Israel’s enemies will be shooting blanks: Bad news for Hamas and Hezbullah: Iron Dome is working. Bummer, huh? Those wily Jews are figuring out ways to make the last cheap weapon of Israel’s enemies ineffective. It’s only a matter of time before Israel and her American partners figure out a way to stop Iran’s long-range missiles, thus rendering just about every weapon a wash. Of course, it won’t stop a suitcase nuke or dirty bomb, but I foresee us wily Jews inventing something to stop those, too.
UNIFIL notices Hezbullah’s 1701 violations: Pigs are in the air in Beirut, methinks. UNIFIL can’t deny that the explosion in southern Lebanon the other day was a violation of UNSCR 1701. Will anything be done about it? Of course not. But they had to announce that they’ve noticed the violation. It was a very loud boom.
Aptly named: If at first you don’t succeed, endeavor and endeavor again. (And endeavor, and endeavor, and endeavor, and endeavor.)
Palin derangement syndrome in full bloom: MoveOn nuts raised over $100k on the strength of one op-ed by Sarah Palin questioning the canon of global warming. Not to worry, though, Sarah’s been raising a bunch of money of her own. Hey. Think I could raise money by sending out letters about myself and telling the nutroots that I’ll stop questioning global warming if they send me bucks?
ObamaCare out of committee, hang on to your wallets: But I don’t think the creature will survive. Time to go email my senators, just in case. My congressman is Eric Cantor. I’m not worried he’ll vote for the beast.
This morning’s news carried a statement by Obama showing a line of thinking, hardly unique to him, that is as fraught with danger as any other thought process I can imagine: 1. We have to do something. 2. This is something. 3. Let’s do it.
His statement was that people who oppose Obamacare are defending the status quo. I suppose in a sense that’s true, but there are worse imaginable situations than the one we have and preventing something worse is as important right now as coming up with something better.
There is a saddening subtext to the Iron Dome news, besides that it’s going to be an expensive system to run. Whatever talents Jews have as a people, we can safely say that practical politics isn’t among them. But creativity and innovation seem to be, and I can’t help wondering what contributions to the human condition Israel would come up with if so much of its talents and resources weren’t devoted to staying alive.
And thanks for a brief, happy moment. For a second I thought UNFIL had cited 1,701 violations, rather than a violation of Resolution 1701.
Somebody signed me up for Move-on’s email blasts. I haven’t wanted to try to get myself off
the list because that might just be a phishing expedition.
I got that one and had to respond.
I wrote, “Thanks, you made me laugh”.
I got a form response right away about how they want to respond but they get so many emails.
I wonder if I’ll get a fuller response. I hope so.