Friday news roundups

Posted on 05/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

How about we just call them the Subhuman monsters now? Terrorists murdered or wounded 200 young men in Pakistan, using the flimsy excuse of “revenge”—which the media are all too eager to pass along as a reason—for bin Laden’s death. Let’s be honest. They kill because they’re subhuman monsters. Their cause is crap. Their teachings are crap. And they brainwash young men to act like sociopaths and be proud of it. Make peace with subhuman monster? No. Drop Hellfire missiles on them until they’re gone. Pakistanis deserve to be able to live in peace, but until they take care of the problem in their own borders, they won’t. No wonder we have so many who’ve moved here. I’d leave, too.

Maybe it should change its name to the Arabist Propagandists: Seriously? The AP puts this out as hard news? It reads like members of Hamas wrote it. What a load of crap. More on this later today.

Muslims murder Christians, Egyptians arrest: A Christian woman. Really. It’s all her fault. Of course it is. She’s a slut. Just look at the AP headline, which blames the woman using the flimsy cover of pretending that Egypt is blaming her.

Egypt: woman behind sectarian violence detained
She converted to Islam escape a marriage to a Christian and became involved with a Muslim man.

When her family located her, she was taken to a building next to a church in the Cairo district of Imbaba. She has not been seen.

Her Muslim partner rallied ultraconservative Salafi Muslims, claiming a Muslim convert was abducted by the church, sparking clashes that left 15 dead and more than 200 injured.

And oh, by the way—she’s been charged with polygamy. Because only Muslim men can marry more than one spouse at a time. If a woman does it, she’s a whore. Yeah, you just gotta love the new Egypt. It’s turning out to be just like the new Iran. Awesome.

Can Bibi stop pretending that Russia is Israel’s friend now? They’re blocking a report to the UN that Iran is smuggling arms to Syria. Yeah, the more things change… well, let’s just remember that Israel actually had to fight Russian pilots in some wars. And shot them down.

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More Thursday news things

Posted on 05/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Gee, I didn’t see this coming. Say, remember when the Muslim Brotherhood said they weren’t interested in the presidency of Egypt? They lied. And not only did they lie, but the lying liar who first spoke the lie–in the WaPol, no less–is the one running for Prez. But hey, Hillary and Obama say the jury is still out on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamism. Uh-huh. Sure. Riiiight.

Now THAT’s dedication: An amateur photographer created a 360-degree version of the night sky, linking 37,000 photographs to do it. Yes, really. It is awesomeness. Dude.

Dammit. They went back up. Stupid commodities prices.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means: Erdogan stands up for Hamas, insisting it’s not a terrorist organization. Of course not. Israelis are the only terrorists according to Islamists. Turkey is lost unless the people throw these bums out of office, and I don’t see that happening.

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Your Thursday news roundup

Posted on 05/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

And yet, the word “intolerance” is not paired with “Muslim”: The AP covers Israel’s dwindling Armenian Christian population without really mentioning the elephant in the room except in vague, generalized terms. Although the article does point out that when Jordan took over the eastern half of Jerusalem, most Armenians fled. Gee. Why was that, I wonder? Also, that since Israel has been in control of Jerusalem, the Armenian population expanded. Hm. Why is that, I wonder? The AP doesn’t answer, although it does use the phrase “caught between Jews and Muslims” to accuse Israel of being just as intolerant to Armenian Christians. Of course. It’s just the same as the famous tolerance for other religions that the Christians of Egypt are currently experiencing. And by “tolerance” I do mean “intolerance.”

Oil prices are falling: Did you know that the price of oil is sliding down again? I noticed that gas didn’t shoot up this week, and started wondering. Yep. It’s taking a bit of a dive. Here’s hoping it stays that way. Commodities are falling. Investors are heading towards cash. Hmmmmm.

Flashback to 1982: Syrian forces are surrounding Hama. They killed over 10,000 citizens back then. How many will Bashar Assad kill? Although, there is one bright bit of news: Even the thugs on the UNHRC won’t have Syria on it while it’s murdering civilians blatantly.

It’s an AP news record: I could not find a single, solitary anti-Israel line in this AP story about restoring a famous graffiti from the Israeli War of Independence. Kudos to the writer and editor.

Oh, that symbol is totally a Zionist symbol now: We now have proof that the Mossad designed the U.K.’s 2012 Olympic insignia as an insult to Palestinians. The Mossad is training U.K. security for the Olympics. I told you we Jews are wily.

No, it’s not Iseema’s Diary: They got Osama bin Laden’s journal in the intelligence hoarde. So far, no word on Iseema’s Diary, but I’ll get in touch with my sources and see what I can come up with. Hm. One of bin Laden’s “sons” escaped, did he? I think Iseema was there.

