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Why The Palestinians Will Never Win

Posted on December 3, 2012 | Comments Off on Why The Palestinians Will Never Win

“But I do know that if Palestinians moved to nonviolence and undertook a smart campaign to improve their image here, they’d turn things around on a dime.”

Do tell. But they won’t. They can’t. Anger, threat and blowing up discos is all they know. Not to mention rocketing nursery schools.

Get them off the international dole, now, and maybe… Naw.

Via Simply Jews.

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Alcohol vs marijuana

Posted on December 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Alcohol vs marijuana

Now that Mr. B. plays football in middle school, I am repeatedly reminded of society’s double standard when it comes to alcohol vs marijuana. Not that he does either of those yet, but their culture affects football players in college and the pros and I’m sure some of it begins in high school.

“In the bizarre macho ethos of the NFL, alcoholism is ignored, pain killer abuse is encouraged and other violent, off-field behavior is winked at because these are byproducts of the kind of destructive masculinity that the NFL markets every Sunday. Marijuana, in contrast, is for hippies, beatniks and long-hairs.”

Via Drug WarRant.

Worth a read, even if it is in that execrable Lefty rag The Nation. The truth, of course, is that many college and NFL football players ignore the hippie label and smoke pot—as they have since high school.

They are (despite lefty slander) actually smart enough to know that the pot high is gentler than the alcohol one, less likely to make them belligerent or ill, and it fades away much sooner. Altogether, it’s the smarter way to get high, and way too many young players have their careers and lives ruined when some petulant thug from the badge gang arrests them for it.

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What the Democrat media needs to investigate

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Posted on November 30, 2012 in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Scribbles

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Why most Americans back Israel

Posted on November 28, 2012 | Comments Off on Why most Americans back Israel

I’ve tried to explain to Israeli friends why it’s not just some American Jews and most fundamentalist American Christians, but a whopping majority of Americans whose religion is far less formal (or even nonexistent) who back Israel unequivocally.

Walter Russell Mead does a much better job of it.

“….when Israel brings the big guns and fast planes against Gaza’s popguns and low tech missiles, a great many Americans see nothing but common sense at work. These Americans aren’t mad about ‘disproportionate’ Israeli violence in Gaza because they don’t really accept the concept of proportionality in war. They think that if you have jus ad bellum [right to fight], and rocket strikes from Gaza are definitely that, you get something close to a blank check when it comes to jus in bello [justice in war].

“If anything, rather than weakening American sympathy for Israel, Israel’s response in Gaza (and the global criticism that surrounds it) is likely to strengthen the bonds of respect and esteem that many Americans feel for Israelis. Far from seeing Israel’s use of overwhelming force against limited provocation as harsh or immoral, many Americans see it as courageous and wise. It strengthens the sense that in a wacky world where a lot of foreigners are hard to understand, the Israelis are honest, competent and reliable friends — good people to have on your side in a tight spot.”

Which is why I believe that when Americans learn that Barry is threatening to withdrawn military support from Israel unless Israel does what he says, Democrat politicians who don’t immediately turn on him will have a very hard time getting re-elected.

Read it all here.

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Rule 5: Stella Angelova

Posted on November 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Stella Angelova

Nubile Bulgarian gymnast juggling with sword. Watch the video at the link.

Via Cobb.

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Our double-talkin’, Muslim-lovin’ prez

Posted on November 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Our double-talkin’, Muslim-lovin’ prez

JoshuaPundit claims inside information (probably Israeli politico sources) on what Barry was saying out the other side of his mouth while the one side was publically supporting Israel’s defensive operations against Hamas:

“According to a couple of my notorious lil’ birdies who are very much in a position to know, the Israelis fully intended to go into Gaza and eradicate Hamas. A country like Israel doesn’t call up that many reserves and affect its economy unless they were serious about the matter.

“But then the Obama Administration intervened.

“They were perfectly happy for Israel to go in to Gaza and take out Hamas, but insisted that they then turn Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority. This was supposed to strengthen PA President Mahmoud Abbas as ‘Palestine’s savior’ . As as a kicker, President Obama insisted that Israel immediately declare a Palestinian State in Gaza and most of Judea and Samaria, including areas currently under Israeli sovereignty from which the Jewish residents would then be removed. These were also to be turned over to Abbas.

“If the Israelis were unwilling to have the IDF do Mahmoud Abbas’ dirty work for him and then give up large areas populated by Jews, then the Obama Administration told the Israelis the U.S. would not back an IDF ground assault in Gaza.”

I doubt we can expect our pathetic Democrat news media to follow this up, or present any equally-believable scenario. So far they haven’t bothered to note that Barry is now negotiating with terrorists, if only as a silent partner. Despite laws to the contrary he has also (since July) allowed Hamas and other Jihadi backers to raise money for weapons in the U.S.

So we’ll take JP’s angle  for now. It makes as much sense as anything else we could expect our Muslim-lovin’ prez to do. Some have suggested he’s probably embarrassed that his Egyptian interlocutor Morsi has now revealed himself as a dictator. But I doubt it. Barry himself hasn’t been at all  scrupulous in following the U.S. Constitution.

Via Simply Jews, where Mr. Goon has his own good, if unhappy, analysis.

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Bible lesson

Posted on November 24, 2012 | Comments Off on Bible lesson

“If only King David were alive today he may have been spared his problems caused by watching a hottie take a bath. Sure, Uriah [the Hittite] still dies but the story would only be about some saucy e-mails and a few laughable talking points.”

Commenter Matt Clegg, on the Petraeus-Broadwell-Allen-Kelly “sex” scandal, at the Orange County Register where Mark Steyn is merely funny, as usual.

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