Archive for September, 2008

Things That Make You Go “WTF?”

For months, Israel has been transfixed by the tragic tale of 4-year-old Rose Pizem, apparently murdered by her own grandfather and possibly her mother. While the idea that a small child’s mother and grandfather could be involved in her murder is hard enough to believe, what has made the story even more unbelievable are the [...]

Media Manipulation of the Day

Gulfnews reports on yesterday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, peddling the “car accident” angle. But notice anything strange about the story? Israelis ‘killed driver who lost control of car’ Reuters Published: September 23, 2008, 20:34 Occupied Jerusalem: The family of a Palestinian shot dead after his car ploughed into pedestrians in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday challenged [...]

Intense Debate It Is

I install Intense Debate as my commenting system and the world takes notice. Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress blog publishing software has acquired blog commenting service Intense Debate. We’ve covered Intense Debate in the past. The service provides web publishers a replacement for the default comments systems supplied by WordPress, Blogger, and Moveable [...]

Car Wars

I’m thinking they need to rename Ramadan Ramajew Four Palestinians were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they tried to run over IDF soldiers near Ma’ale Levona north of Ramallah. No one was wounded in the attempt, and no damage was caused. The Palestinians drove to an earth barrier near the settlement in 3 vehicles – [...]

The Celebrity

The Celebrity

A delegate has her picture taken with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) during the 63rd United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 23, 2008. 50 years from now, people are going to be scratching their heads, wondering how it was that someone like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was treated like a celebrity, [...]

Bad Moments in Manual Blog Spam*

Bad Moments in Manual Blog Spam*

* Manual spam is created by a person who actually read the blog post, and composes a related response. At first glance, it may look like a legitimate comment, and is usually only identified as spam by its URL.

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

Wearing his traditional dress, an Iranian Turkmen, member of the Basij paramilitary volunteers, A member of the Andy Warhol Brigades, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guards, marches during a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah [...]

How Free Gaza Can Make Some Money

As Elder posted yesterday, the Free Gaza fools are facing some financial hardship. Being the giver that I am, I have decided to help them out with some suggestions: Have Anis threaten to sing unless people donate money. Sue people who make fun of you. Have people donate money for every kilo Lauren Booth loses [...]

Terror Attack in Jerusalem

Terror Attack in Jerusalem

I have just woken up to the news that there was another terror attack in Jerusalem last night. Once again, the terrorist was an Arab resident of Israel. Once again, the terrorist used a vehicle to try and kill and maim as many as possible. Once again, the terrorist was shot and killed by a [...]

Free Gaza Freaks Stymied

From Ma’an: The second siege breaking voyage organized by the Free Gaza movement has been delayed for “logistical reasons.” The ships were scheduled to dock in the Gaza port on Monday, and have not set a new date of arrival. Chairman of the People’s committee against the blockade and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council [...]