The unheard warning

Posted on 10/05/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Snoopy wrote thisIn his post The Regrettable State of Being non-Muslim, Mick Hartley, one of my favorites, unearthed an interesting – an ominous – article by Raymond Ibrahim, titled The Two Faces of Al Qaeda.

The article is a shocking document that should (but wouldn’t, unfortunately) change some minds concerned with the Western guilt, Muslim grievances and worthy causes, the main, as usual, appearing to be the existence of these pesky Zionists that just refuse to curl up and die to satisfy the Ummah. It shows quite clearly that the message periodically transmitted to the West by Bin Laden and his minions, by uncounted mullahs and all kinds of offended and angry Islamists is no more than a smokescreen. Consider this utterance by Bin Laden (not for Western consumption, to be sure):

As to the relationship between Muslims and infidels, this is summarized by the Most High’s Word: “We renounce you. Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us — till you believe in Allah alone.”

And then consider this:

Hassan Butt, a former jihadist, helps explain the Islamist dichotomy between the propaganda of reciprocity and the theology of eternal hostility toward the infidel: “When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network … I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings, and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.”

And understand that all you hear from various guilt-carrying Western pundits is nothing more than a result of careful and successful brainwashing. And that these fellow travelers are doing exactly what the Islamists want them to do – to preach their message to the West, while the purveyors of the double tongued messages prepare their believers to another Jihad, having little to do with these real or imaginary grievances.

Of course, one could hardly find a more exemplary fellow traveler than one quoted in the article.

For example, on Saturday on Radio 4’s Today program, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said: “What all our intelligence shows about the opinions of disaffected young Muslims is the main driving force is not Afghanistan, it is mainly Iraq.”

And there are legions of fellow travelers and legions of suckers ready to believe that once the grievances are eliminated and some “land for peace” adjustments are made (based, most probably, on the old maps so cherished by the Ummah), everything will be just peachy. After all, what are a few acres or even a few millions of acres between friends. And some moderate dhimmitude cannot hurt… not when you get used to it.

Peace Be Upon You…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

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The Israeli raid on Syria: Bypassing the radar

Posted on 10/05/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Aviation Week asked a group of aerospace and military experts to analyze how the Israeli Air Force managed to penetrate Russian-built (and Iranian-bought) Syrian radar installations in last month’s strike. The consensus: Israel has technology that can completely subvert and then take over the Russian-made technology.

U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated today that a technology like the U.S.-developed “Suter” airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last year.

The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can’t be seen, they say. The process involves locating enemy emitters with great precision and then directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading messages algorithms that allow a number of activities including control.

It gets better. Remember reading about the state-of-the-art anti-aircraft defense systems that Iran bought for Syria? It’s not confirmed, but it’s thought that those are the defense systems that Israel penetrated. That would certainly explain the waves of silence that came out of Syria after the attack.

The system in question is thought to be the new Tor-M1 launchers which carries eight missiles as well as two of the Pachora-2A system. Iran bought 29 of the Tor launchers from Russia for $750 million to guard its nuclear sites, and they were delivered in Jan., according to Agency France-Press and ITAR-TASS. Syrian press reports they were tested in February. They also are expected to form a formidable system when used with the longer-range S-300/SA-10 which Iran has been trying to buy from Russia. Syria has operated SA-6s for years and more recently has been negotiating with Russians for the Tor-M1. What systems were actually guarding the Syrian site are not known.

None of this, mind you, explains why the North Koreans got so bent out of shape after the attack. That’s one reason so many people think that the site had something to do with nukes. But of course, if there were nuclear materials there, they’d be protected by the best Russian anti-aircraft defense systems money can buy.

And, apparently, Israel can bypass. The Iranians cannot be happy at this news. But we are.

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Pushing Daisies: A great new show

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

The hype about Pushing Daisies is true. The pilot was excellent. It reminded me of Tim Burton’s humor, back when he was creating Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. Plus, it’s from the folks who brought us Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, both good, but short-lived, shows.

