Author Archives: Meryl Yourish

Paper stronger than steel

Via Glenn Reynolds, they’re making paper that’s stronger than steel, using nanotechnology. Rosie O’Donnell says that fire can’t burn it.

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In your face, ayatollahs

We’ve been hearing the enemies of America cheering our financial crisis and calling it a punishment from above (or at least, from their version of above, not mine). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated recently that the United States is paying … Continue reading

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Hey, I helped the economy!

Check it out. My condo purchase last month is helping the economy. Home resales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in September, aided by foreclosure-driven declines in prices that made properties more affordable. Purchases of existing homes jumped 5.5 … Continue reading

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OPEC cut is backfiring on them

This is great news: 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 … Continue reading

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Samir Kuntar, insomniac

The child-killing POS that Israel traded alive for the corpses of her soldiers is swearing he won’t rest until Israel is destroyed. Get used to not sleeping, asshole. Three months after being released from an Israeli jail in a prisoner … Continue reading

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Every day is “Hit a Jew Day” somewhere

Charming. Middle school children, enchanted by things like “High Five Day,” made up their own little twist, and spent a day last week hitting Jews. At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly … Continue reading

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Oil be seeing you at $2 a gallon?

Gas is $2.15 at the local Costco and Sam’s Club in Richmond, and OPEC is meeting to try to stop oil from falling any further. Crude oil rose for a second day on speculation OPEC will agree to cut output … Continue reading

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I am never cleaning my house again

I am sitting here working while a team of four women clean my home for me. And they’re doing a better job than I would do, too. Oh, I straightened up and got things out of their way and made … Continue reading

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Ship of fools going back to Gaza

The Free Gaza morons, not having had their fill of being stuck in Gaza (cf: Lauren Booth, and try hard not to laugh when you think of her being turned back at every Gaza border crossing, shrieking, “But I’m Lauren … Continue reading

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The Pravda media

Hot on the heels of Soccer Dad’s post on the media’s anti-John McCain bias I found this little gem. Congress is about to hold hearings on the financial crisis. They want a scapegoat. They will not, of course, hold a … Continue reading

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Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem, again

Another Palestinian murdered another Jew in the City of David. A young Arab man murdered a civilian and injured a police officer in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday morning. The 60-year-old citizen was critically injured and evacuated to the Shaare … Continue reading

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A note to would-be comment spammers from spamblogs

Yes, you people are getting more and more clever. Yes, I’ve almost fallen for your crap more than once. And yet, you have not gotten anywhere by spamming my comments with links to your blog surrounding your insipid comment that … Continue reading

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Is this the end of little OPEC?

Looks like the global recession, falling oil prices, and the world’s lack of funds to pay oil extortion money may contribute to the end of the world’s worst cartel. And here’s why: Saudi Arabia needs oil prices of less than … Continue reading

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Memories of German Jews

An Israeli reporter has found a cache of artifacts looted from Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues from the Krystallnacht pogrom. An Israeli investigative reporter has discovered a large amount of personal and ceremonial artifacts which were looted from Jews during … Continue reading

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Another kassam rocket breaks the broken “truce”

Yet another kassam rocket fired into Israel from Gaza. Yet another yawn from, well, everyone. A Kassam rocket was launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip Tuesday evening. The rocket fell in an open area north of the Strip. There … Continue reading

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