(J)Blog Roundup - 2006-10-18
We're thinking of writing a children's story that puts Mere Rhetoric posts in perspective. It's not going well. We get as far as "Jill lived in Europe. Then radical Muslims took over, and she was never let out of her house again. When she grew up and managed to escape the suffocating four walls for an hour, she got too close to a man in a mall and was stoned to death". We ran it through some focus groups, and the results were less than positive.
Good morning, and here's your roundup.
* Not a blog link, but most blogs will be talking in one way or another abouts the beating of Bangladeshi peace activist Salah Choudhury. Choudhury, remember, is facing death for daring to try to go to a peace conference in Isreal. Yesterday he was savagely beaten by a Bangladeshi mob, and it looks like officials from the country's ruling party actually participated.
* Paris is a quagmire! No, seriously!
My friend Blueslord from Actual Jihad has translated an article from the French paper Le Figaro which indicates that this year police casualties will reach 15% of the total police force: "Violent acts are rising in an exponential proportion", says a speaker from the Police. "If this tendency continues, we will have 15% of the policemen hurt in a year". That means French police are suffering a higher number of casualties than are American armed forces in Iraq. The total number of casualties in Iraq per year is approximately 6,800, which represents about 4.5% of total American forces. The casualty rate for the French police force will be over 3 times higher than that of the American military forces in Iraq. That is a stunning statistic.
MR suggests another round of interfaith dialogue to patch things up!
* Tel-Chai Nation on Hamas's high tech arsenal. This might have a lot to do with the story that Astute Bloggers is sniffing around this morning, about an impending Israeli invasion of Gaza. When that invasion happens - and sooner or later it will - you should have bookmarked all the news of Hamas's arms buildup - a buildup that can only be directed at Israelis, in violation of every treaty signed by every country in the region. Not that those bookmarks will help convince anyone, but at least it'll take you less time to get outraged about the New York Times and LA Times coverage.
* Lynn fisks the Pittsburgh Post Gazette for writing articles based on the way that the PPG wishes Mid-East history was, rather than on the way it actually was.
* Jim Hoft has what Michelle Malkin will be talking about today - another outrage from the Ugly Left: Democratic Rep Steyn Hoyer lashed out at black Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele, accusing him of acting "slavish". More descriptions of the abhorent racist attacks that Steele has faced are listed on the site. Now everyone play "what if a Republican did it?" Except, of course, the Republican right is nowhere near as ugly and petulant and resentful as the grassroots Left, so it's tough to imagine. But try - just imagine a particularly outraged New York Tiems editorial page.
* Seriously?
* Spielberg's apartment shopping in Tel Aviv. Honestly, we tried to work in a Munich joke here but just couldn't make it work ("he has to have an equal number of houses in LA and Israel...?" Eh. Long morning. Sorry).
* Smooth Stone marks twenty years since Ronnie Arad was captured.
* Soccer Dad with typically exemplary liberal Jewish reasoning.
* We love the smell of anti-Israel conspiracy theories in the morning.
* Sol on the Grand Mufti's support for suicide bombings. That would be the Grand Mufti that Israel allows to live in Jerusalem, run Muslim affairs, and preach hate. We wanted to talk about a double-standard here, but it's not like the same thing isn't happening on a daily basis in London, Paris, Berlin, etc etc.
* Jewlicious with another reason to hate people on MySpace. As if you needed one.
* KT on the devestating rejoinder the Left's morally inexcusable martyrdom of Rachel Corrie.
* Ahmadinejad says that God has assured him that an Iranian victory is guaranteed. And we bet you didn't even know that Allah was back in the plutonium enrichment business.
* We're beginning to suspect that not all Reuters stringers are entirely neutral when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, it seems far more likely that they're producers and vehicles for blatant and intention propaganda.
* Anne has photoshop bait if anyone wants to take a crack at it.
* Daled Amos on Powerline on CAIR. Anne on Powerline on CAIR. Why don't we just link to Powerline directly you ask? What part of "Jewish conspiracy" don't you understand?
* Link to Powerline.
* Khamenei showed up to Friday prayers packing an AK. Probably just practicing for the day when he, too, will get to address the UN General Assembly.
* Good on Scott Adams for openly mocking the miserable excuse for human thought that is TSA security. Ditto for Tim Leffel at his Cheapest Destinations blog (h/t for the Dilbert blog link: Stan)
* Daled Amos is rounding up reviews of Kosher restaurants. Here's our contribution: "the steak sucked because it had all the blood drained out of it". The beauty is that you can use it for every Kosher restaurant on the planet. Speaking of Daled Amos: uhh... what?
* In unrelated news, the Consumerist has an article entitled Spammer Mad That People Call Him A Spammer. This is of no relevance to either us or you, except as a setup to the punchline: hmmm, maybe he should spam a few churches just to show that he's not a spammer - at the very least, that'll get the international press on his side
* It seems that the rotten thinking and reasoning that marks Middle East diplomacy is seeping into all of the political and cultural spheres that we live in. Apple just got caught shipping virus-infected iPods out of their factory, and their response was to blame Microsoft for not making Windows "more hardy". It's like these people are getting their arguments from Al Jazeera. (h/t for the iPod link: MR reader Esther).