And a great big plus: Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene (who looks much younger than she did playing Sylar’s mom on Heroes, phew!) were in the pilot, and may show up from time to time later. I would hope so, anyway. I love the actors.

The show was funny and sweet and heartbreaking, sometimes all at once. I haven’t seen a romance this tragic since my first-ever viewing of Romeo and Juliet (the Franco Zefferelli version). The concept is just great, and my, the producers really know how to screw with their main characters. No surprise, as that’s what their previous two shows were all about.

So go. Watch it. Another good new show to go with Heroes and the Bionic Woman.

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Ruffini was right, mostly

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Looks like Patrick was right, and I was wrong, about the SiteMeter visitor count. Not about everything, mind you. But definitely about the major issue.

The things he was right about: If you stay on a high-traffic site while the visitor count refreshes, it counts you as a new visitor. The 30-minute rule is also in effect. If you drop off the visitor count, you do go back on as a new visitor. (Not unique, though; see below.)

The things he was wrong about: Unique visitors. Sorry, Patrick, but nope, they’re just visitors. SiteMeter doesn’t track uniques. As for having the ability to log more than 100 (or 4,000) visitors at a pop: Here, too, you are wrong. I have been informed by SiteMeter staff that arrangements could be made for higher-traffic sites. Which means they do collect the data, and it does not disappear into the ether.

The things we were both wrong about: SiteMeter does not use cookies to track visitors.

The things I was right about: Sorry, Patrick, but unless you have some programming background that I’m not aware of, you are a technical neophyte. That doesn’t mean you can’t catch things like the SiteMeter double count, and that wasn’t what I was implying. I was implying you were lacking a certain strategic depth to your knowledge due to a lack of understanding of certain technologies. But I was wrong about the concept you were getting across. I simply couldn’t fathom the idea that someone would write a visitor-tracking program that would allow a visitor to become brand-new if someone were still on the site, or clicking to another page. It seemed utterly counter-intuitive to me. But hey, there’s a lot of programming out there, and site statistics are utterly impossible to track with 100% accuracy. I have three different site trackers and three different traffic counts. I was also pretty much on the money about clickthroughs. You really can’t judge a DKos clickthrough rate as indicative of traffic rate. Clickthroughs from referring sites depend on so many reasons that they’re not indicators unless the site is specifically geared to drive traffic (a la Instapundit).

Things I can’t say for sure: I don’t know if his 60% figure is accurate. That one I think is not easily charted. Testing doesn’t tell you how many people are doing the thing you are testing for—only whether it works or not.

I could go point-by-point on the rest of the things, but, well, the argument is done.

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This week’s SNN

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Someone forgot to tell you that this week’s Shire Network News, featuring an interview with Richard Landes of Second Draft (a.k.a., Pallywood), is up. It’s about the fact that France 2 is about to be exposed as the lying liars who lied about the al-Dura hoax.

My contribution is on feminism in the Muslim world. I think you’ll enjoy it.

Remember, you don’t need an iPod to listen. All you need is a computer that can play audio files. Click to listen online.

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Palestinians: Israeli occupation was better than Hamas rule

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Palestinians are so tired of Hamas they’re longing for the good old days of Israeli occupation:

Asked a routine question about the 2006 Palestinian elections yesterday, Khaled abu Ahmed slipped off his sandal and used it to beat his head several times to demonstrate his remorse for voting Hamas. “We wanted change and reform,” he said. “We thought they would bring prosperity. We thought they were people who knew God. But, believe me, they don’t know God.”

He was standing outside his white goods shop in al Khawaja street, where the first intifada famously began 20 years ago and where the yellow flags of Fatah have recently begun to flutter obtrusively above many of the houses. Before the elections and the subsequent international boycott, he said, he used to make between £1,200 and £1,400 a month. Now, he said, thanks to closures and two years of only sporadic payments to public employees, he is lucky to make £25. “People have no money to buy anything,” he said, pointing to the street’s many shuttered shops. “We have been occupied by the Turks, the British, and the Egyptians,” he added, his voice rising rapidly. “We were occupied by Fatah and now we are occupied by Hamas. And the best of these occupations was by the Jews.”

