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#245: Did you know that we apparently import Jewish religious article from Jordan?

#246: Some Israelis have a hard time spelling “Jordan.”

Photos courtesy of yours truly.

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Roseanne Barr continues to cry for mental help on her blog, with her recent attention venom being turned to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

In her latest post dedicated to Palin, Barr lets it be known she would like to kill her.

palin is perfect

for the republicans’ very first ever woman candidate! She has warped ethics, little concern for her family, and likes to draw down on endangered species from a helicopter, steal publicly owned property, and say anything she is paid enough to say.

She is an insult to american women. I would like to challenge sarah palin to a gun dual (sic) in a target practice setting!! I can shoot 100 times more accurately than she can, I just know it!

Perhaps, but Palin would have a much larger target to aim at.

Update: Reader Joseph thinks Barr is challenging Palin to a competition involving paper targets (rather than each other). I am still not sure.

Update: I’ve read it a few more times, and even consulted with the missus. I may have missed the mark on this one.

Meanwhile, here’s a joke Barr deemed fit to post twice.

What’s the difference between a pit bull and the now-famous hockey mom from the RNC?

One’s a vicious, jacked-up bitch that likes to kill animals,

The other one is a dog.

British journalist and peace activist Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British premier Tony Blair who is now an international Middle East peace envoy, shops at a grocery store in Gaza City on September 3, 2008. Booth said today she is trapped in Gaza as Israel refuses to let her leave the Palestinian territory she entered aboard a protest boat. ponders the devastating food shortage in Gaza.

(hat tip: SoccerDad)

But Booth needn’t worry for too long - help is on its way!

International human rights advocates plan to stage another siege-breaking voyage to the Gaza Strip on 22 September after two boats challenged an Israeli military blockade in August.

Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Al-Khudari, head of the Popular Campaign Against the Aiege, announced on Thursday that the activists will set sail from Cyprus, and that the new boat will have on board members of the European Parliament and doctors.

The Boat will also pick up nine international activists who are stranded in Gaza following the first voyage of the Free Gaza Movement. Among the stranded foreigners is British journalist Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

What makes this even more miraculous is that the first voyage alone has the Free Gaza tools $300,000 in debt. Lucky they are all socialists, I guess.

Update: Jamal Al-Khudari, the “Palestinian lawmaker” mentioned above who is obviously in touch with the Free Gaza tools and is helping to coordinate things, is a member of Hamas.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says something to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, while Syrian Dorktator Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan look on.

Sarkozy: “Please don’t eat me.”

….comes courtesy of News.com.au, who this morning had the following graphic on its front page

The graphic points to a story on Israel’s shock over the recent number of children killed by close relatives.

But, hey, I guess Israel is that small that it could be mistaken for a (large) city.

Remember our friend Anis, the morally and follically challenged tone-deaf Free Gaza tool?

Well, after threatening to sue Elder of Ziyon for his send-up of Anis’ lame song, he is continuing his war against free speech, as evidenced by this exchange in the comments to his song on YouTube:

obeyutu (6 days ago)

Freeing Gaza is a very good idea, but how do you propose getting rid of the Hamas leaders? It will be especially difficult as you oppose violence and Hamas frankly, espouses it with alacrity.

AnisinMainz (3 days ago)

Thank you for your comments. Please understand that I delete political discussions after some days from this page. It is not the place. Please refrain from hate speech and inciting expressions and comply with the YouTube Community Guidelines. Anis

In other words, Anis does not want “political discussion” in the comments to his extremely politicized song (feel free to compliment his vocals or the sex appeal of his female back-up singer, though). Furthermore, suggesting Hamas espouses violence is “hate speech and inciting expressions.”

Anus.

This picture sums up Lauren Booth and the rest of the so-called “human rights activists.”

Just a picture of a man with a rocket launcher. Nothing to see here, move along.

I am sure you are already aware of the fact that Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth is stuck in Gaza. She has certainly raised enough of a stink about it, and the mainstream media are more than willing to publish her complaints.

What really interests me about this story is not the fact this woman is Tony Blair’s sister-in-law. It is what she reveals about her mindset.

Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, who arrived in Gaza with a boatload of activists protesting an Israeli blockade last month, said Tuesday she was stranded because both Israel and Egypt had denied her entry.