Pat Buchanan will be so sad today: John Demjanjuk was convicted of Nazi war crimes after decades of trying to claim his innocence. Cue the neo-Nazis and Buchanan freaks in my comments in 3, 2, 1…

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Wednesday briefs

Posted on 05/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

More Mel Gibson schadenfreude: “The Beaver” didn’t even make the top 20. “African Cats,” a Disney documentary about lions and cheetahs that’s been out since April 22nd, beat it. “Hoodwinked Too,” the animated sequel to a Little Red Riding Hood retelling that was never popular to begin with, that got 11% on Rotten Tomatoes, beat it. Mel’s mojo is gone. And good riddance to it.

Then we should sin again, and again, and again: Al Qaeda’s really pissy that we killed OBL. They’re saying it’s a sin. Mind you, I’m no religious authority, but I’m pretty sure we didn’t even break one of the Ten Commandments, since the one in question says “You shall not murder,” not kill. That’s a misinterpretation of the original Hebrew. We’re allowed to take out the bad guys.

Well, that’s one way the sham unity agreement will unravel: Western nations are pressuring Mahmoud Abbas not to fire Salam Fayyad, the prime minister who’s cutting off Hamas and Fatah’s graft (or at least some of it), which is why they hate him so much. I think that Abbas will cave to Hamas. The Euros won’t try to kill him, and they won’t cut off funding. Even America may not cut off funding, as this imperial president is using Executive Orders to override Congress and the Constitution.

Making our planes safe from eight-month-olds: Way to go, TSA! That baby won’t ever threaten a U.S. airplane. And when a jihadi does attack a cockpit, our media won’t mention that he yelled “Allahu Akbar” while doing so. On the other hand, no way that baby would have been able to crawl up to the cockpit door and yell “gagahu gagabar,” so our TSA has done its job. Woot!

That’s funny, I thought they were supposed to be anti-Zionists: Al Qaeda is declaring war against Jews, which means that the synagogues in Morocco and Tunisia are at risk again. And somehow, the anti-Zionist crowd will make this all about Israel.

The Hamas way sounds an awful lot like the Chicago Way: Khaled Mashaal says he’s giving Israel a year to capitulate agree to a Palestinian state on 1967 borders (replete with full “right of return” of Palestinian refugees). I’m not seeing an upside for Israel here, so I vote for don’t bother recognizing the unilateral declaration of the phony nation of “Palestine.”

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Tuesday briefs

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

What? Mention Israel’s Independence Day without reference to the Palestinians? That wouldn’t be AP. Yep. “Nakba” reference at the end of the AP story on Israel’s Independence Day. Because it’s all about the Palestinians, who turned down a state in 1948 in order to drive the Jews into the sea.

And yet, Syria is still on track for membership in the UN Human Rights Council: The death toll so far (and probably way low): 757 civilians killed in the Syrian democracy protests. But gee, it’s not at all like Libya, is it?

I know you are, but what am I? Really? The Iranians are saying that Israel has “stupid ideas” when they’ve just effing arrested one of their own for sorcery? Seriously?

Alas, Mad Mahmoud has caved: I was hoping for a longer battle, but the Supreme Leader puts the S in Supreme (not to mention his boot in Mad Mahmoud’s S). Probably had to put their differences aside to help Syria suppress the revolution, so it doesn’t get exported to Iran.

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Hassan Nasrallah: moving house

Posted on 05/10/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

This was really just a joke. Timing is all, you know how it goes…

However, now it appears to be a prophetic one:

Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has made fundamental changes in his personal security arrangements to avoid being killed like Osama Bin Laden, Arab newspaper reported.

Lebanese sources, quoting the Kuwaiti daily El-Siyassa, said that Nasrallah has moved recently from his residence in Southern Beirut to another place.

According to the Kuwaiti paper, some Western intelligence agencies proposed assassinating Nasrallah, to weaken “the world terrorism organisational structure” as well as “seizing Iranian influence in the region”.

The sources added that the disappeariance of Nasrallah from the scene would destroy Hizbullah, leaving it but an idea bereft of life.

I hope that the new bunker is fit for habitation, at least. And equipped with a tanning bed or something, they have some cool tanning beds on Amazon.

The reason I am mentioning the tanning bed is that the poor coot is looking* very pale after all these years underground:

Need to take more care of yourself, Hassan!

(*)The image is borrowed from a site here, where the guy peddles Nasrallah’s pictures as wallpaper for your computer. Highly recommended, if you are into wallpaper with images of the undead.

Oh, and happy Independence Day!

