British citizens donating to “charities” that in turn fund terror attacks aimed at British citizens. “Photojournalists” and “aid workers” digging up bodies to stage propaganda credulously lapped up by a western press. The UN passing cease fire resolutions that have the effect of recognizing Hizbullah as a state-like actor. The AP playing apologist for a new Hizballah superhero.
What’s next—Al Franken taking up arms against the Santa Monica Hillel? Jackie Mason bathing in hummus?
If sunlight truly is the best disinfectant, God needs to cook up a coupla extra earth suns. Because though the one we have is still functioning, it just ain’t doing enough to kill off all the viruses that have been cooking since Truth was sacrificed on the altar of postmodern faith.
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update: The Guardian, it seems, ain’t waiting for God. Via Allah, who notes: “If you’ve lost the socialists, you’ve lost everyone.”
Well, except maybe the New York Times, the AP, Reuters, etc…
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update 2: The weekend Guardian is actually the Observer, which—with an entirely different staff—is editorially more liberal-conservative than the Guardian. So get back to work, GOD!
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I had to go and peruse the comments.
Some of those people have gone beyond even mainlining the Kool-Aid. They’ve had themselves genetically modified to manufacture it in their bone marrow.
Er, the comments on the Al-Ghardiyan piece, not Kos.
Not that it makes a difference, I guess.
Jeff:
To further cheer you up, reporter James Rosen just said on Fox News’ Studio B that his Israeli sources tell him that:
a) Hezbollah is surrounded in south Lebanon;
b) the Israeli military does not consider the U.N. resolution a ceasefire; it’s a cessation of offensive action only, allowing defensive action to continue;
c) the Israeli government alone will determine which of its actions are defensive and which are offensive;
d) the Lebanese army and UNIFIL are not expected to deploy for weeks, during which time Israel will continue its “defensive” actions;
e) Israeli drones will monitor Lebanon’s ports for evidence of arms shipments, which will be attacked as part of the “defensive” actions;
f) the Israeli government will completely disregard international opinion when it comes to Israel’s “defensive” operations;
g) if so much as a stone is thrown at Israel, the village from which said stone is thrown will be reduced to rubble.
Does this sound like surrender to you? It sounds to me like the Israelis have taken the Muslim concept of duplicity and improved it, as they do with so much imported ideas and technology.
TW: “back.” The old-school Israelis are baaaaack.
Fox News is reporting that Syrian tanks are massing on the Israeli border and that they are removing landmines, creating lanes. This could become very interesting.
TW: Is Assad _out_ of options?
Could become very interestin?
I have been almost5 unable to sleep for the last week.
KICK ASS, ISRAEL!!!
Interestin?
Don’t worry. It’s only the tequila…and the vicoden…
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Wow, and I do mean wow, those people just have a slight obsession problem.
Definitely. “Frothwrath” immediately plays the “murderous sanctions” card, the presence of U.S. troops on sacred KSA land, etc. There’s some argument going on at least, I’d put it at about a 40-60 split. Hell of a lot higher than I would have expected, I must admit.
RE: topsecretk’s “Lieberman Statue toppling” photoshop
So if it’s OK for lefties to photoshop Saddam into Lieberman, do they still get to whine about the imaginary Max Cleland “morph” into Saddam that they still bring up as if it really happened?
Ah, 1966. I was living in suburbia with my mom, dad and brother Wally. I hung out with Whitey, who disappeared everytime our hilarious hijinx went awry. Eddie Haskell played mean tricks on me. Well I remember the time I accidentally took a package of bras instead of the gift that I was to have brought to Miss Lander’s wedding. I was deeply embarrassed, but the laugh track kept going relentlessly.
People don’t know this, because it never aired, but once my dad caught me listening to “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and pounded the crap out of me. Little did he know that it was only a few years till “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?” would chart.
Considering that the Israelis haven’t fought a major ground war in almost 25 years, they seem to be getting back up to speed pretty quickly.
1966
Micro: I’m 12 – learning guitar, fall in love with Star Trek, babysit for 50 cents an hour and envy the cool high schoolers in the neighborhood
Macro: Vietnam is front and center; anti-war protests in DC; Arabs seeth in the ME against the Zionist entity and Israel develops a nuclear “project” (which Nixon, in 1970, comes to agreement with Meier to keep it “don’t ask, don’t tell”)
Nope, not all Dick Van Dyke and Rat Pack, no matter what nostalgic way-back lense we use.
Syrian tanks are massing on the Israeli border and that they are removing landmines, creating lanes
Stupid, if true.
What was that Dylan song? A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall?
Syrian tanks massing?
Ah, yes, b/c fighting a tank war with Israel has worked for the Arabs in the past.
(Here’s hoping some other nation that begins with U and ends with s and in the middle is nitedState is ready to open up a 2nd from on Syria’s ass should they try to invade Israel.)
“Front” not”from” dammit.
Syrian tanks at the border. Sounds like Syria will be needing to buy some replacement tanks soon. Russia still selling? I actually look forward, in an odd sort of way, to an all out war against Isreal in the ME. Isreal has not lost one yet. God is on Isreal’s side. Now what was that chapter, Ezekial 38? Bring it on, I’ll just sit back sipping tequila watching Isreal’s enemies being supernaturally destroyed.