Lauren Booth, sister of the former British prime minister’s wife Cherie, revealed her predicament as Blair visited the region to further Western-backed efforts to achieve a limited Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Booth was one of 44 foreign “Free Gaza” activists who set sail from Cyprus, docking in Gaza last month, and was one of 10 who remained when the others sailed back to Cyprus on Friday.

Israel allowed the activists to dock in Gaza on August 23 despite its blockade of the coastal territory since Hamas Islamists, who oppose Israel’s existence, seized control last year.

Booth said she has tried unsuccessfully over the past few days to leave through Gaza’s land crossings with Israel and Egypt.

“I tried through the proper channels, through the United Kingdom’s embassy, but I was told I was not allowed to come through,” she said after trying in vain to enter Israel.

An Israel Defense Forces spokesman, Peter Lerner, confirmed Israel had denied Booth entry, saying there was a policy of refusing entry to anyone from Gaza who did not get there via Israel.

“There is no possibility to let in those people who entered by the sea. They cannot enter Israel,” Lerner said.

Egypt would not let Booth through its Rafah terminal with Gaza on Saturday. She was turned away along with two other activists, Booth said.

“We were all turned back by the Egyptians,” she said, adding that she had received no explanation but had “heard through contacts Egypt was under pressure from Israel to act that way.”

Israel has eased some restrictions on Gaza since an Egyptian-brokered truce in June that has largely stopped rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel.

But land crossings have remained largely shut to some 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza.

Booth said diplomatic efforts were still being made to permit her to leave. “Thanks to Israel for letting us feel a real taste of Gazan life,” she added.

In other words, even though Egypt has also refused her passage, she refuses to apportion any “blame” to them, and will only blame Israel. If Egypt refuses, then they were obviously instructed to do so by Israel. And it is only Israel that has allowed her to “feel a real taste of Gazan life”, even though Egypt also shares a border with Gaza.

I have a strong feeling that Lauren Booth - and many, if not all, of her fellow Free Gaza tools - are more about hating Israel than loving the palestinians.

I’m learning something new about Barack Obama every day.

Some things are just wrong.

Michael Jackson is reportedly dating Pamela Anderson.

Pop legend Michael, 50, has met former Baywatch star Pammy, 41, for two dates in Malibu, California, sparking rumours the pair are enjoying a budding romance.

A source told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “It was all arranged by their people in total secrecy, very cloak and dagger.

More like cloak and scalpel.

I would have thought this would be #1 on the list of things a palestinian criminal would be well advised not to steal.

A police officer on Tuesday fired at a Palestinian man who stole a tractor from a work site and was driving recklessly at a high speed near the entrance to the city of Modi’in.

The police officer noticed the tractor driving at a high speed near the entrance to the city and when he and a police volunteer ordered the driver to halt. The driver refused and attempted to hit the police volunteer with the shovel of the tractor. In response, the police officer shot at the tractor’s wheels, causing a puncture and bringing the vehicle to a halt.

The officer and the volunteer then managed to pull the driver from the tractor and place him under arrest.

Police suspect the driver was a Palestinian from the West Bank who wanted to steal the tractor. They do not believe that he was intending to carry out a terrorist attack.

In July, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem deliberately plowed a bulldozer he was driving into a passenger bus on Jaffa Street in the capital, killing three people and wounding dozens more before he was shot and killed by an Israeli bystander.

A few weeks later, a Palestinian bulldozer driver went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem, wounding at least 24 people, just weeks after a similar attack in the capital left three dead.

Ten years on, Rolling Stone investigates why The Big Lebowski became the most worshiped movie of its generation.

Excerpt:

No one is more surprised by the extended life of Lebowski than the people who made it. When I meet him one afternoon in L.A., Goodman immediately tells me it’s his “favorite thing [he's] ever worked on,” and he laughs uproariously when I quote him some of Walter’s best lines (a favorite: “Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos”). Moore, who played Maude, the estranged artist daughter of the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, says it’s “one of the movies people mention most to me. I keep saying that one of these days I’m going to go to a Lebowski Fest.” Adds Buscemi, who has appeared in nearly 100 films, including a few Oscar winners, “I’ll pass three guys on the street, and they may just give me a nod. They don’t even have to say a line from the movie. I know what movie they’re thinking about.”

Definitely one of my favorite movies. Ever.

Now I want to open it up to you. What is your favorite line from the movie?