* Seriously, if this Web 2.0 atrocity succeeds, we're quitting show business. The only thing it's good for is Santa Monica related drinking games: 1 shot for every Whole Foods missed connection, 2 shots for every dog walking incident, and finish your beer for anything involving Starbucks and strollers.
Good morning, and here's your roundup.
* Not a blog link, but most blogs will be talking in one way or another abouts the beating of Bangladeshi peace activist Salah Choudhury. Choudhury, remember, is facing death for daring to try to go to a peace conference in Isreal. Yesterday he was savagely beaten by a Bangladeshi mob, and it looks like officials from the country's ruling party actually participated.
* Paris is a quagmire! No, seriously!
My friend Blueslord from Actual Jihad has translated an article from the French paper Le Figaro which indicates that this year police casualties will reach 15% of the total police force: "Violent acts are rising in an exponential proportion", says a speaker from the Police. "If this tendency continues, we will have 15% of the policemen hurt in a year". That means French police are suffering a higher number of casualties than are American armed forces in Iraq. The total number of casualties in Iraq per year is approximately 6,800, which represents about 4.5% of total American forces. The casualty rate for the French police force will be over 3 times higher than that of the American military forces in Iraq. That is a stunning statistic.
MR suggests another round of interfaith dialogue to patch things up!
* Tel-Chai Nation on Hamas's high tech arsenal. This might have a lot to do with the story that Astute Bloggers is sniffing around this morning, about an impending Israeli invasion of Gaza. When that invasion happens - and sooner or later it will - you should have bookmarked all the news of Hamas's arms buildup - a buildup that can only be directed at Israelis, in violation of every treaty signed by every country in the region. Not that those bookmarks will help convince anyone, but at least it'll take you less time to get outraged about the New York Times and LA Times coverage.
* Lynn fisks the Pittsburgh Post Gazette for writing articles based on the way that the PPG wishes Mid-East history was, rather than on the way it actually was.
* Jim Hoft has what Michelle Malkin will be talking about today - another outrage from the Ugly Left: Democratic Rep Steyn Hoyer lashed out at black Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele, accusing him of acting "slavish". More descriptions of the abhorent racist attacks that Steele has faced are listed on the site. Now everyone play "what if a Republican did it?" Except, of course, the Republican right is nowhere near as ugly and petulant and resentful as the grassroots Left, so it's tough to imagine. But try - just imagine a particularly outraged New York Tiems editorial page.
* Seriously?
* Spielberg's apartment shopping in Tel Aviv. Honestly, we tried to work in a Munich joke here but just couldn't make it work ("he has to have an equal number of houses in LA and Israel...?" Eh. Long morning. Sorry).
* Smooth Stone marks twenty years since Ronnie Arad was captured.
* Soccer Dad with typically exemplary liberal Jewish reasoning.
* We love the smell of anti-Israel conspiracy theories in the morning.
* Sol on the Grand Mufti's support for suicide bombings. That would be the Grand Mufti that Israel allows to live in Jerusalem, run Muslim affairs, and preach hate. We wanted to talk about a double-standard here, but it's not like the same thing isn't happening on a daily basis in London, Paris, Berlin, etc etc.
* Jewlicious with another reason to hate people on MySpace. As if you needed one.
* KT on the devestating rejoinder the Left's morally inexcusable martyrdom of Rachel Corrie.
* Ahmadinejad says that God has assured him that an Iranian victory is guaranteed. And we bet you didn't even know that Allah was back in the plutonium enrichment business.
* We're beginning to suspect that not all Reuters stringers are entirely neutral when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, it seems far more likely that they're producers and vehicles for blatant and intention propaganda.
* Anne has photoshop bait if anyone wants to take a crack at it.
* Daled Amos on Powerline on CAIR. Anne on Powerline on CAIR. Why don't we just link to Powerline directly you ask? What part of "Jewish conspiracy" don't you understand?
* Link to Powerline.
* Khamenei showed up to Friday prayers packing an AK. Probably just practicing for the day when he, too, will get to address the UN General Assembly.
* Good on Scott Adams for openly mocking the miserable excuse for human thought that is TSA security. Ditto for Tim Leffel at his Cheapest Destinations blog (h/t for the Dilbert blog link: Stan)
* Daled Amos is rounding up reviews of Kosher restaurants. Here's our contribution: "the steak sucked because it had all the blood drained out of it". The beauty is that you can use it for every Kosher restaurant on the planet. Speaking of Daled Amos: uhh... what?
* In unrelated news, the Consumerist has an article entitled Spammer Mad That People Call Him A Spammer. This is of no relevance to either us or you, except as a setup to the punchline: hmmm, maybe he should spam a few churches just to show that he's not a spammer - at the very least, that'll get the international press on his side
* It seems that the rotten thinking and reasoning that marks Middle East diplomacy is seeping into all of the political and cultural spheres that we live in. Apple just got caught shipping virus-infected iPods out of their factory, and their response was to blame Microsoft for not making Windows "more hardy". It's like these people are getting their arguments from Al Jazeera. (h/t for the iPod link: MR reader Esther).
* Seriously, if this Web 2.0 atrocity succeeds, we're quitting show business. The only thing it's good for is Santa Monica related drinking games: 1 shot for every Whole Foods missed connection, 2 shots for every dog walking incident, and finish your beer for anything involving Starbucks and strollers.
