Mere Rhetoric
What is becoming to a city is manpower, to a body beauty, to a soul wisdom, to an action virtue, to a speech truth, and the opposites of these are unbecoming — Gorgias of Leontini, Encomium of Helen
Dishka’s total lack of interest while she flips through the book is all kinds of disaffected hipster awesome:
Exit question: is it really the case that the only problem in our life is that we’re not the guy dancing with Tasha? Could be, could very well be.
Shabbat shalom everybody
References:
* Lip sync is dead [tasha / YouTube]
Previously:
* Video: Tasha Fridays, Two For One
* Tasha and Dishka Fridays – Mmmm. Beer.
* Tasha and Dishka Fridays – Go Cry, Emo Kid [Video]
Here’s the really unseemly thing about these vicious, genocidal Islamic lunatics – total ingrates:
What does a misguided American administration have to do to get some love from these people? They kept Israel leashed during the entire war – no attacks on Lebanese infrastructure being used by Hezbollah, no attacks against Hezbollah infrastructure that was connected to the government, etc. Israel couldn’t get Nasrallah while he was in Beirut because Israeli attacks on Beirut were – wait for it – being strongly condemned by the State Department. And still nothing.
Allah reports that there are to be house parties held throughout the land in celebration. MR will even be holding our own house party in support of the campaign. Except by “house” we mean “bar” and by “party” we mean “tab”. But it will be in support of the campaign – upon that you can rely.
Hey, what do you think the odds are that the AP writeup included a drive-by slam at Jeri Thompson? Answer: Yes:
Did the Democrats really stack the GAO surge report by asking if the Iraqis had “completed” the benchmarks? Really?
We’re inclined to agree with Hitchens that you don’t just quit because things are going poorly…
Wrap your mind around this: the NYT is actually not burying the lede on the IAEA’s report of massive Iranian advancement in the development of weapons-grade nuclear material. Of course, just about everybody else has found an anti-American, pro-Iranian spin in the report: “yeah, but they’re slowing down the new ways that they’re violating UN resolutions”. But for some reason, not the NYT. Wonders never cease:
It’s Friday, the real news is depressing, and this has a connection to our most recent alma mater. Plus it brutalizes the LA Times, which around here makes it pure media critique gold:
We know that AIPAC has been under a ton of pressure lately, what with all their studious and correct not caring at all about Walt and Mearsheimer’s “the Jews have brainwashed good Christian boys and girls” hysterics. And so we’ve made this:
This map starts at AIPAC and goes to the row of Israeli markets and bakeries on Fairfax. Inside these markets and bakeries there are shelves and shelves of decent hummus. If you’re from AIPAC, nota bene: this hummus does not resemble the “hummus” from your events in appearance, texture, color, or taste. This is not a coincidence. You’re welcome.
Hey, just in case anybody is keeping track at home – yes, Palestinian terrorists are still trying to commit mass atrocities:
This appeared in the Hot Air headlines earlier this week, and is hereby rescued in all of its sheer awesomeness:
The Danger Room article goes on to point out that defense companies have been promising us these things for three decades, and that we shouldn’t expect any field-operated laser rifles any time soon. Which is kind of like giving a kitten a cute little ball of string and then taking it away, all while pointing and laughing. Sadists.
We’d like to thank the State Department for keeping the IAF leashed during Lebanon II, the United Nations for stopping the war just as Israeli soldiers were getting poured across the border, and pretty much everyone else for the fantastic job they’ve been doing with Iran:
Sometimes when Iran talks about wiping out six million Jews, it seems like 1938. Sometimes when they’re rebuilding their military and bringing it to par with the rest of the planet, it’s more like 1933:
Happy Thursday.
References:
* YouTube – Iran unveils ’smart bomb’ [StefanSchmiederer / YouTube]
Previously:
* Iran Test-Fires Dozens Of Nuke-Ready Long Range Missiles In "Great Prophet" Exercises
* Iran Elected To UN Human Rights Council, Appointed To Plan Anti-Racism Conference. Hey, Why Not?
* Purdue Nuclear Strategy Expert: Bomb Iran Now
Mainstream Israeli hip hop expressing themes of socio-economic egalitarianism and justice that the international left should be quite supportive of. For some reason they’re not. Instead, millions and millions of ostensible social leftists march in the streets hysterically screaming about how the Jewish State has to be destroyed. Must be objective and dispassionate anti-Zionism driving the whole thing:
Translation note: “ha matzav” is “the situation,” which is roughly idiomatic for “this situation in which the Palestinians and their Arab allies refuse to stop trying to wipe out millions and millions of Israeli Jews”.
Pop quiz: what does Hamas hate more than “having their own people die slow, painful deaths”? If you answered “doctors”, you’re the big winner. Except in a particularly sad and tragic way:
Because honestly, why wouldn’t they?
Here’s a video we haven’t posted in a while. It randomly came over the YouTube feed this morning, so why not:
We’re kind of fibbing in the hed, since that quote is only in reference to a specific part of the project. But if you want to get a sense for the incalculable loss that the human history will suffer – again – if they allow millions of Jews to be overrun, get to at least the middle where they go through the dozens of Israeli contributions to the current work at CERN. And if you have a couple more minutes, the very typical Israeli back and forth about budgetary matters is pretty amusing:
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