Archive for February 26th, 2004
Quote of the Day
“That ball’s gotta go. It’s like the ring from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and we’re kind of like Frodo, trying to get it over with.”
– Grant DePorter, who is organizing an event to destroy a baseball that figured in the Chicago Cub’s wrenching loss during Game 6 of baseball’s National League championship [...]
Quote of the Day
“That ball’s gotta go. It’s like the ring from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and we’re kind of like Frodo, trying to get it over with.”
– Grant DePorter, who is organizing an event to destroy a baseball that figured in the Chicago Cub’s wrenching loss during Game 6 of baseball’s National League championship [...]
The UN and the Jews
Being an international lawyer and a member of the governing board of U.N. Watch, Anne Bayefsky knows more than most about the UNs dire record vis-a-vis Israel.
In U.N. Request to Court Disregards Israel’s Side of the Story, Anne describes how the UNs request for advice from the ICJ on the ”legal consequences” of Israel’s security [...]
Talk About Karma
Jenny Tonge’s political party have done something incredibly stupid. That is, something incredibly stupid besides keeping her.
Britain’s Liberal Democrat party accidentally e-mailed its draft election plans to Welsh members of the ruling Labor Party Tuesday, unwittingly unveiling what would normally be a closely guarded secret.
A general election is not expected until the first half of [...]
Face The Truth
Everyone’s favourite deity has drawn my attention to this Reuters picture of a PLO Arab girl with a map on her cheek of what looks suspiciously like more than the post-1967 disputed territories.
I very much doubt if her teachers intend on introducing her to the concept of two states living side by side in peace [...]
Islam Online on Extremists
According to Islam Online, an “extremist” is someone who, for example, peacefully lobbies against the construction of a mosque.
This is not to be confused with a “freedom fighter” or “martyr”, who murders innocent men, woman and children.
Passionate Reactions
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ has had mixed reviews, with some of the more positive reviews proclaiming it “a stunning film” and “dramatically intense, skillfully constructed and often harrowing.” The more negative reviews lament the unrelenting violence, with Carrey Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer pithily summarizing it as “too much Good Friday and not [...]
Blog-Shmog-Shmuley
Self-promoting Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, has a weblog – well, kind of. It is on his site, but written by someone else. And it is off to a rocky beginning. The first entry, posted on Monday Feb 16 reads:
Welcome to Shmuley’s new Web site. Please let us know what you think.Sounds like an invitation for trouble [...]
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