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

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A happy video for Israel’s Independence Day

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

To get you in the mood.

Via Elder.

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Monday on the road briefs

Posted on 05/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The mystery of the contaminated jet fuel: I’ve been tracking this story for days, but there’s no explanation. Did terrorists tamper with Israel’s jet fuel? Was it a disgruntled employee? Or just a bad batch from wherever they purchased it? The good news is that no planes crashed as a result. The bad news is that if this was a terrorist attack, it was the most clever attack on Israeli jetliners ever. The best news is that this will now never happen again.

I don’t care. Tim Blair is awesome: It’s a read-in-full column, filled with Tim Blair’s personal brand of Juvenile Scorn (and yes, he is absolutely a Master of Juvenile Scorn™). It’s all about the sudden concern for the well-being of mass-murdering terrorist mastermind’s corpses.

Best blog comment ever: Pst, al Kada, we R in UR d@t@z, plotin UR d00m. Read the story it goes with.

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Mel Gibson schadenfreude update

Posted on 05/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The Beaver is declared a flop–on opening weekend.

Sucks to be you today, Mel.

Awww. Are we sad?

Nope. Not at all.

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Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on 05/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who read this blog.

I am in NJ, preparing to take my mom out to breakfast.

There’s almost no airplane noise in Richmond. At 1:45 this morning, I woke up thinking that a plane was going to crash in the neighborhood. My goodness, I’ve changed. I used to live under a major route to Newark Airport and didn’t blink an eye at airplane noise. It was the uncanny silence of the empty skies for the three days following 9/11 that freaked me out then.

Things change.

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The evolving bin Laden story

Posted on 05/07/2011 by Meryl Yourish

You know all those people who said that bin Laden was effectively nothing to al Qaeda any more?

Yeah, they were wrong.

The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden’s compound has reinforced the belief that he played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.

And the data further demonstrates to the U.S. that top al-Qaida commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan, not just in the rugged border areas, and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis, a senior defense official said.

Our pals, the Pakistanis. Hey, Obama called them our friends. So what’s up with him and our buds? How’s he doing? Not so good.

President Barack Obama’s promised trip to Pakistan this year, once seen as a reward for a key ally in the fight against terrorism, is now a looming headache for the White House as it tries to determine whether the government in Islamabad was complicit in allowing Osama bin Laden to live for years within the country’s borders.

Obama told Pakistani officials in the fall that he planned to travel there in 2011, in part to soothe concerns that the president was favoring Pakistan’s neighbor and archrival, India, by visiting there first. White House spokesmen questioned this week by The Associated Press refused to say whether Obama still planned to go.

I love this AP analysis:

Canceling the visit could be seen as a sign of U.S. mistrust of Pakistan’s handling of extremists within its borders – as underscored by the news that bin Laden lived in what Brennan himself called within “plain sight” in a neighborhood home to many in the Pakistani military.

Gee, ya think? We don’t trust the effers that hid the man behind the murder of 3,000 Americans for six years right next to their darling ISI officers? Whyever would we mistrust those guys?

And this is my favorite al Qaeda quote:

Al-Qaida confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden Friday and vowed revenge, saying Americans'”happiness will turn to sadness” in the first statement by the terror network since its leader was slain in a U.S. commando raid against his Pakistani hideout.

Hm, let me think for a minute… Nah. Still pretty happy bin Laden is dead.

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Your Friday afternoon news roundup

Posted on 05/06/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Well, that’ll piss off the Deathers: If al Qaeda itself says bin Laden is dead, will the lunatics stop pretending that he’s not? Of course not. It’s all U.S.-Zionist psyops.

He’s a witch! Burn him! The modern state of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in all of its modern modernity, is accusing Ahmadinejad supporters of being witches. Really, you can’t make this stuff up. On the other hand, there’s a serious rift going on right now between Mad Mahmoud and the Mad Mullah-in-chief. And may I say: Rock on, you two! Killing each other would be the best case scenario, but I’ll settle for one offing the other.

The CIA has got its mojo back: Read this account of how they found bin Laden. Good. We need a good spy service to protect us from the likes of bin Laden. Here’s hoping they catch the next one before the next 9/11.

A tale of two headlines:

The New York Times: Strong Job Report Shows U.S. Economy Gaining Steam

CNBC: Jobs Report Has More Bad News Than Good News

To everything, spin, spin, spin, there is a season, spin, spin, spin.

Seriously? Three hundred years too late: I mean, seriously? Now the Spaniards are sorry for the Inquisition? Yeah? Then let them be more supportive of Israel to prove it. (Of course, this isn’t all of Spain. Just Majorca. Figures.)