That’s funny, I thought the Israelis are brutalracistZionistmurderers who deliberately target and murder civilians for no reason other than they’re brutalracistZionistmurderers.

Of course, the Independent (part of the U.K. Guardian media outlet) couldn’t let a pro-Israel remark stand unchallenged.

Mr Abu Ahmed, an angry man but as ardently nationalist as the next Palestinian, was being deliberately provocative of course. And it worked.

Hearing him, a passing bearded cyclist, Hamas supporter Omar Hamad, 37, stopped in his tracks and shouted: “You are talking only for yourself, not for the Palestinian people.”

Mr Hamad levelled the blame for Gaza’s ever deepening economic crisis on the emergency Ramallah government of President Mahmoud Abbas for sanctioning its isolation. “We Palestinians did these closures ourselves,” he said.

Well, the truth will out. That’s right, Hamad, you did it to yourselves. It’s the rockets and mortars and terrorism, which of course continues on a daily basis.

And of course, no Indy/Guardian article quote would be complete without reversing any possible negative spin for the Pals:

A telephone poll yesterday by Near East Consulting said that most Gazans oppose rocket attacks on Israel, do not regard the de facto Hamas government as legitimate, and support a peace agreement with Israel-the still distant goal of yet another meeting between Mr Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem yesterday.

And while the poll – accurate or not – will no doubt encourage Israel and the US in their belief that the continued economic misery of Gaza will eventually turn it against Hamas, there is no obvious mechanism for change as long as Hamas opposes the fresh elections Mr Abbas threatens from time to time.

Right. Because we can’t possibly bash Israel if the Gazans agree that the Palestinians are in the wrong.

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Wishing and hoping Hamas will change

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

The world in which diplomats live is not the same world in which you and I live. These people think that wishing and hoping Hamas will change is going to change them from terrorists whose charter stipulates that a Jewish conspiracy controls the world (based on the forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion), that Israel must be destroyed, that “Palestine” is an Islamic waqf now until the end of days—to a group that will meekly accept living in a Palestinian state, side-by-side with Israel, and with the Arab part of Jerusalem as its capital. Yes, these people think that Hamas will accept not having total control over the Temple Mount, over which they built the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock—in spite of Hamas’ charter explicitly stating that will never happen.

Five former State Department and Pentagon officials are proposing Israeli and Palestinian capitals in Jerusalem and excluding Arab refugees from returning to Israel as part of an Middle East accord.

In a six-page policy statement submitted to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they also suggested a series of peace conferences following the one she hopes to convene next month, probably in Annapolis, Maryland, near Washington.

Hamas, which controls Gaza and about one-third of Palestinian-held land, has not met US terms for attending. Those conditions are recognizing Israel’s right to exist and abandoning violence against the Jewish state.

But the ex-officials suggested Hamas might be drawn to attend a second conference, which implicitly would accept the first one and Israel’s existence. They called the role of Hamas the most difficult issue in peacemaking.

Once again, just in case you think Hamas might truly moderate, let’s check out their charter:

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day.

These diplomats will fail, as long as they refuse to recognize Hamas for the irridentist terrorist organization it is. Hamas will never moderate. Hamas will never accept Israel. The question, of course, is whether or not any Palestinians—or the rest of their Muslim neighbors—will truly accept Israel in the middle of the Islamic world.

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Gazans afraid of Hamas

Posted on 10/04/2007 by Meryl Yourish

I’m never going to get tired of posting about this.

The Hamas op-ed that made the rounds of the major U.S. newspapers:

“Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their own economic power, and freedom for civil society to evolve.”

