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According to Tablet, Israeli teens and soldiers are singing a Hamas pop anthem called “Up, Do Terror Attacks,” partly to be ironic, partly to make fun of Hamas, and partly because they like the tune. (It is catchy.)

But they’re also laughing at the fractured Hebrew and have turned it into various parodies such as this one from the Lion King: “…revealing the Hamas song to be an anthem better suited to a fictional army of animated rodents than to Israel’s real-life human neighbors.”

Go see the latter for the parody as well as the tune before Disney complains about the copyright violation and YouTube takes it down. Lyrics at the first link.

Via Tablet Magazine

Miriam’s last name is Sawyer, it says on the cover of Nothing Much (which is actually quite a lot), though I never knew that reading her blog Miriam’s Ideas.

Her humor has always been gentle but still revealing and though she seems to try to avoid politics (I try but usually fail) she can be devastating with it, as in this excerpt from the book:

“I wasn’t always a Republican. I began life as a Democrat. This was particularly useful in Albany, NY, where Republicans did not have potholes in their streets fixed or the snow removed (There was a lot of snow)…”

So Miriam, one of those rare things, a Jewish Republican, sometimes takes a bloggy whack at Democrat losers like Al Bore. But mostly she writes about her former life as a librarian (very amusing in case you didn’t know that already) and family and manages to make it all seem very cozy. Even when it isn’t.

Most of the tales in the book are laugh-out-loud funny. I read them to Mrs. Charm who joined me in the merriment.

You need Miriam’s book. You need her blog. The former is just $1.99, big spender. The latter, you lucky dog, is free. See my blogroll on the left. So to speak.

Perfect tabloid headline, in this case written by a blogger: “I totally forgot that I had nothing under my suit.”

All about a Russian speed skater named Olga (what else?) who won an Olympic bronze and then unzipped the front of her skin-tight costume, forgetting she had nothing on under it. Supposedly highly embarrassed. Uh huh.

It’s classic tabloid headline bait-n-switch.

Although she’s pretty in the face, the pictures show the poor thing has no shape to speak of. Indeed, Olga’s flat as the prairie in the winter, with or without snow.

I rather enjoy them. About time someone reminded us of the Big Talker’s genuine history of predation now that his wife is threatening to give him a third term. The Dems, of course, are resentful, but Ann Althouse takes the high road on Rand’s probable reasons:

“1. He believes in the principle of workplace equality and is dismayed at how predatory individuals seeking personal sexual pleasure have disrupted the meritocracy that should prevail.

“2. Someone on the Republican side needs to be able to counter the ‘war on women’ propaganda of the Democrats, and no one else seems to have the guts or skill to do it properly.

“3. He dislikes the idea that the distinction of first female President should go to a woman who leveraged her power through a male who she knew was taking advantage of women.

“4. He knows that if the Democrats had material like this to use against a Republican candidate, they would have no mercy.”

Works for me. And I agree with one of Ann’s commenters that Rand should get the GOP nomination in 2016. If Ted Cruz doesn’t. Not that I expect either will.

Via Althouse.