New footage from GODCOM of Syrian tanks being destroyed by locusts . . .
New reports: The heads of Nassin, Addad and Ahmadinejad melt/explode after exposure to strange Israeli “Secret Weapon.” Olmert refuses to comment.
I’m still going to get those Farsi discs from Rosetta Stone…GODCOM hasn’t told me to stand down just yet, heh heh.
BUT, the Collective State sneeringly sneered to obsolete man “There is no God Mr. Wordsworth!”
TW: Sterling was way ahead of 66.
Hey, Major, watch out with that if you happen to be running a Mac — they’ve got a horrible bug.
I’d say if the reports are true, the Syrians re about to suffer an epidemic of crotch omelets. The Israelis are not going to play nice.
Latest post on CQ illuminates the strategy even further, as the Hezbians refuse to be disarmed and the whole ‘cessation of hostilities’ party may be put on hold while the IDF kicks their asses.
See Jeff, the chess game continues while the Hezbians hone their mad checkers skillz.
t/w:class, as in What have we learned today, class?
As hoped, Hezbollah has fallen into the U.S.-Israeli trap by refusing to disarm.
Lebanon, in turn, refuses to disarm Hezbollah by force, and Hezbollah refuses to let Lebanese troops into southern Lebanon. The U.N., for its part, refuses to send troops into southern Lebanon because it’s a war zone, and Israel refuses to withdraw until U.N. troops are deployed.
Thus Israel will be once again given the green light to destroy Hezbollah in a ground war, and if Syria wants some, Israel will oblige.
I hope your faith in Bush is restored, Jeff. He and Bolton and hopefully Rice knew that after that horrific U.N. resolution Israel would continue to be hit by Hezbollah, giving it the perfect rationale to finish the job but now under a de facto U.N. mandate.
What are the odds that this past month was an orchestrated effort by the U.S. and Israel to make Nasrallah overconfident and expose Lebanon as the puppet state it is?
TW: “Truth,” which is always stranger than fiction, delusionality, and partisan rage.
what’s wrong with hummus?
– If Syria gets in the frey, and that idea has teeth if the Jihad collective has mentaly escalated this conflict into “the war” with the West, how long do we wait if things do in fact escalate. We can’t sit on the sidelines forever.
– Nice that we have 140,000 troops within spitting distance, and the entire Pacific fleet within 3 days steaming time to the coast of Iran.
– Bring it on your SlobIslamic mofo’s.
And as if life wasn’t bad enough, there’s this:
– The Lebanese cabinet was supposed to meet today to discuss, among other things, the disarming of Hezbollah. The Hezzi’z said no way as soon as it was announced, and surprise, surprise, the Leb’s cancelled the cabinet meeting.
– They’re not going to accept any real change in the ground conditions until they’re thrown out on their asses, because they know that would be the dagger through the Jihad’s heart. We know, they know it, the UN knows it, everybody, including Italy and France knows it. Everyone is just stalling, trying to avoid the inevitable.
Tried to comment earlier; couldn’t get through. So what will happen? I’m afraid we are looking at recalcitrant parties who will not give. Then what? Regional war? Tonite I will pray to the only God I know, and ask for calm, if not peace.
Syria has other problems, too. The Kurds are unhappy campers. With sympathetic neighbors.
I can hear Turkish screams of outrage already.
SB: built
unbuilt
Turkey lost it’s utility as an “ally” when they told us to find another route into Iraq. Some thanks for having the Sixth Fleet and SETAF waiting to fling themselves into Turkey’s defense, for how long? Bah.
This is why I come here. Don’t agree with the politics, but I respect the military expertise. So I would still like to know what this long war looks like, because I will certainly be involved. Perspective? Anyone?
cynn: Well, do you like the taste of spam? Have you ever seen a gas rationing card? Are you handy with a wrench?
tw: kidding. Maybe.
Gas rationing. Hell at the existing prices its already being rationed voluntarily.
– Watch one of these price hikes being justified because “demand has fallen off, and we have to charge more or lose money”.
Ahem, yah, I can deal with deprivation, only because I’m a poor single mom. My kid, not so much. These things seem to run in generations. I am the very last of the boomers and so I missed the big dot-com and gen/ex boom, so my kid will inherit an enormous ad-hoc debt, as well as the typical “not my fault” ethos that seems to flow from the whole cesspool. But she’ll learn the bitter truth, as I have.
But, yes, thanks for your informed commentary.
cynn, if there was anybody who could definitively answer your question… he or she wouldn’t be here. There are better and more useful places for people with clear crystal balls.
That being said—look for Israel to continue killing Hizb’Allah. I expect at least one more long debate at the U.N., ending in another resolution under Article 6 (nobody, but nobody, at the UN is gonna talk Article 7 any time soon); during the “debate” the IDF will keep on truckin’ just as they are now. From there the decision tree splits several ways according to what the Iranians and their Syrian patsies do, but none of that will be clear for at least another few days.