[…] Our stated aim when we won the election was to effect reform, end corruption and bring economic prosperity to our people. Our sole focus is Palestinian rights and good governance. We now hope to create a climate of peace and tranquillity within our community.

The reality today:

According to the survey, 58 percent of respondents said they are now afraid to express their political views following the Hamas takeover, and 60% say Hamas’s paramilitary police, known as the Executive Force, has done a poor job respecting individual rights.

It also found 52% of respondents consider Abbas’s government to be the legitimate Palestinian ruling authority, while only 26% favor the Hamas government led by Ismail Haniyeh. Sixty-four percent said they trust Abbas, compared with 36% who trust Fatah.

In another blow to Hamas, 72% said they support a final peace agreement with Israel, and 55% called on Hamas to change its position toward Israel.

Nearly three-quarters said they support Abbas’ call for new elections – a position opposed by Hamas. It said 42% would vote for Fatah, with just 15% support for Hamas.

You simply have to marvel at the utter disdain Hamas really has for its own people. But then, that’s what totalitarian movements are all about, and Hamas is all about totalitarianism with a liberal dose of Islamism thrown in. I can’t think of a worse combination.

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The DKos visit count non-issue: Ruffini’s wrong

Posted on 10/03/2007 by Meryl Yourish

There is no controversy regarding the Daily Kos visit count. Patrick Ruffini is misunderstanding the difference between what SiteMeter shows you on a summary page, and what is counted as a visit or a hit. SiteMeter is not inflating DKos’ site stats. In all probability, SiteMeter is undercounting DKos traffic, as it does with everyone. Let’s take Ruffini’s primary “gotcha” moment:

Then it hit me: SiteMeter only accounts for the last 100 visitors individually. On a site like Daily Kos, the 100th most recent visitor could have been 15 seconds ago. If you are the 101st most recent visitor and you click on a new page, you are counted as a new unique visitor in SiteMeter’s all important count. On a normal site, this wouldn’t matter, since it’s highly unlikely you’ll stick around long enough to have 100 others show up after you. On a site with hundreds of thousands of page views a day, it’s extremely likely you will.

Um, no. That’s not how it works.:

When you are browsing a site, every time you follow a link, it is treated as a single “page view”. Site Meter defines a “visit” as a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views.

You are counted by IP address, not by virtue of being on the SiteMeter “last 100 visits” page. If I go to DKos and read a post, click on the message thread, spend the next 40 minutes reading the messages, and then click on the main page again, that counts as a single visit. Ruffini wrongly thinks that a second click is counted as another unique visit. It is not. SiteMeter counts a second click as another page view, but page views are entirely different statistics from visits.

Another error in his thinking is that SiteMeter “only” counts the last 100 visitors. No, it counts them all. (Well, except for the ones it misses, which is another complaint about SiteMeter.) It only shows the last 100 visitors, and only in the default free view. When you become visitor 101, you are still tracked as if you were visitor number 15 on that block of visitors that Patrick saw on his screen. But you are no longer seen on the “Last 100 Visitors” screen. And you are just as active on SiteMeter’s radar as you were when you could see your IP address in the Visitor 15 Slot.

On Patrick’s second point, that the clickthrough rate isn’t as high as Andrew Sullivan’s, well, that’s due to a number of factors, and it’s a common problem even with high-traffic sites. I know that I have a high clickthrough rate, even though my blog isn’t a very high traffic blog, because my readers tend to be longstanding readers with similar tastes in reading materials. They also trust my opinions. Linkfests used to be a staple of this blog, and still are, in respect to Haveil Havalim.

People don’t go to DKos for linkage. They go to DKos to read what’s there. Glenn Reynolds entire site is about clickthrough. People read Instapundit because they want to find other bloggers or information that Glenn provides. High traffic doesn’t guarantee high clickthrough rates. I’m not surprised that most people did not click through to Patrick’s blog. The DKos readers do not like conservatives. They do not like Republicans. Of course they’re not going to click through.

