(J)Blog Roundup - 2006-10-11
Natalie Portman is always welcome in our sukkah, and other mostly jbloggish news. Good morning.
* Muslims are now claiming that they are offended by things that are square. Please understand, we're not exaggerating.
* Anne gets hate mail. Lucky girl. Also check out her reminder that many religious Palestinians are kind of committed to, you know, global conquest and total genocide.
* Good catch on Astute Bloggers: "Muslim" victims, "Asian" violence.
* Totally, batshit crazy.
* Meryl is happy that Israel is telling Assad that, no thanks, Israel kind of likes the Golan. We're happy about it too - it always warms our heart when Jerusalem takes our advice (what do you mean no one in the Israeli government reads this blog... really?) Speaking of which, Carl in Jerusalem doesn't like it when people imply that the Golan is different from the West Bank. Yeah, we dunno - we kind of think that the Golan is different from the West Bank. For instance, we like just about all of the places on the Golan Heights, while if Hebron would sink into the ground tomorrow... Sorry, we know it's got religious significance. But we just can't make ourselves care. We tried, but we failed.
* Iran says that the US was responsible for NoKo's nuke test. We're disappointed - we were hoping they'd find a way to blame it on the Jews. But we're only a couple of days after the test - give them time.
* Lair is unimpressed with the geostrategic sensibilities of the Egyptian FM. He doesn't think anyone will actually believe that the FM believes that Hamas wants peace. But that's not what the FM is up to. It's not about going through the motions - it's about pretending to go through the motions so as to continue the nudge-nudge wink-wink of anti-Israel displomacy. Everyone is on the same page: no one actually believes that anyone else believes that Hamas wants peace. It's just that they have to act like they do so that they can continue the double-standard anti-Israel game we call diplomacy.
* Pamela goes Snoop Dog the word jihad. Fo shizzy.
* Here's the thing: Children in the Arab and Muslim world don't naturally hate Jews. It's just that from a very young age, everything they're taught about Israel is a lie, so that even the intellectual, moderate ones end up virulently opposed to Jewish self-determination. So even adjusting for Israel Matzav's tendency to sometimes... er... flatten distinctions that ought not be flattened, the trends in LA's school system are a little troubling.
* Republicans mock the MSM for not recognizing that we're in a sustained economic boom rather than a Clinton-esque bubble. Uhhh.... Also, Uhhh.....
* Hezbollah used civilian areas to make war on Israel. No really, they did.
* Rightwingsparkle tries to mobilize the base. To be honest, eh. We're just unenthused. But if you want some red meat (or at least some false hope), Ocean Guy has a post up entitled Why the Democrats Lose.
* Sol says that San Francisco State axed building a Palestinian-themed Edward Said mural. We don't know why they did that - it would have been so perfect.
* Via SerandEz, a video of Sheik Jassem Al-Muawah using some MS Paint clone to explain the difference between men and women. "in a woman, speech comes first... talking is no. 1... talking precedes thinking". This is the single smartest thing we've ever seen on Islamic TV.
* Jaybean knows the way to our heart: Scylla, Charybdis, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, and a post about the messy pragmatism of democracy.
* Kesher Talk has Dennis Miller YouTubes. Hysterical. Dennis Miller has been mocking terrorists for decades now. His 1988 Off-White Album even has a little bit on Arafat, as well as our single favorite bit on moral equivalence ever: "we have to get Biblical with these terrorists. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. They kill one of us, maybe we kill one of them. Now I know that's a heinous thing to say. Sociologists will tell you [[[that] if we do that we lower ourselves to their level and they win. Alright maybe they do win, but, uh... nice to know a couple of their boys won't at the trophy ceremony".
* Natalie Portman's accent is so good that we half-expected her to bitching about the traffic on the Ayalon. Natalie, call us. Please.
* War is coming. Not a joke.
* IRIS reporting on a man who nearly killed his daughter and did kill his wife. The daughter said she was going to convert, and the mom got in the way when the dad went after her. A Muslim source justified the crimes because, as you know, anything is justified to stop apostasy.
* Unlike Elder of Zionst, we don't really find the David Zucker ad all that funny. No particular reason - it just tries too hard.
* Liberal jblogger DovBear addresses the real threat to American Jewry: the erosion of the seperation between Church and State.Given that we went to college with American Jews who didn't know what Easter is or who Mary was, maybe "shoving" Christianity "down [kids'] throats in public school" might not be the worst idea. Because it'd be nice for the future leaders of the American-Jewish community to know something about America in addition to their knowledge about Judaism. But even if that wasn't the case, yeah, we still don't think this is a particularly pressing issue.
