Repentance is over. Time to get your snark on.
* Anybody remember when a person could blog whatever they wanted without fear of being “corrected” for being “wrong”? Lynn-B from InContext calls us out publicly:
Dear Omri, Please correct this, too. I do not support Bob Casey, although I will, most likely, be reluctantly voting for him. And I, too, would love to see him denounce the moronic drivel by the commenters at MoveOn.org. But I’m not sure it’s really worth his time to bother, any more than it’s worth his opponent’s time to denounce every nut job that comments on right wing websites. I’d find it more meaningful, actually, if Santorum would denounce his own moronic drivel. But I don’t expect that to happen. Thanks.
First of all, are we the only ones who don’t think that her “Thanks” was totally sincere? Links are in the original, including helpful guides to all the corrections we’ve had to issue in the last week.
* While you’re over at In Context, you should read her thoughts and observations about the Clinton meltdown. Lynn doesn’t post as often as we’d like – whenever she does, she can be counted on to suggest interesting connections and related dynamics that have escaped the conventional wisdom.
* Premise: after the Foley scandal pissed off social conservatives, there was only one part of the GOP base still somewhat willing to pull the lever Republican – people who believed that no matter what, the Republicans were better than the Democrats in the war against political Islam. Fact: Senate Majority leader Bill Frist took this opportunity to declare that the US should invite the Taliban into the Afghan government. Conclusion: the GOP wants to lose the House and Senate in November.
* Sol follows anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity in Greece. It’s nice to see that Israel is a place where the Greeks can come together with their historic Turkish enemies – NATO must be pleased.
* Hamas will not recognize Israel. In other news… oh forget it.
* Hmmm… KesherTalk has a Kabbalah post:
You remember how it was when you were a small child? How everything was new and full of wonder? Even if you had a hard childhood, your mind would open from time to time, everything around you would fall away, and you felt yourself joined with something higher. You know what I’m talking about. Don’t tell me you don’t remember.
Honestly, and we don’t mean to be difficult here, but not really.
* Jerry Gordon on Islamist violence in Thailand.
* Carl in Jerusalem continues to play Charlie Brown to the Palestinians’ Lucy. They’re not going to descend into a civil war – they just don’t have the attention span. No really, we don’t care how much shooting there is. Won’t happen. Meryl’s got the media bias angle on this story.
* Pure Awesome.
* Did you see how just about everybody on the planet linked to our girl Clarice’s Foley post last week? And, no, of course we don’t call her “our girl” to her face – she insists on the more formal “the plaintiff”. And no, of course she doesn’t talk to us.
* Hey, the BBC wants to know if anyone else has heard about this Iranian nukes thing.
* Pamela’s following rioting in France. And does anybody have ANY idea what that graphic embedded in the post is?
* Van continues to follow the story of Anne Murphy the Irish Catholic impregnanted by her Jordanian lover and then – unbeknownst to her – sent on an El Al flight with enough Semtex to bring down the whole plane. Anne Murphy: “what man is pure unadulterated evil. You are talking about someone who has never shown even a flicker of remorse or once said he was sorry.”
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