The content of the link also makes a difference. My highest-traffic links from Glenn all had to do with sex. The Comic Book Superhero Dating Ratings? Through the roof. I think I got nearly 10k hits from Glenn, whereas an ordinary Instalink generated about half that number. If Patrick wants to see DKos clickthroughs in high numbers, he needs to post that he’s given up being a conservative Republican and has joined the ObamaWagon, or some such thing. Or maybe something to do with sex and Democrats.

Lastly, Patrick tries to extrapolate DKos traffic via some arcane formula he invents regarding page views and stats of similar blogs. Ah, no. Bad move. That’s like trying to calculate the traffic on the NJ Turnpike based on the traffic on I-95 in northern VA and the Long Island Expressway. Now he’s just reaching, and looking really silly while he does it.

In short, there are many reasons to criticize Daily Kos. But blaming SiteMeter for inflating DKos visits and pageviews? No. That’s just a case of Patrick not really understanding SiteMeter and server logs. I don’t have the best grasp of them either—it’s been a long time since I read the raw server logs and decoded them for my boss at Lucent—but I do know enough to know that Patrick is way off base on this one.

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Comments problem update

Posted on 10/03/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Jay has made some changes that should fix the comments problem. As a result, I’ve reinstated the quicktag plugin that allows you to format your comments, as well as the comments preview. Please let me know if you have problems, and mention which browser you use as well.

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Jimmy Carter does something useful

Posted on 10/03/2007 by Meryl Yourish

For a change, he isn’t yelling at Jews.

Former President Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet representatives of ethnic African refugees from the ongoing conflict.

The 83-year-old Carter walked into this highly volatile pro-Sudanese government town to meet refugees too frightened to attend a scheduled meeting at a nearby compound.

Carter was able to make it to a school where he met with one tribal representative and was preparing to go further into the town when Sudanese security services interrupted.

“You can’t go. It’s not on the program!” the local security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as “The Elders.”

“We’re going to anyway!” an angry Carter retorted, telling security officers they didn’t have the authority to stop him.

Give credit where it’s due. It’s a good thing he bulldozed over the Sudanese. Finally, he’s found a country where he’s on the right side of the issue. He did, however, resort to useless tattling.

As a growing crowd gathered around the former president, Carter’s U.S. security detail and his African Union escort tried to ease tensions. Carter later agreed to a compromise in which tribal representatives would be brought to him at another location later in the day.

“I’ll tell President Bashir about this,” Carter said, referring to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Yeah, that would be the same man who has stonewalled all attempts by the UN to stop the massacres. Good move there, Jimmy.

The visit by “The Elders,” which is headed by Carter and Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu, is largely a symbolic move by a host of respected figures to push all sides to make peace.

While Tutu led a group to the Otash refugee camp in south Darfur, the U.N. mission in Sudan deemed it too dangerous for Carter to visit a refugee camp.

The former U.S. president instead flew to a World Food Program compound in Kabkabiya, where he was supposed to meet with local community members including some ethnic African refugees, many of whom were chased from their homes by pro-government janjaweed and Sudanese government forces.

It isn’t the refugees they’re worried about. It would be the janjaweed, which the government pretends it can’t control. The populace is completely under their control.

Some ethnic Africans were among those in the crowd that gathered around Carter during the shouting match, but they were too afraid to speak out. Billionaire businessman Richard Branson, who was traveling with Carter, said several had slipped written notes into his pocket to express their feelings to Carter.

The UN Human Rights Council spends most of its time condemning Israel, and ignoring Sudan. But then, the world just ignored a massacre of immense proportions in Burma/Myanmar. It simply boggles my mind that they are unable to muster outrage for thousands of murdered Buddhist monks and nuns, and hundreds of thousands of murdered Sudanese, but the world will united to condemn Israel over a handful of civilian deaths due to a response to terror strikes.

If only the world would get as angry about true atrocities, things like Sudan and Myanmar wouldn’t happen.