* Daled Amos says James Baker is back. We didn't even know he left.
* Muslims are now claiming that they are offended by things that are square. Please understand, we're not exaggerating.
* Anne gets hate mail. Lucky girl. Also check out her reminder that many religious Palestinians are kind of committed to, you know, global conquest and total genocide.
* Good catch on Astute Bloggers: "Muslim" victims, "Asian" violence.
* Totally, batshit crazy.
* Meryl is happy that Israel is telling Assad that, no thanks, Israel kind of likes the Golan. We're happy about it too - it always warms our heart when Jerusalem takes our advice (what do you mean no one in the Israeli government reads this blog... really?) Speaking of which, Carl in Jerusalem doesn't like it when people imply that the Golan is different from the West Bank. Yeah, we dunno - we kind of think that the Golan is different from the West Bank. For instance, we like just about all of the places on the Golan Heights, while if Hebron would sink into the ground tomorrow... Sorry, we know it's got religious significance. But we just can't make ourselves care. We tried, but we failed.
* Iran says that the US was responsible for NoKo's nuke test. We're disappointed - we were hoping they'd find a way to blame it on the Jews. But we're only a couple of days after the test - give them time.
* Lair is unimpressed with the geostrategic sensibilities of the Egyptian FM. He doesn't think anyone will actually believe that the FM believes that Hamas wants peace. But that's not what the FM is up to. It's not about going through the motions - it's about pretending to go through the motions so as to continue the nudge-nudge wink-wink of anti-Israel displomacy. Everyone is on the same page: no one actually believes that anyone else believes that Hamas wants peace. It's just that they have to act like they do so that they can continue the double-standard anti-Israel game we call diplomacy.
* Pamela goes Snoop Dog the word jihad. Fo shizzy.
* Here's the thing: Children in the Arab and Muslim world don't naturally hate Jews. It's just that from a very young age, everything they're taught about Israel is a lie, so that even the intellectual, moderate ones end up virulently opposed to Jewish self-determination. So even adjusting for Israel Matzav's tendency to sometimes... er... flatten distinctions that ought not be flattened, the trends in LA's school system are a little troubling.
* Republicans mock the MSM for not recognizing that we're in a sustained economic boom rather than a Clinton-esque bubble. Uhhh.... Also, Uhhh.....
* Hezbollah used civilian areas to make war on Israel. No really, they did.
* Rightwingsparkle tries to mobilize the base. To be honest, eh. We're just unenthused. But if you want some red meat (or at least some false hope), Ocean Guy has a post up entitled Why the Democrats Lose.
* Sol says that San Francisco State axed building a Palestinian-themed Edward Said mural. We don't know why they did that - it would have been so perfect.
* Via SerandEz, a video of Sheik Jassem Al-Muawah using some MS Paint clone to explain the difference between men and women. "in a woman, speech comes first... talking is no. 1... talking precedes thinking". This is the single smartest thing we've ever seen on Islamic TV.
* Jaybean knows the way to our heart: Scylla, Charybdis, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, and a post about the messy pragmatism of democracy.
* Kesher Talk has Dennis Miller YouTubes. Hysterical. Dennis Miller has been mocking terrorists for decades now. His 1988 Off-White Album even has a little bit on Arafat, as well as our single favorite bit on moral equivalence ever: "we have to get Biblical with these terrorists. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. They kill one of us, maybe we kill one of them. Now I know that's a heinous thing to say. Sociologists will tell you [[[that] if we do that we lower ourselves to their level and they win. Alright maybe they do win, but, uh... nice to know a couple of their boys won't at the trophy ceremony".
* Natalie Portman's accent is so good that we half-expected her to bitching about the traffic on the Ayalon. Natalie, call us. Please.
* War is coming. Not a joke.
* IRIS reporting on a man who nearly killed his daughter and did kill his wife. The daughter said she was going to convert, and the mom got in the way when the dad went after her. A Muslim source justified the crimes because, as you know, anything is justified to stop apostasy.
* Unlike Elder of Zionst, we don't really find the David Zucker ad all that funny. No particular reason - it just tries too hard.
* Liberal jblogger DovBear addresses the real threat to American Jewry: the erosion of the seperation between Church and State.Given that we went to college with American Jews who didn't know what Easter is or who Mary was, maybe "shoving" Christianity "down [kids'] throats in public school" might not be the worst idea. Because it'd be nice for the future leaders of the American-Jewish community to know something about America in addition to their knowledge about Judaism. But even if that wasn't the case, yeah, we still don't think this is a particularly pressing issue.
* Daled Amos says James Baker is back. We didn't even know he left.
