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Monday, October 31
Chicago Fire Toasts United's MLS Cup Hopes 4-0
by
jkeiler
on Mon 31 Oct 2005 12:04 PM PST
United's best player, Christian Gomez was ejected for spitting in the 55th minute, but the game was ... more » Sunday, October 30
Israel Kills Hadera Bombing Mastermind--And So What?
by
jkeiler
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 04:58 PM PST
The quick Israeli response to the recent Hadera suicide bombing in which Israeli troops today apparently killed the Islamic Jihad ... more »
More on Iraninan President Ahmendoalabazanahabitibltoblaliah
by
jkeiler
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 07:21 AM PST
Jim Hoagland has an interesting piece on the op-ed page (here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102901016.html) of the Washington Post today, which in part ... more »
Mr. The Game To Call Lawyers When He Awakens
by
jkeiler
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 06:56 AM PST
Immensely talented and well armed rapper The Game (hey what do I know about rap music--I'm just tired of ... more »
Five More Quick Review of Movies I Never Saw I or II
by
jkeiler
on Sun 30 Oct 2005 06:33 AM PST
A slew of instantly forgettable new movies came out this weekend. Expect to find them on video shelves next week. ... more » Saturday, October 29
Israeli Jets, Artillery Successfully Pound Empty Lots, Open Fields
by
jkeiler
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 01:13 PM PDT
The Israeli Air Force today reported here http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540616276&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull that its jets successfully attacked an empty field in Gaza. "We located an abandoned field and struck it several times with guided munitions" an officer reported. "We destroyed some shrubs and burned some beach grass. All planes returned safely to base." Later in response to continued Kassam missile attacks against southern Israeli towns and villages Israeli artillery returned fire against a abandoned and vacant lot. "We hit the lot several times with high explosive shells. We moved a lot of dirt around, and left some big craters and pieces of shrapnel laying around. Possibly some Hamas terrorists will trip and fall when setting up their missiles in the future."
Discussing the Undiscussable
by
jkeiler
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 08:46 AM PDT
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Iranians Confused Over Negative Reaction to Calls for Israel's Destruction
by
jkeiler
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 08:06 AM PDT
Iranian President looks confident but is hurt and confused over run-of-the-mill comments calling for Israel's destruction. Iranians apparently are now in an uproar over international disapproval of President Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth." It seems that this is just standard fare for rhetoric in Iran and nobody need pay any attention to it, according to Iranian officials who have rallied to Ahmadinejad's defense. "Considering that the president's comments have been repeated by other Iranian officials during the past 26 years and the Iranian government is not announcing a new policy, some Western countries' reaction to these remarks has surprised world public opinion" the BBC and Washington Post quote from Iranian state run radio. The Iranian position seems to be this: "We've been calling for the destruction of Israel for years and years and nobody seems to care. Why all of a sudden are you making a fuss? We know why, because you are trying to pressure us to give up our quest for nuclear technology. But we only want nuclear technology to pursue peaceful purposes. It's not like we want to develop nuclear weapons in order to destroy Israel. What on earth would give you that idea?" Although the logic is absurd, there is a kernel of truth there. After all, Iran has been calling for Israel's destruction since the fall of the Shah. That didn't stop Western European countries from trading with Iran, arming her, and even occasionally defending Iran in international forums in years past. After all, I very much doubt the governments of Great Britain or France would much oppose, purely as a matter of principle, Israel being wiped off the map. So why does the EU crowd have their panties up in a wad all of a sudden? Because they really do fear an Iranian "bomb" what with millions of currently and/or potentially radicalized Muslims in their midst, many of whom would not mind in the least ascending to paradise in cloud of nuclear vapor over Paris or London. But Europeans are advocates of "soft power" which means they don't really want to fight about it, they'd rather moan and groan, kvetch and complain. And what better thing to kvetch about, now that it suits their purposes, about Iran's incredibly hostile and dangerous attitude towards Israel? Not that the Europeans intend to do anything about it. No wonder the Iranians are annoyed.
New Improbable Shakespeare Authorship Candidate?
by
jkeiler
on Sat 29 Oct 2005 07:37 AM PDT
At this website http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&guideContext=65.1171&pmmsid=1421576 is a video from a CBS morning news show that reports on a pair of authors ... more » Thursday, October 27
Is Assad Jr. on the Way Out? I Think Not
by
jkeiler
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 03:35 PM PDT
So-called realist foreign policy experts, like Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland (personal friend of French premiers and Arab emirs) actually ... more »
Not Quite Shakespeare
by
jkeiler
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 11:53 AM PDT
The IRIS blog alerted me to this article at http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/3663 which notes that in merry old England a textbook was recently issued with a clever poem by a British lad praising the Holocaust.
