza war and its civilian death toll. But they have said—and done—nothing about exports to countries like Sri Lanka, where the war with the Tamil Tigers caused … Continue reading

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Thursday Snark News

Religion of Peace blows up two more hotels: Indonesia again, but don’t worry—it’s just a tiny minority of extremists doing all the kabooms. Palestinians answer Hillary’s request with a kassam rocket: Looks like Hillary’s plea to the Palestinians to refrain … Continue reading

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Wily Jews may have found a cure for radiation poisoning

Wow, won’t this suck for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: If this is true, he can’t destroy Israel, after all. Medication that can protect humans against nuclear radiation has been developed by Jewish-American scientists in cooperation with a researcher and investors from Israel. … Continue reading

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Can I call myself a Southerner yet?

Last week marked my seventh anniversary as a resident of central Virginia. Since I’ve moved from New Jersey, I have done a number of things in Virginia that I never did in NJ. They are, in part: Voted for a … Continue reading

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The Exception Clause and Hillary’s speech

There’s a principle that I call The Exception Clause. Essentially, you add the words “except for Jews” or “except for Israel” to the end of every rule, statement, etc. that the world lives by, or something that is expected of everyone. It was in full bloom in Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy speech yesterday, where, we were told, she would be asking the Palestinians and Arabs to work as hard at fulfilling their obligations toward peace as the Obama administration is demanding from Israel. Continue reading

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Stop ObamaCare: Write your senator

In addition to writing my two senators, I sent a note to Maine’s Senator Olympia Snowe. This is why: Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine is the only Republican in the Senate who has publicly said she could support a government … Continue reading

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Who I’m reading

Well, there’s Elder. And Yaacov. And Daled Amos. And now that he’s not posting so much over here, Soccerdad. And Snoopy. There’s always the big guns: Hot Air (love those Dude headlines), Glenn Reynolds, Contentions. (Hey! The anti-Semitic comments are … Continue reading

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Hamas shimmers

From SNL: Wife: It’s a floor wax, I’m telling you! Husband: It’s a dessert topping, you cow! Spokesman: [ enters quickly ] Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two. New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping! … Continue reading

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Thursday Snark News Briefs

Israel’s enemies will be shooting blanks: Bad news for Hamas and Hezbullah: Iron Dome is working. Bummer, huh? Those wily Jews are figuring out ways to make the last cheap weapon of Israel’s enemies ineffective. It’s only a matter of … Continue reading

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Stupid spammers

Every once in a while, a new spam subject comes along that apparently keeps managing to elude the spam filters at the server level. And I have to ask: What effing moron actually thinks he will get a free sample … Continue reading

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