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Jackie Mason, Republican Boy

Posted on 10/03/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Jackie Mason has jumped on the “Candidate X Girl” YouTube bandwagon.

He says: Vote Republican, or he’ll take off all his clothes.

It’s hilarious. Spit-monitor warning, and oh yeah, not safe for work. (They’ll think you’re nuts for watching it.)

Via Hot Air.

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Hamas and Fatah, together again?

Posted on 10/03/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Hey, the open terrorists are talking to the ones pretending not to be terrorists. What a great deal for Israel!

Fatah and Hamas have agreed in principle to launch a secret dialogue in Cairo, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday.

According to the report, a Palestinian source told the newspaper that Egypt’s efforts to mediate between the two movements have succeeded and have yielded an agreement in principle to hold secret talks in Cairo.

And as always, the Palestinians say one thing to the West, and another to the Arab/Muslim world:

Last weekend, Abbas said in an interview with Newsweek that he was against Hamas and now identifies with the American stance. He also said that he would not reunite in a government with Hamas under any circumstances “because it was a very bad experience.”

Asked about his conditions for talks with Hamas, Abbas replied that the two groups would talk only after the situation in the Gaza Strip returns to its original state.

According to the Palestinian source who spoke to al-Sharq al-Awsat, however, Abbas informed Egyptian Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who is in charge of the mediation efforts, of his agreement in principle to launch a secret dialogue with Hamas representatives.

The source added that Azzam al-Ahmad, head of the Fatah faction in the Palestinian parliament, will head the movement’s delegation to the talks, although a date for the start of the dialogue has yet to be set.

So, is this because Hamas suddenly realized that Fatah is about to get major concessions from Israel in the latest peace agreement, and they want in on the peace?

Of course not. They want another Trojan camel to hide inside while they plot the destruction of Israel. We’re about to get another version of “We will never recognize Israel” from Hamas, followed by assurances from Fatah that Hamas will, indeed, come around, followed by declarations from the world that the Palestinians want peace, and Israel should give them everything they want, including the return of the refugees and the 1949 Armistice Lines pre-1967 borders.

It’s a lose-lose proposition for Israel. Our only hope is that Hamas and Fatah still can’t get along, what with Hamas wanting a Taliban-like state and Fatah wanting to enjoy their sex and drugs and rock’n’roll.

According to the reports, Abbas’ former national security advisor Jibril Rajoub met with Muhammad Nazzal, a member of Hamas’ political bureau in a bid to solve the crisis, but the meeting failed to bring the movements closer.

The report said the two officials disagreed over the question which side should make the first move in order to make the dialogue succeed and express the sincerity of its intentions.

Ah. The sacred concept of honor in the Arab world. Sometimes, it works for us, not against us.

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Comments problems

Posted on 10/02/2007 by Meryl Yourish

I’ve disabled all comments plugins. Please let me know if you’re still having trouble publishing comments. Also, if you were one of the people having multiple comments post before, tell me if the problem has cleared up. Thanks.

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Other people’s posts

Posted on 10/02/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Sarah is teaching her children to be warmongers and monsters. I think there’s a little sexism thrown in, too, as it’s obvious she could have talked her daughter into a soldier costume as well. Ask any RadFem. No, wait, they’d be horrified at the militarization of our American youth, and go into a long, windy lecture on the anti-animal rights attitude reflected by Rebecca’s choice of a [mythical] animal for Halloween.

This is a new kid on the block. I haven’t read more than a couple of posts, but hey, this blogosphere is big enough for all sixty gazillion of us regardless of whether or not someone writes things I agree with. Okay. He’s out sick today. Scroll down and see if you like the content.

This is the guy who shared the BBC World Have Your Say program with me. He has a website, and ohmigod, is it really orange? Dude! Black type on white background is there for a reason. OUR EYESIGHT. My eyes! My eyes! I think I’m blind! (I’m going to email him a link to my rant about reverse type on the web.)

This post is a freebie, folks. Plug your own blog in the comments and tell people what you’ve been writing about.

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