The British publisher defends the work in that it meets the standards set for British students in the contest from which it was selected. The writer clearly writes the piece as Adolf Hitler, it rhymes, etc. One can just imagine the Limey readers admiring the lad's inventiveness and wit. Frankly, I don't care that such a poem is published. It probably technically is in keeping with the rules of the contest. It is in bad taste and terribly insensitive. So what? This practically defines British society anyway. It is par for the course; why should anyone expect otherwise. Wednesday, October 26
This Bear Story Stinks
by
jkeiler
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 09:57 AM PDT
On Monday at the opening of bear season in Maryland the Washington Post ran a Metro section story on ... more »
New Suicide Bombing in Israel
by
jkeiler
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 09:38 AM PDT
Breaking news of the latest suicide bombing in Israel, in the town of Hadera will inevitably ... more »
Meaningless Milestone
by
jkeiler
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 09:22 AM PDT
The so-called “2000 killed in Undoubtedly, the Post and news organizations around the country had “2000 Dead” stories typed up and ready to go. All the editors had to do was await the ghoulish news of the second millennial death. In this case it came not with a flourish but with a whimper. Some poor GI who had been gravely injured and hospitalized for a long time finally succumbed. I wonder how he would have felt knowing he had become a media benchmark, a way to sell more papers, an opportunity for the sickening, anti-Semitic, media freak Cindy Sheehan to spout off further inanities. He is probably rolling over in his grave now. Tuesday, October 25
Monday, October 24
Sunday, October 23
Iran and a New Cold War--An In Depth Analysis
by
jkeiler
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 02:09 PM PDT
A New Cold War On
Birds! Our Deadly Enemies
by
jkeiler
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 12:46 PM PDT
I've pointed out before on this blog, probably a couple hundred posts ago, that birds are our deadly enemies. That ... more » Friday, October 21
Toasty Taliban?--Or--Don't Hurt the Enemy's Feelings
by
jkeiler
on Fri 21 Oct 2005 11:46 AM PDT
The latest fuss to kick up in the press is over the alleged burning of the bodies of two Taliban ... more »
Syria Blamed in UN Report for Hariri Assassination--What Now?
by
jkeiler
on Fri 21 Oct 2005 06:43 AM PDT
The Washington Post and other media are blaring the report of UN investigators that The issue here is what to do about it. Apparently, the answer is yes. Presumably the Hariri findings will galvanize international opposition to
Does This Also Allow You to Use HOV Lanes?
by
jkeiler
on Fri 21 Oct 2005 06:23 AM PDT
A 93 year old man drove to a toll both with a body in the windshield reported here: http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051021070009990009. He won't be charged, apparently because he wasn't aware what happened, or if he was, it was only momentarily, and then he forgot about it. The victim could not be reached for comment.
Thursday, October 13
Poor, Poor Palestinians
by
jkeiler
on Thu 13 Oct 2005 11:26 AM PDT
In an article in the Washington Post Outlook section on October 2 (a while ago I know) Abdallah Al Salmi's lamented that the world will "ignore" the Palestinians now that Israel has left the Gaza Strip. This is incredible. The plight of the Palestinians is easily the most over hyped, reported and funded national liberation movement in history. Salmi's own article will join thousands of others in the international media pressing the Palestinian cause. The Post can be counted on to publish a few Outlook pieces each year about the poor Palestinian Arabs, and/or the Israeli “occupation”, etc. Countless billions of dollars of international aid have flowed to, and been squandered by, Palestinian organizations over the years. The U.N. maintains permanent agencies to deal exclusively with Palestinian refugees, who have languished in camps on the international dole for half-a-century. In that same period, millions of other refugees, including nearly a million Jews expelled from Arab countries, have made prosperous new lives for themselves, without a dime of the aid or an ounce of the international sympathy lavished upon the Palestinians.
In the article Salmi dismissed the thought that 4000 Palestinians might be employed in greenhouses left behind by Israelis, claiming this would encompass only some of the Since the end of World War II tens of millions of people have been displaced by war, ethnic tensions, or border disputes. In southwest Finally, on top of everything else, the Palestinian Arabs are just that, Arabs. They are, and were, culturally, religiously, and linguistically indistinct from surrounding Arab populations. They could have and should have been easily assimilated into these societies, as has happened almost everywhere else in the world. That these Arabs either chose not to find new homes, or were rejected by other Arabs, is not Their preferred solution has been to simply destroy Monday, October 10
Sunday, October 9
Media Frenzy Over New Orleans Arrest
by
jkeiler
on Sun 09 Oct 2005 05:10 PM PDT
Ap news producer grabbed by New Orleans cop.
