Category Archives: Current Affairs

NY Times: Israel Reminds Enemies It Can Kick Their Butts

Someone was truly asleep at the switch last night to allow this story be printed. Fair, balanced, in depth, brings up different issues, and, oh, yeah, is not painting Israel as the bad guy. Israel Reminds Foes That It Has Teeth Israel’s military operation in Gaza is aimed primarily at forcing Hamas to end its […]

How Israeli Planned To Kick Hamas’ Butts

Haaretz has a story up regarding the Israeli plans to beat the snot out of Hamas, which is driving sites such as Firedoglaketo their typical unhingedness (not to mention the claims of a mosque and jihadi TV station being hit. Poor babies). Let’s look. Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about Long-term […]

British Nanny State Could Implement Website Ratings

Surely soon to be proposed by Queen Nancy Websites could be given cinema-style age-ratings under plans by the Government to limit access to “unacceptable” material, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham warned. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Burnham said “clearer standards” were needed as to what could be displayed online. He said it was […]

Israeli Airstrike: Hamas Threatens Violence For Attack Because Of Hamas Violence

Ceasefire ends. Hamas lobs missiles. Israeli bombs the crap out of them. Hamas threatens violence. Just another day for the religion of peace Israeli aircraft launched air attacks across Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 150 people, including the Hamas police chief and other officials, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. Palestinian medical sources said […]

NY Times Sued For Content Theft

Starting your day off with a bit of humor. This story is about a week old, but, still relevant GateHouse Media Inc. sued the Boston Globe’s parent company, claiming its new practice of grabbing headlines from GateHouse Web sites constitutes copyright infringement. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston, GateHouse asks […]

Those Wacky Muslims Show Liberal Style Tolerance In Nazareth

While even the worlds most famous athiest, Richard Dawkins, does a bit of Christmas celebration, some Muslims have to take a dip into Liberal World As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing down the appearance of a confrontational Islamic banner that challenges a elemental Christian belief. Journalists visiting the city saw two […]

Retailers Taking The Christmas Out Of Christmas

Anyone surprised? And with the holiday that dare not speak its name almost upon us, nowhere is that phenomenon more noticeable, or more indefensible, than in the advertising sales circulars of the national retail chains that come by the dozen in newspapers, especially on Sundays. A review of those sales brochures from the day after […]

Global Warming Could End White Christmas’

Um, OK, sure, whatever you say The odds of a “white Christmas” in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said. Did you ever notice (I’m typing in Jerry Seinfeld) that Climahysterics love to throw […]

ACLU Whining About Gov’t Charging Jihadi Involved In USS Cole Bombing

I ended up at ye olde ACLU’s webpage after reading this post at Hot Air regarding an “annoyance law” in Michigan, to see if ye olde ACLU would decry the law. Instead, I found GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba – In one of its final moves at the Guantánamo military commissions, the Bush administration referred charges in […]

Jerry Brown Says “Thwart The Will Of Californians”

So, the Democrat mantra is “count every vote! Direct Democracy!” But, doesn’t mean they actually will implement the will of the voters California Attorney General Jerry Brown changed course on the state’s new same-sex marriage ban Friday and urged the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8. In a dramatic reversal, Brown filed a legal […]

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