Mid-Week Post

The sound of one hand clapping.

If one photo could not only answer the unjust indifference of the West to Israel’s constant plight but also capture what Israelis go through whenever its enemies attack, this photo of a mother covering her child during an air raid would be it:

(thanks)

Related: Hamas uses people as human shields:

A short while ago, the Hamas interior ministry spokesman was interviewed on Al-Quds Radio in Gaza and urged his listeners to ignore the IDF warnings. IDF intelligence was listening to the broadcast and relayed the following transcript:

Question: As the bombings go on, I want to address a specific issue: People have been receiving text messages urging them to evacuate their houses…

Hamas Interior Ministry Spokesperson: This is all part of the psychological warfare held by the Zionist enemy… So by using this way of communication, our public radio, I address all our Palestinian brothers by saying: Please do not listen to the orders noted on these text messages, their only purpose is spreading fear and panic within our people.

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European media outlets, but the actual target of the missile strike were the offices of Al Aqsa, the television station of Hamas, as well as those of Al Quds, a Lebanese-based broadcaster, sympathetic to the Muslim terror group.

IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, claimed the missile strike was aimed at Hamas communications equipment located on the building's roof. She also also said Hamas is using journalists as "human shields," and warned reporters to stay away from all of the group's facilities.

"One of the strategies of Hamas, not only Hamas, but Islamic Jihad as well, is locating large amounts of munitions underneath civilian homes. Many times this is the reason for this big damage or collateral damage," Leibovich said.

However, it would appear that some of these journalists may be willingly putting themselves in a position to be used as a human shield, as sympathy among the left-leaning media for Hamas seems to be running high. …

Last week, Israeli forces discovered a Hamas rocket-launching site actually located about a half a block from a children's playground.

The site was taken out by a surgical air strike by Israeli war planes.

Hamas has fired nearly a thousand rockets into Israel in the last week, with the Israeli capital of Jerusalem having been targeted for the first time in decades.

On Thursday, three Israeli's were killed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit their apartment building in Jerusalem, one of those killed was a one-year-old child.

We can all stop feeling sorry for them now.

Speaking of one-year olds:

From: Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 8:10 PM
To:
Cc: pberton@thespec.com
Subject: Re: PHOTO - PALLYWOOD

Dear Susan:

What does it matter whether the baby is Israeli or Palestinian? She was injured and perhaps died as a result of the overwhelming arrogance of Israeli PM Netanyahu who cynically wages war against defenceless Gazans to distract Israeli voters from their protests against austerity measures because he wants to be re-elected, who keeps the Gazans living in the world's largest prison camp under siege, and who refuses to respect truces with Hamas.

It matters, you con artist, for the following reasons: you lied about the identity of the child, who happened to be killed by the very people you are supporting, there is nothing cynical about protecting one’s country from a barrage of rockets fired by an Iranian-supported terrorist group whose thumb is forever on the sandbags known as Palestinians AND the Holocaust-tinged reference of Gaza as a prison camp would only make sense if those ethnic Jordanians could never leave and – let’s say- be citizens of Israel.

Twit.

(Two paws up)

A truce or a breather?

Israel and the Hamas terror group agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip.

This will not last, Obama will greatly reward the mad, theofascist state of Egypt and still try to screw Israel.

Moving on…

The US government led by you-know-who will soon have more access to your e-mails and digital files:

Revised bill highlights

✭ Grants warrantless access to Americans' electronic correspondence to over 22 federal agencies. Only a subpoena is required, not a search warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause.

✭ Permits state and local law enforcement to warrantlessly access Americans' correspondence stored on systems not offered "to the public," including university networks.

✭ Authorizes any law enforcement agency to access accounts without a warrant -- or subsequent court review -- if they claim "emergency" situations exist.

✭ Says providers "shall notify" law enforcement in advance of any plans to tell their customers that they've been the target of a warrant, order, or subpoena.

✭ Delays notification of customers whose accounts have been accessed from 3 days to "10 business days." This notification can be postponed by up to 360 days.

A money-loser in so many ways:

The post-election rout in U.S. stocks has driven the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down so far that it would have to advance 26 percent to reach the valuation of bull markets since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.

Investors have seen $806 billion erased from the value of American equities since President Barack Obama was re-elected Nov. 6 in the biggest decline since May. The combination of falling stocks and rising profits as the economy recovers has left the S&P 500’s price-earnings ratio below the ending level of eight of the nine bull markets since 1962 and beneath the average of any since Ronald Reagan was in power.

Bears say the 4.8 drop in the S&P 500 and valuations show investors are losing confidence that Congress and Obama will reach a budget compromise that would keep the recovery from stalling. 

Bulls, including the top strategists at six Wall Street firms, say that the declines are another reason to buy and that stock prices from Apple Inc. to Dollar Tree Inc. are bound to improve as earnings increase.

(and I thank you)

Wasn’t I just saying this?

A city with a beautiful name in California has now banned the display of a nativity scene this Christmas. A 58-year tradition is gone and with it, right to of the city’s residents to celebrate their faith.

The atheists’ excuse is that the nativity scene constitutes an “establishment of religion,” which the Constitution only forbids Congress from doing. But in a post-modern world in which the ends clearly justify even evil means and loud dishonesty trumps all, well, judges do whatever the hell they want and the majority of the American people really have no say in how our lives are run anymore.

Yet the town that can no longer show a nativity scene retains its name — Santa Monica. Saint Monica. How long before atheists sue to change it? And Los Angeles (“the angels)? And San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi)? And San Antonio (named for Saint Anthony)? And on and on and on and on.

The atheists had better get busy. They have an awful lot of Stalinist airbrushing to get done.

This is the left and they hate that someone, somewhere, is enjoying the birthday of sweet Baby Jesus.

Oh, hell! Just let Pat Condell rant. He hits the nail on the head with this one (after 1:38):

How he calls the number of the professionally offended and those who are deliberately ignorant and ungrateful to what the West has done for them and how Christmas and all its trappings are fun and a part of the Western cultural fabric. Make no mistake that the deliberate banning of Nativity scenes is not done out of some dishonest attempt to be inclusive but to give grist to the perpetually bitter, sad, little people unwilling to give a nod to the foundations of a culture that allows them to be pig-headed philistines who want to see children cry just so they can get back at dad.

Some of the comments are far too priceless (hat off to all):

“Oddly enough, the secular city has failed to address why its employees are allowed special wages, benefits and days off of work surrounding the celebration of certain religious holidays. One might be compelled to ask the city governance and legal staff, if there is some form of double standard at work in the City of Santa Monica.”

“Memo for Atheists:

It took the Church over 300 years to triumph over the Romans.
It took the Catholic Spanish nearly 800 years to drive out the Moors.
Christianity has survived Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

And the Church will be around long after the atheists in Santa Monica die and go to Nothing.”

“I really hope these atheists don’t take Christmas off work. Hate to get all caught up in that paid legal holiday church/state violation. Right?”

“Monica stands as a role model for modern parents who send their children off to college and then have trouble recognizing what returns. All the trendy ideas of the day were far more attractive to the young Augustine than his mother’s pious Christianity but she never gave up trying to get her son to come back around to her view of the world.”

Who the hell would steal Christmas toys?

David McGuinty is a resigned idiot:

 

Ontario Liberal MP David McGuinty apologized Wednesday and resigned his post as the party’s natural resources critic after he said Alberta MPs need to take a nationwide view of energy policies or go home.

Now he needs to go home.

And now, what should be a Disney cartoon. Enjoy.