Hamas spokesliars and their media enablers: Why, exactly, can’t the media point out that Hamas is simply saying what the West wants them to say in order to push forward a Palestinian state so they can attack Israel from closer range, more openly? Just once, let Ethan Bronner ask Khaled Meshal to define “occupation” truthfully, and he will hear that all of Israel is “occupied Palestine.” In fact, he said so.

“All Palestinians know that 60 years ago they were living on historic Palestine from the river to the sea.”

Right there, he has defined what Hamas will accept as a Palestinian state. So why put forth the two-state fiction? They’re just words that Hamas has learned the world wants to hear. Will the media point out the flaws in the Hamas claims? No. They’re too busy passing along Hamas anti-Israel spin as factual statements. Witness:

Mr. Meshal said that there was recent activity on ways to release Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held for nearly five years by Hamas, but that there had been no breakthrough. He blamed Mr. Netanyahu, saying he was responsible for the delay.

“Delay”? Five years in captivity because Hamas wants Israel to release mass murderers, and the Times calls it a “delay” in obtaining a prisoner exchange?

Propagandists. That’s what reporters are these days.

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The bin Laden is still dead briefs

Posted on 05/06/2011 by Meryl Yourish

OBL wanted a hit on Amtrak: He must have watched too many old western movies when he was a kid. Turns out he wanted to blow up the tracks on a bridge so the train would fall off the tracks.

Do I see gloating in the undertone here? The NY Times is all over the bin Laden story, including this “Bush missed, nyah nyah!” article. Also, putting out as much information on our top-secret stealth helicopters as possible (thanks!). And, surprisingly, an op-ed that says it’s only human to celebrate the death of America’s biggest enemy.

Conflicting reports: First France and Britain say they’ll recognize the new Palestinian unity government, even though it’s now filled with openly anti-Semitic terrorists working for the destruction of Israel (as opposed to doing it all secretly). Now they say they’ll stand with Israel and refuse to recognize the government unless Hamas recognizes Israel. Yeah, not gonna happen. So the real question is: Will the unity government fall before the Europeans change their minds? Because they will. Let’s not pretend that they have suddenly gained a conscience regarding Palestinian terrorism and their aims toward Israel.

Seriously? Haredi schools are open for Israel’s Independence Day when even Arab schools are closed? Seriously? Dudes. Way to make friends among secular Jews.

Are you watching, Nasrallah? Of course you are. Israel held a major logistics drill for the northern front, testing its ability to bring food and materiel to soldiers in the event of a battle with Lebanon. I’m quite sure that all eyes in Lebanon were upon the south.

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Late Thursday briefs

Posted on 05/05/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Awesome. Hamas just keeps on digging in that deep hole: Now the bin Laden killing is an “atrocity.” No, it was justice, asshats. Something that we all hope for the leaders of Hamas to experience someday.

That’s funny, I thought Israeli Arabs want to be Palestinians: No, they really don’t. Given the choice, Israeli Arabs rush to get Israeli citizenship in any area they think is going to be taken over by the PA in a peace deal. Gee. What a bunch of racist apartheid anti-Palestinians those Israelis are.

The upside of the Syrian revolt: Hezbollah in trouble. And can we have a Woot! for that?

Oh, so we can stop worrying. Right. Sure. Ehud Barak says Iran won’t drop a nuclear bomb on Israel even if it gets one. Suuuuure. I believe him. Because it’s not like the leaders of Iran have ever called to wipe Israel off the map or anything like that.

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Wednesday, briefly

Posted on 05/04/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Just recycle my last fifty posts on Carter: Unity agreement, yadda yadda, Israel should accept, yadda yadda, Hamas will moderate, yadda yadda, I certified free and fair elections, yadda yadaa. Blahblahblah, Carter is an imbecile, yadda, yadda, yadda.

If bin Laden was a Zionist puppet, why did the Iranian regime allow so many al Qaeda—including bin Laden family members—to hide out in Iran? See title.

Whoops, Hamas made a big boo-boo: I think even Barack Obama is getting the point that Hamas hates the U.S. as much as it hates Israel. The State Department is maaaaad….

What? Hypocrisy on “targeted assassinations”? The deuce you say! (I actually have no idea what that saying means, but it sounds cool, so I’m using it.)

Signing of unity agreement begins: Countdown to its falling apart begins.

Dear Mike Huckabee: You have always creeped me out. I was never going to vote for you. Now, I’m REALLY never going to vote for you, because you’re a thin-skinned asshat. And for the record? Taxes and the Holocaust are two completely separate issues that should never be conflated. Here’s a hint on where to use them: In actual genocide references. Like, say, Sudan.

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