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1414355 This site has the video of the New ... more »
DC United Loses Game It Should Have Won
by
jkeiler
on Sun 09 Oct 2005 09:07 AM PDT
Jamie Moreno got D.C.'s only goal on a stellar free kick from 24 yards out. One of the most ... more » Saturday, October 8
Why Did Jack Try to Kill the Neighbor's Dog Today?
by
jkeiler
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 03:44 PM PDT
http://www.slate.com/?id=2127419&nav=tap1/ The above article about canine behavior at Slate.com explains a lot about what is probably going on at my house.
Okie Blows Up--Continued
by
jkeiler
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 03:31 PM PDT
Maybe he blew himself up because the mustache didn't come in. This blog www.iris.org.il reports on the Oklahoma suicide bomber (noting they reported it last Monday when I reported in Sunday--uh huh!) but giving further information and other links. As I reported at the time, this is an amazing unreported story. This Oklahoma guy, with clear links to Islamic organizations, blows himself up outside a University of Oklahoma football game and nobody really seems to care. He could be just a neophyte Islamic freelancer, but even if true, that is still plenty disturbing. He could be a real terrorist with ties to radical Islamic organizations. Either way, the mainstream press is too busy making doo-doo pies out of the latest bullshit from the LA bayou, or blathering about a mediocre SC nominee (as if it really is going to matter in the long run--she's either going to be conservative or liberal and no one knows--when people have finally started blowing themselves up in the states. The Oklahoma idiot will not be the first.
Old Farts to the Front
by
jkeiler
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 03:14 PM PDT
Got this from my cousin Danny off a which he got off another website
Jew--Not a Jew
by
jkeiler
on Sat 08 Oct 2005 03:08 PM PDT
Harriot Miers must be a Jew who changed into an evangelical christian by altering the spelling of her name, by reversing the “i” and the “e”. That is about the most of substance that I can say about the nomination. A lot of Jews and other immigrants to this country change their names, and there are various ways to change spellings as well to take away the taint. For example, on my mother’s side we are Chaimowitz’s. Not a great “American” name, so my grandparents changed it to Hyams. However, apparently so many Chaimowitz Jews changed their name to Hyams, which is better than Chaimowitz, but not really so hot, some changed to Haynes. Now Haynes is an excellent American name, with a good brand to boot—underwear. “Haynes makes you feel good all under” after all. Real “Americans” who are named Hyams spell their name Himes or Hymes—that’s how you can tell a Hyams is a Jew. Now a Jew who came over to this country named Meirs might change their name in one of two ways. One is to go with Meyer, which is a more Germanic spelling. The other more idiotic way is to go with Miers. Meir, one way or the other, is about as Jewish a name as you can get. Herman Goering, at the start of the WWII announced that if I wish Mier would just come out and say that she is a Jew from Jew—Not a Jew. Sunday, October 2
Seven Quick Reviews of Movies I Haven't Seen and Probably Won't
by
jkeiler
on Sun 02 Oct 2005 08:55 AM PDT
A lot of new movies out this week. Herewith I will review a slew of them, none of which ... more »
Freddy Adu Starts; D.C. United Crushes Metrostars
by
jkeiler
on Sun 02 Oct 2005 08:32 AM PDT
Freddy Adu started in place of Christian Gomez as D.C. United's playmaker and United went on to crush ... more »
What if Al Qaida Attacked and Nobody Noticed?
by
jkeiler
on Sun 02 Oct 2005 08:06 AM PDT
Scene of "suicide explosion". This AP news story may be the most overlooked one in a long time. It reports that at a traffic circle near a University of Oklahoma football game "a person was killed in an explosion"..."that police were calling a suicide." The report is so vague that that it is hard to know what to make of it, but it sure sounds like a suicide bomber detonated himself (herself) prematurely. One mystery in the years since 9/11 is why Al Qaida and its offshoots have not simply deployed individual suicide bombers in America. There are countless unprotected and inviting targets, football games being prime examples. A strike at a big midwestern university football game, right about at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan would be exactly the kind of thing to expect. I wonder what will become of this investigation, and whether, like other possible US terror strikes (remember TWA Flight 800 and the anthrax attack of 2001) this will be fobbed off as an accident or domestic nutcase. Saturday, October 1
Flatten Gaza? Hell Yes.
by
jkeiler
on Sat 01 Oct 2005 08:49 AM PDT
Sderot Mayor Suggests: Flatten
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Make them take many paces for being one of the worst races, on their way to a gas chamber, where they will sleep in their manger… I'll be happy Jews have died
