“You know, I’m concerned about the size of the package.”

—House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

You see, there’s been an influx of anti-Israel trolls and commenters lately, due to the news sites partnering with Sphere and other agencies, so that sometimes, when I reference a news article, my blog in turn is referenced on that site. It may be Yahoo News, it may be CNN, but whenever I get a reference from there, I get an influx of anti-Israel creeps who seem to be quite upset that they have found a pro-Israel blogger. And they are mystified as to why I won’t publish their comments.

So to save their little peabrains from exploding over the concept that not everyone is actually interested in hearing what they have to say, I was thinking of perhaps adding a rule to my comments policy. One that said that I will delete comments that don’t exactly break the No Israel-bashing rule, but that are still extremely stupid and annoying to me. And then I thought: No. The fact that this is my blog means that goes without saying. I don’t have to approve a single, solitary comment. I don’t have to even have comments. Hell, I didn’t for the first few years I was a blogger. But as to adding that rule, it was because I sometimes get emails or further comments from people whose comments I don’t approve, in which they say “I didn’t break any rules, why won’t you approve my comment?” If I add that rule, I could refer back to it.

Screw that.

It’s my blog, and that’s why I didn’t approve your comment. It’s my blog, and that’s why I get to tell people to take their Israel-hating venom and shove it up their asses, because the only way it gets on my blog is when I put it into a post to mock it.

It’s my blog, and that’s why all of some previous commenters’ comments go into the killfile automatically. They lost their commenting privilege—and it is a privilege, not a right—and that’s the end of that.

It’s my blog, and I get to set the rules of what I’d like to read in my comments section.

Do I want to have posts with long, interesting discussions about Israel? You betcha. Will I get them if I allow the Israel-bashers in? No. Won’t happen. Because everywhere else online, every single unmoderated conversation about Israel is ultimately hijacked by the anti-Israel scumbags. And sooner or later, out comes the anti-Semitism. You have the Stormfront POS’s, the David Duke POS’s, the Pat Buchanan POS’s, and the general, all-around anti-Semitic POS’s simply waiting for the opportunity to spout their venom any place they can, and when they find a blog like mine, with such a large Jewish readership, and so many unabashed Zionists, well, they are not merely POS’s, they are also just as happy as pigs in shit. (The fact that they resemble those selfsame pigs is not lost upon me or my readers.) So why make anti-Semitic POS’s happy if I have the chance to piss them off? It’s a no-brainer. And knowing I have made yet another anti-Semitic bastard a little less happy with his life, well, that’s just the icing on the cake.

Do I think that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic? Nope. But all unmoderated discussions (and many moderated ones) about Israel always seem to wind up there. So until that changes (or the world does, whichever comes first), I’m going to keep on pissing off the Jew-haters by not approving their Israel-hating comments. (Oh, and I’ll keep on pissing off the people who used to comment here, but can’t anymore, because they’re apparently too stupid to understand that their comments go, unread, into the trash.)

There. I feel much better now. Time to go check the mailbox and see what the aggregator dragged in, so I can piss off yet another Jew-hater.

It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

Rosie O’Donnell says that fire can’t burn it.

Oil options contracts to sell crude at $50 by December almost tripled today after an OPEC decision to slash production failed to allay concerns that the global economic slump is hurting demand.

The cost of the $50 December 2008 put option, which gives the holder the right to sell oil futures at $50 a barrel, rose as much as 142 percent to $1.50 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, compared with 62 cents yesterday, according to exchange data.

“It certainly seems to me that we could get down to $50 a barrel,” Adam Sieminski, Deutsche Bank’s chief energy economist, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview today. “You could look at the OPEC cut as a sign of weakness, not strength.”

The cost of the option jumped on speculation that an output cut announced today by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which supplies about 40 percent of the world’s oil, won’t be enough to stem plunging prices.

Ladies and gentlemen, can we have a little Nelson here, please?

And yet, you have not gotten anywhere by spamming my comments with links to your blog surrounding your insipid comment that sounds almost real enough to be from a person, not from a bottom-feeder.

Take a hike. We don’t approve your kind around here.

And we’re not nearly as stupid as you seem to think we are.

And for the record, schmucks, I’m not a Republican. I’m an independent.

I suppose I could repent for these evil thoughts. Today’s the day for it.

I ain’t got no comments, and nobody talks to me.
I’m so sad and lonely, ’cause I ain’t got no comments.

Sigh. I’ll just turn out the lights and sit here.

Alone.

In the dark.

And quiet.