Monthly Archives: February 2008

More on Tig

The wind storms we’re having in Richmond have knocked out the power to my apartment. Thanks all for your kind words about Tig. The apartment feels really empty today, even though he was only a shadow of himself. But I … Continue reading

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Yiddishe nachas *

Not. And amid all this hype, Winehouse’s representatives said late Friday that she won’t attend tonight’s Grammys in Los Angeles. Although she resolved her visa issues with the U.S. Embassy, she’ll still appear via satellite from London. Winehouse apparently decided … Continue reading

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Sharia for Britain

Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it wouldn’t be a bad idea for Shari’a to be adopted in England. Martin Fletcher added his two cents: As one who has been hauled in front of a Sharia court I … Continue reading

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The teacher and the terrorists

(An open letter to Deborah Howell, ombudsman of the Washington Post.)Over the past two years, you defended the decision to publish op-eds by representatives of Hamas, a terrorist organization. It is a decision that cannot be justified. Still, you defended … Continue reading

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Tigger

March 15, 1997-February 9, 2008

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Terrorists to southern Israel: Evacuate or die

Terrorists are now bold enough to publicly warn Israelis to leave southern Israel. Why is that? Because Olmert has not done anything to stop the rockets from flying. The Popular Resistance Committees called on the residents of Israel’s south to … Continue reading

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I musta got lost

An Israeli professor solved a problem that has been bothering mathematicians for nearly 40 years. Trakhtman solved the “Road Coloring Problem,” which was raised by Israeli mathematics Prof. Binyamin Weiss and others in 1970. There are many forms but the … Continue reading

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Health, education and welfare – Hamas style

I wondered about this report when I first read it. An Israeli missile hit a school in Beit Hanoun, killing a teacher and wounding three pupils, hospital officials said.Two of the wounded were initially identified as fellow staff members but … Continue reading

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The WMD of the Muslim world

A blogger The Sudanese Thinker calls Israel a WMD. Let’s shelter our oppressed Palestinian brothers. Let’s put them first before any of those living a few feet away from us. They deserve more help. The problems in our own backyards … Continue reading

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Tigger update

Well, Monday was his best day since he got really sick. He had a decent day Tuesday, and I can’t tell you much about Wednesday because I spent half the day at the hospital with a six-year-old while his mother … Continue reading

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Hamas steals food from aid organizations

The democratically-elected terrorist government of Gaza has just stolen truckloads of aid from the Palestinian Red Crescent. Hamas policemen seized a convoy of humanitarian aid bound for the Palestinian Red Crescent on Thursday evening, the second convoy it has taken … Continue reading

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File under “Duh!”

The Russians are suddenly concerned that maybe, just maybe, Iran might possibly be exploring avenues to

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The Hamas war with Israel: First, kill the children

The rocket fire from Gaza, which is now being claimed proudly by the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians, has wounded more children in Israel, and nearly killed some on their way to school. Because that’s the tactic that the terrorists … Continue reading

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Abbas’ hollow condemnations

Here is the much-vaunted Mahmoud Abbas condemnation of rocket fire into civilian areas of Israel by terrorists in Gaza: “These rockets that are being fired at Israel must stop. It’s pointless,” he said at a news conference with Austrian Foreign … Continue reading

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Democratically-elected govt. of PA fires rockets into Israel

(NOTE: This post was scheduled to go up yesterday. There have been many more attacks since then. There will be new posts about them.) The democratically-elected government of Israel—the people that Jimmy Carter and the EU think Israel should negotiate … Continue reading

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