Archive for September, 2007

Separated at Birth

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Statue of Liberty.

And that’s where the comparisons end.

Shiri Negari

While I was in the hospital earlier this week, awaiting the entry of my fourth child into this world , Michelle Malkin – as well as a host of others – were paying tribute to someone else’s child, who was cruelly taken from this world.
I am referring to Shiri Negari, who was murdered by a [...]

Get Carter

AFP reports:
Former US president Jimmy Carter joined the ranks of movie stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the world premiere of “Man from Plains,” the biopic about his life, which premiered Monday at the Toronto film festival.
The documentary by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (”The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia”) follows Carter [...]

Terror Entanglements

This next story is enough to make Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad go “In the PA controlled territories, they don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery.
The [...]

Rumors

Ynetnews reports:
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on Thursday evening denied the report that he had met with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
“Israel is spreading these rumors in the Israeli press,” the Syrian minister told the Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera.
Here are some other rumors that may or may [...]

It’s a Girl

Weighing in at 4.17kg. I breed them big, I tell ya.
No podcast of the birth this year since it occurred on a Jewish festival day, which is kind of like Shabbos. And you should all know there are some things I don’t do on such days.

Someone confronted Ahmadinejad and you didn’t hear about it

This is from the following Ynet news story about the wife of the kidnapped soldier, Ehud Goldwasser, getting into a press conference with Ahmadinejad to ask him a simple question.
Goldwasser recounts confrontation with Ahmadinejad
Goldwasser said she was not afraid to present the president with her question, and asked him, “Hello, my name is Karnit, the [...]

Simply Weird

This picture of a now deceased palestinian negotiator caught my eye.

What is with that curly-haired guy in the background?
Looks like a cross between Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and simply weird singer Michael Jackson.

Birth Update

Who does number four work for?
Obviously not my wife and I.
After 12 hours on pitocin to induce labor, still nothing. Seems like the latest mini-me is too comfortable in there. So I’ve come home for a few hours to catch up on some sleep, and then back to the hospital for round two.
Update: In case [...]

Keep banging the rocks together guys

I was in Israel for a long stay over the summer and I took a chance to excitedly do something I’d never done before. I took the tunnel tour that walks along the sub-terranian excavations at the base of what was the western wall of the temple mount. That little bit you see in pictures [...]