Weekend open thread

TGIF! I’ll be back later this evening to catch up on some blogging.

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Common Folk Using Common Sense says:

July 14, 2006 at 4:08 pm

Shamalama Calls “Shiznit” On MSM Bias

The mainstream media is showing its bias by only reporting their agenda with respect to the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

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forest hunter says:

July 14, 2006 at 5:45 pm

“The world let the Jews down and the Arab States have let the Palestinians down.”

A pretty reasonable sentiment for Daily Kos, but it is still pretty wrongheaded, I think.

Here is the crux of the problem as I see it: Islam’s notion that once land is Islamic, a good Muslim must wage war to regain it for the Caliphate. The logic of this philosophy leads ineluctably to perpetual war against Israel. The Arabs consider Israel to be Muslim land and want to regain it, but every time they have tried to do so openly, they get their asses kicked. Solution: fight a proxy war and radicalize your proxies to carry on the fight indefinitely. The Palestinians are a 190 proof distillation of the Islamist desire to get that land back. If the other Arab States weren’t there, it would merely be 120 proof. It is because Israel is the only non Muslim country in the Middle East, that it is like a bone in their throat.

The Palestinians have been given one of the most badass patches of real estate on planet Earth. If the Palestinians were not radical Muslims, say they were Sicilian-American mobsters to take a classier more high-minded caste of people, Gaza would have casinos and bikini-clad hotties drinking umbrella drinks on their beautiful beaches and would be doing booming business with Israel and they wouldn’t be worrying about the Arab States “letting them down.” It would be a Middle Eastern Monaco. Instead, since Islam preaches no bikinis, no drinks, no fun, but please do kill the Jews, and wage perpetual war against the infidel, and reclaim that land for Dar Al Islam, Gaza is doomed regardless of what the other Arab States do.

Egyptians can comfort themselves with the knowledge that they don’t have to join the jihad since they are already in Dar Al Islam. Palestinians don’t have that luxury. They must wage jihad. Islam itself, not the Arab States, really, let the Palestinians down.

We can’t really admit that this is what’s going on in “Palestine” because that admission leads us ineluctably to the unpleasant discussions in the other threads below. Caliphate and Ummah are some of the scariest words in the English language, or whatever language they come from. They’re like Borg, but worse because it’s real.

A few lefties try to imagine a world without Israel because that fantasy relieves the pressure on their brains like a shunt. I think lefties are unwilling to face the following unpleasant fact: rich white people are gonna have to put the smack down on some poor brown people, and the poor brown people are the ones who are actually causing all the trouble for a change. Liberals and lefties with great justification fought White racism in the US, but they seem to be unprepared to accurately identify friend and foe outside the US Civil Rights paradigm. Seriously. I think when lefties imagine no Israel, they are actually saying, “I am so morally vain that I would prefer that all the Jews in Israel be transported elsewhere so that I don’t have to rethink my worldview. It’s more convenient for me.” I might be wrong on this, but that’s the sense I get.

Posted by caspera at July 14, 2006 12:18 AM
pecker says:

July 14, 2006 at 7:22 pm

Let me muddle through. Hezbollah kidnaps 2 Israeli soldiers to take the pressure off Hamas in Gaza and the Zionists decide to destroy Lebanon? Who is the terrorist in this ridiculous play?
NC Cop says:

July 14, 2006 at 7:54 pm

It’s called self-defense, PECKER!!

Take your anti-semitism somewhere else.
forest hunter says:

July 14, 2006 at 10:47 pm

“Muddling” alas is another thing you are incapable of pecker steve.

BTW – This is not a play, o child of spew and the terrorists are still the terrorists. Until they are destroyed, then you can refer to them as dead terrorists. Stay tuned, the big kids will let you know when you can open your eyes.
sanity says:

July 15, 2006 at 12:51 am

Sneaking this by with barely a peep from anyone, barely a blip on bloggers radar, or the news, under the cover of what is happening with Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, we find that they managed to break their word yet again. Our government officials wore flip-flops to vote down funding to build the wall / fence along the border of Mexico.

Our Government officials waffled so fast it put Waffle House to shame.

Less than two months after voting overwhelmingly to build 370 miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico, the Senate yesterday voted against providing funds to build it.

I posted on it HERE.
Big Bang Hunter says:

July 15, 2006 at 1:06 am

– Here’s my prediction on border defense Sanity. Both the Dembulbs and the Reps are going to fence sit and try to have it both ways. They will BOTH suffer for ignoring the wishes of the majority of Americans.

– Bang
forest hunter says:

July 15, 2006 at 7:40 am

And rightly so Bang and Sanity. They seem INTENT on pushing the, ” I don’t want this job!”, button. Allow me.
benning says:

July 15, 2006 at 6:40 pm

Bang, sanity, I hope the yutzes that voted to de-fund that piddling stretch of fence get un-elected when the time comes.

In odd news, it seems the Chinese have stopped sending trainloads of food, etc. into N. Korea. And it ain’t to protest the missiles, either!
forest hunter says:

July 15, 2006 at 7:03 pm

benning, that was pretty clever of The Head Nork to keep the train, eh.
forest hunter says:

July 15, 2006 at 7:11 pm

It’s tough to imagine what it must be like for a North Korean military officer, obligated to obey the loony tune commander and follow what every other living soul in his army knows to be suicidal types of orders…..with a straight face.
forest hunter says:

July 15, 2006 at 8:47 pm

benning, can you find and link the Cat Stevens song for the Nork o dork who’s into train collecting. “Peace train” can be played on the PA system, as the Chinese crews are loaded into golf carts, pulled by donkeys for the next leg, so to speak.
benning says:

July 15, 2006 at 9:34 pm

forest: Here’s a link to the Midi file for “Peace Train“. Will that do? I doubt the Hermit Twit understands the lyrics anyway!
Big Bang Hunter says:

July 16, 2006 at 12:42 am

– After shooting 18 holes of golf, including a world record of 12 holes in one, and the rest eagles, “Kim who be Ill”, will star in a hit box office movie production, which he will direct and produce, and play all 732 parts in, and still be home in time to collect his pulitzer for his latest 5 novels he wrote over the weekend, and play with his full sized train set. Total flaming whack job.

– (Been there. The only “holes-in-one” are the fifty million pot holes in the streets and the 6 potholes in his skull)

– Bang
forest hunter says:

July 16, 2006 at 3:24 am

I punched up the British version of this Japanese ad and though I have no fear of Japanese going to America by the hundreds, I have to wonder WTF is this about.

LINK
forest hunter says:

July 16, 2006 at 7:16 pm

Is it still the weekend? We are having a three day weekend here. It’s call Ocean day but do not ask me why, cause I’ll be forced to report a NYT style fact flush, er I mean, fact flash.

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