Category Archives: Scribbles

Gamla

Posted on June 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Gamla

One of my favorite spots in Israel is the national park at Gamla. Most of my “establishing” photos came out blurry, so I’ll use this one via Absolute Astronomy.

Gamla dates to 81 BCE and was the capital of the Jewish Golan Heights for about 150 years, until it fell to the Romans in 67 CE, three years before they destroyed Jerusalem. To some sensibilities, Gamla was liberated almost exactly 1,900 years later, in the 1967 war—which was started, as usual for modern Israel, by the Arabs. Archeologists soon discovered that much remained at Gamla, untouched by all but time.

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It’s Israel double-standard time

Posted on June 3, 2011 | Comments Off on It’s Israel double-standard time

My Israeli pal Snoopy-the-Goon really did his homework on this one—stunning evidence of how the U.S. got praised for the extra-legal killing of the terrorist figurehead bin Laden, while Israel got condemned for offing (in the very same manner) an active terrorist operative of Hamas.

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Weinergate

Posted on June 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Weinergate

Naw, I’m not going to write any of those shabby play-on-words. I won’t even throw up the picture of the famous Weiner Mobile of that hot dog company, you know, the one they drive around town advertising their, uh, meat.

But now that there’s a stripper involved (shades of Wilbur Mills and Fanny Foxe, if your memory extends all the way back to 1974, and wouldn’t Wilbur have lost it with a Twitter account?), this deal is really getting out of hand.

Uh, oh. Never mind. I said I wouldn’t, and I won’t. Nope. Not here. This is a family blog. I won’t even do it in Russian like some people I know.

Ann Coulter, now, whose humor on this subject I will not repeat here, is a very funny read. As usual. Don’t miss it.

UPDATE:  New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner admits he lied. He, ahem, did send that “crotch shot” photo to a young woman he met on the Internet, unbeknownst to his new, Muslim, wife. And, of course, the pol refuses to resign. Doesn’t matter. He’s toast.

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Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Posted on June 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Bibi’s “lecturing” of Obamalot provoked some of the administration’s pundit acolytes. But Bibi had been under the One’s guns for some time and must have felt a riposte was overdue.

“After one of his meetings with Netanyahu, Barack Obama simply told the prime minister that he was going upstairs to have dinner. You wouldn’t say that to an ordinary neighbor visiting in your home, without inviting him to join you.

“Obama knew that. Netanyahu knew that. It was a calculated insult. And the American public would have heard about it, if so much of the media didn’t have such a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil and speak-no-evil attitude in its coverage of Barack Obama.”

As always, Thomas Sowell is worth a read.

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More 175th Texas Revolution

Posted on May 31, 2011 | Comments Off on More 175th Texas Revolution

Contrary to debunkers belief, the Alamo defenders were not strictly Anglos. These reenactors portray some of the Alamo’s Tejano volunteers in the 1836 battle.

A snap by San Antonio author and retired Air Force veteran Celia Hayes who notes they are a “titch older” than the men they portray. And porkier, I might add. Don’t the young (and fit) care about these things?

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Aida at Masada

Posted on May 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Aida at Masada

I was picturing my favorite Verdi classical opera, the tragic love story of an Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian army officer, on the largely barren crest of the 2,000-year-old Jewish fortress of Masada.

Alas, it seems it will be “at the footsteps” of Masada in June, apparently on the west side, “with the majestic mountain as a backdrop” not far from the Dead Sea. Well, a few miles from it, actually, though in the stark landscape out there it doesn’t seem that far away.

Now that I think of it, it would be a bear trying to get all those sets and stuff, not to mention the musicians, the dancers, the extras, and the cast, up on the top with only two cable cars. Asking them to use the long, winding “snake path” would be out of the question. Then, there’s the audience, going and coming. Couldn’t work, obviously. Pity.

It’s still impressive, the Israeli Opera doing such a thing out there. Wonder what the ghosts will make of it all?

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No white man can beat Obamalot

Posted on May 28, 2011 | Comments Off on No white man can beat Obamalot

Bad as he is, and Barry-the-president (an adolescent who doesn’t do his homework) is baaad, no old white male Republican is going to beat him out of a second term. That’s my belief. And Shelby Steele deftly explains why:

“….anyone who runs against Mr. Obama will be seen through the filter of this racial impressionism, in which white skin is redundant and dark skin is fresh and exceptional. This is the new cultural charisma that the president has introduced into American politics.”

Steele thinks running against political correctness might do it. I don’t agree. I think the ONLY way to beat Barry, is for the GOP to nominate a woman.

So far, only Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann seem ready to run. Although whether either will is questionable. Condoleezza Rice could work but she doesn’t seem to want it. But it better be one of them because no white man has a chance. And four more years of our affirmative-action president could be devastating.

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