Regards,
Ric
– Well the “branches may include a very bad mis-calculation by Nadidajerk, and the Syrians, if their thinking go’s:
1) This is “The War” of the 12th Imam.
2) They decide Bush is too weakened by low approval ratings and negative Iraq feeling’s to act.
– Then its not so much of a guess as to what will happen in time. Most ME analysts think the mad Mullahs are convicned they’ll be toppled by moderates, or even more extreme elements than themselves, if they don’t keep going forward with the Jihad. No matter what else happens things are at an unsolvable impasse as it stands, and we are the only player in the game with enough clout to force a change.
Thanks Ric, for at least addressing my concerns with other than a booyah lets killem all response.
Well, I as an armchair observer think it’s going to blow sky high over there (Europe). They (the obsructionists) suceeded in distrupting the airways. Oh, I give up; I’ll just stay home and ignore the whole issue.
cynn – If you honestly believe that stopping a plot of Islamofascists to blow up a dozen civilian aircraft, themselves including their children, and thousands of innocent people, was merely a contrived act of neocon “obstructionism”, I not only recommend you take your own concile, and stay home and “ignore the whole issue”, but would recommend you seek badly needed “guidence”.
Syn – You are right on about Serling. He was way a head of so much.
You also named one of my favorite episodes. The Twilight Zone was awesome. Another one in a similar vein is called “The Old Man in the Cave” and freaked me out.
Syrian tanks massing?
You mean they fixed the other one?
cynn: No one knows. Let’s just say we’re all waiting around for the other shoe to drop–if there is a shoe. A lot of the potential magnitude of this hostility depends on how much a religious fanatic Ahmad is. If he really believes he’s the Mahdi, he could easily do something that would spark a conflagration in the region and then all the rats will come popping out of the cellar. That spark could come from anywhere.
It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion.
If you’re interested in seeing what happens behind the scenes before the start of a world war, read Barbara Tuchman’s history of the run-up to WWI:’The Guns of August.’ Her portraits of the people involved are fascinating, and it reads like a novel. It will give you some perspective.
ahem,
I wouldn’t give out The Guns of August as history, as a novel – maybe. Tuchman wasn’t very, um, objective when it came to her subject matters (After I read her 30 Years War, I wanted to vomit everytime I heard the terms “Elector of Saxony” or “John George”).
cynn: Two actors control what will happen – Lebanon and Iran. Iran can keep stirring up the mess and keep it boiling, or Lebanon (not really fair to categorize “Lebanon” as a single entity) can say ‘enough’ and turn out the Hez. I suspect Iran will keep going – they really cannot stop, but the Lebanese might be getting tired of being a proxy battleground. They showed a lot of spine telling Syria to get out – they just might need some help with the Hez, however.
Car crash in slow motion is right.
I don’t know that one can say for certain whose side God is on– God is on His own side. However, God I would reckon is not on the side of cowards, murderers and liars.
Some think these labels apply to Israel. I disagree. While I don’t think Israel is the ‘Holy Land’ (no such thing exists anymore) Israel is a legitimate nation set up by the UN, and as such they have the right to self-defense. “Governments are not to be a terror to good works, but to evil.” (Paraphrasing Romans 13:3)
Jewishness is and has always been a rather fluid thing– even back in the day, a gentile could be baptised (purified by water) and become a Jew. There are ethnic jews who cannot trace their bloodline back to the 12 tribes, as well… so when Islamic Fascists say “Kill all of the Jews” They might as well mean everyone.
The language used to describe “The nation of Israel” in the Old Testament is mirrored by the Apostles in the new testament to describe Believers.
The conflict over there is representative of a lot of just wars, in my view. Israel is by no means “Good” but they are not by any means “Evil” either. In fact, it is rare for a nation to be truly “Good” in any description– nations by default persue their own best interests over the best interests of other nations– unless interests are shared.
Israel’s enemies however, are committed to her destruction. So, some people want to see the world in black and white (often those who accuse others of doing so)—war is always unjust and evil. peace is always just and good. But then, when it comes to their favorite idea or group, suddenly war is okay under certain circumnstances… or, war is okay only for the reasons they dictate at the time.
The situation would have been much different overall had Israel not been on the defensive to begin with. Part of the zeal of Zionism (the idea of Israeli Nationalism) is fed by the visciousness of Israel’s enemies.
But Zionism, for all its trappings of nationalism, has never been a genocidal cult. Like or dislike the strength of their patriotism and the reflexiveness of their defense, its not evil. Misguided and hamfisted at times, but not evil.
Evil is what they face down- Those who use every chance to pursue destruction. Israel does not teach its children to hate. But the radicals that have gained control in many places in the Middle East do.
So, fight on, our ally. I for one am behind you, and I need no invocations of God to support that position.
As for what the judgement of God is, isn’t their a scripture that says “How unreachable are the judgements of God, how mysterious his ways?” (Apologies for the paraphrase. I think that one is from Romans 2.)
Watch n’ pray, y’all.
Major: Yeah, I know, but Tuchman is entertaining and more accessible if someone is a casual reader of history. I believe in the value of entertainment to turn readers on to a subject. It often encourages them to discover more for themselves.
Just aim for the tow trucks, then they’re helpless.