Monthly Archives: October 2008

A ray of light in the economic slump

Oil continues its fall. It’s under $94 a barrel right now, and holding steady. Gas is down to $3.19 in the Richmond area, and sinking. (Gasbuddy.com is a good place to find the cheapest gas prices in your area. It’s … Continue reading

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Joe Biden – Sarah Palin debate transcript correction

Some people got their knickers bunched because of this part of the transcript (allegedly said by Joe Biden): When we kicked – along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in … Continue reading

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Serious about Syria?

CNN reports: The United States and Syria held a series of meetings this week, signaling a possible thaw between the two countries as the former seeks to peel the latter from its close ties with Iran. No further meetings are … Continue reading

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Israel to buy American planes

The Wall Street Journal reports that Israel is planning to buy up to 75 American fighter planes: The Defense Department formally notified Congress that it wants to sell Israel as many as 75 of the latest-model fighter jet, which is … Continue reading

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Ronit Lentin and poetic license of the feeble-minded

I shall never stop envying people educated and gainfully employed in one of the modern vaguely defined “sciences”. Like the case of learned Dr Lentin here: Dr Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State … Continue reading

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The Palin-Biden debate

Go ahead. You know you want to talk about it. I thought she did just fine, and it makes me feel a bit better about her after those horrible interviews. Now what I’d like to see is more of that … Continue reading

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Warping your religion

MEMRI’s enemies keeps on accusing the organization of cherry-picking quotes, or pulling them out of context. I’d like to know what MEMRI’s enemies can possibly say to excuse this excrescence, who has managed to both steal and warp one of … Continue reading

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Peace on earth and a rocket launcher

I remember some cartoon – maybe from Mad Magazine, maybe from Calvin and Hobbes – showing a little boy on Santa Claus’s lap asking for all sorts of weaponry and – peace on earth. This picture reminded me of the … Continue reading

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Mahmoud’s awesome, very good week

So a party that advocates the lifting of restrictions of Nazi symbols has won a significant victory in Austrian elections. (h/t LGF) No doubt Austria will now be shunned internationally – and rightly so – just as it was a … Continue reading

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Ehud Olmert and the disregarded doctrines

Some background first. From the The Winograd Commission report: a. The Prime Minister bears supreme and comprehensive responsibility for the decisions of ‘his’ government and the operations of the army. His responsibility for the failures in the initial decisions concerning … Continue reading

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Olmert joins the Surrender Party

Ehud Olmert, not content with leaving Israel in a near-shambles, manages to make things even worse on his way out by declaring that Israel needs to surrender entirely to the Palestinians, or there will be no peace. In the farewell … Continue reading

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Words of war from Iran

The AP is broadcasting only half of Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Khameini, in this short wire service story that, unsurprisingly, is not being picked up and distributed widely. At least, not as widely as the AP’s Rosh Hashanah story, which can’t … Continue reading

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Miami five and the bleeding hearts

This post is triggered by that post by Neil of A Cloud in Trousers. In which Neil joins the crowd of bleeding hearts demanding the release of five Cubans arrested by FBI in 1998 and put on trial for quite … Continue reading

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AP: Finding something to criticizen in all things Israeli

The AP couldn’t manage to write a Rosh Hashana story without criticizing Israel. Because gee, when they write Ramadan stories, the first thing they do is bemoan Muslim terrorist attacks. Oh, wait. No they don’t. Here’s what went ’round the … Continue reading

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