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Gingrich and Romney come out strongly for Israel
Jan 27th
Standing ovation from Yael on this one:
“On the first day that I’m president, if I do become president, I will sign an executive order directing the State Department to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to send the signal we’re with Israel,” Gingrich said.
And here’s Romney answering a Republican Palestinian-American:
Yaeli’s water saga
Jan 26th
I came home from my meetings this afternoon to discover…no water in my apartment. Holy crud, I thought, when the heck did I pay my bill last? I knew it couldn’t have been that long ago…October, November? and our bills only come due every two months. The last time I paid it was not by phone but because I happened to be walking past the water people place and so I just popped in and paid it in person.
I’d actually tried several times to get through to pay my bill last Sunday on the phone and it was such More >
Dude, George Soros sounds like Glenn Beck
Jan 25th
If you listen to the following statements, you might picture Glenn Beck as the speaker and not George Soros. The difference is, of course, that Beck warns that Soros, among others, are working to bring about such events — much as Soros was largely responsible for the U.K.’s Black Wednesday economic crash in 1997 (yes, a nice thank you to the country that was giving him refuge to keep him from serving jail time in France following his insider trading conviction in that country). He broke the Bank of England, destroyed the Conservative Party’s reputation for economic competence, and reduced the More >
AP Fact check: Obama pushes tired plans that flopped before
Jan 25th
AP does a fact check on Obama’s State of the Union Address and finds he pushes only ideas that he wasn’t able to pass when his own party controlled Congress and makes a lot of half-truth claims and, well, lies:
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies — something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today’s divided Congress, much less in this More >
Shocka: U.S. Jihadi plotted to kill witnesses with schoolteacher friend
Jan 25th
From Fox: A North Carolina Jihadist sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial.
An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting against the witnesses from his jail cell. Authorities say an FBI informant posing as a hit man met with Sherifi’s brother and a female friend and accepted $5,000 and a photo of an intended victim.
FBI agents have arrested the brother, Shkumbin Sherifi, and Nevine Aly Elshiekh, a school teacher. Now in federal custody at the More >
Etta James
Jan 21st
Etta James has passed away. She leaves us the legacy of her amazing and powerful voice. I wrote my dissertation while obsessively listening to a combination of Etta James and Edith Piaf.
Here’s some Etta, starting with her most famous At Last: And here’s my personal favourite, I’d Rather Go Blind
Winning the stupidity award of the year: Our Communications Ministry
Jan 20th
Incompetence and myopia really gall me. Check this out. A massive nation-wide cyber attack drill has long been scheduled called “Lights Out” in which emergency response will be simulated for an attack that would bring down the communications systems and the Communications Ministry has declined to participate because they “don’t deal with emergencies.”
My face is swellin up like a moon pie
Jan 19th
If you’ve never had the experience of a cat’s claw getting embedded and caught inside your nose with the cat frantically trying to yank it out and you going holy &%^$&&&$$#, then I’ll just advise that it isn’t something you want to experience.
I was picking up my little blind Mouse after he fell off the sofa when one of the kittens came up and sniffed at him and he went simply ballistic. The claw that embedded on the outside of my nose was bad enough but the one that went in the nostril….shudder. Talk about a nose bleed. Yep, digging More >
Cellphone spam message averted suicide bomb massacre in Russia
Jan 19th
Let’s hear it for spam! A ‘Black Widow’ Islamic extremist blew up only herself instead of the hundreds of intended victims when her cellphone-triggered suicide bomb went off a couple of hours early as it received a message, not from her ‘let’s blow this joint handler,’ but from the cellphone company sending out a mass ‘Happy New Year’ message.
The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, intended to detonate a suicide belt on a busy square near Red Square on New Year’s Eve in an attack that could have killed More >
(Photo by Dani Machlis)
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